Some of us have poked nose into the typically 0 population DXMP, and discovered that there are others doing the same thing. We've stirred some activity up on forums as well and have seen up to 6 and 7 player games. Think today's peak in ATDM might've even been 8 players. Those are the players that have noticed activity, there are plenty those that would like games but don't know games are happening.
The surest and most exciting way to have some fun matches is with a Team, though, and thus I started thinking with my friends how many potential teams we have, Alpha certainly wasn't the first clan that popped to mind, but I am certain there is at least *someone* here that wouldn't mind some last action in our old game.
Since I haven't actively played for years and cannot claim to have a clan of any sort, me psycho and dani put together a quick new clan/team. We intend to keep it ca 4-5 people, so we're going to contact one-two additional players that we know don't bitch and want to have some fun.
I'd like those active in alpha or active on alpha forums to think about gathering or starting a ca 4 head team for a typical gametype. We are on the fence about bothering with some odd mod, but both 0a and ATDM are definitely on the table, any team can choose which of the gametypes they'd like to play.
To make things more fancy and memorable, we could set some kind of tournament style board up somewhere and there have been suggestions for a discord group with team channels for matches.
The general idea behind it is to have some fun, arranged matches with friends, not compare e-peen or drama. Due to lack of teams and boredom we are probably going to match phantoms group of cheaters as well, but the rest of the teams could give it some thought whether their penis really is so small that they need to hack in the last matches they didn't know they could get. That'll be on everyone's own conscience.
To make setups more similar (and easier) we can recommend kentie's latest exe and D3D10 drivers to all players, but since OpenGL gives mouse a vastly different feel, I think it is ok if some veterans can stick with that. We have no means of checking what someone is using or not using so again it would just be a guideline.
So far signed teams are:
[LAN] Law Abiding Negroes
1. Psycho
2. Me
3. Dani
4. Clix
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5. ???
The obvious clans to contact are FGS and HK, additionally we intend to announce on DXMP steam group and on FGS general forums as well as here. In the odd event that someone still uses DXMP FB group, we can announce there as well.
Preferred time window for matches would be this month, July.
Currently, as-is, FGS and Hey can hopefully provide their public servers for some private matches as well.