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Not Feeling Guild Wars 2 #GW2

Lately I haven’t been feeling like playing Guild Wars 2 and with each passing day I try to figure out why. I’ve never finish the personal story and I have several characters that are level 80 one of each class to be exact and some I have not even started the personal story because I don’t feel like dealing with the balancing issues of character vs mob. I don’t ever go to orr, dealing with constant contested shrines and waypoints, not to mention the quick respawns. Now some would say it’s should be like that because it’s the main enemies territory but if you play thought the personal story you area doing thing’s to weaken those forces. Dailies and Monthlies were nice I found myself just going in getting them done then logging out now I don’t even bother with them. Yes they brought you back to lower level areas but other then that there is nothing to keep you there.

Story mode Dungeons and Dungeons I keep trying to get in to groups to do these but no one wants to do story mode once they have already done it. I don’t blame there there no nothing really rewarding to keep you going back to help out other players.

WvWvW

while the new tranks are so so the one mistake that did is giving ranks advantages over other players while there is a huge gap in balance to begin with they just increased it. It’s just a bandaid on a much bigger problem. They might as well just move WvWvW to a full PVP format.

Two things I keep hearing from Arenanet one is that they want to create a solid game with the current zones before they start adding new zones. I’ve yet to see any thing to reinforce that idea. Second that they wouldn’t put pay to win items in the Gem store, which they have went back on their word I don’t mind the skins people and even I would buy them. But making an item that is unbreakable that can only be bought in the cash shop is wrong and a huge turn off not just to me but to others, and with that why bother working for things when you can just pay to win. While I have to pay gold for pickaxe and all that to harvest that mush needed gold out my inventory as to where if I paid 20 bucks to buy an unbreakable item, it is just plane Bull Shit.

The feeling I have is one of being let down, I don’t approve of the pay to win items being added into the game it’s just wrong and a sign that they are not doing what they say, both on their word and making content for game. If they concerted more energy on the game play itself rather then the cash shop it would bring life back in to the game. But the only effort I see going in to the game that I paid for is only in the cash shop.  

ravennazane:

tastefullyoffensive:

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Right there, that’s me w\ most things… ._. 

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Turtle Beach EarForce.

Want to improve your game play but can’t afford high end surround sound then I highly recommend you look into buying the Turtle Beach Earforce X12 headphones. These headphones are great for those who don’t have a lot of money spend or on a tight budget. Everything you need it all in the box it’s easy to set up and get started and you can swap them between your xbox and PC very quickly.

The Turtle Beach Earforce X12 headphones really do improve the experience of the any game. You will hear things that you just can’t through speakers, you’ll be able to tell if someone is coming up behind you or how close the battle is to you the every foot step you make. I don’t know how I was able to game so long without headphones but now I know I wont game without them.

The other great thing is that you don’t have to buy a completely new set of headphones for surround sound Turtle Beach makes a unit called DSS2 this will transform your stereo headset or headphones into Dolby surround sound. Unfortunly I do not have this unit yet but I am working on it but till there here’s is the link to check out this sweet little unit.  

ArenaNet announce release date of Guild Wars 2

August 28 2012

Official EA/Dice Severs Still Around Xbox

You have to find them though the server browser and go to the search and enter P24 and that will bring up all of EA’s official severs and Dice for their official severs. You can always tell the which ones are real they will say EA or Dice as the owner and the Fake will have the gamer tag so make sure before you join it’s an Official sever.

Below are EA Official Servers 

It will Say EA as being Owner. 

Here are some Official Dice Severs

And they will say Dice as owners. 

There are people tying to imitate Official severs to get you to play on theirs and is why it is important you check to see who owns the sever you can also look to see what maps and game mode there are and region they are before you join. It is a bit more work to look for a no hassle sever that wont impede your game play.  

climbingamountainwithawolf asked: Thanks for all the stats on how to unlock all the extra guns on BF3. I don't have Premium yet but they're all very doable for me. I get killed by so many dudes with all of those guns. I can't wait to buy Premium so I can lay the ownage.

It’s beneficial when the other 3 DLC comes out and you save in the long run rather then buy each pack separately. 

You are Welcome. 

BattleField 3 Close Quarters & More.

I want to acknowledge how awesome everyone on the @Battlefield twitter account are. I have to say they are on the top of all the social interactions between developers and gamers that are on twitter. Other Game Developers should take note of the BattleFiled twitter team.

