Smackdown 174: Slammer time

[Creole Ned]

Smackdown 174: Slammer time
Date: Sunday, April 8th
Time: 6 p.m. PDT, 8 p.m. Central, 9 p.m. EDT
Game: UT2004
Gametype: Jailbreak
Mutator: BonusCombos, Pinata2k4
Map: JB-MoonCraters

Back to Jailbreak this week. We will be mixing things up a bit team-wise in an attempt to remove the curse of red always losing.

UPDATE: Map will be MoonCraters. Enjoy!

[Tai]

green skins for everyone!

[Q]

Like Tai, I hate being red.

[Tick]

Being red goes against my very internet persona, but it doesn't actually bother me. I figure out what team I'm on around the 5-10 second mark of the match every time anyway, unless it's the same as the time before.

[Q]

For me, it's not that I forget whom to shoot. It's just that for some reason, I have a harder time seeing blue players against the background graphics.

[Postal]

Blue and Red are the deafult. Can't you make green pink etc too? :)

[Tai]

We will be mixing things up a bit team-wise in an attempt to remove the curse of red always losing.

You are going to put shadowrat and me on blue? You, Q, circuit and everyone else on red?

[Creole Ned]

The map will be MoonCraters. Bring your Easter eggs!

[Shadowrat]

i think we should play shirts vs skins

[Creole Ned]

Everyone will be wearing hot pink.

[Tai]

I hope we have a good turn out (5+ per team), that map is actually quite large :)

[Creole Ned]

Yeah, we've exhausted the smaller good maps that come with Jailbreak. We'll see how it goes.

[Shadowrat]

I hope i can make it. due to easter festivities, i may not be back in time. :(

[Tai]

This new G5 mouse is messing me up, the middle setting is more sensitive than I am used to, and the lower one is lower than I am used to and the higher one is like waaaay super fast. I still haven't figured out how to change that =/

Stupid technology making things so complicated.

[Creole Ned]

Just adjust the mouse sensitivity (slider) back to something that feels like the old mouse. That's what I did. Look for my G7 quasi-review soonish!

And if turnout is spotty (it is a holiday, after all), we may switch to another map or a different gametype entirely. Stay tuned, as they say in television land.

[Creole Ned]

The curse of red lives on! Blue wins another tight set of games 2-1. Scores soonish -- I seem to have only captured one at the end of a round so I'll need to view the demos for the others.

[Tai]

I hope you got the one with my awesome Martian. =P If you are going to mess up the score screenshot, I think you might as well play instead of spectate ;)

That was a mighty tight game, but I think if you want to bust the red curse for certain you are going to have to put Circuit and Q on the same team.

My new strategy is to hunt down whichever one is on the opposing team, and then go sit on the lock so he can't get out. =P

[Tai]

Also, I played Tribes:Vengeance for 3 hours yesterday. I enjoyed it a lot.