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Topic: Blood Bowl - for real (Read 251889 times)
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Hoax
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Yeah. Fuckers. I haven't seen my home machine for over two weeks though and I'm not getting back there until late next week.
Not having access to play it is easier than not being able to afford it, sucka. I can't afford it either, but I will anyways. No night cap drinking for awhile
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A nation consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual's morals are situational, then that individual is without morals. If a nation's laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn't a nation. -William Gibson
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Scadente
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Falconeer, I'm in GMT timewise. So is east coast +5 hours? 5pm would be about 10 in the evening here? I'll be online on thursday to crack some skulls then!
I'm not working at the moment, just poopsocking games, so I'm ready almost at any time, bar 4 in the night to 10 in the morning
edit: go it the wrong way around.
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« Last Edit: July 01, 2009, 01:11:25 PM by Scadente »
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So the kids on the internet say that you're a big noise?
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Falconeer
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Oh, GMT? Sweet! So let's meet thursday night, which is tomorrow. I am GMT+1 so my night is pretty much your night. I'll be on from GMT 9pm for about 4 hours.
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Typhon
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I sent an ingame mail to Typhon. The ingame GUI is fucking abysmal but functional. Once both people are on, you just highlight your team and then your match. Click the start match button, voila.
Under Free scheduling I think you'll have to click to advance days, Falc.
I'll be on tonight, probably till about 10PM (-4 GMT = EDT). I like the new patch cause you can toggle away from the game to hit a browser, etc. Friday is also good as I'm off. ... probably you already told me your schedule via the in-game email and I'm just being a twat for posting this.
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Modern Angel
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It's cool. I'll definitely be on by 8:30 or so Eastern so I'll try to catch you then.
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Cadaverine
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I started messing about with the campaign, and ended up missing IanC as a result as it wouldn't let me back into multiplayer for some reason, and I was shocked at the weirdness of playing against the CPU. The first match, I lost to the humans against my dwarf team, which didn't come as much surprise. The second match, though, I was playing against a 740 pt Dwarf team vs my 940 pt Dwarf team. I figure I should be able to eek out a win, but no. They where stomping me on blocks/tackles, but the worst insult was that the CPU dwarves kept running right past my players. I checked the rolls, and sure as shit, I had to roll a 6+ to dodge, vs their 3+, and they didn't have any different skills than I did.
Same thing with the Human Linebackers with no skills at all, that managed to consistently put my Dwarves on their asses on top of waltzing right past them with nary a problem. I know I suck at football, and all, but I really seem to be on the losing end of the dice an inordinate amount of the time.
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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.
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Hakeldaima
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Is it possible that the 6+ roll you had to make for a dodge was when you were dodging into another tacklezone (or -zones), but he only had to dodge out of a -zone into the clear - hence the 3+ roll? Every overlapping tacklezone you dodge into adds one to the number you have to hit.
Of course you may already know all this.
I didn't know this game was even in production until I saw this thread. I immediately bought it and so have all my friends who I used to play with back in the day. Fun times ahead.
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Falconeer
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Seems like the ingame chat/mail is so wonky that playing those League games will prove harder than we thought. Maybe we should use some kind of external chatter, like IRC, Skype, MSN or whateva, to coordinate or simply see who's online. Right now, or you are so lucky that you shoot an invitation to someone who is idling in the chat window and see your invite which only stays up for 10 seconds, or you will never get that league match. How stupid.
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Modern Angel
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No. When your opponent is online it's different. There's a Play Match button in the lower right when you're both on and have your team highlighted. There's still the weenie accept button but it's not the crapshoot pub games are.
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Falconeer
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Ok MA, but still if I hit "Play Match" it only appears as an invitation to my opponent, and that invitation stays on screen for 10 seconds, am I wrong? Does he get the invite even if he's playing another game? And what if he's just idling? When he comes back my invitation will be long gone (10 seconds).
Basically there are no easy ways to simply attract your opponent's attention and make him notice you are online and willing to play, even if he is online too. Even mails or instant messages are almost invisible, and that bothers me.
Am I doing something wrong?
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Falconeer
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And I suck! The league is on, and in the very first match Scadente/Krummi and his Chaos team, Black Amnesty, dispatched my orcs 1 to nil. PICTURES! Some fun facts about the game: - Schild wins the disappointment award: out of the action for pretty much the whole game, he touches his first ball for an easy pass and fails it. Boohoo! - Numtini has been Bat Country MVP! - Signe has been sent off for roughing a knocked down player... and getting noticed by the ref! Evil Signe. - Ironwood chopped heads. - I suck. On the game, a nail biter! Scadente and his team scored on me on turn 14 (something like the last 2 minutes in a football match!), but then he managed to botch it and give me an unbelievable chance to even it. With no rerolls he went to the desperation blitz on my open field ballcarrier... A whole 16 turns match, roughly 90 minutes, decided by a single die roll! 1 dice, 50% he wins the game 50% I score and we are even.... and he made it. I lose That was simply exhilarating! Now, please, everyone else, on with your games.
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IainC
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Been online for an hour staring at the lobby screen waiting for my opponent. Twice I've been stood up now. If we don't get a chance to play tomorrow I'll have to drop out and Ironwood can have my place as I don't think I'll be around for the end of the league otherwise.
