April 2010 – Page 3 – Something Odd!

Smoking kills, I should know because I k…

Smoking kills, I should know because I killed an enemy in Bad Company 2 with a smoke grenade. Bet he was surprised!

Tough battles tonight. The other team were well organised and we lost 3 and won 1. Or maybe we were just crap? I doubt it because we got best squad at least once and we were top or near top of the leaderboard too.

Thanks to Dave, CavScout and RunAwayPancake for all their excellent team work. I stayed on way too long! Half an hour, that’s all I was going to play. Two hours later …

I did unlock the recon motion sensor, the MP-412 and the advanced optics for the tank, received the “Squad Teamwork Ops” award though. In a brief game on the Xbox earlier in the evening I unlocked the mortar and had the good luck to join a game on the winning side!

Tracer darts are a lot faster in Bad Com…

Tracer darts are a lot faster in Bad Company 2 post-patch so if you’re flying a helicopter make sure you have smoke to disable any tracer. Seems to be some concern that smoke in the PC version doesn’t work unfortunately. There’s also flares. This tutorial suggests,

The Blackhawk has anti missile flares that can be deployed by using RB if you have V ALT WEP equiped. This greatly increases its survivability because it makes it nearly impossible to hit with missiles if you spam your flares.

Geoff demonstrates removing tracers from a heli with smoke.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 Trailer

I loved Super Mario Galaxy. It’s the best game I’ve played on the Nintendo Wii (ok, maybe COD WAW was better, I loved that game too!) and even though I got stuck in the level where you have to do some serious jumping I’m really looking forward to the sequel. Looks like more of the same but that’s a good thing when it comes to this game!

Patched Bad Company 2 Weapon Stats

I wish Den used WordPress to blog. It’d make it easier to keep an eye on updates to his Bad Company 2 weapon stats. He has updated the stats to reflect changes in the patched PC version this morning. Compare these stats to the old weapon stats I posted a few weeks ago.

Show off Heli Flying

Nice montage of Heli flying in Bad Company 2 but some of it is totally ridiculous and what you shouldn’t do in a real game. (via)

If you’d really like to fly a helicopter watch these two tutorial videos:

Watch out for Amazon reseller shipping charges

When you see a nice cheap product on Amazon or any other online retailer beware of the shipping and handling charges. This HDMI to DVI-D converter goes for a paltry £2.59 but then attracts a hefty £11.08 from the reseller. I can’t pretend that I didn’t notice it on the order page but at the time I wanted to get the order done and dusted so I didn’t quibble. The box it comes in better be lined with velvet and the address better be hand written and signed with the artist’s name…

I had enough trouble with console AV cables and certain retailers in the last few weeks I wanted the whole sorry episode over and done with.

Bad Company 2 has been patched on the PC…

Bad Company 2 has been patched on the PC. Here’s some feedback on it from Reddit users:

Balance tweaks coming tomorrow
The M60 has, in fact, been nerfed (oh oh Dave! Better hope the PS3 version doesn’t get patched soon!)
What improvements?
Patch is live

At least when the consoles do get patched we’ll have a clearer idea of what weapon changes will take place.

Update! The list of weapon changes is live. The M60 has been nerfed! (via)

Rocking Rush in Bad Company 2

In the first game of rush I played with Dave, Geoff and SK we joined on Isla, attacking the final base. I laid down a load of smoke on Alpha while the others attacked and took the base and then did the same with Bravo. I was unfortunate to be killed once but we destroyed the other team 🙂

Positive KDR? Yes! Time to celebrate! Get out the bubbly! My overall stats didn’t improve all the much as Dave and myself had a few games by ourselves where we didn’t do so well. Nobody joined our squad and we were definitely at a disadvantage.

I unlocked the XM8 Compact and red dot sight (assault), MG36 (medic), tank smoke and got a gold star for the M60!

I realised while lying in bed last night how we might have taken Bravo in the second base on Laguna Presa. We were continually pushed back by medics and assault guys who congregated on the hill in front of the base. They could pick us off at their leisure from behind the cover of bushes.
What we should have done is gone back for a tank and/or driven up the side road that ends in a cul-de-sac (it’s across a narrow stream). It overlooks Bravo AFAIR. One or two guys up there could have supported a successful push onto the base.

In case you haven’t seen my iMP component cable review this morning, it’s been updated. It’ll be ditched as soon as I get replacement cables from Amazon. Bloody expensive business this.

PS. Check out Geoff’s latest video. Good game of defence there.

Dave wins a Hauppauge? PVR

Well, it’s official! Dave has won the Hauppauge? PVR on Geoff’s channel!

We had a few games with Geoff and Sokeil (I think is his name?) tonight and rocked most of the time, right until Geoff left and the defenders on Laguna Presa were just too strong, even with us laying down covering smoke on the base. Not sure where the rest of our team were but I think we were probably the strongest squad on our side. All the games were very close, both defending and attacking.

I got a chance to really evaluate the iMP cable too and to be honest I’m not happy with it. That score of 3/5 is getting changed to a 1/5. The picture quality is just too bad. I’ll update that post with more details shortly.

I unlocked a pile of things this evening. Can’t remember what but I there was at least one gun, and smoke for tanks. I’ll check tomorrow.

Oh yeah, I took advantage of the Isla MCOM building bug mentioned in my last post. Nice 100 points for taking it out! 🙂

Bad Company 2 client (R7) and server (R10) updates incoming

Here’s the list of changes coming on Wednesday for Battlefield Bad Company 2.

I presume those changes are for the PC version. The PS3 version will probably be patched next and the Xbox 360 version might take a while if past experience with MW2 is anything to go by.

Some changes that stood out for me:

Added support for colour blind players

Isla Innocentes MCOM building fixed where knifing the fence would destroy the building

Added weapon balance tweaks to a number of weapons – we are eagerly awaiting feedback!

I’m not colour blind but this was a bitter bone of contention for some MW2 players. They haven’t mentioned what weapons will be balanced but I’m guessing the M60 will be affected.