The NEW NPF Steam Game Night Extravaganza Funtimes Party Thread

[lazy man]

Hey, Borderlands people, just thought I'd mention I'm back at my desktop so I can ACTUALLY play again! Hooray!

[mauve]

I got Borderlands in the steam sale too, so if there are any openings in the NPF Borderlandian Crew(s), I'd love to join you!

[Doc ock rokc]

well I have it and I haven't payed much but yeah. I think we could have enough to start a new group.

[Aldurin]

I would, but my work shifts are often in the evenings and being in PST means that you east coasters have to stay up til' butts-o-clock to play with me.

But I am available around 7 PST for the next two saturdays and sundays, so I can probably work it out if our runs are only semi-regular.

e: So are we at enough people wanting to join to just form another group for Borderlands? Because I would like to do a start-with-everyone playthrough instead of a tag-along entry partway through.

[RickZarber]

I'm also a Borderlands owner and would definitely be up for some co-op sometime.

I put in a few hours when I first bought it in the Summer sale, but haven't really touched it since.

[Aldurin]

Also, if we do kick off a group, I'll see about getting a good video capture setup going if it's possible for me (my grapics card is fast, but only 1GB of memory in it, so I don't know if that can handle gaming and recording simultaneously). Then we can have our shenanigans shenanigan so HARD for everyone to see.

[mauve]

Coolness. I really only am around on Steam during Normal Not-3AM-Hours during the weekends, so I wouldn't be able to join in on Borderlandian Shenanigans until Saturday. But once that day comes, I'm sure I'll be around to do some Broken Waypoint Funtime Adventures with y'alls!

(Seriously, Borderlands, you're a fun game, but you need to fix the buggy waypoint system.)

[synkr0nized]

Originally Posted by Mauve Mage

(Seriously, Borderlands, you're a fun game, but you need to fix the buggy waypoint system.)

Buggy? Like, the little icons on maps for where your current mission needs you to go? It's rarely that bad. I only recall hating it during scavenger missions.

They made a joke about it in the Zombie Island DLC, though.



All of my cool characters and nice weapons are on my Live account/my 360. I only have characters still in Playthrough 1 on Steam. My group of friends that I have been playing with has kind of hit a roadblock due to one of them never being able to connect to our games. We usually spend an hour or two opening ports and swapping hosts to get him in, with no luck, before folks get frustrated and pick a different game. Are any of you still in the first playthrough? I have no problem with speeding through and avoiding side-quests (though I will have to do them eventually -- I HATE HATE HATE how Claptraps and other NPCs keep telling me they have jobs for me).

[Ryong]

Just to talk about TF2, because we don't have a TF2 thread:Went play on a Brazilian server I always play on, went pyro, map was nightfall: I had like 22 points and a guy with 15 on the other team said "That ryong guy is a noob" so I go "excuse me?" "wm1" "I reflect rockets, I push away ubers, I extinguish everyone and I snipe with the flare gun" "anyone can do that". So, what, I'm supposed to puff'n'sting? Anyway, I got to the top of the team rather fast, had 3 dominations, got at least a triple kill every life, so by the end I had 68 points and the guy had 36, and a couple of other people on the other team called me "wm1" 'cause of stuff like:

- a heavy, a scout, a medic and a demoman pushing the cart, I make my way around them via a side path because, uh, W+M1 would be suicide and stuff, so I run all the way around them and then shoot fire at them from behind while a heavy shoots them from the front, they all died.

- I have the flare gun out, a pyro with shotgun starts shooting me from a medium range and I ignore him, go for a medkit, turn around a corner and wait for him. He didn't show up, but he did call me a noob.

- A friendly sniper runs up to me for no reason, I set him on fire, obvious spy, I hit him with Flare and he DRs away, so I go after him and then another obvious spy disguised as a scout runs up to me, so I set him on fire too and I start getting shot, by a third spy. I kill the scout one, I miss a flare on the one that was shooting me and I get backstabbed by a fourth. Then the first one calls me a noob on chat. 'Cause taking 4 people to kill you means you suck.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Originally Posted by Ryong

Just to talk about TF2, because we don't have a TF2 thread:Went play on a Brazilian server I always play on, went pyro, map was nightfall: I had like 22 points and a guy with 15 on the other team said "That ryong guy is a noob" so I go "excuse me?" "wm1" "I reflect rockets, I push away ubers, I extinguish everyone and I snipe with the flare gun" "anyone can do that". So, what, I'm supposed to puff'n'sting? Anyway, I got to the top of the team rather fast, had 3 dominations, got at least a triple kill every life, so by the end I had 68 points and the guy had 36, and a couple of other people on the other team called me "wm1" 'cause of stuff like:

- a heavy, a scout, a medic and a demoman pushing the cart, I make my way around them via a side path because, uh, W+M1 would be suicide and stuff, so I run all the way around them and then shoot fire at them from behind while a heavy shoots them from the front, they all died.

- I have the flare gun out, a pyro with shotgun starts shooting me from a medium range and I ignore him, go for a medkit, turn around a corner and wait for him. He didn't show up, but he did call me a noob.

- A friendly sniper runs up to me for no reason, I set him on fire, obvious spy, I hit him with Flare and he DRs away, so I go after him and then another obvious spy disguised as a scout runs up to me, so I set him on fire too and I start getting shot, by a third spy. I kill the scout one, I miss a flare on the one that was shooting me and I get backstabbed by a fourth. Then the first one calls me a noob on chat. 'Cause taking 4 people to kill you means you suck.

Sounds to me that it isn't an issue with yourself or your skills as the other players seemingly having the raw timber equivalent of the entire Amazonian rainforest shoved into their colons. Try to ignore them.