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To continue our own little rip-off of Frankie's Humpday challenge we are going to have another Maw Gathering. This week it will be the Battle Creek Blitz. The Unofficial B.net Maw server will be set to run Battle Creek all-night. I was thinking about what kind of gametypes are best for Battle Creek and came up with: all of them. It's nice for small CTF, a fair oddball map, and excels at both Slayer and King of the Hill. I'm also curious to see how race will work. So I will rotate thru those and hope to see and murder you on the server. The server will be setup Wed night 6pm EST until I wake up in the morning and change it back. 66.55.158.142 is the IP or look for Battle Creek Blitz server name.

Bring your skills but leave your pride; that way you won't have to swallow it.

  • 01.23.2006 7:29 PM PDT
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Alright! time to re-gain my pride and volumptious ego (now there's a word you don't hear every day...) I'm feeling kinda pissed off cause I found out a friend in my programming class also plays Halo PC and since he said he stopped playing for a while I figured I could beat him right?, but instead... he went and crushed me :( Like, doubled my score. So...time to destroy some other people!!!!

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  • 01.23.2006 9:34 PM PDT
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Hm... I'll be there for sure assuming nothing comes up.

  • 01.24.2006 5:16 AM PDT
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Sounds good to me. I'll be there.......so watch for my shotty.

  • 01.24.2006 7:06 AM PDT

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Gametype rotation includes:

Slayer, Team and Individual
Oddball, Team and Individual
CTF
Race

Hope to see you there

  • 01.25.2006 12:55 PM PDT
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Intriguing.

Unfortunately, I have a class tonight from 6:00-9:00pm MST. Besides which, I have to work at 7:00am the next day.

In other words, if I can make it, I'll be late and short.

BTW Igg, I've been meaning to 'thank you,' if you will, for hosting the PC tourney and setting up the dedicated server. While I missed the sign-up for the tourney, and have not, as yet, had a chance to play on your server, I've seen your posts all over the B.net forums. I don't post very often, but I do read the forums frequently.

I recognize your hard work and dedication and view you as one of the true 'elite' Halo/Bungie fans.

Bravo.

  • 01.25.2006 1:20 PM PDT
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Anybody that frequents the Maw should try and stop by on weds. nights and show off their skill's.

The quality of gameplay is alway's excellent. I have seen a handful of you guy's on this server, but not as much as I would like to see. C'mon McKeegan, you are in the same timezone as me. You should stop by tonight, even if it's for 20 mins.

I think Iggwilv is awesome for keeping this server going, and dedicating it for mainly us Maw people. We should give him prop's for all his hard work on the tournament as well.

Everybody is welcome, no matter the skill level.

  • 01.25.2006 2:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: ZZZENNN
Anybody that frequents the Maw should try and stop by on weds. nights and show off their skill's.


Like me? ;-)

I should really get my friend's disc soon...this is actually the most sucessful fan-created program for The Maw since I joined...

  • 01.25.2006 4:09 PM PDT
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Indeed, it was a good game... Only saw Iggwilv from the forums, but had a fun few slayer/race matches

  • 01.26.2006 6:15 AM PDT

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Yes I decided last night I don't like that map, I sucked all night. The only game I won was an oddball where I held the skull for almost the whole game, one other person had 11 seconds. That seemed to be the case all night, because the skull can hide in the bases and if it makes it on the roof it takes forever to get it back.
Race was kinda retarded took forever to complete a lap. King of the Hill seems to be the best gametype for that map. I got a few triple kills and saw someone get a killtacular. I should have added a rocket KOTH, that generates several Killtaculars every game.
Next Wed. we will do Danger Canyon Derby. We'll rotate CTF, Assault, a race and maybe throw some tanks in one map to add some "fireworks".

I tried recording the action a few times with FRAPS last night. While recording my FPS dropped from 60 to 20 and the 30sec file it created was 200+ MB. Is this normal or was I doing something wrong?

  • 01.26.2006 7:22 AM PDT
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We had a great turn-out last night on Battle Creek Blitz. Seemed like there was at least 12+ there the whole time I was on. Would have liked to see more Maw members there, but I ended getting off a bit early.

I managed to get several killtacular's, but was pretty much useless when it came to ctf. Iggwilv finished off one of the ctf games, in what seemed like, record time.

KOTH was interesting on that map with that many players running around. Most had matching deaths with their kills. It seemed like I would get to the king area, stand there for a few seconds melee attacking like mad, then a nade would take us down. There were so many bodies flying around, it was hard to tell what was live and what was dead.

As for Fraps, I just got the free 30 second version as well. My fps would drop quite a bit on certain levels. Does anybody know how to get better fps while using Fraps?

Hope to see more of you next week.

  • 01.26.2006 8:43 AM PDT
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Be prepared to get owned, ... if im there :P

  • 01.26.2006 11:48 AM PDT
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Igg, could you set the server to force even teams? We had some problems last night with new people joining were auto-joining Blue team. Naturally, this led to some situations where it was 8 vs. 2 for a few minutes before the users would even out the teams.

I don't know if you fixed that later during the night or not, but it's something to think about.

  • 01.26.2006 12:43 PM PDT
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with fraps, expect frames to drop. remember that in order for it to film, it has to write screen shots multiple times a second to your hard drive. also the reason behind the huge size is it records it uncompressed. if it compressed it as it filmed it, it would not be able to film in real time. either that, or the resulting video would probably be around .5-2 fps

to get better performance, in fraps record at a lower framerate, and at lower resolution. the less the cpu has to do to record the video, the more processor time can be dedicated toward the game.

  • 01.26.2006 12:49 PM PDT