If these guys were in charge of the big corporations in the gaming industry the games we get would be soooo much better. The industry as a whole would be so much better.
Seriously ignore the silly voice gimmick the guy uses and check out ALL of their videos. I cannot endorse this anymore then I can.
Channel and website http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/extra-credits
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Some of my favorite games/interests
Was talking to alot of friends on X-box live recently about various games including EVE, StarCraft 2, Homeworld, World of WarCraft , Halo Reach, Mass Effect 2 ETC.
And wanted to share with them and any who reads this blog -__- some cool trailers to EVE , Other awesome games I play and some cool video submitters you need to subscribe to on youtube and why.
EVE ONLINE TRAILERS
This one is the first EVE online trailer I ever saw, It gives you a basic idea of how the game environment is. Its called "The Butterfly Effect"
This next one is from the Dominion Expansion It depicts a ficitious battle (loosely based on a real one) between a invading fleet vs a defending one. Its more space battle drama instead of representation of a actual fleet battle. But it is a inspiring and entertaining nonetheless
Next up is EVE trailer for Causality, similar to the butterfly effect trailer depicts a factious event based on actual events that took place in EVE online.
Oh and this guy deserves his own blog page from me but sadly I'm too tired.
Hes a amazing bassist you should listen to him and subscribe to his youtube channel.
Enjoy
See you next time
And wanted to share with them and any who reads this blog -__- some cool trailers to EVE , Other awesome games I play and some cool video submitters you need to subscribe to on youtube and why.
EVE ONLINE TRAILERS
This one is the first EVE online trailer I ever saw, It gives you a basic idea of how the game environment is. Its called "The Butterfly Effect"
This next one is from the Dominion Expansion It depicts a ficitious battle (loosely based on a real one) between a invading fleet vs a defending one. Its more space battle drama instead of representation of a actual fleet battle. But it is a inspiring and entertaining nonetheless
Next up is EVE trailer for Causality, similar to the butterfly effect trailer depicts a factious event based on actual events that took place in EVE online.
Mass Effect 2
"Best Xbox 360 game" 2010 VGA
My personal vote for Game of the Year 2010. Quite the epic game, if you have not played it go buy Mass Effect 1 and 2 and play them both.
"Best Xbox 360 game" 2010 VGA
My personal vote for Game of the Year 2010. Quite the epic game, if you have not played it go buy Mass Effect 1 and 2 and play them both.
This guy reviews Technology from the Xbox 360 to the PS3 to cell phones and games. He's very comprehensive un-biased and very insightful. His review of the HTC Aria helped me make my final decision on purchasing it.
The very eccentric very hyperactive caster of StarCraft 2 fame. His channel views, like, subscription count speak for itself. You know what those guys in the speakerbox at baseball games do? Husky does that for StarCraft 2 games (generally played in the pro leagues). He's also been invited to host/cast/commentate at MLG and Blizzard Tournaments. A avid and (somewhat pro) player himself his insight to the game and entertaining antics make a must watch for any StarCraft 2 fan who loves its competitive multiplayer.
Heres a example of a SC2 game casted by Husky
The very eccentric very hyperactive caster of StarCraft 2 fame. His channel views, like, subscription count speak for itself. You know what those guys in the speakerbox at baseball games do? Husky does that for StarCraft 2 games (generally played in the pro leagues). He's also been invited to host/cast/commentate at MLG and Blizzard Tournaments. A avid and (somewhat pro) player himself his insight to the game and entertaining antics make a must watch for any StarCraft 2 fan who loves its competitive multiplayer.
Heres a example of a SC2 game casted by Husky
Oh and this guy deserves his own blog page from me but sadly I'm too tired.
Hes a amazing bassist you should listen to him and subscribe to his youtube channel.
Enjoy
See you next time
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
In Soviet Tyrannis
Wish I had more to update but I've been playing my hand in too many games and not enough of any one in particular to note great things to blog about.
