The Outlaws of Sherwood Forest

MvM Community Night, Wednesday October 23 @ 9:00 PM Eastern
Posted on Monday October 21, 2019

Game: Mann vs. Machine
Time: 9:00 PM Eastern (8:00 PM Central, 7:00 PM Mountain, 6:00 PM Pacific)

Join in the fun with other members and friends and invite your friends! Use your STEAM friends list to coordinate with other members and friends. To add more of our members to your STEAM friends, click on their profiles in this list.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/osf#members

Our progress on the various maps is listed below. If you do not have all of the custom maps installed, they should download automatically when you connect to the server. Otherwise, you can download them from here.

teien

~~normal~~

~~advanced~~
expert (wave 3 of 7)

spacepost

normal
intermediate
~~advanced~~
expert (wave 3 of 6)

quetzal

~~intermediate~~
~~advanced1~~
advanced2 (wave 6 of 7)
expert

official maps completed on all difficulties

bigrock
coaltown
decoy
ghost town
mannhattan
mannworks
rottenburg

custom maps completed on all difficulties

area 52
coastrock
giza
isolation
maelstrom
meltdown
metro
oxidize
potassium
powerplant
sequoia
skullcove
snowflake
steep
underground
underworld
waterfront

Sea of Thieves October update released!
Posted on Saturday October 19, 2019

Make sure to open up the Microsoft app store and browse to the Sea of Thieves app page. It should update your game when you visit the page. Here is more information about the update. Lots of new content!

https://www.seaofthieves.com/fort-of-the-darned

https://www.seaofthieves.com/release-notes

Alan Wake's American Nightmare and >observer_ - Free on Epic Store - Thru Oct 24
Posted on Thursday October 17, 2019

Alan Wake's American Nightmare and >observer_ are now available for free on the Epic Store.

Add them to your account before Oct 24.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/collection/free-games-collection

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/alan-wake-american-nightmare/home

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/observer/home

L4D2 Community Night, Sunday October 20 @ 9:00 PM Eastern
Posted on Thursday October 17, 2019

Game: Left 4 Dead 2
Time: 9:00 PM Eastern (8:00 PM Central, 7:00 PM Mountain, 6:00 PM Pacific)

Join in the fun with other members and friends and invite your friends! Use your STEAM friends list to coordinate with other members and friends. To add more of our members to your STEAM friends, click on their profiles in this list.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/osf#members

Below is a reminder of where we are in our quest to complete all of the campaigns on Expert mode. The bolded campaigns are the completed ones on expert. There is an achievement for surviving all of the official Left 4 Dead 2 campaigns on expert if you have not done that yet. Make sure to have all of the custom maps installed using the instructions found here.

We'll be starting with Journey to Splash Mountain.

No Mercy (8)
Crash Course (9)
Death Toll (10)
Dead Air (11)
Blood Harvest (12)
Warcelona (survived normal)
I Hate Mountains 2
Daybreak (survived easy, 11 of 13 gas cans on expert)
Journey to Splash Mountain
Back to School (mission 5 on advanced)
Dead Center (1)
The Passing (6)
Dark Carnival (2)
Swamp Fever (3)
Hard Rain (4)
The Parish (5)
The Sacrifice (7)
Cold Stream (13)
Diescraper
Dark Wood
Devil Mountain
Precinct 84
White Forest
Fatal Freight

SART Community Night, Wednesday October 16 @ 9:00 PM Eastern
Posted on Monday October 14, 2019

Game: Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed
Time: 9:00 PM Eastern (8:00 PM Central, 7:00 PM Mountain, 6:00 PM Pacific)

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/osf#members

This is a goofy racing game along the same lines as Mario Kart. If you do not own Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, you can get it here for $20: http://store.steampowered.com/app/212480/

We will be meeting via STEAM friends and will be on Discord as well to coordinate a host for SART. You need to be invited to play, so message those already playing on STEAM.

https://www.osfhome.com/forums/index.php?/topic/7516-how-do-i-connect-to-the-osf-discord-server/

Surviving Mars - Free on Epic Store - Thru Oct 17
Posted on Saturday October 12, 2019

Surviving Mars is now available for free on the Epic Store.

Add it to your account before Oct 17.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/surviving-mars/home

ARKSE Community Night, Sunday October 13 @ 9:00 PM Eastern
Posted on Thursday October 10, 2019

Game: ARK Survival Evolved
Time: 9:00 PM Eastern (8:00 PM Central, 7:00 PM Mountain, 6:00 PM Pacific)

Join in the fun with other members and friends and invite your friends! Use your STEAM friends list to coordinate with other members and friends. To add more of our members to your STEAM friends, click on their profiles in this list.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/osf#members

ARK Survival Evolved is a action/survival/crafting RPG that takes place on a large prehistoric island. You can read more about it at the link below. The password for our server is foliage and the details to connect are above. If you are not yet a member of our tribe, you will need to connect while one of us is on there to find you and invite you while face to face. Once that happens, you are able to spawn in any of our existing bases on the island.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/346110/ARK_Survival_Evolved/

We will be communicating via Discord.

http://www.osfhome.com/forums/index.php?/topic/7516-how-do-i-connect-to-the-osf-discord-server/

Fall WAN party Saturday November 9 starting at 6:00 PM
Posted on Wednesday October 09, 2019

The fall WAN party will take place on Saturday November 9 starting at 6:00 PM. I tried my best to work it out for everyone, but it is, of course, always tough to do. Hopefully those who are not able to make this one can make the winter. The tentative schedule of games can be found here:

Star Wars Battlefront II for post-community nights, tips
Posted on Monday October 07, 2019

A few of us have tested out the Star Wars Battlefront II coop following community nights. In the future, we plan to play this game when a L4D2 or MvM community night ends early. Here are a few tips that we have discovered about the game in the times that we have tried it.

