It's time to go to war (Every Saturday 8pm)

[scb]

I have to say this was an unqualified success tonight. Got together a bunch of people, too many to name, but thank you for coming and bringing your friends. We had up to 9 people, so many that we couldn't even fit them all in an XBOX party. I ended up bailing after 5 hours, having gone +12 in wins over that period at least.

Funnest part of the night was everybody running a riot shield class that we probably would have won had the map not been Derail.

That time seemed like a good one, if anything I might try to do it an hour earlier because it's now 4am. Where does the time go? Would that work or too early for you west coasters?

Thanks again for coming.

[mw0swedeking]

That works good for me, yeah this one ran a little late for me too.

And on the riot shield game, I did have to switch to the Scout Sniper when they had air support up because it was the only CB class available to me... but it was still pretty awesome.

[n1gh7]

1 hr earlier is fine. When I get on is random everyday. I feel bad for stat whoring and taking everyone's kills. Going super positive and what not. I do amazing when I have a real team behind me.

[n1gh7]

My best games:

[mrcow]

I was kind of sad during the riot shield game We really could have won that. And night, in that highrise game, half those assists were me

[mw0swedeking]

First picture there's me 13-7 on the other team... I do this thing to get more wins and I start it off by getting a loss for quitting the game I was in, then another loss because matchmaking put me on the wrong team, and then I think we lost the next one too. But the 15 in a row more than made up for it, probably the most fun I've had playing this game.

Also like to point out that in picture two (for some reason I'm absent but...) you had a random on your team go 5-37... he's level 50 too, so really no excuse.

[mrcow]

Jan 31, 2010 19:30:33 GMT -5 mw0swedeking said:

First picture there's me 13-7 on the other team... I do this thing to get more wins and I start it off by getting a loss for quitting the game I was in, then another loss because matchmaking put me on the wrong team, and then I think we lost the next one too. But the 15 in a row more than made up for it, probably the most fun I've had playing this game.

Also like to point out that in picture two (for some reason I'm absent but...) you had a random on your team go 5-37... he's level 50 too, so really no excuse.

haha, yeah, we pointed that out too when we were playing.

[scb]

Jan 31, 2010 19:30:33 GMT -5 mw0swedeking said:

First picture there's me 13-7 on the other team... I do this thing to get more wins and I start it off by getting a loss for quitting the game I was in, then another loss because matchmaking put me on the wrong team, and then I think we lost the next one too. But the 15 in a row more than made up for it, probably the most fun I've had playing this game.

Also like to point out that in picture two (for some reason I'm absent but...) you had a random on your team go 5-37... he's level 50 too, so really no excuse.

That second picture was the one that you and I both got dropped for some reason.

And of course, he has to post that first pic, which was easily my worst deathmatch of the night.

Domination makes me totally careless though. Half the time, if our plan is to hold B&C, I'll be the one guy making suicide runs into A just to force them to keep some people back to defend it. I don't think I've ever had a good K/D in Domination.

[mrcow]

Wow. I ******** hate this game. It's the worst crap I've played in such a long time. The only way to make it good is by having a full team of 8-9. That's retarded. Why THE HELL should you have to have a full team just to ******* enjoy ONE game.

[ssog]

Did anyone get a screenshot of that 10,000-2,800 smackdown we laid down?

[mw0swedeking]

yeah if n1gh7 has any other screenshots that make the rest of us look good I'd love to see 'em.

[n1gh7]

Those were the only 2 I had. Sorry. Next time I'll actually capture the games in beautiful HD so you can all see my amazing view point.

[scb]

How do you take screenshots?

[n1gh7]

www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/
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3 samsung spinpoint f3's in a RAID0
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the little button that says take a screen shot next to the one that says capture.


(my HDMI out goes to my computer where it is split and one is sent to my monitor and the other is captured or screen shotted or whatever.)

(they need to update their drivers because the most recent ones suck...)

[scb]

Anybody who wants to join me for some Domination or Ground War tomorrow night, just let me know, I'll be on a little early, throwing out invites.

[n1gh7]

I'll get on at that time sure. Just post here before you get on so I know.

[mw0swedeking]

I can't wait... playing this game lone wolf has become nigh undoable with infinite CP and airdrops so common. I want to play it so bad, but every time I do I just get mad because I'm being beaten by a bunch of cheaters. I've been running CB stingers and half the time my teammates can't even keep them out of our spawn, and they kill me before I can shoot down a freakin harrier. I've totally started justifying dashboarding on them (and I just hope I'm host so I make the game as much a waste of their time as it was mine... but if I'm not, at least I don't get my stats dropped by cheaters.).

Anyways, sorry for whining at you guys, I'll be there.

[scb]

bump. Logging on. send me a friend invite if you want in. or just a message like 'k' or 'inv' or 'hey dingleberry, i'm here.'

[mrcow]

how many are on?

[scb]

Last night was a pretty good experience, up until the end. We won more than we lost, we even won our Riot Shield game. A bunch of people got fed up with care package glitchers and left for CoD4, but I can't really blame them.

The last match I was in though was pretty bad. We were playing Domination in the Scrapyard and it was a mess. I'm sure part of it is my fault. I wasn't providing leadership. I think it's the arrogance of success. We had been winning, so I just kind of assumed we'd keep winning. That's on me.

What bugs me though is that I'm pretty sure there were people on the team who weren't playing the game to win. I'm not 100%, so I'm not going to mention any names, but I'm pretty sure there was more than one person who was more interested in their K/D than in winning the game.

