Dead Men Walking

I have created this topic to find out why and how you joined dmw.

I am curious as to why you joined us and how so it helps me with further developing the finding new games process aswell as developing a better way to get games going that we can find yet more people to join us here at dmw.

So what game did you see us on?

How did you hear about us was it a referral?

So to start heres my story and I hope you share yours:

I use to play years ago with my friends in a clan known as doom. We played rainbow six and the other sequels for quite some time using gamespy to make servers on 56k dialup. This is also where my game name came about. My name was Ghost and I held the rank of Mjr in the clan. Hence why I was then known as GhostMjr. I moved onto ghost recon where I joined MTU and moved away as I didn't really feel welcome. I then joined [CIGS] a cs clan where I played with a range of school friends were I met Icehawk and Duvel. This clan folded and when Ice and Duvel moved I noticed they had joined dMw. After a while of playing without a tag I joined dMw where I was welcomed and felt at home. Going to the LAN's have been great fun aswell as having a great laugh over voicecomms but mostly the admined servers and teamwork aswell as maturity brought me to dMw.

The rest is simply history.

Thanks for your input!

the voices made me do it

Aint nothing to really talk about but:

Ive played almost every MP shooter as a lone wolf, not really careing about clans or communities for those games. But at somepoint when playing CS:S i came about dMw server, the text seemed nice (server name) so i decided to give it a try, and to my suprise i liked how the server was run, takeing into a point that each other server was a big fragfest 24/7, i found tactical CS quite fun. So i became a regular and started to befriend other dMw members and i do belive at somepoint they just said that, if you like it here, go and join us on the dMw forums, which eventually i did. And i havent regretted that choice in my life, since ive made quite alot of friends here.

And thats how the terror named Acid came to dMw.

Came here  throughCS 1.6. I played CS for a while with a work mate. We created a clan called NSL where I met Doorman and Armitage. When NSL folded I followed Doorman and Armitage along with Dingo (another work colleague) here to dMw in about 2001-2002.

So I guess I'm a CS import

I played 1.5/1.6 cs for a long time on the likes of Barrys world. I remembered the invite passworded server you guys used to run and have known about dMw since then. Ive played on just about every public server you have had over the years but have always played competitive Cs/CSS and played for a few competitive teams such as #Snipers etc and ran 3mc during most of the time also, so not really had the time for public server play. Now im getting long in the tooth for nights of practice I thought I would enjoy playing some relaxed public fun as my old clan 3mc are winding down to just mmo's. I joined because of the similar ethos to my old clan regarding polite friendly gameplay age etc.

 I still miss now and again match play and have the odd game. Always ran clans and leagues and really enjoying dMw so far as its very organised and Its great not having to do anything for a change apart from enjoy it.

I was playing CS:S at the time. I didn't even know the server had rules so got told of a couple of times. But once I got used to it I hung around. I joined the forum fairly quickly, but didn't really use it at first.

A combination of things have had me gaming less and less, mostly university stuff, and my steam rating has been pretty low for a while but it's slowly coming back recently with a little help from Black Ops. Gone off BC2 a bit because I generally only game for a map or two, but will try and change this pattern for when BF3 comes around.

I played against dMw in an ED CS match, in prep for the match came & had a look at the site & had a read to see what the clan was all about, enjoyed the match & the banter, noted that dMw played in much the way I liked to game with the emphasis being put on having fun & playing as the game was meant to be played. The clan I was in split so I found my way back here & started hanging around the forum & servers.

You can blame Suicidal Monkey,

Was in downgraded with him and we played CS1.6 and then Battlefield 1942, Modern Warfare mod and then BF2, Ben left us to play BF2 with dMw and kept advertising dMw and the LANs  So I join the forums and played on the BF2 server, then signed up to a LAN and taught how to play TCS real time, met some really good people and started to spend more time on the forums and servers.  

CoD4 was just out and the community was thinking about running it.  I played on CoD the server from the beginning became a supporting member.

Blunt and I just used to play on Jolt 12 Militia server for CS 1.4 onwards and I seem to remember Blunt found one of the dMw guys posting about the server on the Jolt Forum, so checked it out.

Quote from: Toxteth;321898Blunt and I just used to play on Jolt 12 Militia server for CS 1.4 onwards and I seem to remember Blunt found one of the dMw guys posting about the server on the Jolt Forum, so checked it out.

