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TeamSpeak 3 for our friends!

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:08:51 +0000

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - PC Reviews!

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:41:48 +0000

Wondering if the new Deus Ex: Human Revolution is on par with its original games? Well PC Gamer, RockPaperShotgun, Joystiq and Kotaku review one of the more anticipated games this year and you can determine if you're still on the fence with this one.

Reviews from BwA Members:

John Wayne said:

Best way I can describe it so far is kinda a Splinter Cell but slightly more open like a Fallout game (though so far in a city not the large outdoors). Graphics, Gameplay, etc.. all very smooth and no day one issues found. Doing missions, side missions, etc.. to get XP points that then you spend on upgrades to abilities, weapons, etc.. You can go head on shoot bad guys, but stealth is more the way the game is meant to be IMHO. Hacking doors, computers, looking around in each room for "helpful" things/codes/papers, etc.....

If you liked Fallout, Splinter Cell type games, you should really like this.

I am 100% happy with my purchase.

DeeMo said:

I agree with JW, very very fun game so far as ive played it for a couple hours today........OUCH, i just checked my library and it says I've played it for 6 hours. Picking which Augmentations to select hurts my brain. Stealth is definitely the way to go. Ive gotten past a really tough area only to reset intentionally to a save point just before it because I thought of a different way I wanted to try it. Its DEFINITELY not a run and gun, if you try it that way, you will promptly die. I don't have the hang of hacking yet but when your doing upgrades your like......Hack upgrade or superstrength so i can drop a vending machine on someones head....hmmmmm

Great game, well worth the money.

Brink Server

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:44:05 +0000

We have a Brink server up and running.

Server Name: BwAGaming.com BRINK #1

Server IP: 64.94.238.192:27015

Homefront Servers

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:40:15 +0000

Join us in the new release of Homefront on March 15th. Server IP is 64.94.238.190:27015. Join our Steam Community Group http://steamcommunit...ps/bwahomefront to keep up to date with the latest details on events for BwA Gaming Homefront servers.

Get yer' Wallpapers!

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:31:55 +0000

-=BwA=- Samson has recently been on a tear, pumping out -=BwA=- sigs and wallpaper left and right. Click here to download all of the colors in a variety of resolutions. Thanks Samson!

2 Years Anniversary

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:27:58 +0000

Two years is a long time. Two years is an eternity for an internet based -anything. For that, and a thousand other reasons, I am thrilled to be writing about Better with Age Gaming on the occasion of its second anniversary. Better with Age, or BwA, is a community of PC gamers aged 25 and up. The community exists to provide a relaxed, good natured environment for the older gamer. Skill isn't a requirement for membership. Instead, all that's required is a good attitude and friendly demeanor, a microphone to chat and laugh with us, and a love of PC gaming. BwA hosts servers for Counter-Strike Source, Left 4 Dead 1 and 2,

Team Fortress 2, and Call of Duty Black Ops. There is a large group that is further interested in various Battlefield and other Call of Duty games and regularly plays together.

What is BwA?
Now there's a question that can be answered in a couple of different ways. By the numbers BwA is a solid group of 120 or so PC gamers that have a common interest in first person shooter PC games. Every month 8 to 10 new members join us while 3 to 5 fade to inactivity. Our forums are incredibly active, having recently surpassed 50,000 posts. In addition to game related news there are numerous common interest community boards on topics like PC building and component buying advice or troubleshooting. It's also where our Fantasy Football league is played out, and where all of the other things message boards are generally used for occurs.

On the hardware side, our donation-supported dedicated server is an eight-core monster with dual Xeon 5620s, 24 GB DDR3, and four 1-TB harddrives in raid-10 to ensure that no matter what is going on in one server the others remain buttery smooth.

More important than the hardware, however, is how we use it. These numbers may vary, but there are roughly half a dozen Counter-Strike Source and ten Left 4 Dead servers running at any given time. The Counter-Strike servers include stock CSS, gungame, turbo death match, and various private servers available to members for scrimming along with specially configed privates for league play. On the Left 4 Dead side there are similarly numerous public servers as well as an abundance of private servers for stock play and a rotation of popular mods.

