So how’s Summer Jam going for you guys? I figure bloo must be pissed.
It was going swimmingly well until the final match. There was vigorous debate among the participants concerning the gamesmanship and strategic equity in introducing a never before seen map in the final round, to wit, the advantage the first defending team has in learning the map and the disadvantage the randomly selected attacking team has.
Since the charity pot is up over three grand, some felt that the philanthropic entities being represented were the real victims due to this organization faux pas.
But the Romancers sure did whip some ass all along the way.
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At video games? Once, in the long time ago.
Lemon Party didn’t make the finals but we had fun. Key to our having fun was not practicing and then having the strategy on the first map of “Go to the left - round starts - Oh, no! The other left! Go right! Go Right”.
Were I in the final round, I might have done some bitchin’ on principle. But I wasn’t there, just watching the drama on chat. And I enjoy some drama as long as it doesn’t leave a mark.
The Manholes were great this year, totally steamrolled us. Frank West is a one-man spy army.
Summerjam ain’t over yet. This romance will most certainly come to a very creepy, yet sexy, conclusion.
I know it’s been said here before, but the QT3 folk are friends of PoE TF2. You are all more than welcome to join us for regular stupidity on our servers (the main one is ‘[PoE] Girls Club’ [75.125.151.178:27015]). Friend me on steam and put a [qt3] or something in your name so you don’t get kicked to make room for other regulars.
Also: If there is demand for it, I have enough spare resources on my server that I could host a QT3 TF2 server.
Please do! Frank Austin tried to set one up, but jerks like me didn’t support it. I would love to play w/ QT3 people rather than people from Reddit.
Sphinx always says… if you’re failing to plan, then you’re planning to fail.
— Alan
What times is the Girls Club usually active?
bloo
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Sphinx doesn’t know rugby.
Every week that my law school rugby team chose to drink instead of practicing, we won.
Practice and drinking (or practice and no drinking): lose.
Besides, no plan survives contact with the enemy…yada yada…OODA Loops…blah blah…
(this is where me and Alan start trading military history/strategy quotes until someone like Lizard King steps in, which I’m going to skip because I like Alan).
(Actually, a couple of us did talk about very abstract tactics but 90% of that was Iron Xides.)
Having Iron Xides on your team is 90% of the plan.
Evenings EST, mostly on the weekends. Especially if there is a theme night like fanfic readings, or music night etc.
Easiest way to know if the server is active is to join the POE can’t aim group.
You can then put on your party hat when the “Dance Party in Girl’s Club” event messages pop up.
-Tim
That would be awesome. The last QT3 server was not east coast friendly (I think my ping avg ~150.) Not sure if there are enough TF2 players here to really reach critical mass though. Maybe we can leech some from the fairly active L4D2 group?
Iron Xides hates plans. And spies.
Everyone hates spies though. As an engineer, they are the bane of my existence. Also, they are ugly and smell funny.
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God Hates Sentries, says the Spy.
The engineer update finally allowed me to get some stab-stab on. Fun but I don’t have the patience for it.
Like all sin though, there is the guilty thrill that goes along with it. I despise spies, they have sent me into fits of mouse-flinging frustration at times, but recently started playing one and pretty much just giggled the whole time from my first backstab. It felt sooo goood - I was disguised as a medic, came up to a heavy calling for a medic so he could get an uber and go on a rampage no doubt, followed him in, as soon as he spun up his gun - backstab!
Also fun was getting the Identity Theft achievement. Came up as a heavy behind the heavy I was posing as and backstabbed him - made me feel like that scene in Terminator 2 with the fat cop getting his coffee and running into his T-1000 double. There are so many delicious spy achievements - “slash and burn” backstab someone and they change class to pyro before respawning.
Ahh… I mean, damn spies! Damn them to hell!
I only hate BAD spies. Good spies are an asset to the team.
Wait. I hate bad spies on my team. I love bad spies on the enemy team, because every time someone comes running at my fort in the same disguise that’s the color I’m on being followed but not shot at by the entire enemy team, I get an easy kill and a big laugh.
Jeez, I’m a horrific Spy. Every time I tell myself I’m going to spend a full playsessions to get it down I get frustrated and switch cause I suck at it. Think I may just stay away forever.
— Alan
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But…but…<sandal>achievements!</sandal>
I wish valve would make a Spy tutorial. Even good spies die a lot, really, it’s sometimes a matter of just getting lucky. And remember that you’re not there to kill people, you’re there to disrupt. Aggro spies get nowhere. Patient spies get intel.
But if I could teach every spy one lesson, it’s that they should run into enemy territory disguised as a member of their own team more often instead of wasting cloak power, particularly with the C&D.
From there it’s a lot of trial and error learning of opportunities, paths, how to take the long way, slip into a rush, etc. And most importantly, when to STOP being a spy, because the enemy is doing constant checks and sentry guarding. In which case you become a demo and blow engineer and sentry at once.
