Great Community Playdate tonight guys!

A few rough start games, but its our first playdate and a little optimism goes a long way here considering the insane amounts of fun we had. When the games got started on conquest... it was hard and dirty!

I really appreciated the competition and the intense firefights on all the maps. Too bad things weren't on Rush, nonetheless, I thought everyone did really well.

A lot of new recruits that should be popping in and out of the night, and I was glad to see an amalgamation of both [13] and [v13] attending! I must congratulate my SA, Bipolar for being a good adversary as a sniper.

All I can say is that I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of a full-on [13] attack. Much respect to all [13]; and to those visiting [v13] playdate members, it was a pleasure playing with you all!

Wow, great Play-date. I give everyone a pat on the back for their outstanding performance. Sorry about me having to leave early. I had work in the morning. A little EA server problem was occurring with rush early but that didn't stop us! Again. Congratulations to EVERYONE!

Hm, Can you guys give me a list of all clan participants every day?
I need to know how many service stars will have to be awarded as well.

Hey Hoang, please check this list once it is finalized: which probably means check back in 2-3 days for people to trickle in and see if their names are on the list.

I jumped out early before every single person arrived, but I stayed for a good amount of time. If I missed anyone, please PM me or re-post this with your name on it!

[13] members who signed up and showed up for the playdate as as follows:
Axx Bytehoven
CrazyBagaDonits
Victuals
Darkbrother26
Dtiger29
Helix Omega
Doctor Sofa
Legend 428
GHOSTBEER
primalfury


Awesome [13] members who played with us:
Gog27
A Bipolar Tree
Legendary Wingz
Souljah E
Aldouss Snow (as X ARIST0 X)

Yes thank you, please either PM me or repost a new list every day. Because the number of times they participated is important for me to know how many stars to award.

Awesome! And thank you for making the effort to make stars for the event!

Its not much trouble. I'm also taking the initiative to start the awards board so please try to submit any other decorations you feel that any participants have earned. Please also try to give me their forum names.
This means they have been awarded the PayDirt medal twice.

This means 7 times.

This is the updated [13] attendance list for the 8/4/2010 PlayDate

As Crazy said, if we missed anyone, please let us know and we will add your name to the list.

[13] members who signed up and showed up for the playdate as as follows:
Axx Bytehoven
CrazyBagaDonits
Victuals
Darkbrother26
Dtiger29
Helix Omega
Doctor Sofa
Legend 428
GHOSTBEER
primalfury
EZ RudeBoy
Goldblade911
Zukazammee


Awesome [13] members who played with us:
Gog27
A Bipolar Tree
Legendary Wingz
Souljah E
Aldouss Snow (as X ARIST0 X)
xLGTxAssasinX
Deecon57
FTMBrushFire


Those who could not get in due to technical issues:
SportsGuy259
StoneFlea
Souljah E
NinjaHotPocket

OK... Well that was interesting.

1st I would like to thank everyone who attended the Play date, everyone who helped with the organization, planning and trying to get the ball rolling, especially Fun, who really helped me behind the scenes, even though his work schedule kept him from attending. Thanks Fun! Also thanks to Crazy and DTiger for their extensive help. The play date execution was a real team effort. Bravo!

I have sent thanks and [13] membership invites to all of the invited guests on the list, but not the friends of [13] members who attended. Please extend our thanks and membership invites to your friends. I believe many of our guest plan to join [13], so in that regard, the Play Date was a complete success. OohRah!

As everyone who played knows, XBOX LIVE gave us serious technical issues. We could not get a Private RUSH game going with everyone being dropped to the BC2 game lobby after a few minutes. We kept trying with no success. Finally we were able to make Conquest work. Good think Crazy and DTiger.

I think we should all send a complaint letter to the XBOX email address in the Play Date.

xlmail@microsoft.com

I played until almost 2:00am EST and Primal & Ghost were still playing Hardcore Rush. ( I hate Hardcore)

Thanks again to everyone involved.

