The Return of NPF Steam Night

[Toastburner B]

It's been awhile since we had an official NPF Steam Night. There have been a few times where we managed to get an impromptu one going, but a lot of time it ends in one or two of us sitting in the group chat waiting in vain for enough people to come in to get a game going...such as this past weekend when me and lazy were hoping to start a game.

So I ask thee, denizens of the NPF: who is up for a game of something this weekend?

Traditionally, these things have been L4D and TF2 centered. I'm more of a L4D guy, myself, but I'm willing to get publicly humiliated playing TF2.

[Bells]

I should get my new PC tomorrow, if everything works out Ok, i'll have (probably) TF2 running by the Weekend, i've never played this game before in my life, so everyone is welcome to come shoot me in the face.

[Steel Shadow]

Been playing a lot more l4d lately myself after an entire month of nothing but Guild Wars. I'd be happy to join in!

...I do have TF2 though, so I can come along and be shot in the face for that as well, I s'pose. Do prefer l4d. Zombies!

[MuMu]

I got both TF2 and L4D2 plus lots of free time. Just some problems:

1)I suck at both
2)My connection is quite slow, so there's probably gonna be some lag(I guess that doesn't matter when you're playing on easy or in a game where both teams are made of newbs)
3)I'm not very good at understanding spoken english and since voiced communication is kinda essencial to planning...

I'm still up for screwing everything up, though!:D

[Flarecobra]

Left 4 Dead.

And there's little planning that goes on in L4D anyway. :P

[akaSM]

You know, I could actually get to use my mic and make you listen to me trying to speak, but all you'll listen is gibberish. Also MuMu, don't worry about the planning and/or sucking we all do :3, except for Shyria D:

[mauve]

Assuming my sister doesn't use my computer for homework the entire weekend, I'd totally be up for an NPF OFFICIAL STEAM NIGHT this weekend.

[Flarecobra]

And me flinging cars at ya'll.

[h4x.m4g3]

I've got L4D2 and thanks to the holiday sale finally have TF2, so perhaps I'll be able to finally join in on the festivities this time.

[Sage Harpuia]

I got both TF2 and L4D2 plus lots of free time. Just some problems:

1)I suck at both
2)My connection is quite slow, so there's probably gonna be some lag(I guess that doesn't matter when you're playing on easy or in a game where both teams are made of newbs)
3)I'm not very good at understanding spoken english and since voiced communication is kinda essencial to planning...

I'm still up for screwing everything up, though!:D

I'm at a similar state. Although, exams are near.... very likely I would be not able to attend.

[Toastburner B]

I got both TF2 and L4D2 plus lots of free time. Just some problems:

1)I suck at both

You'll fit right in.
2)My connection is quite slow, so there's probably gonna be some lag(I guess that doesn't matter when you're playing on easy or in a game where both teams are made of newbs)
No worries, we usually have a few people with lag. One more won't make much of a difference.

3)I'm not very good at understanding spoken english and since voiced communication is kinda essencial to planning...
Planning doesn't really factor heavily into how we play.

And by "doesn't really factor", I mean, "We don't plan, we just kinda run."


So there seems to be interest...what time can everyone be on on Saturday/Sunday?

[Geminex]

European Saturday, or American saturday?

[Steel Shadow]

Just translate whatever time you pick into GMT and I can probably make it.

[PyrosNine]

My fan type thing is making lots of noise and the internet tells me this means that the other fan type thing may be broken, so my computer is noisy and potentially becoming very hot.

But screw that noise, Pyros will definitely play L4D2 until his computer catches fire!

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Sounds like a plan then Any idea on times?

[Ryong]

I won't be here for most of saturday, probably, but friday and sunday are good.

[Arcanum]

Anything Friday or Sunday night works for me. I have plans Saturday so I won't be there if you guys do it then.

Also I recently found out that I can use my PlayStation Eye as a microphone on my computer so I'll be chatting it up this time around.

[h4x.m4g3]

I should be able to squeeze in a little playtime either way but Satuday or Friday After 6:00 CDT (11:00 GMT) will result in the longest appearance from me.

[Flarecobra]

7+ PM Pacific will work for me.

[Jagos]

I like L4D and all...

