Café Weekend - Round 1: Quake 2

The first event organized by the Café members after almost a month since launch of The Café, completed successfully! We launched our own Quake 2 server, everybody was invited to have fun on it, and on September 27, 20:00 UTC time we all got online to eat pizza (like there was time for that, lol), drink beverages, have fun, and definitely make a mess. Literally, I logged in hours after the event ended and I was greeted by the corpses and limbs of everybody who had the misfortune of being on the receiving end of a rocket launcher. We played the q2dm1 map for almost two hours, using various Yamagi Q2 clients, Fruitz of Dojo, GoG and Steam releases, etc, on both modern and retro hardware (I heard there were people playing on PowerPC machines, but their secret is safe with me).

To be honest I was expecting about 5 people on it (do people really know what Quake is nowadays?), but I was blown away by the participation, 28 people came online at various times during the deathmatch, to say hi and frag with us, with a peak of 21 people online at one time. We even managed to crash the server twice, once after about an hour of carnage and mayhem and another time near the end of the deathmatch.

I hope everybody had fun, including the beginners, who did an EXCELLENT job of holding out against way more experienced players and their fancy rocket jumps and railgunning.

The winner and all the Café participants got their new and shiny badges to certify their accomplishments, and hopefully a night to remember. And thank you Andrei for the excellent promo image and the badge design!

We have plans for doing this Café event monthly (with different games, as long as they are multiplayer) and we’re gathering suggestions for the next game. If you’re not already a member of The Café, you don’t even know what you’re losing.

Rectify that error on your part, and send me an e-mail with one reason why you should have a Café invite.

I’ll end this article with one of the speeches from Babylon 5, the Battle of the Line speech. Fans will know.

We continue to broadcast our surrender and a plea for mercy. They have not responded. We can therefore only conclude that we stand at the twilight of the human race.

In order to buy more time for our evacuation transports to leave Earth, we ask for the support of every ship capable of fighting to take part in a last defense of our homeworld. We will not lie to you. We do not believe that survival is a possibility. We believe that anyone who joins this battle, will never come home. But, for every ten minutes, we can delay the military advance, several hundred more civilians may have a chance to escape to neutral territory. Though Earth may fall, the human race must have a chance to continue elsewhere.

No greater sacrifice has ever been asked of people but I ask you now, to step forward one last time, one last battle to hold the line against the night.

May God go with you all.

Thank you everybody, and see you next game!

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