I'll probably take a few days off and I plan to be at practice Sunday night.

See you all later.

Axx

Glad to hear it about the Playdate guys! Oorah!

Hoang wrote:

Its not much trouble. I'm also taking the initiative to start the awards board so please try to submit any other decorations you feel that any participants have earned. Please also try to give me their forum names.
This means they have been awarded the PayDirt medal twice.

This means 7 times.

And hoang, what do you mean they get it twice?

Congrats to all who participated in last nights playdate. Minus the technical issues we had in the beginning, I would call it a success.

Special thanks to Fun whose idea prompted this event, and Axx for carrying it through.

it was nice seeing such a great turnout. why can't our practice days be a little more productive? uhhhh.

i'm on all the time and still only see very rare nights when a lot of 13s are on.

axx, i was only playing the hardcore rush cause of an xbox friend invite. i was doing regular rush, but only aldouss wanted to play, but he ended up leaving. i get tired of conquest easily. i know there was trouble with our playdate carrying over into a rush game, but i can only play so much conquest.

me and bipolar tree were playing rush for a while with you guys (axx, primal, tiger, deecon). nobody was accepting my invites to squad up with me when tree had to bail, so i went to hardcore.

also, to add....

when tree and i were our own squad and primal, deecon, tiger, and axx were in another squad someone named timtim joined in our squad. he was impressed with us a few rounds. he said he wrote down the website. he seemed cool and played well, i hope to see him join up.

Hello 13th meu members this is xbl gt: Legend 428 speaking and i just want to apoligize to any of you that got angered by me because of two matches towards the beging of the playdate me and two others were lanching quads and i have semed to upset some of you and i just wanted to tell you all im sorry
sincerley PFC Legend 428

Axx, my bad about the hardcore issue at the end when ghostbeer and I were playing together. I thought u were done for the night when dtiger left. I was sad I missed basically all of the playdate cuz of work, but sometimes u just gotta make that paper, yeah?

We all gotta do what we gotta do bud.

Would've been cool if you could've partaken in some of the intense firefights but alas, money is probably more important.

I'm thinking this isn't going to be our ONLY playdate... I'm down for setting up Round 2!

we did at the end it was preety epic we were lanching on panam and we lanched once on lagguna presa but thats it but ya when the playdate got to an end i think it was you runing around kiling people with your garache exacution style

Legend428 wrote:

Hello 13th meu members this is xbl gt: Legend 428 speaking and i just want to apoligize to any of you that got angered by me because of two matches towards the beging of the playdate me and two others were lanching quads and i have semed to upset some of you and i just wanted to tell you all im sorry
sincerley PFC Legend 428

Legend 428: Your apology is greatly appreciated. I would note when you, tooth and sniper started playing with us, we started winning those conquest matches. I know it's hard to control our friends when they join us and [13] appreciates you making every effort to let them know what we expect when they play with us. As far as I am concerned, it's all "water under the bridge" and I look forward to your continued participation with [13]. Your friends are also welcome to join if they share your commitment.

Primal: You are right. I was planning to quit. Hardcore really rebalances the game toward certain weapons and equipment. Thanks for the play time.

ok ill tell them the next time they dicide to join hopefully we can have another playdate soon and mabye we can get rush workin

Bytehoven wrote:

Legend428 wrote:

Hello 13th meu members this is xbl gt: Legend 428 speaking and i just want to apoligize to any of you that got angered by me because of two matches towards the beging of the playdate me and two others were lanching quads and i have semed to upset some of you and i just wanted to tell you all im sorry
sincerley PFC Legend 428

Legend 428: Your apology is greatly appreciated. I would note when you, tooth and sniper started playing with us, we started winning those conquest matches. I know it's hard to control our friends when they join us and [13] appreciates you making every effort to let them know what we expect when they play with us. As far as I am concerned, it's all "water under the bridge" and I look forward to your continued participation with [13]. Your friends are also welcome to join if they share your commitment.

