I also just got me a google+ account. </boringpost> ]]> http://innovacious.co.uk/2011/08/update/feed/ 0 http://innovacious.co.uk/2011/04/potato/ http://innovacious.co.uk/2011/04/potato/#comments Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:31:16 +0000 Scott http://innovacious.co.uk/?p=350

potato

Still working on another taunt kill video. Havnt been playing as much recently. Kind of annoyed with fraps at the moment. Running TF2 windowed with no borders now for easier access to my other monitor, so fraps decided it wants to record at 1920×600. Thats the normal horizontal size but half the height? I guess i will just have to do some resizing. Cant seem to get it to record normaly while in windowed mode so i guess ill just have to put up with it.

Also, i have a bit of a better Internet connection now. Might be able to upload the next video in a higher resolution.

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Also created a list of a few games ive got a lot of nostalgia for.

This was all recorded in sourceop.com Valve Maps 1 server which is pretty much the ONLY server ive played in since october 2007. There are a few kills ive got recently that arnt here though, usually because im an idiot and forgot to start recording, or accidently stopped recording trying to start… I record them using Fraps, takes alot of space but i have 600GB free and i find it easier than trying to search through the demos for the kills.

Im probably going to keep recording but for a month or two this time. Get a bigger collection and pick n choose the best of them. I probably should have kept recording and not uploaded this but i kinda liked the flow and how some parts were syncing with the music, so i thought “what the hell” and finished with this one for now. More to come soon hopefully!

Final Fantasy XIII

Logo

Its almost here, didnt realise the release date was so close and i didnt pre-order so im getting it a bit late. Im starting to regret the purchase though, even though it isnt here yet. I want to enjoy it, but i know its not going to be anything like the pre-FFX games. Hopefully i will still be able to enjoy it for what it is, instead of hating it for what it isnt. Alot of people crying the Xbox 360 version dosnt look as good as the PS3 version (artifacts, like you get in jpeg quality pics apparently) but, its not a PC game, so it dosnt bother me. I sit about 10ft away from the TV, not 1-2ft like i do my PC, so i doubt i would even notice.

Team Fortress 2

Almost every other screenshot i have is of the scoreboard

<brag>So many heavy taunt kills, this is on a busy 32 player server aswell, not messing around with some friends in an empty one. Also, decided to make my own spray a little more professional. Dont have Photoshop anymore like i did YEARS ago (it was PS6) but im proud of what i managed to do with GIMP and Garrys Mod. The text comes from one of the spys domination lines

</brag> And a shity avatar for Steam Community. The base King of the Hill image i used was low quality and i didnt really spend as much time on it.

I think im gonna start recording my TF2 games now, make a massive montage of my taunt kills. I bet nobody has done that before! *goes to youtube*…. shit… Ill do it anyway.

STALKER: Call of Pripyat

I thought i was a hoarder

Was going to try and do some more videos but luck of the draw means NOTHING INTERESTING HAS HAPPENED TO ME SINCE THE LAST ONE… But then, i have been distracted by other things. Started a new game, gonna take my time in this one. Added some new “rules” to this playthrough. Like sleeping at night time and not going out alone if it can be helped and rather than fast traveling with a group of stalkers i’ll walk with them to the destination.

Battlefield 3 Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Fraps seems to have eaten the rest of my screenshots

Great game, im loving it. Its let me down a little bit because it isnt Battlefield 3, but i can hardly blame it for that. Its not far off though. Single player is a bit bland. Gave up on it for now, but i want this to be Battlefield 3 anyway, and Battlefield 2 had no singleplayer, so meh. <brag>Ive got 4 Gold stars on my M1911 pistol</brag>

Aliens Vs Predator

Calm down

No, no, no, no ,no ,no. MASSIVE LETDOWN… Finished marine and alien campaign, Cant bring myself to finish the predator one. So boring, got a video of the AMAZING AI but even thats screwed. Recorded it with fraps but it plays way too fast. Tried messing with the speed but its difficult to get it back to the proper speed its supposed to be. Anywho, might upload it one day soon.

Just Cause 2 Demo

Picture Unrelated

Oh damn, this game is gonna be good. Tweaked the demo a little bit with Cheat Engine to stop the time limit n whatnot, although its really not needed, since it isnt a one time timelimit, you can just restart. You dont really gain that much playing through the demo anyway so you dont lose alot by just restarting. Plot and voice acting dont seem like they are going to be a high point. But WHO CARES. just give it a try and watch some videos on youtube. Theres even mods available for the demo already! Like guns that shoot bubbles, so i think this game is going to last me a long time.

