Indie game developers will never stop impressing me. Thanks for demoing the most physically realistic drowning-in-your-blood simulator to date. :)

On one hand it would be kind of cool to round out NovemBFG, but on the other hand, yeah, I've spent a little too much time getting locked in rooms I never had the key to get inside in the first place.

There was some talk of giving Orient Express another spin; I'm certainly down and it would be relatively easy for me to set up.

Free to play madness?

Fucking not sure if any of you played the Planetside 2 beta, but I sure didn't!

WE CAN ALL LEARN IT TOGETHER. It's on steam. It's also 10 gigs, so Pang you better start downloading tonight or else we won't see you until April.

Also

Mechwarrior Online!

MWO: Index

Technical robot laser bullshit! Also free to play! Has several patches! Only like 2 or 3 gigs total though. Open beta! Expect to get eaten alive. Awesome fun though.

Also there's SHAZBOT we could always play again. I fucking LOVE Shazbot.

Also Star Trek Online. PHASERS. Haven't played that since Closed Beta with Garr like a zillion years ago. NO IDEA IF THIS SUCKS OR WHAT.

There's also Frozen Synapse, which is a strategery gaem. It's NOT free, but it is cheap on Steam until the 27th. 12 bucks gets TWO copies, and we could play each game against each person SIMULTANEOUSLY, since there's a play by email feature and we could all have games going on against each other person AT THE SAME TIME

it would be like speed chess but with assault rifles and exploded tron bits.

Oh yeah. Not useful for the next two nights, but after that.

YouTube Video

This goes open beta on the 12th.

Fucking Hawken.

We're getting at least one night of this in. F2P as well.

Planetside sounds good. Already set up the train stuff but that can wait for a rainy day, so to speak.

Planetside is like a billion gigs, you got that shit ready to rock, Pang?

Actually we have to settle on a faction and a server.

Connery is the biggest west US server and I think Helios is the smallest. On the east side Mattherson is definitely the biggest and I assume Jaeger is the smallest since it was the most recent to open.

Three hours spent fighting a war that, as it happens, had been won before we got there.

i have that game. and no class on tuesday! this may be awesome.

though i've found that MWO requires A LOT of grinding before you get do do anything interesting like customize mechs. i was going to wait until i could get a decent mech, but eventually i just ran out of patience and bought a crappy little Commando that i'm no good with whatsoever.

That or it needs a lending system where I can start a group and let you use the platforms I've already purchased and are just sitting in the bay.

Gonna work my way up to SOMETHING in the next week even if it's a shithouse Jenner. Took me forever just to adjust to the whole "you're not necessarily walking the same direction you're facing" thing. Fuckin' with all my FPS instincts. PLUS MY MISSILES GO IN ASS-RANDOM DIRECTIONS SO THAT'S COOL

You can purchase mechs and equpment with C-bills. Might take a while to earn a useful amount though. Using the trial mechs you can earn C-bills without repair costs, but you can't customize them.

Once you have your own mech you should stick to energy weapons (no ammo cost) and avoid pricy gear like XL engines if you don't want to get hit with huge repair bills.

After 10 or so matches I have almost half the amount needed to buy the shittiest possible mech, at which point I will run around in circles like a mechanical asshole racking up target-spotter credits and never shooting anybody

Be aware that Jenners are most definitely not shithouse.

For that matter without knowing what you're actually doing, the best of the three lights probably IS the jenner.

The armoured one. The one with the 6 energy hardpoints, is probably your best bet for a starter light.

Alternatively save up for a hunchback, which is a very friendly and easy to learn platform.

Commandos are not terrible either. Try to stay away from Ravens and Cicadas until you know what you're doing or you'll feel like you wasted some time/effort/CBills.

TIME TO CLIMB IN OUR BIG ROBOTS AND FLAIL AROUND AND HAVE SPERGS NASALLY INFORM US THAT THEY AREN'T TECHNICALLY ROBOTS

PS: there's a new patch, so go ahead and grab that while we wait for stragglers

Iliev feel very brave, he leave the house, it sunny outside, his friends are with. He go to enemy base, he feel very nice, nobody home. But it trick, all the enemy hide stealthy behind big building, surprise Iliev very much. Sad day.

Iliev go home very depress and look for vodka bottle, but he remember doctor takes the vodka bottle away from Iliev. Sad day.


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So, next week? I'm down for more Planetside, or Skills has also suggested Star Trek Online, but I'm going to need a status check on that RE: dance emotes

Dem Caterflax came up over dem mountains, I swear they tried to took hour base, we put a stop to that, tell you hwut, with hour hurnchburks and chicardas. Jennifer was there too, she helped us all proper like.

Even though I sat a few hour for group size issues I had a fucking blast. Not sure what everyone else thinks of this game though.