But burninating people in TF2 is more fun than anything. Especially when they fall right on top of the med kit. MUAHAHAHA!!!

[Doc ock rokc]

I work on the weekends you fucks!

[Bells]

uh uh uh! i forgot... my steam tag is bells85 ... frieeeeend meeeeeeee11!!!111!

[mauve]

Saturday and Sunday evenings are best for me, although my gamin' times depend on my sister's homework schedule more and more these days.

Edit: @Doc: Awwwww, that sucks! Even on weekend evenings??

[akaSM]

A search on your name doesn't return any results Bells, also, you might wanna check this:

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/NPFU

[mauve]

I got both TF2 and L4D2 plus lots of free time. Just some problems:

1)I suck at both
2)My connection is quite slow, so there's probably gonna be some lag(I guess that doesn't matter when you're playing on easy or in a game where both teams are made of newbs)
3)I'm not very good at understanding spoken english and since voiced communication is kinda essencial to planning...

I'm still up for screwing everything up, though!:D

1) We aren't exactly pros. No worries. (Although half the people who say they suck usually end up destroying the opposite teams and getting the most points)

2) I regularly have 300+ ping in certain L4D matches. It doesn't affect any of the other players, so it's usually fine.

3) Only a handful of us use mics, and most of the time we just use them to crack jokes and complain about getting killed at inopportune moments, rather than using them to actually PLAN anything. We don't usually make battle plans-- our strategy is "run around like morons and hope we don't die." So it shouldn't be a big problem.

[Fifthfiend]

I will Team some fucking Fortresses pretty much any time.

[Doc ock rokc]

Awwwww, that sucks! Even on weekend evenings??
ESPECIALLY THE EVENINGS. I work at a Movie theater Restaurant
So I usually have to work on the evenings Fridays and Saturdays...and occasionally Sunday.

[lazy man]

Well as some of you may know I am completely and totally up for this. Weekends are best for me due to WOOOOORK!! Well, unless my friends get in the way and make me play Borderlands or something. But that shouldn't happen too often I'd hope.

[Azisien]

I work until 9PM EST this Saturday but I am otherwise in if it happens on Saturday.

Also zombies 4 eva.

Also I still have two copies of L4D2 to give away.

[RickZarber]

I might be around late Saturday night, if anyone's still playing then. Barring that, I'll definitely be on Sunday evening.

[MuMu]

Soooo...how's it going to be? Today? Tomorrow? Never?

[mauve]

Well, unless anyone has any preferences, I guess we'll just fall back on our usual plan of "show up on one or all evenings between Friday and Sunday and see who else shows up."

We usually meet up in the NPFU Steam Group's chatroom.

[Flarecobra]

Heh. For the finalie we just played in the new vs. Mutation, while waiting, I asked "Tanky Time?"

And then I turned into the tank. Hilarity ensued.

[Azisien]

I'll be home tonight around midnight EST if anyone IS playing.

And I'm more available tomorrow.

[MuMu]

Well, that was one big pile of horribleness and suckness.


And of course, fun as hell. Team Suck almost scored a win, even.

[Fifthfiend]

IF YOU FUCKS AREN'T FORTRESSING IN A TEAMWORK-FRIENDLY MABBER IN AN HOUR AND A HALF FROM NOW, IMMA HAVE TO BE UPSET WI'CHALL

[Flarecobra]

Guess you were upset.

[Bells]

just played my first hour of TF2 ever...


i suck as a scout
i suck a bit less as demoman but i still suck
i'm a sad sad excuse for an enginneer
i backstabbed a guy as a Spy and then proceeded to die a lot
i unlocked 2 anchievements in a row as a doctor

[mauve]

Steam Night 1-15-2011:

Incapacitated Nick learns to fly.
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/2789/flyingnick.png

[Doc ock rokc]

i suck as a scoutEveryone does their first time. Hell I suck with scout even now. (I used to rock when the sandman was actually threatening)
i suck a bit less as demoman but i still suckDemos hard to start up but once you hit 5 hours on him he starts opening up
i'm a sad sad excuse for an enginneer there is two things about engie you need to be good with him. Map Knowledge which you don't have, and a Good team which is hard to find at times.
i backstabbed a guy as a Spy and then proceeded to die a lotso your good with spy. (seriously Spy is considered a "Master" class and is REALLY hard to play without experience even the best spys rarely have a 1 to 1 kill/death ratio)
i unlocked 2 anchievements in a row as a doctorMedic is a good starter class and is (in my opinion) the Most Important Class in the game. You learn things from other people playing and learn to dodge (scout skill) read the battle (heavy skill) aim with needles (demo skill) and use your melee (good pyro skills) while also managing with multitasking (engie skill) and learn to cut your losses and retreat (spy skill)
stick with the good doctor for now.