That’ll Do

For now… Hopefully nobody will put this post through one of those HTML/CSS validators, it would probably implode. ]]> http://innovacious.co.uk/2010/03/stuff/feed/ 0 http://innovacious.co.uk/2010/02/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-call-of-pripyat/ http://innovacious.co.uk/2010/02/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-call-of-pripyat/#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:47:56 +0000 Scott http://innovacious.co.uk/?p=253 FINAL EDIT BEFORE PUBLISHING: Holy crap thats a massive wall of text, did i type that much? Im not even finished, i think that will deffinetly do. I was getting carried away because this game made me fall in love with the stalker series again, i dont know why i stopped playing Clear Sky.

tl;dr – this game is awesome. And not the crappy “awesome” that has been thrown around for the past 20 years… Crisps are not awesome, they are crunchy! (holy crap, never thought i would make a dylan moran reference). The proper awesome, where something leaves you in awe. Anywho, now for the main event -

So, the third S.T.A.L.K.E.R game has been with us for a while now and ive already got 40-50 hours playtime under my belt. Been trying to write some sort of review for it but im finding it difficult. It keeps just turning into some kind of crappy walkthrough or a list of anecdotes. So i thought i would just stick with the anecdotes, the best thing about stalker games of course is the free roam and the way the world around you is dynamic. Anything can happen the weather and day/night cycle can also add alot of atmosphere to certain situations.

First of all though, im sort of doing a bit of roleplaying in this game. There some things they removed/added across the three games. Some of which i agree with, some i dont and there are also some general exploits and strategies that just make the game too easy, so ive been playing by a set of certain rules so they dont affect me as much.

• Even though there are certain strategies that work best against certain mutants, im not following them, my character likes to hang back and take enemies out from a distance. Sure i could go an knife a burer or shotgun a controller in the face but thats to easy.
• I wear a SEVA suit to always be protected from unexpected hazards. Sure, pretty much any other armour would work better in gunfights, but im cautious, ill stay back in a gun fight, always attack from a distance or try to avoid it altogether. There isnt really ever going to be many “unexpected hazards” since anomalies and such arnt random in this game (unfortunatly) but its roleplaying and all the other suits pretty much make the game easymode.
• There are better weapons than the ones i use and certain weapons work better in different situations but i always use the same equipment, a silenced pistol and my Vintar sniper. From time to time i may use an assault rifle or a shotgun if ammo is low.
• I wont loot certain things. I wont pick up alcohol, only pickup energy drinks if i am far from a safe area and still plan to visit other areas and only eat tinned food. I wont take ammo i dont need and only take weapons if they are very rare/unique.
• I will only use the basic medkits and bandages none of this other fancy crap.
• The plot says im part of the military, but i miss the reuptation and faction wars from Clear Sky. So i always help Stalkers and Freedom members out, im indifferent about Duty but hate Bandits. Not openly though, i will only take them out from a distance to make sure im not seen, if they are fighting with mutants i will help then kill them when they turn their backs. I will never fast travel with Duty or Bandits. This wasnt from the start though, after a few breif dealings with bandits i decided not to work with them again.
• I wont use nightvision (cant with the SEVA suit anyway) although i do have NV on my sniper scope, but that doesnt help when trying to navigate in the dark. Just using a crappy, short range torch in the vast open areas at night time adds alot more atmosphere than using nightvision.

So here goes…… oh yeah SPOILERS

Snag

If you’ve played the game, you may have met a certain bandit by the name of “Snag” and at least some of this probably happened to you. Snag asks you for some help collecting a stash of weapons and offers to split them equally. Turns out the split isnt so equal though, he keeps claiming some sort of personal attachment to almost everything and keeps most of the stash. Im not happy, but i keep it calm and civil. Later on i go and order a pistol from Nimble. Walking past Snag, he claims it is his and was stolen. After some stern words he dissapears.

Later, i arrive in Yanov to find him again, but he denies everything. Still keeping calm about it i go and place some weapons in my personal locker, along with some ammo and a suit freedom had given me and sleep until morning. I wake up to find my stash is gone and Snag has dissapeared from Yanov station. I ask about and find the direction he has ran off in. I make haste and find him about to be executed via gunshot to the head by a bandit. I save him and give him a medkit to heal his wounds, the bandit had obviously already done some damage. Snag is confused by my civil behaviour during the whole ordeal and offers me the location of the cache where he keeps all his stolen goods as thanks. And then, it happened, i pulled out pistol (a custom black kite, cant remember the name), raised it and killed him SHOT THE GOD DAMN THEIF RIGHT IN THE FACE. He did a backflip and landed against the wall with his head on the floor.

Controllers

You may also remember a certain tunnel, there was ALOT of psy activity and you are sent with a small group to investigate. You get ambushed by a controller on the way out. In my case, only one of the men with me survived the ordeal with me, but he wasnt in good shape. About a week later (in game) i am passing the tunnel again heading to a nearby anomalie field and i see a bandit running out, followed by controller. I take out the controller but the bandit still seems agitated by something.

I moved closer but there didnt seem to be anything else about, another bandit was in the tunnel and didnt seem to be under attack or shooting anything so i shoot bandit outside in the head and head inside to finish off the other bandit but as i climb through a broken train carridge ANOTHER controller emerges from inside it. Totally caught off guard, only wielding a pistol, a nearby hostile bandit shooting me because i killed his friend and the controller constantly throwing my aim off with his psy attacks i narrowly manage to get into cover to recover and take them both out.

