Henry Imler April 9th, 2006

Last
week’s attempt at a LAN party ended up being adjusted. Instead of
having a local event down in Versailles, Travis and I played some
Battle for Middle Earth II in Columbia and then joined Bum and Andy
online for some Midwest-to-Coast action. Bum is much better than he
used to be.

Things seem to be working out for a LAN Party in Versailles. Grant
was not available this past Saturday, but it looks like all the
Versailles players will be off of school due to Easter. Here is the run
down of the players and computers will are expecting:
Player List:

1. Henry
2. Grant
3. Peter
4. Derek
5. Cody
6. Eric
7. Q (questionable)

Computers:
^{CCS = Can play Counter Strike Source
BFMEII = can play Battle for Middle Earth II}

1. Honzo’s Desktop
   ^{P4 @ 2.6, 1GB RAM, ATI 9600XT 256MB
   CCS, BfMEII}
2. Grant’s Parent’s Desktop
   ^{AMD 2700, 512 RAM, ATI 9200 SE 128 MB
   CCS, BfMEII}
3. Meredith’s Desktop
   ^{Athlon 1600, 760MB RAM, 64 MB VRAM
   CCS}
4. Henry’s Server
   ^{Athlon 1ghz, 760MB RAM, 64MB VRAM
   CCS}
5. Grant’s Desktop
   ^{Celeron D @ 2.6, 512MB RAM, GF FX5500 256MB
   CCS, BfMEII}
6. Henry’s Laptop
   ^{AMD Sempron 2800, 760 RAM, 129 Integrated VRAM
   CCS, BFMEII (barely - encounters significant lag durring battles)}
7. Peter’s Desktop
   ^{AMD Athlon™ 64 3700+, 1GB RAM, GF 6500 256 MB
   CCS, BfMEII}

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LAN party will feature some great CSS maps that I have found in the
last few days. I have included the following maps into my mapcycles.txt:

• cs_office_unlimited_FIXED
• de_officesiege
• cs_backalley_bracket
• cs_mansion
• cs_mercado
• cs_assaultvilla_v3

I have played these maps quite extensively this weekend. What would
happen if CS_Office was a bit bigger? You would get Office Unlimited.
The result is a fun, fun, fun map with lots of garage doors, multiple
entry points, car garages, and even elevators. CS_Back alley is a
remake of the original Counter Strike’s Back alley, the first map Grant
ever beat me at. There are about 4 ways to every destination in Back
alley. CS_Mercado is a fun grocery store attack and CS_Assault Villa is
a great villa battle. There are all sorts of ways to attack and defend
the villa. There are tunnels, secret passages, etc…

Another good thing is that will a little asking, we should be able
to have six actual steam accounts, instead of using hacked source like
have had to in the past. I will have to ask a friend to borrow his, so
we will have to play offline. This won’t be a problem because Grant’s
connection is too slow to play online.

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