[Bells]

i just did something awesome and really annoying. During a game of TF2 my team was loosing, and i was a medic, people on voice chat started asking me to support the frontline but there was nobody playing as heavy or soldier (what the hell...)

so... i turned my mic in and started singing ''never let you go'' , my team got 4 kills in a row because most people stopped playing to ''WTF'' me

felt good!

[Doc ock rokc]

I did that with the censored Count song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM) The other team was laughing so hard they couldn't function

[Ryong]

Summary of last night:

- I hate Dead Center stage 1. Specially as a charger.
- Hard Rain is great but resumes to whoever plays Infected better, it seems.
- A charger threw me out a window to insta-death.
- I was terrible as usual.

[Shin Amakiir]

I did that with the censored Count song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM) The other team was laughing so hard they couldn't function

The disappointing thing is, if you micspam it, they'll kick you instead.

[Azisien]

Last night seemed so successful we ran up against Left 4 Deads biggest flaw: only 8 players. :(

[PyrosNine]

Maybe we should look into one of those 8vs8 player mods.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Problem is that really only works if we operate our own server on a regular basis, I think.

[Bells]

*cough*team fortress 2*cough*

[MuMu]

Ya, I was wondering if we could shoot each other today for a while before going for the undead.

[Pip Boy]

Im totally up for some games tonight, if anyone else wants to hop on.

EDIT: On an important note, Fifthfiend has confessed that he owns Left 4 Dead 2 but simply can't be fucked to install it.

[Bells]

anyone playing TF2 right now? i'm online just floating around

[Kerensky287]

So hey, is this happening again this weekend? I'm free tonight and tomorrow night.

[Azisien]

I may be around but only after midnight EST.

[Doc ock rokc]

im off on a Friday for the first time in 2 months
Alright chums Lets Do THIS!

[akaSM]

Hey hey, let's all pester Pip into this >:3. Also, I'm in ^_^. TF", L4D, I'm up to pretty much anything (I have).

[mauve]

I can't play tonight but I'll try and be online either Saturday or Sunday.

[Kerensky287]

I just started installing L4D2 a moment ago (I forgot to install it after last time...) but I don't know if it'll be ready for tonight. HOPEFULLY it will, but if not and you guys want to play that instead then go ahead without me.

Games I'll definitely have available are in my sig.

EDIT: okay apparently my sig didn't show up in this post, but I have L4D2 installed now so bluh. TF2 and L4D2 are all we ever play anyway.

[lazy man]

Just as a note, there are a few of us waiting in the group chat for those interested in playing. Looks like L4D2 at the moment.

So brace for zombies! ...Unless you're lame!

[Ryong]

It has hit me that, maybe, somehow, there are more owners of Titan Quest on NPF. For these people, I ask: Tell me or Azisien - the only other person with it that I know. For everyone else: If you like Diablo, get the darn thing. It's very good.

[Azisien]

Yeah Ryong and I would love to find some people on here to play Titan Quest with. The more the merrier, as always.

[Flarecobra]

Looking at the new Mutation for L4D2... Basically turns it into The Mist.

Who'd be up for that one?

[Doc ock rokc]

I can't be with you guys tonight My boss managed to sucker me into covering a sick girl's shift. Essentially I will be working all night unless his promise of a early release comes though. then i might be about the midnight hour.

[Pip Boy]

Looking at the new Mutation for L4D2... Basically turns it into The Mist.

Who'd be up for that one?

Is it a campaign or versus mod mutation?

[Flarecobra]

Survival.

[Pip Boy]

Oh. Interesting. That sounds like fun. What time tonight are we all starting?

