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Tracer darts are a lot faster in Bad Com…

Tracer darts are a lot faster in Bad Company 2 post-patch so if you’re flying a helicopter make sure you have smoke to disable any tracer. Seems to be some concern that smoke in the PC version doesn’t work unfortunately. There’s also flares. This tutorial suggests,

The Blackhawk has anti missile flares that can be deployed by using RB if you have V ALT WEP equiped. This greatly increases its survivability because it makes it nearly impossible to hit with missiles if you spam your flares.


Geoff demonstrates removing tracers from a heli with smoke.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 Trailer

I loved Super Mario Galaxy. It’s the best game I’ve played on the Nintendo Wii (ok, maybe COD WAW was better, I loved that game too!) and even though I got stuck in the level where you have to do some serious jumping I’m really looking forward to the sequel. Looks like more of the same but that’s a good thing when it comes to this game!

Bad Company 2 has been patched on the PC…

Bad Company 2 has been patched on the PC. Here’s some feedback on it from Reddit users:

  1. Balance tweaks coming tomorrow
  2. The M60 has, in fact, been nerfed (oh oh Dave! Better hope the PS3 version doesn’t get patched soon!)
  3. What improvements?
  4. Patch is live

At least when the consoles do get patched we’ll have a clearer idea of what weapon changes will take place.

Update! The list of weapon changes is live. The M60 has been nerfed! (via)

Rocking Rush in Bad Company 2

In the first game of rush I played with Dave, Geoff and SK we joined on Isla, attacking the final base. I laid down a load of smoke on Alpha while the others attacked and took the base and then did the same with Bravo. I was unfortunate to be killed once but we destroyed the other team 🙂

Positive KDR? Yes! Time to celebrate! Get out the bubbly! My overall stats didn’t improve all the much as Dave and myself had a few games by ourselves where we didn’t do so well. Nobody joined our squad and we were definitely at a disadvantage.

I unlocked the XM8 Compact and red dot sight (assault), MG36 (medic), tank smoke and got a gold star for the M60!

I realised while lying in bed last night how we might have taken Bravo in the second base on Laguna Presa. We were continually pushed back by medics and assault guys who congregated on the hill in front of the base. They could pick us off at their leisure from behind the cover of bushes.
What we should have done is gone back for a tank and/or driven up the side road that ends in a cul-de-sac (it’s across a narrow stream). It overlooks Bravo AFAIR. One or two guys up there could have supported a successful push onto the base.

In case you haven’t seen my iMP component cable review this morning, it’s been updated. It’ll be ditched as soon as I get replacement cables from Amazon. Bloody expensive business this.

PS. Check out Geoff’s latest video. Good game of defence there.

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! 🙂

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 – 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)

iMP 4 in 1 Multi Component AV Cable Xbox360/Wii/PS2/PS3 Review

The postman called this morning with a very welcome package. The iMP 4 in 1 Multi Component AV Cable Xbox360/Wii/PS2/PS3 I ordered last week finally arrived. After spending weeks trying to get a similar cable from Play Asia and Devineo I hurriedly plugged everything in.

This cable allows you to hook up 3 consoles to one set of component connections on a tv or monitor. I’m using it with my Xbox 360 and PS3.

The first thing I noticed about this is that there’s no switch to select which console to display. I didn’t try turning on both machines at the same time. Maybe later.

When I had everything hooked up I fired up the PS3 and changed the display settings to component cable, upped the resolution to 720p and confirmed the change. The Playstation 3 home screen displayed perfectly. All the text looked fine, the background swishing thing was ok. I fired up Bad Company 2 and in-game graphics were crisp and looked great!

I tried the Xbox 360 next and Bad Company 2 again. In game graphics were good, not quite as good as with the dedicated component cable from Microsoft but close.

Now for the downsides:

  1. On the PS3 there’s no such thing as a black screen. I noticed thick horizontal flickring lines. They were barely visible but they were there. Text in-game was oddly sharpened too much, but not enough to be annoying.
  2. The Xbox 360 dashboard displays an odd shadow behind all text. It makes it hard to read stuff but I’ll get over it as the game graphics looked perfectly fine.

Xbox 360 through iMP cable

Would I recommend the iMP 4 in 1 component cable? It’s cheap and cheerful and as long as you understand that it won’t be quite anywhere near as good as dedicated cables you’ll be happy with it. I would say the PS3 display was slightly better overall than the Xbox 360.

Final score: 3/5 1/5

Update! After playing for a few hours tonight on the PS3, I’m really not happy with it. The picture quality is too bad, that horizontal interference is too annoying. The monitor I have is a Dell 2405, an old 24″ monitor. It doesn’t support HDCP apparently so I won’t be able to play Bluray movies on it but thankfully games don’t enforce that, I think.

So, I need to spend more money and go searching again. I’m going to buy a DVI-D to HDMI connector and a HDMI cable to go along with it. Maplins have such a beast so I’m going to ring up my local store in the morning to check availability. I could probably get one cheaper elsewhere online but at this stage I’m sick of dealing with online retailers. Fingers crossed they have it.

Update 2! So, it’s interference from my surround sound headphones that’s causing most of the problem. I can either have great sound and crap picture or good picture and ordinary sound. Here’s what the interference looks like on the Playstation 3. Something similar happens on the Xbox 360:

iMP interference on the Playstation 3

Bah! Frapz spammed me!

I received a friend request from an oddly named character on Xbox Live the other day. Looked something like wwwwfrapzcouk with some odd characters thrown in here and there. They then spammed me. Grrr.

Frapz Spam

Rather embarrassingly for them, their website isn’t even set up correctly:

Friend removed, and complaint lodged. I don’t like unsolicited commercial messages. Especially on a social network.

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