It was Oldie pimping for new members, I think it was just me & Tox who took the bait afaik.
I initially registered as Tox's Dad and have been around here since july 2002!
I just found my 1st forum post (http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?228-joined-up-thinking-and-cs&highlight=Tox%27s+Dad) :roflmao:

Came in contact with Silver Oak Guardians (former dMw ish guild) via Bastet and stuck around :)

Quote from: Luminance;321902Came in contact with Silver Oak Guardians (former dMw ish guild) via Bastet and stuck around :)

Same as Luminance but Sheepy instead of Bastet :D

I was found wandering in Live for Speed land in 2007, looking for racing that didnt involve being punted off every race by bleedin idiots.
Had spent a year doing that and found dMr by accident. Enjoyed the a few nights racing with two very helpful guys called Old Bloke and Doorman.
Found out on Vent that Doorman was the old bloke (a whole year older than me). Was impressed by the patience shown by the all the dMr guys, so stuck around.:D

Simples..

CS1.6 - Network 42 - Sadako - dMw

A chain that the clan leaders regret to this day.. :)

alt.games.counterstrike (or whatever it was). That'll be a newsgroup for younger members :wink2:

Network42 first then it's UK-based spin-off (courtesy of DogMeat) - dMw

Joined via the CS days, was still new to the game and learning, found that many dMw members (Whitey, Sadako and Blunt) using in-game coms for tactical play on CS map 'port', and I signed up along with Reiken and Exodus IIRC
 
Now look, I'm starting to reminisce the days that have far gone :crying:

Quote from: Penfold;321927alt.games.counterstrike (or whatever it was). That'll be a newsgroup for younger members :wink2:

Network42 first then it's UK-based spin-off (courtesy of DogMeat) - dMw

Followed Pen here from AOKCC, back in 2001 ish i think.

We had a match in ED while I was in an old clan called [CIGS]. It didn't go to well in there so I decided to join -=[dMw]=- due to the excellent server with gameplay and sticking to the objective rule. I ended up taking a few players with me to -=[dMw]=-
I joined the forums in March 2003 but can't find my first post as I 've posted quit a bit since then.
 
Managed to get into Deltasquad within -=[dMw]=- which I found quit an achievement.
Oh yeah, also managed to get King and da_Ricci to join. Do'h!
 
EDIT;
Joining post found; http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?3384-New-Members-to-dMw
 
Also managed to visit the LANs a few times (I think 6 or so) which I enjoy alot and managed to get an A'damtrip working.

The first sign of DMW came to me while playing CZ, joining them to get the PW for the tactical servers they had and then just slipped in at WoW aswell.

I joined when Oldbloke found the original Meathook CS server (I think that must have been 2001?), met Dogmeat, and started playing on there regularly.

He told Frenzy, Frenzy told me and the rest is history.

I thought in addition to how I found dMW I thought I’d give a potted history of how I got into the Battlefield games. Too long for my forum bio, but worth a punt as a one-off post.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

...no, well in October 2004 at least, Mrs Arithon bought me BattleField 1942. This was the first online game I had played with some actual strategy and vehicles!! You could change weapons, parachute and did I mention vehicles? You could not just FLY a flying fortress, you could ride in one and fire the guns too!
Because DICE were an independent dev at that time, they still made mod tools and soon maps and mods were popping up like “Point Of Existence ” and one particular mod, “Desert Combat” began sucking away my evenings. This led me to join my first clan “1st Genyosha” the clan drifted apart after about nine months and with the release of “BattleField Vietnam” I was playing less “Desert Combat”.
During early 2005 rumours surfaced that the guys who’d made the DC mod had been employed by DICE and in summer 2005 “Battlefield 2” was released and my poor wife began telling everyone she was a computer widow! My “little” brother Johnny5 (he’s 14 year my junior) also began playing BF2 and he stumbled across a clan “Dnd-squad”, my second clan and played many happy hours of BF2. Roughly the equivalent of 8 hours a day for 44 days!
I was involved in the early (BETA 1) of BF2142 and despite my high hopes for the game, it was nerfed before its release. Also, with the EA acquisition of DICE, update support was dying for BF2, so DnD-Squad gradually died off. The various COD and MOH games and their sequels were released, but none really topped BF2 and by 2008 my brother had defected to the PS3.
Then last March EA & DICE released BFBC2 for the PC (having given the consoles BF1943 & BFBC while giving the PC gamers who put them where they are today the finger for five years!). I was not too enthusiastic at first, (low expectations) but after playing the demo, I pre-ordered and began playing. But (as mentioned) my brother spent all his time playing “COD: Modern Twitch-Shooter 2” and “F1:2010” in his “costs-more-than-my-gaming-PC” racing chair with the other console-monkeys (traitor) so I had nobody to play alongside and playing lone-wolf in BFBC2 gets old fast.
So by the latter part of the year I was playing MOH and had dropped BFBC2. I got “COD:BO” for Christmas from Mrs Arithon, but after finishing the single-player missions I found the MP version too “consoley” to get along with. So in February I gave BFBC2 a second chance.
Looking for a low-ping server in the UK I ran across dMw’s server and started playing. First thing I notice was there WERE ADMINS! Administrators who actually enforced rules, so making the game playable. After coming back over several days, TwoBad messaged me suggesting I join Teamspeak and so I did. Since then I have gone from rank 24 to rank 36 in roughly a month. (Sorry Ghost)
dMw are not just a good gaming clan (with a well administered server) but support more than one game, which is a real strong point, having been in two previous clans which died when people moved to other games.
Keep it up guys, you have my full support.

