WE NEED YOU: Thursday Night Gaming - New Ideas Needed?

[Skid_Marc_]

Band of Others has enjoyed Thursday night gaming for quite some time now, be it Arma III, Elite: Dangerous or, most recently, Battlefield 1. However, with the frustrating breaks in BF1 recently, it may be time to reconsider the options for Thursday night.


It has to be a game that;

• we can play together, obviously
• sustain at least 4 people, although the more people we can team up, the better..

 

[Kenadian]

Great idea Marc, voted

 

[Noodleguitar]

This is why I voted for Warframe:

 

[Kenadian]

Are you going to play too Noel?

 

[Noodleguitar]

If it ends up being Warframe, I'm willing to forsake some more sleep in the name of the greater good

 

[Jeeve79]

I voted PUBG and also recommend Warhammer : Vermintide, The End Times. 4 player coop dungeon slasher, epic game.
I would also give Warframe a try if its that good but i am afraid it is to fast paced for me to play a lot, same issue as Overwatch i think. I feel old playing those fast shooters.

 

[Kenadian]

If there's more than 4 of us online tonight there's nothing saying we all have to be in the same game. The reason for this vote is primarily because of our mutual disdain for BF1 as of late and uncertainty as to what to replace it with.

Personally I tried Warframe quite some time ago and didn't feel it was for me so I'm teetering on whether or not I'd join in.

I'm still leaning toward PUBG simply because it's the most talked about game in my stream so clearly some of my viewers want to see it.

I even thought about Planetside 2 because we could all get into that without a problem, it's free to play and has large scale battles. Having said that, I haven't loaded the game in years so I have no idea what it's like currently?

 

[Nejtun]

Depending on when you played warframe @Duke you will find it is a completely different game . it is worth a look. not sure the group limit though , i think it is 4

oh , and if it was as long ago as a year then you have one hell of an update throught the patcher , so might want to fire it up in advance

 

[Noodleguitar]

Yes, I think the group limit is 4 for missions in Warframe. Not sure about Raids or Sorties but as far as I know that's end-game content

What's the maximum squad size in PUB? I assume you can't get into the same server if you make multiple groups to prevent you from working together in an army?

 

[Skid_Marc_]

I gave Planetside a try, but honestly, I would rather just play BF1... or BF4... or BF3... or...... Basically it's 10gb of #DontWasteYourTime, imo.

Also gave Warframe a go. I'd played it before with @JMart when it first release on XB1, but we just stopped playing it. I didn't really know why then, and I'm not sure why now. Its pretty fun, just in the 30 minutes I tried it today. I miss-understood Warframe, however, when watching streams yesterday, as everyone seemed to be hanging out together in the same world. I was fooled into thinking the whole game was like that, when in reality, it turned out to just be a public space like the "Tower" in Destiny 2.

Warframe has the same limiting factor as PUBG... Escape from Tarkov... SpinTires... Destiny 2... etc...
4 Player Limit in co-op.

Yes, I understand that we could just break up into multiple groups and play whatever, but then we can do that whenever we want. I would prefer a Thursday Night Game that would grow B2O's audience AND participants, a game where a large group of people can jump in together, similar to how we handle iRacing.

The only games, that I know of, that handles this kind of load AND already holds a majority of the community base are Eliteangerous, GTA 5, and ArmA III.

ArmA III
There are a lot of options when it comes to Arma III, including Co-op and Multiplayer. However, afaik, we don't have anyone in the community with the time to set up our own missions, or servers, which leaves us at the mercy of other's servers. Don't get me wrong, there are some fun servers, and it is easy to drop-in and drop-out of a lot of the "Invade & Annex", "Liberation", and "BMR Insurgency" modes. Long term, however, without server management, I think it will be a very hard thing to maintain and keep fresh.

GTA5
Definately a fun game, but all of the missions need to be played in an open server, placing you at the mercy of any trolls, hackers, or greifers in your server. Also, lets be honest, this game lasts for about 10 minutes of fun before everyone just starts killing each other. Can be fun, but I don't think it can be sustained.