#1 Make sure that Discord is set to use your specific input and output devices in the settings. If you leave it at default, you may lose audio or mic as the game progresses. This may apply to other games as well. These settings are at the top of the Voice and Video settings under Input and Output Device.

#2 There is in-game VOIP that is automatically voice activated. The only way to disable it is to mute each person in your party at the party screen by highlighting them and clicking the mute button if it is available. No permanent way to mute others or yourself unfortunately.

#3 To start coop, you need to start a party first unless you want to play with a bunch of random players. Click the little icon in the upper left corner. Make sure each friend is at the Star Wars Battlefront II menu and then click the Invite button for them at the party screen. They should see the invite pop up in the lower right corner. If you invite them at any other point in time, it probably wont work properly.

#4 Once you are all in the party, go to Multiplayer -> Operations -> Coop, and launch coop. It will randomly find you a server then rotate you through the coop maps automatically.

There is also instant action which is similar but can be played offline alone. Coop and instant action only have the prequel maps played from one side for now, but they did promise to add both factions and original and sequel trilogy maps eventually.

SoT Community Night, Wednesday October 9 @ 9:00 PM Eastern
Posted on Monday October 07, 2019

Game: Sea of Thieves
Time: 9:00 PM Eastern (8:00 PM Central, 7:00 PM Mountain, 6:00 PM Pacific)

Join in the fun with other members and friends and invite your friends! Use your STEAM friends list to coordinate with other members and friends. To add more of our members to your STEAM friends, click on their profiles in this list.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/osf#members

Sea of Thieves is a PC and Xbox One game that allows cross play between the two where you form a crew of up to 4 and sail around looking for treasure and having other adventures. If we have more than 4, we will split into several crews. It is tough to play together with multiple crews with the current game design, but we will make at least one attempt to get on the same server together at the start by joining as separate ships and raising the Reaper flag to look for one another. Make sure to check the game on the Microsoft store app prior to community night to see if there is an update that needs to be downloaded/installed by the store app! Also, if you buy the game through the Microsoft store on either the PC or Xbox, you can install and play it on both the PC and Xbox One simultaneously.

More info: https://seaofthieves.gamepedia.com/Sea_of_Thieves_Wiki

Buy ($50): https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/p/sea-of-thieves-anniversary-edition/9pcd5s0dmf5z?activetab=pivot:overviewtab

Try ($1 with Xbox Game Pass for PC for a month): https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/xbox-game-pass/CFQ7TTC0KGQ8/0002?activetab=pivot%3aoverviewtab

Xbox Live names to add to your friends list: https://www.osfhome.com/forums/index.php?/topic/8222-sea-of-thieves-roll-call/

We will be coordinating and communicating via Discord but using the in-game voice comm for crew chat.

Discord: http://www.osfhome.com/forums/index.php?/topic/7516-how-do-i-connect-to-the-osf-discord-server/

In-game chat: https://support.seaofthieves.com/hc/en-gb/articles/115012749647-Windows-10-Audio-Chat

Game Server maintenance night of Tuesday, Oct 8th
Posted on Sunday October 06, 2019

The game servers will be unavailable the night of Tuesday, October 8th from 20:00 - 21:00 EST. Please plan accordingly, I'll update the thread when done.

Minit - Free on Epic Store - Thru Oct 10
Posted on Friday October 04, 2019

Minit is now available for free on the Epic Store.

Add it to your account before Oct 10.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/minit/home

Red Dead Redemption 2 coming to PC... on Nov 5, on STEAM in December!
Posted on Friday October 04, 2019

Wow, I did not see that coming. The game is apparently being released on November 5, only a month away. It is going to first be available on the Epic Store and the Rock Star Game Launcher, but the good news is that only a month later it releases on STEAM. More details here:

https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/61153/Red-Dead-Redemption-2-Coming-to-PC-November-5th

MvM Community Night, Sunday October 6 @ 9:00 PM Eastern
Posted on Thursday October 03, 2019

Game: Mann vs. Machine
Time: 9:00 PM Eastern (8:00 PM Central, 7:00 PM Mountain, 6:00 PM Pacific)

Join in the fun with other members and friends and invite your friends! Use your STEAM friends list to coordinate with other members and friends. To add more of our members to your STEAM friends, click on their profiles in this list.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/osf#members

teien

~~normal~~

~~advanced~~
expert (wave 3 of 7)

spacepost

normal
intermediate
~~advanced~~
expert (wave 3 of 6)

quetzal

~~intermediate~~
~~advanced1~~
advanced2 (wave 6 of 7)
expert

Star Wars Battlefront II DICE Sept feedback survey, request private matches and server browser
Posted on Wednesday October 02, 2019

Another month, another survey. These are working as they are adding new features like instant action and 4-player coop. Below is what I am requesting. You can just skip through the rest of the survey following the second page.

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private matches for all maps/modes including coop for the same maxplayers as multiplayer allowing players to join on their friends and leave at any time during the match

proper multiplayer server browser with filters that allows you to choose the server, map, and mode

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/f33dth3sarlaac