Sniper stuff

Ech, who cares about Far Cry 2? I’ll maybe get a save game further in the game and play that a bit, but for now I’m fed up with the game, having played it for less than two hours. Let’s talk about (to be more precise: let me write about) something else. Something better. Fallout 3.

Having not played the first two installments of the game I wasn’t expecting anything in particular, I just knew that the game is interesting from the trailers (hey, nothing sells the game like a chance to put a grenade without it’s pin in someone’s pocket so that they do not notice it).

The game pleasantly surprises you from the beginning when you choose your character’s name immediatly after it’s born like it should be. You learn how to walk, take stuff and jump when you’re 1 and how to shoot a gun when you’re 16. I had decided that my character would be mean and evil, good looking and a girl. So I chose the dialogues appropriately. Not to mention I fought with everyone when I was 16. Knocked dad out 3 times. I fell in love with the game when I fought with Stanley (if I remember correctly) - well, that wasn’t much of a fight, I just punched him, and at one point the message appears on the upper left corner saying “Stanley’s head crippled” and a nice smiling face accompanies it. Excellent.

When it was time to get out I clung to my character’s personality by beating and shooting everyone. An especially evil scene was when the bully Butch asked to help his mom who apparently was being attacked by radroaches. I told him no, he begged, I still replied no, he swore, left and as I was about to go further, I noticed that he is standing and waving to me “Over here”. Apparently the guy didn’t get the point. “This should help him” I thought by drawing my gun and putting a bullet between his eyes. Then I proceeded to look at how his mother was doing with the radroaches. Took a look and then just walked away. Absolutely evil. Now, when I look at it, it may’ve been more evil to save his mother so that she can check out her dead son, but I was too busy evily walking away from the scene so it didn’t cross my mind.

Ok, I’m out. Omgoshies, everything looks cool. Though grey and everything, nevertheless - cool. Killed a couple of molerats, quite strong those bastards and after walking around Megaton, finally found it’s entrance. Who knows how many hours I spent there, stealing everything I could, always finding the Supply cabinet locked, talking to everyone, hacking the computers they have.

Ok, I guess I’ll stop talking about how I played the game, no one should be interested in that. I’ll just say that the game is awesome, I can’t get enough of the VATS slowmo’ kills and the maximum graphics settings look and run nicely. I’ll have my vacation in two weeks and then I’ll have lots of time to play the game. Can’t wait.

OH, HEY, HEY, I forgot - SNIPING, that’s what this site is about, isn’t it? Well, I recently went to the underworld - the place where the Ghouls reside. One of them gave me a sniper rifle and trusted me with a mission. Oh, I’ll be sure to carry it out and hopefully inform you about the results.

Installed the game yesterday and played it a bit. Why just a bit? Because I got a bit bored. And I’ll tell you why. Here are my first impressions.

The most first impression: Why the fuck are you telling me that my video drivers are old all the time? This is uber irritating. Ok, let’s suppose that it helps SOME people but all the others have to see the same error screen all the time. Why can’t you include a checkbox “Don’t show me this message again”? Even WINDOWS does it. Furthermore - I downloaded the newest drivers, the message still kept appearing.
Second impression - Why the fuck the screen looks like shit when I change it to a normal resolution? Not going into details about this one, I’ll just tell you that messing a bit with the drivers (which actually made little sense) solved this issue.
Third impression - nice starting episode. I always like games with a bit of an epilogue (Half Life series, Call of Duty etc).
Fourth impression - What is wrong with the mouse sensitivity? When changed to the lowest possible it still is extra sensitive. Hey, Ubisoft - check the usual FPS gamers and you’ll find out that most of them use low sensitivities and maybe there are 5 sick people in the world that use the maximum sensitivity setting. I had to turn my windows sensitivity setting lower to be able to look around normally. Why can’t you just put a “sensitivity” command in the console like in the majority of fps games?
Fifth - What is still wrong with the sensitivity? It feels like there’s some kind of a mouse filter turned on to smooth out movements (that is extremely annoying) - I checked the game settings and smooth mouse movements weren’t enabled, so I have to stick to this. Darn
Sixth - Why do I have to HOLD the second mouse button to aim? Which game does that? Medal of Honour, Battlefield 2, Call of duty 4 and probably EVERYONE ELSE sticks to the principle that you have to press the second mouse button and the player brings up the rifle/pistol.