Eliteangerous
For the time being, ED still limits you to 4-player squads, but it allows the entire group to be in a single instance which is at least a step in the right direction, imo, and #soon there will be an update to increase the number of players in a group.

My personal problem with Eliteangerous is the gross lack of any direction in the game. There is nothing wrong with an open space game that allows players to do whatever they want, but the only missions in the game feel like phony busy-work and aren't enough to make me want to plug in my controls and play, even just once per week.

I believe, however, that I am in the small minority that are of that opinion. I think the possibilities from E are near endless, and that there could be a significant B2O Community grown there.

 

[Skid_Marc_]

What's the maximum squad size in PUB? I assume you can't get into the same server if you make multiple groups to prevent you from working together in an army?

Solo, Duo, or 4-man Squads are available. Teaming up with other squads is a great way to get banned from the game...

 

[Kenadian]

@Skid_Marc_, when I referred to breaking up and playing whatever I meant for tonight only, not long term.

It's clear that we need some sort of Community Game we can get together and play on Thursdays but time being what it is I don't know if we have enough of it to come up with an answer for tonight? My solution was very short term.

I like ED for a lot of reasons but for me I can take it or leave it. I love dropping into ED for weeks on end, getting caught up on whatever I need to get caught up on and then drop it sometimes for months.

This weekend I'm likely going to reinstall DayZ as there apparently have been a lot of changes since I last played about a year ago. From a Community standpoint, DayZ Mod was the most successful in our History and saw well over 50% of our active Members ingame, resource sharing, scouting, looting and killing. We had 2 camps North, had the best loot and even Helicopters however they usually met with a swift and dramatic end lol.

 

[Skid_Marc_]

Yep @Duke, my apologies for the misunderstanding. Having an internal bi-polar struggle between this thread being solely about tonight's Thursday Night Gaming, or the future of Thursday Night Gaming in general. I forgot that I specified today's date on the original poll.

Tonight, I'm not fussed. I would happily play Warframe, as it is a lot of fun so far, imo, and I might as well take advantage of the Twitch Prime integration, right? I would also play PUBG, because it just feels inevitable anyways! I'd pass on playing Elite: Dangerous because, as I said, it just isn't fun for me, but I'd happily watch a stream of anything if there are a lot of other people interested in playing!

 

[Peeble]

We should play Rust!

 

[Kenadian]

No apology needed @Skid_Marc_, I now just take it for granted that if there's any measure of miscommunication it's because I'm articulately challenged

 

[little P]

Me, Noodle, ForProgress and Wappy played some Fortnite tonight and it was fun

 

[Nejtun]

If any of you guys do play Warframe tonight and like it then I am up for that title in the future for sure, hopefully you don't zoom off too far past my little lvl 17 character (although I don't think levels are that big of a deal when doing the missions and such)

I need to be up pretty early tomorrow morning and I dont think I can handle another 4am + finish again this week and make league as well! Hope you enjoy it though, or Pubg, or whatever you decide on playing

Spoke to Mike earlier and he asked me to pass along that he wont be able to make it tonight for gaming as he has some hockey action going on (outside! is he nuts?)

Catch you all tomorrow at league!

 

[JMart]

Hey all, I have things in the works to be able to come back to gaming nights for about 5 months.. I voted for Arma 3, because there is a lot you can do in it, especially if you have a Zeus... (Me). I'd have to look into how the controls and everything works but I think that would be very interesting. Also voted Squad, because I love to watch the world burn. Also, Just Cause 3 multiplayer could be an option also..

 

[Noodleguitar]

We ended up playing some PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds. I had only played Fortnite but I liked the gun-mechanics and the battle field itself. I even shot somebody once! (I was told it was right into the guy's armor but I'm pretty sure I saw a few drops of blood.) Not much later I got run over by a car.

If anyone wants to play Warframe at other times let me know. @Nejtun the power difference is not that big of a deal, the power of Warframes/weapons is not so much determined by current level, but more by the mods that are on it.

 

[Nejtun]

I fired it up yesterday morning after about a year, I am glad they have such massive tutorials as I totally forgot what to do
if anyone hasn't played it then it is worth a shot, lots of action and nice game mechanics . and its free