Not that any of my blogs talk about great things =x
Mainly Its lazyness. The only times I'm inspired to write (or type as it were) is at work. Where I dont have access to a computer and I am NOT going to use the wretched keyboard on my smartphone.
Lets start with EVE
EVE
Was able to purchase me a new ride in real life which drained my wallet to where My main account expired and my 2 alt accounts were in danger of running out of time. I spent the next 4 days mining in our corp system in Vale to get up enough money to plex my accounts.
(PLEX refers to a in game time card purchased with in game money adding a month of game time to the account)
Lets see after I reactivated my Apackof12ninjas account I see that our resident pesky roamer "Vlad" was in system again looking to get a easy kill. He apparently flys around vale alot lookin for industrial s to kill in his solo purifier (stealth bomber) I just so happend to have my double bubble cloaky sabre ( a light interdictor with 2 bubble launchers and a cloaking device)
I had just wrapped up mining for the day and was fixing to haul in my 5 cans of bistot ore on Apackof12miners. Vlad starts a little chitchat in local and is spotted leaving the system. I and a few others follow and he leads us in a circle which eventually comes back to our system again. By this time I decide to set a trap for dear Vlad by warping in my orca to the belt to pick up the cans and hopefully get scanned down by Vlad. I planned to spring it by uncloaking my Sabre nearby bubbling the Purifier and popping him with my T2 Autocannons.
Sadly he had already discovered my miners hidden belt and bookmarked it. He was there to see me warp my sabre there , cloak it and commented in local. Said he was tempted and left system.
We chased after him system to system hoping to get lucky. Came close once but he got away. Decided to camp the choke point at the constellation exit, setting another trap while we had a 3 man gang chase him around the systems till he decided to leave.
Finally spotted him on my cloaky alt and when he hit the gate we sprung the trap. But he got away again. Stealth bombers are hard enough to catch but this guy was good. Hopefully will catch him next time.
Not many fleets formed since the NC's Morsis Mihi and Razor pulled out of the Drone Offensive due to Pandemic legion harassment. Rage and Majesta remained committed to the defense of Geminate and the surrounding regions we captured. But the outlook isnt looking to be in our favor.
PL's attacks are ever ruthless and the pristine NC FC"s seem to be all but retired. Even so the NC has survived worse. We will prevail we will survive.
Ah serious business aside had a interesting situation today. Last night I finished Anchor V which allows for the skill "Starbase defense management"
This skill alows one to take over a POS gun or more depending on skills. As with any new skill I like to test out how it works. So I warp Apack to the nearest POS in our system man one of the medium guns put my Alt Miner in a Apocolypse. After learning the mechanics of controlling the gun I fired a few shots and warped my miner to the station to dock up to recharge its shields. Wanted to test fire the big gun to see how much damage it did.
Now before I did anything with the POS guns I convo'ed a director about how if I did such a experiment would the entire stations guns would not all bear down on me. I was told they would not.
Sad to say this was incorrect or at least a new glitch simliar to when Tyrannis expansion first came out.
When I had warped back to the POS in horror I watched as my screen began to be filled with yellow box's which turned red which started shooting at me. Though only the small lasers were hitting me the warp scramblers and the lack of self rep was enough to eventually take me out. A corp buddy had come to help out was a few seconds too late from turning off the warp scramblers.
Be it glitch or game design lesson learned. I'm not too sad or angry over the loss. Fair amount of the expensive parts were dropped and recovered by me. I ejected the cargo before the ship blew up and the insurance covered the loss of the trimarks (armor enhancement rigs).
More to come later.
