The Newb is strong in that one..

January 2nd, 2009

I had the day off today, and I decided to devote my whole day to doing absolutely nothing constructive in the real world. It’s one of those day dreams I have when i’m working four 12 hour shifts in a row.. Long story short, we had a few scrims today and i’m here to tell you about it.

It started out like any other scrim.. zei|o messages me, I ask if we have 6 - we do - log on vent - dondi found some randos who want to get down and dirty. sweet. So we load up gravel pit on #8 and the fun ensues. Memorable quotes from the match:

Rando #1 on other team:!ready
Rando #2:READY
Rando #1:!eready
rando #2: .ready
vent chat: someone join their team and hit f4 so we can play already

zei|o: WTF do they have two medics?
gggly: hold on let me check (goes to spec)
gggly: yea they have two medics

(when you know you’re playing some pro’s)
Zei|o: I KILLED ONE OF THEIR MEDICS

They barely capped A. Literally, they had like 3 seconds left before they capped it. One of their guys raegs because we have two snipers raining down bullets into their faces. they blame his pc.. he rejoins we restart. We run two spies. They capture A, but struggle to even touch B. We win within 40 seconds on offense. This madness continue for 3 rounds until they’ve had enough and the newbs leave. I hang out afterwards and play their team 6v1 as scout and they STILL didn’t win haha.. they weren’t playing too hard but still : )

half hour break.. we regroup versus some reputable individuals on badlands.

First map we get to the last point, but fail to cap all the way. They counter us all the way back and eventually win. Second round, we came out and pushed right down their throats,(thats what she said) ubered on the last point, killed their medic and won. It was pretty obvious the team who took the middle point first was most likely going to win. After that round they were pretty tentative at taking the middle point, and we really starting getting into a groove. We lost that one, then won. You could tell it was getting to them, because when we hit 2-2, they subbed in former Cevo-p V-police’s BLACKYMOSTER at sniper. I’ve played him a couple times and he puts people to shame with that red dot. He was such a force their medic was pretty much dedicated to him for the big battles at the third point. BLACKYMONSTER’s presence was felt, but not enough for them to pull out another win.

They started switching their build with a pyro and BLACKY going to scout, but to no evail.

Bottom Line: Newbs win.

JiB.

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Where The Party At? [New York]

December 20th, 2008

Server #8 [New York] is getting an overhaul. There’s been a good deal of discussion over the past few weeks on what direction we want to take this server. This server is in honor of our east coast friends, and it’s time you got involved. Post your input here: http://www.tf2newbs.com/forum/index.php/topic,1495.0.html

 

We were running surf maps, but last night we switched over to 2fort to test things out. This is from the first night, had quite a few [N] peeps on.



Today we switched it up, switched to our 2fort night tweaks with 5 second respawn.. carnage and goodtimes ensued.




5 sec respawns : P


me and amadeus messin around





69.12.108.39:27015
Comments? Suggestions? Let me know.

Jib…

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4 Fun Team Fortress 2 Christmas Songs

December 13th, 2008

Heres a followup/update on the 12 days of 2fort.

These pretty much speak for themselves, here are four fun for the whole family songs celebrating Team Fortress 2. Big thanks go out to Koans R Us and Crouton Magillicutty for their efforts. I’d really love to see these turned into bigger productions (in-game demo, machinima, flash movie, etc). So if anyone wants to offer to sing/record these songs or is interested in doing some video work or other production please let me know. I will give out reserves and kudos if people put in time.

Team Fortress 2 Christmas Songs

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Newbs Forum Registration Relaxed / L4D Category Added

December 5th, 2008

Trying to catch up on some things that happened in the past that I never made blog posts about. The big news is that I have relaxed the registration requirements so that its no longer necessary to provide your STEAM_ID when you sign up. There were players on the servers that were having a hard time registering in the past, so this should fix that problem. There was a brief unfortunate side effect of having some spam posted, but I’ve made further adjustments to thwart the automated registrations. So come on, join in the fun and get to posting. Although not the largest TF2/L4D forum around we do have a great bunch of players and participants, so check it out.

We also added a category for L4D discussion, we got some videos, and some quotes, and some wild stories. Good stuff.

Oh, also we were gifted a Ventrillo server by [MLW] Shady Munky, the information for it is posted on the forums but it requires you to register. So, thats a nice added bonus of happy times. =)

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To N or Not to N - Thats a silly question - The TF2 Newbs Server Clan

December 4th, 2008

Its not every day that you get to be invited to participate in something that is great. Well today is your lucky day. You - YES - You are personally invited to be a part of something big. Something that took seconds to form, but will take decades to break apart.

