The other topic was getting long.
So let me introduce version 2.5.


Where does everyone want to meet up this friday?
I really enjoyed the CTF server but realize everyone else may prefer something defferent.
So it's up to you guys, doesn't matter to me, as I can suck on most any server.

does anyone hold an interest in barb?

I love Barb. But alas I have to pick family up from the airport friday evening, and will have house guests afterwards so I am out.

Fridays are hard days for me usually I am gathering with family for food and drink, but I will be playing when I can.

I can think of a few -

So can I

Someone nominate a server for this Friday......

Maybe TBN can choose it this time around......

This Friday I'm on a pub somewhere getting some B-vitamins, but I'm sure you will find some old Barb vets on the "you know where" Barbarossa server!

ok dokey, noone mentioned a specific server.

I'll be at DD [ Death before Dishonour] .
I know if you show up there Druid you'll throw all caution to the winds and play like a mad berserker ending up with your teammates cowardly following you in your path of destruction to the flag.

I will be over there. Tax season is over and I'm all rested.

And I have time to......kill.

Muhahahaaa

I played a bit. Just have a hard time getting into playing the big ass maps. Too many snipers camped out. If the snipers were gone or they played some of the traditional maps it might suit me better. As it is I find myself running for 5 mins to find someone shoot them and their buddy and some sniper from 5 miles off kills me. So I run for 5 mins again...... Just seems like the maps do not promote interaction between infantry very much. I have to have something going on all the time or I /quit and find somewhere else to play.

sorry for the no show, I ended up taking the kiddies to the circus.
The circus trip was suppose to be Saturday afternoon but I was scheduled to work at the last minute.

Save your money, just show them this forum




The beauty of this server to me is without worring about tanks, you have to really hone and adapt your infantry skills to an alternative way of playing....

I also was crucified by snipers when I first played on the server, but I learned how to survive as best as is possible on its large rural maps;
You need to-
1] zig zag at spawn
2]Don't dally at spawn
3]Use smoke if u see sniper activity
4]Dart from cover to cover sprinting
5]Spawn as a sniper to take out snipers when you know they're lurking near the spawn.

Interaction between infantry is there -when the tdm mentality is thrown out the window by team-mates ; this is the case when two or three full jeeps coordinate a rush together.
The team also needs to know they must have various roles as team or they'll get destroyed... offence, defence, jeep rushers, snipers, sniper clearance teams, choke point guards.

It's all about adapting to the 'challenges'.
As a sniper I got a good tally last night, but I suffered about 5 jeep runover deaths in the one round you were there Geno. Honestly, you should try 5 or 6 maps and then judge it.
After you + shred and mustang left there were some great battles -including sicily, non-stop close quarter mayhem.

Anyway I hope you try again- it's really fun if you take the extra precautions to avoid getting caught in the open -too often.

I enjoy sniping, I don't see being near the threat in COD:UO as in many other games because the sniper rifle is underpowered.
Plus their is realistic sway built in.

I liked that Kharkov map. I wasn't a fan of the valley because it is big. But I found a neat way to drive a jeep up to the flag. I actually stole the flag once.

I would definately like to do that on Sicily. Thats sounds great.



Something funny happened. I saw a full jeep down below me driving. So I started pimping rounds. Figured I'd hit at least one. I took out the driver and the jeep stopped dead and the rest got picked off. lol.

my fave target as a sniper at enemy spawn; let jeep fill up- shoot the 'mr.niceguy' driver who waits fo fill his taxi then pick off the passengers he's just loaded up before he sets off.... it should be a warcrime -no?!!!

The one thing I really did enjoy about playing that server was shooting the jeep drivers as they pointed their jeep at me and tried to run me over..... not happening. My kar beats a jeep

great game yesterday on Ponyri [I think] at DD server.
We were down 4-0 at half time [ctf -flag captures....] but we came back to win 7-4 !!! That's a near blue moon kinda game.....

I tried that server the other day for a bit - but was getting a terrible ping and lag... any idea where the server is located? Unusual, since I tend to get a pretty good connection to any server in N.A...

Not sure which server you're talking about.
If it's the CTF server |DD|Deathb4Dishonor
then it's located in NY City.

You should give it another try, sto see if it's still laggy.
My experience is 90% of the time when a server seems laggy it not the server but a problem between you and the server. A problame which most often fixes itself

Hmm... yeah, just played a full CTF game and my ping was better than last time (about 60). Server is kinda laggy on the whole tho.



Bloody snipers and campers all over the place in there... I died the most on my team, but also managed the most points.

I'll keep checking that one out, so hopefully I run into you's in there sometime.

LOL, that is on of my favorte things to do. Standing on the sandbag hill on barb and shooting the jeep drivers coming thru the valley. It's even greater if they have an MG operater... shoot the driver and then pic off the sitting duck....

If I'm in machine pistol mode I just stand there and let em think I'm ez pickings for running down... the last split second I step to the side and lace them in their side and pack with a whole clip. In rifle/sniper mode though the tendency is to try pick them off in a face-to-face head-on battle.




