Monthly Archives: June 2010

Onslaught is great for practising. Fire …

Onslaught is great for practising. Fire up a private game and you can fly a Hind, or shoot enemies with your M24 and learn how distance affects bullet drop. It doesn’t matter if you die because you’ll respawn if there’s only one player.

I played a game on Isla, and figured out that the bullet drop on the M24 wasn’t as great as I imagined before. The Hind that appeared shortly afterwards was very annoying but I made short work of it after I respawned as an engineer. Good opportunity to try the M1 Garand too.

Mike brushed up on his heli skills last night while he waited for us to finish a game. Good thing too as in our first game on Atacama Desert I piloted the Hind out of our base and promptly crashed, with the Hind landing upside down! We both got out unscathed.

I don’t think I or anyone will obsess about Onslaught like we do about Rush because it’s like playing a single player game, but with your friends. There is the leaderboard, and I noticed that I had the best time for at least one maplast night among my friends. It’s competitive that way, but more than anything it’s a great diversion and just what I need for a quick 5 minute blast.

Bad Company 2 Onslaught of Death

I played a few games of Onslaught after work there. On easy difficulty level because I want a nice gentle introduction to the mode. First of all on Isla I joined 3 others and completed it in about 8 minutes. Worked out well and yes, it was easy.

Then Mike got online and I set up a private match. We played Atacama Desert and there are a lot of vehicles on this level! We got into the Hind which was a bad mistake. Didn’t last long and had to contend with 2 or 3 tanks on the first flag without armour. Luckily I was an engineer, took out one with an RPG and another with my repair tool. Mike respawned as an assault class to supply us with ammo.

The enemy hinds are really annoying! Luckily they’re pretty dumb too. They’ll hover overhead after bombing us so it’s an easy kill with the RPG. On to the last base where we took out a few tanks, rolled in there, rolled out to repair and in again and sat on the flag until the game ended.

Final score? I got 79 kills, Mike got 96. Both of us died 3 times. One of those deaths for both of us was changing class. Me from assault to engineer, and Mike from medic to assault. In retrospect we should have just looked for appropriate kits from fallen enemies but we did have 2 tanks breathing down our throats! Besides, what a KDR! 🙂

Once the sheen wears off I can see myself playing Onslaught mode when I’m too tired to go up against human players. On easy difficulty the enemy will fall with just a few rounds from a UMP, without magnum ammo.

The aim of the game is to complete it with the best time. Mike and myself finished in Atacama Desert in 23 minutes which we’ll probably destroy in the coming days. There’s a leaderboard made up from your friendslist and I see Geoff and Gary completed it in 9 minutes. So, plenty of room for improvement.

Oh yes, to repeat something that was said in a video below, the best squad needs one or two engineers, and assault guys, and probably a medic too. Medic isn’t so important as you have infinite tickets but if all the team die it’s game over. I don’t think there’s any point in a recon player in Onslaught is there?

So, is Onslaught worth getting? Hell yeah. It should have been included in the original game as it uses much the same assets as the regular multiplayer game. It wasn’t, and EA have spotted an opportunity to make more money. Suck it up and buy it. It’s fun.

WordPress 3.0 Domain Mapping 0.5.2

I’ve just released WordPress Domain Mapping 0.5.2. This plugin allows you to map any domain on to your WordPress 3.0 or WordPress MU website.

New in this release:

  • WordPress 3.0 support.
  • Added “domains” page for superadmin to add domains to any blog. The user’s domains page can be disabled by the superadmin too.
  • Added support for “www.” prefix in front of domains.
  • Allow dashboard to redirect to mapped or original domain.
  • Better support for SSL
  • Translation file added for localization.

For security reasons remote login is now disabled if the dashboard is redirected to the mapped domain. There is a tiny chance of a man-in-the-middle attack during redirection, but it’s just as likely to happen when you’re logging in and sending your username/password to the login form. Call me paranoid.

I would like to thank Ron and Andrea who were a huge help developing and testing this release. Andrea has written a great post on creating a network in WordPress 3.0 plus instructions on upgrading from WordPress MU. Great stuff!

Bad Company 2 Onslaught Gameplay

Gameplay video by 6Larinro9 showing Bad Company 2 Onslaught on Isla Inocentes. Looks like it’s set at dusk and you have to capture the flag in each base. Looks great!

And this is what it looks like on Nelson Bay! Oooh, sunlight!

Valparaiso at night.

Atacama Desert, low light, perhaps at dusk.

The guys at Reddit are playing it too but one person has had serious problems with assault rifles unfortunately.

Getting behind the enemy is a great tact…

Getting behind the enemy is a great tactic. I love doing it on the last base on Isla while defending. I did that last night, first when everyone retreating after the village was taken and then dropped off by Dave a few times. Did so much damage, it was great!
One good thing you can do is stopping the UAV. I was huddled in the corner near where Alpha used to be, and unfortunately as a recon I zoomed in on the UAV operator and saw and heard an engineer slapping C4 onto the UAV! Nasty! They weren’t even close to losing so this was a really cheap tactic. With my M24 I tried shooting the engineer, and a body shot didn’t take him down. He ran for cover but the UAV guy stayed so I reloaded, lined up on his head, BANG! Down he goes, and with him the UAV laden with C4! Hehe. I didn’t last too long when they realised where I was.
Next I had a good killstreak when Dave dropped me back there next, he hovered low so they wouldn’t notice the parachute and I got 4-5 kills, including a medic who ducked down next to me. He didn’t know, but I did. BANG! Woo!