[Azisien]

Count me in probably but rum is involved tonight.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

I'll try to make it. Have a project meeting tonight, but it shouldn't go too long.

[Seil]

So I've finally got TF2 up and running - my Steam name is 'poetischerliebhaber.'

[Flarecobra]

Count me in probably but rum is involved tonight.

Oooohhh... That'd make it fun. :D

I think I'll get myself some Scotch.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

*looks at calendar, realizes it'll be another year before she can buy her own booze*

:C

[Flarecobra]

You know, if we ever do one where all of us are drinking, someone had better fucking record it.

[Ryong]

Yes. That'd be great. I wonder if I'd randomly start rambling in Portuguese, though.

[akaSM]

I think the weird thing would be if anyone who isn't you or Mumu starts speaking in Portuguese :P. So, who's got a powerful enough PC to do the recording?

[Ryong]

I don't think today is gonna happen.

[Azisien]

Well that was too much rum...

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Hopefully, tonight we'll all be just drunk enough to make playing hilarious and not so drunk we pass out at the computer before even starting the game.

[Pip Boy]

I have very important business to attend to which means I will not get home until 6PM Pacific, and when I return I will be quite sober. Nonetheless, would love to jump in on the zombie funs.

[Ryong]

I will be unable to participate because I already had something planned for tonight for a while...

It will involve drinking, at least.

[Azisien]

I am attending a celebratory dinner involving turkey and stir-fry tonight but I will probably be home around 9-10PM EST.

[lazy man]

I'm game for this, although I may not get THAT drunk. And I may play other stuff with friends because they're dicks like that. But we'll see! 'Specially since I don't want to play Killing Floor all night long.

[akaSM]

I'm in too :D. Also, which (free) programs can I use to record the game? I've heard of FRAPS or something like that, but I'd like to hear other suggestions :3. If you know any, please post the pros and cons you know of that program ^_^

[RickZarber]

I'm gonna try to hop on tonight, probably around 9pm EST.

I likely won't be drinking, as I stayed home sick today, but hey, at least then I'll be playing on a level similar to everyone else! :P

EDIT: Left4Friends. Roof party. Boomer escort missions. BEST. IDEAS. EVER.

[lazy man]

So apparently despite tonight being Drunk Night, I was the only one who was drinking... Strange.

BUT. Left 4 Friends. So much jumping. SO AWESOME.

[mauve]

BUT. Left 4 Friends. So much jumping. SO AWESOME.

I will third this.

Left 4 Friend and ROOF PARTY TIMES with the occasional ROOF PARTY TI--OHGODWHYISTHEREFIRE?!?! were the best.

[edit: dur, two plus one is THREE, Mauve. You can't second something that's already been seconded.)

[akaSM]

Flying into the underground city was awesome :D

[Zilla]

I'll play! I've got TF2, but not L4D. I'd love some Killing Floor (I've bought this game for other people on occasion, and all three of them that I bought it for have become super addicted.)

I'll play Titan Quest too, 'cause I have it, though I've barely cracked the game open at all.

[Ryong]

I'll play Titan Quest too, 'cause I have it, though I've barely cracked the game open at all.

And with this the number of people who play Titan Quest on NPF has grown 150%!

...We need more players. Either way, me and Azisien are at level 16 or so, we've played using the fanpatch ( which you can find here (http://www.titanquest.net/tq-forum/threads/29712-REL-Bugfix-patch-1.17) ) that fixes a bunch of weird stuff.

[Kerensky287]

Hey guys! We've got a couple of people in the chatroom right now but would love more. Come on out if you're reading this, maybe we can do some TF2 (yes!!) or L4D (yes!!) or something else (not likely given our history but yes anyway!!)

[RickZarber]

I'm down for whatever tonight.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

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[akaSM]

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And every other night with different names (especially mine) D:

[Toastburner B]

And every other night with different names (especially mine) D:

This.

Also, it pains me to report that the Great Spy Rush was less effective than we hoped for.

[akaSM]

Maybe we all should try disguising next time, that would be fun :D. Not that being in an all spy team wasn't fun :P

[Kerensky287]

I, for one, welcome our new Spy overlords.

