{"id":17,"date":"2007-03-19T11:22:15","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T17:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetucker.com\/mwp\/?p=17"},"modified":"2007-03-19T11:22:15","modified_gmt":"2007-03-19T17:22:15","slug":"3-vs-2-vs-2-vs-2-vs-2-vs-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/3-vs-2-vs-2-vs-2-vs-2-vs-1-17","title":{"rendered":"3 vs 2 vs 2 vs 2 vs 2 vs 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most everybody ditched on Wayne&#8217;s LAN party last weekend, most with notice&#8211;which is absolutely fine&#8211;but some with none at all. Sure, it was just a BYOPC geek party, but Wayne spent weeks planning and setting up, and disappearing without so much as a simple &#8220;can&#8217;t make it&#8221; email is just lame.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress big time.<\/p>\n<p>We had 5 people at our peak, which put us firmly in the mini-party bracket. Still a ton of fun, of course, but gameplay is a bit different with a smaller crowd.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Far Cry:<br \/>\nCTF maps were a bit large for both 2 vs 2 and 2 vs 3 action, but both were certainly doable. With uneven teams, it seemed more balanced with 2 defending and 3 attacking. Deathmatch maps were about right, though, and weren&#8217;t nearly as crazy as they are with 12 or more goons running around with pigstickers and autopoppers in hand. They also gave me a chance to do more boat jumps and 360 spins and whatnot at a time before gettin&#8217; blowed away.<\/li>\n<li>Call of Duty:<br \/>\nWe were evenly matched at 2 on 2 for this game, so everything was fairly balanced. Search and destroy matches were a bit too quick, but behind enemy lines maps were perfect. Well, the gameplay was, at least, but there was seldom any place to hole up in the maps we chose.<\/li>\n<li>Enemy Territory:<br \/>\nNobody seems to like having to actually team up and solve objectives at LAN parties. Bunch of schmucks.<\/li>\n<li>F.E.A.R. Combat:<br \/>\nWe were trying to run this one 2 vs 1, but gameplay was abysmal at best. Big maps and lots of ridiculous one-shot-kill weapons make it impossible for the lone man to do anything, including getting anywhere near the good guns. Deathmatch would probably have been much better.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to straighten out my basement to such a degree that I can host another one at my place soon. It&#8217;s been nearly three years since my last shindig, and I&#8217;m definitely looking forward to attending a party to which I don&#8217;t have to lug all my heavy crap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most everybody ditched on Wayne&#8217;s LAN party last weekend, most with notice&#8211;which is absolutely fine&#8211;but some with none at all. Sure, it was just a BYOPC geek party, but Wayne spent weeks planning and setting up, and disappearing without so much as a simple &#8220;can&#8217;t make it&#8221; email is just lame. But I digress big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}