My ping was hovering around 29 in there yesterday w. 40+ players.
Of course I'm just across the border from it but Rhine Valley without tanks there is so much more playable/smoother than any other server using it.
I often joke with people who voice lag issues to turn off the google toolbar updater in the background - a couple of times I don't think people were joking when they said -'yeah,that was the problem!'

We still run a RO CTF server at the otherside.... I play it at least once or twice a week for a round. You should come hang out there sometime.

Got in another game this morning on the |DD| server... I quite like it now - and seeing how no one plays Barb anymore it may be a good alternative.

....... that'd be awkward at best Geno ol' chum, -it seeems like novel server though -but sincere thanks for the invite anyways.
I'll wait for the snappy crack of your rifle on DD or whatever the selected Friday night server is picked.

I still bump over ther from time to time... It's a good server with some good players.
I wish it was still limited to 8 or 10 slots though

Hey Hellfighter none of your "nemesis" are going to be on that server. Mainly a few of the Regs keep it going but it fills up late at night say 11 EST sometimes. I don't think anyone who would be there would give you any grief. I'm back up and running in COD4 but if I see blitz, undead, or shred on one of the UO servers thru xfire I'll join in for a bit.

lol, you know it'd take alot for some1 to give me grief/intimidation -the issue's really about my perspective on things mostly-besides which I'm sure most of the chums there would say ohboyyppeeiyayok if they saw me visiting- . Anyway I wish I could get my xfire back in order so I could see where you're at while playing.

Correct me if I'm mistaken Cpt.Canuck my chum, but today in that gritty match-up on Sicily in [DD] I got the impression your 'hmmmm' was your polite way of saying "Hellfighter; cough, cough, hack[saw], cough!"

It was a good game- your team almost tied just after you left -they needed your arty to take it home
Anyway-that was real fun.

Are you always top score in there!? Gives the mob name some fierce-some reputation.
I ended up with 139 points in that one- makes up for the previous round on rhine where I was bashed 5 times in sniper mode
cya there....

Yeah, I like that server.

That Sicily map was giving me problems tho - my framerate was all over the place and I coudnt seem to get any clean kills... surely that attributed to you 'pwning' me repeatedly.
Unfortunately a friend called in the midst of that massacre so I had to bail...


You'll see me in there again tho!

Ok Druid, what's going on?!
Last night on Kharkov at DD -Either;
Your son played for you in the first half of the round, making me and Shreddy feel like your unworthy minions in comparison.
Or you revealed you have a charade going on where you temporarily forgot about some kinda pledge you must've made in the past to not give other players a can of whoopass in the servers....
LOL, you were indeed on fire the fast half of the round!!! Why...? lol-seriously what were you doing this time around?

I was feeling pretty good about my score, right up until Shred mentioned I spelled my name wrong.
Kind strange because I did my best on the last map which I had never played before.
I'll probably start dropping in on the server another night during the week.

Druid was kicking ass on Kharkov. I started like 0 and 11. Then I figured the map out and redeemed myself. When I logged off, we were in Rhine valley. And the last thing I saw was my flag going down the road in a full jeep.

I must have had Sturm on my team again.

Maybe Shred has figured 'the curse' out for you- break it by keeping your name as Driud!!!!

I play the Rhinevalley CTF on the DD server alot, really like that
map for CTF. The other night, there was a Mexican stand-off for
30 minutes as both sides tried to locate & return flags that the
other team was hiding. It ended in a tie but was very exciting. Most BA maps don't do CTF well but Rhinevalley does, especially on the
American side....

JIM

If there was one change I could make on that server if would be to lower the time limit down.
1 hour per map seems to long.
Outside of the timelimit, it's great.

Hey Stryker9

I see you allot on the CUF servers. I say hi, but you never respond. Do you not look at the chat in game? Or do you just not like to reply to me, lol.

I usually don't try to type when I play, good way to get killed fast...

JIM

Been trying to get on the DD server for 20 minutes.
Pretty impressive they can keep a 46 players server full.

Friday nights are rocking there;
But when you did show you up Robert, you startled me with your mighty start on Italy! Then things went flat for you.....
We need to team up next time - so that I can show you how playing with my preferred tactics as a rampaging neanderthal hooligan can get you good killing totals -and near the flag!

See that's why you need to get your ass on Vent.
I saw you a couple of times sniping up on the hill southeast of the valley.
3 times I saw someone starting to either flank you or come up from behind.
Could have warned you but never enough time to type it out.

It was fun, I may be back tonight if I've got some free time.

ok, me too then -tonight.

Vent annoys me though... usually it distracts/kills my 'surroundings perceptions' when not in sniper mode -in which case as you point out is useful.... anyhow look at it this way- If the enemy is close to me anyway, only with fortune will I survive unless they're a sniper too.... it's kinda funny- I have a better survivability with people who have come right next to me and started to bash me only to end up dead themselves with a look of shock in their dying eyes....

Well if you like I'll do the vent thing again for you.... do you have info for it at hand or should I get it at their website?

When playing on the DD server, which vent do you guys use?

JIM

If I'm on the DD server or where ever we play on Fridays,
We use Shred's vent
I PM'ed you the info

I'll try the vent thingy this Friday .... traumatic memories in using it for me though