FCF: May 29, 2009 @ 7PM & 9PM CDT

Party Host: Cold Justice
Host Connection: Cable - 20Mbps down/2Mbps up
Match Type: Player (unranked)
Game Modes: All

Map-makers, rev your engines… er, or whatever map makers do.  Get those map submissions in by Wednesday – because we’ll be cranking out another night of militaristic mayhem this Friday night.

Note that after last week’s craziness, I may just open the room up all the way at the start of the 7PM session.  We may eventually do away with the small map session and find a way to work small maps in when the room falling to lower levels. I’d appreciate your comments, because I’m really not sure what direction to take.  I really like the small map session, but I don’t like frustrating the community with “room full” all of the time.

Key Session Settings:
	Friendly Fire:	No	Join in Progress:	Yes
	Balance Teams:	No	Voting:	Yes
	Time Limit:	10 mins	Dedicated Server:	No
	Weather:	Map default	Map Sharing:	Yes
	Time of Day:	Map default	Starting Rank:	7
	Respawn Time:	10 secs	Hardcore Mode:	Yes

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Small Map Session (8 players max.) 7PM - 9PM CDT:

There will be 6 private slots for this session.

Gamertag	Map Name	Status	Size	Modes	Preferred
PolishFreak8	Barge Battle	Old	S	D	DM
The Govener	Bliss in Concrete	Old	S	All	TDM
PrisonedBullet	Crossroads	Old	S-M	DTU	Uprising/TDM
CrazyUncleDave	Suspendead	Old	S	All	CTD/Uprising

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Large Map Session (16 players max.) 9PM - Midnight CDT:

There will be 10 private slots reserved for this session.

Gamertag	Map Name	Status	Size	Modes	Preferred
The Govener	City of Echoes	New	M	All	DM/Uprising
Broken Piggy	Beach Battle	Updated	M	All	CTD/TDM
Gwar Junky	HQ Invasion	New	S-M	All	???
Drac30akaRaziel	Garden of the Gods	New	S-M	All	???
Mac777777	Katerina	New	M	All	???
Mikk Q	MONOVISTA	New	M	All	CTD/TDM

FCF: May 22, 2009 @ 7PM & 9PM CDT

We received this letter today:

Dear Editor:

My friends have been telling me that
there is no such thing as Far Cry Friday.
But my dad says that “if it’s published
on a blog, it has to be true!”

So tell me: Is there a Far Cry Friday?

Sincerely,
Virginia

Yes, Virginia, there is a Far Cry Friday.

And we’ll be playing tonight!

Sorry folks for the late post, but I’ve been working some pretty severe hours lately and haven’t been able to post to the blog or go through the maps you’ve submitted. My evenings have consisted pretty much of collapsing in front of the TV at 9PM, playing a bit of Sacred 2, and heading to bed by 10:30.

To complicate matters, my trusty sidekick for the past five years, my Toshiba Satellite Notebook, bit the dust this afternoon. That’s the machine I keep all the FCF information on, so things may be a little rougher than normal this evening.

But, rest assured, we are playing tonight, there are new maps and I will publish a map list about an hour before game time.

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Party Host: Cold Justice
Host Connection: Cable - 20Mbps down/2Mbps up
Match Type: Player (unranked)
Game Modes: All

Key Session Settings:
	Friendly Fire:	No	Join in Progress:	Yes
	Balance Teams:	No	Voting:	Yes
	Time Limit:	10 mins	Dedicated Server:	No
	Weather:	Map default	Map Sharing:	Yes
	Time of Day:	Map default	Starting Rank:	7
	Respawn Time:	10 secs	Hardcore Mode:	Yes

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Small Map Session (8 players max.) 7PM - 9PM CDT:

There will be 6 private slots for this session.

Gamertag	Map Name	Status	Size	Modes	Preferred
The Govener	Ilanesia	New	S	DM	DM
Cold Justice	Jaynes Oasis	Old	S	DTU	DM/Uprising
Broken Piggy	Beach Battle	Updated	S	DTC	CTD
The Govener	Bliss In Concrete	Updated	S	All	Uprising/DM

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Large Map Session (16 players max.) 9PM - Midnight CDT:

There will be 10 private slots reserved for this session.

Gamertag	Map Name	Status	Size	Modes	Preferred
Broken Piggy	Beach Slapped	Old	L	All	Uprising
AMRI LAMBO M4TT	Congo Uprising ALM	New	M	All	TDM
TG Lime	Rocky Playground	New	M-L	All	TDM/CTD
solusmoth	Japanese tea garden	New	L	All
Drac30akaRaziel	CAVERN TEMPLE	New	M	All	CTD/DM/TDM
XxM4574GRUN7xX	Savana Strife	New	M	All
The Govener	Forgotten Giant	Old	M	All	Uprising/CTD

Recap: May 15. 2009

Definitely another crazy night.  We had a full room or nearly full room most of the night.  There were some very memorable incidents:

• During the small map session, playing Uprising on VistaDelMar MPD, Mac777777 team killed his own team captain, PolishFreak8, THREE TIMES IN A ROW with an IED!  It was my team, but after the third time I was laughing so hard I couldn’t see through the tears.
  