Had been playing BC2 for a short time with Fazer & Jian.  Both Fazer and i ran TS servers so we could chat in game.  However, as i'd only just started play fps (yes i know, what have i been doing with my life?) whenever they weren't on i wasn't enjoying it much (my k/d back then was around 0.2) and i nearly stopped playing.  As a bit of a last resort i Googled BFBC2 clans/communities, i found a couple in the UK which looked good but when i contacted them they either had fallen by the wayside or weren't accepting new members.  Luckily, i stumbled across the dMw BC2 server.  Had a few games and Ninja suggested registering on the forum and getting on TS.

So something you could maybe look at Ghosty is getting dMw to be better represented in Google results.  With the search i did for UK only results, dMw aren't in there at all.

COD4 :D ......

I first started playing PC games the day my mum bought me an intel386 for my birthday at the age of 10, Command and Conquer springs to mind :boxing: ooo then Red Alert.

I then went through a period of playing games like Sim City 2000 and age of Empires but then got a Playstation 1 for Christmas and started playing Tekken and Fifa 97.

I then grew up......

Got a new PC, whilst i was at college, didnt know anything about hardware or OS's just used it for chatting on the web (MSN that kinda thing). A couple of my mates were talking about a game called Medal of Honor Allied Assault for the PC and how good it was playing it online.......so, we set up our own "Clan", rented a server (im sure i still owe 2 months rent for it), I remember thinking the graphics were incredible and wondering how my pc actually coped with it........Thats when i started getting curious with the way computers worked....

4 Years later we had played clan matches on CoD, Cod2 and Spearhead....built my first pc from scratch (that was an experience) :blink:

Then Cod4 was realeased in 2008, i seperated from the clan i was with (dont know why tbh....but glad i did  now :D ) and i stumbled accross a server named dMw Teamplay i think it was called,  2 and a half years on, here i am :D

Thanks everyone :D :boxing:

I first got dragged into multi-player gaming by doing some local 4xPC BNC networked Doom-fests, in a flat, in Glasgow, in the mid 90's. It was a fast decline onto the hard stuff, never quite getting the right fix.

By the end of the 90's I was working for BT and met Fifi, at this point I was doing my gaming on the now Defunct "Barrysworld" servers, playing "JailBreak" and "Action Quake II", they had their own ISDN dial-up modems on local rates and allowed bonded channels, oh the speed, but they ran it voluntarily, real life commitments and it's success, caused them to sell it off, at this point the service went pants.

I spent a while on the Bolt servers, but it wasn't the same.

Fifi had been on the internal BT newsgroups and someone, lets call him "Oldbloke" (whatever happened to him), had posted some stuff about -=[dMw]=-. Fifi told me about it, but the term "Clan" didn't appeal to me and so I continued in the wilderness for a while.

Eventually Fifi got me to visit the forums to explain that -=[dMw]=- were not actually a clan based site, but a community that had a clan warfare section. So I ventured on and registered, Fifi was my enabler.

Fifi had the operation and became Sn00ks, I joined in the Friday night games and became 'known'.

The rest is history and, as they say, has been wiped from the public record in the interests of public decency and to protect the innocent.

On 29th November 2004 , after accidently stumbling upon the CS:CZ server and liking the spirit.

Oldie made me join to help lessen his shame at constantly losing matches ;)

Quote from: Ninja_Freak;321923Simples..

CS1.6 - Network 42 - Sadako - dMw

A chain that the clan leaders regret to this day.. :)

Change Sadako to Tealeaf, prefix CS with [WAS] clan playing Delta Force and you're there.

I think i saw a thread on some forum about dMw for COD4 or MW2 i dont remember.

