A bitter-sweet night...

[MASH]

Amazing to see names I literally haven't seen in 12 months. I had dejavu so many times, it concerned me.

I can't apologize enough for the Dome's poor performance tonight. We will research the problems and have her in tip-top shape for the next go around (which, if tonight is any indication, will be sooner rather than later). Thanks again for the great turn-out. I was hoping to bring just a few of the old fools around, but I never dreamed we would get so many old faces back.

Some screenies of the event:

Force, up to her old medic tricks
http://www.vsfgamers.com/albums/album25/force.jpg

Imagine my delight... waiting with Gas for a strike team. W00t!
http://www.vsfgamers.com/albums/album25/gasser.jpg

Look at them names... I am speechless.
http://www.vsfgamers.com/albums/album25/ccmcrew.jpg

[GeneAutrey]

Thanks for having us, dude!

I had a blast ... got to play some Tram ... snipe Hick ( and get sniped by Hick). Gasser calling for engineers, MASH with his trusty needle, and even some NB and MG.

GeneAutrey

[stickboy]

great times!
and omg the number on teamspeak! like 25 at one point
was woth it even with the server dumps, got some great laughs out of the break dancing players

[SauerKraut]

i'm so jealous.


:cries:

[Geri_Arctic]

MASH, thanks a lot for the effort you put into making this happen. It's been a long time since we've all played the same game together.

Despite the CI's I had a really good time, and it was nice to see most of the old names again.

(see TS section for my apology)

Thanks again MASH!

[YellowDog]

SIGH :|

YD

[Maratek]

More kudos to the pasty one.

Had a great time...you're right; had to rub my eyes a few times to believe the folks that I saw!

thanks again...

[TedHershey]

Was great fun - wish I could have stuck around longer - Thanks MASH! 8)

[LionRampant]

Eggman is a sneaky bugger, and where has that Sgt_Zim guy been?

[batmanuel]

OMG, caught me in a negative score... I don't know that that ever happened in the old days... geesh.

[SpongeBob]

Came very close to throwing my PC out the second floor window. But I couldn't keep it from crashing. Each time I tried to play, I got 2 minutes before it would crash. :| Oh well, got a new one on the way, hopefully you get the turn out you got this time again next time. :(

[batmanuel]

Came very close to throwing my PC out the second floor window. But I couldn't keep it from crashing. Each time I tried to play, I got 2 minutes before it would crash. :| Oh well, got a new one on the way, hopefully you get the turn out you got this time again next time. :(

I had a lot of issues too at new map start... the old limbo sort of area where you can hear everyone else playing, but you can't do a damn thing... grayed out.

Makes me realize how much more stable CoD is!

[Hooters]

Mash, I had a truly wonderful time playing with the old gang last night! Even the teamkills and CI's couldn't put a damper on the overall attitude of everyone. (The proof of that can be the remembered laughter being heard on TS last night!!!)

It was great and I hope that we can all get together again SOON!

[DDD]Hooters
"m0re than a m0uthful!"

[Paul]

Thanks Mash

Despite the technical problems I had a great time. I had forgotten how much fun RTCW is. Looking forward to the next time.

Paul
:D

[Chairman_Kaga]

Had a great time. Killed by the plane in NB. Sniped in the river on MG. Flipping people over the gates/boxes on Depot. Ah, old times.

[Iggy]

I think everyone had some small problems and CIs but honestly, nobody can tell me it wasn't worth packing the Dome with all the old time regs. It was a slightly surreal experience, one that I wouldn't mind repeating.

MASH, kudos to you and the FX boys for making it possible. Don't worry about the server problems man. It was a great night and you made it possible.

v57!

[Dr.Strangelove]

The stress of trying to find out what the problems with the server were last night LITERALLY drove MASH insane, as seen here below....

http://www.vsfgamers.com/albums/album25/st_mash.jpg

[stickboy]

yeah he flipped out a bit much ya think?

[Canadian Hick]

Aqua-sniping was great on MG.
Listening to confused regs on TS say "I'm being sniped under water. :? " :lol: :lol:

[Angry Kid]

In the time I was able to play, interacting with (read: 'being killed by') the old-timer regs like threeBs, lowrider, Hooters, Naz, etc. brought back memories of FOG I from a bygone era. :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Had the same problem(s) as SpongeBot; I'd forgotten how touchy RtCW is even under the best of circumstances.

