xeer2000 – Page 54 – Something Odd!

Spurred on by the videos below I decided to give the shotguns in Bad Company 2 a go yesterday evening. I played about 15 minutes of a game of Rush on Arica Harbour. I joined the game late when our team was about to lose Alpha and then quickly lost Bravo in the first base and the fight in the town went just as quickly too.

The shotguns (pre patch) are great, within their limitations. You’ve obviously got reduced range and on a wide open map like Arica Harbour they’re not ideal but in close combat when the other team had bombed the third Bravo it was effective. According to my stats I got 4 kills with them. 2 for each of the 870 and Saiga, and 1 headshot for each too! I preferred the Saiga for it’s semi auto fire, and switched back and forth between magnum ammo and extra shells so I couldn’t really tell a difference in such a short game.

The two videos below give conflicting advice. Use whatever suits you best. 🙂

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I always wondered about this. If you quit during a game of Rush does that count as a loss on your stats? I don’t think so. My “rounds played” and win/loss haven’t changed as I never finished the game I was playing.

Bad Company 2 Webcomic

Currently enjoying these Bad Company 2 cartoons on Azarimy’s sketchstation.

He’s going to post a new one every week hopefully. Can’t wait!

Rocking Rush, the video

Geoff posted a new Bad Company 2 video yesterday evening, one in which Dave and myself feature. The clip of the attack on a crate in Laguna Presa was one we played a few weeks back. I was across the road laying down smoke but eventually got spotted by an assault guy.

The other team were seriously good, and I think they held us off the next base. (Thanks Dave for the heads up. I hadn’t checked Youtube yet this morning!)

We started off badly. Dave and I. He joi…

We started off badly. Dave and I. He joined me and the team I was initially matched with overran us in every game. They used helis to drop off soldiers behind our lines, they used mobile spawn points effectively, they beat us to a pulp. Dave blogged about the night’s gameplay too.

Unfortunately my PS3 disconnected twice. The first time it totally crashed and needed to be rebooted, and the second time I had just flanked a recon and an assault guy on a roof. I stabbed the assault guy as he was closer and moved away to hit the recon guy when I got a black screen and was disconnected! ARGH! I was so pissed off. I checked my stats in the game later I didn’t get a dog tag for that kill. FFS. I was fit to …

After I reconnected we thought a strategic retreat from that game was in order and eventually found ourselves against a better matched team. We won several rounds, even holding them off at the second base in Nelson Harbour and the first base in Port Valdez. I stayed in the construction site there for most of that round. First time I had done that and went mad cutting down trees, spotting and taking down enemies. Got a killstreak of 8 for my efforts! The construction site was taken by three enemy at one point, they started to use the heavy MG and watch the field of battle in front, not keeping an eye on the stairs. We rushed back, I was trailing having spawned below and I caught sight of Dave getting another 2 dog tags to add to his considerable collection.

My handy tracer came out too and helped me plant a few CG rockets on tanks, but I was quite proud of myself hitting a tank across the map without tracing it.

On Port Nelson we quickly lost the second Bravo station. I was heading over there when I saw at least 3 of our team outside the building but they failed to stop it. Regardless, we held the attackers off in fine fashion at Alpha.

Always pick up kit, especially if you’re out of ammo! I was leveling up the recon class but I ran out of ammo and David and I were on the roof of the second Bravo on Nelson Bay so no quick access to an assault ammo box. Unfortunately David was taken out by a sniper in a tree and he hit me too but I survived. I was able to get David’s medic kit. Unfortunately by the time I had made sure the coast was clear I was too late to revive him but I made good use of his LMG spawn trapping the other team as they rushed to defuse Alpha. He spawned on me, we took the other crate and moved up!

My KDR has increased to 0.61 (had a positive KDR in a number of games), a nice jump of 0.02. I leveled up to 15, Staff Sergeant III and unlocked magnum ammo which is a beast. For someone who can’t aim to (sometimes) save his life it’s a huge help.

Thanks to Dave, David, and minato88 who made a great squad to fight alongside!

How to download the Halo: Reach beta

Fire up Halo ODST.
On the main menu select PREVIEW BETA
Download

Or maybe it’s not. Some orange woman gives a pretty decent introduction to the game. Looks like it’s the colour on my DVI connection. In this video she looks perfectly fine, bit too much makeup but no umpa lumpa.

