Any day is a TTLG coop day! (was: TTLG coop Saturdays)

[Thirith]

Thanks to henke and Malf for a fun session of crime and stunt racing - even if the game screwed with me at the beginning by leaving me stuck in a solo session and making it incredibly hard to join them in a session, feeling like the most boring season of Fringe.

As I've mentioned, I'm not around the next two Saturdays, but the Steam and Rockstar groups are free to use for members. I'll be back on Saturday, 1 October. Till then: don't get run over!

[Thirith]

I'm back, and I've got a hankering for milsim manshootery. Anyone up for it? (And there may even be some helicopter racing for when you're tired of dying at the hands of AI that are preternaturally good shots.)

Date: Saturday, 1 October
Time: 4-6pm UK time
Game: Arma 2/Operation Arrowhead

Things to note:

• Bring a headset! We are using Teamspeak 3 to communicate in the game.
• While we're not using any compulsory mods, client-side quality-of-life mods like sthud are allowed.
• Anyone's welcome to join, absolute beginners as well as old hands. Since Arma is a bit fickle, perhaps check out the instructions on the Steam group first or send me a PM.

I'll be online a bit before 4pm to set up the server and check who's on Steam. Hoping to see you there!

[PigLick]

I will be up for a try, just hope I dont fall asleep again!

[henke]

Alas, I won't be around. Have fun tho!

[Thirith]

Boo! Hiss! Enjoy your Saturday!

[Thirith]

Thanks to Malf and Al_B for a fun session of Arma, death and fatal helicopter accidents. That heli mission of mine isn't quite working as it should yet, but I've made a few changes to the scripts, so it's ready to not work in entirely different ways next time. Mwahahaha!

I've scheduled a GTA session for next week; hope to see many of you there and die alongside you all over again!

[Thirith]

New GTA DLC (Bikers!), new GTA session. Anyone up for getting beaten up by your mates - all in good fun, I'm sure?

Date: Saturday, 8 October
Time: 4-6pm UK time
Game: GTA V

Things to note:

• I'll start an invite-only session. If you're not a friend on the Rockstar Social Club and/or part of the ThruTheLookingGlass crew, I can't invite you.
• Anyone who's joined the session can invite others. Feel free to bring friends and people from other crews! The more people there are, the more game modes are possible and fun.
• If I see anyone from my friends list joining, I'll drop them an invite. If I don't, send me a message - ideally via Steam, since the R*SC message system is shit.
• Ideally bring a headset! Note that depending on your settings you might only hear voice chat from friends and crew members. Especially if others join, you may want to change your settings temporarily.

Please note that due to the new DLC, it's best to launch the game a bit beforehand - unless you're among the unwashed, auto-updating masses.

I'll be online a bit before 4pm to see if any of the Steam TTLG group members are around. Hoping to see you there!

[Thirith]

Fun session with Al_B, henke and Jeshibu. Fun, that is, except for the times when Rockstar's shitty netcode screwed us over. Still, some good crime and manshootery! Thanks to everyone, as always.

Next week there'll probably be an Arma session. I'll post more once it's certain.

[faetal]

I only just got home, sorry I missed it!

[Al_B]

Thanks for hosting the session, Thirith. Even though my driving sucked and I ended up getting shot an embarrassing number of times it was highly entertaining.

[Thirith]

No worries. It's important to note that at a lower level you also have fewer HP (I think) and can definitely not buy the heavy body armour yet, so you die more easily.

[faetal]

Don't worry Al, you can't be any worse than me.

[Thirith]

faetal, you should really join us for one of the Arma sessions, so you've got a whole other game to be bad at!* Anything planned for next Saturday?

(*Not that you're actually bad at GTA, faetal.)


Date: Saturday, 15 October
Time: 4-6pm UK time
Game: Arma 2/Operation Arrowhead

Things to note:

• Bring a headset! We are using Teamspeak 3 to communicate in the game.
• While we're not using any compulsory mods, client-side quality-of-life mods like sthud are allowed.
• Anyone's welcome to join, absolute beginners as well as old hands. Since Arma is a bit fickle, perhaps check out the instructions on the Steam group first or send me a PM.

I'll be online a bit before 4pm to set up the server and check who's on Steam. Hoping to see you there!

[PigLick]

maybe this time i wont fall asleep (yeh right)
stupid time zones

[Thirith]

Fingers crossed, PigLick.

[PigLick]

I'm an old man, what can I say?

[Thirith]

How's that for an international session: we had people from Finland, Holland, the UK, Switzerland and Australia getting shot up in Takistan. Thanks to everyone who joined in, even if none of the missions were victorious. Well, one of them would've been, but the game didn't correctly register the base being blown up (together with henke and PigLick). In my books, we won.

Next week'll be GTA Online again, and then we'll probably have another Arma session in two weeks' time. Till then!

[PigLick]

Was a good time, even though I had no idea what the hell was going on! Well, mostly

[Thirith]

In honour of the recent Red Dead Redemption reveal, let's meet up in Los Santos, head up north to the more desert-like parts and run around while making clippity-clop sounds. Who's in?

Date: Saturday, 22 October
Time: 4-6pm UK time
Game: GTA V

Things to note:

• I'll start an invite-only session. If you're not a friend on the Rockstar Social Club and/or part of the ThruTheLookingGlass crew, I can't invite you.
• Anyone who's joined the session can invite others. Feel free to bring friends and people from other crews! The more people there are, the more game modes are possible and fun.
• If I see anyone from my friends list joining, I'll drop them an invite. If I don't, send me a message - ideally via Steam, since the R*SC message system is shit.
• Ideally bring a headset! Note that depending on your settings you might only hear voice chat from friends and crew members. Especially if others join, you may want to change your settings temporarily.

I'll be online a bit before 4pm to see if any of the Steam TTLG group members are around. Hoping to see you there!

[Thirith]

Thanks to henke & Malf for a fun session. For a change we also ended up playing some of the new(ish) adversarial modes, and with four people (we had a silent random person join us) they're pretty cool and make for a nice change. Also, even after 1 1/2 years I still find Los Santos breathtakingly beautiful at times. Very much looking forward to whatever world Rockstar'll bring us next.

Up next week: Arma 2. Already got some ideas for missions we could play...

[henke]

A tale of helicopters and shipping containers, from last night's session.

[Pyrian]

"Nobody has more respect for women than I do." *runs her over three times*

[Thirith]

Don't tell me henke used the take where I ended up running under his wheels three times!

Anyway, it was a great session, and I always enjoy watching henke's video on a big TV - even if I don't always come away looking great.

[Thirith]

And it's time to schedule the next session. Bring your Cold War lunchboxes!

Date: Saturday, 29 October
Time: 4-6pm UK time
Game: Arma 2/Operation Arrowhead

Things to note:

• Bring a headset! We are using Teamspeak 3 to communicate in the game.
• While we're not using any compulsory mods, client-side quality-of-life mods like sthud are allowed.
• Anyone's welcome to join, absolute beginners as well as old hands. Since Arma is a bit fickle, perhaps check out the instructions on the Steam group first or send me a PM.

I'll be online a bit before 4pm to set up the server and check who's on Steam. Hoping to see you there!

[Mr.Duck]

Welp, for what is worth, ol'ducky-poo is back on Steam with a new sexy rig, ready for some co-op action! Though I live on the other side of the pond in Mapletown (i.e. Canada). But Hell, if I was able to play and finish a game in co-op with bob_doe_nz and Sulphur (3 different time-zones), I think we can manage. Woooooo!