Playing on a pair of networked PCs late night seemed to compound the problem. Blastiid and I could both play for 3-5 minutes at a stretch, then it was good night Irene for both of us. CIs weren't the problem - although we got our fair share - these were crashes to desktop, perpetual map-load screen, freezes w/o benefit of a sound loop. Really weird stuff.

One of us could play relatively unscathed, so I watched from the sidelines.

Just another sacrifice a father makes for his son (at least it'll be good for a guilt-trip or 2). 8)

[CMontyBurns]

and if you were kicking for TKs I would have been first -14 at the end of one round woohoo!!! great fun!!!!

[JTFazz]

I hate I got in late due to family commitments. But even though I missed out on Market Garden and Ice because I didn't bother downloading the right maps in anticipation of missing everything, I still enjoyed the brief time I played... even though I played through lag and TKed almost everything that moved on Tram (actually I really enjoyed TKing everyone on Tram)... I enjoyed the brief time we all spent together. We need to work out the kinks and do this again soon.

[Mad_Gasser]

I had a great time playing the ol' skool wolf with everyone. I remember riding in the tram thinking it was like a time machine.

Thanks everyone for setting this up! I had a blast! :nod:

Gas
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[Iron Sauron]

that was by-far the most awsome night of gaming ive ever experienced. a huuuge amount of people i had never played with showed up. my panzer wasnt always on the mark but it did its job. sorry to anyone and everyone(mostly everyone) for the flamethrower tks. a huuge thanks to MASH and one last thing:

T-DOME PWNS JOO!

[RedFury]

Thanks a ton MASH, that was a blast even with the tech. difficulties. I felt right at home behind the Allied MG42 on MG, with Lt. Hooters n RobRoy feeding me ammo. Too bad the rounds ended so quick. Wish I got to play NB.

Even getting TKed by JT 100 times was fun ! :lol: I'd forgotten about your KingArthur alias. Miss playing with you guys, you should come play CoD more. :D

I was amazed at some of the old familiar names myself. Methinks the VSF forums have many unofficial members who just read and haven't signed up. Or playing under new names, with the old ones still in their RTCW config.

I got a few screenshots, does anyone have any extra space to host some ?

I had to attend a driver re-training class at 8AM, so I wouldn't have been able to play late anyway. But, let's do this again soon. Then I can get good n liquored up n sing Puff the Magic Dragon with (who was that, Doc Strangelove ?) on TS. That was freakin hilarious when you said "Ready, all togther on the count of three... One... Two... Three !" Followed by complete silence ! :lol:

(Yes, I got too many work related speeding tickets. Doh !)

[BoogerBomb]

I will have a lot more time now that Valentines Day is almost over to help get a good cfg written and shrub working for him. It was fun the short time I was able to play

[Naz]

Thanks MASH for all of your hard work and Bandwidth in getting this up and running for us fools. Glad I saw Egg out in ET land
and was able to get him to come and play. All of players that came out of the wood work was freakin awesome. Wasn't quite the
same with out Duke dropping a string of nades on his way to the radio though (maybe next time).



Thanks, All for the great time.

-Naz


http://www.khazad-dum.org/naz/VSFfog1.jpg

[Dr.Strangelove]

(who was that, Doc Strangelove ?) on TS. That was freakin hilarious when you said "Ready, all togther on the count of three... One... Two... Three !" Followed by complete silence ! :lol:

(Yes, I got too many work related speeding tickets. Doh !)

I uh...know all the words. WE CAN SING IT ALL DAY LONG!!!!

8O

[Iron Sauron]

Thanks MASH for all of your hard work and Bandwidth in getting this up and running for us fools. Glad I saw Egg out in ET land
and was able to get him to come and play. All of players that came out of the wood work was freakin awesome. Wasn't quite the
same with out Duke dropping a string of nades on his way to the radio though (maybe next time).



Thanks, All for the great time.

-Naz


http://www.khazad-dum.org/naz/VSFfog1.jpg
way go NAz! you cought at my 1337est.

[Blastiiid]

One of the MANY wins the axis had that night....

http://www2.go-concepts.com/~sgeorge/Wolf-on-Ice-SB.gif

Look at all the people!!!

http://www2.go-concepts.com/~sgeorge/Wolf-Scoreboard-on-MG.gif

I had a blast that night!! Some great games like NB and MG and I was impressed by the nimber of people that showed up!
Some great moments on TS - when everyone wasn't talking at once :).
We gotta do this again...
soon.

