Escapist Gamer Nights?

[Brendan Stepladder]

I'm up for anything that isn't an FPS... which seems to be the only thing people in this thread want to play.

Well what would you suggest? I think its mainly because FPS are the easiest games just to jump into and play a few quick matches with people, not because they don't like to play anything else.

There's stuff like LoL but people would be at all different skill levels and it might get frustrating for games that require a bit more time and effort than FPSs.

I don't really see how TF2, BF3 or COD doesn't draw parallels with LoL or DOTA. You have people of varying skills, you have people with varying degrees of unlocked power, etc.

I know the escapist used to have a Minecraft server, is that still running?

Things like Terraria, Minecraft, LoL, DOTA 2, Company of Heroes, Starcraft 2, Civilization 5 would probably be my preferred choices.

I have both COH and Terraria. I'd love to have a Terraria buddy. Care to join up?

 

[ThriKreen]

Join this Group [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Escapist-Game-Nights]

 

[DazZ.]

You guys up for a match of KF some time?

I will be, not overly amazing though, around a level 4 medic/sharpshooter.

Rarely play unless I see some old TF2 guys jumping into a game. Happy to be ordered about if you want to actually try!

Edit: Escapist Killing Floor group [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Escapist-Killing-Floor-Group] could do with some reviving if you want to use that to organise a time.

Was it you who I just played with?

The raging guy swearing about penises?

I wish I could claim that to be me, he sounds swell. However I'm away on my laptop till Saturday.

 

[mParadox]

Gimme some time and I'll be ready for... Killing Floor and Left 4 Dead 2. Should that please anyone. >,>

'course first I have to download the suckers.

But it's been such a long time since I played either. I wonder who'll manage to endure my wonky shoot outs... ._.

 

[Terratina.]

A Escapist Tribes: Ascend group/server would be nice. There is a Tribes: Ascend usergroup, but it's been dead in the water for yonks.

 

[ChildishLegacy]

I'm always up for some Battlefield 3, Left 4 Dead 2 or Killing Floor, all on PC. There's a platoon already for The Escapist on Battlefield 3, I'm in it, I just haven't played Battlefield 3 in like 2 weeks.

I'd be up for a game of killing floor if there are a couple more people around. I've played it to death with 1 friend but i imagine it's a much better experience with a full party and a good mix of classes, rather than just duo'ing it with the odd randomer popping in here and there.

You guys up for a match of KF some time?

If you are we could see if anyone else is interested.

I'd be interested in a bit of killing floor ^^
The summer event is on atm too, great time for it.

If you want to play a quick game then look for the IP/PAssword in the user group. I should be in there for a while at least.

I don't see the password :S

 

[Kross]

Yay, finally some interest! I've been running various game servers for a while (a lot of it due to @Frostycoolslug's server in London where he's donated space - the rest are mainly on my personal server in Toronto)

I'm happy to spin up instances of any game server where I can run a linux client if there's people here who want to play it. Our resources are somewhat limited, but we can spin up and down servers based on what's being played. For example, we have Garry's Mod available, but it's usually offline when people aren't playing due to the amount of RAM it needs. Killing Floor was under a similar situation for a while (only supporting 6 players makes it fairly inefficient on resources), though it is currently online.

We have a lot of plugins for the TF2 servers (Sourcemod: map voting/random cycle/faster spawn/team scrambling), including a couple custom plugins written by Slug to manage reserved slots and such.

Any server that allows it, I will make an effort to get PubClub reserved slots, although that's only TF2 currently. For the TF2 server, if you tag the beginning of your name with [ESC], you'll get a slot over non tagged normal clients as well (this is from the custom plugin).

I'll get my Mumble server back online soon as well, assuming it doesn't get hammered, should be some decent voice chat you guys can use.

Any comments or organization will most likely go through the Group [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Escapist-Game-Nights] or IRC [/chat]. Speak up if there's a game you want to play and I'll look into getting a server up and running.

 

[ThriKreen]

I can also write SourceMod plugins, so if there are any gameplay requests, I might be able to pull it off.

Case in point, SR has a plugin that mocks players that have died to the saw or train.

One thing I would like to do is implement a bounty system similar to Homefront MP's system where if one side or player gets too powerful (3+ dominations, 10+ kill/assist streak), if the opposing team is able to kill them, there's a morale boost (i.e. buff banner) and/or longer respawn penalty on the high value target. This should work towards keeping the teams better balanced and avoid one side stacking and rolling the other side, causing people to rage quit and ruin the server.

 

[unstabLized]

Hmm... Well im up for BF3, Team Fortress if I have to, Diablo 3 (Havent been on in months,but i always like playing with someone), Sniper Elite V2, Serious Sam 3 BFE, L4D2.

 

[subtlefuge]

Just letting everyone know that we are having fun in our small group, and if you want to have fun too (and provide recommendations and input) join in @

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Escapist-Game-Nights

and

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/escapistgamenights

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

We used to be fairly active over on the Escapist TF2/Gmod/Killing Floor servers but that has died out and only the empty TF2 server remains.

There's a minecraft server too, if I remember correctly. Don't really have anything else to add to the thread, since the OP has got a game night going on the PS3 now.