To avoid letting things get stale members occassionaly volunteer to organize intra-community tournaments and "Fun Nights." The former usually involve a psuedorandom team selection of some sort followed with a few weeks of match play. We've done this kind of thing for several games and had a blast each time. The "Fun Nights" are much less formal and usually a free or inexpensive (sub-$5) game/mod that very few people are familiar with. An advantage to administering our own dedicated hardware is that creating new game servers only requires that someone with access upload the necessary files and configure the server. Goldeneye Source and Team Fortress 2 have both worked really well for this kind of event.

Happy Holidays 2010

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:46:56 +0000

BwA would like to wish its members, friends, and their families a happy and safe holiday season. Enjoy your family, Mom's cooking, the time off from work, and maybe a couple of rounds in the BwA servers! - The BwA Gang

Call of Duty - Black Ops

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:37:25 +0000

Better with Age has a Call of Duty - Black Ops Dedicated Server. It is located in Atlanta, GA.

Server IP: 173.199.104.111

Can't Wait for The Sacrafice or Fall Brainf...

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:35:48 +0000

Same here!!! So, whether you are looking to brush-up and get ready to run for your life in September or find out what really happened to Firewalker . . . I mean Bill . . . you should head over to the forums to download the following maps:

Death Aboard II
2 Evil Eyes
City 17
Fort Noesis
Diescraper
FreezerBurn
Dead Echo 2

But you say,

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"Farva this can't be 7 maps and that are absolutly FREE!?! Impossible! Map packs are a $15 minimum in today's gaming world." Well, ladies and gents, I kid you not. These maps will only cost you about 30 seconds each to download and install. Wowzers what a deal!

Q: But Farva, how do I install these?
A: There are directions for each install with the link to the file. It's so easy even a Jockey can do it!!

Q: But Farva, when will I ever play these maps.
A: All the freaking time!! And how about a L4D custom map super-blowout-spectacular this weekend AKA Friday (Aug 27th and Saturday Aug, 28)

Q: But Farva, why should I kill zombies?
A: Because, zombies are bad mmmkaayyy....

Q: But Farva, why do you rock so hard?
A: No one knows.

September Brainfest

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:17:01 +0000

You are cordially invited to the BwA L4D2 Fall Brainfest. Visit the forums to sign up and be assigned to a team between now and August 27. The tournament will consist of at least three matches and include versus, scavenge, and realism versus modes. Prizes include the all important bragging rights as well as several gift certificates to various restaurants and/or retailers.

Match Play: Due to varied schedules, we will simply ask that everyone play their matches within September. We will post the entire lineup (all three teams that you’ll play) up front so to accommodate everyone’s schedules, you can play matches in any order (you can play your 3rd team first, your 2nd team last, etc) as long as they are all completed during the month of September.

Scoring: We will go with discrete scoring (a win = 1 a loss = 0) and individual map scores will not come into play (meaning that if a team wins by 1000 pts and another team wins by 100 pts those two will be equivalent). We are doing this so that if, by chance, a team has a runaway round (even after load balancing the teams), it wont put them out of reach to other teams. This is kind of like soccer where a win is 1 whether you won by 1 goal or 10 goals. Again, nothing is perfect in this area but this is the method that offers the most fun and closeness of competition so we chose this method.

We have the Technology!!

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:14:56 +0000

After about a month of deliberation and technical debate, Nuclear Fallout Enterprises created a BEAST for -=BwA=- Gaming! This beast was unleashed last month in the form of the new -=BwA=- Dedicated Server. This box was such a beast that Nuclear Fallout has adopted the configuration as its standard high end Dedicated Server Package.

Here are the Specs:

Dual Xeon E5620 Processors (16 Virtual Cores!)
24 GB DDR3 RAM
Four 1TB HHD's in RAID 10 (Uber Fast Access!!)
5000GB of Premium Bandwidth (Internap - Atlanta, GA, USA)
Hosting for up to 500 simultaneous players

CS:S Night this Thursday!

