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IShallRiseAgain posted:There are also hilarious RP servers that require you to pay real money for the ability to spawn props, and jumping is disabled. I bet those guys make a decent amount of money from morons who are willing to actually play on those servers. Then there's the servers where everything is ran by votes, which is pretty much game-over when you've got some friends to play with. Me and some pals found some 1942 occupation RP server on Gmod, it sounded terrible so we got on there hoping to annoy people and found out it's a lot more funny than it should be. Basically, since everyone votes no against each other for anything (Hoping they'll take the role instead), we were able to take over all the high positions in the German military simply voting yes when we saw another's vote thing pop up. Pretty soon I had Kommandant, another friend was the SS commander, two were the Gestapo and the last was the actual Fuhrer. Since there were enough of us to shoot down demotion votes and other "You're playing better than me" votes we had the server locked down. It was entertaining going around shaking down store-owners and "suspicious" characters, who'd sometimes refuse to pay our ridiculously high taxes and instantly be met with a Fuhrer announcement calling them an enemy of the state, followed by us or the army sending them straight to jail where they'd whine for however long they got stuck for. Then on top of that, there was a resistance faction you can play as too, who were all really bad at hiding their identities and playing in general. They probably came up with most of the demotion votes, all because we'd have someone say they heard people discussing <illegal thing>, then raid the hell out of them and cart them all off to jail. Weapons were also illegal if you weren't in the military, so we'd end up finding someone standing in a shady place with a gun out, beat them down and send them off, which again usually had them whining in out-of-character chat. After a while they all pretty much stopped trying or they resorted to open warfare in the street, which they always lost either because it was literal children who couldn't aim or because it was our 16 or so Germans to their handful of guys. To make it all better, just about every other time we'd arrest someone whether for legitimate or made-up crimes, they'd start wailing about how they were gonna call the admin and get us banned. The admin never came. 
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Pope Guilty posted:What do the Wushu devs think of the Goons? Anything? The GMs held an event a while back where they bountied themselves for 500 Liang and ran around a city so constable players (pay 5 Liang, capture bounties, bounty-ee goes to kung-fu prison) could make some cash. Goons, having none of this, marshaled an army to play Protect the President. Any GM in danger of dying to the mob of pubbies was darted down by non-constable Goons so they avoided going to jail. The GMs started spawning in the middle of our raid and had a good laugh with us at the expense of the ineffectual whiners. We did gently caress up a few times and found ourselves a few Ding (ding = gold > liang = silver > wen = copper for a WoW comparison) richer.
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Shumagorath posted:From the first CoD onward a lot of the game has been knowing which pixel to aim you grenade at when the round starts. Glad to see that's still in there with id tech 3. Black Ops 2 disables explosives and lethal killstreaks for the first few seconds of a map or round to stop that from happening.
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Pope Guilty posted:What do the Wushu devs think of the Goons? Anything? Aside from the earlier stories where we escorted GMs that were kill targets for an event, I don't think there's been any real "Hey, good job assholes" or anything.
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Yardbomb posted:GMod RP I always wanted to get into RP servers because I had nothing better to do because I was a teenager. The problem is that no one ever wants to RP, they just want to be the guy.
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The only time I've ever spent on GMod RP servers was a couple days where I talked myself into the Hitman/Assassin position on one server and then was just really effective about it, since your typical RP player doesn't have a gun on them. Surprisingly effective at getting someone mad. At which point I actually listened to a conversation on that server and got the gently caress out.
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Yardbomb posted:Then there's the servers where everything is ran by votes, which is pretty much game-over when you've got some friends to play with. Wait. So they were complaining about abuse of power, when you were literally playing as Hitler?
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ponzicar posted:Wait. So they were complaining about abuse of power, when you were literally playing as Hitler? Yep, I was commander of the Wehrmacht, my friend was commander for the SS, another friend was literally Hitler and the last two had both the Gestapo positions, which look like regular citizens or resistance members, which made arresting people easy as hell.
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Guuuys, Hitler's being mean to me!
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Dauntasa posted:Guuuys, Hitler's being mean to me! Somebody get Mike Godwin on the phone already. He ought to know someone has discovered the complete bizarro-land opposite of his law.
