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Title: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: Mobius on March 26, 2013, 09:03:42 am
I'm not refering to Alpha 3 and 4 from Into the Lion's Den, but to the FreeSpace 1 players who had the privilege to "become" FreeSpace characters. If I got it right, these two fans perfomed so well in FS1 multiplayer that :v: decided to reserve a spot for them in FS2 as SOC pilots.

Have any community veterans ever had the chance to talk to them? Is it even possible to get in touch with them, now?
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: Spoon on March 26, 2013, 09:09:19 am
They died.
Laporte killed them both.
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: Mobius on March 26, 2013, 09:11:11 am
(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTAasu28wbxOMY259BdrcrtphBWgbHmVS9ZZ1TuVp_FamxPtsUFbA)
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: Veers on March 26, 2013, 09:16:12 am
(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w192/kenny90_bucket/gif-picard-clapping.gif)

But in all seriousness, that is a fairly good question. What else do we/did we know about them as well? mid 20s perhaps?
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: General Battuta on March 26, 2013, 01:45:43 pm
BlackDove and QuantumDelta hung out with them a lot.
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: 0rph3u5 on March 26, 2013, 01:48:07 pm
They moved on with their lives? - People tend to do that regularly.
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: MatthTheGeek on March 26, 2013, 02:12:35 pm
What's a life
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: karajorma on March 26, 2013, 07:22:05 pm
That annoying thing that gets between bouts of Freespace. :p
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: Lorric on March 26, 2013, 07:27:50 pm
(http://officeforward.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/reality-worst-game-ever.jpeg)
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: rubixcube on April 10, 2013, 01:11:05 am
But with excellent graphics
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: MatthTheGeek on April 10, 2013, 06:37:22 am
I actually usually find reality's graphics ****ty. Especially when I look in a mirror.
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: Lorric on April 10, 2013, 07:04:12 am
I actually usually find reality's graphics ****ty. Especially when I look in a mirror.

Reality's graphics are pretty bland I think overall, though in places the designers have done really well. And the framerate is always exceptional no matter what's going on or how many characters are on screen at once.

And yeah, I hate it how you don't get to choose your avatar either. Sorry about your bad luck. Some people have such cool avatars.
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: Darius on April 10, 2013, 08:59:10 am
It depends on what map you're playing in. The one I'm in has some really nice lighting effects.

(http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc415/dariusbei/sunset_zpsc6b2702c.jpg)
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: Lorric on April 10, 2013, 09:05:06 am
Yeah, that sucks too, some people get such cool levels to play. Others get horrible levels where it's so easy to die and the difficulty level is obscene.

Very nice map.
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: Luis Dias on April 10, 2013, 10:55:16 am
that's not a map that's just the skybox fkin n00b
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: Lorric on April 10, 2013, 10:56:14 am
that's not a map that's just the skybox fkin n00b kthnks


:lol:
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: MatthTheGeek on April 10, 2013, 11:42:20 am
Sometimes I just want to reboot the game.

And by that I mean the server, not just my client.
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: Flipside on April 11, 2013, 12:05:44 pm
It seriously needs a Patch, and some DLC wouldn't go amiss either.
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: 666maslo666 on April 11, 2013, 01:13:48 pm
But with excellent graphics

nah, needs more BLOOM
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: Fury on April 11, 2013, 01:19:34 pm
It seriously needs a Patch, and some DLC wouldn't go amiss either.
I would like to have save and load feature first.
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: Flipside on April 11, 2013, 02:17:13 pm
:lol: Being able to savescum your life would be awesome...
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: deathfun on April 17, 2013, 04:41:14 am
Just going to throw this out there, but that entire thing had me splitting my sides with laughter

Well done
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: TrashMan on April 23, 2013, 01:43:14 am
Save? A working console would be a higher priority. GodMode awaits.
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: Spoon on April 23, 2013, 07:19:57 am
:lol: Being able to savescum your life would be awesome...
But if everyone is able to savescum. Things would get wierd really quick.
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: Lorric on April 23, 2013, 08:55:56 am
:lol: Being able to savescum your life would be awesome...
But if everyone is able to savescum. Things would get wierd really quick.

I wrote a fairly lengthy respone to that savescum line a while back, and it got deleted somehow. Pressed the post button and it failed to post. But I certainly emphasised that it would have to be only you (me) who could do it, otherwise it would not be awesome.

It would be even better if you could create save points and go back to them. "Well, I'm getting too old again. Time to start my life back over again and do even better this time!"
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: Spoon on April 23, 2013, 10:55:18 am
"Ah ****, did it really just autosave right before my death in this car cra-"
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: BlackDove on April 23, 2013, 02:37:07 pm
Last I spoke with Xinny it was just before PXO died its final death, he dropped by the lobby and we had a long chat where he told me a bunch of stuff which I vowed never to tell anyone.

Anyway, yeah, they moved onto other games and on with their lives is the long and short of it.

Back to off topic, as there's not much to be said.
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: Kolgena on April 23, 2013, 07:33:00 pm
Save scumming/acting with no fear of consequences reminds me of a certain immaculate conception.

(Just realized likely only a handful of people here know what I'm talking about. FYI, battuta's short story)
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: Goober5000 on April 23, 2013, 10:23:06 pm
and we had a long chat where he told me a bunch of stuff which I vowed never to tell anyone.

That's not the first person I've heard you say that about (Lightspeed also comes to mind).  Do you just go around collecting secrets?  :confused:
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: karajorma on April 24, 2013, 10:53:23 am
Either that or he's killing them and this is how he covers it up. :p
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: Lorric on April 24, 2013, 11:28:22 am
Save scumming/acting with no fear of consequences reminds me of a certain immaculate conception.

(Just realized likely only a handful of people here know what I'm talking about. FYI, battuta's short story)

? What story? If it's something out of Blue Planet, I don't need to know. Spoilers.
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: NGTM-1R on April 24, 2013, 11:31:08 am
Either that or he's killing them and this is how he covers it up. :p

The alternative is that anyone who tells him anything is compelled to swear him to silence immediately afterwards for some reason.

"I bought a salad for lunch and...BlackDove! NEVER TELL ANYONE OF THIS!"
Title: Re: What happened to Xinny and Zero (the actual Descent: FreeSpace players)?
Post by: General Battuta on April 24, 2013, 11:49:12 am
Save scumming/acting with no fear of consequences reminds me of a certain immaculate conception.

(Just realized likely only a handful of people here know what I'm talking about. FYI, battuta's short story)

? What story? If it's something out of Blue Planet, I don't need to know. Spoilers.

No, it was a story I had in Asimov's.