Wightfrag V - Once more into the breach, dear friends...

[king_pellinor]

Well, I see from my calendar that May is coming soon: season of bluebells, dancing in the dawn, and the sound of swearing punctuated by loud explosions!

I speak of course of WIGHTFRAG, the games weekend so full of good stuff it needs its own Bank Holiday to fit it all in!

As ever it's the second bank holiday weekend in May (25th to 28th): turn up Friday afternoon or later, leave by early afternoon on the Monday.

For those who've been before, you know the score. Unreal Tournament, Settlers, Carcassone, Axis & Allies, Neverwinter Nights, Eyetoy, more Unreal Tournament, Munchkin, Total War....

For those who haven't, let me quote an eminent social historian:

"...a lot of thirtysomethings recapturing their carefree student existences. I don't think, actually, any of us had lost them..."

Or, in more detail, LadyofAstolat and I will set up:

- Two rooms for PCs (bring your own box), to allow moderately multi-player Unreal Tournament and other such games (8 PCs at least);
- A kitchen for you to fill with your choice of booze and snacks, with the very occasional vegetable sighting among the Pringles;
- A dining-room table for board games;
- Big telly for console games;
- Small telly for *more* console games
- Garden for, er, something or other. Why go outside?

All we want is lots of people who are happy to have their heads blown off by LadyofAstolat's flak cannon, their dignity destroyed by dance mat and Eyetoy, their integrity disputed after their shameless boardgame tactics, and so on.

"...my addiction to computer games has been reawakened..."

All you need to do is bring food, drink, and a few PCs between you. Oh, and some bedding for those who think sleep a good thing. Skill at games is NOT required: if Killer Kitten can go from saying "I can't do FPS games" to being the most feared predator on the planet in two days so can you, and besides no-one else can remember how to play half the games anyway.

It's not the winning that counts, it's the howls of outrage from the other room as you leap over their tattered corpses... :-)

"...I'm sure everyone who survived the weekend in one form or another would like to join me in thanking you..."

All are welcome (well, people I've at least heard of, for preference). We can fit a dozen or so in the house; tents and B&Bs exist for any surplus. More is merrier! Let me know by comment or email or whatever. If you can only make one or two days, don't worry, it's all good.

Just remember the Wightfrag motto:

"Killer Kitten again!! How did she do that?"

Comments

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Unforunately, I can't use a sniper rifle or a flak cannon in UT2004. I was pretty good at sniping in old Unreal, but it all fell apart in the new one. I am, though, very very fond of charging around in a Hellbender mowing people down. In fact, I'm so fond of it that I tend to forget that I'm actually supposed to be building power nodes and trying to win the game, rather than trying to provoke cries out anguish from the neighbouring room.

[chainmailmaiden]

I can't use a sniper rifle or a flak cannon in UT2004

I find the trick with the sniper rifle in UT 2004 is to turn the effects off (which is probably cheating...), the smoke is very annoying. I've not noticed any difference with the flak cannon though, it's still definitely my favourite weapon. I have a disc from a PC magazine which has some more variations of game play UT2004 I can bring with me too.

Maybe we should try some old UT this time too for a nostalgia trip? - not that I have a particular wish to be repeatedly shot in the head by you :-)

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if some of the old Unreal's capture-the-flag maps might be a good training ground if we have some people who aren't so used to FPS gaming. They tend to be a bit simpler in layout than the newer ones, and have nice clean lines.

We can then take the noobs into Onslaught mode and rack up the kills :-D

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

But you can now consider me forewarned :-)

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

It's more fun hunting alert prey.

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

I think there's a mutator that puts old UT sniper rifles back in. There's certainly one that replaces those silly electric shock rifles with sniper rifles (but not the shock rifle itself (blue not yellow) - I like those for taking down Raptors :-) )