Summer Gaming 2010

[changling bob]

Summer is once again upon us, and to alleviate this, once again we're running Summer Gaming sessions. The full news post is on the homepage, but the long and short of it is TF2 on Wednesday at 7pm.

If you have suggestions for games that aren't TF2 feel free to post them in this thread, and depending on server and game popularity considerations, we'll try and slot it in somewhere.

[azquelt]

I hereby propose TrackMania Nations.

[Hunt3rW0lf]

Battlefield 2142? the new patch 1.51 will be out soon and features 4 new maps as well as providing the Northern Strike expansion for free to whoever doesn't possess it.

[holyone2]

I would be more than Down with some epic Battlefield 2 Bad Company 2

[Steg]

Altitude
Shattered Horizon
UT3 Greed
Quake Live
Burnout Paradise

Alternativly, whatever is cheap on Steam.

Steg

[JimmyT64]

And, for something that isn't a shooter - AI War.

Mainly because I can't find anyone to play it with. q_q

[xatm092]

I vote TF2 and more TF2.

Also lame, 7pm is so early, I'll probably still be about playing mahjong.

[Zantesuken]

Is there where we all start shouting 'HoN' in unison? If so:

HoN!

[changling bob]

Is there where we all start shouting 'HoN' in unison? If so:

HoN!

I believe it is free this weekend, so anyone who wants to learn should probably poke people who play, and we'll try and get some games up for the learning of things.

[changling bob]

I am assured that last week's Summer Gaming went awesome, so we thought it might be a good idea to do some more!

This Friday, we will be attempting to get Left 18 Dead 2 running on KingJ's servers. Assuming it works, mass zombie-survivor interaction for the masses. If not, standard L4D2 will be played, so you can still wang zombies to your heart's content!

After some feedback as to the early start time last week, we will be starting at 8pm with servers to be announced when we figure out why Valve can't write good lobby software for L4D2.

tl;dr: L4D2, Friday, 8pm

[KingJ]

This assumes I can get the 18 player L4D2 server working, the fallback plan is to just have a couple of versus servers running.

[changling bob]

It turns out that after last weeks Summer Gaming, we accidentally left the TF2 server up. So we've decided to leave it up! And therefore, since its available, and I'm sure everyone will want to turtle up with their shiny new engineering equipment, Summer Gaming on Wednesday will be TF2! We're still figuring out quite how to set it up, so check out the thread here if you have any comments on it.

The Buncs Teamspeak server is also continuously available for your talking-to-people-over-the-internet needs, and IRC is a useful place for poaching people to play video games with you, potentially utilising the above stated VOIP application!

tl;dr: TF2, our server, Wednesday, 8pm

[changling bob]

The fine folks at Valve have seen fit to grace us with a free game. And who are we to turn down free video games!

Therefore, on Thursday at 8pm we will be playing Alien Swarm, available free on Steam. I have no idea how servers work for it or such like, but join us on our TeamSpeak server (available here, and connect to teamspeak.buncs.com, port 9992), and we'll figure it all out.

BONUS: There's an achievement that gets you a hat in Team Fortress 2! Everyone wants more hats, right?

tl;dr: Alien Swarm, Thursday, 8pm