So i gave it a shot and right now i only play games on our servers except for LoL were it´s only matchmaking.

Anyway i love this place, to bad school is taking so much time right now.

Afraid I'm one of these pixel idiots from wow :P

First time on this website I was so idiot and only looked in the wow section but then slowly and bravely started to look around as well :P and I found out what wonderful people there is in this community (some of you prob talk crap about me but wth :P )

I stumbled upon dMw in the BF2 days when I joined the server and had a few games but never joined the forums as I didn't feel the need. My tag would have been "TIPSYTOM" then (anyone notice the recurring alcohol based theme). Too many people copied the original name that I have had for myself since on-line play of Red Alert, Rainbow Six : Rouge spear etc.Still own the domains but that's about it.

Recently when back in Norwich for a UNI reunion with Mark and Ash [I know all of Ghosty's Crew as went to uni with them] there was a mention of dMw over a few Bevvies and the fun people have had in servers/LAN's. I thought I would play a few games with you guys to see what the hype was about. Turns out its true and your an awesome bunch of Guys and Gals (had to include Ellie). The main thing that sealed it was some interesting talks with khicken, Main, Gorion and Gortex when playing D & D which I had not tried before. I was literally in tears of laughter over team speak. It was then that I decided I would make an effort to come to the LAN and bully work into giving me the time off.

Since then I have been hopping on and off servers and slowly talking to more and more of you. I have had some good hints and tips off many of you for games that I have been new to which I am grateful for and everyone is friendly and welcoming.

Looking forward to meeting you all in person at the LAN.

DZ

Ahh I didn't know that you know all Ghosty's friends. I haven't sat you together at the LAN but you can move to their table if you want (or you don't have to and can stay with us big boys!).

I would rather stay with the big boys....

I know all of them really well through 3 years of UNI and I would rather sit with and get to know the dMw community, as I play on-line more with you guys than I do them. For peoples birthday and reunions I go back to Narrrrwich where most of them live so I see them quite often anyway. I think they are arriving on Thursday, like me, so I will probably be sick of them by the Sunday =p. Hopefully I will get a chance to talk to everyone anyway.

DZ

Quote from: DrunkenZombiee;322170I would rather stay with the big boys....

I know all of them really well through 3 years of UNI and I would rather sit with and get to know the dMw community, as I play on-line more with you guys than I do them. For peoples birthday and reunions I go back to Narrrrwich where most of them live so I see them quite often anyway. I think they are arriving on Thursday, like me, so I will probably be sick of them by the Sunday =p. Hopefully I will get a chance to talk to everyone anyway.

DZ

Be careful what you wish for :P

I was introduced to DMW by nvg (my dad :P) and started playing Call of duty: Modern warfare with you guys on your server. (almost exclusively on your server :D) Sorta droped off the radar with me going to big skool but Im back with battlefield BC2 (awesome game btw)im on usually whenever i get the chance.

It all started when Cragle (My big bro) made me play his game of CZ whilst he got a drink, since then I nagged and nagged my mum to buy me a copy of CZ. From then I played CZ with -=[ViP]=- and often moped about their server occasionally popping over to [BoD] which is where i first found -=[dMw]=- . After a couple of months playing on these servers i noticed it was always a -=[dMw]=- member that was always at the top of the score table, and i always wondered, "how do they do it!?" so i asked one of you, (think it was Tox) and he sent me this way! Since then -=[ViP]=- split and i to keep on at Whitey and various other head people to let me be a Bravo!
So in short, i joined via CS:CZ in 2006. Been here since. Cant get rid of me :)

JAS introduced me to the world of Online gaming (with Unreal Tournament) in 2000. Told me to get CS a few months later and follow him onto a server.... it was the dMw server.
Tried a few other servers, didnt like them so came back. Always liked the way everyone remembered & welcomed you (Oldie, Fatbob, Stryker etc...)
Joined the server as MickCantHitSh!t, got told off by Dogmeat :( changed name to SmiteThee.
 
Not posted for a while. Hello all :P

Quote from: smite;322316Not posted for a while. Hello all :P

Hello old-timer!  Try not to be a stranger for much longer!  LAN XX is something to pencil into your diary.....should be special :biggrin:

Quote from: TeaLeaf;322409Hello old-timer! Try not to be a stranger for much longer! LAN XX is something to pencil into your diary.....should be special :biggrin:

With the new addition to the family there is no hope for a long long time. Would love to get time to play..... any game :D.

Which one is XX, september? If so im certainly going to try.

ye the XX lan is 30th September to the 2nd October this year

I don't remember too well. It's all dark and hazy.