Also that spy battle was great until some jerkass (me) went Pyro. It would've been so much better if everyone was just disguising, running around, shooting, Dead Ringing, and so on, with nobody knowing for sure whose team anybody was on.

To be fair we only had like 2 or 3 spies on our 6-person team at any given time. People suck.

EDIT: Pretty sure next time we play I'm changing my name to Filthy Cowardly Dragonkilling Scum.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

That, and the other team didn't exactly play along with the spy rush idea. Still, we got further than I expected we would.

[Kerensky287]

The best part was that people were joining, seeing spies everywhere, and switching to spy.

It almost gave me hope for humanity.

[RickZarber]

I went Spy for two rounds, died instantly each time, and then switched to Pyro to solve the problem by setting everyone on fire... :/

[synkr0nized]

I realize I am not on Steam all the much anymore, so this question may stem from flat out ignorance.

Do you play anything besides TF2 and the occasional L4D games?

[Flarecobra]

Might want to reverse those games Synk. :P Whenever I'm on, it seems we only play L4D2.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Flare has a point, it's mostly L4D2 since that's what everyone seems to have and be in the mood for. We usually only do TF2 intermittently. We've had talks in the past about looking at other multiplayer options, but so far nothing's really turned up.

[Azisien]

I bet a good number of us have Civ 5, but it's probably way too EPIC to get going often or at all.

On that note, Monday is boring so say hello to the best bits of...

LEFT 4 FRIENDS!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeaFw4jtf20)

[akaSM]

Aww it seems you didn't get Mauve gently pushing me...off the building>_>

[Arcanum]

Aww it seems you didn't get Mauve gently pushing me...off the building>_>

Mauve: I'm losing control of the tank!
Someone (I forget who said this :S): Just hit one of us
*akaSM sees the curvature of the Earth*

Also I'm pretty sure I was the charger at the end of the video :dance:

[Pip Boy]

We have someone recording this shit now?

I can see some good things in the future of NPF steam night.

EDIT: Since there is talk of people and other games, it might be brought to public attention that a new game is out called "Magicka" that is great fun and up to four players. I don't have it myself, but I've played it, and it seems like the perfect game for steam night.

[Arcanum]

All of the recording was done by Azisien. He is the best.

[lazy man]

I know some people didn't want to have their voices on youtube... but I still kinda wanted to hear some of my drunken commentary. I think it's because I didn't exactly do much in the video. >_>

But either way, awesome.

[mauve]

Mauve: I'm losing control of the tank!
Someone (I forget who said this :S): Just hit one of us
*akaSM sees the curvature of the Earth*

Apparently Bill is the most aerodynamic of the survivors.

I barely even hit him. He got some distance.

[Flarecobra]

Guess you were mad that Bill was fighting you.

[Azisien]

We have someone recording this shit now?

My hard drive screams at the mention of more of this!

I know some people didn't want to have their voices on youtube... but I still kinda wanted to hear some of my drunken commentary.

Well the recording was kind of impromptu after I mentioned it maybe once. The music covered over voices, but I didn't actually record all that much voice chat in all the raw footage anyways. And if I did, often it was with me staring at a wall or something. I'm just a video editting noob, I do what I can.

[Pip Boy]

What software do you use to record and edit these? I have a huge harddrive and a four-core processor, so running L4D2 and recording software at the same time should be easy.

[Azisien]

Fraps to record, Audacity (audio) and WMM (video) to edit.

As one can see, my system is swell for recording. I would just have to clear out some of the garbage on my storage drive. Too much animus.

I don't know how everybody else feels about recording things constantly during Steam Night. Might allow for Charger Olympics, at the very least.

[mauve]

constant recording I personally wouldn't much like that.

[Azisien]

Precisely my thinking on the matter! Unless it's obvious and planned beforehand, I wouldn't make a habit of it.

[Zilla]

On Spy Rush:

If my team had started going spy, I would have joined. I thought it was just an attacking team thing though, so I stuck with Heavy and mowed you guys down. You guys did make me hella paranoid though, so I started just shooting everywhere, hoping to hit a cloaked spy.

It actually got about three spies, I think.

Also, that round led to me getting 4 kills in one life as Heavy. I don't think I'll ever get that again :P

That said, that was maybe my third time playing TF2. Fun time!

