Gaming Tonight in Wired!!1

Tar.Aldarion

Heading down to wiredgaming this evening to play Call of Duty around 8 if anybody wants to join us. Grasshopa and another anonymous boardsie are coming too, do come along!

witnessmenow

Will be there with bells on, great night last week.

Fracture

fs, i have to work at 8 tonight

Art_Wolf

damnit - obviously going to have to check this forum more often...

Tar.Aldarion

Ah yeah was good, stayed til half 3. :O

RabidDog

Yeah it was a good night, four of us had a game of Supreme Commander Forged Alliance which lasted 3 hours (I won ) - didn't leave til 4am. :rolleyes:

Last night was Comp Soc night (though it's open to everyone) and tonight (Wednesday) is FanSci Soc night (again open to everyone). There's talk of merging both on Wednesday nights though, so we'll see what happens (I'll post here with any updates).

Also we have two free Showcase Tournaments coming up this weekend, you can find more info on the LAN Parties forum here.

Tar.Aldarion

Ah I was wondering was something on, what with the free food or did you do it all the time. Lovin' it. Might pop back tonight if nothings on.

RabidDog

The free meals are something I usually do every so often, with the help of the Kebab House.

I would like to make it a permanent fixture for late nights/lock-ins in the form of a subsidised meal (€1.50 for the burger and chips).

FanSci Soc are due in tonight at 10pm (after their weekly meet in NUIG) and there are usually people around before that too of course.

Shamrogue

RabidDog wrote: »

I would like to make it a permanent fixture for late nights/lock-ins in the form of a subsidised meal (€1.50 for the burger and chips).

I think the free chips and burgers sounds better. Great nights fun though. Many more to follow

Sham
AKA - BlackKnight

witnessmenow

Hey rabid thanks again for the free grub! Good night last night , pity i couldn't stay around for team fortress , had a lab this morning at 9!

Friend of mine was chatting to Andy from the compsoc and he was saying he's going to make a big effort to organize it next week so expect big numbers next tuesday (it was last second yesterday)! Its a pity our exams are starting soon , we'll have to give it up soon enough!

Witnessmenow - aka witnessmenow!

RabidDog

Shamrogue wrote: »

I think the free chips and burgers sounds better.

lol, chancer

I don't think we really gave Team Fortress 2 a good chance last night, we must have a good big game next time.

We were thinking of moving it to Wednesday nights (this would mean joining it with FanSci's night). The only problem I could see there is lack of spaces, with around 14 FanSci attending that would only leave 24 spaces for Comp Soc (and four for others who want to attend - including me ). On the plus side it would mean we'd be gaurenteed a full house.

Anyway, whatever happens it'll be good craic.

Tar.Aldarion

Yeah, that would be good. Subsidised chips for me, no burger thanks! :-)

We had a big debate last night about how much you get thingsd cheaper if you get them in bulk like you do.
It led to knifing.
>_>

RabidDog

Well normally a burger is €2.20 and a regular chip is €2.20. At €1.50 I would be subsidizing the meal around 50% (it also depends on quantity ordered).

Art_Wolf

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Ugh, this is going to be painful with work.. but I guess it must be done - especially if there are these subsidised foodz!

Black_Knight

Wednesdays mightn't be too bad for us actually. No early morning lab... until 11. I wonder will it be too packed though? Probably a max of 20 compsoc, 14 fansci group and the 4 that rabid was talking about. Thats a fair amount of people, ~38.
How many PCs are there?

BlackKnight

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kevin216

I had a goodtime the last two nights, let play some more unreal Tournaments 3,it's great, i'll be called player this time;),

Tar.Aldarion

That 'player' guy is awesome. Think he had a vendetta against me.

RabidDog

We have 38 systems but 6 are down for repairs (we're waiting on replacement components).

So that leaves 32 currently.

FanSci 10 / CompSoc 20 / Others 2 would probably be a good split, at least until we get the other 6 systems online. It's not great (each could use a few more spaces), but since it will be a weekly thing that mightn't be too bad...

I think we'll have more fun with UT3 next time, since people are a bit more used to it.

Anyone interested in strategy games?

sharkDawg

Unreal Tournament 3 should be removed from the pc's imo! Give me COD any day

Black_Knight

RabidDog wrote: »

Anyone interested in strategy games?

Strategy are good, but take too long. (memories of 7 hour long games of Age of empires in college)

Tar.Aldarion

Well warcraft should only take 20-30 minutes a game. ;-)

Wompa1

-Originally Posted by The_Dazzler - Paraphrased by me
Just annoys me so much people n Galway are so ignorant of 'Gaming'.

RabidDog

I find if you're around late (2am) an RTS is a great way to finish the night. After the a few hours of twitchy action playing FPS they're a great way to relax (imo).

I think I know what you mean Wompa1, but that can change. We had Wired out in Athenry (Co. Galway) for three years and only about 5% of our members had ever played a game on a PC before. It was a great experience though because they were so fresh, they had no predjuces about games or weapons, they liked what they liked. For example the majority of them preferred CoD/CoD2 over CSS, a situation which is reversed almost everywhere else.

kevin216

COD4 is the best game ever I don't even see the point in playing another game,I mean WOW "High-quality story mode packs in a lot of thrilling and unexpected moments Well-designed multiplayer progression gives you something to shoot for online Terrific audiovisual presentation. " really you could uninstal every other game on your PC's it's just so great maybe you could rename Wired to COD4 that would be great too, or have it when you log in you go straight in to COD4 that would be great and save time too .