[RobRoy]

Thanks for all you did Mash!It was great fun to all get togeather again!My isp went down at 11 :very mad: ,even though i had to work today i think i would have played all night! :D

[Wrigs]

I bet the games on ICE were easy for the attackers without OD and myself sitting up top with the venoms and NV raining down airstrikes....sux i had to miss that.

[2112]

A big THANKS to MASH and everyone else responsible for a most enjoyable time last night!

Hopefully we can do this on a semi-regular basis...say, once a month or so???

[Grond]

Let's do it again. When can we do it again?

[SoterioN]

:sour:

And I had planned on being there... dang, that suxors... sorry I missed it... but, my wife was off tonight and there was no gaming for me...

[CPT]

Had to leave early but had a great time. Thanks, Mash :nod:

[Chalybos]

Had no luck getting on the second server, and had massive CI's for the 2 minutes I was on T'Dome. :mad: But I'll try again the next time. Seems to happen like that every time there's a massive Wolf night. :?

[Dawg]

It was a run, stumble, and dump kinda night for the server... I got on at the end of MG but my default RtCW config was the one from the mario map and doesn't not work properly. So I jumped off the server, copied my shrub config into the main directory and jumped back on.. MG was over.. :(

Base was on and I then realized that I had forgotten what all my binds were. I ended up hitting a demo-related bind that switched the g_synchronousclients to 1 and everything went slideshow - ack! Rather than try to muddle through, I jumped off again, deleted the config and let RtCW create a default one when I logged back in.. .. and Base was over.. :(

So, Chateau was on and I was named Wolfplayer - I changed my name, bound toggle keys for showfps and lagometer but otherwise left the config.

Between fighting with my config files and the CIs, I got to enjoy some fun fragging. I had a good time, saw some old yet familiar names, and would really enjoy the opportunity to do it again with less CIs. :)

A huge thanks to all those who helped host the evening and to all those players who made the whole thing fun.

Dawg

[The Duke]

ARRRGGGHHHHHH

I hated missing out on this one, guys....probably the first FOG that I've ever missed......just very tough for me these days to get in some gaming time on the weekends. Hopefully I'll be around the next time you get together.....if something is going on during the week, let me know and I'll join in on the fun. Glad to see that RTCW is still a classic.

Hope you guys enjoyed the TK-free environment :roll:

[JTFazz]

ARRRGGGHHHHHH

I hated missing out on this one, guys....probably the first FOG that I've ever missed......just very tough for me these days to get in some gaming time on the weekends. Hopefully I'll be around the next time you get together.....if something is going on during the week, let me know and I'll join in on the fun. Glad to see that RTCW is still a classic.

Hope you guys enjoyed the TK-free environment :roll:

Yes, thanks for not being there... :lol: :lol: :D :lol:

[Iron Sauron]

ARRRGGGHHHHHH

I hated missing out on this one, guys....probably the first FOG that I've ever missed......just very tough for me these days to get in some gaming time on the weekends. Hopefully I'll be around the next time you get together.....if something is going on during the week, let me know and I'll join in on the fun. Glad to see that RTCW is still a classic.

Hope you guys enjoyed the TK-free environment :roll:

Yes, thanks for not being there... :lol: :lol: :D :lol:

whatchu talkin bout fazz? did you ever bother to check my score? between accidental panzers and just getting used to the flamethrower, my average score was -2.(no really, i took samples of my scores and the average was -2).

[JTFazz]

ARRRGGGHHHHHH

I hated missing out on this one, guys....probably the first FOG that I've ever missed......just very tough for me these days to get in some gaming time on the weekends. Hopefully I'll be around the next time you get together.....if something is going on during the week, let me know and I'll join in on the fun. Glad to see that RTCW is still a classic.

Hope you guys enjoyed the TK-free environment :roll:

Yes, thanks for not being there... :lol: :lol: :D :lol:

whatchu talkin bout fazz? did you ever bother to check my score? between accidental panzers and just getting used to the flamethrower, my average score was -2.(no really, i took samples of my scores and the average was -2).

Its called a joke... an old running joke about Duke and TKs... but you are a n00b and wouldn't get it...

[Iron Sauron]

ARRRGGGHHHHHH

I hated missing out on this one, guys....probably the first FOG that I've ever missed......just very tough for me these days to get in some gaming time on the weekends. Hopefully I'll be around the next time you get together.....if something is going on during the week, let me know and I'll join in on the fun. Glad to see that RTCW is still a classic.

