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General Discussion / Re: Fun and hilarity

« on: September 02, 2014, 05:36:31 pm »

Spent a lot of time this weekend flying the unfriendly skies of Goi. Having made 4th level
Engineer I can't play on the novice matches anymore. Not that I see that as a bad thing! I
Thought I'd miss the clown car appeal of the novice matches. Pleasantly surprised that it continues!
Not going to name any names but funny highlights this weekend.

The pilot's who never put the balloon in reverse, drive into every obstacle they can or can't see
Then proceed to blame their crew for not keeping up with repairs! Wth!? LoL!  These guys are great for
Practicing how fast you can get every component back in operation. Not fully repaired as they will never give you time for that before their crashing full speed into something else.

The pilot who attempted to give us the inspiring speech at the beginning of the match, until rudely interrupted by the enemy balloons. I'm not sure that he actually did cut the speech short as I had stopped listening and started shooting. Oh yeah! Then after the first death telling us how we were doomed to die in a fire for the rest of the match after that.

Not that I'm any better really. One match forgetting to change the mid range load out on my pyramidion, but being convinced I had, then proceeding to try and keep it at close range until one of the crew just gave up and quit. Not even a rage quit...just said sadly" I can't do this anymore..."
Apologies are due there.

I also got to play with a ton of great pilots and crew.  I will name the SPQR as being a
Classy bunch of folks to fly around with!

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General Discussion / Re: Fun and hilarity

« on: August 29, 2014, 07:57:59 pm »

I'm left handed so all the helm controls are now on the number pad with the "jump off the helm" button safely out of the way but still easy to get to. Kind of funny that I can't remember the exact key! Mouse is for smackin' stuff and zooming in. Just the way my motor memory works.

I might try it on the mouse tonight though since it couldn't hurt to try. Thanks for the suggestion Sparklerfish.

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General Discussion / Re: Fun and hilarity

« on: August 29, 2014, 06:13:01 pm »

Thanks Hamster! Running around less randomly than I was.

Hoping to drag some other Uglies into this game. Not a clan,
Just a group of friends who've been playing games together
For....a long time. I sent some of them copies of the game last week
And hoping this weekend to introduce them to GOI.

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General Discussion / Fun and hilarity

« on: August 29, 2014, 03:04:28 pm »

Hi all. Having a lot of fun playing this game the last two weeks. Mostly as an engineer to learn the
The ship layouts and not be too useless. Took me the first  50 matches to get to the stage where I'm
Not doing idiotic things at the absolutely wrong times. Still seem to fall off the squid everytime I'm on it.
That ship needs some hand rails for the old guys like me. Of course if it did, I'd be catching the wheels
Of my walker on them for the same result I guess..

The voice chat can be hilarious sometimes. I think if I was a comedy writer, voice chat would be a goldmine of material. On the novice matches anyway.

Being pilot is good times too but I was without a mic up until yesterday so don't unless nobody seek wants to.

One final note... Whoever put the vanilla get off the helm button right next to the acceleration/ deceleration button is a bad bad person. I've thought of you many times in free fall before it all goes black. Thanks for the lulz.