Feel the hate on this post’s comments. Some people can’t wait a few hours!

Almost time for shotguns

Bad Company 2 on Xbox and PS3 hasn’t been patched yet but it will be soon. Until it is, shotguns with magnum ammo are way overpowered. Check out this clip via this post.

I haven’t unlocked magnum ammo yet so I can’t try it out. Hopefully soon as I’m very close! Here’s some more info.

And some general tips for BC2 I found on Reddit:

Out this evening with my wife at a Queen tribute band. Woohoo, thanks Dad for babysitting! 🙂

Battlefield Stats

bfbcs.com stats are finally working for console users. Here’s my donnchaoc stats and xeer2000 stats.

It’s interesting to see that I had a higher win/loss ratio while defending rather than attacking. I suppose it’s not surprising since you only have to win one round as a defender to win a game, but have to win 3 or 4 rounds to win while attacking.

First impressions of Halo: Reach

Seananners

Dead Pixel

Obviously Jesus

Machinima Respawn is full of Halo Reach videos, ish. The beta is due tomorrow and I will probably be pulling out my ODST disk to take part. The videos above remind me of Quake 3. The clean architecture, the futuristic setting, energy weapons. I’m showing my age now aren’t I?

Some more Halo: Reach links. A link dump really:

How Bungie Has Changed The Controls In Halo: Reach
Interview with Luke Smith, designer on the game.
Joystiq podcast on the beta
Dissecting the visuals by Digital Foundary
The Guardian on Halo: Reach

I wonder if those Halo 2 players are still playing?

Had a few good games of Bad Company 2 to…

Had a few good games of Bad Company 2 tonight with strangers. Nobody used a mic which is frustrating. We lost a few games and won some more.

I was quite proud of my last game attacking on Isla. In the last base we took Bravo fairly quickly but Alpha was more problematic. I almost set the bomb there once but got hit by the heavy MG in a tower.
I came back as a medic with the SAW and watched one of my team mates set Alpha. He ducked into cover to the side but was killed by the heavy MG again. I ran up to the side of the green building in front of the base, and shot 3 defenders who came to disarm the crate! There was a guy manning the gun in the shed behind Alpha and I don’t know how he didn’t see me. I had him all lit up and was ready to kill him just as the game finished. We won! 🙂

I just remembered, in that game on Isla I jumped in a helicopter and waited for my team to join me. And waited. And waited. I think there was only one person in my squad at this stage and they had disappeared somewhere so I decided to go it alone, crash into a crate and see what happens.
Unfortunately I missed Alpha, hit the concrete walls and fell into the water. Not wanting to give the enemy a heli I planted a C4 on it and blew it before circling to the bridge and up and setting the bomb. I threw a motion mine which showed a few guys coming from the back of the base but a team mate and I made short work of them. Alpha blew, and unfortunately I was killed when my M1 ran out of ammo right at the wrong moment.

On Nelson Harbour I was defending, and the attackers were overwhelming. The first Bravo was lit up like a Christmas tree with all the sirens going off. I think I stopped it blowing twice. Once I snuck into that building, and killed 4 enemy sitting upstairs minding the crate. First one by the stairs, then 2 recons and a medic. I like the M1 🙂
The bad guys were back within seconds though. I hid out in the attic, took out a guy climbing the ladder, shot another and dropped a grenade down the hole just as I was killed by a guy from outside. Grenade killed another on the 1st floor as I was watching the killcam! Those guys were super organised. My team were not. I think I got 410 points out of that little incident.

Oh, and yes, I took to heart the advice about aiming in Seananner’s video and it definitely helped. I also used body armour for the first time and that helped too. I reverted my medic’s upgrades from weaponry to medic kit upgrades and the points rolled in at certain times. They certainly helped my team when we were camping on a crate that was about to explode. Unfortunately they then left and got mown down by a medic outside. Ah well.

Stats haven’t updated yet but I unlocked the Recon’s mortar. Judicious use of motion mines may have helped us I hope. Looks like I only got one spot assist this time so the 1167 points I earned was with brute killing power! Got a gold star with the SAW too.

Later… The stats have updated! My KDR was bumped up by 0.01, skill rating went up too by 14 points so there must have been more than a few higher level guys in my games. Got one dogtag, score per minute up 0.02 and win/loss ratio is up 0.04!