I played about 20 minutes of Bad Company 2 last night. Only 2 memorable events: 1. I play with headphones and I caught the sound of echoing footsteps as I passed by a house on Arica Harbour. I looked up to see a medic who saw me. My grenade thrown in the window didn’t get him but I loaded my 40mm grenade launcher and headed to the door. Suddenly the medic appeared and WHAM! Blew him back with a grenade to the chest! 🙂 2. On Arica Harbour, it’s always a good idea to flank the enemy on the 3rd […]
Games
If you’ve ever wondered about the patch…
If you’ve ever wondered about the patching process that goes on to support a game, this post will make it clearer. I hope. Having been involved with WordPress MU for many years (which involved merging code from WordPress core to MU after each new release) I can only dread the amount of effort required to figure out what changes in the cooked data files were benign or not. Merging PHP source code would have been a doddle compared to examining binary files. The post ends on a somewhat positive note however. DICE will continue to support Bad Company 2: We […]
Games
I don’t think anyone plays Bad Company …
I don’t think anyone plays Bad Company 2 Onslaught any more. Or at least hardly anyone does and it’s only been out a short while (which makes things worse!) If Onslaught is the bastard child of Bad Company 2 that nobody wants to know about then it’s curtains for it. In Onslaught review Fieldoperative suggests some disturbing figures for Xbox usage of the game: I don’t wanna be dramatic and everything, but have you checked the latest Major Nelson‘s Xbox Live Activity lists? Well, for a whole month now BFBC2 has dropped even below COD4! Which is very alarming, because […]
Games
47-0 on Atacama Desert
I think the highest number of kills I got in Bad Company 2 Onslaught is 79, in one of my first games with Mike last week. It was only the two of us playing, and it was on easy difficulty so the enemy practically stand in the middle of the road for you to shoot. Here’s a screenshot of the scores from a game this weekend. It was on Atacama Desert, on hard difficulty and I had the tank most of the time. We crushed all who opposed us. I got 47 kills and I didn’t die once! I have […]
WordPress
The MU forums are moving
The MU forums will shortly be closing up shop. WordPress 3.0 integrated everything that MU always did so it’s better to consolidate the forums too. There’s a MultiSite forum on WordPress.org and any queries about upgrading or problems using WordPress 3.0 should go there. The old forums aren’t going anywhere but later today or perhaps tomorrow I’ll be making them read-only. You’ll still be able to browse the forum, and Google will still index the wealth of information already there but posting will be disabled. So, thank you to everyone who contributed to the forum over the years. You helped […]
Games
Bored of Bad Company 2 Onslaught already?
So I went online last night to play 20 minutes of Bad Company 2 as Mike had said he’d be on. We dived into a game of Onslaught because you can be sure that the game will last 15 minutes or so. 22 minutes later we finished Atacama Desert on hard difficulty. My best time there is 14 minutes so it was a really sucky game. Mike expressed his boredom with the DLC and as a competitive game mode I have to agree. I don’t mind, and enjoy playing it with random players but when I join any friends online […]
Games
I got tea bagged last night. Well sort o…
I got tea bagged last night. Well sort of. Mike and myself were defending on Arica Harbour and we tore through the enemy on the first base thanks to our tank. On the second base it was more varied but I sneaked up to the top construction site and hid behind some bushes. Enemy soldiers poured past, and even though I got 4 or 5 kills in the space of 10-20 seconds nobody came looking for me! Two lads ran past me so I decided to follow them around the back of the town. I knifed the guy behind, and […]
Games
The Bad Company 2 lag monster is a thing…
The Bad Company 2 lag monster is a thing of the past apparently. Time will tell but hopefully it’ll make David happy!
Games
Counter Strike on the Mac is …. Err, I…
Counter Strike on the Mac is …. Err, I don’t know what it’s like. It was released on the Mac a few days ago and I installed it last night on my measly Macbook but it crashes each time I start it. Oh well.
Games
Leaked Bad Company 2 Server Files
Over on reddit is a report that files necessary for running your own Bad Company 2 server have got into the wild. I don’t have any interest in them except for the fact that hacks will appear and script kiddies will play hacked BC2 games. On PC it may become just like Modern Warfare 2. Nobody wants that.