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Dave wins a Hauppauge? PVR

Well, it’s official! Dave has won the Hauppauge? PVR on Geoff’s channel!

We had a few games with Geoff and Sokeil (I think is his name?) tonight and rocked most of the time, right until Geoff left and the defenders on Laguna Presa were just too strong, even with us laying down covering smoke on the base. Not sure where the rest of our team were but I think we were probably the strongest squad on our side. All the games were very close, both defending and attacking.

I got a chance to really evaluate the iMP cable too and to be honest I’m not happy with it. That score of 3/5 is getting changed to a 1/5. The picture quality is just too bad. I’ll update that post with more details shortly.

I unlocked a pile of things this evening. Can’t remember what but I there was at least one gun, and smoke for tanks. I’ll check tomorrow.

Oh yeah, I took advantage of the Isla MCOM building bug mentioned in my last post. Nice 100 points for taking it out! šŸ™‚

Bad Company 2 client (R7) and server (R10) updates incoming

Here’s the list of changes coming on Wednesday for Battlefield Bad Company 2.

I presume those changes are for the PC version. The PS3 version will probably be patched next and the Xbox 360 version might take a while if past experience with MW2 is anything to go by.

Some changes that stood out for me:

  1. Added support for colour blind players
  2. Isla Innocentes MCOM building fixed where knifing the fence would destroy the building
  3. Added weapon balance tweaks to a number of weapons ā€“ we are eagerly awaiting feedback!

I’m not colour blind but this was a bitter bone of contention for some MW2 players. They haven’t mentioned what weapons will be balanced but I’m guessing the M60 will be affected.

We aren’t going to tell you what weapon balance tweaks we have done, we want your unbiased views on the changes before we detail what has changed.

Changes can be discussed on their forum here. (via)

The tracer dart in Bad Company 2 rocks. …

The tracer dart in Bad Company 2 rocks.

Well, except when you’re a medic and you dart two tanks in a row but it appears that nobody wants to take advantage of the fact. That happened to me when I was on the hill leading down to the first base on Port Valdez. I darted their helicopter from afar on the last base but nobody took it for a spin. Oh well. We won that game anyway.

Arica Harbour was a lot more fun. Dart a tank, hide behind a rock and lock on. Aim into the sky and fire. Boom! Got 4 tanks in 2 rounds but lost the game eventually. Even after my daring “hop off the speeding transport outside Alpha and kill as many bad guys as possible” stunt. Got a double kill and lots of points! Oh well.

I even got my highest ever KDR, 2.33 or something. Good couple of games on the Xbox.

A quiet night tonight. Exhausted after a…

A quiet night tonight. Exhausted after a hectic day so I fired up Bad Company 2 on the Xbox and played an hour or so of the single player game. It’s like a walk in the park after the multiplayer online game. Everyone should play through it at least once. I discovered that the main gun on heavy tanks can zoom in tonight, and played the UAV bit of the game too. Hellfire missiles are nice!

I found a bug – one of the gun emplacements you must destroy from the UAV remained when the building it was on mysteriously collapsed. I flew the UAV down low and there it was just hovering in the air! I had to kill the UAV and restart this short mission to complete it.

Oh, check out these Bad Company 2 charts. While you’re at it, subscribe to the Bad Company 2 section on reddit.com. Lots of stuff posted there every day and loads of good bits too. If Modern Warfare 2 still floats your boat, there’s a section on that too!

Picked this up from that charts thread. I always wondered how they calculate the “skill level” in Bad Company 2. Well, it’s very simple:

Skill level is an ELO tracking of your K/D. Nothing more.

What is ELO? According to Wikipedia:

The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go.

So your skill level probably goes up if you kill higher ranked players, or players with a higher skill level.

And in tonight’s games with David I lev…

And in tonight’s games with David I leveled up somehow to 10 but my KDR took a beating. We fought really strong teams in several rounds of rush and unfortunately mostly lost.

Off we went to squad deathmatch where we were joined by MrDippy and CavScout34. I was unfortunately more a liability than anything else although my second last game had a positive KDR (8/7) and in the last game on Isla I spotted a lot and practised setting up a tent on the slopes surrounding the town. I offered to make tea and David wanted marshmallows but I was rudely interrupted by two enemy flanking my position. Very inconsiderate.

I can’t wait until I get that component cable. Please arrive on Monday! Standard definition really sucks.

Oh yes, I almost forgot. I got my first Ken Burton friend request on PSN. I’ve already received 3 such requests on Xbox Live, but this was the first one. How do they possibly think I’m that nice fella Ken?

Just updated my Ken Burton post with this image of the friend request on PSN:

Update read David’s account of the gameplay too!

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