MorB 4, your thoughts

I am curious as to what people thought of the fourth installment of MorB LANs ongoing series of LANs...

I wanna hear what I missed as well...

I found there was once again too much leeching in the early parts of the LAN. Players have to learn to play first while they have room on there HDD to load games then leech LATER. The amount of people who wouldn't play anything they didn't have installed cause there HDD was full was bloody annoying.

what?! beefy wasnt there... then whod i throw that chair at.. o well i rekon people are worried that later on most people will take there shareing off and they wont be able to leach of them later on thats why i went on a leech sprey when i started up maybe u guys should make a rule say after a certain time everyone shares if they want .. of course people are only gettin AAO files of each other.. right :$

And I wonder why I didn't go. I haven't heard a positive comment yet.

well this one was heaps better than last and im sure others will agree beyond a doubt, of the people that attended, none seemed bored or annoyed for extended periods of time ;)

but alas, the time spent in CS was enuff as such beefy would have flipped his top, so i guess he made a nice call on that one.

"leeching" probably wouldnt have been anywhere near as bad if the almighty movie man wasn't there so early :D

but anyhoo

next lan, a little more battlefield a little less CS

oh and beefy, you would have loved the huge 7 v 17 DoD game ;)

but alas, the time spent in CS was enuff as such beefy would have flipped his top, so i guess he made a nice call on that one.

"leeching" probably wouldnt have been anywhere near as bad if the almighty movie man wasn't there so early :D

next lan, a little more battlefield a little less CS

oh and beefy, you would have loved the huge 7 v 17 DoD game ;)

So lots of CS, lots of DoD and lots of leeching... three things I've had plenty enough of... I hope that last line was sarcasm.. You know how much i dislike anything based on the HL engine...

I'd have to say it was the better lan iv'e been too. At least everyone was friendly and talking to each other, not just sitting in their own little world doing their own thing.

Highlights for me would be

7 v 17 DOD match ! ( 4 points of a ton ! DOH ! )
NFS HP2 7 player match, some awesome driving done my Hamz !
500GB DIVX Folder :-) hmm 56gb of stargate SG 1 ! :D


Congrats Skull on another great lan. Their getting better and better


Cheers
Vipster

i had great fun, esp winning Q3 comp ;)

i think getting more ppls interested in AAO woud have made that game a ****e load more fun
and i personly would have liked to play more MOH:SH.

way too much cs, to the point that there was nothing else to play so i burned cds... about 90 in fact...
apparrantly I missed the BF1942 game, q3 was only short, very little MOHAA:SH was played except a few games with only 10 players or so...


at one point I think i even commented on the fact that if beefy had come he would have been dissapointed, the primary game for 50% of the lanners there would have been cs, even i played a little after vowing I woulnd't - because i wanted to get SOME gaming in and it was the only thing with more than 10 players - and lets face it, who wants to play less than 10ppl at an 80 person lan?

But, other than that it seemed to go better than previous lans, except i didnt get to really play anything I wanted to, jumped into MOHAASH and played 1on1 noone joined... went to play bf1942 and my bro had my cds, by the time i realised that the game had finished, played a little dod then went to get tea and a fridge came back and that was over....

so basically cs was it... sucky as. morb5 - no CS rule is in order methinks.

I say we just ban the HL engine. By the time MorB 5 swings around that engine should seriously be dead. Even after the promises that CS wouldn't take over this lan, apparently it did. And you were right Silencer. I would have been very disappointed. Possibly even psychotic... :)

But, other than that it seemed to go better than previous lans, except i didnt get to really play anything I wanted to, jumped into MOHAASH and played 1on1 noone joined... went to play bf1942 and my bro had my cds, by the time i realised that the game had finished, played a little dod then went to get tea and a fridge came back and that was over....

so basically cs was it... sucky as.
You say it went better than previous lans, then proceed to bag the **** out of it and say how everything you tried was a failure... How does that work? :)

bull****, cs didnt' take over the LAN, i'd reccon there was 1 big game of more then 10 ppls that went for 1 or 2 maps.

it was just the MX dudes playing CS most of the time, where as there was WAY more MOH + UT + BF beeing played (BF mainly, the MX dudes were playing that for ages.)...

i know myslef that most of my time was taken playing WC3, Startcraft and AAO.

i played... 2 games of cs, for 1 hour, and that huge dod game...

a bit of NS was played. but nothing really started with that...


all in all;
u cant bann cs from a LAN< that's just dumb
u cant Bann the hl engine froma a LAN< have u played NS beefy?

cs didn't take it over. i'd bet ppls were playing ricote (spelling)
longer then most were playing CS>.



