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Just had the most fun I've had in BZ in a long time.

Sportchick and I teamed up together on secretplace.us (as rogues) and pretty much decimated everyone else there. Wasn't long before we found ourselves at the top of the leaderboard... When I signed off I had a 50 point margin over the next highest person. Lots of fun.

We watched each others backs, kept one another informed about the location of good flags and players with ST, and teamed up to kill whomever was becoming a nuisance with GM or Laser...

It is rare to have actual teamwork anymore.

Anyway, if you're reading this: Thanks Sportchick, hope we can do that again sometime.

i had teamwork a while back, me and jomojo in hepcat where guarding our flag inside the box, i would be in one corner, him in the other. it was real fun.

welcome to my world. teamed with rb2 and rb3 all in the same room.

Explicit teamwork eh? That'd be nice, but in the chaos of a high-play map - especially secretplace - I barely have time to breath before I'm blasted apart again, much less get a message out about potential threats and useful flags. Like many others, I just rely on implicit assumed duties, based on obvious motions.

TRB, who is RedBaron3?

Heh, sounds like fun. I never team as a rogue but I've thought in the past it would be fun.....my main problem is not being able to type fast enough.

Now, if teams (or rogues teaming) used voice chat..........wow! I think in this sort of game you'd have a huge advantage. But then you reduce bandwidth available for BZ. One option would be to use your highspeed connection (or a second phone line, if you're on dial-up) for BZ, and connect in RW or something on a dial-up connection.

-Matt Bailey

Ld: ok...Red Baron, Red Baron2, Red Baron3, etc...etc...
/nick Red Baron4


voice chat...brings back some nightmares from HL: counter-strike...the guys who had 56k could barely play...

Actually when I played for Consumption we tried out voice chat a few times during CTF games. It actually worked out pretty well. Though it does change the game dynamic, which takes a little getting used to.

I had a good time, too, ECN! Thanks for the fun!

loser wrote: voice chat...brings back some nightmares from HL: counter-strike...the guys who had 56k could barely play...

ah counterstrike what a great game...

ah voice chat, who needs it when you can read minds
this is how i feel when i play with freelancer, and carnage and |tim| .... we just seem to read each others minds
it is funny too, cause sometimes carnage and i will say the same things at the same time, that happens a lot..lol

DB

elmer: they (valve) almost ruined it with the latest update.

I've lost my taste for everything Half-Life related since they started using their Steam program. I don't even bother with it anymore, too much of a hassle.

I want headset support! Imo an important thing for team-based online-games.

the reason to play as a rogue, is to play as an individual is it not?

sm

Usually yes. Though somtimes enemies benefit by cooperating.

Rogue is the best to be becouse you dont get hit by G and you can kill all. sometimes when i see a friend we join purple and kill but not often.

RB3 was also known as BlackHawk (yes?)

nice to see all the Baron brothers together now =)

i though there was only one RB in WW1...

i find rogue hard sometimes when there are full teams and rogue only has 1 or two ppl...

yes rb3=blackhawk.

I had to chime in DB. I couldnt resist....Lets see...Free/Carnage/Tim/You all reading minds....hmmmm

I can almost hear the pin drop from here.

Just Kidding!!

CapN

serious how you think we can whoop Vbz w/o it? Mind reading is a valuable thing i just feel like my teammates and i just know what needs to be done and the majority of the time we either get it done or die trying *cough*tlz*cough*