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[nelly]

be interesting if nothing else!!

When we played UT, one of the lads set up a server for just that. Beyond me but maybe one of the IT techies could sort it????

now that would be FUN

[JPM]

Myself and Antony had a good, if not brief blast last night, I feel I need some more practise though, was a bit hectic for me, maybe I'm too used to onslaught in UT2004.

XFIRE worked in the sense that we could talk to each other and organise a server etc, I even wandered off into a CS match, and was still getting messages from Antony even though he wasn't playing.

I'm up for another stint tonight....

What other games have people got loaded? currently I have Doom3, HL2, and UT2004

[antonye]

We were playing on a "closed" server last night which belongs to a colleague. It's a proper gaming server and we will have access to it when they don't need it for tournament stuff.

But beware that they may drop in at any time and they're pretty handy!

[Harv748]

Blimey Ant...all sounds a bit serious to me

So...and excuse my ignorance here...but say I open Xfire, and then open HL2 deathmatch...does Xfire then disapear or what...do you still use Xfire whilst playing HL or just before it to organise things?

Because...you have to open HL2 to determine a server...but how do you communicate then????

awwwww...my'ed hurts!

[Harv748]

...as for current games...Doom 3, far cry (this would be fanbloodytastic online...must look into that), HL2, joint operations, and a few others.

[Edited on 8-12-2004 by Harv748]

[JPM]

Originally posted by Harv748
Blimey Ant...all sounds a bit serious to me

So...and excuse my ignorance here...but say I open Xfire, and then open HL2 deathmatch...does Xfire then disapear or what...do you still use Xfire whilst playing HL or just before it to organise things?

Because...you have to open HL2 to determine a server...but how do you communicate then????

awwwww...my'ed hurts!

I'm no expert and we only really tinkered for a few minutes, looks like xfire "should" let you all join the same server, and will keep track of friends and where they are playing, but I don't think HL2DM is fully sorted yet.

You leave xfire running, like steam, and off you go, like I said, I was getting popups (well not quite) off Antony whilst I was in a CS game

[antonye]

According to the xfire guide (you did read it, didn't you?!) you can send messages while in-game by using the (default) "SCROLL LOCK + X" key combination (note that you can change this in the xfire options should you wish).

It didn't seem to be working 100% like the documentation from what I could see, but at least we ended up on the same server!

I should be on tonight...

[antonye]

Good news everyone!

Next time you run xfire it should auto-update and now supports HL2DM in game

[JPM]

Cool might see you in a few mins then.....