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Firefight Friday (Beta!)
Posted By: FyreWulff <mkidder@gmail.com>Date: 1/29/10 3:24 a.m.


Sup dudes, I've started another site since Burn My Minutes is currently stuck in limbo. This one is already up and running, though!

I call it Firefight Friday. You can view it here. Basically, each Friday I plan to post a new challenge. People play Firefight games according to the restrictions, then submit the game links. Think of it as like Scorehero, but with guns. And no drama.

The overall competition aspect is via divisions, which are determined completely by geography. This is a fast way to decide who's going to team up, and also keep latency down.

Currently there's four divisions:

Plus the unpictured Division Europe. Other divisions will be added shortly.

But it's not just simple scoring runs. The twist to Firefight Friday is that restrictions will imposed. I may prohibit Rockets, or allow use of only your starting weapons, or ban the Warthog on Lost Platoon with Cowbell on.

Current the two time limits possible under the system are One Round and One Set. One Set will be used sparingly and only for higher difficulties - I want people to be able to do this challenge runs in <20 minutes for the most part so they don't feel like grinds.

All you have to do is click 'register' and sign up, which should drop you right back at the Firefight app. Then you can start submitting scores.

The first challenge I'm presenting to HBO is available in two difficulties:

Night Court - Easy Difficulty
Night Court - Heroic Difficulty

Submissions are open until the following Thursday night. In the near future the challenges will be able to turn themselves off..

Please reply with feedback or via email. A lot of the initial rough edges were worked off, but I'd like to hear bug reports, feature requests, or just questions in general. Or get together with your group and send me some challenges.

The site shouldn't be in beta too long, I plan to get it all prettied up and finished before too long.

If you want to read my original post on this, here you go, explains my train of thought of coming up with this site:

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showpost.php?p=12875928&postcount=1905

(one notable change from that original post is that I'm not globally banning wraith glitching, but I still have the option of restricting it out of challenges)


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Replies:

Firefight Friday (Beta!)FyreWulff 1/29/10 3:24 a.m.
     Where's Australiasia? *NM*Wildcard Tim 1/29/10 6:05 a.m.
           Re: Where's Australiasia?FyreWulff 1/29/10 6:53 a.m.
                 Re: Where's Australiasia?Wildcard Tim 1/29/10 6:57 a.m.
                       Re: Where's Australiasia?FyreWulff 1/29/10 8:00 a.m.
           Re: Where's Australiasia?FyreWulff 2/2/10 8:02 a.m.



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