So I went ahead and bought the Premium player pack and with that have been playing the Close Quarters new maps and weapons for the past couple of weeks now and for me I am loving it for the most part. What I like most about it the amount of destruction to the environment don’t expect to hide behind a wall thinking it will shield you and there are just so many ins and outs to attack plus the fast paced game play is a nice change. What I like the least is well has plagued us for awhile now keep reading to find out what that is.

We got four new maps, the list below is also my favorite in order.

1. Ziba Tower
2. Donya Fortress
3. Operation 925
4. Scrapmetal

You have to watch out for the C-4 placed on the flags which means you have to waste your grenade just to counter the endless supply of C-4. You’ll also run in to the occasional camper but the are weeded out quickly. Every map has isn’t own little glitches the most annoying one’s are on the Scrapmetal map. But the to major complaints are the C-4 on flags and radio beacons which I don’t think they should be allowed to be placed in CQ maps.

Five premium dog tags.

The only one was painful was the L96 only because it has never been the same since the nerf.

Ten new weapons.

All fun weapons right now I am enjoying the spas-12

Would I recommend gamers buying it, Yes and No. People who already enjoy the game should buy the premium pack rather then just single map pack. But I know time’s are hard and not everyone can afford it. For those who are just buying what DLC they want and still not sure then you have to ask yourself a few questions do you like that type of game mode and are the tags and weapons worth it.

For new gamers wanting to get in on the actions I would have to say as of right now no.

The only reason I say no is because right now the worst thing in the game is rent-a-severs and that’s all the game is about now. They where making great strides forward but once they implemented rent-a-severs they took a thousand steps backwards. And it’s here where they make me feel like I am not a valued customer when I paid for the game I paid for official dice severs. And it also make them care only about the money they can make and not the people who buy and play the game. And it’s obvious it’s about the money because it was so badly implemented not well thought out and rushed and despite the majority of players against it and made official servers impossible to find and/or shut down. Despite the continued negative feed back about rent-a-sever they continue to ignore us who play and support the game us the valued costumer.

What’s so wrong about rent-a-severs? For starters they did not add an option to hide all rent-a-severs leaving games who paid and wanted to mainly play on Official Dice severs. Also there is no way to rate servers once played on this would give players who are forced to play on these crap (for lack of a better word) severs the ability to filter out them out meaning that you would be able to filter out all the low rated rent-a-severs and play on those who are rated the highest. And there is no way to file a complaint against rent-a-severs for wrongfully being kick or banned for no reason. Granted you have to find your way though channels at Battlefild Help Center but it really needs to be done in game as soon as you are kick/banned.  

Each time a player is kicked, banned, killed by admin for reasons like they didn’t like your tag, you killed the admins, they don’t like you playing with your friends so admins split you up, your defending to good, and for all those other nonsense reasons people flock to the forums and post hurt Dice but they don’t seem to want to see that. Each time it happens to me it doesn’t make me want to rush out an support Dice in the future if this is how they are going to handle things.

The other thing is I like to play a single game mode I don’t want to go from rush to death match and then to something else. Select sever you can view maps and game mode before you join but again there is no filter. And forget about quick match that’s just a huge waste of time now too and they are all rent-a-sever cesspool to boot.

It’s hard to be constructive about a feature in the game that ruins the enjoyment of the gaming experience and makes you want to trade it in for some other game. I can forgive the imbalance, I can over look the fact for 3 months they did nothing to fix the broken mass26, MAV and other map glitches but when it comes to rent-a-severs that where leniency stops every time someone has a bad experience that’s going to make them not want to play the game and not to continue to buy DLC for the game and to tell their friends that they should buy another game where they don’t have rent-a-severs where they get what they paid for.  

pokketsays:

hahaha why is he so badass D:

Guild Wars 2 BWE2

Now that the weekend is over I can’t wait for the game to be released. This time I thought about leveling more then gathering, crafting, and exploring. But that didn’t last long as I gave in to the need just to wonder aimlessly around gathering which I built up a nice little stock pile of crafting resources that will all disappear once the characters are reset. The thing I was looking forward was to see all the changes that have been made since the last BWE.

The first thing that was noticeable was the performance last time I had to have everything turned down or completely off and forget about huge groups it would lag so bad that either the battle would be over or it would kick me. This time it ran will on balanced setting it ran pretty good at parts but I was forced slide the one notch to lower which wasn’t bad it only lagged really bad at the end event but then that was the most insane fun.

The other thing was the expanded collection storage, that was really great and very much needed but I do hope that they expand on that to also house your crafting parts that would be sweet, but if not that’s ok too one can dream right. They also added a hint system that could be accessed through the top menu bar which is one of a few thing’s they added to the bar.

