A courier called today while I was out. He rang me and I thought it might somehow be my order from divineo.co.uk since they promise to dispatch orders within 24 hours.
Got home, saw the box. It’s from Amazon, a present for my son’s birthday in a few weeks.
Divineo still ignoring my emails. *sob*
SAM5000i shows off a very quick rush on Isla Inocentes, and shares some useful tips about kits and specializations to use. I haven’t unlocked the body armour yet but I have some of the others. I must pay closer attention to them as I usually just leave it at whatever I had on in the previous game.
C0lumb0 is a PC Battlefield Bad Company 2 player who goes nuts in this montage of clips with shotguns, C4 and knifing. Fast paced action!
He also linked to his stats on bfbcs.com which is a stats site I hadn’t seen before. Unfortunately they can’t add new Xbox of PS3 users. (via)
OK, so the Xbox has a handy private voice chat feature. You can use that feature to communicate with your entire team in Battlefield Bad Company 2 on the Xbox.
The PS3 has a voice/video chat feature but it doesn’t work when you’re in a game. It does have a private text chat feature however. If you’re playing with friends on your team, and they’re not on the same squad, invite them all to a private text chat session. If you have something to say hit the Playstation button on your controller and type. When someone writes something that text will appear as a notification in the corner of your screen. This will also work if your friends are on the opposite team and might make getting them all on your team that little bit easier.
Needless to say, you need a keyboard to do this effectively.
Thank you Geoff for the inspiration for this post.
Update! Geoff pointed out Ventrilo Server. It’s surround sound VOIP software. You could use it on a dedicated server (I have two) and have all your team connect their clients to it but they’d need to have PCs running Windows or Linux or a Mac next to their gaming rig.
Come to think of it, you could use Skype and set up a conference call. Might be problematic hearing other voices if you’ve got gaming headphones on though.
Hell, xkcd style.
In Modern Warfare 2, invisible gun turrets on Underpass are actually inside the cement pillars:
Holy scenery bugs Batman!
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Awesome Bad Company 2 video showing how effective the tracer dart and teamplay can be.
After a few successful games of Bad Company 2 last night my KDR has increased to 0.53 it would be higher but I tried leveling up the assault class too, with disastrous results!
I joined a game of SDM with David earlier in the evening. It was my favourite map, Laguna Presa, and I only popped in to see if I could get on to David’s squad. I couldn’t, and I died several times, once at David’s hands!
Thanks Geoff for the invite into the game. I didn’t contribute much and then got kicked by the network as my DSL had a hissy fit. Maybe next time.
After seeing a clip yesterday where a team used smoke grenades to attack and successfully destroy a base I decided I needed to work on the assault class. Unfortunately it was the last game of the evening for me and as mentioned previously, I didn’t do too well.
Highlight of the evening: Attacking on Isla, riding a jetski to the island and taking Bravo within a few minutes of the game starting. We had 69 tickets left after taking that one!
I bought a shiny new combination scanner/printer/copier last weekend. It’s the Canon MP492 and I expected it would work just fine in Linux. I mean, it’s just a printer, right?
Nope. The printer was detected as a Canon MP490 but unfortunately the CUPS system used by Ubuntu Linux didn’t support that particular version. It supported the 520 and others but no sign of my new purchase. To be honest, I was dumb founded. I even configured it on my Macbook and thought about sharing it over the network but the Macbook is on the wireless network while everything else is wired, and I didn’t feel like making things more complicated.
So I went searching again and eventually found this helpful thread (it didn’t show up on my first searches, Google refresh?). Drivers are available for the printer here on the Canon Thailand website. Thankfully the instructions were all in English, and the .deb package installed and configured correctly. Drivers for the scanner are listed on that forum post too but I don’t have an immediate need for that so I didn’t test them out.
Phew.
The printer itself is an average photocopying machine that does the job. Here’s the back cover of the December 1954 issue of the National Geographic. The copy is pretty good except for banding on big blocks of colour like that in the Coca Cola logo.
I’m still waiting on a reply from play-asia.com to my query over the weekend about the component switcher cable I ordered.
I’m not prepared to wait any longer so I sent them a note cancelling the purchase.
Instead, I’ve ordered the V2 version of the cable from divineo in the UK. It looks like the only difference between the XCM Multi-Consoles Component Cable V2 and V3 is support for the PSP and Xbox which I’ll never have to worry about. It’s also slightly cheaper which is always a bonus. Hope they get it to me before the weekend.