Rocking games. Quick summary as it’s late – we won almost all or maybe all our games of Battlefield Bad Company 2 tonight! I unlocked the engineer’s red dot sight, and 4x rifle scope as well as body armour. I also unlocked the Type 88 Sniper rifle even though I was running recon with the trusty M1. I leveled up to 14 too, and earned another 10091 points! Numerous awards too. We were best squad at least twice. I got best player once, got an smg efficiency, surveillance ops pin, anti vehicle efficiency pin and and “superior service duty” for […]
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Defense Tips for Bad Company 2
Reddit user sadsadsadist has created some fabulous defense maps and tips for Battlefield Bad Company 2. Here are his original posts, I’ll upload the maps here too for my own convenience and just because I’m paranoid that such great content will disappear if it’s on another site! Isla Inocentes Port Valdez Valparasio Arica Harbour Laguna Presa Nelson Bay
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The Robin Cam
Derek Mooney of “Mooney Goes Wild” on Radio 1 has a robin cam pointing at a nest in his utility room. It’s the usual webcam quality but it’s good enough that we were able to see the mother robin arrive and feed her chicks. See the Mooneycam for links to this camera and a blue tit camera in Áras an Uachtaráin (where the Irish President lives). They also have a diary of sorts where Derek keeps a record of what’s happening.
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First major session of Bad Company 2 on …
First major session of Bad Company 2 on the Xbox in quite a while and it was a mixed bag. I was joined by Eddie, Gavin and another player I didn’t know, Cerebrus (I think?) The team we were playing against were very good although they relied on snipers quite a lot in some games. When attacking they softened us up with mortar strikes and when available helicopters. I think we won one game and possibly lost 2? The games last so long it’s hard to tell. On Nelson Bay we were attacking and I used the mortar strike to […]
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Swap teams in Bad Company 2 on consoles
The PC version of Battlefield Bad Company 2 has a nice handy UI for switching teams but it’s possible to do the same on consoles too. I should have realised this myself but I read it on a comment on this post: You can do it, press the Xbox guide button in the middle of the controller, find the guy on the opposite team on your recent players list, join session in progress. It’s not easy as sometimes the guy will have set his online status to appear offline, but it is possible. The Playstation 3 has a “Recently Met” […]
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Knifing in Bad Company 2 is very broken
Ouch, was that bad luck or does it happen to everyone? I dunno how Dave got 67 dog tags, or Geoff got 94. I’ve got 17 and 19, depending on which platform. There was a reddit thread about this and a DICE rep said they’re aware of the problem and suggested aiming for the head…
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Getting by with 2 in a squad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY-rTed6v_w StoneFaceLock offers some tips and gameplay in this video from Battlefield Bad Company 2 on Laguna Presa. Good teamwork with his squadmate on the attack. He recommends assault and medic for two man squads, or possibly a recon but not with a sniper rifle. Might be something for Dave and myself to think about for our next game!
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Good news on the cable front! The Xbox 3…
Good news on the cable front! The Xbox 360 HDMI cable and Playstation 3 component cable arrived today! Despite my misgivings after earlier testing I plugged the Xbox cable in first. The cable comes in two parts. A bog standard HDMI cable and a short “audio” cable with digital and phono connections. Microsoft made it impossible to use the standard component cable with a HDMI cable because the connector on the Xbox side is so huge. This connector is thinner though. Profiteering? Anyway, I plugged everything in, HDMI cable into the DVI-D converter and switched on. The screen looked dull […]
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Preload the cache in WP Super Cache
See that nice dip in the graph for this week? I started to preload the cache used by WP Super Cache last Sunday and it’s made a noticeable difference in the load on my server here. The big spike is the preloading process. I’ve always discouraged users from preloading the cache (Askapache Crazy Cache will do this for any cache plugin), mainly because of the possible problems so many files will cause for hosting companies. If you have thousands of cache files, it’s going to take so much longer to recover from a disk crash. On the other hand, Google […]
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Get 400 MS points for Xbox Live when you…
Get 400 MS points for Xbox Live when you download the Red Dead Redemption multiplayer free roam trailer. Well, if you’re one of the first 5,000 to do so. The promotion started yesterday and I just started my download a minute ago when I remembered. Hope I got in on time. (UK only, but come on, I’m just over the Irish Sea!) More on this Joystiq post.