(PLEX refers to a in game time card purchased with in game money adding a month of game time to the account)
Lets see after I reactivated my Apackof12ninjas account I see that our resident pesky roamer "Vlad" was in system again looking to get a easy kill. He apparently flys around vale alot lookin for industrial s to kill in his solo purifier (stealth bomber) I just so happend to have my double bubble cloaky sabre ( a light interdictor with 2 bubble launchers and a cloaking device)
I had just wrapped up mining for the day and was fixing to haul in my 5 cans of bistot ore on Apackof12miners. Vlad starts a little chitchat in local and is spotted leaving the system. I and a few others follow and he leads us in a circle which eventually comes back to our system again. By this time I decide to set a trap for dear Vlad by warping in my orca to the belt to pick up the cans and hopefully get scanned down by Vlad. I planned to spring it by uncloaking my Sabre nearby bubbling the Purifier and popping him with my T2 Autocannons.
Sadly he had already discovered my miners hidden belt and bookmarked it. He was there to see me warp my sabre there , cloak it and commented in local. Said he was tempted and left system.
We chased after him system to system hoping to get lucky. Came close once but he got away. Decided to camp the choke point at the constellation exit, setting another trap while we had a 3 man gang chase him around the systems till he decided to leave.
Finally spotted him on my cloaky alt and when he hit the gate we sprung the trap. But he got away again. Stealth bombers are hard enough to catch but this guy was good. Hopefully will catch him next time.
Not many fleets formed since the NC's Morsis Mihi and Razor pulled out of the Drone Offensive due to Pandemic legion harassment. Rage and Majesta remained committed to the defense of Geminate and the surrounding regions we captured. But the outlook isnt looking to be in our favor.
PL's attacks are ever ruthless and the pristine NC FC"s seem to be all but retired. Even so the NC has survived worse. We will prevail we will survive.
Ah serious business aside had a interesting situation today. Last night I finished Anchor V which allows for the skill "Starbase defense management"
This skill alows one to take over a POS gun or more depending on skills. As with any new skill I like to test out how it works. So I warp Apack to the nearest POS in our system man one of the medium guns put my Alt Miner in a Apocolypse. After learning the mechanics of controlling the gun I fired a few shots and warped my miner to the station to dock up to recharge its shields. Wanted to test fire the big gun to see how much damage it did.
Now before I did anything with the POS guns I convo'ed a director about how if I did such a experiment would the entire stations guns would not all bear down on me. I was told they would not.
Sad to say this was incorrect or at least a new glitch simliar to when Tyrannis expansion first came out.
When I had warped back to the POS in horror I watched as my screen began to be filled with yellow box's which turned red which started shooting at me. Though only the small lasers were hitting me the warp scramblers and the lack of self rep was enough to eventually take me out. A corp buddy had come to help out was a few seconds too late from turning off the warp scramblers.
Be it glitch or game design lesson learned. I'm not too sad or angry over the loss. Fair amount of the expensive parts were dropped and recovered by me. I ejected the cargo before the ship blew up and the insurance covered the loss of the trimarks (armor enhancement rigs).
More to come later.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Screenshot Saturday
Not gonna lie was inspired by a NC's brosefs blog on this one but I got a screen-shot from a fleet
We reffed the Station in said system setup for a big big fight come Tuesday
Friday, November 5, 2010
IMA FIRIN MAH LAZOR
EVE Online
Yes my miner is now a combat pilot. Specifically flying a Amarr Battleship the Apocalypse
Its been my plan for awhile now to transition my miner who can now fly (and has) a Rorqual to a Full combat pilot. Well sort of full. I still plan to mine and haul with him when the need arise but for most fleets Apackof12miners is going to fly escort with me in his Apoc =D
Eventually I plan to get him into a Amarr Dreadnaught The Revelation.
Since Apackof12Ninjas is heading down the Carrier/Super Carrier path this added to the fact that Apackof12miners has Captial ships skills being able to fly a Rorq this just makes sense.
Gotta say, I love flying Amarr ships, Kinda wish I had trained them from the get go on Apackof12ninjas. But oh well. Too much cross training on that front already.
As for how the NC campaign against the russians well everything has been going well. We continue to push into Russian space. Been in several fleets heres some screen-shots
Oh and speaking of getting my Miner to combat I actually 2 boxed in a short fleet to see if i could and it was funnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
Thats it for EVE
Halo Reach
While playing Halo Reach tonight I had a interesting discussion with some of my friends whilest playing.For some reason or another I was asked why I hated MLG. To be fair I had to double back and correct myself.
