University of Bristol Computer Gaming Society

Dystopia Gaming Night

March 29, 2011 | Posted in Events,Gaming Night, Tagged

Our next gaming night will be Dystopia, a cyberpunk-themed Orange Box mod featuring hackers, the cyber-police and at least two guns which shoot lightning. We’ll be kicking off at around 8:00PM on Thursday the 31st and we will be on the replacement mumble server (shut.up.phippen.info) for voice chat.

If you don’t have the game, click here to get it installed, and if you’ve any issues with getting it up and running then find us in the IRC.

Elections & PIZZA!

March 19, 2011 | Posted in Uncategorized, Tagged

***** PIZZA *****

See current orders here.
Make new Pizza orders here

***** /PIZZA *****

Election results:
President – Ragzouken
Vice-President – Tayters (defeats Vert, carrierII)
Secretary – Ymbirtt (defeats Symphona)
Treasurer – 2kah
Webmaster – WildFire (defeats Xomena)
Servermaster – Jakexks
Ents rep – Symphona (defeats Vert, McG, Beetle, Lukeus_Maximus)

CL6 (AGM)

March 14, 2011 | Posted in Events,LAN Timetable, Tagged

Timetable

10:00 – HL2: Deathmatch

11:00 – Plain Sight

12:00 – AGM

14:00 - Counter Strike: Source (check COGSBay thread for cheaper copies of CS:S)

15:30 – RTS and Co-op – Organise by shout-out your own RTS and Co-op games e.g Supreme Commander, Age of Empires II, MagickaKilling FloorAlien Swarm

18:30 – Lead and Gold

19:30~ (After pizza) - Unreal Tournament 2004 Assault Racing (Serverside mod)

20:30 - CS:S Zombie Mod (Mod is entirely server-side) / Take Me Out on ITV (No likely, no bitey)

22:00 – LAN End

If there’s a game you want to play then please ask, the committee are happy to organise new games! As always, there will be consoling all day!

AGM

We hope to keep the AGM as short as half an hour, but have timetabled it an hour and a half before lunchtime just in-case. At the time of writing only one motion has been put forward, a constitutional clean-up asked for by the Union VP-Activities which should hopefully require little discussion. Most committee positions are uncontested, so put on your coolface and expect trolling!

Pizza Orders

The traditional big pizza order will, of course, be happening, Wyrm is the man to shout at if you need help, but a blog post will be up by noon on the day with any and all information needed!

Spring Updates

March 7, 2011 | Posted in IRC Bot,News,Website, Tagged

Here’s a list of the updates to our various sites & services:

  1. Our forums and home page have had a re-skin – for a while we’ve wanted to make an attempt to change things so that there’s less of a disconnect between the two portals.
  2. IRC statistics have been updated and can be found at the usual place
  3. A new COGSBot feature, !scratch has been added. If you often find yourself connecting to IRC from different machines and are fed up of losing or emailing yourself links to webpages, this may be of interest to you. As long as you are identified with NickServ you can use “!scratch message” to save your own personal list of stuff. You can retrieve this scratchpad (as long as you’re identified) anywhere by typing !scratchpad
  4. A !committee trigger has been added to COGSBot, which allows you to attract the attention of a committee member if you need to bring something to our attention, e.g. we got the date for an event wrong. Or you found our cash box. Or whatever..
  5. We’ve handed a nice ergonomic keyboard to COGSBot, as the demands on typing are high these days. Hopefully this is going to help cut down on those spelling mistakes that have been cropping up.

Feedback on any & all of the above is most welcome. Feel free to get in touch with us on the forums or IRC.

-WiFi

Team Fortress 2 PC Gaming Night

March 7, 2011 | Posted in Events,Gaming Night, Tagged

TF2 seems to have fallen out of popularity in COGS, but the updates keep rolling; so now is your chance to see what new gear, mounts, and raids hats, weapons, and maps have been added. Yes, this fortnight’s gaming night we will be playing Team Fortress 2!

  • Time: Thursday 10th of March 8PM
  • Game: Team Fortress 2
  • Help: Ask in IRC. If you need help with IRC either ask in IRC, or consult the guide
  • Chat: Voice chat to everyone on the night on mumble.

For any additional information or discussion, see the forum post.