Monthly Archives: June 2010

Freezing problems in Medal of Honor Beta

If you haven’t played Medal of Honor yet you may have seen people mention how easy it is to cause the beta to freeze your PS3, requiring a reboot of the machine. I wonder if this is why the Xbox version is delayed a week?

Anyway, Geoff has the beta, and created MoHbeta2010, a new channel where he’ll be posting videos from the beta. The one above is easily the most informative of the videos I’ve seen today. He talks about guns, hit damage, the super powerful tank, and “hit streaks”. And of course how to freeze the beta too.

One freeze is triggered by getting 40 points through gun kills. Shoot 3 or 4 people without dying and your machine will freeze up! Crazy isn’t it?

Sorry Cole, I hope you never do this aga…

Sorry Cole, I hope you never do this again. You camped in a hut the whole game after laying down C4 around Bravo. The C4 was hit by stray gunfire (imagine that!) and made a huge dent in the crate’s health, then the same thing happened to the stick you dropped on top of the crate? Ouch.

The other night Mike and Gavin played in a game where one of the team constantly blew up their own crates. He ended up with a score of -5860. Bloody idiot. Looking at you popipipo.

The same may have happened during one of our games where an enemy player ended up with -1660 but I can’t remember if we were attacking or not. Either that, or he was helping his friends boost. It’s just ridiculous. Why don’t you just buy the shortcut kits if you’re that desperate?

Medal of Honor Gameplay Video

Cardsnumber7 is the first person on my subscriber list to post a Medal of Honor gameplay video to Youtube. He says himself that he’s figuring out how to play the game and the commentary isn’t very good but it gives a good idea of how the game looks and plays.

Geoff held a streaming session on justin.tv playing MOH but when I hopped onto his channel he was playing Arica Harbour in BfBC2! I guess MOH came later.

Now I’m wondering how many of my online friends are taking part in the MOH beta. Field Operative is, though he’s on Xbox and the beta is delayed a week on that platform. Geoff is, on PS3, Mike too?

Field Operative linked to more videos, I hope he doesn’t mind if I post them too. They’re tiny on his blog!

Ah feck, tempted now to pre-order it to get in the beta!

Some crazy games of Bad Company 2 last n…

Some crazy games of Bad Company 2 last night. We won 4 and lost 2 rounds. It was late at night and the games were sometimes quite empty. One game we were attacking only had 2, then 1 enemy defending. Needless to say we won that one. In the next round we were defending and this one player was joined by a pretty good team who put up a good fight and eventually won.
Unfortunately the rest of our team left except for our squad so it was tough.

Poor Mike. If Dave‘s latest video is anything to go by, he doesn’t have much luck when he gets into a Hind with either of us.

On Port Valdez he got in the Hind after I said I’d drive, err fly. We zoomed into the air and off to shoot some enemy butt. Unfortunately we failed miserably. We got hit a few times, aircraft health plummeted to 27 points and I did a mad turn about, screeching through a tight circle and headed home. We hit the ground by Bravo just as the health hit 1 point and jumped out to fight another day.

Thanks Mike and Conor for some great games. I didn’t do all that well, suffering from a negative KDR for the evening. Still though, my skill level plummeted so I should get an easier game the next time!

When defending the third base on Arica H…

When defending the third base on Arica Harbour in Bad Company 2 destroy the blue fence overlooking the crates.

I did that yesterday in a game and surprised a medic who fell to my AN-94. It made it slightly harder for the enemy team to destroy the crates, although in this case the enemy overran both crates quite quickly anyway. It’s still a good defence tactic and one I’ll use again.

This is just one of the tactics discussed in this Defence Tips for Bad Company 2 post I made a few months ago.

10 of the best multiplayer experiences

I just spotted a two page feature in GamesTM listing their top 10 multiplayer games:

  1. Mario Kart
  2. Bomberman
  3. Street Fighter
  4. Halo
  5. Micro Machines
  6. Battlefield
  7. Worms
  8. Pac-man Vs
  9. Team Fortress 2
  10. Starcraft

What? No Modern Warfare 2? Surely they jest!! OMG WTF!

Anyway, the list above reminded me I had the Orange Box for the Xbox, and included on that compilation is Team Fortress 2. Ihaveneverplayedit! Yes, I have never played it! I also only played Portal on my Macbook with frustrating teeth grinding slow results.

Will I play TF2? I’d like to but probably not unless someone volunteers to join me in a game.

Edit: I found this video of Team Fortress 2, uploaded earlier today so looks like an active community still!

How to get on a half decent team in Bad Company 2

If you’re Billy no-mates or all your online friends are offline you’ve probably noticed when you join a game of Bad Company 2 Rush that you’ll join a team getting demolished. It’ll more than likely be defending on Nelson Bay, but it could also be on Laguna Presa.

Sucks doesn’t it? I spent an hour one night trying to find a game that wasn’t about to finish in certain defeat. When I did get into a decently matched game I was too tired to do well!

So, what to do? Join a game on one of the other maps. I chose Arica Harbour and it’s worked out for me a few times. I joined decent teams who either did well, or were evenly matched with the opposition. ‘Course, it doesn’t always work out that way. 🙂

Have you ever tried this? Think back, when joining a game solo was there a greater number of crap teams on certain maps than others?

Insane few games with Mike, Conor and Ga…

Insane few games with Mike, Conor and Gavin tonight. I’m pretty sure we won every single game. It was one of those nights where I hung back and didn’t fight as aggressively as I usually do so I didn’t get that many kills, except in the last game. 19/11 was pretty good for me! The team we joined were really aggressive and played really well. So good in fact I was catching up with them all the time!

I only got one crate, 3rd Alpha on Valperaiso. The crate was lit and I remember Mike saying earlier to throw a grenade on it so I fired a 40mm grenade and boom! I got the crate! (Sorry to whoever armed it!)

I also got a cheeky smoke grenade kill! 🙂

My KDR has gone up to 0.80, looking at this page it’s my assault and engineer classes that are dragging everything else up. Win/Loss ratio has jumped from 1.42 to 1.53 tonight. Good games!

WP Super Cache 0.9.9.2

WP Super Cache 0.9.9.2 has just been released! This version works with WordPress 3.0 and adds a number of new features and bug fixes:

  • Cache Preloading will cache every post on your site.
  • A cache tester that will check if your homepage is cached.
  • Much better support for mobile plugins.
  • Mod rewrite rules can now be updated from within the admin page.
  • Lots and lots of bugs fixed. See the changelog for more details.

Preloading creates lots of files on your server so if you have many thousands of posts please be aware of this. Filesystem limitations may cause problems if you use a flat permalink structure. For example, ext2 or ext3 only allows 32,000 directories in a directory. If you have more than that number of posts you may run into problems.

The plugin does not preload category or tag pages but because your single posts will be cached you’ll find the load on your server will be reduced. Uncached pages will be served more quickly and your visitors will have a quicker and better experience on your site.
You may also see an increase in site traffic if your server was previously underpowered!

Update! I just released 0.9.9.3 to address the (mostly minor) bugs that were reported overnight. If you don’t notice anything wrong there’s no need to upgrade.

The least observant recon player

This is funny. He replenished the enemy recon player’s ammo, and he never noticed who helped him.

Reminds me of last night’s game. Under the bridge on Arica Harbour I was killed by 2 enemies so when I spawned I went searching. They had gone around the corner but I spotted an ammo crate so thinking it might be the enemy’s one I topped up. Sure enough, yer man comes around the corner and I get the drop on him! 🙂

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