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Posted on May 30, 2009 under Counter Strike |
When you join a server, you’ll start with $800. There’s a few ways you can spend this money, and it depends on your playing style.
Glock, Kevlar, & Ammo
If you’re a Terrorist, you’ll spawn with a glock. While the glock is an extremely weak weapon, it does have some benefits that may merit holding onto it. Firstly, glocks exhibit no recoil. This means that while the bullets are weak, you may fire them very rapidly without having to worry about losing control of the gun at any point. Speaking practically, this translates into somewhat of an Uzi-equivalent among handguns, and for this reason, many CS players will say the glock is the best handgun in the game.
The other benefit of the glock is its MI (movement impairing) ability. Any time you strike an enemy player with a glock bullet, they will be frozen in place. Not all weapons exhibit this feature, and it is quite a deadly feature in most any situation. Coupled with the ability to fire rapidly without losing the quality of the aim and damage dealt, the glock’s MI ability makes this pistol quite a unique amalgam of features, perfectly suited for those who enjoy spraying bullets up close and personal, particularly those good at circle strafing. If this suits your playing style, then the glock is certainly the gun you want. Simply get Kevlar and ammo and you’re good to go.
The glock has an alternate burst mode, which is selected by clicking the right mouse button. You really never want to use this. The strength of the glock is in its accuracy, which you completely lose when you turn on burst firing. If the damage dealt were greater, akin to a shotgun maybe, it would be arguable without question. But because the bullets are so weak, spreading them thin virtually renders the weapon useless. Glock shots must be concentrated on a single point in order for the weapon to deliver on its merit. For this reason, you generally want to keep it on semi-automatic.
USP, Kevlar, & Ammo
Counter-terrorists spawn with USPs. This pistol has the advantage over the glock in terms of damage. It is also the only pistol that comes with a silencer, which reduces accuracy but may be useful to you. But the USP recoils, and it lacks the MI you’ll get with a glock. It also exhibits a slower rate of fire. This is sort of a middle-of-the-road pistol, and it’s actually not that great a weapon against a glock. Because of the fact that it recoils and the glock doesn’t, along with the fact that being shot with a glock will impair your movement, you will end up stuck in place with no choice but to fire relatively slowly while the enemy is putting streams of bullets through you. Because of this, even though the USP is a stronger pistol, if the case is that you and your enemy are evenly skilled, you will be at a disadvantage.
If you’re a CT and your aim is not great, keeping the USP and adding Kevlar and ammo to your gear will probably be the best way to spend your spawn money. If you have aim, consider the following.
Desert Eagle & Ammo
The Desert Eagle, at this stage in the game, is one-hit or two-hit killer. If you want to significantly tilt the odds your way, this pistol, along with good aim on your part, will certainly do the job. But there are two caveats to selecting this weapon. The first problem is that, with only $800 to spend, you will not be able to buy Kevlar, since the gun will knock off $650 right away. The second problem is you will only be able to afford 28 bullets, 7 in the gun and 21 in extra magazines.
As far as not being armored with Kevlar, the damage you will deal with a Deagle is so great in comparison to any other pistol that not only will your enemy’s armor be offset by all the extra damage they will take, but it will even be surpassed. The power of the Deagle is simply unfair at this stage in the game. But the reason it may still be a questionable selection for many CS players is in the fact that the ammo for it is severely limited.
28 bullets is not a lot. In fact an entire magazine can be fired off in about 2 seconds, meaning a panic-prone newbie probably has about 8 total seconds worth of bullets with this gun. You have to make a conscious effort to conserve by only firing when you know you have a good chance of making the shot count. This means you must rely on your aim, which many CS players may not yet have. For those players, this is the worst pistol choice, and they would be best off acquiescing with the default gun and armor.
But in general, this is the pistol everybody should hope to master. The reason is the Desert Eagle will generally kill first among pistols simply because of its sheer power. The only prerequisite is solid aim. Once aim is acquired, no matter what other pistol the enemy is using, regardless of what armor they have on, your Desert Eagle will make you fiercely unmatched.
Other pistols?
All the other available pistols should be avoided on your first-round buy. Their benefits over your spawn pistol are so menial as to not justify sacrificing the money you could be spending on Kevlar. If you want to upgrade your gun, the Desert Eagle is the only valid option. If you don’t like the Desert Eagle, keep your default gun and opt for the armor until your aim improves enough for you to like it.
Grenades
I don’t generally spend any cash on grenades at this point in the game. Grenades can certainly be useful. A hand grenade can soften up an enemy prior to the kill or finish a partial job. Flash bangs will obviously blind your enemies. The trouble is once you’ve utilized your grenades, you’re very ill-equipped to handle the remainder of the round. This wouldn’t be the case had you had a large sum of money to spend. But you only had $800, meaning you sacrificed much on gear for them. So they really have to count.
This might be ok if you know what your opposing team is likely going to do. Hand grenades inflict splash damage and flash bangs blind all the in the area. So if you’re pretty sure the opposing team is going to travel in a tight mass or bottleneck somewhere where they’ll need to clump together, then your grenades may be justified. But it may be that your encounters with the enemy are rather going to be sparse. In these cases, a grenade will impact only a marginal number of opponents, and once you’re out of grenades, you’re going to be short-handed against the remaining enemy team.
