Another crappy gaming night Wednesday, tho it ended in a long string of wins to which I contributed primarily by not being shot too many times. I did have a couple of smoking games on Terminal and Estate after I unlocked the M16A4. By camping the power station on Estate, I managed to down a couple of snipers down by the waterfall area. There's a doorway exit from the greenhouse and a rock outcropping just below where they kept jumping down. I was pretty impressed with myself for a while before I got flanked and blindsided. My ego was soothed a bit tho when I made identical shots at the identical almost across the map distance with the M93 Raffica machinepistol. And got kills with one shot. It's probably human nature, but the asskickings I took yesterday stand out in my memory a lot more.
I ranked up the WA2000 to get the silencer and I managed to get a couple of kills. I'm still working on my timing with the respiratory pause. I tend to hold the sight picture too long and end up losing it. I got counter-sniped a couple of times by guys who I had in my sights. My goal is still to try that rifle with the ACOG to see how it performs.
I don't have a "best" map, but my worst map is probably Highrise. I get caught with my pants down all the time. When I'm on the move, if I come around a corner, any enemy will have me cold. Earlier on Wednesday, I played some 1-on-1 with Reibochief on Rust, and I was doing unusually well... The apparent Sudden Burst of Skill™ had me ready to attribute my habitual position on the edge of the Abyss of Suck to lag, bad spawning, and all the other lies gamers tell themselves when they're getting their asses handed to them in a basket. My ego was flattened when he let me know he was just fooling around and not playing seriously.
It's not all gloom and doom, tho. My shining moment was on Terminal. We were the Rangers, and we were holding the food court area. We had a full crew, so we had guys covering the right side (the gate), the center (the bookstore), and the left (Burger Town). Near the end of the match, half their team rushed Burger Town. I flash-banged, whipped out from the alcove next to the bookstore and put a burst from the Raffica in one of them. I flash-banged again and then Rafficated the other two as they came around the corner. It was a small spark of hope in long, dismal career of being pwned by Timmies. On to the links:
- The Modern Warfare 2 PC Dedicated server petition is at 228,000 sigs.
- The Modern Warfare 2 PC Post-Release Petition has exceeded 6000 sigs.
- Review: Zero Punctuation reviews MW2.
- MW2 jargon guide from GamesRadar.
- Device has news of MW2 DLC being released in Spring 2010. Also on Kotaku. Edge Online is guesstimating that the DLC could generate $140 million US.
- MW2 vid links: IGN has "Secret" Spots on Estate and a nice teamplay tactics video.
- Joystiq: MW2 makes cameo appearance on NCIS.
- YouTube IWnet gameplay with the loudest, nastiest yelling into the mic ever.
- Western themed shooter Red Dead Redemption, sequel to Red Dead Revolver, is scheduled for April 2010 release. Play the Xbox Live demo for the original to see if you like the FPS/3rd person hybrid gameplay mechanic. I hated it so much I deleted it without even finishing the level. There's a movie of the demo here.
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 preview.
- Half-life Source mod, Black Mesa, has a new preview vid.
- Left 4 Dead 2's Xbox 360 version receives a lag fix.
- Joystiq tells us that 80% of female gamers prefer the Wii.
- No surprise here: Metacritic scores don't impact game sales.
- New York State is considering adding peer-to-peer gaming networks to its emergency alert system. (The Emergency Alert System supplanted the Emergency Broadcast System in '97.) So, in addition to being fragged by Timmies with better reflexes, internet connections, or glitching skilz, we can look forward to death by the annoying honking EAS screen.
- Venturing out or ebuying on Black Friday? Here's what's not to buy, courtesy of Gizmodo.
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