April Steam Events: Heart of the Swarm, FTL, and a special surprise!

[Slothy]

April will soon be upon us so I'd better get this damn thread up already.

Even though it's not really a Steam game, I still just got my copy and want to play with people. So first up this month we're going to be playing:



Heart of the Swarm folks. Now I know Aulayna mentioned Saturdays not working for her. Not sure about you other SC2 playing folks. Right now I'm tentatively thinking that we'll do this on Sunday, April 7 at around 5pm EST. We could push it to a weekday before or after that if it works better for most people. I'm also always willing to jump online and play folks anytime by the way.

And that actually brings me to the surprise mentioned in the title. This being April or, as accountants like to call it, tax season, I'm going to be putting my tax refund towards something other than cocaine and hookers for once!

For this month, anyone who is able to join in for some team play in the SC2 event (and I may open this up to anyone who gets on to play a game or two with me before the second event if some people want to play but can't make it) your name will be entered into a random draw for a copy of the game FTL: Faster Than Light. I checked my Steam friends and I don't think many of you actually have it.

Which brings us to the second event as well:



A wonderful little single player strategy game that everyone should play. I'm setting this event for a Sunday as well: April 21 at 5PM EST unless there's consensus on another day working better for everyone. We'll all get on Skype and help each other out/rage at the randomness and how unfair it is that our Engie crew is forced to fight off a bunch of Mantis' that boarded our ship!

There's a prize for this one as well. Anyone who's able to make it on the day of will also be entered into a draw for a copy of the original Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition. It's another awesome game that everyone should play, and I figured what the hell? I've had a gift of it available ever since I pre-ordered Human Revolution and when the hell am I going to have any use for it?

So that's it from me for now. Discuss the events, get yourselves psyched up, or make fun of my taste in games. Have at it!

EDIT: Forgot to include my battle.net info. Anyone who's in feel free to put the particulars in here and I'll edit them into the first post here. You can just add me using my email: emperor dot gestahl at gmail dot com.

Rostum: rostum at live dot com dot au

[Skyblade]

I don't have any real set schedule, but if I can figure out how the friend list and such works, I'll be happy to let you slaughter me anytime you see me on. Just don't expect me to be good at SCII.

[Rostum]

I finally got HotS, so I can try to make it though I don't know what my plans are thus far. Just add me on BattleNet under rostum at live dot com dot au. That's on the US server though.

[Madame Adequate]

Everyone get FTL it is amazing.

[Slothy]

I don't have any real set schedule, but if I can figure out how the friend list and such works, I'll be happy to let you slaughter me anytime you see me on. Just don't expect me to be good at SCII.

The nice thing is that there are plenty of quick and easy options to play SC2 without playing against each other for anyone who isn't so into that thing or is worried about getting their ass kicked. The AI matches alone are quite a bit better than WOL since AI now use different strategies, and the matchmaking for co-op games versus the AI is actually kind of nice.

Everyone get FTL it is amazing.

It would be a crime against humanity not to agree with this. For those who'd rather just buy it than try and win a copy from me, it's on sale on Steam for $5 (regular $10) until tomorrow I believe. There aren't many better ways to spend $5, and most of them would require high class prostitutes to start competing with Steam sales.

[edczxcvbnm]

HotS? I am there and ready to lose!!

[Slothy]

So who's pumped for tomorrow? Give us all of your info so I can add you. Remember that there is a sweet game up for grabs people!

[Pike]

I don't have HotS

[Slothy]

At least you already have FTL then.

Don't worry Pike, we can play Morrowind again sometime soon.

[kotora]

How about playing some WoL?

[Slothy]

Might not be a bad idea if some WoL folks want to join in.

EDIT: Perhaps what I can do, since a few people have mentioned not having HotS yet, is do a WOL event next week and include everyone who shows up for that in the FTL draw as well.

[kotora]

Wanna play a game now Vivi?

[Slothy]

Wish I had time now. I have to get showered and dressed in about ten minutes and head out to run some errands. Add me though and I'll be happy to play some games when I'm on in the future.

[Rostum]

This event sucks, no one ever added me.

[Slothy]

Sadly no one ever actually showed up yesterday either. I'll run another event this weekend as well (times to come), but I may also simply take the names of those interested in a copy of FTL in this thread for the draw.

PS: I believe I've lined up a special guest for the FTL skype session in a couple of weeks. And by lined up I mean he told me he was in over Skype last night. I'm debating whether to tell everyone who it is or if you can all figure it out from what little I've said.