Somehow walking into the servers, almost makes me glad that I’m retired.
Games
When you get about 20 + jockies out of about 30 some special infected, you know that it’s time to quit while you’re still ahead taller than a zombie midget!
What a night, was to tired to get anything done before bed, so I figured crash a couple hours and than see what’s on. Well, I spent the night dreaming of fighting Tanks, driving all across the Interstate and dealing with public transit, all filled with zombies >_>.
Guess while my body demanded sleep, my brain demanded Left 4 Dead action lol.
Airsoft at airdog beats video games by miles
I’ve got to admit, it beats the hell out of raven shield! Did several sets of TDM, plus VIP and collection. Being more aware of room clearing then some, of course I had no problem finding an ammo can, while half my team was busy trying to kill the other team in the hallways lol
Me and my MP5 applied some good old Speed.Agression.Surprise in the cqc area. Only thing really missing was the flashbangs, for which at one point, I used a used up frag as a flash bang to great effect ;). The only real complantern that I have is its semi-auto in door so:(
A major upside, most players here a no where near as hopeless as many gamers are at close quarters combat!!!
Today was a good change: back to work!!! Like being thankful the holidays are over and it’s back to business.
Out of the holiday torture, I broke out $5 (steam sale, hehe) for a copy of Tomb Raider: Anniversary, which is essentially a remake of the original and legendary Tomb Raider. I haven’t really played the games since ’96, and didn’t care much for II and III. The first game was really, the only one I ever liked—because it was more about the tomb raiding than the gun fights. Years later it ain’t all that different, except Lara Croft looks more like a woman than a collection of square panels.
Some things are different, like working with the grappling hook (I don’t ever remember that) and some puzzles but it is close enough to the original, that I could probably dig up an old TR1 strategy guide and figure it out lol. For the most part though, I prefer solving and exploring on my own.
It’s been my way to de-stress.
Tonight while playing Left 4 Dead 2, I noticed something a bit odd. The games textures for its “Desert Rifle” has markings for a MK 17 Mod 3 written on it along with an indicator of it being the 5.56x45mm variant.
That obvious error aside, what makes this odd to me. Just going on instinct from using the weapon in game rather than close look at the models, I would usually call it out as a SCAR or SCAR-H in game. The MK17 is the “Heavy” version firing 7.62x51mm. Someone later pointed out to me, that the magazines are obviously closer to the SCAR-L; the “Light” version of course, being the MK16 using the same 5.56x45mm you’ll find on an M16 ;). The games stuff for the SCAR mags to me, look like a curved version of the SCAR-H mag.
Most of Left 4 Deads weapons have double their realistic ammunition capacity or close to it, adjusted for stopping power. Personally, I think that’s a flaw but hey, bullets go even faster against zombies! The games SCAR hits more like a MK17 might be expected to, yet the games model appears to have an extended 30-round magazine; L4D does however exagerate the ballistics quite a lot for all the weapons. In game, you get 60 rounds in a SCAR firing on 3-round burst; the old school AR being a 50-round based M16 and the lovely AKM, offering 40 rounds.
3 times the real weapons ammo, can’t beat that for shooting through waves of infected! The real odd thing I guess, is how I know just by looking at it, that the gun isn’t accurate to real life :-/.
Somehow seeing a [SAS] header on a video being marked as NTF training, makes me remember that someone in [SAS] hosted a F&M exercise in GR1, and filmed it. I remember it being posted in the forums back in ’09. Now if I could just remember whether it was Valroe or Sniper who filmed it, lol.
Between Left 4 Dead versis and COD6: Modern Warfare 2 Team Tactical, I’m almost tempted to concentrate on competitve tactics again :-/.
Jimmy Gibs, you’re a zombie!?
Finally saw the zombie Jimmy Gibbs at the shopping mall tonight. After whacking it across the head with a crow bar outside the Dead Center stage 5 safe room, I couldn’t help but think how much it reminded me of Bill Murray in Zombieland!
I’ve read about the zombie of Jimmy Gibbs haunting the last part of Dead Center, assumably hanging around near his stock car before the survivors have to gas it up and punch through a zombie horde with it. But I never expected to see it, let along hiding in the back corner, coming out of the safe room lol. Unlike the common infected (zombies) that repeatedly spawn on the map, he just wears his white racing suit.
Guess he shouldn’t have been busy signing autographs when the zombie apocalypse started, or something like that lol.
Hmm, the big question is whether I should write my l4d series survival guide straight in the blogger interface, using Google Docs and publish as a separate web page (Blogger integration was killed off in the ‘new’ gdocs), or just vim it together in markdown or docbook+xsl, and c/p it here.
Hmm.