Let's Play Entropy & CTF! Round #10!

by **Lady Silver** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 6:04 pm

Descent 3 pilots, Let's really play some Entropy this time.

Date: Friday November 20th
Time: 10:00 pm EST
Place: Entropy in Dementia Entropy: Steel Vapor
&------CTF in Halcyon

Thanks RIP Rooster and Behemoth for helping to choose a level!
We will start with Entropy in Steel Vapor, moving on to CTF in Halcyon afterwards.

Steel Vapor can hold 16 pilots max. Can anyone say 8 vs 8 again?

I think I should also mention that many of us like to meet on Mumble in the Descent Rangers channel, and whoever plays is more than welcome to join us!
Link to get to the channel:
We don't always use it strategically; sometimes it's just to taunt each other and have fun. But it makes it easier to keep track of what is going on.

These games can be found using the Descent trackers (such as ), but I will also provide IP addresses later on.

Please let me know if you plan to make it; I like having an idea of how many pilots are coming so I can lure more pilots in with the numbers.

This invite is also being posted on the DBB.net and the Descendent Studios forum.

Thanks goes to Krom for once again hosting the servers for us!

LET'S PLAY SOME ENTROPY & CTF!

by **ryusei117** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 4:15 pm

OK, Now I'll get to play my first game of Entropy ever.

See y'all on Friday!

by **Wats** » Thu Nov 19, 2015 7:31 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG_6CopW9GQ

by **Lady Silver** » Thu Nov 19, 2015 10:07 pm

Cool Ryusei, see you there!

LOL Wats!

by **Lady Silver** » Fri Nov 20, 2015 12:10 pm

So far, including myself, we have 8 pilots who are going to try to make it, 2 more who usually do make it without an RSVP, and a few more yet who might come.
So as of now it will be at least an 8 - 12+ player game. We have changed the Entropy server so it can hold 20 pilots juuuuuust in case.

Anyone else?

Here are the IP addresses:
Dementia Entropy: Steel Vapor: 69.131.84.7:2093
Halcyon: 69.131.84.7:2092

See you guys soon!

by **Lady Silver** » Fri Nov 20, 2015 8:03 pm

Game is in one hour. We start in Dementia Entropy: Steel Vapor.

Pilots, Prepare for Descent! 8-)

by **Wats** » Sat Nov 21, 2015 3:03 am

So my favorite moment of the night was getting a 3-kill streak, loading up on virus samples, begin rushing over to red base and -DING-, D3 crashes. Excellent! Rejoin game, start from scratch, work like hell to build up another kill streak, crash again. Yaaaaay!

Yeah, my D3 just really doesn't like that level for some reason. Or maybe it's the black sharks, I dunno. Anyway, I stuck around and assisted blue team for as much as I could take it, and it was pretty damn fun with some hilarious encounters and deaths. Can't wait to do it again, hopefully with more stability.

by **Lady Silver** » Sun Nov 22, 2015 12:37 am

Another successful night! Thanks again guys!

I think this time we had 10 pilots in Steel Vapor for Entropy.
I'm sorry Dues, I like the black shark, so ::raspberries::

. It is only in a very few Descent levels, so I think it's fun to play with once in a while. If it were in Burning Indika it would get old in like 3 seconds.
One thing I really do detest about the black shark, though, is the fact that if you are careless you will also end up causing your teammates demise if they are sucked in along with an angry opponent. I did this to Zero on 2 separate occasions and I felt really bad about it. The second time I was conscious that he was near by and I tried to be careful, firing when I thought he was clear... he wasn't... :cry:

Zero, I'm sorry. You are a patient man, and I thank you. :oops:

We played a full round of Entropy and then played another half a round before deciding to move on to CTF.

The Entropy game was fun, but it did lack the heated action that comes with CTF.

I do think most of us probably enjoyed ourselves more after we moved to Halcyon. Even though for my team that meant repeatedly flying into a little room guarded by two, count them, TWO tanks. It felt like an exercise in futility. Fly into enemy base, die instantly covered in purple goo (tri purple goo mind you). Respawn, fly into enemy base, :idea:

using the other entryway this time, die instantly, again adorned with purple goo. Maybe this next time will be different! Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

Sometimes Descent CTF can really put a pilots tenacity to the test, making them gather every ounce and keep fighting. But I really thrive on those kinds of games. Even if I can't turn the game around, I enjoy every minute of it! I love the challenge! It causes you to celebrate even the little victories. Once in a while our teamwork was fruitful and we were able to score a point. But ultimately the other team won, I think 20 - 10?
Dues you were a good goalie; Zero is just... Zero

, not only that, Ryusei was in a tank helping him guard and Max_T was shedding rust like nobody's business and running flags like in the good old days of PXO.
Oh, yeah, we had 8 pilots for that game.

Wats, I'm sorry you kept getting disconnected from the game.

I hope we can figure out whats going on.

Krom, the servers ran beautifully, thank you!

There will not be a game next week because of the holiday. I hope all you and yours have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Until next time, I'll see you guys in the mines!