I’m sure at this point curiosity would be eating you alive if I hadn’t given away the topic of todays post in the title. But incase you missed it - Newbs TF2 has their very own server clan now! I know, I know, we sure took our sweet time deciding to create one. But now we have one. So yay :) Oh, and our symbol of hotness is [N]. Short, sweet, simple, and N-Style *ducks*.

Copy and Paste from the forums

This non-competitive clan is open to all players on the Newbs servers that consider themselves _Newbs_. Enrollment is simple, the cost is free, and the fun times you’ll have from being in [N] are priceless. Where other clans have strict participation rules, or require donations to join the servers clan here at Newbs none of this is necessary. There are a few simple rules though:

1) Be a positive player. Keep personal attacks and trash talk to yourself.
2) No griefing, racism, hate.
3) Membership is limited to 1 community clan (eg: you can not be in eGO and in N at the same time)
4) Have a good time

In order to join [N] there are a couple simple things that must be done:

1) Register on the forum
2) Post a NEW thread in the [N] forum ( http://www.tf2newbs.com/forum/index.php/board,29.0.html )

This post should introduce yourself - please include:

Name
Favorite Class
Region (Time zone is fine)
Brief Description

This can be much the same as the ‘meet the newb’ thread.

Here is my sample Application:

Name : octo-dhd
Favorite Class: Engineer
Region : Cali
Description : Your moms favorite octopus

Yup. Its that easy.

Once you make this post add [N] at the beginning of your name. At this time we are allowing multiple tags, so you can be a [N]ewb and an [ICE] member [N][ICE], or [N]{OSS}. You can remove the [N] if you’re going to play in a match Please be sure to check with your clan leader to see if you are allowed multiple tags, as far as I know most of the existing clans on the newbs servers do allow it.

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The 12 Days of 2Fort - A Team Fortress 2 Christmas Carol

November 29th, 2008

Courtesy of Koans R Us on the newbs forum (http://www.tf2newbs.com/forum/index.php/topic,1370.0.html)

The 12 days of 2Fort


On the First Day of 2 Fort my teammates gave to me
             A level 3 sentry.

On the Second Day of 2 Fort my teammates gave to me
             2 Fatties Eating
             And a level 3 sentry.

On the Third Day of 2 Fort my teammates gave to me
             3 Intels Taken
             2 Fatties Eating
             And a level 3 sentry

On the Fourth Day of 2 Fort my teammates gave to me
             4 Pyros Flaming
             3 Intels Taken
             2 Fatties Eating
             And a level 3 sentry

On the Fifth Day of 2 Fort my teammates gave to me
             5 Golden Crits
             4 Pyros Flaming
             3 Intels Taken
             2 Fatties Eating
             And a level 3 sentry

On the Sixth Day of 2 Fort my teammates gave to me
             6 Spies a Cloaking
             5 Golden Crits
             4 Pyros Flaming
             3 Intels Taken
             2 Fatties Eating
             And a level 3 sentry

On the Seventh Day of 2 Fort my teammates gave to me
             7 Soldiers Shooting
             6 Spies a cloaking
             5 Golden Crits
             4 Pyros Flaming
             3 Intels Taken
             2 Fatties Eating
             And a level 3 sentry

On the Eighth day of 2 Fort my teammates gave to me
             8 Medics Healing
             7 Soldiers Shooting
             6 Spies a Cloaking
             5 Golden Crits
             4 Pryos Flaming
             3 Intels taken
             2 Fatties Eating
             And a level 3 sentry

On the Ninth Day of 2 Fort my teammates gave to me
             9 Engies Dancing
             8 Medics Healing
             7 Soldiers Shooting
             6 Spies a cloaking
             5 Golden Crits
             4 Pyros Flaming
             3 Intels Taken
             2 Fatties Eating
             And a level 3 sentry

On the Tenth Day of 2 Fort my teammates gave to me
            10 Scouts a leaping
             9 Engies Dancing
             8 Medics Healing
             7 Soldiers Shooting
             6 Spieas a Cloaking
             5 Golden Crits
             4 Pyros Flaming
             3 Intels Taken
             2 Fatties Eating
             And a level 3 sentry

