BuShWacKeR's Gaming

Won all my teamwork insignia's late last month in Battlefield Bad Company 2 (BFBC2). My kill death ratio hovers around 0.53 because I do not hesitate to do a suicide run if it will further the team's progress on a map. So many times I have watched M-Comms blow up while defenders were within a few steps of it. I can only assume that they are not willing to take the chance and save the M-Comm. That kind of behavior burns me up. Certainly the type of player I would not want in TIT. I can boast that no one in TIT plays that kind of game. It affects the game type, effectively turning a Rush or Conquest game into an extended Team Deathmatch. Possibly one of the most boring types of game play I can think of. Last night in Walking Dead Army's (WDA) server there was great game play. Conquest was very challenging because all the locations were hotly contested. Often, the ownership of various conquests would alternate from one team to the other. This gave excellent game play. As us...

The top two battle rifles are the M416  and the M16A2. As you can see each has  its own points. The damage the 416 has is significantly higher per bullet than the M16A2. This gets back to my gripe with the game designers. The A2 has a longer barrel so would have a higher velocity and therefore a greater damage potential. Likewise they knocked down the accuracy on the 416, I am guessing because of the shorter barrel. These two things go to show the designers don't know squat about guns. A shorter barrel has no effect on the inherent accuracy of the gun. It shortens the sight radius which requires more skill to shoot accurately, but the gun itself is no less accurate. I proved this to myself shooting 4 inch revolvers against 2 inch revolvers. You have to be little more careful about your sight picture during the trigger pull but the snub nosed revolver is just as accurate at the 4 inch. Really there is nothing about the way the A2 is rated that makes sense. The rate of fire is...

Bad Company 2 has many weapons that are similar in performance in the game. Of the more desirable guns. we will compare those that are a close match. Let’s start with the big boys of the LMG group the M60 and the T88. The M60 leads in damage by a small amount. The M60 leads the T88 in accuracy by a significant margin. However, the T88 has the lead in rate of fire, although a small one. I believe this is a case of "fast in fine but accuracy is final." This image is available in my Google Pictures account at M60 Versus  T88 Machine Guns A sub-class of the LMG group are the smaller light machine guns derived from standard carry weapons. The top two in this group  are the MG36 and the XM8. This comparison is very close, they are a virtual tie in damage and rate of fire. The MG36 has a small advantage in accuracy over the XM8. I suspect this is due to the built in red dot scope on the MG36. This image is available in my Google Pictures account at MG36 Versus XM8 LMG

Split Fish, I think, is a German company. At least the website gave me that impression. Split Fish Website They primarily make aftermarket controllers for the Play Station 3. However, they had an interesting controller for the PC. It has a mouse for the right hand. The mouse has 4 buttons, arranged in a cross for the thumb. I like that set up. Makes it easy for the right thumb to index any of the buttons. Personally, I would program them for sprinting, jumping, left and right lean, thereby putting all movement controls on the mouse. For the left hand this package had a controller meant to be held in the air not on the desktop. It had three buttons on the front similar to the way a console’s controller has index finger buttons on the front. It also had a thumb stick and a thumb pad, along with a few thumb buttons. The left hand controller has motion detection, an interesting design all in all. From PC Game Controllers Personally, I will stick with my trusty mouse and Belkin Nos...

I popped onto Steam a few nights ago to see how the DICE made Medal of Honor (MOH) Beta test had gone. Overall, some defended the quality of the MOH Beta saying it was in fact a beta. Most players who posted were very negative in their opinion of the MOH Beta. The forum topic is located at this URL: MOH Beta Test Discussion Here are some excerpts from the forum topic referenced above. CMC Quisition: Do NOT buy this game. It is terrible! O-Cactus: not to mention some of the little things made the game look silly. I noticed that sometimes on the screen it would say "killing an enemy". … Tr|pwir3: Yes the beta was real bad. Not even beta quality material. I canceled my pre-order yesterday. Mister Eveready: I've canceled my preorder twice. Once on steam, and the second at EA's store. This game is isn’t not worth 60$. $30 maybe. But over all the game is just hella boring. ... in my situation it was the lack of fun that got me. I really wanted to like this game,...