looneypumpkin

Got my puppy on Friday! 8 week old female chocolate Lab! Working on potty training (doing pretty good) and is already basically crate trained and doing fantastic on a leash/harness. Going to start real training with a professional soon. 

Don't play Overwatch. Only L4D2. L4D2 is life. Just open the console and join, or have someone invite you for now. Weekends/nights and some afternoons are the best time. I'm trying to poke some folks to fix stuff, but it's hard with life and work unfortunately. I wish I could fix it myself, but I don't know what I'm doing, nor do I have the access.

Yeah lots of things are broken the last couple of weeks.. I can only hope that they get fixed soon. It really has hurt our numbers because people either can't connect, or don't know if anyone is on, etc. 

Welcome back General. Congrats on the family and baby. Time does fly, mine turned 4 this May.

Lots of people still play but very sporadically. We try do play every Saturday night for sure, but aside from that it's been spotty lately with people growing up, getting lives and playing other games. Lots of new releases coming out.... 

Glad you and you're family is safe. I've been through that and it's horrifying. 

I have 2 cats and 2 birds (they're jerks though) all of them and they're all over 10yrs old, even the cats. I'm getting a lab puppy in a few months though and cannot wait.

I just wanted to add (for Black Kitty) that I kicked them once for rushing the alarm in Dead Center while people were still struggling on the bottom level from being charged/smoked down. 

Earlier in the same campaign, your team was getting destroyed shortly beyond the saferoom and he/she rushed a bit far ahead claiming to want to get more "progress."

Please be mindful of your team. Rushing and leaving human players behind is not acceptable here under the majority of circumstances. It's only OK to rush if most of the team is down or dead and there's multiple tanks spawned and the team agrees as a whole to run for points. You can leave bots behind, but not human players. You always want to be within shooting range to help the back, or for them to help you in case you get snagged. Infected here generally will focus on anyone who gets too far ahead/behind their team.

Thanks for the update and work. :)

good luck everybody!

I'm back baby! I missed last Saturday but am back new and improved. Customs Saturday around 7pm CST.. will figure out what we're doing then since I've not had time to talk to many people this week.

That would be very unfortunate in finales like Parish, where upping chargers is a huge benefit and makes the map super fun. Maybe make it where chargers can't buy a heal (or cost more points might work.)

I still charger punch people because even though the points you get isn't great, it still causes a lot of damage. But I am finding myself not get charger punched hardly at all anymore.

Could we just drop enough melee weapons in spawn for everyone to grab one if they want one? I pretty much always go melee only now, I do miss my deagle.

 

Swamp Fever and/or Cold Stream this weekend. Maybe VIP. Maybe gravity. Who knows? I might be cranky, I'm on a liquid only diet.

for the liquid make it vodka or whiskey

 

Oh if I could I would! The point is to shrink my liver so they can operate easily laparoscopicly. Yesterday I was smelling tacos everywhere. 

Swamp Fever and/or Cold Stream this weekend. Maybe VIP. Maybe gravity. Who knows? I might be cranky, I'm on a liquid only diet.

It won't spawn fire horde unless you buy it. Fireworks are already limited to purchase (5 per round) and not everyone will buy fire, or some people buy them too much and are screwed halfway through the round.

I'm starting to feel trolled here.

Boomer already spawns a horde when it booms someone. But just a normal one. If you're booming good enough you can afford a 15 pt horde within 1-3 turns. No big deal. It's all strategy.

Just don't waddle up next to someone who is snared and pop though. That'll break them free. Puke and run.

So boom some people, then buy a fireproof horde or riot horde (if it's early in the game and no one has points for fire.) Devastating. Also good to boom incaps for the same reason. Just think when using the boomer, just like when you spit, you spit an incap or after a charge/snare.

FYI I will likely only be hosting this weekend and next. Aug 10th I will be in the hospital and/or at home recovering from gastric surgery. Sinus one went through great, hoping for quick healing on this next one...

Totally sober ATM. This weekend... Warcelona either preceded or followed by some VIP action.

After a long hiatus from a CUSTOM map, we will be doing Diescraper to start with this Saturday, server 2, around 7pm CST. Who knows what else.

Yes I figured that out after one round, though I was using 0.4 for survivors and around 0.9 or 1 for people who weren't supposed to be affected. Seemed to work out ok.

Gravity was fun. I think we found a good balance where it gave people the ability to jump higher and not wait to fall forever, but the possibilities could have been wilder had we stayed much lower gravity... will play around with it more. 

Next week let's do Swamp Fever because I've been wanting to play that map forever. We won't do gravity on it because it's already tougher for infected. The gravity did make it harder for infected to spawn in but still it was alright I think. Would probably be hilarious on Parish's Bridge, or Sacrifices mountain thing. 

Yes... that's what I'll be doing. For anyone still bothering to read the update here. There will be a vote this Saturday for Swamp Fever vs. Diescraper vs. next map. We'll give VIP and pathing a break for now unless you really want a tough time. If "next map" wins (hopefully it's a good map) I will roll a 10 sided die. This will determine what THREE survivors get reduced GRAVITY. (This will not make you immune from attacks, but pretty much to falls unless in known death drops, off cliffs, off bridge, etc.) It can lead to weird deaths so be on your toes, should be hilarious.

I really don't want to risk server crashing from too many survivors bouncing around but we could knock it up with one extra person per round and see. Who has low gravity should change each round, if your number comes up again I'll re-roll to be fair until everyone has had a turn. If you don't want it, you can pass.

Should be a fun night.

Cool picture. I love photography but it's fallen to the side due to other hobbies/life. But summer is supposed to be hot.

How about we do Swamp Fever on Server 2 this Saturday? Another idea would be to give a few people less gravity to change the gameplay. I wouldn't want to give it to everyone in case it crashed the server, but we could roll a die and give it to a few per round. (Survivors) Could add a fun element