Guild World vs World and hint’s. They removed the gate to WvW from the mists and added them to Loin’s Arch and you can get there the top menu WvW icon.

They also changed some of the skill points location and how you obtain and I have even seen some new heart quests that where not in the first beta weekend. And there where a few new dynamic events that where triggered and always they were great fun. The mystic forge was a nice addition to the game, but it can use some tweaks I really didn’t spend a long enough time on forge. The other major change was utility skills acquisition you had to acquire five skills in tier one to unlock skills in tier two and five skill from the tier to unlock the third it was a nice improvement since the last BWE.

The overflow severs are nice but the only thing that really got in my way was once I was in one every few minutes the option to move from the overflow or to re-enter if you entered the normal sever it would send you the last spawn point of which you entered the map but if you didn’t want to go and you are fine in the overflow you had to deal with the menu constantly pop up. It would be nice if they were able to add an icon to the top menu bar that would let you re-enter query back in to the main and out of the overflow and give you status of if you are in the overflow or not.

I finely used the mailing system in the game, I love the mailing system but the one thing I don’t get is why when you click on someone’s name that there is not an option to mail there there?

There was one thing that really irritated me and that was the commander icon on my map it I have enough to look at on my mini map with something new running around and serves no purpose unless you are in a group and I hope it was a bug other wise I don’t seen to see this title I don’t care to I don’t need to. I don’t want to see someone else title unless I see it in their name.  

I loved the tamable pig and it’s skill to find environmental weapons.  

ohh I want to tame a shrimp and a whale

Just show the depth of the city. 

I’ll leave you with some random screens. 

Feedback on SA-18 IGLA and FIM-92 STINGER Battlefield 3

To really understand how inadequate SA-18 IGLA and FIM-92 STINGER you first have to look at everything that is working against it.

Stealth

Stealth Engine tuning and fuselage coating materials disguise your vehicle’s infrared signature, increasing enemy locking and tracking difficulty and decreasing the time you are revealed to the enemy from being spotted.

IR Flares

IR Flares, also known as Infrared Flares, is a specialization available for jets and both types of helicopters in Battlefield 3 that breaks missile locks when deployed. They have a cool down timer after it is used, but there is no ammunition limit.

ECM radio jammer

ECM Jammer is an electronic countermeasure designed to deceive radar, sonar or other systems such as infrared or laser detection.

You can have Stealth (always on) and then have a selection of IR Flares (unlimited with 10 second cool down) or ECM radio jammer (30 second cool down) and then there is the the co-pilot which can also have Stealth (always on) and then have IR Flares. Which IR flares again are unlimited which means they can pop a IR flare every 5 second. You have more luck bringing down a MAV then you do a Helicopters and Jets. Jets are near imposable to bring down with a SA-18 IGLA and FIM-92 STINGER it takes so long to get a lock and when you do it flies right over head you then lose it because you can’t turn around fast enough to keep it to fire it and then even if manage to fire one off the jet is traveling so fast that it don’t lock at all and veers off or it’s out of range.

There is no unlocks to to counter air targets but then again you would have to get a significant amount of kills in the first place, which if the first problem with the SA-18 IGLA and FIM-92 STINGER to begin with. Between both I have fired over 413 and hit only 13 that’s one hit every 32 time’s I fired.

And and to be honest if you can’t bring down an enemy aircraft just hanging out at your base with a SA-18 IGLA and FIM-92 STINGER or the AA-Guns to make them think twice about it then what real use do these weapons have. You have more luck shooting down aircraft with the RPG then SA-18 IGLA and FIM-92 STINGER sad but true.

How to fix, they can start by taking Stealth,IR Flares, ECM radio jammer and putting all those in one tree and only for the pilot and removing all options to from the second seat. Second they add a limited amount to IR flares.

Last thing, and this is the one that irritates me the most is when I specifically look for a match like Rush I expect when the maps to be and next rush map in the cycle and not mixed matches. Secondly I would like an option on Quick match to only query for Official Dice Severs, not the fake or rent a trash sever.

I don’t want to waste thirty minutes setting filters that don’t catch mixed game play maps and official Dice severs, I like Dice severs I prefer to play on official Dice Severs. Why isn’t there no option on Find sever and Quick match that allows me to remover all rent-a-sever from my query and further more I pay to play on DICE SEVERS not rent-a-severs. If I wanted to play on a rent-a-sever I will manually select it otherwise I don’t want to bother with them.