I personally don't care about Domination. It was my first idea, something to get a little tactical, a little more than just running around like idiots in TDM. Personally, I think the format is pretty stupid, considering it has instant respawn and how prevalent explosives are, and how long it takes to capture a node.

The point is, K/D doesn't matter in Domination. I don't care if I go 0-0 tactical loitering the node nobody attacks, i don't care if I go 0-50 making suicide runs into A, forcing them to defend it while we hold B&C. I don't care if the whole team gets massacred over and over, as long as one of us gets to B in time to stop the cap.

I'm not trying to say that winning is everything and winning is the only thing. The goal of the game is probably really to have fun, right? I'm on board with that. I enjoyed the all Riot Shield game, i enjoyed the all Scrambler game. But it's not fun for me to be the only one capping nodes.

If nobody ever wants to play Domination again, I wouldn't mind one bit, though with Ground War the way it is that might be impossible. If K/D is all that's important to you, let's just play TDM, I'd love to team up with a bunch of killing machines in TDM. But if K/D is all that's important to you, please don't join me for any objective based games.

Again, not calling anybody out, I'm naming no names. If I'm wrong, I'm sorry. If you're offended that I left so abruptly after that game, I'm also sorry.

Next week is Valentine's Day weekend and I have plans on Saturday, so I doubt I'll be able to make it. If someone wants to set it up for next Saturday, let me know and I'll modify the top of page posts telling people to see you.

[mrcow]

Don't know about anyone else, but in the Favela dom game, Night, Infinity and I were running around capping flags and in the Derail game I tried to cap A/B as much as possible. In the first Dom game I didn't do anything iirc, so I'm sorry about that. I don't recall anyone Stat whoring, but that might be because I was dying so much trying to cap those flags. I thought it was a good time until those kids started glitching. Maybe we could play CoD4 next time, or a different game altogether. MW2's getting on everyone's nerves with the immense amount of brokenness in the game.

[mw0swedeking]

Lats week we had problems on scrapyard, too... I don't know why it happened then either. I was running around capping flags that whole game, but they always capped one while I was capping another. I think when we start to lose we lose our cool a little bit too.

If CP glitch is fixed I could probably invite people on saturday.

[n1gh7]

I really can't stand this game with the CP glitching.

Another note, not calling anyone or anything, but calling out enemy positions, if you died, where you died, etc. is extremely helpful and necessary in a team game. Also if everyone could talk louder that would be great (I can't really hear people).

[mw0swedeking]

Yeah, if you're talking I'd appreciate if it is helpful chatter. Otherwise you're just making noise that makes it harder for me to hear enemies, or other people who are actually giving out enemy positions.

Although I do personally have trouble calling out positions. It's kinda like, "Ok guys, there's a guy who just killed me, he's... [enemy kills teammate] yeah. Right there." Maybe if I became acquainted with the maps in terms of North, E, S, W and learning buildings better I could do better at it.

[n1gh7]

Feb 7, 2010 21:53:55 GMT -5 mw0swedeking said:

Yeah, if you're talking I'd appreciate if it is helpful chatter. Otherwise you're just making noise that makes it harder for me to hear enemies, or other people who are actually giving out enemy positions.

Agreed, but when we are doing really good super serious game chat is not needed.

Although I do personally have trouble calling out positions. It's kinda like, "Ok guys, there's a guy who just killed me, he's... [enemy kills teammate] yeah. Right there." Maybe if I became acquainted with the maps in terms of North, E, S, W and learning buildings better I could do better at it.

What I try to do is know who is around me so that when I die I can say, "To your left (player)" or something. Making it personalized makes everything easier. Or just saying, "B Building" for the building on or by B and add "Upstairs, down stairs, on the stairs, ladder, etc." to be more specific.

Very simple call outs go a long way to. When there are 2 buildings to look at with 2 windows each saying, "on the right building" reduces where you are trying to find an enemy in half.

Remember everyone: Think Positive, Go Positive.

[mw0swedeking]

So are people down for tonight, or just postpone til next week?

[n1gh7]

I'll be on maybe.

[mw0swedeking]

I guess if you're on my friends list and you come on I'll invite you, but SCBs organization will probably be missed... for all I know it could be just me and n1gh7

[scb]

It's time once again. This Saturday 10pm ET, 9pm CT, 8pm MT, 7pm PT

We've done the all Riot Shield, we've done all Scrambler. Taking suggestions for a class/perk/whatever that everybody needs to adopt one match.

My suggestion is everybody runs Scavenger and Smoke Grenade and throws the Smoke Grenade as far as they can in a random direction every time they pick one up.

Two things...

First, I'd like to really improve our communication. If you get killed, say where and how many tangos. Especially if you get sniped from somewhere.

Second, if we end up doing Domination let's develop some real tactics about who is assigned to attack and defend what. Don't just be off on your own worried about your K/D, let's get that warm fuzzy feeling of working together.

I also might be out of town next week, don't know yet. I might take my XBOX with me anyway.

[mw0swedeking]

Feb 19, 2010 1:30:41 GMT -5 scb said:

Second, if we end up doing Domination let's develop some real tactics about who is assigned to attack and defend what.

Here is how you do domination.

2 guys scav/OMA,CB and sitrep hang back, take A/C defend it with claymores and defensive positions. You can venture away from it, but not so far that they can cap it.

Everybody else, silenced SMG marathon, lightweight, whatever... and take B. Tactical insertions?

Switch to a more defensive class next time you die.

Hold those two positions with no more than one person at a time venturing into there spawn, game over.

If you are having no problems, you can have one guy with big killstreaks not play the objective so air support can keep them busy.

Also, having almost everyone running predator missiles is a great way to keep them constantly locked down.