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Yardbomb posted:
Honestly, why does this game exist? I've never heard anything about it that doesn't sound mind-fuckingly awful.
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JohnSherman posted:Honestly, why does this game exist? I've never heard anything about it that doesn't sound mind-fuckingly awful. I always considered it a software package for making youtube videos.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBsdWW7MOew You can actually make some pretty funny poo poo in it. That thing is HORRIFYINGLY creepy.
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JohnSherman posted:Honestly, why does this game exist? I've never heard anything about it that doesn't sound mind-fuckingly awful. It was a free HL2 mod that let you build and write whatever you wanted as a completely unfettered fuckaround game. There's tons of game modes, a lot of which are both very tiny and very dumb - mostly because of the communities that sprung up around the tiny dumb game modes.
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JohnSherman posted:Honestly, why does this game exist? I've never heard anything about it that doesn't sound mind-fuckingly awful. The awfulness is what makes it fun most of the time. That and a lot of the playerbase is incredibly spergy, so you can make people super mad by doing something as simple as playing better than them or other mundane things.
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The core game is basically a big sandbox. Apparently it's also pretty easy to mod. So you get a lot of these games that are barely held together, with incomplete rules, and small insular communities. You end up with poorly documented games, that require some house rules to really be playable, so since the official way doesn't really work, everyone has a set of behaviors that they feel is the "right" way to play. It doesn't help that a lot of gmod games really do require you to "play along." A lot of them work on concepts that can't really be enforced automatically, so you wind up with either overzealous admins, or rabid player bases.
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JohnSherman posted:Honestly, why does this game exist? I've never heard anything about it that doesn't sound mind-fuckingly awful. It's basically a sandbox game that gives you a number of tools to play around with Source Engine/Havok physics. Other people have made/are making additional tools which let you do other things. You can make working pinball machines, air hockey, approximate the actual mechanics of a gun, make cars, mechs and planes of varying complexity; all kinds of stuff. The problem is that doing any of that requires a fair bit of knowledge. Doing any of that well requires even more knowledge and a lot of time to calibrate everything. So you can do that, or you can hop on a server and act like a retard.
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JohnSherman posted:Honestly, why does this game exist? I've never heard anything about it that doesn't sound mind-fuckingly awful. Assuming that you mean GMod itself and not GMod RP specifically, well, where would you have even heard about the good stuff before now? Allow me to introduce you to Elevator: Source. The most realistic interactive elevator simu-xperience that has ever been created. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CPhGsUPVJw Right click is check watch, left click is cough (short cooldown), and middle click is smack (long cooldown).
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JohnSherman posted:Honestly, why does this game exist? I've never heard anything about it that doesn't sound mind-fuckingly awful. Actually building stuff is great, it's a postmodern minecraft where you can create the most insane poo poo like self driving cars made out of frozen G-Men or explosive barrel rockets.
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Pope Guilty posted:What do the Wushu devs think of the Goons? Anything? They're well aware of all the poo poo goons get up to simply because of the number of forum threads and complaints they get about us but they either don't care enough or are okay with it. The only time I've seen a goon get in trouble is when he made a joke about a 'Final Solution'. Griefing and even outright scamming pubbies seems to be a-okay.
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JohnSherman posted:Honestly, why does this game exist? I've never heard anything about it that doesn't sound mind-fuckingly awful. A lot of it is actually pretty good, if rather out dated these days! But the majority of the player base is now 14 year olds, with all the downsides that implies. Does make it a hoot to gently caress with people, though, so long as you mute your sound.
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Kegslayer posted:They're well aware of all the poo poo goons get up to simply because of the number of forum threads and complaints they get about us but they either don't care enough or are okay with it. The only time I've seen a goon get in trouble is when he made a joke about a 'Final Solution'. Griefing and even outright scamming pubbies seems to be a-okay. I got an infraction for using a second account to try to stir up some trouble in a viet thread, so apparently they pay surprisingly close attention to people's IP addresses on the forums. They probably pay less attention in game though.
