[snorbawod]

AVF Noobs Has hit the big 100 member mark.

Massive thanks for the contributions!!

UPDATE

Originally Posted by Markwww673

Will be playing COD4 from 8pm this Sunday.

Lets see if we can fill the room 17 spots available.

Mark..

I think the usual crowd will be on playing MM (Mike Myers) and other matches on COD4/COD WAW.

Looking at the polls, it seems Monday & Thursday evening are winning at the moment.

We now know that this is the place to organise all our online gaming.

I will update this first post on a regular basis with: Meets, Games, Dates etc.

Courtesy of Munkey Boy:

Right, how do we get this to work then. I've been thinking, and have a couple of ideas. We're all new to this, or don't game 24/7, so I think the first thing is to keep it simple, but unfortunately it can be a bit mystifying, so an explanation of invites & parties is needed. A few lines in the first post from snorbawod will go a long way to ensure people know what to expect from AVF Noobs. Feel free to use the below, if you think it's useful:

The best way for people to use the tag is a 2 step process:

Step One - Joining someone else's game

- If you turn your Xbox on and have a craving for some online action, bring up your friends list, scroll down to AVF Noobs, move right and look at the friends list on the tag ("View Friends").

- See if anyone is playing a game you'd like to play online - if so send them a message with the text "?" (copyright kopchoir ). The person recieving the ? knows that the person sending the message wants an invite, and will do so if they can (ie. if the game they are in isn't full).

- If you receive a "?" message and there's room for someone else to join, wait until the next convenient moment (and you're out of matchmaking for Halo 3/GoW2) and view the profile of who you want to invite and select "Invite to game".

Step Two - Setting up your own game

- If no-one on the tag is playing what you want to play, it's time to set up your own game. Start the game up, start a lobby up, bring up your friends list, go to AVF Noobs, View Friends and then invite *everyone who is online*.

- Let's be straight about this, the reason you have AVF Noobs on your friends list is because you want to play online. That said, you should never mind getting an invite, nor feel you have to accept one you receive. All an invite is is notification someone has started a new game lobby - don't feel you have to provide an explantion to the person who has sent the invite (unless you want to of course), they are merely notifying you.

- Soon enough, wait a few minutes, and you'll have people in your lobby. It can be intimidating to talk I know, but don't feel you have to, but remember we're all noobs together here, no-one's going to diss you for not being good enough or not knowing what you're doing. It adds *alot* to a game where people chat.

So there you go, those are the general principles of how to use the tag.

NXE Parties

- One extra feature that was added with the update was parties. This allows up to 8 people to be grouped together to chat and allow easy group invites to games. Parties are best used if you have something pre-arranged, if you know who you're going to be meeting with and are planning perhaps to play more than one game. You don't even need to be in the same game.

- If you're in a game and are planning on leaving to play something else, and someone else wants to come with you, start a NXE party, and invite everyone that's coming with you. Start the new game (the quick launch option in the guide is very useful especially for Arcade games) then as soon as you've set up the multiplayer lobby, select "Invite party to game" from your guide. Bingo, everyone in the party receives an invite.

- One thing to remember about NXE parties is chat - you can select either game chat or party chat. If you're playing with people on your team who aren't in your party, it's not good form to not chat to them, so switch to game chat instead.

Games Nights

I would suggest certain nights are certain game nights. This will provoke interest, keep a night focused and attract people who have a certain game to be online that night. Say Monday is GoW2 night, Thursday Left 4 Dead, Sunday FIFA 09... That kind of thing. I leave it to everyone to see if these should be regular nights or one offs.

My thoughts:

I agree with having specific game nights, but i also agree with leeb about having just a 'games night'. So, we could have something like:

Monday - GOW2
Tuesday - Games Night (just join up with who's playing the same game)
Wednesday - Games Night (start a party and decide while in party)
Thursday - COD4/COD5 (TDM, MM, COOP ETC)
Friday - Left For Dead (For Munkey Boy)

Weekend to be decided.

This would give a bit of scope for the sporty games? You could maybe have something like FPS night or Sport night?

This could obviously be changed as new games are released. We could keep this updated in the first post and also let noobs know who the party starters are?

[tapzilla2k]

Sounds like a good solid plan. I'm a bit nervous about playing multiplayer games online, though i used to have fun getting shot to pieces by my friend in Goldeneye on the N64.

[alanrob]

Originally Posted by tapzilla2k

Sounds like a good solid plan. I'm a bit nervous about playing multiplayer games online, though i used to have fun getting shot to pieces by my friend in Goldeneye on the N64.

Had my 360 for a few months now and this is by far the best part of the 360. Playing online is such fun

Haven't joined any of the AVF clans as all the times they meet up to play I'm either in bed or at work (work shifts!) I prefer just joining in with any game that's going on.