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Der Helm
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If Aez is ready, I am idling in the lobby right now, but he has been "playing" since I got home.
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"I've been done enough around here..."- Signe
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Ironwood
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I am getting the shit kicked out of my orc team 'Whaaaambulance'.
I can't win a single game.
Loving it.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Falconeer
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See what I mean, Modern Angel? Your opponent is in the game, but you can't do anything to let him know YOOOOOOOO I AM HERE STOP THAT WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING AND PLAY WITH ME! This sucks.
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Aez
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OK, i'm up for the game. I wasn't playing even if I was logged own, I was winning a daring contest about who would quit/disconnect first from a bugged game. I won after 24h
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Der Helm
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Got disconnected a few hours ago and could not log back in, I am back in game now. I will take a quick shower and will then be ready for the game.
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"I've been done enough around here..."- Signe
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Trippy
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Yay I'm on somebody's team
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Hoax
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l33t kiddie
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You people really need to be coordinating through Steam PM's, or AIM, or hell text msg's on your cell phones.
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A nation consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual's morals are situational, then that individual is without morals. If a nation's laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn't a nation. -William Gibson
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Der Helm
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You people really need to be coordinating through Steam PM's, or AIM, or hell text msg's on your cell phones.
Right. Aez just logged of as I came back from my shower.
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"I've been done enough around here..."- Signe
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Aez
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Still here.
edit : will be in the west chat.
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« Last Edit: July 02, 2009, 05:34:06 PM by Aez »
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Cadaverine
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Been online for an hour staring at the lobby screen waiting for my opponent. Twice I've been stood up now. If we don't get a chance to play tomorrow I'll have to drop out and Ironwood can have my place as I don't think I'll be around for the end of the league otherwise.
My fault. The time zone conversion site I used to first time led me to the wrong time by about 3 hours. I think I have the CET to CST conversion down now, so everything should get sorted tomorrow. If not, I'll just forfeit the match, since it's my inability to figure out time zones that screwed the pooch.
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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.
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Der Helm
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Still here.
edit : will be in the west chat.
Hm. Looks like I can't connect to other players, everytime I start a challenge I time out. It worked before. No idea whats going on. Anyway. It is 2:34 am over here, I get a few hours of sleep. Sorry if you just waited for me, Aez
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"I've been done enough around here..."- Signe
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Modern Angel
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Sit tight on that. There's a bug where when their servers fart it doesn't look like it and instead puts the onus on you. It's periodic and (for me) infrequent.
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Ironwood
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I agree we need some kinda communication effort. I think most here are on Steam, so we ought to use that. If my steam is on at the weekend, I'll probably be at the machine. Feel free to throw me a squirt for a game or two. Be aware, however, that I haven't won a single game yet - I would appear to suck mightily. It could be easy points for someone.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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IainC
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I'm on steam as Mananog.
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Falconeer
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Ok, so new rule: whenever you are up for a game log in Steam too, is it ok for everyone? Who doesn't have a Steam account or is against this policy?
I can be found there as "[f13] Falconeer"
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Falconeer
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Doh... Singapore!
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Falconeer
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Modern Angel 2 - Typhon 0
Good job there.
We only need Aez vs. Helm and Iainc vs. Cadaverine to be done with day #1
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Modern Angel
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Yeah, I didn't want to victory dance too much since I'm a gentleman. But I beat the shit out of him. Oh, you can find me as Brocktoon. I'm sure there are other Brocktoons.
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IainC
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Got the game in against Cadaverine. Final score was 1-0 to him. He spent the first half of the match committing genocide on Skinks and taking the opportunity to score while everything on my team that could pick up a ball reliably was in the injury pen. I was playing with 7 or fewer lizards for most of the match. The second half was characterised by the utter failure of my remaining Skink to be able to pick up a ball. On the very last turn of the game the ball was in his TD zone and free with no tackle zones near it. I had a Skink two squares away who just had to make a dodge roll and a pickup roll to even the match, he successfully dodged away from his marker but fumbled the ball and the whistle blew.
Good game and once again Dwarfs are my nemesis team.
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Ironwood
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Breaking News : Whaaambulance still can't defeat anyone. Yet to score.
I'm doing something REALLY WRONG.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Cadaverine
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The dice did not like IainC's Lizardmen. His big guy got confused twice at rather inopportune times, and his poor skinks didn't fare very well at all. I thought he'd tie it up after the throw in to my endzone, though, but then the skink dropped the ball. Even I winced when that happened.
Still, I had fun, and learned a bit more about the game, which is good. It would be nice if there was a bit more detailed summary page for your team after each game so you could check players stats, and such.
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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.
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Ironwood
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Someone want to give us a little more info on the skills on level up, beyond Block ?
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Typhon
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I came, I saw, I got my ass kicked! Didn't have much luck with the dice, and even when it did, I managed to not take advantage of it. WARNING: if you are playing single player, don't get used to having a lot of time to make up your mind - the timer in the league is currently set to 2 minutes. Don't dawdle.
My minotaur pissed me off right proper, to bad I really wanted to play Chaos. Loner + Wild Animal = sound and fury significant of nothing.
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