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Monday, April 11, 2005 Best. LAN. Ever. Saturday's MoonLAN came off pretty well. Setup, while not quite the snap it should have been (which is really my fault for assuming the router would assign all the LAN info correctly) it was, by far, the quickest we've ever done this. A lot of thanks to Jorge who brought a 16-port hub and a nice industrial power strip that got everyone in the dining room hooked up fast. Renting tables is so the way to go from now on. That totally made the physical space much more manageable. With the power strip in the middle, all the cables ran down the center and were completely out of the way. Only the network cables that ran from room to room were visible.  We played 2 game the entire time. There was about 5 hours of Aliens vs Predator 2. There's a mod called Survivor, where everyone starts as a Marine trooper and one person starts as an Alien. The Alien tries to kill the Marines, and the Marines try to survive, the longer you survive, the higher your score. Every Marine that's killed respawns as an Alien. So it's a game of slow attrition and panic fire. Tine said it was just amusing to hear us yelling at each other and Jorge yelling out things like: "Alien on top!", "Alien on bottom!", "Hugh Jass coming this way!" and "Die! Die! Die!" This of course competely gave themselves away when I was on the alien side of things and made it much easier to turn them into tasty bits of meat. We should have recorded some of it. Kate and I were in the living room. Whenever we were both Aliens we would whisper to each other about how to attack the group. At least once we totally pulled it off when the group was hold up in one of the outdoor maps. She came in from the left as I pounced from above and we massacred almost the entire lot (FatBoy was hard to kill, the bastard). If you got three kills in a row, you were promoted to Queen Alien, a title I got at least 3 times. One one of the indoor maps, I was so huge that I couldn't fit through the corridors. Unfortantley, I never actually saw what I looked like, but all accounts seem to indicate it was frickkin' cool. AvP2 is a great LAN game. The second game was Quake III, although not as long as AvP. We didn't start Quake III until around 6:00 Joe brought a mod for it called SuperHeroes and it was just as amusing. The skins were various superheros and the best part was the powers. You could select an active and passive superpower to use, plus a power that happened when you died. It was a capture the flag game. Joe was Batman with some kind of laservision that vaporized targets. I was Green Goblin for a while, with flight and Color Bottle Grenades which looked like gummy bottles falling and bouncing and exploding. There were things like Shrink Ray, Teleporters, Freeze Grenades, Lightsabers, Decoys and other weirdness. The Chicken game was freaky. Same SuperHero mod, but instead of CTF, one person got the Chicken and it clucked and circled the player as he ran from everyone else. About this time TheBoy started to edge me out of my machine. Quake is an easy point-and-shoot game and he loves them. So for while, my guy would suddenly start acting like a retard, shooting everyone and then standing still. I lucked out in that the laptop actually ran Quake okay, so I was able to get back in after being completely evicted from my machine. This LAN was, by far, the best one to date. If we can just get 2 or 3 more players, I think that would put us over the top. A 10-player game would rock and we could do more CTF and actually act like teams. Just that planning it is such a bitch. posted by Evil Wayne | 1:26 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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