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!
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Awesome Bad Company 2 video showing how effective the tracer dart and teamplay can be.
After a few successful games of Bad Company 2 last night my KDR has increased to 0.53 it would be higher but I tried leveling up the assault class too, with disastrous results!
I joined a game of SDM with David earlier in the evening. It was my favourite map, Laguna Presa, and I only popped in to see if I could get on to David’s squad. I couldn’t, and I died several times, once at David’s hands!
Thanks Geoff for the invite into the game. I didn’t contribute much and then got kicked by the network as my DSL had a hissy fit. Maybe next time.
After seeing a clip yesterday where a team used smoke grenades to attack and successfully destroy a base I decided I needed to work on the assault class. Unfortunately it was the last game of the evening for me and as mentioned previously, I didn’t do too well.
Highlight of the evening: Attacking on Isla, riding a jetski to the island and taking Bravo within a few minutes of the game starting. We had 69 tickets left after taking that one!
I’m still waiting on a reply from play-asia.com to my query over the weekend about the component switcher cable I ordered.
I’m not prepared to wait any longer so I sent them a note cancelling the purchase.
Instead, I’ve ordered the V2 version of the cable from divineo in the UK. It looks like the only difference between the XCM Multi-Consoles Component Cable V2 and V3 is support for the PSP and Xbox which I’ll never have to worry about. It’s also slightly cheaper which is always a bonus. Hope they get it to me before the weekend.
I got a message this morning saying my Xbox Live subscription would be extended by 7 days on May 1st because I bought the Modern Warfare 2 Map Pack on Day 1.
So, let’s see, 34/52 is around 0.65 Euro. A tiny bonus but people will be singing their praises all day I bet!
Meanwhile, here’s a quad bike going airborne courtesy of Field Operative. Wow.
Field Operative published a guide to getting all your friends on to one team in Battlefield Bad Company 2 on Xbox 360. If you use use the private chat feature of Xbox Live you can talk to all of your team! It will take a while to get everyone on the same team because of the limitations of the game but it can be done. It must be quite amazing to play on a team of 12 who are coordinated and following one single strategy.
Unfortunately a similar chat feature doesn’t exist on the PS3 but friends can still join the session if the game has free slots.
Different type of gaming, real life this time. Here’s a quick video showing how to make a neat paper airplane that actually flies quite well. I made 2 for my son and he’s delighted! You can find instructions and diagrams on the author’s site too.