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01
2010
Battlefield NirvanaPosted by: Wanderlust in Betas, Computers, First Person Shooters, Gaming, PC Gaming, tags: Bad Company 2, Battlefield, FPSBad Company 2 is in beta for pre-orders and I’m in Nirvana. Finally an FPS has been released that makes me jump for joy. I wasn’t sure how badly they’d implement the game in this day and age of console porting but they’ve done an excellent job on the game. I’m missing the command button to call out enemies, thank yous but I’m hoping that will be there at some point. It seems they took some of the good things from the Call of Duty series and made them better such as melee. No quick, 1 random knife shot, I’ve had a few but I’ve also seen where it takes a few swings of the blade to take down the enemy and I know I hit them on the first because of the “ugh” sound. It’s refreshing rather than the, what sometimes seems like, the 10 feet long knifes from MW2 and even BF2/BF2142. The familiar accumulative stats, as previous BF games, are there as well. The current mod they’re demoing is also fun but quite tough as the attacking team if you have no one that can get in to the base. It’s an attack/defense mod where the attacking team parachutes in and attempts to destroy key objects. It already seems a bit more polished than BF2/BF2142 in terms of the interface, outside of the EXTREMELY slow server browser and lack of sorting servers by latency or players and the filters resetting after every restart but again, hopefully that will be added as well. It allows you to immediately join a squad, the ability to spawn on players and as I said, most of the “goodies” from the BF series. So far I’m loving this game. It’s the type of FPS game I’ve been waiting for since BF2 began to grow long in the tooth and I’m looking forward to the March release! I have some video’s and screenshots I’ll get up soon but in the mean time, check out the official trailer at Battlefield.com or watch below! Cheers!
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12
2009
Modern Warfare 2Posted by: Wanderlust in Computers, First Person Shooters, Gaming, PC Gaming, tags: Battlefield, Call of DutySo I made this game my gaming life for the moment. I am still far from doing what I did 10, 5 and even 2 years ago in terms of play time but this has become my defacto game of the moment. It beat out L4D2 mostly b/c of the repetition of L4D but I no doubt think it’s still a good game, I’ve just decided to put it behind MW2 on the hierarchy of games. I’ve already equaled my time from MW in MW2 and will probably supplant it as the CoD series goes. My biggest problem is the air crap. I default back to games like Domination (from my UT99 and BFxxx days) as my favorite. What I get tired of is the airstrikes, AKA air crap. Typically you can run a match and easily win while getting the shit kicked out of you by airstrikes. Why? Because of dipshit morons that like to just camp, snipe and then call them in while doing nothing to progress their team. I get especially irritated when these morons are on my team and we have a good team with the exception of 1-2 players that are out for personal scores. What to do? Well I wish that they’d offer ground games without this crap. Oh wait, you probably could specify this if they had dedicated servers but alas they decided to be cheap assholes and not put anytime into the development of the PC version while charging $10 more. Sorry, I forgot for a second that Activision and Bobby Kotick (who cares nothing about gaming) cared about quality over money. Bobby Kotick should be the person at the end of single player that gets the knife to the head, hell he probably doesn’t even know that’s how it ends. I personally would love to see the game move to someone else but unfortunately with the sales of MW2 he’ll remain in control until a fan does toss a fatal knife into his skull. I look forward to (and God I never thought I’d say this) EA taking back the reins of a game with the Battlefield series. Unfortunately they dumbed down BF1943 for morons so I can only hope that Bad Company 2 compares to BF2 or even BF2142. Edit: My continued rant on 1/3/2010…. A few more things that pisses me off about the game I love at the moment.
Most of these are, gasp, easily avoided in dedicated servers… You kick hacks and you chose the map/server you want to play, admins could turn off air attacks and most of this crap is gone. Game play is great, the hierarchy, bonuses and unlocks are great but the administration of the game sucks worse than any game I’ve played. Even BF2 had some restraint by having a single “commander” that did the air support piece. Granted there were hacks in BF2/2142 but they were a lot less frequent, and you could kick people, than in MW2. I get that things in WaW and MW were out of control in terms of just point hacking but trading that for a gaming experience ISN’T the answer. It’s backwards thinking…rather than specifying rules like EA did with BF2/2142 “official servers” you just say screw everyone and STILL have no control over hacking. It reminds me of the RIAA mentality. Let’s throw in the extremely engaging and riveting but extremely short single player mode (7-8 hours) and the $10 more for a PC game.
