Wow, that was a blast last night. Good to see so may AK back in the battlefield.
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Wow, that was a blast last night. Good to see so may AK back in the battlefield.
I told Gunny that I was going to hop on last night, but I ended up playing ChromeHounds till about midnight. tonight is MC for you guys so hopefully I can hook up and play with you on Friday, or over the weekend.
Stitch "Big Sissie" Jones was the only no show lastnight. Definitely a good time Ab, Camel, DD, Nuts, DiscoStu, Hylander, Katana's Blade, Beast and msyelf had a blast lastnight and I am looking forward to more fun nights like this.
The only blast I had last night was from the lightning strikes. It kept sending my DSL synch in and out.
However, even before that... the 1.3 patch has pretty much hosed BF2 for me. I can't get the servers to update in the browser.... well, every once in awhile I get maybe 60 - 80 total, but it takes like 10 minutes.
When I attempted to connect by IP, it failed on both attempts. Everything was working fine the last time I played a month or two ago with Special Forces. I guess I'll try again one of these nights to see if it was just the weather - but I suspect from reading all the forums and complaints/problems with 1.3 that it's just a FUBAR'd installation and I'm not feeling up to uninstalling-reinstalling all over again with the patches, etc.
That was so much fun, I ordered Special Forces. ;) I'm uninstalling and reinstalling my server this morning due to the "version mismatch" error last night. I'm looking forward to playing more!
I got the game loaded, patched to 1.3, and managed to play a game from start to finish. Knocked some rust off, now I need to regain my knowledge of all the various menus/zooming/controlling keys.
That was a great time last night!!! :beer:
I guess I'll have to wipe the dust off this game and give it another go.
Definitely do Palooka we have been having a lot of fun, some of us are a little rusty but that will go away soon enough :)
Might be pre-mature, but TWL does 5, 8, 12 and 15 man BF2 ladders. We could practice over the summer and maybe field a team in the Fall. Just a thought. :)
That'd be cool. 5v5 on those small maps could be a real hoot.
I like this idea!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by [AK]Bribo
We could have some great fun!!! :)
I like the idea of getting back into some sort of competetion in the fall.
Sounds fun to me.
I am going to try and get a mic ASAP so I can actually converse with everyone. Wednesday was fun, I definitely need to try and get on as often as I can.
I'm in when I get my new machine.....
I'd love to get into some competition again.
I'm having some issues with my PC right now. I think it's my ATI X800XT All-In-Wonder overheating. I'm going to buy a Zalman cooler for it and see if it helps. I was finally able to get a server list in BF2 last night and joined a server but system locked up repeatedly. Tried a few other things and it happened again, so it's not just BF2. I uninstalled all ATI items and reinstalled with 6.6 catalysts and ATI Multimedia Center. Still the same problem. I was using ATI Tool and it would pick up some artifacts after several minutes of testing. It's weird how it just started happening, athough it could be due to the warmer weather as well.
I'm already planning out a new PC rig, as my current system has held up admirably for several years with only minor upgrades. It's been a workhorse but it needs to be 'retired' into just mainstream non-gaming activities.
Here is what I'm looking at building:
Lian Li PC-61 USB Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
$99.99
ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI MCP ATX AMD $140.99
eVGA 256-P2-N569-SG Geforce 7900GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Signature Series Video Card
$349.99
Antec TRUEPOWERII TPII-550 ATX12V 550W Power Supply
$89.99
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Windsor 2000MHz HT Socket AM2 Dual Core Processor
$358.99
OCZ Gold Series 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5400) $187.99
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200KS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
$105.99
SONY 16X DVD±R DVD Burner Black IDE Model DWQ120AB2
$35.99
Subtotal: $1,369.92
Since Wednesday seems to work best for exeryone let's make that our official practice night and we'll do pick-up games the rest of the week. We can get on Beast's server on Wednesdays and pick a different map each week to play to get familiar with.
Coolio. BTW, I properly updated my Punkbuster last night and verification time seems to be down somewhat. Still F'in ridiculous, but better than it was. I'll probably try a defrag over the weekend for further goodness.
I'll look up the guide on servers icons (the red/green bar) next to the servers... I think there was something about some servers don't do the verification, or something.
Found it:
http://support.ea.com/cgi-bin/ea.cfg...ted=1130280434
Also, it appears that linux without content is the quickest way to get into the battle, but 'no content' is the key.
If it gets to the point where we need them, I would be more than willing to help with strats for all the maps.
As of right now, I'm not up for being captain for a competition ladder this time around. I'll be glad to assist someone else, though. (That's the cart way before the horse, though.)
* bump *
It's BF2 night tonight. Get your game face on. Hop on AK Ventrilo. See you at 9pm EST (or sooner if you can get on). That is all.
Rock and roll. I'm going to try to be on early to give a couple Special Forces maps a go. Once we get a few, we can drop back to "classic" on our unranked server.
Gonna be a a few late but will be there.
Decided to reinstall XP this morning, and have royally %$^ed up my computer. I have to go find my SATA driver to install during the Windows load off CD. Might be a bit late ... or not there at all, tonight.
I just finished my homework so I'll be on tonight (hopefully ontime!) I still recommend SF as it's great for teamwork and we don't have any pilots anyway (except for KB, who I'm sure still kicks ass).
Not everyone has SF...
Sorry I did not make it last night... :(
I have been painting for almost 3 weeks now, and I am trying to get it finished by Saturday...
Last night was a blast. Let me know if my son Joe gets too annoying. SF is only $20 at BestBuy. I think we should all try to grab it and have a SF night.
Why would you say that? I think he's been great and fun to play with.Quote:
Originally Posted by [AK]Bribo
Yeah, he's never annoying ... always fun to game with him.
Joe = fun to kill, annoying to be killed by.
In other words, just like Bribo.
Much like any of the rest of us :-)
No problem at all with Joe... funny hearing, "Hey dad" though :)
SF: is also available via the EA Downloader. https://account.ea.com/commerce/main...e&app=homepage
That's good to hear and thanks for the kind words. I try to tell him that he's playing with the big boys and he should try to keep the non-game related chatter to a minimum.
I picked up SF today. So...yeah.
GOOOOOOOOOO JOOEEEE!!!
He's always been fun to game with, respectful but likes to rub it in once in a while when he gets you. Just like the rest of us. :)
I like listening to him order Bribo around. Joe does outrank him ... lol.
He's definitely a good egg! And I wouldn't worry much about non-game related chatter when we're just "hangout" gaming--especially when we're split between sides and don't want to use Vent for much beyond heckling those on the other team. ;)