NETWAR 16.0 IS THIS WEEKEND!!!

–Event Details–

NETWAR 16.0 will take place at The Digz Sports Arena in Omaha, Nebraska on Friday November 7th, 2008 starting at 7:00pm and going all day and night for 26 hours straight, ending on Saturday November 8th at 9:00pm.

PLEASE DO NOT COME EARLY! The event doors open at 7:00pm on Friday, no exceptions!!

You may arrive at anytime during the event and leave whenever you wish.

A large selection of food will be available for purchase from the kitchen for the entire event. Pepsi and Coke products, including Mt. Dew, will be available for purchase at the event.

YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BRING FOOD OR DRINK INTO THE VENUE. I cannot stress this enough, this is not our rule. The venue staff will evict you from the premises for breaking this rule. You are welcomed to leave and grab food and drink from somewhere else, just don’t bring it back inside with you.

–Registration–

If you have registered and you find out that you are not going to be able to make it to the event, PLEASE UNREGISTER on the web site!

If you have not yet signed up for NETWAR 16.0, IT IS NOT TOO LATE! DO IT NOW!

For directions to the event, please visit the event details page and click on directions.

Registration for NETWAR 17.0 is now open! The event will take place April 10-11th, 2009 at The Digz. You can register for the next event by clicking on Upcoming Events on the web site.

–Waiver–

If you have not signed a NETWAR waiver before you will need to. Please visit our site, print it off, sign it, and bring it with you to the event. If you are under the age of 18, please print the waiver and have your parents/guardian sign it and then bring that waiver with you to the event.

— Loading / Unloading Computer At The Event—

Please park in the large south parking lot. When you are loading/unloading your computer you may park next to the door. After you have completed unloading, please MOVE YOUR CAR!! to a spot farther away so that other attendees can have an easy time getting their computers in/out just like you did.

Please use the southwest doors to enter the building, they will be marked. PLEASE WATCH YOUR STEP!! THE ENTRANCE HAS A STEP at the door that you MAY NOT SEE when carrying your computer!

When you get to the event, you may come right inside and bring in your computer and put it where you want to sit. Sometime soon come to the registration table and get yourself checked in and paid ($20 if registered on the web site). We will enter you into the raffle drawing and give you a lanyard. The lanyard must be worn at all times. This proves that you have paid the entry fee.

Here is a list of items you will need to bring to our LAN party:

1. Computer Tower (or notebook computer)
2. Monitor
3. Category 5 Network Cable (15 Feet or Longer)
4. Power cable for monitor
5. Power cable for computer
6. 6 Outlet Power Strip
7. Headset
8. Keyboard
9. Mouse
10. Mouse Pad
11. Software (Games of course!)
13. Optional: Your favorite desk chair
14. Optional: Sleeping bag and pillow if you need to sleep.

System Check List Before Attending:

1. Scan your computer for Viruses with Trendmicro Housecall or other software before attending! We don’t want what you might have on our network.
http://housecall.trendmicro.com

2. Scan computer for Malware with Ad-Aware and/or Spybot-S&D before attending!
Ad-Aware – http://www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot-S&D – http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

3. All windows updates installed. (Important! If you do not want to catch a virus at the event)
4. Anti-Virus software installed and updated.
5. Installed all games you wish to play.
6. Patched all games you installed to their latest version

–Tournaments–

Instead of doing Double or Single elimination tournaments we will be using the Swiss Round Robin System for all of the tournaments. The Swiss tournament system has NO ELMINIATION, it will allow all participants/teams to be able to play in every tournament round of the tournament no matter how good or bad you are doing.

For more information about Swiss Round Tournament go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_system_tournament

Tournament Games:
Call of Duty 4 – 5 vs. 5
Counter-Strike: Source – 5 vs. 5
Team Fortress 2 – 6 vs. 6
Guitar Hero World Tour

Please be aware that tournament participation is completely OPTIONAL, you can choose which tournaments you want to play in or you can choose not to play in any tournaments. We cater for both the competitive gamer and the hobbyist gamer who just enjoys playing his favorite games with many other gamers just for fun while winning big door prizes. With so many gamers at the event you will easily be able to find someone else who enjoys playing the games you do.

If you wish to participate in tournaments while at the event but you are not part of any team, you can easily join a PUG (Pick-Up Game) team or join a shorthanded team. We will help you with this during registration for the tournament at the event.

— Suggested Game Period —

This will be a period of time listed on the schedule where we select one game and urge everyone to play this game on the many game servers that we will have running during that time. The purpose of this is to get as many players at the event playing the same game at the same time. It is not required that you play the suggested game, as the name states, it is only suggested. This is not a tournament; you can join and quit the game at any time.

–Prizes–

To make the prize distribution fair and make the tournament atmosphere less tense, we have decided to shift all prizes to raffle only. This will allow anyone to win something no matter what skill level you have as well as bring the fun back into the tournaments. Tournament winners will be awarded with a trophy, some prize or swag and bragging rights. Then you can win large prizes in the raffle.

— Sponsors —

This is a list of sponsors supporting NETWAR, for a list of what they are donating please visit the event details section of our web site. We are excited at the amount of prizes we will be giving away for this event. You would have to be crazy not to attend!

