Bucko
12-30-2008, 05:05 AM
Tonight we played a new custom map -- the first one MaxxBlood has created. He asked for our brutally honest opinions right when it was loading, and many of us were probably thinking to ourselves: "what am I gonna say if it sucks?"...
...Let me say it not only did not suck, but it was VERY well done, lots of lush foilage to sneak around, things to blow up, people to shoot, well designed buildings and a very interesting overall environment! Not to mention you can set an massive section of the jungle on fire.. hehe.... We all had fun on it and yes, we were being brutally honest when we said it was great! If you saw it and didn't know better, you would believe it was professionally done by the Ubisoft team themselves. One of the great parts of this game is the map-sharing, which made getting everyone on it painless.
I plan to post an update every now and then when something eventful happens, but I will spare you guys from hearing "tonight was great, we had X number of players for Y number of hours" updates every time we have a good night of play, because every night is a good night of play and those who are there know how good this game is and the rest will adopt it when and if they decide the time is right.
I also did something that's kind of out of character for me tonight when I told a guy who was in our server in the in-game chat to "get on the fuckin point for fucks sake" or something to that effect... lol... For those that don't know me well (and it's hard to know anybody well on Teamspeak), you've probably noticed that I don't do that often and I have done backwards somersaults to help new players out in this game. This guy (I think is name was Alias-something?) had asked in the lobby how to capture points and it was explained to him, I saw him capture points (when he was motivated to do so), and I gave him many more gentle nudges that should have guided anyone with even a small amount of motivation to work as a team in the right direction. When I said what I said it was in all caps to try to light a fire under him, not because I was genuinely pissed or because I take gaming that seriously. I normally don't make apologies for my behavior but since the server was labeled team-osg I did feel to an extent like I might not be representing the clans best interest by yelling at someone.... when I set everyone to rank 19 I have no way of seeing who is new and who isn't. Ok so the guy needs to wake up a bit.. :) but if I had it to do over I probably would. There, I had my Jerry Macguire moment, you had me at Hello... lol!
Anyway, the main thing I wanted to say is that since Dec 23rd I've been gaming A LOT. A lot more than I normally do during my normal work schedule, which many times excludes me from gaming much any time except weekends. My gaming time is going to drop off quite a bit around Jan 3rd or 4th as I get ready to return to work on the 5th and clean up all of the horrors that have been created in my absence at work :)
.....soooooo...... With that fact in mind I will not have as much time to help out newer players with the finer points of the game that I learned simply by playing the game when it first came out. This is one of those games where the graphics instantly amaze, but if a new player joins a server with lots of experienced players, it could be frustrating. Many of you now know this game as well or better than me (in no particular order): Sask, Nip, Iceman, Goat, Pill, Kilrkonman, McFeely, Maxxblood, Miller... and I know you guys can help newer players learn the things that you only learn by either playing for many hours or by learning in a couple of hours with the help of a friend. So, I hope that once my availability tapers off slightly, you will help others learn what the menus do, how to join a server, when to go ranked vs. player server, how to heal self vs. teammates, how to capture points, how to unlock weapons, which weapons are good......etc.. Just the basics stuff. I know I have been running the server most of the time but I suspect at some point this will be handed off to a dedicated server and those who do that well (...and believe me I am here to help with that effort when the time is right).
I'll be most grateful for the help you guys can lend along the lines of transferring knowledge....and although this is a new game, I think all of us will find in 8 or 9 months is is going to be the next "Battlefield 2".
- Bucko
...Let me say it not only did not suck, but it was VERY well done, lots of lush foilage to sneak around, things to blow up, people to shoot, well designed buildings and a very interesting overall environment! Not to mention you can set an massive section of the jungle on fire.. hehe.... We all had fun on it and yes, we were being brutally honest when we said it was great! If you saw it and didn't know better, you would believe it was professionally done by the Ubisoft team themselves. One of the great parts of this game is the map-sharing, which made getting everyone on it painless.
I plan to post an update every now and then when something eventful happens, but I will spare you guys from hearing "tonight was great, we had X number of players for Y number of hours" updates every time we have a good night of play, because every night is a good night of play and those who are there know how good this game is and the rest will adopt it when and if they decide the time is right.
I also did something that's kind of out of character for me tonight when I told a guy who was in our server in the in-game chat to "get on the fuckin point for fucks sake" or something to that effect... lol... For those that don't know me well (and it's hard to know anybody well on Teamspeak), you've probably noticed that I don't do that often and I have done backwards somersaults to help new players out in this game. This guy (I think is name was Alias-something?) had asked in the lobby how to capture points and it was explained to him, I saw him capture points (when he was motivated to do so), and I gave him many more gentle nudges that should have guided anyone with even a small amount of motivation to work as a team in the right direction. When I said what I said it was in all caps to try to light a fire under him, not because I was genuinely pissed or because I take gaming that seriously. I normally don't make apologies for my behavior but since the server was labeled team-osg I did feel to an extent like I might not be representing the clans best interest by yelling at someone.... when I set everyone to rank 19 I have no way of seeing who is new and who isn't. Ok so the guy needs to wake up a bit.. :) but if I had it to do over I probably would. There, I had my Jerry Macguire moment, you had me at Hello... lol!
Anyway, the main thing I wanted to say is that since Dec 23rd I've been gaming A LOT. A lot more than I normally do during my normal work schedule, which many times excludes me from gaming much any time except weekends. My gaming time is going to drop off quite a bit around Jan 3rd or 4th as I get ready to return to work on the 5th and clean up all of the horrors that have been created in my absence at work :)
.....soooooo...... With that fact in mind I will not have as much time to help out newer players with the finer points of the game that I learned simply by playing the game when it first came out. This is one of those games where the graphics instantly amaze, but if a new player joins a server with lots of experienced players, it could be frustrating. Many of you now know this game as well or better than me (in no particular order): Sask, Nip, Iceman, Goat, Pill, Kilrkonman, McFeely, Maxxblood, Miller... and I know you guys can help newer players learn the things that you only learn by either playing for many hours or by learning in a couple of hours with the help of a friend. So, I hope that once my availability tapers off slightly, you will help others learn what the menus do, how to join a server, when to go ranked vs. player server, how to heal self vs. teammates, how to capture points, how to unlock weapons, which weapons are good......etc.. Just the basics stuff. I know I have been running the server most of the time but I suspect at some point this will be handed off to a dedicated server and those who do that well (...and believe me I am here to help with that effort when the time is right).
I'll be most grateful for the help you guys can lend along the lines of transferring knowledge....and although this is a new game, I think all of us will find in 8 or 9 months is is going to be the next "Battlefield 2".
- Bucko