Smoke grenades. They’re one of the main reasons I spent so much time leveling up the assault class yesterday. If the video in my previous post didn’t convince you they’re useful, check this one out. (via)
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It’s like walking a tightrope. Lean one way or another and you’ll get hammered when you fall.
EA are deploying their R9 servers and among the fixes is the following:
Autobalance improved, it shuffles people both during and between rounds now, and does a better job.
I hope so. Some of the games last night were so lopsided that rounds were over in minutes. I suspect there might have been one other squad working together, and David and myself in our small mini squad may have been bumped to the other side to shore up a losing team. Unfortunately we were overrun a in our last game I think and we noticed our team was 2 men down.
The best games are those that go on and on, and you have to fight and hold your positions with a team that’s doing it’s job. Again and again I saw team mates run past a detonating bomb without a care for disarming it. So frustrating.
beckham was kind enough to submit one of my posts to reddit.com yesterday resulting in a nice little spike of traffic to my Crazy shotgun, knife and explosive BC2 Montage post.
It’s not quite the digg effect but a nice bump for a blog of this size. Thank you, and hope you enjoyed the video!
Yes, this video is pretty amazing too, thanks for the link!
OK, it’s after midnight, I’ll be up early, this is a quick post about the great couple of Bad Company 2 rounds I played with David tonight. Some of the rounds were evenly matched but others were totally lopsided. Both for us and against us. We both got lots of practice in various tanks and helicopters and played really well as a team.
I also played a few rounds with Dutch452 on Xbox earlier, and we did rather well. I leveled up to 10, and improved my win/loss ratio.
On the PS3 it was rough going for quite a while as I decided to level up the assault class. I eventually unlocked the ammo box, but I’m still stuck with the AEK-971. My KDR went up by 0.02. Woo.
More tomorrow (err, tonight) when I’ll hook the PS3 up to the TV and get HD again. Standard resolution is really doing my head in and no sign of the switcher cable from Devineo yet.
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!