Freeping Gamers (Week 10)

[Safrguns]

If you are a Freeper, and also like online gaming, post here to find fellow gamers, share screen shots, reviews, helps, and tips. Gamer tables are updated and published weekly. We currently have 53 gamers playing over 50 different games. Top Games: Battlefield/Battlefield 2 (12 gamers) World Of Warcraft (9 gamers) Unreal Tournament (8 gamers)

[Safrguns]

Tonight is bad for me.... 1st night of our fall bowling league, so Wednesdays from here on are out too. (hehe... well, at least until 9:00 pm central)

[Safrguns]

I think my daughter and I are going to give this a shot as well.

Ahhh... sounds like a table update is in order.

Hey Roto... that makes 7 for you. Ninja Taco is his daughter.

[Dominic Harr]

Hi!

Please add me to the gamer's list. Been gaming since before it was 'cool'.

I'm a PC gamer.

Right now, I play Civ 3 (Conquests), Diablo 2, Madden 2005.

[Safrguns]

Please add me to the gamer's list.

You got it... do you have a favorite alias you play under?

Welcome to Freeping Gamers!

[Bacon Man]

Liberty works for me. I'm thinking scrapper for this toon.

[balrog666]

Remember I have never played before.

What kind of character do you recommend to start with?

[Hap]

Do y'all have room for one more on your team? I have a Condi character (Blaster) all ready to go on the Champion server but I can recreate her wherever.

[BADROTOFINGER]

Well, a blaster is pretty easy to start with, basically throw damage at your opponents and then try to survive in case you ended up aggroing them. A tanker is also good, and every team needs one. Tankers are generally known as 'meat puppets' because they can take so much aggro and tend to distract opponents away from more delicate archs such as controllers and blasters. Tankers will usually take a taunt power to draw more badguys to them. Defenders can be tricky, as there are basically 2 types, healer and buff/debuff, both of which are very important to the team. Controllers and defenders can be frustrating for newbies; controllers because they are wusses and dont have extremely effectcive powers early on, and defenders(healing style) because the targeting interface can make it difficult and frustrating to be able to target your teammates and therefore heal effectively. Of those 2, defenders are likely the better option on early playability, considering that their secondary power set of ranged attacks is pretty powerful for team offense.

Scrappers are also relatively easy to play, up close and personal, dealing lots of damage.

If you are at all familiar with comic book characters, here are some equivalents...

Scrapper: Wolverine, Captain America, Spider-Man
Blaster: Human Torch, Punisher
Tanker: Hulk, Thor
Defender: Doctor Stange, Green Lantern

Controller: Magneto, Professor X

Those are some basic comparisons. Also, dont go into the game thinking about copying an existing, copyrighted character. The mods will change your costume, and they name of your char will become 'generichero2495'. Literally.

One more thing, meant for everyone but primarily for the experiecnced players. My controller will be a mind control/force field controller, but if no one decided to play an empathy healer, the party will have no 'real' healer, and I could take empathy instead of force field and perform some healing duties, but I figured that a controller named Karl Rove should be able to control the minds of his enemies and provide teflon style protection to his mates. Not that playing an empathy defender sucks or anything, but if no one wants to play one, I could alter my character plan a little...JFK

[BADROTOFINGER]

Forgot to ping everyone. And sure Hap, lets settle on Liberty server, we have some advantages there. On the Global Chat, my name is POKERFACE. Anyone who wants to start up there can go ahead and do so immediately.

So far it looks like we have 3 characters, a scapper, a defender, and a controller. A tanker is a given, and blasters are great damage dealers. Hate to be PC, but good diversity is great for teams, but play what you want people! If you are having trouble thinking up something and know a superhero that you like, let me know, I can try to map the best path for you.

And hey, Xenalyte, will your defender choose the empathy set? If I knew, I could get started on my char right away. Let me know please...JFK

[Safrguns]

Do you want on the Freeping Gamers list?

[Hap]

Absolutely!

[Hap]

Cool! My Condi character is all set up as a Ice Blaster on Liberty.

[BADROTOFINGER]

Great! What is your characters exact name again?...JFK

[Hap]

My character's name is Condi but Global name is RW Conspirator.

[Safrguns]

Great!... Then welcome to Freeping Gamers!
CoH crowd.... when you have everything figured out,
just let me know how you want servers/SGs, or whatever listed on the game table.

[kenth]

Has anyone ever had the problem in BF2 where your teammates get the red enemy symbol. I tk'd a half a dozen times today because my teammates kept showing up as enemies.

[Safrguns]

I've had the problem a lot where I got no red or blue tags, and had to assume red, but I havn't seen a teammate show up with red tags. It's either a hack, or your seeing enemy and friendlies too close together... i don't know.

[cabojoe]

It's Thursday night. Put ROX into your server name and go to the ranked server, it's wide open.

[DocRock]

I was just there... guess I'll go back, LOL!

[doodad]

That is how I bagged safrguns one night as an AT. He had no tag and with a competing tank comin at him I mistook the M1 for the other in the sight and well...he did not punish however. Funny how his name popped after I was away and could not stop with a full side shot. I keep wondering about that.