Category: Gaming

Observations,mistrust chronicles and exploits

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Lurking squishy tanks spawn camping for snipers

Gaming terms are always colourful and ever-changing. Watch any committed streamer on Twitch.TV and you will soon be looking up the terms or simply wondering  “what did he just say?”.

Language always brings people together and makes it very easy to spot an outsider or faker.

The level of game analysis you can see on The Division™ is truly educational.  Maths, logical thinking and creativity to doctorate levels.   Gaming PhDs (FROG – Future and Reality of Gaming) will be hosting their 11th Vienna Games Conference in Austria this week and chances are that I’ll show up just to lurk for an hour or so even if it’s all in German.

Last played 23 January 2017

There is still not much middle ground between Players and Academia.  Normal folk simply view Computer games as toys for school kids.

I’ve jumped back into Tom Clancy’s The Division™ [now patched to version 1.7] after adding some more streamers to my follow list and watching some deep game analysis.  I still haven’t finished the main story or reached the max rank but slightly more educated on what guns to go for.

My 2017 Division shopping list

PP-19 - Sub machine Gun
SASG 12 - ShotGun semi auto
G36 - Assault rifle
Scar-H - Rifle
M60 - Light machine Gun - Hungry Hog
Tom Clancy’s The Division™ – Final drive to Level 30

Weighed in at 118kg today…feeling great

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Star Wars Battlefront II – Open Beta review

The Open Beta will be over in 4 hours, it revealed the actual gameplay this weekend.

Here’s my humble opinion.

This game is aweeeesommme, beautiful 
and set to become one of the best shooters ever.
STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II Multiplayer Beta

Ok, now I can calming look at the facts.

EA are masters are drip feeding the player with rewards and achievement hunting. This feeds the brain, builds and sustains a global gaming community that will be here for at least 3 years.

Being able to home in on your play style or class is a brilliant move and should harvest the best of COD or Division players.  I’m leaning towards the Officer class as I probably won’t get enough game time for the other classes.

Seems that the key to success is to work with a squad with dedicated roles and voice chat. Otherwise, you run around with randoms hoping they play the objective rather trying to rank up.

Biggest complain I see so far is the lack of teamwork in a team orientated game.

Helldivers succeeded because of serious close-knit teamwork gameplay.

STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II Multiplayer Beta – Officer job is the life for me.

My problem will be how to play without life interruptions as well as finding a good crew to join regularly.  It is a brilliant ‘do not disturb, I’m gaming’ title because once you get over the beauty of the game you must focus to achieve anything.

Typically, this means at least 30-50 min of undisturbed gameplay per session.

Only a few of the streamers I follow even bother to join the Beta and these were the hardcore StarWars types. I think the thoughts are that this would be more like Battlefront One but bigger.

The gameplay is better, the scale is bigger and the audio is epic Movie scale. I got so distracted with running through leaves and watching birds fly away.

I can sense there are lots of surprises in store for the full release.  Makes me want to return to PC gaming.

90 Days without any Myasthenia gravis (MG) symptoms