Ah fun. It was great. I started the evening playing in a game with Conor, Dave sent me an invite but his squad was then full when I joined so I went back to Conor’s game. Unfortunately I got kicked from that and couldn’t join. The server filled up too. Grrr. I joined Dave’s squad again with the intention of seeing if there was space but no, Dave, Mike and Gary were already playing together. I played with them for a bit, thinking, “alright, how do I get back to Conor’s game?” but Conor joined our team, of course not on our squad unfortunately.
I wish the PS3 had party chat like the Xbox does! There wouldn’t have been any problem then.

Oh, removing the blue fence on the 3rd base in Arica Harbour really helped. I swear, enemies weren’t expecting it and walked out into the open several times!

Anyway, my KDR increased to 0.81, win/loss to 1.63 and my skill level has rocketed to 323 or 174 depending on which skill stat you look at. I just noticed my average lifetime has increased from 59 seconds to 1m 9s which is welcome too.

Just got my Medal of Honor beta code fro…

Just got my Medal of Honor beta code from GAME and eventually managed to get an online code. Their site refused to accept my EA login, but on the third page it asks for your EA id. I typed in what it could be and it worked! Hell of a security system EA, that’s totally screwed up!

So, I’ll try MOH tonight, but I’m not expecting much. From all I’ve heard it seems like a right pile of pooh. I wonder if Amazon.co.uk will send me a beta code too. If they do, who wants it? Only regular commenters need apply please! 🙂

Oh, if you’ve played the beta and can reproduce any of the freeze bugs, take a look at this forum thread and reply if the bug isn’t covered yet. Thanks Sgt_Roach_ for linking to my post below with Geoff’s video showing the freezing bugs he found! Saved me the job!

What did Bad Company 1 look like?

I was a big fan of Bad Company 1, the single player game, last year when I bought it. Night after night I played it until I got to the village where you have to blow up the bridges to stop US forces advancing. No matter what I did I could not complete that stage! It was so frustrating! I bought MW2 and a Gold subscription to Xbox Live shortly after and haven’t really looked at BC1 since.

So, it was nice to see that bharlan2002 has posted a commentary on “Harvest Day”, a map set in rolling hills and farmhouses. Unfortunately his commentary is too low but I still enjoyed it and I wonder if DICE will bring back some of the maps from the previous game. There are still two VIP slots left in the store. Let’s hope they fill them with real map packs, and not “mode packs”.

In a tough game of Bad Company 2 it’s a…

In a tough game of Bad Company 2 it’s always great when you steal their tank. Thanks Dave for the lift in the Hind, and Tye for all the repairs! They hadn’t a clue, and I got a few kils on my way back to the final base on Isla. A team that beat us several times finally succumbed to our awesome fighting skills!

KDR remains unchanged which I was surprised about. I made it to level 26, and thanks to Conor who nudged me to play BC1 online I’m now a veteran and unlocked the Garand. I also unlocked the recon’s RDS.

Tough bloody games with Mike, David and later TyeWebb.

Edit: How did my skill level go up? No wonder they were difficult games if I was killing so many players with higher skill levels than I had!

Proof positive if any was needed that a …

Proof positive if any was needed that a team composed of recons will not win a game of Bad Company 2 rush. We were defending on Port Valdez and there was 3-4 snipers on the hill with a medic reviving them. They were annoying but they never made it past the first base.
They never stood a chance defending. It was with pleasure I took out of those snipers after their second base went down. They were sitting up on the pipes behind Alpha taking pot shots at people, so I snuck around the containers. Took aim, 1 down, adjust aim, 2 down! Another sniper was taking shelter on the other side of the base and he suffered a similar fate. Unfortunately their medic came along at the wrong moment and made mince meat of me with his M60.
I probably shouldn’t have stolen the Apache from the last base. We didn’t need it! Dave would have done more damage with it on the ground. And yes, I drove it like a drunken judge. I couldn’t remember how to go up. Ooops.

Oh, and I started on Arica Harbour as usual. Defending, and we stopped them at the third base, and then won attacking in the next round. I joined a good team! 🙂

All in all, some great games. David invited a PSN buddy, Jackmufc (I think?) and later Cardsnumber7 joined us and did a fine job taking out the annoying snipers I mentioned earlier. I only got one I think. I’m still trying to get the hang of the 12x scope.

My KDR didn’t increase, but my skill level did, from 22 to 105 (although BfBC2 says it’s 176!). That probably explains why we tore up the other team as I was first into the game. Win/Loss ratio has jumped from 1.54 to 1.60 which is always nice. And woohoo, got my sixth gold star for the AN-94!

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