DGS LAN Party: December 3rd starting at 12:00 noon, end time unknown..at this time we project gaming long into the night and early morning.  Details are sketchy, but previous DGS LANs have included the following: Hot Dogs and/or burgers for early arrivals, full size ping pong table, and a new Home Theater area.  Attendees could look forward to playing some guitar hero or Last Of Us on a 92” projection screen!

Popular games these days include Overwatch, Insurgency, CSGO, Chivalry was fun last time.  Left for Dead 2 as always!  DGS favorites also include Pirates Vikings & Knights 2, Team Fortress 2, Evolve, and Orion:Prelude.  Maybe they’ll put some Artemis up on the big screen.  Attendees would do well to update their steam games before they arrive and install some of these popular games.

The DGS has always advertised a DC hub will be available although it probably won’t be.  We’ll see if the overworked host of the LAN can get his shit together enough to make one.  Start hashing your files now just in case and head down to Seville OH on December 3rd at noon!

Back to your regularly scheduled programming..

Well we had so much fun last month, let’s do it again!  The Dead Gamers Society is going to host a bonus round this month on April 25th, for those who missed it last time.  We had a much better experience grilling the hot dogs last month, so show up early and don’t miss it!  Bring a soda or snack donation and some pizza money ($5) and let’s finish what we started.

What will we play?  We had fun with Chivalry: Medieval Warfare last month.  There was some interest in Payday (1 or 2).  Since that’s a 4 player game we could play that early while people are still arriving.  I’ll try and get pills and throwables working in the L4D2 server.  I expect the Dino Hunter and PVK will be played as well.  If you want to play D3 or Wow that’s fine too, all are welcome down in Seville.

As always, the DC hub will be up, and you can enjoy TV and Movies on the home theater between games.  Start hashing your files now, and we’ll see you on April 25th at noon!

Thanks to everyone who came out yesterday!  I know I didn’t give people a whole lot of notice for this LAN, but we still got 11 people who I think had a good time.  We started off with Chivalry: Medieval Warfare.  I had some copies of this game from a steam sale and we tried a few different modes.  Sword games seem to be difficult to do right, but I thought this game was pretty good as long as everyone is fairly noobish.  I have tried online play once and got utterly destroyed.  The graphics where a little wonky but it was fun overall.

Next up was CS:GO which we even got to include Archangel and HellsAdvocate in over the internets.  Maybe next time I won’t take it easy on you guys and load my guns with blanks.

Our last game was L4D2 Confogl trying out my custom server.  I still have some configuring to do, since my server seems to not only removed health packs, but also pills and pipe/molys from the game.  This meant that pretty much once you’re injured, you can’t get health back.  This led to quick gameplay and a very clear demonstration of the price you can pay to go back and help a teammate.  Do you rescue your friend and take extra damage or leave him for dead?  To me, that’s what the game is all about and the confogl mod makes that aspect of the game very visible.  It also makes the infected side a little easier for the people who aren’t familiar with it, and a team balancing mod made sure teams weren’t stacked.  Everyone got switched enough that there weren’t real teams which, to me, made it seem like the score was irrelevant and it was more about having fun watching these doomed survivors get taken down.  I enjoyed it a lot and look forward to getting the server done just right.

There was also Diablo 3 being played for many hours, but we managed to keep WoW at bay for this LAN.  I enjoyed it, I hope everyone else did too, and I hope to do another one real soon!  Stay tuned!

Configuring Confogl

I’m having my own virtual LAN at this LAN