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Chalks posted:I got an infraction for using a second account to try to stir up some trouble in a viet thread, so apparently they pay surprisingly close attention to people's IP addresses on the forums. They probably pay less attention in game though. That's a god drat miracle because gently caress if the in-game GM's seem to give a poo poo about actually policing their game. Oh and tonight we managed to piss off literally every single member of the Vietnamese bloc by using the handful of skills that forcibly yank the target back a few meters to pull people off bridges while said people were trying to attend an event that determines who gets to play puppet-leader and distribute a handful of e-honorabru useless items among the various factions in the game. I kid you not a fight so big the client couldn't handle rendering all the participants broke out outside the graveyard in the most populated city in the game with us and our allies while a crack squad of 420MLG commandos tried to burn down our base outside of the hours that actually let you do damage to said base all because we're not content to let a group of people who are willing to literally crash people's clients to get what they want run the server at their own whims. Say what you want about Wushu goons but at least we play within the foundries of the game itself and don't resort to actual exploiting and code fuckery to enact our will. SomniumObmutum fucked around with this message at 10:29 on Apr 15, 2013 |
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Yardbomb posted:Me and some pals found some 1942 occupation RP server on Gmod, it sounded terrible so we got on there hoping to literally become nazis This story is just so god drat incredible, I can't even believe it. I wish I had enough friends willing to do poo poo like this with me, but not enough of them own Gmod or anything 
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Slappy Moose posted:This story is just so god drat incredible, I can't even believe it. I wish I had enough friends willing to do poo poo like this with me, but not enough of them own Gmod or anything We need a Goon Gmod group. Either that or one already exists and I missed it.
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That'd be pretty great, you can do some loving amazing gimmicks with a dozen people coordinating over Mumble.
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YellerBill posted:We need a Goon Gmod group. Either that or one already exists and I missed it. One does exist. Garry's Goons. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/GG
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Garry's Goons was a lot of fun back in the day. Even if it did require you to learn about SVN and spend several minutes downloading things.
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Cojawfee posted:Garry's Goons was a lot of fun back in the day. Even if it did require you to learn about SVN and spend several minutes downloading things. SVN wasn't that hard to learn, you just had to remember to do the initial checkout in its own folder then copy it over the GMod folder, then you could do SVN updates directly from the GMod folder later.
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computer parts posted:My favorite part of Martyrdom is remembering how hyped everyone was for it when they revealed it as one of the perks in COD4. Martyrdom on the map with all the shipping containers when said map was overfull was the most hilarious thing. Because as soon as one person is winning with it, everyone slots it, and holy poo poo. You'd get situations where you'd spawn in, die to someone's martyrdom, which would in turn let you blow up someone else, and so on. Just an endless parade of grenades thudding.
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Red_Mage posted:Martyrdom on the map with all the shipping containers when said map was overfull was the most hilarious thing. Because as soon as one person is winning with it, everyone slots it, and holy poo poo. You'd get situations where you'd spawn in, die to someone's martyrdom, which would in turn let you blow up someone else, and so on. Just an endless parade of grenades thudding. I always did the 3 grenades perk as well so it'd be a shmorgasborg of grenades. I think it let you take martyrdom too so it was pretty disgusting. By the time I had thrown my last nade I was generally dead.
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Oh hey, Gmod discussion. I'm pretty sure everyone's seen this, but for the few that haven't, it's still the best infomercial I've ever seen done in Gmod. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifgggspJ7jM RIP Billy Mays. 
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Here's some more Gmod fuckery. This is less griefing and more freaking out people with flash mobs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSSS9-ertOw
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Elth posted:Here's some more Gmod fuckery. This is genuinely terrifying.
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Elth posted:Here's some more Gmod fuckery.  That was loving awesome.
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For anyone who has been keeping up with garrysmod, is 13 good/stable yet? We could probably get a griefsquad together pretty quickly if setup just involved subscribing to a few modpacks on the workshop as opposed to setting up subversion.
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13's pretty stable. Some addons still cause super lag/crashes but it's better than it was.
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Elth posted:Here's some more Gmod fuckery. That was great. I love when they're all crouch walking in a single direction. If you saw one or two people doing that you'd just ignore it but 20 or so and it turns eerie.
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bucketmouse posted:For anyone who has been keeping up with garrysmod, is 13 good/stable yet? We could probably get a griefsquad together pretty quickly if setup just involved subscribing to a few modpacks on the workshop as opposed to setting up subversion. Trouble in Terrorist Town or Death Run would probably be a good place to start with that.
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