BYOC Registration

David Coffman

If you'd like to have your own private space in our BYOC area with wired internet and power, you can get BYOC passes from here: https://www.showclix.com/event/bc38524452720250

You'll also need PAX day passes as well, of course.

ClannMorgan

Just picked up two!

VirtualWizard

I bought one this year. Wonder what I should load on the PC?

mcdermott

David Coffman wrote: »

If you'd like to have your own private space in our BYOC area with wired internet and power, you can get BYOC passes from here: https://www.showclix.com/event/bc38524452720250

You'll also need PAX day passes as well, of course.

I don't need day passes to buy BYOC do I? I intend to get them secondhand. Just want to make sure my order doesn't get canceled.

mcdermott

VirtualWizard wrote: »

I bought one this year. Wonder what I should load on the PC?

EVERYTHING

zerzhul

mcdermott wrote: »

David Coffman wrote: »

If you'd like to have your own private space in our BYOC area with wired internet and power, you can get BYOC passes from here: https://www.showclix.com/event/bc38524452720250

You'll also need PAX day passes as well, of course.

I don't need day passes to buy BYOC do I? I intend to get them secondhand. Just want to make sure my order doesn't get canceled.

You do not need to have an active pax badge order in order to purchase byoc, if past years hold true. You do, however, need badges in hand to use byoc when the time comes (which is a thing I know you know, but am reiterating for posterity).

mcdermott

Hmmmm. Not sure I want to take a seat if I don't know how many days I'll even be there. Maybe I'll throw a LAN party at the house that weekend and we can take breaks to go to PAX.

meloncollie

Super excited for PAX/BYOC this year!
Any idea when group seating will open for large groups? Thank you!

Raptor007

VirtualWizard wrote: »

I bought one this year. Wonder what I should load on the PC?

Action Quake 2, of course: http://q2online.net/action

zByrd

Will this be the thread we register groups in?

zerzhul

It is likely, yes. What's been happening the last handful of paxes is that once the enforcer(s) and/or staff in charge of group registration and other byoc stuff gets their assignment, they will make a new OP, and I merge this thread into that.

havok978

Now that I've finally retired the 5 year old Alienware laptop and I can actually run modern games again, I think I'll make my return to the BYOC this year.

mcdermott

I've said it before, I'll say it every year, but it'd really be nice (and benefit the BYOC area) if there were some way to allow BYOC-only access for those without day badges for a given day. Even if it was at a small fee (to cover extra security overhead). Let me pay, say, $20 or $25 extra for a BYOC-only badge for the day, that only gets me access to that floor of the annex. Don't let me past the escalators unless I show another valid pax day badge.

Especially now, the place seems much more empty and part of that has got to be people without all four day badges who just can't come up.


I know this isn't the case, and will likely never be the case. Just saying it should be.

VirtualWizard

mcdermott wrote: »

VirtualWizard wrote: »

I bought one this year. Wonder what I should load on the PC?

EVERYTHING

Some Petabytes of storage and a couple of months should be sufficient

VirtualWizard

Raptor007 wrote: »

VirtualWizard wrote: »

I bought one this year. Wonder what I should load on the PC?

Action Quake 2, of course: http://q2online.net/action

Thanks Raptor, I'll take a look.

mcdermott

What I'll personally be loading (and ensuring is updated):

League, both Legends and Rockets
World of Warships
Overwatch
Heroes of the Storm
Team Fortress 2
Battlefields, all the ones I own
All the other Blizzard games I own
maybe a few other oddball titles

Thing to remember is that once you get there, you are not downloading shit. Like, nothing. It's bad. I did download League of Legends my first year in BYOC, but I started it at closing time and let it go overnight.

EDIT: I think as we get closer we'll see a list, too, of things we recommend you bring along

Flufflez42

I get the feeling WoW: Legion is going to be huge at BYOC this year considering it drops 72 hours before PAX starts. I'm a super casual WoW player but ill probably be running through it with as many people as I can find.

sluggotor

Flufflez42 wrote: »

I get the feeling WoW: Legion is going to be huge at BYOC this year considering it drops 72 hours before PAX starts. I'm a super casual WoW player but ill probably be running through it with as many people as I can find.

That's kind of unfortunate timing for the release because the BYOC community really seems to have a lot of fun with whatever indie game we find that year. Example - Duck Game last year.

Flufflez42

sluggotor wrote: »

Flufflez42 wrote: »

I get the feeling WoW: Legion is going to be huge at BYOC this year considering it drops 72 hours before PAX starts. I'm a super casual WoW player but ill probably be running through it with as many people as I can find.

That's kind of unfortunate timing for the release because the BYOC community really seems to have a lot of fun with whatever indie game we find that year. Example - Duck Game last year.

Yeah, I was going to play duck game last year but I ended up getting sucked into playing killing floor 2 on the freeplay server. Had a ton of fun.

Vanus

Any word on group registration?

theabyss

How did I miss this? No emails or tweets about BYOC going on sale this year? Lucky I found this I love BYOC.

Dextrose

Vanus wrote: »

Any word on group registration?

Very curious about this myself. Might be just because I'm overly excited about BYOC after having a blast last year. It's gonna be dank as hell!

Elmnator AKA Elmy

Here is a little preview of the builds I will be bringing this year. You guys have seen me in the past with other builds I bring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-8e9nH_8hs

Mighty

Do we know when group registration is going up? I'm trying to get my group seating together, but I dont see anything about it.

Well, I see someone else has asked, but there's no "this is what do" post about.

Shivin

They usually start the group seating once they have the seating diagram worked out...just keep an eye on this thread. You figured out what our group name will be?

Mighty

The BYOmegas?

ratzofftoya

If the PAX passes already came in the mail and I order a BYOC pass now, does anyone know whether I can just pick it up will call or whatever?

zerzhul

I think it's likely it would be will-call, but an email to [email protected] should be able to answer that for sure.

grouchonthecouch

Anyone know if there is a FAQ for the BYOC somewhere or where I can find hours and rules etc.?

zerzhul

There used to be a really good one posted each year, but I don't actually see one from last year either. I'll poke around and see what I can rustle up.

Vanus

Found this one http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/27350260/#Comment_27350260 some of the info is probably outdated (typical games, maybe check in time, that's always contentious every year)

zerzhul

thanks for finding that. I knew there were some older ones, but spent my time trying to find the person who is doing it this year. I have been told that information will be forthcoming soon.

I would guess that a lot of that information will still be relevant.

Elmnator AKA Elmy

I private messaged 2 of the people who have been in charge at past events and haven't gotten any response yet. Hopefully everything is on the up and up and this will continue on being a well ran event.

zerzhul

Please head to this thread for continued byoc information: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/206447/pax-west-2016-byoc-mega-thread#latest

Geth, close this thread.

Geth

Affirmative zerzhul. Closing thread...