I wish I had a group of people to play this with :(
I forgot about this game. I always looked on it with envy, wishing I knew 4 or 5 people willing to get together with their PCs and just try this shit out. I have PC gamer friends, but their tastes are just so widely different, they would never agree to coordinate on one thing like this.
[QUOTE=Loofiloo;44540677]I forgot about this game. I always looked on it with envy, wishing I knew 4 or 5 people willing to get together with their PCs and just try this shit out. I have PC gamer friends, but their tastes are just so widely different, they would never agree to coordinate on one thing like this.[/QUOTE]
Try. That's what I did. I also felt the same way about my friends here, that they would never be willing to sit down and play something like this, because it's to geeky or whatever. And now, we are all hooked, and we have essentially commandered one of the classrooms here on the school as our "bridge".
Asking never hurt anyone, is what I'm clumsily trying to get at.
[QUOTE=Saza;44539831]Oh god, why would you ever do this :v:
That's so mean[/QUOTE]
It's really not when you consider that pi radians is 180 deg so when he says 1/3 pi he means 1/3 of a semicircle, and there's a nice big circle for putting in headings on the helm screen
This game is apparently fantastic to play at conventions. I saw some people playing it at The Gadget Show Live using a mint projector with their phone for the main screen and laptops and tablets for the consoles.
Didn't know them but it was fun to watch.
We should really make this thread a place where you can go to find people interested in playing this game... even if it is online.
I feel like I'd rather experience it how it was meant to be played, rather than online.
Plus, Skype chatter is annoying as fuck sometimes. It's alright when you're in a room with someone and two people try and talk at once, but on Skype, voices just become garbled messes.
[QUOTE=loopoo;44543998]I feel like I'd rather experience it how it was meant to be played, rather than online.
Plus, Skype chatter is annoying as fuck sometimes. It's alright when you're in a room with someone and two people try and talk at once, but on Skype, voices just become garbled messes.[/QUOTE]
Sure, if at all possible, LAN is the way to go. But not everyone here can get a group together, and so the second best option is internet with peeps from facepunch, I guess.
Yo this game is the hypest shit. Organizing 6-12 people and their computers is a major ordeal yeah but it is so, so worth it. Stories later
Too bad there's no singleplayer version of this game. I'm not a fan of playing games with random people and there's no way in hell I'd talk most of my friends into playing a game like this, not to mention actually coordinating getting together to do so with them. It sounds awesome though.
Oh shit there was once a thread on this? My buddies and I set it up once in his home theater, we had like 6 people. I was helm and even used a joystick. Goddamn was it badass.
So fucking jealous of you lot.
There's a guy in Arkansas that has a trailer converted into a bridge for this. Bunch of touch screens for the stations, projected on one of the walls of the trailer, swiveling captains chair, LEDs connected to the room paired to the game(red on red alert), the works. He rents it out for parties and such. His first test was with his 9 year old daughters birthday apparently, which went about as well as a group of screaming 9 year old girls would go.
Haven't seen him since summer, but he had some A/C issues, primarily the fact he kept tripping the circuit breaker at the building we were at.
So, once I managed to get the twelve people together to play with two bridges. This was before 2.0 and all the pvp overhauls, but by golly we resolved to fight to the death. Something that will become important later, I always have ships set to use jump drives instead of warp. I find it a far more enjoyable mechanic.
Anyway, the match proceeds apace. The comms officers are heckling one another across the hallway, and our two battleships are slugging it out in turns as we get the drop one one another and withdraw to lick our wounds. Our shield systems couldn't take such abuse forever of course, and soon enough I found myself needing to win or die.
And so I ordered our torpedo tubes loaded. I closed in to knife fight range, watching for their shields to falter shortly before our own did.
We spooled up the jump drive. Waited some agonizing seconds as damage reports poured in. Launched both nukes, jumped to safety, and as soon as our consoles rebooted to inform us that we'd won, cheered.
I'd totally be up for game if anyone wants to organize one
[QUOTE=loopoo;44543998]I feel like I'd rather experience it how it was meant to be played, rather than online.
Plus, Skype chatter is annoying as fuck sometimes. It's alright when you're in a room with someone and two people try and talk at once, but on Skype, voices just become garbled messes.[/QUOTE]
ever hear of mumble??
This shit sounds rad, shame I can't even get 3 friends organized to play something like Torchlight 2, never mind 5 people for this. :v:
When I try to play the demo, it says my version is out of date. What do I do?
[QUOTE=Shadaez;44555882]ever hear of mumble??[/QUOTE]I tried to do mumble once because I heard a lot of good about it and it just refused to work at all whatsoever.
Or Teamspeak, though you'd need to have a server or know someone who'd let you use theirs.
Hell, I wouldnt mind doing a game tonight if anyone here wants to. I'll be going home for easter, so can't play with my group.
[QUOTE=Muggi;44559869]Hell, I wouldnt mind doing a game tonight if anyone here wants to. I'll be going home for easter, so can't play with my group.[/QUOTE]
I'm down son.
Give us a time and a VOIP link.
I was saying Mumble / TS / Skype really aren't the same as being there in person. It's hard as hell to understand what people are saying when two or more talk at the same time on VOIP, but in real life it's easier to distinguish who is saying what.
That's what my point was. If you're playing Artemis and you're in a particularly heated battle, more than one person is gonna be talking, and it just devolves into unintelligible chatter. So yeah, I've heard of Mumble, but I doubt it's the best way to experience this.
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But like people have pointed out, VOIP is better than not playing at all.
I'd like this but I'm a lonely bastard that has no friends to play with. :saddowns:
So sorry guys, got caught up in some errands. Maybe some other time, okay?
[QUOTE=loopoo;44560602]I was saying Mumble / TS / Skype really aren't the same as being there in person. It's hard as hell to understand what people are saying when two or more talk at the same time on VOIP, but in real life it's easier to distinguish who is saying what.
That's what my point was. If you're playing Artemis and you're in a particularly heated battle, more than one person is gonna be talking, and it just devolves into unintelligible chatter. So yeah, I've heard of Mumble, but I doubt it's the best way to experience this.
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But like people have pointed out, VOIP is better than not playing at all.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://mumble.sourceforge.net/Positional-Audio[/url]
not with this
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you can set positions of people manually
[QUOTE=Shadaez;44577082][url]http://mumble.sourceforge.net/Positional-Audio[/url]
not with this
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you can set positions of people manually[/QUOTE]
Not only this, but you can give the captain priority speaker so he isn't drowned out by everyone else.
Holy shit, that's awesome.
I'll play then :v:
I'm totally up for playing this. I have a teamspeak server we can use as well. Someone should setup a steam group so we can organize games.
I am willing to play. Put me down for one please.
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