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:11:06 +0000

Join us for the first BwA community clan game night of 2010! We're turning the BwA Counter-Strike servers into a mosh pit! All members and friends are invited to dust off their CS:S skills and have some fun playing the game that got most of us into FPS Gaming. Peel yourself away from the new and shiny titles for one night and bring your "A" game old school style! Join us at 8pm EST this Thursday on our CS:S Gun Game and Pub servers (69.31.134.132:27015 and 69.31.134.131:27015, respectively) for some friendly fragging. -- M@styrMynd

L4D2 10 v. 10 Super Versus

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:04:50 +0000

An L4D2 plugin has been installed on L4D2-PrivateServer #5 to enable 10 v 10 versus. Want to help test the plugin? Join Ventrilo around 8:00 PM EST tonight. It may take some time to work the bugs out, but the benefit should be well worth the wait! See Mike3D's post in the forums for details on how to connect to the server. And yes, with 10 survivors, they're going to need more zombies.

BwA Resources and Online Presence

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:02:34 +0000

Online Presence

www.bwagaming.com

Our hosting package is purchased through 1and1 blah blah. This package was intentionally chosen to substantially exceed the usual type of web traffic seen by our website an message boards. The generous storage and high speed connection serves the additional role of "fast-download server" for all of our Counter-Strike Source servers. If you connect and do not have the map in rotation, fear not! It will download in a second or two - in fact, you may never notice that you didn't have the map!

www.bwastats.com

HLStats tracks an enormous amount of information about your game play style and skill on our servers. Data is collected each time a player connects to a BwA server and is periodically pooled, aggregated, analyzed, and finally presented to you in your browser. Check out your kills, deaths, headshots, streaks, percentages, time connected, global server activity, scout your opponents, and see where you rank among BwA players.

With more than 130 members in each our communities consist entirely of regular players on our servers.

Two Weeks After Infection (Jan 8 - Jan 9)

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:01:08 +0000

Wait a minute . . . two weeks after infection? Zoey? Bill? Could it be an L4D1 weekend? Yes! Often requested and recently rumored, the upcoming weekend event will include retro Left 4 Dead 1 versus matches running all night long. Show up Friday and Saturday evening, 8:00 PM EST until close to party like it's January of 2009. Instead of being bummed out about that spitter goo that ruined your best suit, join us for a relaxing evening of exploration through an urban setting culminating in the survival event voted Most Exciting Escape From a Hospital Rooftop by Helicopter During A Zombie Apocalypse. As always, a multitude of L4D servers will be hosted on our dedicated workstation located in Atlanta.

Holiday Greetings

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:58:23 +0000

Happy Holidays!!!

-=BwA=- Gaming wishes all of its members and friends a safe and enjoyable holiday season. May Santa bring you lots of new games!

-=BwA=- has big plans for 2010. If you are not yet a member of -=BwA=-, take the time to look around our website and get to know some of our members in one of our many public servers. Rumor has it that Santa will be dropping off some of the hottest games for 2010 so that we can host them! We may have peaked under the wrapping of one and thought we caught a glimpse of Battlefield: Bad Company II. We'll see!!!

Get yourself a gift........Click on the "Become a BWA Member" link above!

And no holiday greeting would be complete without saying.........For those of us who like to partake of the holiday spirits, Please do so responsibly.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Call Of Duty is Here!

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:56:26 +0000

BwA is proud to announce our newly established Call of Duty Division. With the launch of CoD Modern Warfare 2, we see this as a great place to grow the community. If you are a mature gamer and interested in joining our group, what are you waiting for? Our plans for the CoD Division are grand but we can't get there without you!

Click the Become a BwA Member Link above to get started!

Fantasy Football

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:45:52 +0000

Who knew fantasy football could be so much fun? Or so frustrating? Several months ago a seemingly innocent post was written in the members area inquiring about interest in a fantasy football league. The mild mannered M@sterMynd meticulously ~~manipulated, twisted, deceived, scammed, hoodwinked, and strung along~~ kept the community up to date leading up to the draft, and laughter and good times abounded through the early weeks. Then that competitive spirit that revs up in so many guys when (1) winning and (2) sports are on the line reared its smart-ass trash talking head. Some of the most memorable post-game sparring is below. Enjoy!

