Weekly TV2 seed nights?

[Flaming Cheese Wheel]

Plans for tonight? Usual business?

[Supreveio]

Either usual business or a few of the Dynamic Payload maps (followed by usual business), depending on if I can contact Stevo before it starts.

[THerpDerpingtonIII]

I actually prefer Balloon Race v2 over v3... v3's built-in handicap on the leading team (requiring both balloons to be at the CPs before either one can advance) slows down the game too much.

Agree 100%. Implementing that was a stupid idea, it just gets exploited. I stopped playing v3 because the trailing team (say, blue) could abandon the wheel just shy of points 2-4 and jump off the prow to assault. Boat stops short, red can't board it or cap, so they just fight spawn to spawn until red's confined to their ship, then blue pulls their boat up the extra foot and caps real quick. I've seen entire teams ragequit after 15 minute stalemates at point 2.

V2 is solid fun. The collision's a little erratic if it gets crowded. People get pushed through the bottom of the boats, etc. It's also great for mindless Brass Beast spam since there's no place to run to and you can wedge yourself between the dispenser and the window. When the boats are roughly parallel in the air and people are spawning directly into the fighting area on the deck, every minigun round's a hit on somebody and the dinging can get hilarious. I had a notion to keep a BB around just for Balloon Race and nametag it "The Deck Hose".