Cox Communications
FSP Group
D-Link
Computer Power User
Computer Geeks
University of Nebraska at Omaha – IS&T
TRENDnet
UGO Game News

For more information about sponsors, prizes, tournaments, directions to the venue, and the schedule for the event please visit our website, click on event details. While you are there you can get yourself registered.

Feel free to sign in to our forums to post about tournaments, teams, upcoming game releases, and pretty much anything else that sparks your interest. Don’t forget about our IRC channel and Ventrilo server as well.

Web Site: http://www.netwar.org

Jason

Jason

First, the graphics are superb. The lighting, texture and shading is so realistic I could practically feel the sand blowing into my face and hear the crack of the bullets flying at me. The scent of burnt cartridge primer filled my nostrils. Incredible visuals in this game, from the facial animations to the flames of burning cars.

Level design was challenging and somewhat linear. This isn’t a negative, it kept the action moving nicely and there’s no danger of getting “lost” like in many First Person Shooters. The AI is extremely intelligent and actually fights to live.

The story was not really new, but well done and portrayed with good dialogue and voice acting. A few of the cutscenes are shown from the view of a non-playable perspective, such as the deposed leader of a Middle Eastern country who is on his way to his…um…you’ll see.

The only thing I didn’t like was that the game was short. I mean REALLY short. For $49.99 you’d think the game would last longer than 5-7 hours, depending on how fast you burn through it. There’s plenty of replayability in Multi-Player but the single player seemed like it was over in a blink. The plus side of this is that you don’t feel bogged down in FPS mechanics. The game progresses fast and doesn’t have you running around trying to find keycards or stacking crates to get through an air vent.

BUY THIS GAME! You’ll not be disappointed.

Jason

It’s a great event. I went to the last event held in the spring and it was a blast. A lot of the attendee’s slept in sleeping bags on the floor.

Read more info here! Twenty-six hours of gaming carnage.

The history of the American football is filled with surprises and astonishing moment. It’s filled with the nail biting moments as well as thrilling slogans. One of these matches was the one between kansas city chiefs which is the most aggressive team and the defending champs the miami dolphins. The Kansas had won four of their last five games against teams that played in the previous season’s super bowl. Some interesting facts about minnesota vikings, vikings defensive backs coach Darren Perry signed a contract with the Chargers in 1999 but never played with the team due to a neck injury. One of the famous teams is new england patriots, nicknamed the “Pats” by sports writers and fans, are a professional American football team based in Fox borough.

Jason

Not even sure what the point is, since the instructions are in Japanese.

Take a look at this.

Jason

Jason

This game is probably the best true role playing games I’ve played in years. The game play was excellent, the sound exceptional, the characters believable and the story, though traditional, well told. There’s exceptional moments in the game, many plot twists and good D&D fighting action.

My only complaint was that the game lagged, even on high-end systems. Mine isn’t very high-end but it still ran well for the most part.

I recommend NWN2 to anyone who likes RPGs on the PC. It’s easy to pick up and start playing. I’m actually going to play the game again as an evil type of character. Your own actions and influence determine how the story ends…literally.

Ty and I are now spending time playing with the toolset. The toolset allows anyone with the game to create content to play and share with others. On my main page (http://www.likertland.com) I’ve created a link for NWN2 where I’ll post scripts, screenshots and any modules I may create — depending on the file size.)

Excellent game and well worth the 60+ hours I’ve played it.

Jason

So once more I started World Of Warcraft again a few months ago. I played on and off and got really into it. Then realized that I wanted to quit for the same reasons I did before. I found myself playing less and less.  Let me list some of my reasons.

• No individuality — Everyone has my stuff
• No real development — Sure, you can differentiate but you’re all clones of a prototype
• Cartoonish Graphics — An appeal to some people, but to me I want some reality
• No exploration — Sure it’s cool to get into a new area but it all feels the same, even with weather
• Instances — I’m almost an enemy of them. They don’t help the community as a whole
• Boredom — I burn myself out and realize that I don’t like it for the same reasons
• Guild CRAP — Everyone has it, unfortunately.

What do I want in a game I’m paying to play…

• I want to explore
• I want to be an individual, as much as possible
• Exploring new areas and killing new mobs
• Realistic graphics. Doesn’t need to be doom, but elves don’t need 24″ ears
• Less Instances — Please, keep the community alive
• Good guild management tools

• Is that too much to ask? I’m waiting for Vanguard: Saga Of Heroes… Until then, Guild Wars: Nightfall.

Jason

But now I’ve been ambushed by Company of Heroes (CoH). CoH is one of the best real-time strategy games I’ve played since Battle For Middle-Earth and it’s sequel. CoH isn’t like most other strategy games. Resource management is almost nil and you spend most of your time managing your troops and planning your tactics.

The game begins on D-Day in 1944. Your lead the men of Able Company onto Omaha Beach on Normandy and have to rush them up the beach to the “shingle.” This is no easy feat in itself as you’ll have to dodge mortar fire and MG42 machine gun fire from the many pillboxes and bunkers that line the beach. Absolute. Beautiful. Carnage.

If you’re looking for an awesome real-time strategy game I recommend taking a look at Company of Heroes.