I do not hate Major League Gaming, What I do hate is what MLG is to Halo. A set of "rules" and gametypes that literally strip Halo of 2/3 of its gameplay and labels itself "Pro"
I also hate the condecending attitude of most "Halo MLG" players. I'm sorry but to take out 2/3s of the gameplay and change the rules of the game to me is anything but Halo, So I do not consider "Halo MLG" pro or skillful.
I like most MLG gaming because they take the game for what it is in its competitive multiplayer. With 100% of its gameplay intact.
Take StarCraft 2 for example. Whats the difference between a MLG SC2 game or Tourny game hosted by Blizzard? Nothing. Whats the difference between both of those and a standard Battlenet multiplayer game? Nothing.
MLG Halo conversely starts you off with a ranged precession weapon (which you normally would have to scout and precure on the map) on small maps with no vehicles or most power weapons. Your pretty much playing Counter Strike at that point. Theres little strategy, just point and shoot.
Actualy Halo Multiplayer is more then that. Sometimes theres vehicles sometimes there isn't power weapons and you dont start out with one of the most powerful mid range weapons in the game. You actually have to go out and get somethin better then the default. But to each his own I guess.
StarCraft 2
Banshee Rush still remains my strongest build order but most of the time I just spawn 2-4 banshees and do some heavy harassing, and expand. If the banshees are doing enuogh damage I keep pushing till I see the GG.
If they dont I should have a strong enough economy to push out some siege tanks and Thors mixed with marine maruder (from 1 rax) and some medivacs. So Banshees soften em up and The army that comes after seals the deal.
I'm practicing to get better at all the basics but I cant seem to get any higher then 21 rank in my Silver league division. At least most people I face post "Good luck have fun" *aka GL HF*
I plan on uploading some short games of win and fail soon.
Thats all for now.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Back from RL No longer just a EVE blog
Wow I don't remember how long its been since Ive last blogged, 2 weeks without power due to a issue with my roommate is one cause. 3 weeks without internet after because our neighbors below us in our apartment complex decided to cut the wire shortly before being evicted and BrightHouse incompetence in getting out to fix the problem didn't help either.
Been a long time and I got alot to talk about.
First off I am actually aiming to increase my EVE time greatly. Sadly I am down to 2 accounts as my 3rd account that my friend used to play on and I used to do some extra mining on is no longer functioning. Meaning Its going to be alot harder to plex my 2 accounts.
Thankfully my superiors in Reliable Inc. have decided to keep me around even with my absence. Through a friend that still plays EVE from time I've been able to keep my skill training going whilest I was offline for about a month. Plus I would visit my parents once a week for some internet mooching =x.
HAC training is complete and due to my cross training with Caldari I can now fly the Cerebus and Ishtar. Which I plan to on smaller gang runs. I can also fly the Onyx which I have in a few fleets. Got maybe 1-2 kills on it but Ive had more fun flying HICs and DICtors then I hvae flying anything else so far. Logi love is fun but its nice to have a break and fly something you can get alot of action.
After some poking by some corp-mates they've talked me into cross training into a Sabre instead of using the almost useless Eris for interdictors. Which is complete now I'm spending a additional 4 days to train for the T2 small autocannons to complement the Sabre. After which I plan to train for T2 Rails for HAC's and BattleCruisers then onto Large T2 for Megathrons. Then Battleship V' Logistics V and other skills before I begin the long road to carriers.
My miner has actually gotten as far as I want him to get as far as Industry is concerned. He can fly A Rorqual the only capital Industrial ship in the game. (took me a month to save up for cost me a little over 1.5 billion isk) With it I can make my own High sec runs and help the corp out with logistical moving operations as well as mining ops. As a captial ship it cannot use stargates but instead must use its own jump drive from one system to another. While this sounds like a handicap its not. Capital ships jump drives can bypass 1 or several systems depending on their distance from one to another. I can actually jump from our home system in my Rorq to a low security system in 1 jump to make runs into the neighboring high security system.
