So after work this past Friday I trucked myself up to Urbana for an all-night LAN party. And I do mean all-night: Got there around 5:30pm and packed up at 6am. Since I figured out a way to connect us wirelessly from the basement to the host's router, we could get out to the internet. My thinking was just to enable Xfire connectivity, but as there were maybe only 7 of us there it was raised that we could just hop on BF2 ranked servers and verbally coordinate as a squad. And therein started the best night of gaming.
In one night, I played for six and a half hours actual gametime on ranked servers. I accumulated 575 points, including a new best round for me, 142 on the Karkand map, to go up a new rank from Staff Sergeant to Gunnery Sergeant. I earned two new badges (Veteran Engineer Combat and Veteran Support Combat, awesome) and five new ribbons: Armored Service (I've been trying for ages to get that one), Far East Service and Mid-East Service, Valorous Unit, and finally Good Conduct (which requires a round with no team damage or kills, been kinda hard for me to attain).
When we were all on the same side, we would squad up and SWAMP the other side. Other times, the single round went on for over an hour. Good times. I readily accept the sleep disruption which threw my whole weekend off, and got me to work late today (woke up with a migraine, but the meds and extra sleep got me well enough to make it in).
You can see my new stats here, and where some of the other partiers are at now (though many on here didn't make it to the party, and I don't know the usernames of the others offhand...)
It seriously rocked. 'Nuff said.
In one night, I played for six and a half hours actual gametime on ranked servers. I accumulated 575 points, including a new best round for me, 142 on the Karkand map, to go up a new rank from Staff Sergeant to Gunnery Sergeant. I earned two new badges (Veteran Engineer Combat and Veteran Support Combat, awesome) and five new ribbons: Armored Service (I've been trying for ages to get that one), Far East Service and Mid-East Service, Valorous Unit, and finally Good Conduct (which requires a round with no team damage or kills, been kinda hard for me to attain).
When we were all on the same side, we would squad up and SWAMP the other side. Other times, the single round went on for over an hour. Good times. I readily accept the sleep disruption which threw my whole weekend off, and got me to work late today (woke up with a migraine, but the meds and extra sleep got me well enough to make it in).
You can see my new stats here, and where some of the other partiers are at now (though many on here didn't make it to the party, and I don't know the usernames of the others offhand...)
It seriously rocked. 'Nuff said.
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