DeltA,

MorB 4 was by far the best. It's not the LAN thats to blame. We provide the venue and some servers but it's the ppl that go who decided what games to play.

If people want to play CS then they can. I played BF1942 CS DoD AA Q3 soldat and a little NS. I seen quite a few games of MoHAA an WC3. I sure there were other games played. Most of the LAN i was trying to get people to play new games that they may not have played but they were more interested in leeching or had leeched too much an were out of HDD.

Compared to MorB 3 there was a better feel and more variety in games. The downside was that there was more free time to leech.

Beefy I have to ask why u are even in this thread ?????? I didn't see u there so piss off.

A lot of ppl leaving the LAN said they had fun. They got to play the games they liked an heaps stayed to the end.

My suggestion for next lan would be to block DC an FTP's from being setup till after about 1am. The network was stressed an people did find that on a few games there was a bit of lag. If people are playing 1st then leeching the LAN becomes that much better. MorB 4 is a GAMING lan therefore the network bandwidth should be reserved for that. I don't mind people leeching but please do it later. Leeching is for when u are gamed out.

i personly would have liked to play more MOH:SH.
LOTD spent more time playing MOH Spearhead than anything else, all you had to do was join in.

the primary game for 50% of the lanners there would have been cs, even i played a little after vowing I woulnd't - because i wanted to get SOME gaming in and it was the only thing with more than 10 players - and lets face it, who wants to play less than 10ppl at an 80 person lan?

Dude there was at least one DoD server running almost the whole time, sometimes 2, and an NS server every now and then.

yes and i did spent quite alot of my playing time in the mohaa server with the Lotd lads getting fisted hard :D

but i enjoy a different game as annoying as it is! and hey, i fixed that white box problem with moh even!

silencer wasnt at the lan long enuff to do a proper evaluation, so he could atleast admit that

i dunno about a dod server running all the time, i just kept it switching between dod/cs/ns all the time, then there was a q3 server and a moh server that i had up and u guys ignored and made ya own :P

silencer wasnt at the lan long enuff to do a proper evaluation, so he could atleast admit that

same story with LAN of the Damned. he was only there for something like 6 hours and had the nerve to say it sucked, grrrrr *raises fist @ Silencer*



but i enjoy a different game as annoying as it is! and hey, i fixed that white box problem with moh even!

yuh, that white box issue was bloody annoying to say the least but i think it only happened with spearhead and i can't remember how i fixed it someone care to enlighten me?

i thoght morb 4 was good but i could not play bf1942 with the lattes up data on it i was getting pissed off with it every one else was runing it with slow computers then me and even my laptop could run it. i think there was to much leaching going on at the start i think there should be a set time as well for it like leve it till the next day in till like 10 am that way every one will be finshed playing and half sleeping

well it turned out the prob was cased for me by the option of enable wall textures or somefin like that, it was on the right in the advanced graphics options...

but apparently its fixed other ways also..so nfi, but it was definitely caused by spearhead

anyone else going to enlighten us with their opinion!?

I thought it was a good LAN but things to make it better, I didn't realise the projector was used to update us on, current servers, matches blah blah blah. So maybe you could print out something with basic guidlines, rules, etc to help noobs like me out.

The idea of less matches and more freedom is good, but in doing that you run into ppl not knowing what to play and just end up leeching.

Perhaps you should run times, like 2 hours for matches, 6 hours freedom matches & games ( no leeching ), then the remaining time complete freedom.

I don't know just an opinion but hey i enjoyed it

Morb V ( is your hard drive big enough ! ) :p

So why didn't you use Server Query instead of manually updating the list skull?

i dont use server query because FREE PIZZA isnt a server :P

I use notepad so i can list any server that is run and any other information, thats what its there for, information, then if need be servers that are run on non-standard ports can be listed also

and how else would people have known about the DC hub...

Vipster, i agree the increased led to some network load increase ;) the best i can do for the next time is rather than organise competitions as such, just "all-in this game" times. so beforehand i will determine an agenda for the more popular games to be played and we will have a period where ppl can get the updates to the game that are required etc then the dedicated server willl go up and we will spend 1 or 2 hours on that game. if i do this several times or more throughout the lan it will add a little more purpose to your gaming :D

if i can work this sorta thing out beforehand, then it is likely that people will be prepared for the games required and will have the space required on their machines for them to be able to play it.

yes, so basically there will be like a "feature game of the hour" sorta thing. then of course there would be free-play time

now that's an idea.
btw. what happened with the Ut2k3 comp? who won?

