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Day at Omega Sektor - edit again
By John 'John' Lear
Aug 10, 2007 17:26
well i got up at 7 to get to birmingham in time for the open at Omega Sektor - got to birmingham around 8, so i was abit early and went to one of the 2 mcdonalds located within a 2 min walk from omega sektor. there is 2 mcdonalds, 1 burger king, starbucks , pizzahut all within a 10 second walk to a 2 min walk
When i arrived we were all waiting around out side til about 9 and then they let us in - 1st we had to sign up for membership by giving them all our details n that.
one of the members of staff then gave us a fast tour around this MASSIVE place. i tried to take as many pics as i could but they have came out dark as there wasnt many bright lights on - you can view these at www.lear11.co.uk/omegasektor]HERE[/url]
we didnt spend to much time upstairs - just walked us past the stage area into the bar and back down the stairs. we then went into the OS club area which has bigger monitors and better headphones and played there for around 4 hours
there is alot of games that can be played there
the list can be found here
played Quake4 and COD 2 most of the day with others who were hanging around in the os club which was fun
well thats what happened most of the day
now some info on the specs etc according to the sheet of paper a member of staff had which i took a pic of
Processor: Intel Core2 6420 @ 2.13 GHz
RAM: 2GB-667 MHz operational speed
Hard drive: 400GB
Graphic Card: Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS
Sound Card: Creative SB X-Fi
OS: windows XP
Network card: Intel 82566DV Gigabite Network connection
internet speed - 20mbps boostable up to 30mbps if needed
They use the Razer mantis mousepad and the razer tarantula keyboard! dno what mouse it is but its a razer one lol
i think they are using the sennheiser HD 265 i think - cnt remember this is only in the os club area where there is 40 pcs - for the other 400 around the place i didnt look to see what they were but maybe some1 will work it out from the pics
and some BIG nice leather seats!
prices are £3 for 1 hour or £5 for 3 hours
to go into the os club i think its just double the price
membership is free with a few offers going on
IT IS FREE THIS WEEKEND ONLY so get down there if you want to spend all day there for free!
there is also some pics on lunchpr
as i forgot to take my camcorder i could only take pics which came out abit dark but in next few days ill ask a member of staff to tour me round with my camcorder for you lot who aint lucky enough to live near to see!
and if you have bothered to read this far u can now read some exciting information!
on the 20th august there will be a PES6 toury shown LIVE on SKY SPORTS!! u heard it here 1st :P unless u was at either the press open day or today when they told every1
any questions and ill try answer them for u
EDIT
i also 4got that they will be doing overnight gaming on a friday and saturday - around £15 they said which will be in the os club i think at times of 10pm til 9am or around that
you can also hire out any part of the centre for a party etc - so you can hire the OS club and use the pcs and other stuff in there
they have a few GIANT projecters
one where a man was playing the wii on
can see that in one of my pics
EDIT AGAIN
just remembered something they said today
there getting vending machines which cost the amount of half of a house which will sell fish n chips in them
lol
found some more photos
http://www.thesgl.com/galleries/omegasektor
went down again today - more ppl coming now
few problems with pcs but will get sorted
got some new pics link is here
[url=http://www.custompc.co.uk/images/slideshow/64844
When i arrived we were all waiting around out side til about 9 and then they let us in - 1st we had to sign up for membership by giving them all our details n that.
one of the members of staff then gave us a fast tour around this MASSIVE place. i tried to take as many pics as i could but they have came out dark as there wasnt many bright lights on - you can view these at www.lear11.co.uk/omegasektor]HERE[/url]
we didnt spend to much time upstairs - just walked us past the stage area into the bar and back down the stairs. we then went into the OS club area which has bigger monitors and better headphones and played there for around 4 hours
there is alot of games that can be played there
the list can be found here
played Quake4 and COD 2 most of the day with others who were hanging around in the os club which was fun
well thats what happened most of the day
now some info on the specs etc according to the sheet of paper a member of staff had which i took a pic of
Processor: Intel Core2 6420 @ 2.13 GHz
RAM: 2GB-667 MHz operational speed
Hard drive: 400GB
Graphic Card: Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS
Sound Card: Creative SB X-Fi
OS: windows XP
Network card: Intel 82566DV Gigabite Network connection
internet speed - 20mbps boostable up to 30mbps if needed
They use the Razer mantis mousepad and the razer tarantula keyboard! dno what mouse it is but its a razer one lol
i think they are using the sennheiser HD 265 i think - cnt remember this is only in the os club area where there is 40 pcs - for the other 400 around the place i didnt look to see what they were but maybe some1 will work it out from the pics
and some BIG nice leather seats!
