f13.net

UT2k4
Deck 17
No BFG
Deathmatch
Time Limit, not Killcount.

Other stage suggestions?

Should it be an epic time limit?

Any mods?

Week after christmas or week after new years?

ROUND 1! DISCUSS!

I dont get it.

No mods I say. I haven't played UT2k4 in months and I'm still confident I'll destroy you.

I vote for a BF2 private server.

I don't have UT2k4. Or BF2...

Anyone for an F13 game of SourceForts? :)

I'm actually going to abstain, probably.

My primary video card is useless for gaming right now. I have a PCI card I could toss in, but then I run into the problem of not even having the disk space to install anything, because I still need to buy a DVD burner and enough dual-layer DVDs to back up about 120GB of stuff.

I gave my copy of 2K4 to a destitute gamer.

Would be down for FarCry/HL2/CS/BF2 though.

We could do a closed MtG draft online, lol.

Someone remind me who published and developed BF2. I seem to have forgotten.

It is the publisher who must not be named.

Nintendo.

What about a Defcon tournament?

We could also all learn how to play Star Chamber (http://www.starchamber.net/) and do that - at least it's free.

I'd be up for a Counter Strike game too.

I'd play CS:S or Defcon, certainly.

Defcon would be humorous. Would also embody the spirit of what we're doing I think.

Someone needs to make a  Most Dangerous Game PC title. Or at least a twisted version. One guy owns an island (server admin) and sets things up while everyone else is handed a pistol (or whatever weapon) and they hunt eachother. Good stuff.

Better yet, we can make it schild's favoritest game ever by basing it on Battle Royale instead. :P

I don't particularly endorse making a game where teenagers are on an island killing eachother... but...

I see what you did there.

I only have FC and HL2:DM.  I'll have to know the date and time before I can say, and even then....

I'd play BF2 or even reinstall ut2k4 if I could find the discs.

I second that motion. The manga was beyond awesome.

I'm down with UT2k4 or BF2.

I have the discs for both of those handy and at the ready.

I'm rusty as hell, but it'd be fun.

As long as it was arranged for a decent time, I'd be down with an epic length of time.

Civ 4 FoH mod!  I am loving it so much, would be nice to have a player competition.

Linkies?

FoH...? Fires of Heaven?

You play an uberguild competing against other uberguilds to advance your guild towns and finish content faster then everyone else? In the Civ4 setting?

 :-P

Oops, its actually ffh.  Heh.  Still, its a great mod which has given me hours of entertainment.  I actually enjoy it more then the primary game.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1

Ah, okay. That makes a lot more sense.

So... like Heroes of Might and Magic - Civ style. It seems like we'd need a game that supports a mass amount of people, though.

If I were going for a Master of Magic mod, Civilization would be a good place to start.

ffh is brutal.  Especially if you play a small map.  You truly have to play to your civs strengths or get overwhelmed.  Hell, even if you are doing well barbarians roll in so damn fast you have to stay on your toes.

Especially if the orc kin spawns next door.  I have lost my capital more than once due to him rolling in and WTFPWNing me.

I still haven't gotten around to downloading that.

Your description above (Brutal Civ) doesn't exactly appeal to me though. I reserve Brutal play for games that don't give me all the options a game like Civ has. I play Civ for the culture/tech advancement.

Hey, how about we do the feats of strength stuff all throughout Janurary? It would give us more chances to play more games.

Agreed, I could use a decent excuse to be a Flak Monkey again...

I'd be up for HL2DM or CS:S.  Especially CS:S.  Which I have recently re-re-rediscovered and am loving.

I want something with big maps and lots of sneaking around.

Guys, just for the record, one of the reasons I picked UT2k4 is because it'll run on my machine.

Heh. If you all want to do CS:S or BF2, that's cool, but I can't be part of it. I can't run that stuff higher than 800x600. And even then, the framerate isn't high enough. It's a wonder I ever got through Half Life 2. I ran that at 720p. :P

And you call yourself a gamer!

Why not run a couple of different games? UT2k4, BF2, CS:S etc?

Also, Schild. I'm horribly disappointed in you. Go out and buy a PC that will run Vanguard comfortably, right now.

No wonder you're a console fanboi, schild.

The government doesn't sell their computers to home users yet, how is he gonna do that?

He just has to use about 1 week's worth of his console title-buying budget.

There aren't enough PC games to warrant an upgrade. I need a new computer; lock, stock and barrel. A simple upgrade won't fix this. I buy computers that last 5+ years. Which is one of the reasons I could validate buying a PS3 at launch. Generally my computers run $2500-$3500. This last one ran about $1800, but only because I used a lot of stuff I had left over (still using an old Audigy, among other things). Didn't upgrade the graphics card with it originally either.

Anyway, when I have 3-4k lying around, I'll buy a dell box with dual graphics cards and such. Until then, I'll play stuff like UT2k4. Not like something better is coming out anyway.

The only problem with that is that PCs don't last 5+ years. Not if you're a gamer, anyway.


You'd be better off paying half that for non-bleeding-edge-but-still-bloody-good boxes every 2.5 years and adding things like the old HDD in for extra space, and reusing the DVD drives and maybe some of the RAM, etc.

My PC is more than 4 years old now. I can still run just about everything on the market, and it was built from scratch for about $1800. I've added another HDD, added 512MB of RAM, and changed the video card. And I know that I will not be able to build a totally new system for at least another year and a half. I know, it's going to get painful at some point.

So far, the only games that I've seen that I KNOW I can't run is the newest Ubisoft stuff (R6: LV and the new Splinter Cell).

Um...FEAR Combat maybe then?

Ah, that reminds me. Need to download that.  8-)

It's generally not worth playing on open servers, as the only people who still play it are really, really good at exploiting certain guns/areas.

Would still be neat to zap and stake one another a bit. :evil:

I'll know if I'll like it right away.

[EDIT] Who has a FarCry here anyways?

Yo. I could do some MP FarCry.

Not really digging Fear yet. Seems like it's made for CS type of gameplay, but all the players just rush like they're on amphetamines.

Does Fear Combat have a straight Deathmatch mode?

Yeah, but I'm only finding open team matches. Kind of hard to differentiate between the different team avatars too.

With deathmatch, teams don't matter. Squad based gameplay doesn't represent any sort of feat - especially of strength.

I'm sure I could find a copy of UT2K4. But I have BF2 and can download FEAR.

What he said.

If you're going to drop 3-4k on a computer for gaming you might want to consider not spending it on a Dell for fucksakes.  I have no issue with egregious recreational spending, but you could get more for your money (both performance and value) than giving it to Dell.  Gawd.  Anyway, it's your money to waste and I'm sure you have some reason you'll defend unto death about why that's the best route to go, soooo okay.

On topic.  I'm in for gaming certainly, but I too have to bow out over UT4k, I actually gave the discs away to a friend because I'm not enamored with the low-grav BFG pew pew pew crap that Unreal has goin' on.  I also think that a game where we might get to be more snarky to each other would generate some interesting stories.  I think Civ4 would be a great idea, hell even Rome:TW or something like that.

Shortlist:

BF2
Civ4 in some incarnation
Dawn of War/Dark Crusade yeaaa!!!
Defcon

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Rome: TW?
FarCry?
SoF II?


Edit after thinking of something that would run on most machines - C & C Generals maybe?  (another great RTS)




 

I'm unstickying this thread. Not because of your post, but because your post reminded me it was almost February.