Standings 12/5/2009

1. M@sterMynd 9-3-0 .750 1066 W-7 8 25
2. TOOL 9-3-0 .750 922 W-3 9 2
3. PeeWee 8-4-0 .667 918 L-1 14 10
4. Riggs 7-5-0 .583 1062 W-1 12 8
5. Bier 7-5-0 .583 965 W-4 13 28
6. Scuba 6-5-1 .542 1066 T-1 3 14
7. slowhand 6-5-1 .542 1011 T-1 10 16
8. Entropy 6-5-1 .542 947 L-2 11 20
9. Acc 6-6-0 .500 991 W-2 6 18
10. Charlie Utter 6-6-0 .500 960 L-3 4 3
11. Killer Angels 5-7-0 .417 1093 W-1 5 11
12. Icemen 3-8-1 .292 822 L-3 2 -
13. John Wayne 3-9-0 .250 924 L-1 7 10
14. Mike3D 1-11-0 .083 580 L-10 1 6

Beating Mike is like Riding a Moped. It's fun but a bit embarrassing. -- M@sterMynd
Acc got soutscored by my QB. LMAO. Oh, btw, Acc also got outscored by my WR. -- M@sterMynd
Riggs looses. ROFL. -- M@sterMynd
I still would have beaten several of the teams in the league this week and have the most overall points. So I'm not worried about my status at the top. (See current standings, lol) -- Riggs
lolz @ all of jooooooooo, I had a great day! I passed that fool M@sterMynd in the standings. -- slowhand. In response, You did have a great day, no doubt about that. Congrats on being in 8th place with a sub. 500 record too. That's awesome! -- Riggs.
Would you rather be 1-8 by clearly tanking the FF season or 2-7 and trying? Mike? Jdub? -- M@sterMynd
Speaking of routs, no one can touch the 109 to 8 bashing TOOL gave PeeWee last week. What were you guys doing, practicing for a USA-Canada match in "anything?" -- M@sterMynd
Was that a stab at Canadian Football? -- PeeWee
Riggs has done the remarkable. Taking the best team on paper and performing worse each and every week. -- M@sterMynd
Entropy, your empirical methods of conjuring up a roster looked to be working. You increased your points every week and then make a classic mistake. You let ME get under your skin during previous rants and you swung the fence. I mean whiffed and your divot went further than the ball last week. 36 points, lol... -- M@sterMynd
Bier, you managed to pair a premier quarterback, top wide receiver, and excellent running back with some of the worst players in the league to somehow mire yourself in mediocrity. 0.400 win % FTL. You Fail. -- Entropy
What you lack in creativity you sure make up for in jealousy. -- Riggs
I'm going to make you my bitch. gg. -- Entropy
You are getting crushed for this nonsense remark! -- M@sterMynd
Please continue. . . I am amused. -- EyeAmSam

SOLE SURVIVOR: Up All Night L4D2 Bash

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:38:59 +0000

Form up in Ventrilo tonight and party up. Try and be online by 9pm EST.
Drop Dead time: 7:00 AM
Bio breaks and beer runs are highly encouraged between maps and games.
To be in contention for the title of SOLE SURVIVOR the following parameters will apply.
You are online and playing L4D2 in a BwA group NLT 11 PM EST.
You play L4D2 continuously until you cannot play anymore. (reasonable bio, smoke and beer breaks permitted)
@ 7am, if there contest is still running, the remaining players will be offered the option to SHARE the title.
If there is not a unanimous decision to end the contest, it goes until ONE player remains......

On a final note, Catalyst has donated an Electronic gift card for NewEgg.com in the amount of $50.00 for the -=BwA=- member that kills the most CHARGERS during tonights event. The tracking for this will begin at midnight and will continue until the last person drops or 7am, which ever comes first! This will be EST timezone. Once the totals are in from HLStatsX tomorrow, he will send the gift card via e-mail and will be available for your immediate use!

They're gonna need more Zombies

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:37:13 +0000

If you hang out around the forums it's no secret that there were several highly anticipated games released this fall. Many BwA'ers have developed a passionate gun lust on the Borderlands in the world of Pandora. We've had a blast all around with Gearbox's masterpiece. If you are interested in 4 person co-op give us a shout! Modern Warfare 2 has claimed a few souls recently as well. Most importantly, however, Left 4 Dead 2 unlocks on 11/17. We are putting up six (or more) servers immediately and looking forward to hours of zombie slaughter goodness next week! Want to join us? Hit our forums or steam group. We will be pulling all the stops for an official all nighter on Friday 11/20. There may even be prizes for the most zombie kills, the last person up, etc.. See you in New Orleans - Bring Your Own Chainsaw.