ArchonPvP

So I was introduced to World of Warcraft's Player-vs-Player (PvP) games this weekend. I can't belive I've been missing out on this for so long!

It was a lot of fun. Primarily played Warong Gulch, which is a 20-player (10 Alliance, 10 Horde) Capture-the-flag competition. Now, I have played Capture-the-flag on Rainbow 6, and Halo 2 on the XBox (Bet you didn't know that Nikhil!) But the difference here is that I know all the guys I'm playing with. And even if I haven't partied with some of the players, I know that I can expect a certain level of ... for lack of a better word, professionalism - because they're in the Archon Guild (hey, we don't call ourselves the Premier Raiding Guild of the Scarlet Crusade Realm for nothing!)

Anyway, I played about 6 games over the weekend. The shortest game we played was 10 minutes - the Horde players had NO clue what hit them! The longest 30 minutes or so - we got into a defensive stalemate where each team had their opponent's flag, and went into defensive mode (to win, a team has to have their flag, and the opponent flag). But thanks to some AMAZING teamwork we managed to break that stalemate. And I think I got about 170 kills ... I think my rank is going to be Corporal when the tallies are made!

ArchonPvP FTW!

Comments

[Nikhil]

In fact, you played only *one* CTF game in Halo2 and I played *with* you.
Proof: http://bungie.net/Stats/GameStats.aspx?gameID=49919777&player=BloreBoy
and we lost it badly.

Also there is no CTF in RainbowSix on xbox :).. (its there on PS2) On xbox it has its own twist on CTF called "Retrieval" where you capture a "canister". The toughest part is to load the canister in your base which takes about 5 seconds. Halo CTF, you just have to take the flag over the target area and it is captured. In RS63, there are few better things than to get the guy who is arming the canister with a remote charge.

[Nikhil]

But the difference here is that I know all the guys I'm playing with. And even if I haven't partied with some of the players, I know that I can expect a certain level of ... for lack of a better word, professionalism

It took you more than a few minutes to get to this level, right? Halo2 also has these "guilds". They are called Clans. You can keep playing with your clan to increase your teamwork. You get to know each other as much as WoW (depending on how much you play). Trust me, it is pretty cool too.