[pilgrimchris]

Sounds like a great laugh

What other games are AVF Noobs playing regularly? Fifa09 and Call of Duty 5 I guess will be my main games over the next few months.

[markwww673]

Up for COD4,COD5,Gears 1 & 2,RB6V2 & Fifa 09, PGR3 & 4

Mark..

[welly]

Hi guys i have been chatting with snorbwod and i think he is aiming to get a few games of cod4 and maybe gow2 going on thursday night. It should be a god laugh as me and snorbwod/gismond are both rubbish and always get killed really easy against the pro's. So if we get a load of noobs playing it should be better for everyone

[Tetlee]

Originally Posted by welly

Hi guys i have been chatting with snorbwod and i think he is aiming to get a few games of cod4 and maybe gow2 going on thursday night. It should be a god laugh as me and snorbwod/gismond are both rubbish and always get killed really easy against the pro's. So if we get a load of noobs playing it should be better for everyone

Well my copy of GoW2 is due to be delivered tomorrow so would be well up for a noob session on that(must be the only GoW2 noob left by now). Is in Buenos Aires now so just hope customs don't take an interest in the package and it makes it's way here for tomorrows ETA.

Shame I no longer own CoD4, got sick of getting pwned on it by every man and his dog

[dermy]

Up for this to, COD 4 and GOW2, also FIFA09, and PRG4. Late Friday night is my main gaming night though. Only on for an hour or so weekdays.

[welly]

I will pm snorbwod later and sort out times and what games.

I have only played cod4 / cod5 games online, i haven't gone online with gow2 yet. I am pants at most games.

How many people interested in playing tomorrow night??(thursday)

What time is best??

I think it will be either cod4 or gow2

[leeb]

Hi Guys,

Definitely up for any noob GoW2 action Thursday evening (and most evenings). I'm almost always online around 7-9pm so please invite me!

That's one heck of a Gow2 journey there Tetlee!

[snorbawod]

Thanks for the responses all.

We'll try and play as many different games as we possibly can.

As GOW2 has only just come out, thought we could kick off the sessions with this tomorrow night.

We'll start at around 7.30 and play for as long as we can. I propose a few groups (if there's that many of us online) of five? This will be ideal as the co-op mode is 2-5 players. I'll host a session as i have a 20mb connection. Feel free to join my session and you can come and go as you please. If we do get a good turnout i'd appreciate it if someone else would host as well.

If there are loads of us noobs online and people want to organise other online games, just send some invites out.

I'm sure once we've dabbled in a few games and introduced ourselves we'll have a riot.

Please feel free to organise other nights/days for our sessions.

See some of you tomorrow night.

[sparkrite]

Not got GOW2 , but hope to join in on future nights...Good Luck

[snorbawod]

Originally Posted by pilgrimchris

Sounds like a great laugh

What other games are AVF Noobs playing regularly? Fifa09 and Call of Duty 5 I guess will be my main games over the next few months.

Don't worry pilgrimchris i'm sure a lot of us will get COD5.

[welly]

Originally Posted by sparkrite

Not got GOW2 , but hope to join in on future nights...Good Luck

Hi what games do you have??

[snorbawod]

Originally Posted by sparkrite

Not got GOW2 , but hope to join in on future nights...Good Luck

As welly said, let us know what games you have and i'm sure we'll sort something out soon.

[sparkrite]

Hi fella's , only got TW 09, pgr4 and burnout paradise at the mo.
Looking to get RB2 next week and toying with either Cod(4 or 5) or gow2..any opinions on these?
Cheers , Mike

[snorbawod]

Originally Posted by sparkrite

Hi fella's , only got TW 09, pgr4 and burnout paradise at the mo.
Looking to get RB2 next week and toying with either Cod(4 or 5) or gow2..any opinions on these?
Cheers , Mike

COD4 is excellent and it's a great game online. Well worth the purchase imho. COD5 i'm not too sure about yet, but i do believe there is going to be co-op on this one. You can also unlock the zombies when you complete the single player campaign. I'll be buying it for sure. Ooops forgot about GOW1 & GOW2 - get them as well.

[welly]

Originally Posted by sparkrite

Hi fella's , only got TW 09, pgr4 and burnout paradise at the mo.
Looking to get RB2 next week and toying with either Cod(4 or 5) or gow2..any opinions on these?
Cheers , Mike

The cod games i would recommend they are great fun, and just got gow2 game and its brill aswell. Not much help am i. I would say get them all

[sparkrite]

Originally Posted by welly

The cod games i would recommend they are great fun, and just got gow2 game and its brill aswell. Not much help am i. I would say get them all

erm , no help at all and any chance of a loan and an excuse for the other half

[snorbawod]

Apologies to all that expected me online.

