Kwaak3 and Kwakk3arena (xda forum thread) are ports of Ouake 3 to Android that looks interesting but do first person shooters really work on mobile touch screen devices? That’s one of the downsides to getting rid of the keyboard, but you could always connect a USB keyboard to your device. All you’d be missing is a mouse then!
I might get my old Quake 3 box out of the attic and give it a go, just to see it in action!
I played two games of Call of Duty WAW yesterday evening. I have WAW and COD 4 on the Xbox 360 and I was considering trading them in for the PS3 versions.
How did I do? I played in the newbie section and didn’t get one single kill but I did manage a kill assist. Luckily my team won both games so I ranked up to level 3! I got kicked out in the next game because I didn’t have the map though.
I won’t be rushing out to play it just yet.
A small update, I’m slowly working through the WP Super Cache admin page in an effort to make it better. You can in fact download the development version if you want to follow along.
What you see above is my first pass. An effort to make the first options section match the look and feel of the standard Settings pages in WordPress. It’s all likely to be mixed around and moved about before the next release, so please, dig in and lend a hand!
It’s public now. DCRU Colin has a Playstation 3! Cards posted a video yesterday announcing the news. I had a few games with them the other night but it went on until about 2am so I unfortunately won’t be doing that too often. Great guys to play with though.
The utterly fantastic intro on the commentary above was created by David and edited by Colin. Very nice work I’m sure you’ll agree!
PS. I wondered if anyone had noticed Colin playing in this game posted by David, and he was noticed but kept quiet about it. Best kept secret?
After last Friday’s games my Bad Company 2 skill level jumped up to 400! Just had a game of SDM with matched players and got slaughtered! Same story with Conquest. Ouch.
From a high of 403 it collapsed to 291 after SDM to 203 after a few games of Conquest. Woohoo! Next game I have should be considerably easier. Sorry Duck, Sulley, Conor and Wiid 🙂
Somehow Duck spawned on top of a tree in Nelson Bay. I joined him there for a minute but then jumped down to take this photo..
I always thought they preferred water.
Woah! 11 minutes to finish Valparaiso with Mike and David on hardcore! What a blast!
Pity about Nelson Bay. Ouch.
Map Pack #6 brought with it squad deathmatch on Panama Canal for Bad Company 2 so I wanted to try that last night. The first team I joined didn’t make much headway and I joined late. I still managed a positive KDR of 12/7, best on my squad. The winners of that game only needed 5 kills or so to win but the next game with the squad was so slow. I’d say people from the other squads left in-between. It took an age to get to 11 kills and we were winning but I was so bored I started shooting into the air to attract attention! That’s one problem with SDM on this map, you need a full game.
I tried squad rush on Laguna Presa after that game but ended up on a team that was on the last base when Mike logged in so I jumped out and we got into another game of SDM.
Wow. When you join a couple of guys using their mics it makes so much of a difference! We joined when our squad had 5 kills and the leading team had almost 40. Before the game ended we had closed the gap and ended up with 43 kills. I finished with a KDR of 10/4 for that one.
The next game with these guys was on Panama Canal again and was similar. At the start of the game the map was empty but it filled up. We had a blast and won that game fairly easily! KDR after that was 14/3! Mike got 15 kills, two of us got 14 and one 7 kills.
With regret I had to leave as it was getting late but those were fun games.
SDM on Panama Canal is a funny beast. There are lots of wookies as it’s a huge map. To counter that there’s lots of cover too. Most of the battles took place at C where it’s very dangerous hanging out on the roof. You can be hit be assault rifles from quite a distance away. (I should know! hehe) But if you stay around there you’re going to come across the enemy so it’s a good spot.
Making life more difficult for snipers are the multiple routes around the map. More than once I almost walked up on a sniper who’s aiming down sights. That’s an easy and static target for any enemy. There are also lots of flanking routes too, so watch out. I flanked a wookie who was expecting me to come straight at me around a container. I went the other way and got him from the side!
Beware of falling into the water. At one end of the dock, away from the bridge of the ship there, if you fall in you have to climb out by swimming out of bounds. Do it as quickly as you can. I barely made it back to the play area.
Bonus – the first SDM on Panama Canal video I’ve found:
So at first we played with some crummy teams in Bad Company 2 Conquest last night but then played a couple of games of SDM which were a blast. Later on we teamed up with some good guys! Unfortunately the opposition were pretty tough too! I managed a positive or 1.0 KDR in only two games but we won a share of games too. Yes, I was that guy taking a bullet for the team.
Good News! There was hardly any C4 whoring! I armed a crate in one game when a wookie on my team rushed in and through stick after stick of C4 on it. I was shouting, “NOOOOO! Those were my points! I got here first!” but luckily he got killed by the enemy, I took out a medic but then fell myself. Too late to disarm the crate though! 🙂
Rush defence on Nelson Bay was particularly tough. We were down to our last base, and fought tooth and nail to secure it. I got several disarms and suffered an atrocious number of deaths but we got our win.
The final game I played on Isla was totally different as most of the enemy were camped on the hills around the first island. Every few minutes a helicopter would come flying in, crash and a single solitary soldier would leap out only to succumb to a hail of lead. They didn’t have a chance.
Thanks to almost all my regular team mates for joining in at one stage or another. Most of the team was made up of friends for quite a while which was a blast. Pity the PS3 doesn’t have the equivalent of Xbox Live party chat or we’d have totally kicked ass.
It’s sad when you join a game of Conquest halfway through and within a few minutes your team is top of the scoreboard! Needless to say we lost because the rest of our team sucked!
I got a nice killing spree though, 11 kills for 4 deaths. 🙂
How the Online Gamer came to be. Probably NSFW or at least not safe for kids. (via)