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Cybershark Spamming!
Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Location: off the grid, but still fighting for the users!
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Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 12:15 pm Post subject: ZDS #142 - Crazy for you |
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Should be no surprise to anyone that it's CTF this week. The all-important question is just what could we be running? Well I like to keep things varied but then I don't want to scare people off with unheard of maps every single week, so I try to flitter between lesser known maps and some which are slightly more established. Last time around we did Legendary which had previously been short on players and servers, so this time it's the better known CrazyCTF for our weekend workout. Incidentally, as a result of the Legendary sesh it looks one of those maps may well be used in the upcoming ECDL season
Looking back, I was amazed to see that Crazy has only been run once on ZDS - on the very first of Bones' sessions in fact. And that was all the way back in August 2007!
For those who need an introduction to the pack then it was mostly a Tennie and Spacepirate co-production - with guest spots by Izm, TUD, Mephisto, KillingBlair and Nestea. It's got a huge mix of maps which take turns being simple, frustrating, vast, astonishingly 3D, or several of the above at the same time. I think I got a good selection of them picked out here
Game Mode: CTF
WADs: zdcctfmpc
cc_terrain
monster_skins_team
tourettesvox1
Maps: 16 (02,04,06,08,11,13,15-18,20,23,25,26,29,30)
DMFLAGS: 279684 / 1
Players: 12 (autobalancing)
Teams: 2
Timelimit: 9 mins
Flags: 5
Skill: 4 - Nightmare
Voting: Kick / Map
No teamdamage or overtime
Date: Saturday 22nd May 2010
Time: 7:30pm UK Time / 9:00 pm EST
Locations: [XXX]
I think we're kinda screwed for US servers, so maybe we'll have to just head to Rampage and go with whatever maplist and settings they have?
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The Ultimate DooMer God like!
Joined: 30 Aug 2004
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Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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Their maplist is: 01,02,04,06,08,10,12,15,18,21,24,25,26,28,30,31.
I think yours is better somehow |
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spacepirate AssPants
Joined: 25 Jan 2005 Location: que pasa
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Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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Kewl.
You sure you do not want map16 and 10 in it?? |
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Cybershark Spamming!
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Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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10 was almost in but I was trying to keep the maplist to a minimum as there's only so many that will get played through in a session. 16 I did think I'd included, so thanks for the post-check! |
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Quiksilver Spamming!
Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Location: Portlandia, Oregon
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Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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Speaking of Tennie, wheres that video of them doing an IRL Doom thing. it was hilarious and I can't find it on youtube. Link Pl0x. |
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qwaszx- Unstoppable!
Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Location: Somewhere in Gensokyo.
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Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 2:08 am Post subject: |
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Oh man. I'm totally in. This is one of my favorite CTF packs. |
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Cybershark Spamming!
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Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 10:19 am Post subject: |
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Quiksilver wrote: | Speaking of Tennie, wheres that video of them doing an IRL Doom thing. it was hilarious and I can't find it on youtube. Link Pl0x. |
Doom Day |
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Dark_Odyssey Dominating!
Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Location: Neuschwabenland
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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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*Preparing for a breathtaking Night of DooMing the Flag*
BTW:
Back at ZDS #141 Cybershark wrote: | ... diving again and again off a bridge to try to kamikaze a whole pack of archviles. Idk, I should go back and play these things sober sometime too |
A bit of total ROFL here, I know EXACTLY just how it feels |
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Cybershark Spamming!
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Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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Heh, I was spot-on with the original maplist I guess, because I was all done after 15 maps. It was only Blair's 'In The Mixer' that I missed!
Team numbers were proving constantly annoying and the session did suffer a little from lack of US server - some people did indeed go to Rampage, but most just stuck it out on XXX. Of course when the US sessions are made up of 66% Euro players then of course it's not such a problem for them
But yeah, lotta really great games in there. There weren't many where one team got a landslide victory and most ran on to the timelimit. |
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Dark_Odyssey Dominating!
Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Location: Neuschwabenland
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Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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A lot of fun 2b sure, but what annoyed me to the point of frustration were those prickheads which entered the server and blindly started to play with the team color they still had configured from their last game of CTF, whenever that may have been.
This way, I several times experienced the case where I passed out in the same moment a PH (see above) entered, and -due to the forced spectator status after death- couldn´t rejoin my team due to player numbers, though the other team would have offered more than enough space for another one or two flag fighters ... *censored*, *censored* and *censored* >:/
Also no thanx to ppl who demand "Teams!" while being equally numbered
GGS otherwise |
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TheCupboard Generic Title
Joined: 25 Feb 2007 Location: USA
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Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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I got the chance to play a few maps I had never seen before. The vox was damn entertaining. It is truly a godsend. Otherwise, this week's session was pretty relaxing. I still love that Plutonia-style castle map with the invisibility spheres.
Did I mention how much I love the vox? |
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Cybershark Spamming!
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Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 10:29 am Post subject: |
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You know that vox is by Shoes, right?
Sorry to hear about your pains Dunk! Yeah the server settings were slightly off - I think Krawa must've left the deathlimit at 1 after the last FFA or something? It was supposed to be team balancing too, but he said he had that on.
Dark_Odyssey wrote: | Also no thanx to ppl who demand "Teams!" while being equally numbered |
Ugh yeah they're always a pain because you keep stopping to check when someone does say that. I blame the scoreboard for not making it clear enough who's idle! So anyone got any thoughts on how that could be made more transparent? |
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Dark_Odyssey Dominating!
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Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 11:24 am Post subject: |
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Cybershark wrote: | You know that vox is by Shoes, right? |
ASDF !
Cybershark wrote: | Sorry to hear about your pains Dunk! |
Well, I think I´ll survive this, ´twas just sum annoying shit back at the sesh.
TheCupboard wrote: | I got the chance to play a few maps I had never seen before. |
Yeah, same here ... I was particularly fascinated by this "Liquid" Map (and the 3D Bridge, of course) ^^ |
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