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11
2009
MIA!! MIA!!Posted by: Wanderlust in First Person Shooters, Images, PC Gaming, tags: Call of Duty, Left 4 DeadSo I’ve not done anything for the longest time probably since I started BREWTALITY.NET through all of it’s incarnations. I’m still alive. As for the dedicated servers on MW2, I’m not noticing much issue so far, although I’m not a daily player or spend all my free time gaming. The fact that there are people already with prestige makes me wonder, can someone really do that in a few weeks unless they’re playing constantly? I guess I know some that do it in WoW so anything is possible. It is nice that people are “supposedly” earning their achievements unlike the debacle that World at War was. I admit I played on some of the servers that had an ungodly amount of points for a kill, etc. but it grows old but so does having games like MW that casual gamers got the hell beat out of them because they didn’t play daily. The nice thing with MW2 is they have perks for casual gamers who aren’t great (AKA me! heh). Anyway, I need to do something with screenshots since I have 100’s that I’ve not uploaded including stuff from these two great games. I have a crap load on my xFire profile which I’m finding is more and more useful as a gaming social site even though a lot of gamers don’t use it. It keeps all my shots in their 1920×1200 glory so that’s a bonus and does the uploads in game rather than having to do anything with them here and spending precious space. Still using FRAPS tho and have that subscription. Check out the xFire Screenshot page.
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08
2009
Firefox 3.5.x SUCKS!Posted by: Wanderlust in Software, Troubleshooting, YouTube, tags: Browsers, FirefoxSo I’ve tried Chrome where I found that I consistently got DNS errors when loading pages. I refresh and it loads fine and I don’t mind the browser but it’s not Firefox. This week I’ve been giving Safari a try, again it’s OK but not Firefox and I’ve noticed a few issues with it like accepting gifts in Facebook. It doesn’t return you to the request page properly and when you browse back, it’s f’d up…shows incorrect tags on buttons, lists the wrong apps for buttons, etc. Firefox never had these issues, even IE, while having more than FF, doesn’t have these little issue. So I rebuilt this past week with Windows 7, installed Firefox 3.5.1 and viola, Firefox has started having the EXACT same issues. Could it be my AT&T Uverse? Maybe, but not in the past have I noticed these issues but with Chrome. It almost seems that Firefox has made their changes for private browsing and whatever else they changed under the hood and added this annoying bug. I ended up logging into Facebook earlier using IE because it allowed me to rather than telling me there was a DNS error with Firefox for about 5 minutes straight. Oddly enough after I logged in with IE, it worked on Firefox with some delay. Could it be Windows 7? Maybe but my laptop running FF 3.0.x has yet to show this behavior. The newest problem seems to be with 3.5.2 and EXTREMELY slow page browsing. I load a video on YouTube and it keeps stammering as it tries to keep up. So I reset my router thinking maybe my connection was to blame (although speedtest.net didn’t seem to show it but could be lost packets somewhere) and the same thing. I tried to load the same page in IE and it works flawlessly. I’m not sure exactly what they’re doing with Firefox but it almost seems like Coke changing the formula while on top of the world. Firefox has slowly, and more recently, quickly started to make huge grounds on Internet Explorer but now at the height they seem to have stopped testing released code? I’m not sure, I’m just reporting what I’m seeing… Maybe others are seeing different results but when Facebook, Youtube and other popular sites are loading slow, it’s not good when the desktop browser is chugging along fine. Again I’m a huge Firefox user and supporter but not if they’re trying to keep up with a fledgling browser and in the process have started to disregard the user experience. As for the testing, it’s already been published the security flaws in 3.5 so I’m wondering if this is the beginning of them being in the spotlight? What is that, now famous, quote? With great power comes great responsibility.
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04
2009
Left 4 Dead PC DLC Out NowPosted by: Wanderlust in MODs, PC Gaming, XBox 360, tags: Left 4 DeadYou can view this at Steam as well. The Left 4 Dead Survival Pack is now available for the PC and Xbox 360, free of charge to all owners of the game. The full change list for the PC release is below. In addition, both the retail and Steam versions of the game (PC and 360) are now available for a special price. Check Steam and local retailers for pricing details. For more information about L4D, please visit www.l4d.com Survival Mode
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03
2009
Metallica Guitar HeroPosted by: Wanderlust in Music, XBox 360, YouTube, tags: Guitar Hero, Metallica, Xbox 360 |