Controllers seem alot more common in general in this game. Ive also been caught of guard in the middle of the night in the pouring rain. I hear a growl in some nearby bushes, not sure what caused it i try to investigae when suddenly skulls flash across my screen and i find myself stareing into the sky. A controller, hiding behind some bushes in the middle of nowhere, there is NO cover for me to get behind and its already hard enough to shoot controllers with no cover let alone when you are trying to spray-n-pray through a bush. But i manage to pull through, this was one of the few times ive had to actually buy ammo after a trip out though.

Burer Baby

You probably came across this in lab X8, a baby crying, its coming from these toilets. You open a door to find a burer staring you in the face. The first time, my reaction was “HOLY CRAP” and i jump backwards shooting my pistol (i always seem to be holding a pistol in the most inapropriate times) The door slams and is apparently locked, then suddenly im dead. The burer had picked up a massive fridge/freezer from behind me without me noticing until it smashes into the back of my head…

Nighttime shootout

A couple of stalker in Yanov need my help. Some bandits have their friend held hostage. Of course, at the first mention of killing bandits i was in so off we go to save their friend. Its pitch black and a thunderstorm is underway. I gave a torch but we are being stealthy and it wouldnt help at all at the range we were at. The bandit camp is based in a warehouse surrounded by metal containers. The only lightsources outside being the bandits torches, the dim light from a fire and the occasional lightning strike. We get into position and i take out what seems to be the main guard, standing near the gate. The camp goes dark, all the bandits torches go off. Now all we can see is the muzzle flashes and a few bandits near the dim camp fire. Everynow and then though lightning strikes.

For a few brief miliseconds the scene lights up as bright as day and in those few miliseconds is when the most damage happens. The atmosphere during this gunfight was like nothing ive experienced in another game, the closest ive been to it was in Stalker Clear Sky, traveling through the swamps late at night being followed by boars that are hiding in the reeds. But then, as we push into the camp an emission starts. The stalkers dont care, they want to get to their friend and i just cant leave them. We make one final push and reach the warehouse, i run in.

The stalker is on his knees woth a gun to his head. One shot to the bandits head and he is down. The emission is really starting to get underway now but were quite far from a safe area so i manage to loot some energy drinks form one of the bandits and run towards ventilation complex underground BUT its full of zombies. Luckly they always seem more docile at night time and i managed to get quite far in before i disturbed one and could easily pick them off with headshots from cover. I lived and all three stalkers are safely back in Yanov station.

Holy crap a pseudogiant…

… i never see these, thats why i left my Gauss Rifle in zanton today, ill run out of ammo before it dies. Wow, a snork, some flesh, some rats and a pseudodog? Perhaps they will fini- Crap… Oh, here come some Duty members, in some decent armor maybe they can de- maybe not. Good, its running off in a different direction, is that a pack of blind dogs and some ra- well, it was before the giant came along. Wait, its coming this i better quickly way turn around and ru- HOLY CRAP A CHIMERA!!

Yeah, i should have started recording this video alot earlier, Only a chimera and 2 stalkers got killed in it, rather anti-climatic after the rest of the rampage.

Maybe ill keep this updated… maybe i wont…

Your videos are not fun when you spend 50% of the time complaining about the youtube time limit and spending the other 50% making sure you are still below the time limit and commenting when you are near it. Just play the game, nobody cares about the time, play for as long as you want, when it goes over 11 mins (yes, the limit is actually 11 mins, not 10) then you ignore it and keep playing, you can split the video into 11 min segments at the end.

Dont edit the video so you do everything perfectly, and dont do test runs, thats just a video walkthrough, not a let’s play and are often less entertaining.

Dont act like its the first time youve played the game or the first time youve seen something when it clearly isnt, ive yet to see a lets player that can actually act and do it believably, it’s just annoying.

Dont drown out the game’s sound, the game is a major part of the let’s play, obviously, and it sucks when the viewer has to turn the volume up three times higher than usual to hear the actual game then get deafened by your voice, you need to find a balance between you and the game.

One of my fav Let’s Plays at the moment is gixG17′s Morrowind Let’s Play.

• It’s an awesome game
• He just plays, no being held down by time limits
• He talks about the game, his views, ideas and opinions on it, not about whatever you did last Tuesday
• He dosnt edit anything out. spending a whole 10 mins reading the quest log? May seem boring to some but he provides running commentaries and its nice to see all this from a different persons perspective
• He does this cool thing where you can see him in the bottom corner while he is playing the game. One thing you lose with just audio is body language, which can say a lot on its own.

</incoherent rant>

Ive probably missed something. That was fun though, been a while since ive had a proper rant. I still watch and enjoy a lot of Let’s Players that do the bad things i mentioned above, but its really annoying. Anywho, back to watching Let’s Plays! Enjoying ThatEnglishDude’s FEAR 2 Let’s Play at the moment.

That is all

In other news

Stopped playing oblivion, not really a big fan of a pure mage class, probably wasnt the best idea like i said. Went back to morrowind, started a stealth/theif/marksman like character. Its going pretty well considering this is the first time ive ever actually managed to get past seyda neen before getting bored, and ive had the game for god knows how long, a couple of years before oblivion was released. Im up to level 20 something (havnt played for a day or two now) and im really appreciating the game this time, i can deffinetly see why alot of people preferred it over oblivion, the depth and variety is so much better.

Anywho, thats it for now.