Recap: January 30, 2009

It’s late – here’s a partial list of the maps that got played:

Gamertag	Map Name	Status
PolishFreak8	Anarchy 360	Updated
Broken Piggy	Isla del la Muerte	New
Mambonuts	Junkyard Dog	Old
Broken Piggy	Lincoln Logs
Broken Piggy	Trench Trouble	New
CrazyUncleDave	Pyramayhem	New
PolishFreak8	Waterside	New
Broken Piggy	Forgotten Outpost	New
CrazyUncleDave	Spherikill	Old
CrazyUncleDave	Fatalitrees	Old

FCF: January 30, 2009 @ 7PM CT

Have no fear, Far Cry Friday is here!

Yep, we'll be doing it again this Friday... map lists to be posted soon.

Recap: January 23, 2009

Ah, it feels good to be back in the saddle again.  A lot of new faces from the FC community showed up tonight.  Real glad to have you all!

Here are the maps that got played:

Small Map Session:

Gamertag	Map Name
Broken Piggy	Lincoln Logs
PolishFreak8	Anarchy 360
Broken Piggy	Sewer Siege Redux
Broken Piggy	Isla del la Muerte

Large Map Session:

Gamertag	Map Name
Broken Piggy	Trench Trouble
CrazyUncleDave	Pyramayhem
Broken Piggy	Factory Fight
gregorichi22	Barn Battle
SWOFF	forgotten city
CrazyUncleDave	Fatalitrees
gregorichi22	Silverfish Atoll
Cold Justice	Njeve Haki Valley
CrazyUncleDave	Spherikill
Cold Justice	Jaynes Oasis
Cold Justice	Roadie Rage Remix

FCF: January 23, 2009 @ 7PM CT

Yes, we'll be back this week... map list will be as published for January 9, plus a couple of new maps from Broken Piggy and CrazyUncleDave.

FCF: January 9, 2009

NOTE: This session was cancelled at 8:00 CST due to low turnout.

Party Host: Cold Justice
Host Connection: Cable - 16Mbps down/2Mbps up
Match Type: Player (unranked)
Game Modes: All

It’s back to business as usual. We will be playing new maps this week. If you’ve got a new map you’d like to see played, there’s still time to submit your new map for this week’s session.

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

This session will be restricted to all private slots. If you aren't on the host's Friends List, you won't be able to get in the room.

Gamertag	Map Name	Status	Size	Modes	Preferred
Broken Piggy	Lincoln Logs	New	S	All	CTD
PolishFreak8	Anarchy 360	Updated	S	DT	DM
Broken Piggy	Sewer Siege Redux	Old	S-M	All	TDM
Cold Justice	Jaynes Oasis	Old	S	All	TDM

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

There will be 12 private slots reserved for this session.

Gamertag	Map Name	Status	Size	Modes	Preferred
Broken Piggy	Factory Fight	New	L	All
Broken Piggy	Sand City	Updated	M	All	Uprising/CTD
The Frozin One	Raider Islands	Updated	H	TCU	CTD
gregorichi22	Barn Battle	New	M	All	Uprising/CTD
SWOFF	forgotten city	New	M		CTD/Uprising
CrazyUncleDave	Fatalitrees	New	M	All	Uprising
gregorichi22	Silverfish Atoll	New	L	TCU	CTD

Trench Notes: January 2, 2009

With such a fun night there were bound to be some memorable events. Here are a few that stuck with me:

• We were playing Jaynes Oasis on Uprising and I had already upgraded to using IEDs on my close-quarters load-out. CrazyUncleDave was the captain on the opposing team and I was the captain for my team. After capturing a point, I left an IED on it and ran to the next capture point. I told my team that the IED was there but since there was no one from our team watching the sabotaged control point, I didn’t know if I should blow it or not. Broken Piggy said “Just blow it – chances are that someone will be there."
  
  Well, blow it I did – and it got Dave before he could capture the point. I kept following that formula of capturing a point, dropping an IED and then blowing it as soon as I got to the next point. And, crazy as it sounds, almost every time, it would send CrazyUncleDave to the Death Room. It was uncanny, and I couldn’t stop laughing.
  
  
• During the large map session, we were playing on Roadie Rage Reverb and I’d selected CTD, since I’ve never seen it played on that mode before with a full room. That was one of the most insane, fast-paced CTD matches I’ve ever been in that didn’t spiral off into an SKD-fest.
  
  (PS – APR has a slight advantage playing CTD on that map since they have an additional return path: Go up the staircases and through the balcony and jump down into the theater. Risky, but it’s a path that the UFLL can’t use when they are carrying the diamond back to their base in the lobby.)
  
  
• In the “He' was just begging to be banned” category, there was this guy – must have been about 16 – who came into the lobby and the first words out of his mouth were “Is this game any good?” He asked it twice before a few of us gave answers along the lines of “That’s something to judge for yourself.”
  
  We start an uprisng match on Kesselschlact. Turns out this is the first time the guy has played FC2. After a couple of minutes he starts saying how he hates the graphics and shooting on the game. Then he starts complaining about the fact that we are playing on a user-created map. I was trying to be patient, but this guy was really trying to light my fuse. We get back in the lobby after the match ends, and this guy immediately sets a vote to change maps (an FCF no-no.) I tell him that we don’t do that and he starts contradicting me. Then he goes on to tell me that we should be playing the factory maps instead of user maps.
  
  Out loud, I said “That’s it. I’ve had enough of you.”
  
  Sha-WING!!!!! The ban-hammer got fed.
  
  Moral: Don’t repeatedly annoy the host!
  

Got a story from tonight’s sessions? Tell it in the comments!

Recap: January 2, 2009

Great night, guys! Wow! You picked your favorites and there wasn’t a stinker in the bunch. Y’all have got great taste. (See, Tennessee is wearing off on this California dude.)

We played all the winning maps from the small session plus made a quick trip through runner-up 007 Facility. On the large maps, we just ran out of time and players. We played the map list through Njeve Haki Valley. Since most of the regulars took off at the 12:30 AM potty break, we broke script and played through Dave’s new Fatalitrees map on Deathmatch before calling it a night at 12:48 AM CT.

Thanks again for a great night everybody. Your spirit of fun and camaraderie is what makes Far Cry Friday the special event that it is. (Okay, so you have an awesome host, too, but I can’t take all the credit.)

Next week we’ll see what everyone has been working on over the Christmas/New Years’ holidays as we return to our normal schedule of playing new user maps.