Morning Discussion

TF2 match against Arsclan

Here is the original thread: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17102563#itemanchor_17102563

Match time is next Wednesday, at 9:00 EST.

I've collected all the people who volunteered from that thread and have 13 people so far. If you want to take part, post here and I'll select a team from the volunteers. The Ars guys should put up a good match. We did a scrim against 7 of them for the first Team Feek scrim. It was a lot of fun.

Quick link to the reciprocal thread on their board: http://www.arsclan.net/forum/showthread.php?p=369518&posted=1#post369518

I have to share this because I think this is possibly one of the best gaming moments I have ever had.

If you are a PS3 troll, please do not reply with trollish like posts because I think anyone who has ever played a game can appreciate this.

Preface: When I bought WarHawk, I was thinking that the game was going to be like Crimson skies, except prettier. Boy was a I wrong. For those of you who don't know, Warhawk is a game in the vein of the BF series, except it doesn't take itself that serious. There are two factions and each faction has a jeep with a minigun, a tank, and a warhawk at their disposal. There are only 3 types of vehicles. Of course the game is mostly centered around the WarHawk but the ground action is just as fast paced and happening. You pick up weapons such as the automatic rifle, grenades, sniper rifle, rocket launcher, etc. You quickly learn which weapons do the best damage to different types of vehicles. Its a roller coaster ride of awesome.

Fast forward to today, I sit down to play some CTF on a compact map. The map is called high and low. This is because one team's base is up in the hills, and the other is in the valley. There are about 3 total spawn points at various points for each team. Its quite a long trek to the other player's flag, even by jeep, its a winding long road between hills and little towns. But for the warhawk it is a short hop skip and a jump away. Most people try to steal the flag by dropping in in a warhawk, hopping a jeep and scootin back, since you can drive a jeep with the flag, but not the warhawk.

Cue about halfway through the map. My team is down 2 to 1, and when I spawn there are no warhawks and only a jeep. I hop in the jeep thinking that Ill pick someone up along the way. So I start to shimmying down the road and through the nearest town and I honk the horn to pick someone up, and he hops in and we are hell bent on getting that flag. We wind down the road, warhawks screaming above us, shattering hunks of metal and ash falling from the sky. It was a good day. We wind the corner towards the bridge to the other team's base, and there it sits. A tank. A Jeep killer. Its too late to stop, if we stop, itll be that much easier for him to pick us off, so I start swirving. I see it coming, the blast nearly misses us and lands to the left. I floor it straight forward feeling the reload time was coming, and we scoot by before he can get off the shot and I know it will take a few seconds for him to turn the turret around another 120 degrees to fire again. We floor it straight into the base, the gunner blazing on the infantry. I hop out, grab the flag and floor it around the main compound. By this time, they have been alerted and are starting to stack up at the entrance with flame throwers and rocket launchers.

We come around the corner, and by sheer luck, the infantry with the rocket launcher misses and plows the round into the dirt right in front of us. A few are on the stationary miniguns trying to plow us under, but we push forward. The guy with the flamethrower had no chance. I ran him over before he got a shot off. But shortly after, my gunner was picked off and I was all alone.

Then I remembered something as I came near the bridge. And surely, I had no chance. Just as I came over the horizon of the bridge, there it sat. It was time for revenge and this tank was bearing down on me. I tried again to swerve, and again he missed, but I was too far away and surely he would get another shot off before I passed him, and he was blocking the turn that I needed to make to get back to the base. I was fucked. But then it happened, out of no where, a warhawk comes down and plows the ever living shit out of the tank with a cluster bomb! It was like I had willed an airstrike down on this tank.

Meanwhile, the infantry back at the based had already gathered in their jeeps and were following. They were also scambling warhawks to my path. I took my turn and I was giggling. This was too much fun. But the fun wasn't over.

As I headed into the streets of the small town before our main base, I turned a corner to see a tank. At first, I breath a sigh of relief because omg its my savior. Then it dawns on me that the tank was not my team's color. How could this be I ask myself. Its been too much fun until now! Again, my immediate reaction was to swerve. Bearing down on this tank was suicide in such a small area. He knew it, I knew it. So I swerved, thinking Im going to hit the wall, and thats it. But oh no. I hit a piece of garbage in the road with my right wheel. It flings the right side of the vehicle up, and ONTO THE WALL and I continue to move forward. Because of this, the tank misses his shot, and I fly right past him, and into the base camp!

I deposit the flag and have a happy dance!

WarHawk is everything about fun rolled into one package. The graphics are appealing, gritty and clean.

looks like our tf2 thread got nuked just as we were bragging about how awesome we ragequit!

To keep up pretenses, I totally ragequitted on some crappy pub today. My team average was like 10 points, and hydro rounds were lasting about 30 seconds against us. Rawr! I even took a sip of water really angrily.

Speaking of comedians:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAOLOGGftTY

Post some of your favorite clips.