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Jump on TS and we’ll try and figure that problem out for you Turks. I was semi afk the other night when you were on, so didn’t have a chance to look at it properly.
lol we all suck in the grand scheme of things, so don’t worry unless Doc or Spunker declare a sudden interest 🙂
(Jonny, I didn’t realise how much you played this, but according to your stats, you’ve played close to a thousand games!)
You need to get yourself into a game again mate 🙂 Having said that, Glastonbury does sound like a much more worthwhile pursuit, though sadly I’m not going 🙁 booo
Congrats on the driving test btw.
Does that offer still stand Paddy? My order for it got cancelled thanks to a mistake I made in the card address.
You can get the Vanilla game for £6.99 on Steam atm, which might be the best option considering the pain in the arse it is to patch the game manually. You can also get the complete anthology there for £20, but can probably find it elsewhere online for cheaper. It really is a pain in the arse to patch this manually, so I’d consider any extra cost through a system like Steam to be worth it. You don’t need the expansions though, so you could just get the vanilla game for 7 quid and get any expansions later during offers, and assuming you like the game enough.
First and foremost don’t go in scared of losing that money, as that’ll distract you too much throughout the game.
Make sure you know the game, and maybe google search some poker odds for making common draws, eg flush draws, and inside or open ended straight draws. With this you’ll have a much better idea of how strong your position actually is.
It’s good to play aggressive but don’t go over the top with your betting. A common mistake I see all the time is a new player gets a great hand preflop then goes all in. If you get AA preflop for example, you don’t want to lose everyone preflop, as you’ll just win the blinds or some early bets. You do want to reduce the numbers you’re facing, but be careful not to bet everyone out of a hand which could easily net you a nice haul on the flop. The standard raise I think is still 3x the big blind, and anything over that is pretty excessive for certainly an opening raise. In private games, against inexperienced players, you can scare people off with even minimal preflop raises, so vary what you bet depending on the circumstances.
Don’t be afraid to fold good preflop hands when they don’t hit, or the flop becomes dangerous. Good example is AA preflop vs a flop that see’s two Kings come out. If you raised and were called preflop, there’s a reasonable chance someone who called holds a King, so be wary in situations like this.
Try and figure out who the other new players are at the table and be wary of trying to bluff them. They often play stupid cards to the end and in all circumstances, so try and make your plays against them with reasonable cards, and milk them for as much as you can when they’re blindly calling.
Be aware of your position with respect to the dealer, and try not to play weak hands if your one of the first ones to bet preflop. If there’s not a lot of preflop betting going on in general, you can loosen up here though.
Don’t play too many hands, but concentrate on what’s happening when you’re not playing. Watch for patterns in peoples play.
Don’t show your cards, ever, unless you’re comfortable with winding someone up by showing a bluff (you don’t want to end up second guessing someone after you’ve provoked them in an earlier hand). Sometimes you can hit a run of cards on the trot where it can start to appear as though you’re bluffing, and occassionally I’d start to show cards under these circumstances if I wasn’t comfortable projecting that image.
Oh and of course, be aware of your table image and mix it up during the game. If you’re considered a tight player, you can loosen it up, and likewise you can tighten up if early bluffs were spotted.
I could go on, but I’ve the sort of length on this post where the forum really doesn’t like me typing, and is making it difficult to see what I’m writing. That should help though…and damn I want a game of poker now 🙁
Still having that problem Max? What version number does the game show in the main menu at the moment?
Oh and Paddy, the more I think about those losses last night, the more I think it’s because we’re both going WSC at the start. I’m also questioning the wisdom of the WSC start on the more open maps since those are the ones we’re struggling on. With choke points, the snipers, HMGs, and Mortars own, but with fewer chokes I’m being flanked quite a bit, and find myself wishing for a bit more flexibility than the semi fixed HMGs and Mortars provide. I’m wondering how effective both of us starting with barracks would be vs the AI, but I guess the balanced Barracks + WSC approach is probably the standard multiplay tactic for 2v2’s so we should really concentrate on that. I think we should also have a closer look at the maps we lost last night, and replay them until we’ve figured the problem out, or until we’ve at least developed a strategy for them for when we switch to human opposition 🙂 What do you think?
Any of the more experienced COH players able to give us any tips btw?
Had a really good time yesterday playing this with John and (eventually) Paddy, and I feel like I’m actually getting into it a bit more than I did first time around (when I was playing eve a lot more). Just playing skirmish atm until we pick up the basics again, but I already feel like I’m getting close to taking on some low level 1v1 games. If anyone else fancies joining in, I’ve been hanging around in the RTS channel in TS while playing this, so feel free to pop in.
@RecoilUK wrote:
Hi Guys
So any ideas on the design?
L8rs
I haven’t had a chance to look into it yet mate, but may do over the next few weeks when I get some time off work.
