Ok, I'll admit it. I've ignored this site for over 2 months now. Whenever I thought about updating it something would always come along and distract me. At first it was mostly my DS Lite. I musta been charging it once every 2-3 days i was playing it so much - I've now mellowed out a bit and my playing level now only requires a once a week charge.
I also got a job
It's only a temp position, but it's a pretty good job. I'm working at the London Fire Brigade IT Helpdesk. We cover all the fire stations in the London area supporting anywhere up to 6000 staff at a time. It's a lot of things that can go wrong. Still, I'm enjoying it. It's introduced me to a helpdesk program I hadn't come across before - Marvel - it's similar to HEAT so learning it isn't too bad, it all helps by going on my CV for future jobs - ohhhhh yeah.
I'm actually editing this at work as I type. I'll have to wait til I get home though before I can upload it though. I don't know if I've already mentioned this and I can't be bothered going through the archives, but NTL (who I recently switched to for my broadband) only allow uploads to their users homepages from a NTL IP address. It's total suckige. Ok it's rare that I may want to update my site when I'm away from my home computer, but it does happen - like today.
Oh well, guess I'll just have to wait til I get home. It'll be a quick update though - I don't want to miss any BF2 time. Especially since me and my friends have discovered a new mod for it that has totally refreshed the game for us - Point of Existence - It pits the Germans (good guys) vs. The Ukraine (bad guys). Visit the site to read the whole story. I have to say, that but for a few teething troubles when I first loaded a map, it was excellent. Me, Praetorian, Tiger and Dark where playing the Rivne map on the Ukraine side. We where very impressed by the tanks we where hopping in, the team behind this mod have given tanks different types of rounds to fire so you can go for full on armour penetration with a Sabot round or switch to HEAT round to go against softer targets such as troops and cars. There is even a heavy armour type tank that can fire player guided missiles :D
I also can't wait to try out the new choppers and aircraft, Dark is already impressed as he saw (ref email here). Needless to say I want to go chopper whoring
Last thing to talk about is slugging it out as infantry. Now I didn't do too much of this in the time I played last night, but i did like it. I was using the engineer's normal shotgun, I shot someone in the back of the head and they dropped to the ground dead - 1 Shot. I then got his buddy with 2 shots to his side.
Finally weapons that do real damage. I don't care what the game is - if you take a shotgun blast to the head you die! None of the crap you see in BF2 where you unload 7 shots from a DAO-12 (a cylinder feed shotgun) into someone's face and they stand there taking it, then pull out a rifle, pop 2 in you and you croak!
I also got a job
It's only a temp position, but it's a pretty good job. I'm working at the London Fire Brigade IT Helpdesk. We cover all the fire stations in the London area supporting anywhere up to 6000 staff at a time. It's a lot of things that can go wrong. Still, I'm enjoying it. It's introduced me to a helpdesk program I hadn't come across before - Marvel - it's similar to HEAT so learning it isn't too bad, it all helps by going on my CV for future jobs - ohhhhh yeah.
I'm actually editing this at work as I type. I'll have to wait til I get home though before I can upload it though. I don't know if I've already mentioned this and I can't be bothered going through the archives, but NTL (who I recently switched to for my broadband) only allow uploads to their users homepages from a NTL IP address. It's total suckige. Ok it's rare that I may want to update my site when I'm away from my home computer, but it does happen - like today.
Oh well, guess I'll just have to wait til I get home. It'll be a quick update though - I don't want to miss any BF2 time. Especially since me and my friends have discovered a new mod for it that has totally refreshed the game for us - Point of Existence - It pits the Germans (good guys) vs. The Ukraine (bad guys). Visit the site to read the whole story. I have to say, that but for a few teething troubles when I first loaded a map, it was excellent. Me, Praetorian, Tiger and Dark where playing the Rivne map on the Ukraine side. We where very impressed by the tanks we where hopping in, the team behind this mod have given tanks different types of rounds to fire so you can go for full on armour penetration with a Sabot round or switch to HEAT round to go against softer targets such as troops and cars. There is even a heavy armour type tank that can fire player guided missiles :D
I also can't wait to try out the new choppers and aircraft, Dark is already impressed as he saw (ref email here). Needless to say I want to go chopper whoring
Last thing to talk about is slugging it out as infantry. Now I didn't do too much of this in the time I played last night, but i did like it. I was using the engineer's normal shotgun, I shot someone in the back of the head and they dropped to the ground dead - 1 Shot. I then got his buddy with 2 shots to his side.
Finally weapons that do real damage. I don't care what the game is - if you take a shotgun blast to the head you die! None of the crap you see in BF2 where you unload 7 shots from a DAO-12 (a cylinder feed shotgun) into someone's face and they stand there taking it, then pull out a rifle, pop 2 in you and you croak!