On the Eleventh Day of 2 Fort my teammates gave to me
            11 Snipers Snipping
            10 Scouts a Leaping
             9 Engies Dancing
             8 Medics Healing
             7 Soldiers Shooting
             6 Spies a Cloaking
             5 Golden Crits
             4 Pyros Flaming
             3 Intels Taken
             2 Fatties Eating
             And a level 3 sentry

On the Twelfth Day of 2 Fort my teammates gave to me
            12 Demos Launching
            11 Snipers Snipping
            10 Scouts a Leaping
             9 Engies Dancing
             8 Medics Healing
             7 Soldiers a Shooting
             6 Spies a Cloaking
             5 Golden Crits
             4 Pyros Flaming
             3 Intels Taken
             2 Fatties Eating
             And a level 3 sentry

The Twelve Days of 2 Fort, Written by Koans R US 2008

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Left4Dead - The Newbs are coming!

November 26th, 2008

Okay, this actually happened on the first day of beta, and I’m just real late at actually blogging about it.  We have a few servers up -

7 public tied to the tf2 newbs community group

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/newbstf

2 less public ones tied to the l4d newbs community group 

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/l4dnewbs

 

Also, if you’re a regular newb, and you’re serious business about l4d a few regulars have started up a group to make expert runs through the game.  Ask octo or spies about it if you’re interested.

 

We also have a new website, which doesnt have much on it other than a great walkthrough for the demo wrote by LeeTagger (http://l4dnewbs.com).  This websites main logo was made by headshot.

I’m sure I’ll follow up later with something more detailed, but those be the basics.

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And we have some TF2 Pumpkin Carving Contest Winners!

November 3rd, 2008

 

So its November 3rd now, and after a little bit of fumbling around, I managed to get all the pictures of the pumpkin contest (also known as Jibs Contest Of Noiice) sent over to TheJib so he could judge.  As some of you may know we were offering up a single prize of a Steam Gift of Left 4 Dead to be awarded by Jib.  In order to qualify you had to submit a pumpkin, the more badass the better.  The REAL prize though was the never ending fame and glory of knowing that you participated, and that the world looked on in awe at how cool your tf2 pumpkin turned out. 

 And… The winners are:

1st prize: Left 4 Dead, 1 year reserved slot, trophy honorz - Crab Spy (in cross hairs)
`– NFreak

2nd prize: 15 steam bucks, 1 year reserved slot, trophy honorz - Painted Engy/Sentry Gun
`– Dingo (And her canadian bf)

Runner up: Honorz Icon, 1 year reserved slot:
Spy silouette *Nice work, you pulled this off well
`– Doomheit

Sticky bomb *Very original. Although not ‘carved’ you had to carve out the spikes to put them on there.
`– Koans (you can no longer say you never win anything)

Pyro face etched *quality. Very clean
`– Octo (hah, I managed to place!)

TF2 graffiti carving. *graffiti for the win. badass
`– Zepith

All who participated:
3 month reserved slot / honorz icon.

All in all, we had 21 entries, 20 were TF2 related (1 was portal related).

 Check out all the entries here:

http://www.tf2newbs.com/contests/2008-Team-Fortress-2-Pumpkin-Carving/Pumpkin_Contest_Entries/

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TF2 Newbs Logo Contest Vote!

October 29th, 2008

You have been solicited to make a new TF2 Newbs logo.. I tempted you with everlasting fame, karma, and a reserved slot. This much I can give you.. But wait that’s not all folks! For the extensive participation, I’ll be awarding a special honorz icon to the top 3 entries!

How does this work? I’ll tell you. The anonymity of it all is pretty shot because you can just look at who posted the pics in the thread : ) so rather than making some funky number system to keep this from being a popularity contest.. We’ll just go on the honorz system. (HA.) No really. You guys seem to be pretty non partial and since all the people who posted stuff are badass as it is, it shouldn’t be a problem.

Check it out:
http://www.tf2newbs.com/forum/…

Jib…

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Get Your Team Fortress 2 Themed Pumpkins Entered in the Contest

October 27th, 2008

This is a short post, just reminding everyone to get your pumpkin carved and submitted for the contest for a chance to win Left4Dead! Woo!   So far there have been 4 submissions in the competition, but I’ve been assured that there are more coming.  Remember that the contests closes Nov 2nd, so you MUST have your pumpkins sent in by then.    This contest is open to everyone, even if you have never played on the newbs servers.   Good luck everyone.

For additional details see: http://www.tf2newbs.com/contests/2008-Team-Fortress-2-Pumpkin-Carving/

-octo

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