Fallen Empire: Legions

PlayTribes Demo At PDXLAN This Weekend!!

"The Resurrection"

Oh man, how is this for an announcement!  We will be showing off the PlayTribes this weekend at our InstantAction booth at PDXLAN 14 this weekend in Portland, Oregon.  If anyone is going to the LAN, be sure to stop by our booth and check it out.  What you see above is a killer picture that our good friend and intern Justin made, better known to all of you as Neolight.  If you like what you see, please leave a comment below.  We might be able to wrangle some shirts out of this so to gauge some interest, leave us your thoughts! 

I know a lot of you guys have been clammoring for any PlayTribes information for a while, so rest assured we have been working like crazy to get it ready.  We are getting closer to a closed beta so stay tuned for more information!  You can also head over to the Tribes forum area for more discussion

"The Chronicles of Zeta"

A crazy good community video was posted online yesterday from the Team Vorticity guys and a lot of the Legions Players gang.  This video features so many sick mid-air flag passes that you may need a "lose-your-lunch" bag.  I was very impressed with the quality guys, great job!

Head on over to the Legions Forums to discuss!

Frag "Dynamic_Derek" Now - Free Skin and Voicepack!

UPDATE:

     Thanks for playing everyone!   We had a great turnout and I had a blast, no pun intended.  Prometheus even descended from above a few times during the match to visit some unsuspecting gamers.  ;)  I was even in such a good mood that I gave away FOUR prize packages instead of three.  The lucky winners were -

• dobson777
• Gamethief19
• J_Gold
• MightyDeath

Congrats on catching up to me and stopping my rabbiting.  :)  Stay tuned to the blogs and twitter pages everyone because next week we'll do this again!

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Oooh, it's that time again to get busy killing me.  I am currently online playing Legions and you can reach me by following this url to get to my party - Frag Me Now.  This is a 32-player server so it will fill up quick!  So this will work the same way as the last one.  The rules are simple:

• First THREE to kill me AND
• Say the phrase "Gimme Gimme Gimme" in the general chat (default key is "t")

It's just that easy.  Now what will I be giving away you ask, well you will be getting a 2-for-1 deal today!  You will be getting the following

• Raider "Precursor" Helmet
• Tribes 2 Bioderm Voicepack

Alright, click that link above and start killing me!

Legions Shoutcast Last Night

Thanks to the wonders of the inter-tubes and the guys over at Legions Players, I am able to bring you a shoutcast of a pick-up game last night.  Fishstix and theBLS were the announcers of the match.  Some of it is a slightly NSFW language, but that is the nature of the beast when you are watching exciting matches.  You can check back to the Legions forums frequently for announcements of new shoutcasts as they come along.  Thanks for setting this up guys and enjoy everyone!

Crazy Good Community Mid-Air Video

I just watched one of the community posted videos on youtube put up by "SynistaJay" and have to say that I am truly impressed by the skills.  It is a video of mid-airs that he captured with fraps and I highly recommend viewing.  Thanks for posting it SynistaJay!

Weekly Contests for Keen-Eyed Users

With the success of last weeks "Who Wants to be a Pirate" contest, we have decided that we are going to be holding a weekly contest giving away content.  However, the contests are NOT going to be announced ahead of time.  When they start, I will message the contest across all of our social media networks.  So keep an eye out for our twitter pages, our facebook pages, and this blog for your chance to win free content every week!   I will give out the party information through these avenues and the first people to join, beat me (or whoever is the chosen one), then say the magic words will get some free IA content.  So keep your eyes peeled people because you never know when it's game time.  ;)

EYES WIDE OPEN!

Going to Portland This Weekend!

So a bunch of us from here at InstantAction are going to be going to Portland this coming weekend to attend the PDXLAN.  We're gonna be running another Legions tournament this weekend, and here are the details!

• Team size - 5 Man Teams
• Team Limit - 15 Teams
• Gametype - Team Deathmatch
• Score Limit - 30 Kills
• Time Limit - 15 minutes
• Map Rotation - Frostbyte, Moonshine, Zenith Cauldron, Nivosus

The winning team members will ALL be getting a custom Legions-decaled Antec Mini P180 Black Steel MicroATX Mini Tower! 

Everyone that participates in the tournament will also receive one of our very sought after and coveted black Legions t-shirts.

But, the big daddy prize, which we will give to a completely random participant in our Legions tournament is a fully-built, custom Legions-decaled computer.  I know you want the specs so here they are -

• Intel quad core i7
• 6 gigs of DDR3 1600 ram
  
• Vista 64 with an upgrade voucher for Windows 7
• 2 raid hard drives (2x 640 gig WD black = FAST)
• 2 SLI Nvidia 275 video cards

Who is excited now?  :D  We will see you guys in Portland this weekend!!

 

Facebook Issues Resolved

I know that staring at the hourglass icon can be about as much fun as being punched in the face by Oscar De La Hoya wearing porcupines for boxing gloves* so we tried to get rid of the infinite downloading bug ASAP.  I am proud to say that this issue has been fixed and along with the leaderboard bug, those were the last remaining issues we had with the launch!  So if you were unable to download before, I encourage you to head back over to the PlayLegions Facebook app and give it another go.

*Don't try wearing porcupines as boxing gloves, I hear they REALLY hate that.

Legions on the Go!

So our good friend and intern BugsPray just recently got back from a nice vacation in sunny California.  We are very jealous here, but also glad he had a great time.  He also brought us back a very nice picture from his adventure.  Head over to the Legions Players website to check out his story!

And don't forget to hop into the Legions forums to chat back and let him know how much he sucks for taking a vacation.  (Not really, but please discuss)  :)

Who Wants to Stick it to Their Friends!

A quick update on the PlayLegions facebook app, we got the Leaderboard bug fixed!  You guys didn't think we'd let your conquers go unnoticed for very long did you?  So now feel free to get on their, climb your way to the top of those leaderboards and say "In Your FACE!!" to all of your dearest friends and family.  I'll see you online here - PlayLegions on Facebook.  And as you can see, I am not the best player by a long shot.  Please try not to rub it in.  :)