prices are £3 for 1 hour or £5 for 3 hours
to go into the os club i think its just double the price
membership is free with a few offers going on
IT IS FREE THIS WEEKEND ONLY so get down there if you want to spend all day there for free!
there is also some pics on lunchpr
as i forgot to take my camcorder i could only take pics which came out abit dark but in next few days ill ask a member of staff to tour me round with my camcorder for you lot who aint lucky enough to live near to see!
and if you have bothered to read this far u can now read some exciting information!
on the 20th august there will be a PES6 toury shown LIVE on SKY SPORTS!! u heard it here 1st :P unless u was at either the press open day or today when they told every1
any questions and ill try answer them for u
EDIT
i also 4got that they will be doing overnight gaming on a friday and saturday - around £15 they said which will be in the os club i think at times of 10pm til 9am or around that
you can also hire out any part of the centre for a party etc - so you can hire the OS club and use the pcs and other stuff in there
they have a few GIANT projecters
one where a man was playing the wii on
can see that in one of my pics
EDIT AGAIN
just remembered something they said today
there getting vending machines which cost the amount of half of a house which will sell fish n chips in them
lol
found some more photos
http://www.thesgl.com/galleries/omegasektor
went down again today - more ppl coming now
few problems with pcs but will get sorted
got some new pics link is here
[url=http://www.custompc.co.uk/images/slideshow/64844
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40 pcs with bigger monitors and better headphones in a closed off part
i think they have ps3s in that area to but i didnt bother to go n look today will do that when i take camcorder
boomtown in copenhagen is pretty nice, but this one looks like it could better it :p
Just got back home, here's what i found:
- Copperhead drivers installed, though all the machines had deathadders??
- Keyboard was broken (Tarantula after 1 day of use? Broken 3 key, needed to almost smash it to get it to work)
- Insufficient power given by the keyboard to power my own keyboard (standard apple with usb hub built in)
- CPMA 1.35 installed for Quake3 which is about a year old with no CD Key and no punkbuster
- Starcraft couldnt find CD (DT was running though)
- Warcraft 3 couldnt find CD (finally found the TFT shorcut after searching for about 10 minutes)
- Q4Max heavily out of date (0.70b i think?)
- 360s were not working
All after pretty much searching for about an hour. Over half the machines were not ready and after waiting approximately 12 months for it, its a bit much?
From what the staff there were saying apparently it is not Sujoy and Dom running the show, but some other company with some further direction from Intel.
In order to get all these machines ready for CGS is going to be a lot of hard work. Noone is going to be want to be forced to use the awful Tarantulas, though for some good points:
- The area was generally quite nice
- Desk space was adequate (enough to fit a titanpad and a normal sized keyboard - not the tarantula)
- There were indeed a lot of machines, enough for a large event (should they all be functioning)
- Download speed was ok (30kbps i was getting to challenge-tv)
Unfortunately I didn't really get a chance to play any games (couldnt connect to any q3/q4 servers or launch sc/wc3) and if they decide to keep the price of £5-£10 for 3 (ONCE EVERYTHING IS FIXED) then sure its definitely worth it. Its just seeing whether its all ready for the big day.
but on monday+ i will not be happy if i have to pay £5 and then have to wait for a computer to be ready as i was today
the staff try hard to keep the customers happy - was a few of them setting up tourneys - was speaking to one member of staff which wasnt happy as he is a "pro" gamer - dont no his name and he wanted to do the tourneys. hopefully the staff will get used to stuff as most the time they didnt no the password to logon to the computers
and ye sujoy and dom left not long ago which is a shame
and killed john on quake 4;)
if u are moaning about that a "blog" is not up to the standard of english u want it to be at then im sorry
but i cant rly be arsed to spend longer making it sound great
i only did this to show people what we now have in birmingham
Filled with great sights to see such as the whale ass Selfridges building, the Asian chav infested Star City or finally our broken net cafes. Should you still not be impressed by these great sites, you can visit Handsworth to witness an actual daylight mugging and shooting!!! Who knows, it could be you?
*shudder*