Kappamerc

Just curious

**EDIT** I win, still on this page .

Jagr said:

Congrats on longest post in the spam thread. Lol

 

Did you ever play Total Annihilation, Kappa? TA wasn’t ever really a quick-paced game but could become one if managed well enough, like Age of Empires. I haven’t played Supreme Commander but I really hope it still has the feel of TA.

 

CnC sounds great though, I’ll definitely have to pick it up this summer or sometime soon.

If you enjoyed TA, SC is replica on a larger scale. Just isn’t my type of game though. Not really sure why. The massive forces idea is great but I just felt bored after a few MP games.

So far so good with cnc3. I’m really enjoying the old school feel to it

CnC3 has quick gameplay as far as building up and attacking goes. If nothing else it is worth the single player experience. I’m enjoying this a lot more than I did Supreme Commander… SupCom just seemed really too massive and maps take way too long imo. At least with CnC3 it is fast, fun, and pleasant to look at.

I haven’t really experienced the game too much yet, mainly just the single player with a bit of LAN action here and there. Definitely takes you back to the old days of the genre though!

Stalker is definitely a great Free Roam FPS game. Recently got out of a lab that really creeped me out but it isn’t ‘too creepy.’ By that I’m comparing it to Doom 3 which I felt was a bit too creepy to really ‘enjoy’ .

Best part about Stalker is the atmosphere for me. The first ‘wow’ I had in the game was the first time I experienced night time with rain and lightning. The shadows on the building beside me would be outlines of the trees that were all around and they danced on the outside wall of the building as the lightning would strike each time… Really thought it was a great touch. The wind during the daytime (while the leaves blowing around do clip through some other textures) is also a nice touch.

The balistics in the game take a bit to get used to because in the begining it takes a ton of bullets to down a guy unless you can hit him in the head. However, the actual sound is amazing plus the fact that you can basically only take as many his as they can. If they shoot you in the head, it hurts. In the begining don’t forget that you are a Rookie and most enemies are Veteran or better!

Random info on the two games. Supreme Commander is a genre defining game but it didn’t really keep me involved for long. I think it needs to be more quick paced .

Anywho, spam thread ftw!

Kuros said:

Copy pasta is delicious.

Didn’t we go over most of that copy pasted stuff last meeting

Quick, jump to general forums and check out the TF2 Interview, it wins.

Hope you get it fixed. I got a 3 year old gaming box that I’m giving to my fiance. If that wasn’t the case then I would give it to you. However, I really wanna see her play counter-strike lol.

Falcon said:

on second thought, the bell tower idea might be a little bit of fuzzy gray area. I was informed there was a situation at another university a few years back where the bell tower actually was camped. We need to make sure this doesn’t come across as if a reference to that, should it be used

We could always say UC Bell Tower to be specific.

As for making a shirt that everyone understands; On the other side of this coin a shirt that not everyone understands has a story behind it and gives culture to our community. I’d rather have something interesting that not everyone knows automatically than something that says ‘hey I’m boring.’ If someone cares they will generally find out what something means anyway. I do agree that the text on the Shirt should not be an obscure idea. However, if it pertains to any of the popular gaming language that floats around, I don’t see how that would be a problem. We are after all, a gaming club ^^.

Just a thought.

I really like the last one. I do think that all text should be gold (or at least one color or the other) though. Just my opinion .

wonder why we don’t play bf2 lol. I put MWF 5pm, TR 7pm, SS 12pm (Work Sat 1pm-12am)

Oh Malley said:

Granted, I made that idea for you guys, I would like to make this comment.

 

If you want a shirt to catch the eye of everyone and let it mean something to them and something they completely understand, then we need to steer away from inside jokes. Plus it doesn’t help that part, or maybe even most of the community doesn’t completely get it or understand it.

 

We need to keep that in mind whenever we make the final vote.

Someone make a shirt in binary.

What gaming term isn’t an inside joke! >.< I understand what you mean though.

gxti talked me into it, contra ftw!

…/wakes up..

wha?

x_X

gxti has mind control!!

We did Inferno last LAN and Contra isn’t a well-known map. I say boo to both.

Don’t do the same thing repeatedly, humans are smart

This is just my take on the ranking system. If you don’t care, don’t read, I’m simply bored and feel like typing about something .

I find the system to be rather annoying. Half of the time that I play I find myself pitted against a decent new player to our server who is skilled but not necessarily better than me and I drop 1-10 places simply because they are new and gain points exponentially faster than I. Of course most poeple would say ‘don’t die’ but really, when you kill 20 people and die 5 times and come out with -points and -positions there is something wrong. Just because a player doesn’t have a lot of points doesn’t mean that they aren’t skilled but with this system it does mean u get less points and they get tons. In most ranking systems it would seem to me that high ranked players could take high ranked positions while low ranked players would have to work their way up to the high ranks to start taking those posistions.

For example: Ranks 1-100 or 1-50 get normal points for killing eachother and less for killing people below that rank. Ranks 101+ (In any brackets desired) get normal points for their bracket and less for anything outside that bracket. Just because rank 3000 kills rank 1 doesn’t mean rank 1 should lose 200 points. Rank 3000 has to climb the ladder before having the pleasure of taking that seat. (This is simply my opinion. Kinda like boxing where you can’t face #1 until u go thru the rest).

This system is what I would consider a more fair way of ranking (I doubt this system even exists but it would be nice if it did).

I believe it would also require a monthly reset just to keep things fun and interesting. Having a chance at #1 each month seems more entertaining that trying to reach #1 whose been #1 for three months. Even on our current system, monthly resets would keep the server more interesting and dynamic. Seeing the same people with huge amounts of points in the top10 for three to four months becomes stagnant imo.

Anywho, time for sleep

Honestly I think the current ranking sucks but that is simply my opinion and I haven’t experienced many source ranking mods so I can’t compare. I do remember enjoying psychostats for regular CS but that was ages ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6tgIbeQy7I

Can’t wait!

Episode 2 has been pushed back 3 times. It was originally set to release last holiday season. Pushed back to Jan. Pushed back to Summer. Now it has been pushed back to Fall 2007.

More than likely it will release at this time due to the competition. This fall will really eat my wallet >.<