Hope you guys enjoyed the TK-free environment :roll:

Yes, thanks for not being there... :lol: :lol: :D :lol:

whatchu talkin bout fazz? did you ever bother to check my score? between accidental panzers and just getting used to the flamethrower, my average score was -2.(no really, i took samples of my scores and the average was -2).

Its called a joke... an old running joke about Duke and TKs... but you are a n00b and wouldn't get it...

[color=red]i knew that. i was just braggin about my 1337ness friday.color]

[Force7]

Awsome Job MASH!!!!!! Thanks so much for the work you did to make this happen! I found myself counting the hours on Friday until it was time to play! I was thrilled that so many people showed up, it was great seeing all of you again! The technical issues were very minor compared to the fun!! I can't wait for the next RTCW night!!

[Dawg]

ARRRGGGHHHHHH

I hated missing out on this one, guys....probably the first FOG that I've ever missed......just very tough for me these days to get in some gaming time on the weekends. Hopefully I'll be around the next time you get together.....if something is going on during the week, let me know and I'll join in on the fun. Glad to see that RTCW is still a classic.

Hope you guys enjoyed the TK-free environment :roll:

Yes, thanks for not being there... :lol: :lol: :D :lol:

whatchu talkin bout fazz? did you ever bother to check my score? between accidental panzers and just getting used to the flamethrower, my average score was -2.(no really, i took samples of my scores and the average was -2).

Its called a joke... an old running joke about Duke and TKs... but you are a n00b and wouldn't get it...

[color=red]i knew that. i was just braggin about my 1337ness friday.color]
If your 1337-ness corresponds to your ability to use color tags... the -2 average is explained...

Dawg

[Bizman]

:(
Thanks Mash for doing this..sorry I was unable to attend. But it was for a very good reason. A romantic night with the wife. No kids in the house!! so..as much as I love Wolf and u guys, I think I got the better end of the deal, know what I mean. I did not have any CIs...buwahaha!! ;)
Okie dokie.
Hopefully, you can do this again, sounds like it was awesome even with the technical difficulties, which I am sure will get worked out.
Anyways,
Thanks MASH!..you da Medic!
Biz (who is p-whipped!!)

[JTFazz]

:(
Thanks Mash for doing this..sorry I was unable to attend. But it was for a very good reason. A romantic night with the wife. No kids in the house!! so..as much as I love Wolf and u guys, I think I got the better end of the deal, know what I mean. I did not have any CIs...buwahaha!! ;)
Okie dokie.
Hopefully, you can do this again, sounds like it was awesome even with the technical difficulties, which I am sure will get worked out.
Anyways,
Thanks MASH!..you da Medic!
Biz (who is p-whipped!!)

Kids are the biggest CIs in that department...

[Chalybos]

:(
Thanks Mash for doing this..sorry I was unable to attend. But it was for a very good reason. A romantic night with the wife. No kids in the house!! so..as much as I love Wolf and u guys, I think I got the better end of the deal, know what I mean. I did not have any CIs...buwahaha!! ;)
Okie dokie.
Hopefully, you can do this again, sounds like it was awesome even with the technical difficulties, which I am sure will get worked out.
Anyways,
Thanks MASH!..you da Medic!
Biz (who is p-whipped!!)

Kids are the biggest CIs in that department...
Second only to wives.

[LionRampant]

:(
Thanks Mash for doing this..sorry I was unable to attend. But it was for a very good reason. A romantic night with the wife. No kids in the house!! so..as much as I love Wolf and u guys, I think I got the better end of the deal, know what I mean. I did not have any CIs...buwahaha!! ;)
Okie dokie.
Hopefully, you can do this again, sounds like it was awesome even with the technical difficulties, which I am sure will get worked out.
Anyways,
Thanks MASH!..you da Medic!
Biz (who is p-whipped!!)

Kids are the biggest CIs in that department...
Second only to wives.
This wouldn't be the real reason for the crankiness, would it? :swg:

[RedFury]

Here's a couple shots I got of some of the names that showed up.

http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v65/RedFury/names.jpg

http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v65/RedFury/oldskool1.jpg

[RedFury]

Unfortunately, I spent much of the night like this :

http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v65/RedFury/oldskool2.jpg

But, it was still a blast. Thanx to all who made it possible.