{"id":3500,"date":"2009-05-29T16:53:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T20:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3500"},"modified":"2009-05-29T16:53:44","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T20:53:44","slug":"twenty-sided-server-novelty-rounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3500","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Sided Server: Novelty rounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday night I jumped onto the server<\/a> and found everyone running around bare-handed, killing each other with taunts. (I did not know this. Apparently certain taunts are instant kills if you can walk up to an enemy and get them to hold still long enough to pull it off. The downside being you have to be close, you’re rooted in place while taunting, and the animation takes a few seconds.) Seeing twenty four people all agree to set aside the established gameplay and run around operating under an impromptu rule set was pretty impressive. The results were hilarious, and I’m confident that such a thing would be impossible on a vast majority of existing servers. <\/p>\n

They also did a round where everyone chose the heavy weapons guy class, and did the round using nothing but fists. Citizenparker was good enough to get some screengrabs of the event:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22871999@N02\/sets\/72157618889278414\/<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

Thanks to everyone for being so much fun to play with. Thanks also to everyone who donated<\/a>. (Next month is 2\/3 paid for already. Like I said, no sweat if you don’t give, just make sure you log in and say hi. And let me set you on fire.)<\/p>\n

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Open thread. Perhaps tell us about your most epic moment on the server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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