TechSpot's Friday Night Fragfest

Nah, we play TF2/L4D2 on various servers. The server in the first post isn't necessarily where we'll be. It's best to join off a fellow TS member. We called it quits a little earlier than usual tonight as everyone was having connection issues with Steam.

Just to keep everyone on the same page, we'll be taking a break from TF2 and L4D2 over the coming weeks to play Section 8: Prejudice, the sequel to 2009's Section 8. It launched this week and it's only $15 through various digital distributors. See you all tomorrow.

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Oh, and my GFWL ID is Z99749.

I'm cool with that, but the main issue is finding enough people interested -- same deal with Battlefield: Bad Company 2. There just aren't enough people with the game who are willing to turn up on Fridays. If there were a ton of regular participants, we'd have the flexibility of playing different games as there would always been people to fill the slots, but that isn't the case.

So far, we have approximately a dozen regulars (people who turn up at least once a month or more, many of them every week). We've been sticking with L4D2, occasionally TF2 and recently added Section 8: Prejudice as a handful of us bought it. We really want to add more games, but considering the limited participation, you could say we're between a rock and a hard place.

By adding BC2 or BF2 we might gain a few interested participants, but many (most, in fact) of the existing regulars would be alienated. TF2 and L4D2 are currently the only titles that most of the TS Steam group currently own and are interested in playing. The immediate solution, of course, is to find another game everyone owns/wants to play, and I believe BF3 will offer that.

I'll have to speak with Julio, but I'd like to run a BF3 launch giveaway. Until then, I'm open to suggestions on promoting the Friday Night Fragfests. For a while, I ran a front page notice every Friday night with mild success. The ultimate goal is to create a group of 50+ gamers participating regularly. At that point, we'd have far less restrictions on the titles we could play.

Yeah, playing L4D2 with public gamers tends to be a lousy experience. It's quite a bit more fun if you play with friends -- or at least people you know won't be jerks when you mess up. I tend to have a great time when I play with folks from TS.

I second that, we have a great laugh playing it.

Especially given the endless enjoyment everyone gets from "Leeeeeky your going the wrong way!" :haha:

I'm going to really really try to be at tomorrow's event... really. Hope there will be some TF2 action going on since I never get to play that game and don't feel any desire to play with strangers.

I'm always heading the wrong way... :haha:

Its a great laugh though!

I'm in Cambridge right now, and 40 miles from my PC, so unless I steal my brothers, I'm not sure I can join you all for this one - I need to get my 2nd PC built pronto really, so I have one each end, as splitting my time between Cambridge and Peterborough now.

With spending 4 days in one place, and 3 in another for the foreseeable future I'm considering getting rid of the PCs and getting a proper gaming laptop, like an Alienware or something to take between places.

I think I'll have too, can't keep lugging around a PC just to play. :haha:

There isn't really space at my mums to set out another PC either, so laptop is the only way forward. I'm hoping to sort it in the next week or two, so I might miss a couple of fragfests, but I'll be back as soon as I have a laptop sorted.

Not sure what was going on last night but it was not my cup of tea. Seemed like 17 random people, 2 TSers, and me. Did I miss something?