Zerker on 13/11/2010 at 18:15
Alrighty, today is the day. In the absence of any other votes, let's play Knee Deep in ZDoom (so make sure you have Doom 1 set up). I'll look forward to playing with you guys at 7 pm.
As per sNeaksieGarrett's request, we'll use Steam for the voice chat unless we end up with really horrible voice quality. I assume you all have Steam. I'm Zerker (display name) or zerkerX (login name) on Steam, although you should be able to find me in the ttlg-kru group.
Zerker on 13/11/2010 at 22:21
Two updates:
1) It's possible we may have more than four players. We'll see if Knee Deep in ZDoom will let us play anyhow; if not, please also download Ultimate Torment and Torture as a fall-back map set (which supports 8 players).
2) Trance is suggesting we use (
http://ventrilo.com/) Ventrilo for voice chat. We can make the final decision/vote before the game, but it may be a good idea to download it if you don't already have it.
sNeaksieGarrett on 14/11/2010 at 03:03
Well that was fun.. other than the stupid getting lost/stuck on a map shit...:laff:
Mr.Duck on 14/11/2010 at 04:56
Narrated experience, plz.
:)
Renzatic on 14/11/2010 at 05:12
Shit, I had a post all written out, which didn't post because TTLG always likes to time out on my replies for some reason.
Anyway, I was gonna play, but I ended up having to do an excessive amount of annoying troubleshooting over a bunch of stupid stuff. So, despite me wanting to play, I wasn't able to tonight. If it's any consolation, I haven't had a single bit of fun this weekend. Don't think I ditched you for something more awesomer or anything.
The good news is I have the whole day free tomorrow. If you're gonna host another game, I'll be able to attend.
Edit: I did get a chance to play 10 minutes of Torment and Torture today, and It looks like it'll be an absolute kick in the pants to play co-op. If we get this going regularly, I'd love to play through it and Knee Deep Zdoom.
sNeaksieGarrett on 14/11/2010 at 05:33
I'm sorry to hear that dude.
So we ended up using Ventrilo to talk, which worked well I might add. Had a little map change issue, and got stuck on one map in Knee Deep in Zdoom... The level design is pretty amazing, and you can definately see the resemblance of Z1M2 and Z1M3 in comparison to E1M2 and E1M3 from the originals. We should definately do another doom session sometime. And actually I wouldn't mind doing something entirely different, like Heretic.
Chimpy Chompy on 14/11/2010 at 11:50
Okay well i sucked but that was still fun. (this is almost the first online mulitplayer I've ever done outside of warcraft). If we do it again I'll remember to install vent.
Sorry about the random disappearance, got booted with some error message, was pretty late so i called it a night.
One note - I couldn't join the server at first cos it demanded doom.iwad wihich I don't have. I renamed plutonia.iwad (from my Steam copy of Ultimate Doom) and that seemed to work but I don't know if there might be further problems.
Zerker on 14/11/2010 at 12:47
Chimpy, I think you mean "Final Doom". The Ultimate Doom is the release of the original Doom with a bonus fourth episode. Final Doom is a set of two 32-map Doom 2 megawads (Plutonia and TNT). I'm surprised the game didn't give you any trouble.
So Sneaksie and I got to z1m6 in Knee Deep in ZDoom (one map after Trance left), and it did seem to more-or-less work fine with 5 players (minus intermission screens). Next time we play, I think we'll finish up Knee Deep, then start Ultimate Torment and Torture.
Also, if we want to take a break from co-op, a whole crazy invasion-style mod called (
http://stronghold.drdteam.org/) Stronghold on the Edge of Chaos has been released.
So I'm hearing some calls for more Doom today. I'm fine with that. Do you guys want to run it in the afternoon then? Say 3 pm to 5 pm? I found two hours was a fairly good length yesterday; interest starts to wane on longer games.
Chimpy Chompy on 14/11/2010 at 13:52
D'oh. Yeah I completely forgot Ultimate was a separate package on my steam list and mistakenly thought Final was "Ultimate plus even more stuff".
Trance on 14/11/2010 at 14:14
Invasion :D
I'm definitely up for trying out Stronghold -- it's had a whole lot of hype about it prior to release. Might be great.
Also Heretic co-op sounds great too. I wonder if any big complex Heretic wads have ever been released.
(Get on Ventrilo despite no mic, Chimpy -- consult Zerker for the server info)
EDIT: Holy motherfucking shit 148 MB wad.... this had better be damn good.