Since my miners mining part for the most part is over, Ive decided to get him into a dreadnought
Specifically the Amarr Revelation. This is going to be a long road to travel but it will allow me to do two things I would not be able to (or willing to do) on my main account. Fly ships that fire lasers and fly dreadnoughts) Ive always wanted to fly Amarr but cross training again would've taken far more time then I would have wanted to spend. Instead I opted to fly more ships I wanted between Caldari, Galante and spend my unused skill training on my miner to train up some "useful guilty pleasures".
Thats all I think for EVE.
And This blog first started out as a EVE blog of sorts but now with Halo Reach and StarCraft 2 being out I've decided to change this to more of a Gaming Blog then simply a EVE blog. I typically record my SC2 games with FRAPs and post them on youtube, all of which I will soon post here with some commentary.
SC2 is a fun fun game especially comeptiviely. I am currently in the silver league 27th in my current division. In 2v2 I am in the gold league with my friend Blindminus. Last of the 4 placement games we played was pretty epic. I started MMM (Marines Medics and Marauders)
which did ok for awhile but the middle of the map the lines were drawn and the battle raged on. I mainly macro'ed and produced units and let Blind control them. We were going nowhere but holding the line until we switched to Mass Thros siege tanks and Hellions. Which hard countered their Mutas, banglings and Ultralisks. We ended the game with 27 Thors and I dont know how many hellions. Was a sweet game.
Just to clarify in starcraft 2 there is the
That said I havent played much SC2 since I got back. SC2's community is full of people that have been playing the game since the first StarCraft and I think more then 75% of the people playing SC2 probably have played the beta of Sc2 or just have alot more experiance then me. I played SC when it first came out it was the first computer game I ever played (on my own PC that is) I just for some reason feel a great ammount of intimidation whenever I think about playing SC2 competitively.
I watch alot of SC2 replays with commentary by "pro" players known to the SC2 community as "SC2 Casts". I mainly watch "casts" by HuskyStarcraft and HDStarcraft, some of the most knowledgeable (and entertaining) player commentators who have been allowed to host and comment on some very high level SC and SC2 tournaments. Needless to say the games they cast and their commentary can help low level players like myself. So I watch alot.
One of the main things I learned is to learn basic build orders like MMM, Siege Expand, Destiny cloud fist build aka the 1 starport 1 factory 1 barracks build.
Some things that I learned from the pros
Im currently working MMM Siege expand and Banshee Rush build orders.
Banshee rush being the most successful.
So far since Ive been writing down the build orders in a notebook and strictly following heres the games Ive won,
Banshee Rush 6
MMM 3
Siege Expand 1
Terran continues to be my favorite race despite the nerfs they've been getting lately.
Hope to get some more games in but i need some friends to practice with, Gamertag is a bit different from my norm since Blizzards Battlenet doesnt allow numbers in gamertags
Its "ApackofNinja" Friend code is 393
=)
Moving on to Halo Reach.
In many games I prefer PVP or competitive play. I know I wont be the best but still like to get as high ranked as possible
Before I lost power and internet I was in the Silver league of Team Arena.
Since the seasons are so short Ive been reduced to currently not being in any division
Reach's divisions are a bit different then SC2 in two main ways
First off is the names
In Reach its
In SC2 you keep your division and league until you win or lose enough games to rise or fall out of your current division/league.
About Reach....
I am very glad to see the BR gone with its accurate spam but somewhat annoyed how a DMR can be spammed and still get above average results. The addition of the loadouts have made competitive play very diverse and adds alot more fun to the games. Choosing the correct loadout and playing it well with your Team can mean victory or defeat in Reach.
