Daden, monster mash is where I have been making up new games for us to try out. The idea is to do things that we don't usually get to do in the servers. To give you an idea I can explain a few things.
Here's a list of games and descriptions that I have tried so far
Get Behind Me Doctor (which is a personal favourite of mine)
Each team has one heavy and everyone else is medic, the object of the battle is to protect your heavy. The heavies can only use gloves or fists and the medics may use their ubers or their bone saws. The medics can kill other medics but the object is to kill the enemy heavy. Plus the quicker these die, the quicker everyone else has a chance to try .. its insane fun and I love it so much.
Hide and Seek
This is an actual plugin that we have installed on the server and I can say we will be playing it today to start with. The plug in turns everyone on the red team to spys and everyone on the blue teams to pyros. Because in game play we found the pyros to be too powerful with their flame thrower, spamming fire everywhere was just cheap and very very difficult for the spys I restricted the pyros to their axes ! Every time a pyro kills a spy the spy is automatically made into a pyro and visa versa. This is great fun and sometimes the spies do exceptionally well especially if deja is on board !
Fort Knox
This one is where we have one team in their intel building sentries and dispensers and teleporters, they are only allowed to build within the room.
The opposing team has to break in by using any means including ubers and good team work is a must, in order to destroy the fort that the enemies have built up. They are not allowed to use Engies at all.. and I also have to discourage spawn camping because its cheap and ruins the nature of the game. We do still have to work on this one to iron out the kinks.. we do come up against problems each time we play but I am sure we will get it perfect one of these days
Heavy Boxing
This is just as it sounds, we all make a ring or a square depending on the map and we have one heavy from each side go at it .. this is one of the most simplest events and its so much fun another favourite !!
BARBARIAN INVASION
RED heavies, snipers spies and soldiers
BLUE Scout, demo, engie and pryo
(no medics) this is done on a pl map and lots of fun, creates quite a challenge.!!
Hudda Hudda line
This is where we line up our pyros, red blue, red blue and when everyone is ready on the count of 3 we all taunt the person in front.
We also do this with heavies and spys.. lots of fun with the anticipation in this
Engie Wars
This is just as it sounds.. the engies make a line .. red on one side, blue on the other.. on the count of 3 they deploy their sentries and move way back out of range, they are not allowed to wrench their sentries. This is fun to watch who's sentry is still standing at the end!
We also try single class melee or just about anything we can think of
Ah I nearly forgot, I know another one I have fun doing, its called
BLIND POOL PARTY. For this one we either go any class with melee weapon or class specific.. usually determined at the time everyone jumps into the pool and I blind them. They have a couple of minutes to go at it, the winning team is the team with the most left standing players. TRUST ME, this is hilarious to watch, I think I have more fun just watching them blindly hitting with their weapons
There are a few new games we are going to try to perfect, one ducttape found called
superman. This is where we go to a map with a train, the idea is to stop the train (with a super ubered heavy ) for this we need one heavy on each side.. engies and their dispensers built on the track and medics to uber the heavy. The object is to stop the train longer than the enemy team. This was hilarious last time we tried it.
Another one is
Hot potatoes, suggested by Foxhound. I still am not quite sure how we are going to pull it off, but we are going to try it out today. The idea is for pyros to air blast a scout into the air and keep him in the air longer than the other team.
But you know, some of our games dont work out too well.. but we certainly have fun in testing them out. If anyone out there has any ideas to try, that you think might be fun. Please pm me or ducttape with them, we would be very happy to go over them with you and see if we can actually use them in the events. As long as the concept is not too difficult, we can give it a try.
Monster Mash is the event with a difference and you have to bring your sense of fun and be adaptable and open to try new things.