It was fun!

4 v 4 is kinda horribly hectic. 3 v 3 allows for more organisation and actual plays and that.

The fourth member of our team was Matt.

I hope you join us again! And find a mic! (We discord while we play)



 

I do have a mic, it just wasn't plugged in or easy to get. I'll get it.  But then you make it all even more complicated, wtf is discord oh I'll google it oh it's a thing. Bah, things. But OK I'll do it.

I was thinking 4v4 was kinda more organised, in that both teams seemed to be able to spare a defender most of the time while the rest went up and tried to be in the right place. Apart from me, obv. I like how often I made my car flip about madly in the space just next to the ball while whichever one of you was covering got on with hitting the ball from just behind me.

:D

I *really* wish I'd saved the replay of my first ever game. Literally six people just trying, and mostly failing, to hit the ball at all. You don't really notice yourself improving because the game matches you against people at roughly your own skill level.

But yeah, you played well, especially given how long you've played. The *main* (as in most damaging) thing noobs get wrong is positioning and yours was generally good. Hitting the ball just comes with practise :D

Most important thing is learning to rotate. As in, if you're defending and your teammate leaves goal to meet a ball then you should go to goal to fill the hole (YJ). When attacking if the last person comes forward to hit a ball they can get to well, you should back off and take the rearmost position (YJ).

And, obviously, don't go for a ball your teammate is going for (unless they've very clearly missed it). Doubling up like that leaves big exploitable gaps.

Similarly, if you've missed a ball and both you and the ball are slow-moving (so you can't do much with it), rotate out and let a teammate have a pop.

AAand... don't chase the ball. Go where the ball is going to be or just occupy a useful space in relation to your teammates. On the attack you generally want one person on the ball trying to send it mid, one person ready to put it in and one person a bit further back ready to go for a rebound/clearance or rush back to goal for a counterattack (rearmost person should always go to goal if other team gets possession). But yeah, you should be rotating in and out of one of those three roles generally.

It's all kinda situational though, none of these are hard and fast (YJ) rules.

4s is good practise in the sense that you can kinda always go for the ball and try stuff out, there's less pressure cos it's such a scramble on both sides.

Anyway, sorry, that was a lot of unasked for advice :Y

Oh and discord's really easy, you can use it via the website if you can't be arsed to download the app.

haha, thanks. I will get it. Probably not tonight though, this afternoon has gone increasingly towards "hey milko you are going to be working tonight" in the shitafternoon stakes. 

No worries, like I say we play most nights so just beep me on Steam if you see me playing and want to join (and I'll add you if I notice you on, no obligation to join).

apologies for having to leave, that was a lot of fun again. Can you tell I've not really played it since we last did? haha I was so bad, it is fortunate that Kev is very good. OK I WILL SET UP DISCORD NOW SO IT'S READY NEXT TIME

I am milko9000 on it but I haven't done the microphone bit yet.

You pulled off a couple of game-winning saves :Y

I made a teh room on discord. There's no one in it but we can use it when we play. Here's an invitation that will last 24hrs: https://discord.gg/0q3T0560WOtXCOhr

Will it work on xp? Asking for a friend.

I was very pleased with the Overtime save I managed when we went on to win, aye :)

Room joined! I'm too tired for games tonight though.

I don't know. The Store page says Vista minimum so I guess not :(



 

Unless you meant Discord. In which case I still don't know. But there is a canary (i.e. pre-alpha) Linux client but I find the electron wrapper works better.

Yeah I meant Discord. ISTR not.

I imagine the website would work. I may be wrong but it should work in any recent browser. And the website is kinda better than the standalone client anyway.

Something about nodejs + webkit needed, unsupported in xp