One thing I am super happy about is how your rating is not determine merely by your simple Kill Death Ratio but by a complex system that determines how well you work with your team in addition to what you personally contribute to victory or defeat. Being counter productive by betraying even hitting your ally accidentally actually lowers your rating. And quitting earns you almost a negative rating but in repetitive cases can get you soft banned from Halo Reach matchmaking from 15 minutes to 30 minutes.
All in all the Halo experience remains the same, Gameplay that rewards teamwork and allows the skilled marksmen or the cunning attacker a chance to win based on more then just simple aim and shoot skill.
Thats all for now. Hopefully I'll be alot more active in posting about these 3 games and more.
Stay tuned.
Been a long time and I got alot to talk about.
First off I am actually aiming to increase my EVE time greatly. Sadly I am down to 2 accounts as my 3rd account that my friend used to play on and I used to do some extra mining on is no longer functioning. Meaning Its going to be alot harder to plex my 2 accounts.
Thankfully my superiors in Reliable Inc. have decided to keep me around even with my absence. Through a friend that still plays EVE from time I've been able to keep my skill training going whilest I was offline for about a month. Plus I would visit my parents once a week for some internet mooching =x.
HAC training is complete and due to my cross training with Caldari I can now fly the Cerebus and Ishtar. Which I plan to on smaller gang runs. I can also fly the Onyx which I have in a few fleets. Got maybe 1-2 kills on it but Ive had more fun flying HICs and DICtors then I hvae flying anything else so far. Logi love is fun but its nice to have a break and fly something you can get alot of action.
After some poking by some corp-mates they've talked me into cross training into a Sabre instead of using the almost useless Eris for interdictors. Which is complete now I'm spending a additional 4 days to train for the T2 small autocannons to complement the Sabre. After which I plan to train for T2 Rails for HAC's and BattleCruisers then onto Large T2 for Megathrons. Then Battleship V' Logistics V and other skills before I begin the long road to carriers.
My miner has actually gotten as far as I want him to get as far as Industry is concerned. He can fly A Rorqual the only capital Industrial ship in the game. (took me a month to save up for cost me a little over 1.5 billion isk) With it I can make my own High sec runs and help the corp out with logistical moving operations as well as mining ops. As a captial ship it cannot use stargates but instead must use its own jump drive from one system to another. While this sounds like a handicap its not. Capital ships jump drives can bypass 1 or several systems depending on their distance from one to another. I can actually jump from our home system in my Rorq to a low security system in 1 jump to make runs into the neighboring high security system.
Since my miners mining part for the most part is over, Ive decided to get him into a dreadnought
Specifically the Amarr Revelation. This is going to be a long road to travel but it will allow me to do two things I would not be able to (or willing to do) on my main account. Fly ships that fire lasers and fly dreadnoughts) Ive always wanted to fly Amarr but cross training again would've taken far more time then I would have wanted to spend. Instead I opted to fly more ships I wanted between Caldari, Galante and spend my unused skill training on my miner to train up some "useful guilty pleasures".
Thats all I think for EVE.
And This blog first started out as a EVE blog of sorts but now with Halo Reach and StarCraft 2 being out I've decided to change this to more of a Gaming Blog then simply a EVE blog. I typically record my SC2 games with FRAPs and post them on youtube, all of which I will soon post here with some commentary.
SC2 is a fun fun game especially comeptiviely. I am currently in the silver league 27th in my current division. In 2v2 I am in the gold league with my friend Blindminus. Last of the 4 placement games we played was pretty epic. I started MMM (Marines Medics and Marauders)
which did ok for awhile but the middle of the map the lines were drawn and the battle raged on. I mainly macro'ed and produced units and let Blind control them. We were going nowhere but holding the line until we switched to Mass Thros siege tanks and Hellions. Which hard countered their Mutas, banglings and Ultralisks. We ended the game with 27 Thors and I dont know how many hellions. Was a sweet game.
