Here's
some snapshots of the LAN party...shoulda taken more, but didn't want to
annoy everyone...
Here's
[EDK]Mindfazr, [EDK]Noogman, and [EDK]Raider tearing it up. Bunnyz, Wild1
(covn\2Wild4U), and Killnu4u in the background.
This
shot didn't turn out so great...had to lighten it a bit (don't ask how
I could screw up a point and click camera). This is a shot of DG|Vandal,
DS|Bacchus, DG|Demian, and Jackal.
The
screw up picture. As you can tell...the sun was setting, which was killing
the amount of available light needed to get a good picture...what turned
out was a little grainy because of how the developers had to compensate
for the lack of light...the next picture has the details as to who's who.
Still
grainy...bottom row is Raider, Vandal, Mindfazr, and Jackal. The top row
is Noogman, Wild1, Undead, Bunnyz, Killnu4u, Vengence, Bacchus, Spitfire,
and Demian. Missing from the Picture Is Aetius and Kib who played at various
times during the weekend.
The
quake player formerly known as Spitfire (Changed and changed back) asking
himself will Mike (the guy taking the picture) actually take this photo...That's
Demian and Bacchus in the back ground.
Another
Mike shot. From left to right it's Killnu4u, Wild1, Bunnyz, Raider, Time2Die
(That's me) and Noogman.
The
shy cat...taking a moment to hangout in front of Wild1's computer and check
out the action.
Another
shot...[EDK]Mindfazr gets in on this shot tho...
DG|Undead
and [EDK]Vengence playing away...
Thanks!:
I
would like to first say thanks to [EDK]Lonka
for letting us use his tables and to DG|Vandal
for transporting them from Charlotte to Raleigh.Also would like to thank
Mike/Jackal for
helping me setup friday some of the loaner LAN cards we had for folks.
Thanks also go out to DS|Bacchus
for bringing and supplying the munchies (Much Needed). And I would like
to thank of course all the folks
that came and played.
Summary:
The
party was a pretty good success. Even tho we had a varying range of skills
present, everyone kept a good attitude and had fun. The surprize Jem was
the Rocket Arena play...we played a ton of RocketArena...maybe even a little
too much. Of course we played some FFA games and a few (Not enough...damnit
;< ) Team DM games. Learned some cool tricks and got to finally see
and watch [EDK]Raider in action with his SpaceOrb. Everyone got a kick
out of the fact that I Was running the QW server on my ThinkPad 760XD (p166MMX/64Meg)
Laptop. During setup I had moved the laptop to another hub for troubleshooting...so
when I brought it back to the other hub in the other room I forgot to plug
the AC back in...After about an hour and a half the server died...I had
run the Battery Out! Crazy. The dining room had a battle of the Sub woofers...but
I don't think anyone won in that one ;< (The Computer room didn't
have this problem). For those that were around for breakfest Sunday, we
made a trip to Denny's (Of M3 Fame (?)). Of the 15-16 folks that were here,
there were 12+ folks with 3dfx boards.
Misc:
Two things that were cool
in terms of must have was a sound file that Jackal/Mike brought called
Internet from the show King of the Hill.
And a gfx.wad replacement that chages the crosshair
in quake from white to red and brightens the Quake fonts (makes them look
REAL cool...thanks bacchus). Just place this in your QW directory.
Future
Plans:
Got
a ton of suggestions and feedback on how the LAN party went, between the
one we had here in July and the one this weekend, for some good things
to think about in planning the next one. The next one will probebly be
the last Quake LAN party anyone ever goes to...Quake2!
Disclaimer:
This
little LAN party Summary/Wrap up was written while lacking large amounts
of sleep and so any detail or event left out was not intentional but the
result of this state of mind...
Things that were cool:
Things that were not cool: