Montana Fragfest

MSU Hivemind LAN Party November 6

Proximity — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:23:46 +0000

Hey all, the Montana State University student group MSU Hivemind will be putting on a LAN party November 6th at 7pm in the Strand Union Building’s Ballroom A. Check out all their LAN party dates this year and always remember that you should never be guilty of LAN Party N0-Nos (I hope to blog about a new list of No-Nos soon, so stay tuned).

Beer Fortress 2 moved to 9pm MST

Proximity — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:05:54 +0000

In order to help people remember what time our events start, I’ve moved Beer Fortress 2 to start every Thursday night at 9:00pm MST. That means you just need to remember ONE time and two days of the week!

See you on!

The Soldier/Demoman friendship

Proximity — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:12:38 +0000

Valve has posted up a funny little comic on their blog. The comic details the torrid friendship of the blue soldier and the red demoman. The “friendship ends tomorrow”, so I guess we’ll get to see the rest then. I wouldn’t be surprised to see some kind of update announcement tomorrow, so keep your eyes peeled.

MSU Hivemind LAN THIS SATURDAY!!!OMG!1!

Proximity — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:27:15 +0000

Hey all there will be an MSU Hivemind LAN Party this Saturday (October 3rd) in Ballroom A of the Strand Union Building on the Montana State University campus in Bozeman, Montana. Entrance to the LAN party is FREE and they are always fun. If you are looking for a LAN parties in the state of Montana, these guys put on some of the best.

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Live in Montana? Play Madden 10? Join our Online Franchise

Proximity — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:00:34 +0000

If you live in Montana and want to join a large online franchise for Madden 10 (on the Xbox 360) check out this Facebook page, join the group and call your team. We want this to be as big of a franchise as we can get so be sure to join up if you play Madden 10 or at least tell your friends about it if they play Madden 10.

I’ll be writing up a Madden 10 review soon, so keep posted!

TF2 Classless Update Goes Live

Proximity — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:34:43 +0000

The Classless Update for TF2 went live last night. With the update going live the latest new is a new capture the flag version of Sawmill! Hop over to the update webpage to see the full changeset.

Hop on the Montana Fragfest TF2 Server and try out the update ASAP!

I haven’t had a chance to play it yet, because my bastard of an internet service provider Bresnan tripped on it’s own feet last night. Let us know what you think about the update in the comments!

Classless Update – Day 2: ‘King of the Hill” Game Type

Proximity — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:34:50 +0000

Valves latest update has announced a new game type: King of the Hill.

With that new game type comes 3 new maps: Viaduct, Nucleus, and Sawmill. Both Nucleus and Sawmill are reinvisionings of existing maps, but Viaduct looks fun as hell as it takes place during a snow storm!

Valve Announces “The Classless Update”

Proximity — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:36:28 +0000

The TF2 team at Valve is back at it, announcing “The Classless Update“. The first day showing us some new hats being released, and a new arena map (does anyone even play arena anymore?).

Check out Day 1 and report back your thoughts.

Battlefield 1943 Review

Proximity — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:00:45 +0000

Well I’ll be honest, I never really got into Battlefield 1942 or Desert Combat, but MAN did I love Battlefield 2. It was my World of Warcraft. I’ve never had more friends playing a single game at a single time, and I loved it. I was often the squad leader, and we would ROLL other teams. When I heard about Battlefield 1943 being release my excitement was tempered because of Battlefield Heroes, but let’s hop into the game and see how it goes.

The Good

The game is fun. It has all the classic elements of Battlefield combat: land, sea, and air vehicles mashed in with a large ground-based capture the flag maps. Another huge plus is that the game is only $15. I think that this is a great step in the right direction. I hope it sends a message to game publishers that you can publish a game that might not look the best or be game of the year but if it’s fun and cheap people will buy it.

They are also doing a challenge where the community unlocks new content by getting a large number of global kills. At 43,000,000 kills the respective system (Xbox360 or PS3) unlocked the Coral Bay map (which is an air-combat only map). This REALLY incentivized people to get on as much as possible and keep the fight going 24/7. Editors Note: Both systems have unlocked Coral Bay, although the Xbox 360 was the first to do so.

The Bad

This game is slow. While I enjoy playing it, I never get really passionate about it like I do COD4 or TF2. You have no sense of teamwork, or team goals, which is a problem in a game centered around team and squad based objectives. You basically run around capping points, trying to kill the enemy. When the game is over you are never really surprised about who won, because you have no clue what is going on elsewhere in the match.

The game in general seems very non-immersive. When I shoot my gun or run around I don’t FEEL like a soldier on a battlefield. I almost feel like I’m playing a rail shooter in an arcade.

When I hopped back into COD4 after playing this game for a couple reasons, I realized why COD4 is SO GOOD. When you run the camera moves around like I’m running, when I shoot my gun the camera makes me feel like I’m actually shooting a rifle, Battlefield 1943 just doesn’t do that.

The Down-Low

This game is fun and cheap, plain and simple. As you can tell, it wasn’t the best game I’ve ever played by any stretch of the imagination but it keeps me entertained and got me to pry open my wallet instead of GameFly’ing it like I do most games.

New TF2 Server Events!

Proximity — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:55:20 +0000

We here at Montana Fragfest really like Team Fortress 2, that is why we are starting a couple of weekly events on our server!

Manic Monday

Work is hard. We all hate it, so wind down on the first day of the week by electronically killing people. It is every Monday starting at 9pm MST. Let us help you help yourself.

Beer Fortress 2

We like beer here at Montana Fragfest, that is why every Thursday at 8pm MST we created an excuse to drink beer and play video games. Tell your girlfriend to buzz off, TF2 is your mistress that night.