Just to clarify in starcraft 2 there is the
- Diamond league
- Platinum league
- Gold league
- Silver league
- Bronze league
That said I havent played much SC2 since I got back. SC2's community is full of people that have been playing the game since the first StarCraft and I think more then 75% of the people playing SC2 probably have played the beta of Sc2 or just have alot more experiance then me. I played SC when it first came out it was the first computer game I ever played (on my own PC that is) I just for some reason feel a great ammount of intimidation whenever I think about playing SC2 competitively.
I watch alot of SC2 replays with commentary by "pro" players known to the SC2 community as "SC2 Casts". I mainly watch "casts" by HuskyStarcraft and HDStarcraft, some of the most knowledgeable (and entertaining) player commentators who have been allowed to host and comment on some very high level SC and SC2 tournaments. Needless to say the games they cast and their commentary can help low level players like myself. So I watch alot.
One of the main things I learned is to learn basic build orders like MMM, Siege Expand, Destiny cloud fist build aka the 1 starport 1 factory 1 barracks build.
Some things that I learned from the pros
- Keep your micro as strong as your macro
- Never sit on resources spend spend spend
- BE AGGRESSIVE
- SCOUT SCOUT SCOUT
- Stick to your best build orders
- Adapt to enemy counters
- Expand when you attack
- Keep that gas line up
- Harass whenever possible
Im currently working MMM Siege expand and Banshee Rush build orders.
Banshee rush being the most successful.
So far since Ive been writing down the build orders in a notebook and strictly following heres the games Ive won,
Banshee Rush 6
MMM 3
Siege Expand 1
Terran continues to be my favorite race despite the nerfs they've been getting lately.
Hope to get some more games in but i need some friends to practice with, Gamertag is a bit different from my norm since Blizzards Battlenet doesnt allow numbers in gamertags
Its "ApackofNinja" Friend code is 393
=)
Moving on to Halo Reach.
In many games I prefer PVP or competitive play. I know I wont be the best but still like to get as high ranked as possible
Before I lost power and internet I was in the Silver league of Team Arena.
Since the seasons are so short Ive been reduced to currently not being in any division
Reach's divisions are a bit different then SC2 in two main ways
First off is the names
In Reach its
- Onyx
- Diamond
- Gold
- Steel
- Bronze
In SC2 you keep your division and league until you win or lose enough games to rise or fall out of your current division/league.
About Reach....
I am very glad to see the BR gone with its accurate spam but somewhat annoyed how a DMR can be spammed and still get above average results. The addition of the loadouts have made competitive play very diverse and adds alot more fun to the games. Choosing the correct loadout and playing it well with your Team can mean victory or defeat in Reach.
One thing I am super happy about is how your rating is not determine merely by your simple Kill Death Ratio but by a complex system that determines how well you work with your team in addition to what you personally contribute to victory or defeat. Being counter productive by betraying even hitting your ally accidentally actually lowers your rating. And quitting earns you almost a negative rating but in repetitive cases can get you soft banned from Halo Reach matchmaking from 15 minutes to 30 minutes.
All in all the Halo experience remains the same, Gameplay that rewards teamwork and allows the skilled marksmen or the cunning attacker a chance to win based on more then just simple aim and shoot skill.
Thats all for now. Hopefully I'll be alot more active in posting about these 3 games and more.
Stay tuned.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
6 weeks...Has it really been that long?
Wow alot has happened in the last month in my off line life (RL for you net-dwellers) and unfortunately my EVE time has dwindled.
Last 2 months saw the conclusion to Max 2 and with it the crazy everyday fights we so much enjoyed. The Russians have then been our primary focus as Majesta Empire and Rage border them. Ops in Geminate be a plenty.
But sadly every time I'm online with plenty of time available to play there be no fleets up. PB be fairly active with fresh roams but is really a pain to get to as it lies in the Northern territory of the NC. Leaving me with very little to talk about. I could continue reminiscing about my first days in the NC but 90% of that save the Titan kill was it. LOTS of stuff happened afterwords but by then I was broken in and I feel if I try to cover all of it Ill be writing past events while the present constantly being pushed back in wait.
