theposse.org: New Year's LAN Party

Post by Temporal

(Temporal) — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:56:56 GMT

Civ: With the latest patch, I played two full games of Civ IV with max-size worlds containing 12 civs, on my laptop. Seemed perfectly playable. Though, there are noticeable (short) pauses... which is hard to excuse on a modern system. The fact the game logic is all written in Python probably has something to do with the slowness.

CS Video: Wow. Just... wow.

BTW, confirmed attendees include: Kenton, Lester, Jesse, Pat, Jim, Mike, and another Mike. Peter will show up at around 3AM, supposedly.

Chris: LAN party, not WAN party. People are always planning to connect remotely, but it just never happens in practice...

Post by burn

(burn) — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:41:32 GMT

Eldragon - This one is for you.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7118750192530790377&q=counter%20strike%20vents

Everything ever wrong with Counter-Strike

the best thing about it is the dude goes through all 5 stages fo grief every three minutes

Post by burn

(burn) — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 02:41:08 GMT

Quote from Mojo:

well there is a new patch out that will make the game run better supposedly. WIsh I would try it out and see what I get since I am loving that game.

It helps. It still isn't great but it does improve the gameplay.

If you guys leave some room for some DoD later in the night - say 2 in the morning - I know one mofo that would log on an play with you guys.

Post by Mojo

(Mojo) — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:26:34 GMT

Quote from Eldragon:

Glad to hear I am not the only person who gets massive slow downs playing civ4 in the late game. It got so bad I was wishing they stuck to 2d graphics.

well there is a new patch out that will make the game run better supposedly. WIsh I would try it out and see what I get since I am loving that game.

Post by Temporal

(Temporal) — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 01:27:22 GMT

Yeah, as long as everyone has steam I'm sure we can work out DoD:S...

Post by Eldragon

(Eldragon) — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:45:06 GMT

Glad to hear I am not the only person who gets massive slow downs playing civ4 in the late game. It got so bad I was wishing they stuck to 2d graphics.

As to DoD:S, Maybe we should just pressure everyone who is going to lan to get it. (Most probably have it already). Its only $20 after all. Its just too bad the 64 bit source engine is for HL2, and not all source games.

Post by Temporal

(Temporal) — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:30:51 GMT

My system is still the same old AMD (32-bit) 3200+/GeForce FX 5950, and continues to work great. So, yeah, I think you'll be fine with that system.

Actually, at the LAN I'll be using a laptop. It's a damned fine laptop with a high-end graphics card (why they give me this for server programming I do not know), but laptops just don't compare to desktops in terms of performance.

Post by Mojo

(Mojo) — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:45:49 GMT

well I didn't bring any games back with me. Civ4 is fun, but it seems to get bad slow downs late in teh game. I had to turn down my graphics from high to medium once things really got to being sluggish.

BF2 would be fun, been playing a lot of DOD:S. But I think the game we all might have fun playing is Age3. I think I might be the only that has played it, but its really easy to pick up and get used to, I have only played probably 6 games or so that is just me and some friends against computers. And I will go easy the first couple of rounds so once people get adjusted to it.

I really want to play Savage some more and definately can't wait for S2. I am going to say pass on Serious Sam2, we played that a lot at work and it just wasn't that fun, as opposed to SS1. FEAR MP I hear is quite good, though I bought the game but haven't really played it since I realized my computer at home is rather drab.

I will see if I can remember any other games that came out this year since I am sure there are a few that I am not remembering

oh and I might be able to get my dad's computer, since his 5 year old one just died so we went out and get a completely new system yesterday, not top of the line since he just uses it for audio editing and such

AMD 64 3000+
Geforce 6800

These are all good right? I still suck when it comes to knowing about video cards and such.

Post by Temporal

(Temporal) — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 03:09:50 GMT

Hrm. Sounds like BF2 is a no-go. Oh well.

I'm just not up on the game news... I don't play them very often. :/

I will have Civ IV. If we can actually make it run without, you know, causing all our computers to explode...

Post by Eldragon

(Eldragon) — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 23:31:60 GMT

BF2 is pretty good, but I don't know how well it will go over at a lan. Its got two strikes against it: Lack of multiplayer bots (maybe it was fixed up in a later patch, or a user mod) and intense CPU requirments. My 2.2 ghz ATI 9700 chugged on it, but it was playable. (The Shuttle PC, Thats the one pat will be playing on). So unless everyone has a faster system than that, we may need to look elsewhere. The battlefield games when they are 4 on 4 tend to be kind of lame.

Anyone play F.E.A.R? Got good reviews, have not played it.