Black_Knight

kevin216 wrote: »

COD4 is the best game ever I don't even see the point in playing another game,I mean WOW "High-quality story mode packs in a lot of thrilling and unexpected moments Well-designed multiplayer progression gives you something to shoot for online Terrific audiovisual presentation. " really you could uninstal every other game on your PC's it's just so great maybe you could rename Wired to COD4 that would be great too, or have it when you log in you go straight in to COD4 that would be great and save time too .

I certainly wont challenge you to a rant!
But loging in a going straight to COD4 would save valuable seconds! Seconds of which i could be knifing your ass! MWAHHHAHHAHA!!

Tar.Aldarion

I may have only played COD4 three times now, but I can not resist trying to knife everybody.

RabidDog

Twenty seven knife kills on Wet Work, priceless. :rolleyes:

Oh and a tip, set one of the side buttons on your mouse to knifing.

Sarky

Or get the silent movement perk and become a sneaksy backstabbing dirtbag like the top FanSci heads...

Tar.Aldarion

Hmm. I was using d to knife, maybe middle mouse click or a side button would be better.
I've yet to get most of the perks but this silent one that will make me more dirtbag intrigues me...

Sarky

Oh, if you want to be really universally hated, take the M60 and get the stopping power and deep impact perks. Then just randomly spray every building until you get a kill. You need never aim again!

Tar.Aldarion

Many a person will come to regret me being told this.
/Engage the stopping power, deep impact and martyrdom perks.

mike o

nope, rpgx2,stopping power,and double tap on my m60 ftw!
plus next person to kill me with a 50.cal will be physically beaten

witnessmenow

you were using d to knife? what were you using to move?!

the bottom of the side mouse buttons is what i use to knife, i think thats how most do it

Tar.Aldarion

Like all games I use right click to run, ctrl to go backwards, alt for left, space for right, z for duck, a for jump etc.

Black_Knight

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Like all games I use right click to run, ctrl to go backwards, alt for left, space for right, z for duck, a for jump etc.

How the heck did you come up with that configuration! If it wasnt for the set configuration of asdw then perhaps I could understand but your just breaking all standards.
Im not sure whether to point or to applaud...

Tar.Aldarion

When I started playing I tried a lot of configurations to see what was the best/fastest. People get confused as to why I have two different second fire function buttons, it just works better ok! :d
Only annoying thing is changing it every time I get a game or play on somebody elses computer.

witnessmenow

remind me never to let you play any games on my computer! That is easily the weirdest config i've ever heard of!

TerrorFirmer

While mine's not that wierd I also have to change it everytime I use another computer. I ran out of keys so I don't actually have a knife key (at least not that I can practically use)...but I don't really miss it.

Arrows - movement
Del - Sprint
Pg Down - throw Grenade
End- Hold Breath
Ctrl - Crouch
Shift - Jump

RabidDog

The Call of Duty 4 profile saves to your account in Wired so that no matter what computer you use, it's always there. So, you key settings will follow you.

sharkDawg

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Like all games I use right click to run, ctrl to go backwards, alt for left, space for right, z for duck, a for jump etc.

Hmm, are you dyslexic?

Tar.Aldarion

Just obsessive. :_)

Black_Knight

So whats the story here then? Is it compsoc and co in tomorrow night as usual or is there a merge going on for wednesday nights with fansci?
Im beginning to need my fix!

Tar.Aldarion

Mmm free warcraft tournament.

kevin216

Black_Knight wrote: »

So whats the story here then? Is it compsoc and co in tomorrow night as usual or is there a merge going on for wednesday nights with fansci?
Im beginning to need my fix!

yes we need to make plans???????????
?
?

Black_Knight

Well i think myself and many other Electronic classmates are heading down there tomorrow (Tuesday). Actually, your a classmate kevin216. But to everyone else, im sure there'll be about 7 or 8 of us electronics heading there. Any other compsoc lads joining us again?

Tar.Aldarion

Ah, a lesser electronic engineering class...

Black_Knight

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Ah, a lesser electronic engineering class...

At least our keyboard configuration makes sense.

Maybe only 7 of us, but as a good friend of mine once said, "more is more"

witnessmenow

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Ah, a lesser electronic engineering class...

No hoody for you...

RabidDog

Hey guys,

It looks like this week will be Tuesday/Wednesday as usual, next week will mostly likely see both merged into Wednesday.

I'll post more info about next Wednesday later (CompSoc and FanSci have agreed, just need to confirm it and get the word around).

We'll run a small competition/tournament on the merged (Wednesday) night (I assume everyobe will agree with Call of Duty 4?), should add some extra spice. We can rotate the game each week, to keep it fresh.

Tar.Aldarion

witnessmenow wrote: »

No hoody for you...

My idea was better for it.

"Resistance is Futile
If < 1 Ohm"


COD4 is fine yeah.

In other news, A in VHDL, WOOO.

witnessmenow

That is funny, pity i wasn't told it!

Dont talk to me about digital, got a "c" that i'm very disappointed with, i'll have to have a chat with my ol buddy ferghal.....