So TLDR During the siege of H-W , well after it ended we managed to kill a Atlas Titan. woohoo \o/
http://www.reliables-inc.com/killboard/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=5189
Not too much to brag about but many have played the game for years or less and still have yet to get in on one. Moving along though.
To catch those who've been wondering where I've been offline.
On the 4th of July whilst playing with fireworks celebrating Americas biggest holiday to blow crap up, I mis-read a situation where I thought a mortar was inserted incorrectly into a tube after I lit it, I immediately didn't want to figure out whether i was right or wrong and chose to turn and run. I did hard and fast, but my foot didn't land quite the way I wanted. But while still being too close I continue to run on the injury making it worse. Despite my fears it exploded in the sky wonderfully proving my effort to escape vain.
Its been more then a month now and the swelling is still there but subsiding. Its been a long long month where I had to limp for more then half of it, wear a annoying brace and avoid strenuous activity's (which was almost impossible due to work). Also given that I couldnt get into fleets and Ratting/mining was burning me out, I've retreated to XBL. Been playing Halo 3 alot in anticipation of Halo Reach.
Plus Star Craft 2 coming out last week is'nt helping things. (<---Big SC fan) But I hav'nt been completely inactive, Ive made it to at least 3-4 fleets a week mostly as Logistical Cruiser support and I've nearly save up enough money via deals to buy me a Rorqual to aid in corp and personal logistics. Even gotten on a few KMs while flying logi. Interdictors is next up on the ship list before I buckle down for T2 rails for my battleships and start the long long road to carriers. Oh and flying fast tackle interceptors is as fun as flying logi. Expect to be left out on some KMs T_T
Fly safe Will hopefully have some more storys to talk about next time.
Last 2 months saw the conclusion to Max 2 and with it the crazy everyday fights we so much enjoyed. The Russians have then been our primary focus as Majesta Empire and Rage border them. Ops in Geminate be a plenty.
But sadly every time I'm online with plenty of time available to play there be no fleets up. PB be fairly active with fresh roams but is really a pain to get to as it lies in the Northern territory of the NC. Leaving me with very little to talk about. I could continue reminiscing about my first days in the NC but 90% of that save the Titan kill was it. LOTS of stuff happened afterwords but by then I was broken in and I feel if I try to cover all of it Ill be writing past events while the present constantly being pushed back in wait.
So TLDR During the siege of H-W , well after it ended we managed to kill a Atlas Titan. woohoo \o/
http://www.reliables-inc.com/killboard/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=5189
Not too much to brag about but many have played the game for years or less and still have yet to get in on one. Moving along though.
To catch those who've been wondering where I've been offline.
On the 4th of July whilst playing with fireworks celebrating Americas biggest holiday to blow crap up, I mis-read a situation where I thought a mortar was inserted incorrectly into a tube after I lit it, I immediately didn't want to figure out whether i was right or wrong and chose to turn and run. I did hard and fast, but my foot didn't land quite the way I wanted. But while still being too close I continue to run on the injury making it worse. Despite my fears it exploded in the sky wonderfully proving my effort to escape vain.
Its been more then a month now and the swelling is still there but subsiding. Its been a long long month where I had to limp for more then half of it, wear a annoying brace and avoid strenuous activity's (which was almost impossible due to work). Also given that I couldnt get into fleets and Ratting/mining was burning me out, I've retreated to XBL. Been playing Halo 3 alot in anticipation of Halo Reach.
Plus Star Craft 2 coming out last week is'nt helping things. (<---Big SC fan) But I hav'nt been completely inactive, Ive made it to at least 3-4 fleets a week mostly as Logistical Cruiser support and I've nearly save up enough money via deals to buy me a Rorqual to aid in corp and personal logistics. Even gotten on a few KMs while flying logi. Interdictors is next up on the ship list before I buckle down for T2 rails for my battleships and start the long long road to carriers. Oh and flying fast tackle interceptors is as fun as flying logi. Expect to be left out on some KMs T_T
Fly safe Will hopefully have some more storys to talk about next time.
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