  
• Overheard during a match: (frightened voice) “Oh God – a flare gun!”
  
  
• Toward the end of the night we had someone from Argentina with limited English join the room.  He tried to butter up the host by saying “Cold Justice – you are my hero.”   It didn’t work.

Remember something fun from tonight? Post it in the comments.

FCF: May 15, 2009 @ 7PM & 9PM CDT

Party Host: Cold Justice
Host Connection: Cable - 20Mbps down/2Mbps up
Match Type: Player (unranked)
Game Modes: All

Key Session Settings:
	Friendly Fire:	No	Join in Progress:	Yes
	Balance Teams:	No	Voting:	Yes
	Time Limit:	10 mins	Dedicated Server:	No
	Weather:	Map default	Map Sharing:	Yes
	Time of Day:	Map default	Starting Rank:	7
	Respawn Time:	5 secs	Hardcore Mode:	Yes

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THE UPDATE IS HERE!  THE UPDATE IS HERE!

Yes, UbiSoft finally released a title update for Far Cry 2 on the Xbox 360.  So there will be a few nice changes coming to our sessions.

The main changes will be:

• The room will be set up with a starting rank of seven.  That means that every player will be able to fully upgrade two weapon classes immediately – even after a disconnect. 
  
  
• We will be giving Hardcore mode a shot.  I really want to get your honest feedback on this one.

Wouldja look at all those shiny new maps?

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Small Map Session (8 players max.) 7PM - 9PM CDT:

There will be 6 private slots for this session.

Gamertag	Map Name	Status	Size	Modes	Preferred
Broken Piggy	Ocean Bleeds Salty	New	S	DTC	DM/CTD
The Govener	Murphys Law	New	S	All	DM/CTD
The Govener	Scavenger	New	S	All	CTD/Uprising
Mis7aPapz D3A7H	VistaDelMar MPD	New	S-M	All	Uprising/DM

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Large Map Session (16 players max.) 9PM - Midnight CDT:

There will be 10 private slots reserved for this session.

Gamertag	Map Name	Status	Size	Modes	Preferred
The Govener	MONOLITH ASLT	New	L	DTC	CTD
Broken Piggy	Beach Slapped	Updated	L	All	CTD/TDM/Uprising
The Govener	Forgotten Giant	Updated	L	All	CTD
Drac30akaRaziel	Isolated Canyon	New	M-L	All
Mac777777	Watchfire*	New	M	All
Drac30akaRaziel	Abandoned Fortress	New	M	All	CTD/Uprising

* Removed from play at the map author’s request.

Recap: May 8, 2009

Fun Times everyone! We had almost a full room the entire night (and only 1 ban,
and He really deserved it) Only 1 Invisiplayer, that I know of, and no major voice issues for once.
Hope to see everyone again next week!

FCF: May 8, 2009 @ 7PM & 9PM CDT

Party Host: Broken Piggy 
Host Connection: Cable - 5Mbps down/500Kbps up
Match Type: Player (unranked)
Game Modes: All

Your host for this week is Broken Piggy – so BEHAVE!

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Small Map Session (8 players max.) 7PM - 9PM CDT:

This session will be restricted to all private slots.

Gamertag	Map Name	Status	Size	Modes	Preferred
PolishFreak8	Barge Battle	Old	S	D	DM
Broken Piggy	Beach Battle	Old	S-M	All	CTD
CrazyUncleDave	Suspendead	Old	S	All	CTD/Uprising
mambonuts	Junkyard Dog	Old	S	All	TDM

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Large Map Session (16 players max.) 9PM - Midnight CDT:

There will be 12 private slots reserved for this session.

Gamertag	Map Name	Status	Size	Modes	Preferred
The Govener	Scavenger 2	New	M	All	Uprising/CTD
Broken Piggy	Chemikill Plant A51	Old	M-L	All	CTD/Uprising
The Govener	Forgotten Giant	New	L	All	CTD
Broken Piggy	Beachslap Alt	New	L	All	CTD/Uprising
PrisonedBullet	Snake River	Old	L	All	CTD/Uprising
Cold Justice	Njeve Haki Uprising	Old	L	DTU	DM/Uprising

Recap: May 1, 2009

What a great night!  We had an almost full room for the majority of the session, only minor mic/event reporting problems, and only a couple of no-mic bans.

And yes, the session went to almost 3 AM CDT…  8 hours of Far Cry Friday goodness.

Thanks to all who joined, it was a total blast.  It’s fun to pull out maps that you all have tagged as your favorites.

Shout outs to The Govener, Nothe Tagiwant, Mr Skimy, Skater JC and Arcus Arcanus who have now established themselves as “regulars”. Welcome to the family, guys!

And to those of you who were there at the very end – I know we’ve done it before, but I don’t remember playing Roadie Rage Reverb as a TDM map.  That was so much fun!  I think you guys have finally convinced me that it’s a fun map – and on a game mode I wasn’t all that thrilled about putting on it.