Ground Control II board

[hammer326 Profile]

Hello,

I understand this would be the place to file a request for a GC2 forum category/board? my friends and I all play avidly and I'm serious about resurrecting the multiplayer community thereof, and doing so alongside any of you fine crayven or dawnies would be awesome. It seems Massgate has been taken down at least at the current point in time, which leaves us.

I'd appreciate if the admins could see what they could do.

Thanks guys! GC forever!

[ninja_prime Profile]

This forum is really only for Ground Control, there were issues with GC2 OE that changed the gameplay and dynamics of the original game, which left a lot of players disappointed. IMHO GC is more suited to pure tactics and instant action, where as GC2 OE, was more suited and attempted to cater for the other RTS players out there, I think it was Massive trying to go more main stream.
But I would welcome a GC2 community as its still set in the GC universe and hopefully we can get more players playing both games.
BTW Welcome to Gcvets.

[hammer326 Profile]

[ninja_prime Profile]

Hey I have no control what really goes on here, you'd need to ask one of the administrators. With regards to GC 2, I like the game and to be honest it never really lived up to all the hype that was built up for it. I do not want to see any game die, especially GC2. In fact I have done a few maps for GC2 and I still play around with the Xed editor from time to time.
It's down to the powers that be on this site if they want a GC2 forum.....

[Sarvik Profile]

[Satch Profile]

I'd suggest setting up your own forum and IRC channel for your friends to idle in — although the value in that depends on how many friends you have playing regularly. Most people here cannot see past their personal opinions on the game, and therefore won't be of much help to you.

Best of luck.

[hammer326 Profile]

[Satch Profile]

If CM is around he will make a sub forum for you, as you said, there's no real reason not to — I was just giving you a heads up that the majority of people here don't even have GC2 installed and there's very little discussion about the game, so I'm not sure you would gain much initially from having a sub forum here.

The reason I suggested an IRC channel is that when growing a community and attempting to arrange matches when you don't have many people, real-time means of communication is generally more useful than a forum.

[hammer326 Profile]

A fair point. We congregate on gameranger anyway since to my knowledge, the game's official multiplayer is no longer active anyway. GR is fine as a social platform- friends list, chat rooms, game lobby, the works.

Also, small secret- playing GC2 and ANY game on GR is not technically internet multiplayer, so you can share copies of the game as my friend and I did. It's also part of the big sale on gog.com for a mere $6. The Co-op campaign we really enjoy, I invite anyone who hasn't given the game a go to snag a copy and roll with us, easily as much fun as the first game.

[Sarvik Profile]