Fallen Empire: Legions

Frag "Dynamic_Derek" Now - Win Skin and Helmet of YOUR CHOICE!

UPDATE - The contest is over.  Thanks for everyone who took part! 

The lucky people who killed me this week are -

• Romance447
• Brighter
• Jordahan
• IDrinkN20
• Oni_Link
• Sige_TheSilence

Thanks again guys!

Oh boy, this is a good one.  For this week, since I missed last week, I will be giving out SIX free skins and helmets!  The rules are still the same, just kill me and say the magic words in global chat.  This weeks winning phrase will be "Gimme the Free Dynamic D!"  When you win, just send me a PM through  IA messaging with your requests for which skin and helmet you would like!

One additional rule I am adding this week however.  If you do kill me, please leave the party to let more people in to participate in the contest.  :D  Thanks and good luck!

UPDATE WITH NEW URL

Join my game HERE

Sacramento LAN Wrap-up

The LAN has now come and gone in Sacramento.  We had a great turnout for the tournament, with nearly 25% of the LAN signing up and participating.  We had a couple snags in the early goings, but everything turned out okay. 

Our booth placement was fantastic, right where people come in, so we had a lot of people checking out our stuff.  Lots of IA questions, Legions questions, and people taking up the free swag.  The energy drinks were a HUGE success!  Everyone seemed to totally dig them, and the people that knew Legions already especially got a kick out of them.  I really hope we can get those in the store eventually so people around the world will be able to kick into "Overdrive." 

I'm going to be taking a break from the LAN scene for just a bit as we ramp ourselves up for PAX.  I hope to see a lot of you Legionnaires out there!!

Check out that excitement!  Just kidding, it was almost 3 am when we took this.
Congrats to SCE_Deadeye and we hope you enjoy the new computer!

Intel Sacramento Has Been Invaded

We have arrived in full force here at the Intel plant for the Sacramento LANFest!  We've gotten our booth set up and everything ready for us to spread the word of Legions.  :)  Here is the booth as seen in PRIME position right as people walk in -

Sportin the "Overdrive" drink for the first time!

As always at an IA Lan, we are definitely giving away some crazy good prizes.  We've got five custom Legions-decaled cases for the winning team of our tournament, a free Legions t-shirt to all participants and a fully-built machine for one lucky participant.  :D  Here is the slide that "ultimate0" prepped up for the stage slideshow -

Who Wants to Enter "Overdrive?"

We made it safe and sound down here in Sacramento yesterday and went into our rooms to find a very welcome surprise; our custom Legions energy drinks.  Ray worked very hard on designing this can with help from the web design manager and they did an absolutely amazing job, so they deserve all the credit on this thing.  Without further ado, I present "Overdrive" the energy drink -

Facebook Build Deployed

     We just deployed a new build to the Facebook version of Legions this morning to fix two Leaderboard issues.  Some users' Leaderboard names were showing up as their IA logins, but this has been corrected.  In addition to that, leaderboard times should now always be updating correctly for all players!

     As I'm sure you know already from reading this blog ;) there were also two new maps released on Tuesday!  Get over to facebook and knock your friends outta the top spots!

Two New Routes Playable on Facebook

There are two new playable routes on the Legions Facebook app!  Here is the lowdown from Dr. Wiley -
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Roundabout and Donut Trip are the two latest additions to the Legions app on Facebook.  As you can see from the above screenshot there aren't many people that have set times on these two new routes so now might be a great time to head on over to the Legions App and start setting some records.  Even I haven't had a chance to try them out yet, so get to the Legions App, and maybe we'll all be seeing your lovely face as the top player.  Sorry if you get bumped out of the top slot Nathan. 

-Dr Wiley

PDXLAN Recap

Wow was that a long weekend!  It was awesome for us at InstantAction and I hope that everyone there enjoyed it.  I would like to thank everyone that participated in our tournament.  The exceptional turnout meant a lot to us.  Also, to everyone that made the effort to come and talk to us about the game personally, I would like to thank you guys as well.  To work on a game that you love and pour your heart into, to hear people get excited about it is precisely the reason we do this.  It really is all about the fans.  :)

The Tournament

     We only brought 80 Legions shirts to the LAN to give to everyone who joined the tournament as I did not expect any more than that to sign up.  We had such a high demand for it though, that we extended the amount we let in to be unlimited, giving the 80 shirts to the first ones to sign up.  We ended up with around 125 people signing up!!  With 24 teams playing, we had almost 6 hours of gaming the first night and had to hold off the winning match until the next day as it was approaching 4 am.  The next match was held at 2pm the next day and shown on the main stage projector.  I would say at least 50 people gathered chairs around to watch the action.  It was a heated match, but team "Choppa 5!!" pulled out the win.  Congratulations guys and I hope you enjoy the cases!

Choppa 5!! - Picture by "Slackin"

Kill BugsPray Contest

     I brought up with me a t-shirt signed by the developers of Legions and we decided to run a little contest to give it away.  You probably saw it in the previous blog post, but as stated before, he dominated the competition.  Two people ended up getting one kill against him in the entire five hours we ran the tournament.  In the end, one of them gracefully conceded defeat and CoolSpot ended up with the shirt.

CoolSpot with Bugs

It's good to be home, but at the same time, it's always hard to leave a place where everyone is having such a great time hanging out and playing games.  Legions had a great showing and I'm hoping that I see a lot of those people online!

No One Can Stop the Bugs

Over the last five hours, we've been running a contest here at PDXLAN with a prize of a t-shirt signed by the Legions dev team.  All the winning person has to do is kill BugsPray more than any other player in a 5 minute match.  Unfortunately, as you can see in the picture, the competition has been unable to do so very reliably.  I'll post an update later once it's over. 

Here are the current stats!

What A Tournament!!

Today we unleashed the Legions tournament on the attendees of the PDXLAN.  We did not start until 10pm at night, it is 3:22am right now and we STILL have one match to go tomorrow!!  We had an incredible turnout of 120 players in 24 teams.  We are going to hold the championship match tomorrow afternoon and hopefully have it shown on the big screen at the center of the room.  We are going to be recording that match so everyone can enjoy the EPIC battle that we know it will be.  :) 

Everyone Watching the Last Semi-Final Match

As most people know, I am also a person who LOVES energy drinks.  Going to these LAN parties is almost like heaven as I get to drink an absolutely crazy amount of them.  This LAN is already no exception.  :P  Here is a peek at what I've had so far in just a day and a half -

People that know me know that yes, this was all me.  :D  3:33 am and going strong!

So until tomorrow afternoon, have a good night!

A Little PDXLAN Excitement!

BugsPray and I have been holding down the fort now for around 12 hours.  We've had a lot of help from some of the GG crew that came with us to play, but they've been great helpin out.  So big thanks to everyone so far!  Here are a couple images from what has gone down in the first 7 and a half hours of the lan.

Could that be?  It is!  Tribes in a browser is here!





Me doing my thing, writing "lan1.instantaction.com" on the back of every sticker.  Riveting!

So far I think I'm down a little over 10 energy drinks so far today, I am going to be hating life in the morning.  I don't know how many Bugs has had, but I'm sure it's more chemicals than a meth factory.  We'll check back in tomorrow so stay tuned.  :)