Alpha Squad Mod News.....

Vir2L™ · Post by **Vir2L™** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 1:33 pm

Sweet mother of God!!!!

im stuffing her up than the upload journey will begin.

Almost time to release the hounds.

Vir2L™ · Post by **Vir2L™** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 9:58 pm

a little fairy told me it is up and ready for download

- H E R E

Vir2L™ · Post by **Vir2L™** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:02 am

we had a nice midnight session and man o man.........

THIS MOD OWNS!!!!!

Thank You Alpha Squad for taking the much needed step forward with this MOD. Takin it to the next level.

Brilliant!!!

Krush · Post by **Krush** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:28 am

yea, I've been playing through the night (literally) and now this morning I'm back to playing. This mod is amazing to say the least . . . been trying to beat the A mission on Vilnius (rescue the soldiers) alone for a while, having some troubles as you may have guessed

Vir2L™ · Post by **Vir2L™** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 1:32 pm

thats a nice mission, they are all infact really nice missions... alot of them with random elements that will keep them fresh for days to come.

I'm lovin it!

Post by **Monoman** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:33 pm

The random elements in the missions are great, especially when you get owned by the AI then they move and do it again.

Also, tons of new kits.

sw3D · Post by **sw3D** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:03 pm

mono you really shud mention in the "mod details page" in BOLD that this mod requires island thunder.... i dun want ppl coming and downloading the mod just to find out they can't play cuz they dun have IT

Vir2L™ · Post by **Vir2L™** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:08 pm

oops, i forgot to add that when i put in the desciption. My bad. I included it in the READ ME. But that's usually to late for people with dial-up and no Island Thunder. heh. Oh well.

People should know most Total Conversion MODs these days require Island Thunder anyway.

Post by **Monoman** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:56 pm

Added the requires IT to the mod description.

sw3D · Post by **sw3D** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 6:03 pm

btw Vir2L, it seems very difficult for people to TRY the mod if you only allow 'buddies' and premium members wouldn't it?

Krush · Post by **Krush** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 6:47 pm

Without voice (premium) coop just wouldn't be the same

Vir2L™ · Post by **Vir2L™** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:07 pm

sTryker wrote:btw Vir2L, it seems very difficult for people to TRY the mod if you only allow 'buddies' and premium members wouldn't it?

People have to join MY room to try the MOD out? Where did i sign up for this? lol.

Sorry...... Most of the time i host Premium Only rooms. I require teamwork, which is practicly impossible without VOX. IMO, voice communication is a key ingredient to passing levels. Why should i have to type to someone, and waste precious seconds, when i can press a key and talk? Its much more practical and much much more effective. Besides most of my buddies have premium, and they get priority.

When i am not hosting premium only rooms i usually host buddy only to keep people from joining and leaving, which causes lag.

I'd add you to my buddy list (but there are a million strykers) so you can join future non-premium games with me, but please understand my reasoning for not hosting non-premium rooms, its just not worth it to me. Half the time i feel like tkin the guy for screwing up the pace.

Bottom line is, I am promoting tactical gameplay. Tactics require communication. Communication made simple by the use of voice messaging. =D

05h1 wrote:Without voice (premium) coop just wouldn't be the same

indeed

tim_leary · Post by **tim_leary** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 8:25 pm

sTryker wrote:btw Vir2L, it seems very difficult for people to TRY the mod if you only allow 'buddies' and premium members wouldn't it?

Host it your self. Sheesh. You make it sound like he's the only one hosting that mod. There's plenty of peeps hosting that mod.

sw3D · Post by **sw3D** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:51 pm

Vir2L:SOG wrote:
sTryker wrote:btw Vir2L, it seems very difficult for people to TRY the mod if you only allow 'buddies' and premium members wouldn't it?
People have to join MY room to try the MOD out? Where did i sign up for this? lol.

Sorry...... Most of the time i host Premium Only rooms. I require teamwork, which is practicly impossible without VOX. IMO, voice communication is a key ingredient to passing levels. Why should i have to type to someone, and waste precious seconds, when i can press a key and talk? Its much more practical and much much more effective. Besides most of my buddies have premium, and they get priority.

When i am not hosting premium only rooms i usually host buddy only to keep people from joining and leaving, which causes lag.

I'd add you to my buddy list (but there are a million strykers) so you can join future non-premium games with me, but please understand my reasoning for not hosting non-premium rooms, its just not worth it to me. Half the time i feel like tkin the guy for screwing up the pace.

Bottom line is, I am promoting tactical gameplay. Tactics require communication. Communication made simple by the use of voice messaging. =D

05h1 wrote:Without voice (premium) coop just wouldn't be the same
indeed

very good way to treat ppl who don't have the money to afford premium, im proud of you all..... maybe that's why i haven't been playing much on my GR lately, even CS can give you voice chat without paying 50 dollars a month

plus, im not hosting my own cuz i dun have the speed.. and wow, there are other ppl hosting?? they are host at the wrong times, ppl still have to go to schoo u know, unlike u guys

Vir2L™ · Post by **Vir2L™** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:16 pm

First off...... The Macintosh platform doesnt have a free, widley used, voice communication application like the PC folk. We dont have teamspeak, ventrillo, roger wilco, etc...... we have gameranger, and that is what I use.

Secondly.... read my server rules

specificly.... read the second rule

"If you dont like the hosts decision, leave."

That applies here

I'm sorry you cant afford premium, but it's not my problem. I don't enjoy hosting games that people are running around the map with no regard to the rest of the team. And thru my observations, it has become apparent, that people that don't have voice communication tend to be the ones that are doing just that, running and gunning. I see it all the time in other servers on GameRanger. (Infact i had a session hijacked earlier tonight by a non premium, lol).

Now... like i said before, i don't host premium only rooms 100% of the time. Most of the time I host buddy only rooms cause it keeps lamers and run n gun deuchbags out of my server. I don't mind playing with people I don't know/play with regurlary, but I do prefer knowing what to expect from the people I play with regularly. So a simple method of cutting rambo type of players out of the equation, is by making buddy only/premium only rooms. Support Progression.

Like Leary said, there are other servers out there hosting AS MOD, and once again its not our problem they aren't hosting when YOU have time. You are the client, you have no say. It's the sad truth.

I dont run your average server, I dont consider it "public". Like you said I pay for premium, 50 dollars a year. I pay for quality gaming. You don't! Maybe when teamspeak is ported over we can all be on the "same playing field", but until then.... I guess we will be considered elitist.

Bottom line.... I get to choose who gets to play in my server. I kinda look at it like...... its my own private country club. =)

anyway... this thread is officially Off Topic! sry to be apart of it. lol.

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