Edit:

I'd love for more people to play Killing Floor with, since synk asked for games that aren't L4D and TF2.

And since Kerensky had a mistaken impression of the game (Left 4 Dead for the Counterstrike crowd), I might as well do some promoting.

Killing Floor is a multiplayer co-op zombie survival game, like Left 4 Dead. It was originally an Unreal Tournament 2K4 mod that was bought by Tripwire Interactive and turned into a full-fledged game for download.

It has basic similarities, but fundamental differences to Left 4 Dead. Killing Floor is much more open-ended in playstyle. You are given a map, and you must survive a set number of waves on the map (similar to that one mode in Left 4 Dead, but different in that it's not about lasting an amount of time, but objectively surviving a set number of enemies). You earn money for killing specimens, which you use to buy ammo and guns from the Trader, who moves around the map and opens her shop between waves.

There's a HUGE list of weapons you can buy. However, it helps to narrow your list by which weapons benefit your perk the most. Perks are sorta like classes, but less rigid. They give you some advantages to certain weapons or playstyles, making them do more damage, increasing the magazine size, reducing reload time, and making them more affordable, among other things. However, and this is one thing I really like, selecting a perk never precludes you from anything. This is important, because when you run out of ammo for the guns you are good with, you'll use ANYTHING to survive. In this game, with the perk system, that actually means something, and the decision to use a gun you don't have an advantage with is a meaningful one.

You can still get by with the guns that you're not good with, also. It's just less optimal.

The teamwork in that game is a lot less forced, but a lot more fluid. Like Left 4 Dead, healing is more effective when done on someone else. In this game, healing is a renewable resource, but it needs time. You have a medical syringe that runs on recharging power, somehow, and it takes half as much juice to stick someone else with it as it does to do yourself. By the nature of the enemies of this game, a cohesive team will always be watching each other's backs. It doesn't give you the easy indicators like Left 4 Dead, so it encourages more team cohesion in the first place, since you have to know yourself when your friends are in trouble.

One thing I also absolutely adore about Killing Floor is the ability to weld doors shut. You can actually effectively hole up somewhere, and it really feels like you are holing up, because you're actually welding the doors shut to lock out the enemies. That's something that's missing from Left 4 Dead, where the only places you can feel like that are the preset places that the designers built in to the level. You don't have the same sense of ownership.

Killing Floor is a 6 player game, all survivors.

[akaSM]

I got Killing Floor, but I haven't played it yet, also a couple other games that have online multiplayer. I think we all should all each other as friends (at least those who are regulars at Steam, or at least the NPF weekends), that way Steam will tell us which friends have the same games as us, and it'll be easier to set up a game or something.

[Arcanum]

I'm kind of regretting not getting Killing Floor when it was on sale for super cheap a while back :S

Oh well. I might cave eventually but I dunno. I have a bit of a backlog right now anyway.

[lazy man]

I've got Killing Floor, although I've only played it among my friends here at college. Gotten up to level 4 Demolitions and Sharpshooter, and almost level 4 Firebug. Although my friends and I start up a Skype call to communicate a lot more easily, so that's one reason why it's seemed simple for me.

But more people to play with would be nice, so I'm up for any games when possible.

[Kerensky287]

How much does Killing Floor cost? The idea is intriguing (now that I actually understand it properly)... and to be quite honest I'd love for there to be an option for NPF nights other than tf2 and l4d.

[Pip Boy]

On a related note: Are there any of us who play Borderlands on the PC and would be interested in busting that out?

[Azisien]

Killing Floor is a bit stale but it would work for NPF, and looks like we have six people. KF is twenty bucks, but I would wait for a sale. Not worth it at that price.

I do have Borderlands too, though the four player limit makes it kind of small (since we have been averaging eight to nine players).

[lazy man]

On a related note: Are there any of us who play Borderlands on the PC and would be interested in busting that out?

Got a level 69 Berserker and a level 7 Hunter right here. And I'm game on starting a new character whenever if that's alright too.

...yeah, I like the game a lot. It's Diablo with guns, I can't help it!

