Lan Party

OOok cool... 😀 Got a decent Anti-Virus... Free of course not... but who will know 8)

Vlade wrote:

Cool... so who all will be joining?

Very unfortunatley somethings come up so I won't be able to make it 🙁

Damn it, I wanted to meet some guys from the club, but oh well next time hopefully!

Johan make sure your son teaches these guys how to drive 😂

WarrenS13 wrote:

Vlade wrote:

Cool... so who all will be joining?

Very unfortunatley somethings come up so I won't be able to make it 🙁

Damn it, I wanted to meet some guys from the club, but oh well next time hopefully!

Johan make sure your son teaches these guys how to drive 😂

Same...might change again tho

PMed everybody that confirmed with the directions. 😉

johansx wrote:

I've only got 2 spare network cables, please bring if you have. We should probably worry about anti-virus software as well. I run Windows only for games in a closed lan environment, so no anti-virus on my pc's. Any free downloadable recommendations?

Cables, desks, switches, multi adapters, fridge etc. all organized 😉

Try comodo anti virus and firewall. They are available as separate products with free registration. I know the firewall is very good but I'm not sure about the anti-virus. Seems better than nothing!

Spybot s&d is also good if you surf the net a lot. I guess that counts for most of us here 😉

Vlade/Chemcool can u add this event to the cell app? We will leave Shell Ultra City on N1 north by 10:30. If you are gonna be late, phone me and let me know. My number is on the cell app.

Toby wrote:

Vlade/Chemcool can u add this event to the cell app? We will leave Shell Ultra City on N1 north by 10:30. If you are gonna be late, phone me and let me know. My number is on the cell app.

Enjoy guys. Caver is taking my car to go & knock some scoobies around with a wet trout at their dyno day.

I might still pitch up later though..

Ew man thats gross!

Window, I don't get the point of that pic?

Thanks Johansx for an awesome gaming experience! Vlade and I rocked up at Johan's house at about 11am. Nismo200sx joined us a little later. Johansx had a nice setup at his place - lots of desk space and power points, even coffee 🙂 All we had to do was set up our rigs and plug into the router. Vlade and I had a few practice runs of GTR2 before we all setup Need For Speed UG2. Our first proper 4-player game started at about 1pm (see what I mean about taking forever to setup?)

We played lots and lots of NFSUG2, including circuits, drags, and outruns. We all had our victories, although it seemed Nismo200sx had the edge initially, and Vlade once he finally managed to load up his personal profile of fast cars. Johansx showed some serious N4S skills too with his insanely fast Sentra. I got lucky a few times 🙂

And then we loaded up GTR2. Track racing is really awesome and we had loads of fun practicing and then racing each other. Due to the amount of time I spend playing this game, I won all the games 🙂 The other guys were new to the game but improved very quickly, getting to within 2 seconds of my lap times. Nismo200sx managed this while playing with the keyboard! Respect 🙂

Eventually we decided it was time to eat, so we fired up the braai at around 5pm. While that was happening, we watched an Option DVD on Johan's projector, and packed up our rigs. We ate, chatted a bit, and eventually left his place at around 6:15pm.

Thanks again Johan for hosting the event! We'll be doing this again and I hope more people can join us next time 🙂 Johan, please post the pics when you get a chance...

Sorry it took so long to post the pics. After the guys left on Saturday, we had some friends over till late. Sunday morning all day out for a 4x4 meeting, got back home, internet slow, timing out on every page.

Thanks everybody, it was really nice to play. Learned some new tricks. Hope we can repeat this soon.

Some pictures ....

Great, great. look like you all enjoyed. Nice pics. The sx club from strength to strength. :200sx_rockon:

Yeah it was very nice... Next time you all must come its great fun!

Go practice some GTR2!

GTR2.... how do I get the Ferraris and Lambos not to understeer so much... prefer my NFSU2. My 5 year old son commented just now that the cars in GTR2 is very slow... 😂 😂 😂 He wants something with a NOZ button. 😮 🙄 😉

Using the brakes reduces understeer 🙂

Toby wrote:

Using the brakes reduces understeer 🙂

hmmm...i will only be able to start playing games once i sort out my pc. at least that is going to start happening this week.

i don't hear anything about results from the lan. did you guys just play co-op all night?! did fred's laaitjie whip any1?

😛

and who is that chick? that ugly one!

Toby wrote:

Using the brakes reduces understeer 🙂

Yip, but if you try to accelerate out of a sweeping corner under power, you simply push the front wheels off the road... With traction control low or off, it is 100% uncontrolable, I find this strange. Will play around with the suspension setup. Did at least manage to get the rear view mirror working... 😉 😂 😂 😂

widowmaker wrote:

and who is that chick? that ugly one!

That'd be me 😀 Glad you think I'm an ugly chick and not a hot one.. hehehe

Trick of GTR is... slow in fast out... well any track racing that is...

Rather try going into the corners slower than usual then gradually go faster...

Also like Tobles said look for a braking zone, check where the track becomes darker, that is where you should be braking... also GTR is sensitive to throttle and braking response you can't slam brakes and floor it 😀

BTW: using the 575 GTC I improved my lap times massively, on most tracks I'm about 1 Sec off the lap record, normally I didn't even come close.