I recall something about Delta Force 2, then CS with some of the other [WAS] monkeys, then Benny told me he could show me pictures of some puppies and it went downhill from there.

Doorman did promise lunch vouchers too, but I never saw them.

Quote from: BigFatCat;322461Doorman did promise lunch vouchers too, but I never saw them.

That's why you're the Big fat Cat.

Played BF2 when it came out, played on dMw servers early 2005, registered some months later. Real life has now stolen most gaming time but still a #deadmen regular with 5-10 other disturbed beings.

Asked TL to join  SOG . When ouor forums went down , we moved into dMw .

As most of the WOW players have said, it started in a Guild called Silver Oak Guardians where we first got the sweet smell of raiding. Later on we went to the dMw forums and then eventually the guild changed name and we never really looked back.

Well it was all a bit more complicated than that, but we need not go into the details and drama of mmo's.

Shortly after I took over for Theo as GM of Silver Oak Guardians, I ran into Tealeaf. The rest is history really.

I have been off gaming all together for the larger part of the last few years. It seems the LAN fixed that though :D

Glad to see your return mate

I used to try and play BF2 with OBC, RIP  and then kids arrived and that was that!! Kids now go to bed @ sensible time and sleep through!! Release of BF3 I needed to play again. I tapped in my yahoo id and found a guy on there called magnus_417 whom used to play in the same places and he kindly pointed me in your direction of a relaxed place to play and enjoy.. So Hi to you all... hopefully see you on the battlefield soon :)

Welcome Jimmy, see the password thread for Teamspeak details etc.
join us on TS :)

Welcome Jimmy

Welcome Jimmy, hope to see you join the battle soon

short version of the story:  They found me!!!


It all started with Counter Strike as Duvel and Ghosty already said most of my history "[CIGS]".
I was in [CIGS] where i met Duvel and later on also Ghosty, at some point that clan fell apart and Duvel joined dMw, as we played alot with some of dMw.
At some point it was Sadako who got sort of frustrated about me not applying for dMw so at that point i became part of dMw.
(yes It was Sadako who maked sure that i went to dMw and no where else)

Where is Sadako ?

First time I joined dMw was way back in BF2 time. I was playing with [xO] at the time, but full on clan gaming was putting too much of a schedule element into it all. Kakehund was talking about a larger community with guys around our age he encountered through his WoW playing.
So, when BF2142 rolled around I left [xO] and signed up for the dMw forums. After a while, I gradually stopped playing PC titles, and sorta faded from dMw as well. Not that many would have noticed I was a member back then. I stayed pretty much below the radar.

Then, spring of 2011. Starting some PC gaming again, World of Tanks this time. Kakehund mentions that the dMw guys are still around, and some of them are playing this brilliant title. I join again, but keep a much higher profile this time. After a while I sorta got to know Duvel, TeaLeaf and a couple of other characters. After a summer of successful gaming and loads of banter on TS, I decided to go to the LAN with Spiritus and Kakehund. At the LAN, I got final confirmation that dMw was something for me, so I signed on as a supporting member.

And now I can be found playing BF3 whenever the map is not a rush one.

EOS :D

I Joined the forum after playing a game on the bc2 server Naldo was admin at the time playing the server, I was impressed at how well run and admined (<- is that a word?) the server was.

Quote from: .DickDastardly.;336534I Joined the forum after playing a game on the bc2 server Naldo was admin at the time playing the server, I was impressed at how well run and admined (<- is that a word?) the server was.

So what are you still doing here? :P

typo* replace was with is:roflmao:

Real life friend of Peanut, joined the teamspeak for BF3 goodness and it went from there :)

Peanut?
Grrrrr! death from above :(

Hey all :D

I've been around for a while now. I joined back when BC2 was going strong and now I'm all over BF3 like a bad rash. :dribble:

As for the "how I found you" part; I think it was a result of seeing a video on youtube that had people playing BC2 and talking over teamspeak and coordinating thier movements as a team and I thought I'd see if there were any sites/clans/groups out there who done the same but didn't need me to walk over hot coals to be a part of it :blink:

So after some googling I found a couple of sites, but you're the guys I keep coming back to :flirty:

Quote from: RifleRob;340944Hey all :D

So after some googling I found a couple of sites, but you're the guys I keep coming back to :flirty:

Thats becuase we are awesome welcome to the site

Because of my co-worker Hubbah! :)

Welcome Athlas!

Cool welcome to the dMw:byebye:

I found you way back playing dMw. Cant remember how, I think I just searched around internet for team-player clans...