[Seil]

Okay, so if I remember my account info correctly, my name is 'poetischerliebhaber.' I just got TF2 up and running on my laptop, and waiting for my copy of L4D1 to arrive.

[Azisien]

Okay, so if I remember my account info correctly, my name is 'poetischerliebhaber.' I just got TF2 up and running on my laptop, and waiting for my copy of L4D1 to arrive.

I think I tried to add you like months ago and you're still on my pending list.

You should get a refund and get L4D2 instead, with Sacrifice DLC out, it's universally better.

[akaSM]

I got Borderlands too, I'm only like level 8 or something and I'm still a newb.

[Pip Boy]

Okay, so if I remember my account info correctly, my name is 'poetischerliebhaber.' I just got TF2 up and running on my laptop, and waiting for my copy of L4D1 to arrive.

Your steam login is not the same name people use to add you to their friend list. For that, they enter the Alias you set up that is seen by other players in games (and can be changed at any time, even mid-game) or your email address.

[Kerensky287]

So I guess it's obviously not happening this weekend, but I still want to get some discussion going about adding games to the roster.

So right now it's looking like the top 3 contenders are Borderlands, Killing Floor and Titan Quest. I'm probably gonna end up getting one of them shortly/eventually, but I'd feel better knowing that whatever I buy is going to end up frequently playable. Like, if not for NPF nights, my L4D would be collecting dust and I wouldn't even own L4D2.

So if you could pick one of those 3 (correct me if I'm wrong by adding more of course) games to "add to the roster", what would it be?

Right now Borderlands is looking spiffy to me, but I don't know enough about any of the options to say for sure.

[McTahr]

I've had Borderlands for a while now. The only thing that keeps me from playing it anymore is the fact I don't know anyone with the computer version. All my friends bought the 360/PS3 versions and gave me the finger, and I'm too cool for public games.

I'd be down for weekend runs of it any time I'm not out on the town.

[DarkDrgon]

Anyone interested in an NPF Magicka thing at some point? I'm FINALLY getting my new mouse tomorrow, so I can join in again.

[Azisien]

Magicka....Multiplayer....Hahahahahaha!

We could try.

[Arcanum]

For those who are contemplating Titan Quest, THQ is having a sale on their store and Titan Quest Gold is only $5.

Here's the link for Titan Quest. (http://store.thq.com/store/thq/en_US/pd/Titan-Quest-Gold-Edition/productID.150121400)
And here's the link to the entire sale. (http://store.thq.com/store/thq/en_US/list&parentCategoryID=&categoryID=54746400&resultsPerPage=35)

I'm on the verge of caving in and buying this. It is extremely tempting...

[DarkDrgon]

Yeah, i've heard its real buggy, but it gets patched a lot, so who knows?

Anyway, I'm thinking about picking up one or both of the L4D, which gets more play? (I got a BIG bonus at work this week :D)

[Arcanum]

Usually we just play L4D2. At least I've never been around when/if everyone was playing L4D.

[Toastburner B]

You know, I have Titan Quest.

I forgot about that. I think I bought it when I splurged on the Holiday Steam Sale a year or so ago.

...And I apparently played it for 11 minutes, according to Steam.

EDIT:

If we're just looking for games to play that everyone has/can get...

Alien Swarm?

It's free, yo.

[Kerensky287]

Yeah, i've heard its real buggy, but it gets patched a lot, so who knows?

Anyway, I'm thinking about picking up one or both of the L4D, which gets more play? (I got a BIG bonus at work this week :D)

There isn't really a reason to get L4D1 anymore. They even ported some of the original campaigns into the sequel, so you don't miss out on much at all. And yeah like Arcanum said, L4D2 is the norm on npf nights, so you may as well cave in to peer pressure.


WRT Borderlands, are the DLC packs worth it? Like, Borderlands is 20 bucks on Steam, Borderlands Gold (with all the DLC) is 30 bucks. Is it worth shelling out the extra 10 for 4 mission packs and early access to the Duke Nukem Forever demo?

[lazy man]

Well, looking at the price of all the DLC they're all still 10 bucks by themselves. Knoxx alone is worth the 10 bucks, so at that price you may as well just get the Gold version and all the extra goodies that'll come with it.

[Azisien]

It's worth it.