Ok, enough with the counting. There was hell of a lot things I didn’t like at the start. The absolute uselessness of the primary shooting mode which explains the option of not having a crosshair since you really don’t need one - even if you aim precisely and shoot, the bullet will go off the target even more than it would if you were on a jumping ladder in counter-strike. Yes, I meant a jumping ladder, since your accuracy is affected by jumping and by standing on a ladder.

Ok, ok, let’s just try to play the game. After I got my first mission I was almost pleased - I burnt the nearest bent-grass meadow and shot the guys though they seem to take quite a lot of bullets considering they only had a sleeveless shirt on. Ok, I choosed the hardcore difficulty, so I won’t say anything about this, it’s fine. It was the second mission that pissed me off. After a good night’s sleep I woke up and went on my second mission (at this point I remembered that the concept of the game seems very much similar to GTA San andreas - you get your missions on the phone, which you activate by the same button as in GTA and you drive your car around freely in the same manner as in GTA. And the map is partially locked just like in GTA. I started to dislike this game even more - come on, it’s supposed to be a shooter first, and everything else second. GTA was about driving, fun stuff, more driving and driving with a motorcycle first and shooter second.

But then I went on the espionage mission. It actually feels really cool to be sitting in a bush and observing the enemy camp with a monocle and checking the ammo/health/mounted gun locations on the map.

damn, my workday just ended, I guess I’ll finish this a bit later

Another great thread in the forums. Especially the third post in this page. Just read the whole thread. I was actually surprised as to how only few people were wondering what the hell was going on there. Good job everyone!

As for me - I got my new computer last week and been messing with it ever since. I tried out TF2 and COD4 with maximum graphics and it runs smoother than a hamster on a floor covered with vaseline. Hopefully I’ll get Fraps running this weekend and will be able to provide this site with the content it actually deserves.

This is a really nice thread. I especially like the altf4 posts on this page. Scroll a bit lower to see them

Hey there!
I know that there is a weak possibility that anyone at all will read this, but as I have promised myself (and written about it something in the “about me” page) then I will still continue to write here. And more and more as the time comes, because I have ordered my new computer. With the e8500 and HD 4870×2 (yes, x2. Yes, I know) and 4 gigs of ram it should run everything like a muscular hamster runs in his running wheel - bloody fine. It should arrive this week which means by the next week I’ll already be playing games (mostly team fortress 2 though) and providing this site with sniper content for which it was intentionally created.

I also read at rockpapershotgun.com (nice website) that you will be able to play Crysis: Wars this week for free. I think I’ll take this opportunity and try it out (having not tried out the original crysis :). I just hope that my internet connection won’t suck as much as it usually does. I wasn’t able to play last night’s counter-strike match because of the ping. The team won, though.

Also, while reading Chris’s Living in Oblivion I found an urge to install Oblivion once again and try it out. Informing about my adventures could be fun as well, but it would look much too similar to LIO, and I would hate that. I quit Oblivion last time because 1) I found a cave near the village I was staying in, went in and there were monsters thousand levels (I always exaggerate a LITTLE) better than me, still, after a few quickloads and a few shitloads of time I managed to beat them but I still was pissed and 2) I wanted to kill a random woman walking by and shot her with an arrow, she charged, I kept shooting, she kept coming closer. When she started to slash me with her sword she looked like a fucking hedgehog and I just ragequit and uninstalled the game.

I haven’t seen a decent sniper movie in Team Fortress 2 until now. Watch it here. It’s mostly 6vs6 footage so you know it’s quality stuff. Some really nice sniping going on there and I must say that I have yet to become that good in TF2, well, mostly because in public servers there are only a few scouts usually so no chance to practice. Oh, and don’t be surprised about the bunnyhopping in the video, that’s turbomod. The movie is really good, nice quality, nice content with the only exception of music which sucks big time. I mean come on - there are guys who like this type of music and the other ones who put death metal in their movies. Why cannot both sides understand that you have to be a bit more neutral towards the choice of music? Ok, I don’t mind death metal, but others do, so why not choose a little less ‘deathish’ song? Or in this case, less annoying song? Anyway, just watch the vid, it’s cool (except the music).

