IN THE BEGINNING. Or, what happened to the old thread?
Not too long ago, there was a member of the Escapist who got tired of dealing with blam-tards on Xbox Live and decided to make a thread for Escapists to get together, party up, and go into the wild wastes of Xbox Live with other enlightened Escapists. This thread was the original Escapist Xbox 360 Clan. This clan prospered for a while, and mainly featured Escapists partying up and going into matchmaking or playing silly custom games. This was good, and everybody liked it.
Unfortunately, things happened and our glorious leader was crushed beneath the might Banhammer, which unfortunately also smacked into the thread, locking it in place and leaving it crippled forever. However, that is in the past and this is the present, and what's done is done and fun is fun, and we're all about fun. So I bring to you, The Escapist 360 Clan 2: Clan Harder.
Note to members of the original Escapist clan: Please follow the instructions in "How To Join". It'll make things easier for me.
How To Join
Events: I plan for us to regularly have gaming evens and gaming nights; basically notice in advance that we're all going to try and set aside some time on a certain day/night and play a whole bunch of games for as long as we can. Likewise, we'll also try to setup who will be hosting what; I'll be hosting a game of Co-op Terrorist Hunt in Rainbow Six, will Bling Cat is being our Master of Ceremonies in Left 4 Dead.
Game & Achievement Help: If you want somebody to help you partner up and take on Gears 2 on insane, or get a specific achievement(s), feel free. We've got no problem helping you get past that level you're stuck on or those co-op only achievements. Maybe we need help there too, or we've done it before and have the power of experience on our hands.
The Lists: Now with 300% more metatags!
Here are the lists of who plays what, player names sorted alphabetically within games. Seeing as I'm the only one here, they'll solely contain me. For now, anyway. It's <EscapistName> - <GamerTag>.
Chat list is at the bottom, and game/achievement help will be below that, along with a marker on that players name in whatever game they need/want help in to signify that they're looking for assistance. Likewise, there will be notes for "I'm not interested in playing competively/only co-op". Eventually. When I come up with a system.
Metatags: Metatags are gamertags that everyone adds so they can go to it, select "view friendslist" and see everyone else who is online. This makes it far easier to get parties and games together. Please, check your games of choice and add that meta-tag. If there isn't a metatag, feel free to make one.
Making Metatags
Lists
IRC: We've not got our IRC channel, #ESCP360, on Chatspike, the same wonderful folks who handle the regular #escapist channel. To learn how to connect to the channel, just head on over to here. That will teach the basics of IRC and get you into IRC and how to join channels.
Events:
Halo 3 Tournament:
We're currently planning a Halo 3 tournament. There are no details finalized, as of yet, so please drop in here or in #ESCP360 to voice your opinions. We'll take any and all opinions into consideration for gametypes, rulesets, and map choices, as well as time.
High Scores:
I'm going start a little "High Scores" table here. Basically, anyone or group of people can come and PM me their scores in Horde mode, Halo 3's meta-game, Nazi Zombies, or SR2's new meta-game, and we'll keep track of everyone's scores. For game modes with variable settings we'll keep track of not just who played and the score, but what map, what difficulty and what skulls and such they had on. Once I actually get some scores in I'll post them into the OP. Feel free to post any and all suggestions.
Ending:
If you've got any suggestions for the clan, feel free to post them here. If nobody gets back to you on them, message me. Thank you, and have fun. Remember, it's mandatory.
Wow, we've already got quite a few people joining.
It's late here and I'm going to bed, so I'll edit you all into your respective lists. Don't forget to PM your information. Also, don't forget that PMs need to have a title in order to be sent. I must have sent half a dozen of the things before I learned I that.
Halo 3 CoD 5 CoD 4 (once I get it back) BF: Bad Company Burnout Paradise Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Guitar Hero 3 and World Tour (the latter once it arrives in the mail)
Games: Gears 2 Halo 3 CoD 4 Left 4 Dead Team Fortress 2 Burnout Paradise
I have a few others, but thats all I play online (I think I was on the Far Cry 2 list in the old thread, but I don't play it online, so don't worry about making a list for it).
Left 4 dead Saints row 2 Burnout Paradise CoD 4 CoD:WaW Halo 3 (rarely) Street fighter 4 Guitar hero world tour Guitar hero 3 Rock band and maybe GTAIV
Gosh, i have far too many games for my own good. I can go for chat, too.
Also, maybe a group dedicated to left 4 dead expert runs?
The gamertag is xGBUKx BRENNAN, and I usually play Battlefield Bad Company, Left 4 Dead, Farcry 2 with encouragement, The Orange Box, Gear of War 2, Saints Row 2, and CoD:WaW(only if im in a good mood). Put me down for the chat list as well, which I'm assuming is parties?
