Inaugural BF3: League of Manly Men

Ivan

QCH

I hope to be online tonight... I haven't played since Monday. WAY to long!

pigflipper

I will be on tonight as well

Transport chopper flag capping team?

pigflipper

TONIGHT!

Ok, lets try to get at least two full squads going again, maybe 3 now that we've added some people to our playing list.

GO! GO! GO!

PS. I want Canti as my jeep driver tonight

QCH

FYI... Vent is fine but I am leaning towards the built in party voice chat since I can do voice activation. I have mine set up to allow for me to talk quietly to my kids without broadcasting... I speak louder (which is normal when I see something that is gonna kill me) and then it picks it up. I am really not fond on Vent's inability to bind two keys (mouse and joystick) and I cannot find voice activation.

Oh, and YES, I'll be on for at least an hour or so starting after 7:00 PM Central.

Tushon

I'm going to a talk later tonight, but maybe ~845 or 9P CST for me.

TiberiusLazarus

@QCH

Multiple PTT keys (Have not tried this myself):
http://www.thehoboclan.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2735

Voice Activated (First red arrow on the left):

TiberiusLazarus

Tested the above for multiple ptt keys. Result: works.

There is also many other uses for the bindings section. Such as: change to specific channel, PTT to channel X and all sub channels.

CannonFodder

Definitely a good idea - we have squads set up, and with this command, you can talk to the entire BF3 channel. (see attach)

QCH

Sorry I was only able to pop in for a few... Kids and wife all needed me. :(

NiGHTS

No action this week, hopefully we have a better turnout next Wednesday!

UPSLynx

Everyone needs to stop playing SWTOR for a night to play BF3 ;)

PirateNinja

Sorry guys I've just been stupid busy. Last week I only managed two rounds. I had all intentions of playing last night but work happened.

NiGHTS

On a positive note, FUZZY-CWM, the guy who we reached out to the second week, ended up playing with me for most of the night.

Left me a message on my battlelog wall saying it was the first time he/she'd ever played with a friend before and had a blast - I had to explain how it only gets better when we have 2 full squads running.

Let's not disappoint next week!

pigflipper

Sorry about last night, I was participating in a paid Alpha Test for some new open world game thingy thats really the best explanation of it I can provide.

CannonFodder

Everyone needs to stop playing SWTOR for a night to play BF3 ;)

Sorry - new game effect. I would have dropped down if you guys had enough for a couple squads to get the server started, though.

pigflipper

Sorry - new game effect. I would have dropped down if you guys had enough for a couple squads to get the server started, though.

The problem is that we need EVERYBODY there or else we don't reach critical mass on player numbers and random pubs don't join to fill out the server.

QCH

Yeah... I fired it up... no one was playing other than Nights so I jumped on with nights. Played for a while and no one else jumped on Vent or ICs server. I decided that it was a bust and spent some time with the family. Next week, join Vent and IC's server and try to get it going.

NiGHTS

Sorry - new game effect. I would have dropped down if you guys had enough for a couple squads to get the server started, though.

The problem is that we need EVERYBODY there or else we don't reach critical mass on player numbers and random pubs don't join to fill out the server.

Correct, we actually had 7 people capable/ready to roll at 7pm.

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That being said, though, there are 30+ people in our battalion. We should be able to fill our own server up. We've seen how quickly only 6 people can fill it, though.

I'm not holding you guys accountable, though - I mean if you can't make it you can't make it. If there's other games you'd rather play that night that's fine too :) I have those same nights, so I completely understand. I'm flattered that you guys are so apologetic for missing a screwaround night in BF3, though, so I'm not complaining there, either :)

Tushon

I was attending a talk that I could have just read on her PPT and futzing around on the Dallas bus system (which fucking sucks).

pigflipper

Damnit, this paid alpha I am in seems to only be on wed nights from 8-9 PST, craptacular.

CannonFodder

I'll be on tonight

Tushon

I'm also going to be on tonight.

pigflipper

Anybody? Started 30 minutes ago, hello?

And we already gave up on our server, good job.

NiGHTS

Great turnout last night, guys! We had a full server for a few rounds - was a bit slow to start up but we had fun invading other servers as well.

Would pushing the start time back/forward help anyone at all? We still kinda have an even distribution of everyone across the US with IC-West guys reinforcing after dinner.

NiGHTS

So what's going on with this, everyone? We've had about 4 weeks in a row now where we're saved very late in the night by activity, or we have about 2-3 people playing. There's definitely BF3'rs online, but no real help in trying to populate our server.

Do I need to change the day? Do I need to change the time? Do we even want to continue with this or should I free up the day on the IC calendar for something else?