Erm....free pizza is a reason???

yes it is coz server query wouldnt display such info on teh screen for me

You could've got Jane to walk around with a sign over her head like at the boxing....

well it turned out the prob was cased for me by the option of enable wall textures or somefin like that, it was on the right in the advanced graphics options...


I worked out when I first started playing the game that unselecting "wall decals" in the video options seemed to get rid of those annoying white squares. I think they happened where ever weapons or empty shells fell on the ground. I told a few people but I guess some worked it out alone.

Did everyone have this problem or was it a video card based issue?

from what i saw, only a few did not experience the problem, clawcity didnt from memory and he had that option enabled...wierd...


...back on topic, any other constructive criticism of M4 (shhh beefy)

Not there long? 7pm until 1pm the next day aint what I call not long, but anyway...

sure I may have missed the first part, but i only saw dribs and drabs of games, it should have been consistant gameplay surely?

pizza was good, thanks to my turning up perfectly on time to nab some :D

all in all m4 was a very good lan organisation wise as compared to BDI especially (which felt like it was an amatuer house lan dressed up and multiplied 950 times) only complaints would be the games, and what sKs said about all in this game times is what the hamilton guys have been doing for ages and what i've been trying to tell him to do (even pre morb 3 from memory) but oh well... *sigh*

all your lanz are belong to us.

should have mrb 4 after big day in that way every one had already leeched everything thered only minor leeching from people who didnt go and more gamin

I personaly am loosing intrest in both CS as well as DOD and are starting to go for those stupidly unrelisitc games (eg bf1942) because its fun and to see there wasnt hardly any BF servers up (and the ones that were up had 2 or 3 players only) i was a little miserable.

maybe when i pull of a Dennington Lan (Not a mishLAN
as skull said) we will be able to play/stuff around in battle field a little more.

BTW leaching was way over the top
its allright when theres 1000 ppls cos theres enough who just game to have some good battles but with around 60 ppl. its just stupid

well the amount of "leeching" that you think is alright at 1000 man lans, really hurt the network, i was playing in some servers at BDI and gettin insane pings fluxing from 80-250 now that is just wrong, if at home on dsl i get about 60 ffs, so i wasn't happy with bdi at all from that aspect, and i blame "leechers" outright. regardless a lan isn't so without the leech..what people need to understand is that we can't really control what people play, i mean we can try but at the end of the day, its up to the lanners, hardly a fault of MorB that there was "too much CS or DoD" we encouraged one big match of dod, and that was probably it for that.

MorB IV really put the FUN back into lans, everyone their seemed alot more cheerful and happy than previous their was a more relaxed atmosphere, I personally liked it better, you wern't locked into playing clan matches for ages which really doesn't interest me one bit. And plus the next lan should be much better coz their are a few new good games coming out next month.

I can't wait for Generals !

here here ill cristen the game with vipster im lookin forward to it

yeah, like DOD 4, HL2, CS 2....


teehee j/k all new games rawk anything that makes my GF4 work is good

Generals has gone gold and the official release date is Feb 11th

all new games rawk anything that makes my GF4 work is good

I wish this was true all the time but sadly it ain't. one game that was highly anticipated but many ppl felt that didn't rawk was UT2K3. don't get me wrong though, i don't mind the game, hell, i think i'm the only one in LOTD that plays it. not that the others i spoke to that didn't like it had crap PC's and couldn't run the game properly, they just felt it was nowhere near as much fun as and didn't "feel" like the original UT. Some even thought it was too Quake-ish which i reckon myself is absolute b0ll0x. how the f-ck is it like Quake???? i don't see quad damage, railguns like quake had and i don't remember the quake bots saying things like 0wnage!, die bitch or u whore!! anyways i'm lookin forward to Unreal 2 which should be out next month and even though it probably won't be really Multiplayer oriented hopefully the single player mode will keep me happy.

I believe the comparison to Q3 was more about the graphics style not the game play Hamz. And UT does have a damage amp which is very similar to Quake's quad damage.

I believe the comparison to Q3 was more about the graphics style not the game play Hamz.


Duly noted Red. but when i was asking how was the game like quake i was thinking gameplay wise rather than graphics. i mean, you can't say the game is crap because it looks too much like Quake. isn't it gameplay that makes a game, not the amount of eye candy that is in it??? Everyone knows that a game with great graphics but zero gameplay will die a horrible death. and when i sit back and play UT2k3 it doesn't remind me one bit of Q3A. that's would be like saying the original UT reminds me of Half-Life.

I didn't personally say it was crap, I just got confused playing those poison ball levels at LANOTD