LIVE name: Audemas Games I play: Call of Duty4/World at War Left 4 Dead Saints Row 2 (Don't have it yet but I will in about 1-2 weeks) I'll do chatting as well.
While I rarely play online, I would like to play some Saints Row 2 with people... It's the only game I play these days. I beat it a few days back, and it seems there are a bunch of MP achievements.
Gamer tag: Jaqen Hghar
I do not chat, but people are free to try :P Oh, and if anyone adds me, and they see me playing something else, feel free to invite me to something. I'll just decline if I don't want to/cannot play.
Games : COD 4 COD WAW GTA 4 Rainbow Six Vegas Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Gears 1 Gears 2 Team fortress 2 Left 4 Dead Halo 3 (rare) Guitar hero world tour Guitar hero 3 Rockband Rockband 2 BF:Bad Company
Good to see people joining. The lists have been updated with the information of everyone who has messaged me. You don't see yourself there? You wanna be there? Send me a PM with your info. Partly it's to keep everybody following the rules, partly to make it easier, and partly because I love exercising my power to make arbitrary decisions.
IN THE BEGINNING. Or, what happened to the old thread?
Not too long ago, there was a member of the Escapist who got tired of dealing with blam-tards on Xbox Live and decided to make a thread for Escapists to get together, party up, and go into the wild wastes of Xbox Live with other enlightened Escapists. This thread was the original Escapist Xbox 360 Clan. This clan prospered for a while, and mainly featured Escapists partying up and going into matchmaking or playing silly custom games. This was good, and everybody liked it.
Unfortunately, things happened and our glorious leader was crushed beneath the might Banhammer, which unfortunately also smacked into the thread, locking it in place and leaving it crippled forever. However, that is in the past and this is the present, and what's done is done and fun is fun, and we're all about fun. So I bring to you, The Escapist 360 Clan 2: Clan Harder.
Note to members of the original Escapist clan: Please follow the instructions in "How To Join". It'll make things easier for me.
How To Join
Events: I plan for us to regularly have gaming evens and gaming nights; basically notice in advance that we're all going to try and set aside some time on a certain day/night and play a whole bunch of games for as long as we can. Likewise, we'll also try to setup who will be hosting what; I'll be hosting a game of Co-op Terrorist Hunt in Rainbow Six, will Bling Cat is being our Master of Ceremonies in Left 4 Dead.
Game & Achievement Help: If you want somebody to help you partner up and take on Gears 2 on insane, or get a specific achievement(s), feel free. We've got no problem helping you get past that level you're stuck on or those co-op only achievements. Maybe we need help there too, or we've done it before and have the power of experience on our hands.
The Lists: Now with 300% more metatags!
Here are the lists of who plays what, player names sorted alphabetically within games. Seeing as I'm the only one here, they'll solely contain me. For now, anyway. It's <EscapistName> - <GamerTag>.
Chat list is at the bottom, and game/achievement help will be below that, along with a marker on that players name in whatever game they need/want help in to signify that they're looking for assistance. Likewise, there will be notes for "I'm not interested in playing competively/only co-op". Eventually. When I come up with a system.
Metatags: Metatags are gamertags that everyone adds so they can go to it, select "view friendslist" and see everyone else who is online. This makes it far easier to get parties and games together. Please, check your games of choice and add that meta-tag. If there isn't a metatag, feel free to make one.
Making Metatags
Lists
IRC:
We've not got our IRC channel, #ESCP360, on Chatspike, the same wonderful folks who handle the regular #escapist channel. To learn how to connect to the channel, just head on over to here. That will teach the basics of IRC and get you into IRC and how to join channels.
Events:
Halo 3 Tournament:
We're currently planning a Halo 3 tournament. There are no details finalized, as of yet, so please drop in here or in #ESCP360 to voice your opinions. We'll take any and all opinions into consideration for gametypes, rulesets, and map choices, as well as time.
High Scores:
I'm going start a little "High Scores" table here. Basically, anyone or group of people can come and PM me their scores in Horde mode, Halo 3's meta-game, Nazi Zombies, or SR2's new meta-game, and we'll keep track of everyone's scores. For game modes with variable settings we'll keep track of not just who played and the score, but what map, what difficulty and what skulls and such they had on. Once I actually get some scores in I'll post them into the OP. Feel free to post any and all suggestions.
Ending:
If you've got any suggestions for the clan, feel free to post them here. If nobody gets back to you on them, message me. Thank you, and have fun. Remember, it's mandatory.