Valve has updated their TF2 website. Nice to hear from them at last. As you can see, they’ve been working on Left 4 Dead about which my friend is very excited. The excitement is about the idea that we will be able to play it cooperatively. We both have seen multiple videos of gameplay and the game looks interesting. The player will feel like in a movie - walking at night in a city where you can expect zombie hordes storming at you any second. Reminds me a bit of a movie called Dawn of the dead (2004 years version) which in my opinion is the best zombie movie there is. As it turns out the zombies (or as they’re called in the game - infected) are partly inspired from the movie “28 days later” which is also a great movie and the first one if I’m not mistaken to have fast zombies in it.

Got distracted a little bit there reading about L4D on wikipedia which led me to other sites which resulted in cs:neo video download. Yes, it’s a japanese version of cs. What considers cs, then we (that clanbase team I’m in) will have to play very strong opponents some time next week. I doubt that we will get more than 5 rounds in any map, because they’re really good.

And there is only one thing left to decide about my computer. Whether I want a system that supports DDRII or DDRIII. The latter is more expensive (~260$) but a little faster as well. I have yet to decide whether the speed improvement is worth the money. The video card I’m getting is radeon hd 4870×2 so I won’t have any problems running any game at it’s highest settings for some time

Hey. There’s a little progress in getting my new computer, I’m starting to determine what parts I want. I won’t go into detail, because I’ve been discussing this in plenty of other places.

In what detail do I want to go into?

Heh, I kind of like this one. Got it from here.

Also, big news. I noticed I had my first comment here. Its only a matter of time before an article in this site hits 100 comments. Something like this.

Yeah, that’ll be sweet. And when it happens, I’ll link to this post and we will all have a good laugh (I actually don’t know why, because that drawing above sucks and there is nothing else funny here (well, the “your mom” joke was ok if you got it :). But I guess it’s just common - to laugh at old stuff)

Anyways, I’ve gotten myself all the heavy unlockables at TF2 and I also got invited to play cs in clanbase with some dudes I know. This is somewhat weird, because I play cs seldom now, I can’t stand it for more than 10-20 minutes and my skill is not as good as it was. So I guess I’ll have to play csdm a bit before the games start (20 something september).

What else? Oh, I bought myself a new mouse and a microphone. The mouse is G5 v2 (it actually is better than the old G5 which I had for about 2.5 years) and the microphone doesn’t matter. I was so used to the worn mouse and it’s shitty sliding, that now when I got the new one, I had to put some weights in (before I didn’t use any of them) so that the force required to move the mouse would stay the same. I guess I’ll be getting a new mousepad as well, this func surface of mine has worn itself out as well.

What else? I guess nothing, except that my sniping skill is even better with the new mouse - I immediatly tested it in some TF2 servers and got a lot of nice headshots.

Ok, I’ll try not to make such crappy news as this, but as I said - the real stuff will start probably after a month or so, when Fallout 3 (27 october) and Farcry 2 (24 october) comes out. Till then I could probably make some cs sniping movies if I have the time.

I’ve been busy lately so I haven’t had the time to write much here. Anyway, at 1fort I came across the TF2 achievement generator and played with it a bit (I would make more if I had the time):

Saw the new Fallout 3 videos at http://kotaku.com/5043549/five-new-fallout-3-gameplay-videos. Interesting. This game definately allows your imagination to decide how to kill a particular enemy the way you like. A game which involves shooting where I won’t be running around shooting everybody in the head but will develop cunning ways how to decapitate someone. Usually, when there’s a FPS game (which this really isn’t) I play the hardest or the next to hardest difficulty and shoot as effectively as possible. Not this time. This time it’s killing for fun and interacting with other people and following a storyline. Can’t wait to get the game. And sometime this week I’ll have to visit a friend and decide on the parameters on my new gaming rig.