Primal: You are right. I was planning to quit. Hardcore really rebalances the game toward certain weapons and equipment. Thanks for the play time.

the thing i find playing hardcore is it forces you to polish up your aiming abilities. the only things that have markers are sniper rifles and shotguns. other than that it's good luck.

i absolutely hate that it doesn't even tell you how much ammo you have or when someone is in a chopper with you. it only shows if you have passengers if you look at your squad list and the little icon for a chopper, for example, is next to their name.

one other bad thing about hardcore is medics. since all shots are 1 shot kills, they have 200 round drums on most of their guns. insane. and a good sniper can hold a really good hiding spot for a long time since there is no kill cam.

GHOSTBEER wrote:

Bytehoven wrote:

Legend428 wrote:

Hello 13th meu
members this is xbl gt: Legend 428 speaking and i just want to apoligize
to any of you that got angered by me because of two matches towards the
beging of the playdate me and two others were lanching quads and i have
semed to upset some of you and i just wanted to tell you all im sorry
sincerley PFC Legend 428

Legend
428: Your apology is greatly appreciated. I would note when you, tooth
and sniper started playing with us, we started winning those conquest
matches. I know it's hard to control our friends when they join us and
[13] appreciates you making every effort to let them know what we expect
when they play with us. As far as I am concerned, it's all "water under
the bridge" and I look forward to your continued participation with
[13]. Your friends are also welcome to join if they share your
commitment.

Primal: You are right. I was planning to quit. Hardcore really rebalances the game toward certain weapons and equipment. Thanks for the play time.

the
thing i find playing hardcore is it forces you to polish up your aiming
abilities. the only things that have markers are sniper rifles and
shotguns. other than that it's good luck.

i absolutely hate that
it doesn't even tell you how much ammo you have or when someone is in a
chopper with you. it only shows if you have passengers if you look at
your squad list and the little icon for a chopper, for example, is next
to their name.

one other bad thing about hardcore is medics.
since all shots are 1 shot kills, they have 200 round drums on most of
their guns. insane. and a good sniper can hold a really good hiding
spot for a long time since there is no kill cam.

Lol, I'd like to see the medics doing that, ripping up everything. But then again, Hardcore always turn into a camp fest or a spray fest. That's the opposite of helping your aim lol.

thebronxbomber wrote:

Glad to hear it about the Playdate guys! Oorah!

Hoang wrote:

Its not much trouble. I'm also taking the initiative to start the awards board so please try to submit any other decorations you feel that any participants have earned. Please also try to give me their forum names.
This means they have been awarded the PayDirt medal twice.

This means 7 times.

And hoang, what do you mean they get it twice?

It is shown as an example. The Bronze Star device indicates that a second participation ribbon was awarded in addition to the ribbon itself.

Hey...

I think it would be a good idea to post our "Post-Play Date" review comments as part of an event debriefing.

How could we do thing differently next time?

Obviously, we did not get nearly enough play time will all of the interested guest members due to technical difficulties.

Maybe we should focus on splitting up the guest friend list among designated squad leaders, and then work on starting 4 man squads and adding [13] members to these squads if space is available.

We might also consider having the [13] contingent arrive at a least half hour early to work out any last minute details.

So, post your comments pro/con whatever you think.

Axx

I noticed a lot of the guests were impressed with how we communicated, although when we were playing conquest I was in a squad with all 13s lol...

At the beginning I was in a squad with all guests (before the technical difficulties) and they really started to have a good time when I taught them how to communicate effectively

Great work Gold! That was my experience as well.

I'd like to apologise for dropping out early on. I felt that due to my lack of a working mic that I was merely filling space that could be better filled by someone else. I was going to persist but when I just couldn't join any games I decided to just call it a night.

An extremely enjoyable experience early on though, kudos to all those who attended.