I'm having an absolute nightmare My profiles have been corrupted from when i recovered them on to my elite! I recoverd the AVF noobs tag and sent the messages out, but when i tried to recover my own gamertag (gismoid) it has all gone pete!! keeps logging me in and out and giving me strange messages! Anyone experienced this when they recover gamertags?

I'm trying to get back on as we speak, but not having much joy. I Can' believe it!! New i should have played on the other machine.

[snorbawod]

Originally Posted by snorbawod

Apologies to all that expected me online.

I'm having an absolute nightmare My profiles have been corrupted from when i recovered them on to my elite! I recoverd the AVF noobs tag and sent the messages out, but when i tried to recover my own gamertag (gismoid) it has all gone pete!! keeps logging me in and out and giving me strange messages! Anyone experienced this when they recover gamertags?

I'm trying to get back on as we speak, but not having much joy. I Can' believe it!! New i should have played on the other machine.

I think i've sorted it out now??? While recovering my gamertag for the 3rd time my xbox 360 froze! I left it for while before i decided to launch it into outer space!! It was losing it's connection to live, thus not retrieving my profile correctly. I rebooted my modem/router and fiddled a bit and finally got it back up and running.

Hope to be back for the sessions next week.

Hope some of you managed to do some GOW2 coop??

[Munkey Boy]

Nightmare, snorbawod. No idea what's causing your problems, but all I'd suggest is keep trying to recover your profile. I had fun on Horde tonight (hope some of the others did too) despite me dieing a bit too often - I think I need to play it safe a bit more. Look forward to cracking on another time soon though, I should be on Friday, I think.

[tapzilla2k]

I had a lot of fun playing Horde, i think you lasted a bit more than i did Munkey Boy I think we need to get a bit more tatical instead of all running around like headless chickens
Hopefully next time i can stick around a bit longer, and i will try to find my xbox live headset (i have 2 floating around somewhere in the house).

[leeb]

Yep, had a good blast on horde with you guys. It was my first time online with a mic (just bought the X1s) so glad you could hear me ok! Sorry about your problems Snorbawod, hope it's all sorted for you.

I should be around the same kind of time today if you all fancy getting past level 10 on horde. I think as well we can then, over the coming days, try some of the other modes using bots as the enemy so we can all work together (tactics could be useful ) before we then get brave and split up into opposing sides.

[markwww673]

Up for Horde got to get to level 50 somehow.

Mark..

[thariq]

Sounds like some good fun, I put the noo in noob for GOW and GOW 2 , up for some cod5 and cod4 action as well !

[Munkey Boy]

Originally Posted by tapzilla2k

I had a lot of fun playing Horde, i think you lasted a bit more than i did Munkey Boy I think we need to get a bit more tatical instead of all running around like headless chickens
Hopefully next time i can stick around a bit longer, and i will try to find my xbox live headset (i have 2 floating around somewhere in the house).

Indeed, sticking together definitely helps as you can revive. Think we need to hole up somewhere and cover the entrances.

Originally Posted by markwww673

Up for Horde got to get to level 50 somehow.

Mark..

50 I'd be happy with 10 on last nights performance!

[dwhite]

Just convinced the wife to get me GoW2 for xmas, shes out shopping for it right now. Looks like I missed out on all the fun.

Hopefully I can convince her I need to 'check' the disc is working before she decides to send it to santa.

Never played GoW, so I casually mentioned she could maybe pick that up as well. Will anybody be playing GoW now 2 is out?

Is there any other games I should be getting for online. CoD4 looks like a must or will that be superceded by CoD5.

[snorbawod]

Originally Posted by dwhite

Just convinced the wife to get me GoW2 for xmas, shes out shopping for it right now. Looks like I missed out on all the fun.

Hopefully I can convince her I need to 'check' the disc is working before she decides to send it to santa.

Never played GoW, so I casually mentioned she could maybe pick that up as well. Will anybody be playing GoW now 2 is out?

Is there any other games I should be getting for online. CoD4 looks like a must or will that be superceded by CoD5.

COD4 will never be superceded imo as it's a different era. COD4 is an excellent game and great fun online. Only received my copy COD5 today, so yet to have an opinion. I'm sure we'll try a lot of different games now the noob tag has been created.

[Tetlee]

Well I did receive my GoW2 yesterday, unforunately it arrived late afternoon just as we had to head out and by time we got back I'd clearly missed you lot. Will be on for next time now though.

I received a right good pasting online last night, must get some single player practice today to get the hang of these weapons, they're so different!