[PompousPitchforkPeasant]

I had no idea SoF2 had an active community - has never entered my radar over the last decade. How many severs have people in it at any given time?

The problem with the game is that beginners have to study it a lot, it has versions that many people don't even know about, we played this ard 2 years ago with the tennisforum friends, then we always found servers with enough people to have fun matches.

The hardcore ones like those MDK/HsS people organize the clanwars on forums, i just checked, they're making fairplay cup in 2017 too. So the game is doing fine.
http://www.demobase.eu/index.php/topic/26752-fairplay-cup2017/

BTW played other shooter games too like America's Army online, but this game is something that you can't stop, so the oldies always come together to 1v1, 2v2 or clanwars.

[PompousPitchforkPeasant]

Why do people want to play the 'Demo' rather than full game?

Must be nice to have a tight community like that where everyone knows everyone. Reminds me of the early days of CS where people had their favourite servers because they knew each other.

Demo works a bit differently, also 3rd person view is not used in the clanwars there. It has only 1 big map also, called Shop, which is considered the most "pro" clanwar map, it has many edges, storeys, wires to climb, bunkers, kitchens, elevators to defend, so people agree it tests people's skills in many combat situations best. However, it is used mostly for infiltration wars, for deathmatch and ctf they use full, because of the maps, this is a cool deathmatch video: it has i think the jordan map too which is also from CS

Yes the community is awesome, sometimes i catch a buddy or 2 on net for 1v1 duelling or just jumping ard and chatting. jumping in this game is an art in itself, i think you know about the strafe-jumping thingy in Quake 3 engine 

So a deathmatch cup summary, you can see how well thought out the maps are in this game, also how awesome the gameplay is compared to the new shooter games, it was a work of joy by the devs   



oh, and don't forget the community mods like hide and seek



and more fun, like dancing competitions

[PompousPitchforkPeasant]

Funny watching the videos... feels like being taken back in a time machine. Not only are the graphics so dated but so is the video editing

Yes hahaha i love that about it most   very nostalgic

The video editing is much better in this video, it was done by the Swedish player Slizer, who made many of the game's mods: there are many MDK members in this vid very pro players



and here are some shots of us tennis forum players playing:

Here we were in an infiltration server, there were some HsS members too, there was HsS hda too, he's russian and very funny, he has a bind in russian colours saying "for mother russia" Here Betty was still learning that's why she had that ratio, also she didn't know yet how to refresh her stats



Here i was teaching Javi strafe-jumping



Here we were playing 2 vs 2, Betty was already much better, i was sucking here:



and this is a fun match with some Intel members:

[PompousPitchforkPeasant]

That's more watchable

Back before YouTube I did a frag movie and it got a few thousand manual downloads which I was quite proud about. But my god, it's a tedious process.

Grats for that  yes it's tedious but the people had fun watching it and these videos/pics bring back good memories

I have thousands of vids and pics saved from sof2 and other games, America's Army was so good with its achievement system. I played that a lot after i quit the clan life in sof2. Now that's a very realistic game, loved the medic part and all, also sniping on those huge maps was lots of fun.


Atm playing Path of Exile, it's good cause you can grind anytime solo when you have free time. It's like Diablo but more complex, actually lots of people came over from diablo because that game is not only expensive but it's also dumbed down.  It's basically a dungeon crawler game but as i said everything is more complex than in Diablo. The skills, the crafting, the gameplay. The community is great, both on reddit and the official forum. The builds you can make in this game are infinite. Also you can play it in any way you want to, some people are using it as a trading simulator and they're just trading all day, some are collectors and they collect alt art race reward items, there are farmers, etc etc. Many do boss carry services for less skilled players so everybody finds in the game what they want to.

Atm playing the breach league, enjoying it a lot, it's a very rippy league (it's easy to die) but the rewards are great. Got the demonic wings after 36 challenges which look great, (tom when i log in will make ss of them ) Also had luck with a rare axe drop which i crafted into an excellent item

Lol on the forums there are all kinds of wars, elitists vs scrub, HC vs softcore players, supporters vs leechers, so the drama never stops there

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Any Gears of War 4 players in here?

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Gears of War games are fun but a bit too consolish for me. If i had to play a modern shooter i would play America's Army Proving Ground, before that played AA3, very realistic and the gameplay is complex, it's the official game of the US army btw. Got all the medals in that game. Also checked out S.K.I.L.L. that's also a bit dumbed down and CoD like but it is fun, lol they have leagues where they compete for money

We used to do cups for money too in SoF 2, it was fun, the players themselves threw the money together but the DeathMatch cup was always won by the same player and that sucked

I have zero skill when it comes to FPS games - I just can't do it.

GoW works well for me as it's pretty simple and a lot of fun, even though I'm awful at it.

Another game I've spent a lot of hours on of late is FTL on the PC - a lot of depth for something so seemingly basic!

[PompousPitchforkPeasant]

Oh my, i didn't notice this thread before on the PoE forum, so the asian student called Dead Peng i talked about before is transgender and he's been taking estrogen, also he's saving up for the operation.

Before today the only thing i knew about the guy was that he got to lvl 100 in some league and that he used only the basic 4 stash tabs, i mean just game related stuff, this was shocking to me  There's his photo too in the thread, he really looks like a girl: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1823807/page/1

[PompousPitchforkPeasant]

Hahaha, PoE is a neverending source of lols This is a convo between I_NO, who is a young girl and shagsbeard who is a middle aged mathematician after they announced the new Earthquake skill nerf: