That said, plenty of usual gamer shenanigans occurred. Everyone came together in a geeky harmony for that 31 hours nobody antagonized each other about their setups. What was refreshing was that nobody, to my knowledge, argued about PCs and consoles. The bottom line is that he gets a crispy 60fps in any game out there on the market and has room for plenty of them.
#LAN GAMES LIKE DARK SOULS PC#
I am a PC gamer myself, but even I had to ask him later in person to clarify about half of what he said. His rig sported Intel i5 7600k overclocked to 4.3GHZ with 16GB DDR4 3200MHZ RAM, with a EVGA GTX 1080. When I interviewed Jon Anoten as he was playing "Borderland" Co-op with Tim Schremp, he seamlessly spouted off every piece of his PC. Others were happy to gush about their rig’s specs. He said that the last time he went to the LAN Party, he stayed up so late that he said “I was so dead that I wanted to die.” Through the entirety of the interview, he tore up using Reaper. He says that he is glad for the Mercy changes as he thinks Overwatch has been getting stale lately. He is excited for her new Valkyrie ultimate ability that gives a damage boost. I lost my ground due to their cunning skills with the bow and they completely stomped me.īraeden Mcdougall on "Overwatch": He recently took up Mercy as his new main. My opponent and I went head to head for a long time, though we probably died just as much from slipping off a cliff as we did to each other. Respawns are quick, so no matter how hard you kill each other they will still be hot on your tail. One shot, one kill with not only a sword but daggers, bows, and hand to hand brawling. The game plays like football, except instead of getting touchdown you try to jump into a Nidhogg to be eaten, and instead of running a ball in you run a sword through the other player and then book it to the end. I jumped into "Nidhogg 2" not knowing what the hell a Nidhogg was, or why there were apparently two of them.
One person whose first name was the only thing I caught –Carter –was more than happy to let people play games with them on their PS4. Yet most of the games I took part in were on people's’ personal gaming rigs. Hits on these were "Smash", "Guitar Hero", and "Rockband 4". I was in luck because there were plenty of consoles set up for everyone to use. I didn’t bring anything because my PC is a baby that will be cradled in my room until the summer, and my laptop is garbage that can barely run ten year old games. Within the hour, people were playing things like "Overwatch", "Super Smash Brothers", "Dark Souls", Borderlands, "American Truck Simulator", "LoL", "Nidhogg 2" and "Tekken 7", to name a few. Things started heating up as the doors opened up to the general public at 5pm. Props to volunteers like him that made the LAN Party possible.
RStudio may not be fun and glamourous but it was a necessary evil to overcome as he spent most of his weekend setting up, tearing down, and staying up the first night until 9am. Nick Bushway set up his laptop and second monitor and then proceeded to work on stats homework for a couple hours.
Beyond setup, not everyone had obstacles getting into game in the same way. There were enough outlets and ethernet cables to go around, but the closest thing to a technical problem that I ever saw was that two RSVP’ers sitting next to each other discovered after a lot of confusion that one of their television remotes controlled both of their screen.
They (about eight or so) spread out across five rows of tables and started setting up. The projector for "Dance Dance Revolution" was still being set up as RSVP’ers starting showing up at 4pm. A whopping 31 hours, Fall 2017’s LAN Party put on by the Computer Science Club featured wall to wall entertainment. While the LAN Party may not be the first kind of party that came to mind, it sure set the bar high. By Michael Small, A&E Editor originally published in Issue 1, Volume 30 of The University Register on Friday, September 21, 2017Īnother school year means more parties.