Most of the time, you’re not going to know what the other team is planning in your first round on the server, and grenades are going to be a gamble. Unless you have some other specific reason, such as having organized some grenade tactic with your team, your money is going to be better spent on weapons and armor.
Posted on May 27, 2009 under War of Warcraft |
Prepare For Guild Wars With Chapter II Announced, The Adventures Will Continue In Ascalon
Most Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMOPRG) are alike in many ways. You build a character, kill some monsters, embark on some quests, gain experience points, and level up to godlike status.
Guild Wars changed these conventions in a big way!
Since its release early in 2005, Guild Wars revolutionized the MMORPG scene, as well as gaming technology in general. The game boasted of so many features, most of which are way advanced for our times. The result: a unique gaming experience that has hooked millions upon millions of people around the world.
Guild Wars: The Most Played MMORPG Everywhere
Guild Wars is known for many innovative aspects, but the most prominent is perhaps the non-existence of a subscription fee. Yes! Unlike most MMORPG programs, playing Guild Wars does not require monthly subscription. All you have to do is to buy the game, or purchase an account key online, and you’re set for life. The game itself would allow you to connect to a number of dedicated servers which would bridge you to fellow players for hours upon hours of adventuring goodness in the fantastically mythical world of Ascalon.
This has led to a lot of players preferring Guild Wars over a slew of other MMORPG programs. The onetime fee is indeed the clincher. This, however, is not the only wonderful component of Guild Wars as a truly satisfying game.
Guild Wars Employs An Innovative Live Streaming System
Tired of downloading patches for your favorite MMORPG programs? Don’t have the patience to wait for the download to finish before you could play? Then Guild Wars is truly the MMORPG for you! With a first-of-its-kind live streaming system, you could download the game yes, the entire game! while playing. This means that once you register your account, you could start playing Guild Wars immediately. The other files will then be downloaded in real time, in the background, during your play.
This is true for necessary patches as well. Guild Wars does away with the usually irritating wait for patches by automatically downloading them for you while you’re playing. The result is a seamless experience, a true open-and-play enjoyment of a wonderful, wonderful MMORPG.
Guild Wars Offer An Amazing Game Play Experience
The revolutionary features are complemented by an amazing and addictive game play that is unlike any MMORPG you have tried before. The first thing that you will notice is the lush graphics that makes your screen come alive. After a few hours of play, you’d start to believe that the world of Ascalon is just as real as ours, thanks to the rich texture and fabulous designs of the images and an ultra powerful graphic engine that is surprisingly friendly to a wide variety of processing systems.
The magnificent ambient sound also offers a different level of immersion for the gamer. This may not be apparent with generic speaker, but plug in some amps to complement a modern sound card and boom! you’ll never get to hear more realistic audio from another game, much more another MMORPG.
Though Guild Wars uses the same play mechanics as most MMORPG that is, the Diablo point-and-click, hack-and-slash system, game play takes a decidedly different turn when it comes to execution. Rather than competing for re-spawning monsters with other players, Guild Wars will transport you, and your party if you choose to join one, to a pocket area where you have exclusive dig at all the monsters. Towns and meeting points are the only communal levels of this MMORPG, and you could conduct necessary interaction in these places.
Veteran MMORPG campaigners may find this rather confusing, but give it time and you’re going to love the intimate aspect that Guild Wars has to offer.
Future Looks Bright With The Coming Of Guild Wars: Factions
NWSoft, the developer of Guild Wars, are set to release the second chapter of this epic arc. Entitled Guild Wars: Factions, the expansion promises to offer more areas to explore, more professions to master, more skills to learn, more missions to undertake, more Player Vs. Player (PvP) options to avail of, and more adventuring hours to enjoy.
The release of the MMORPG’s second chapter is proof enough of the developers’ commitment to make Guild Wars a staple in the MMORPG scene. Currently, it is competing for the top spot in the MMORPG pie, challenged only by the equally excellent World of Warcraft. With the release of Guild Wars: Factions, the franchise is set to solidify its claim to fame, and set the MMORPG scene ablaze, anew.
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Posted on May 21, 2009 under Hit Man |
Traditional arcade games require players to deposit money in the machines in order to keep playing. Players can then continue the game in order to try to advance to the next level and beat the enemies, luckily for arcade game fans the web has facilitated the entire process by providing free access to thousands of games which have been created to resemble arcade games, except for the coin deposit thing. Others have been taken from the arcade into the web as a one-to-one copy which makes things even better.
As we all know, these games can get you addicted pretty quick because most of them are quite complex and have many levels to beat, a game which would fall in this category is called Armored Heroes. This online gaming application is quite difficult to beat, you will encounter several armored enemies which are tough to kill, you have the choice of playing with three main characters, a knight, an old man which looks like a wizard or a wood soldier. The first 3 enemies will come at you right away so you better get ready to fight, your main keys will be “s” for fast attacks “d” slow attack which cover front and back and the mount/dismount key “e”
You will be given a dragon to carry you around from the very beginning but make sure you learn how to control it since your attack types change and the ones which you thought to be fast will now be slow but far more effective. You will also notice that there are several barrels which need to be broken in order to collect points or healing packs (usually red) After you beat the archers you need to proceed with caution since there are some enemies which explode and can take you down immediately.
Right after you defeat these set of foes you will have to battle against a tougher night which might give you the impression to be the final boss because he comes at you really fast but he isn’t, you can beat him with fast continuous attacks, compared to previous enemies this one might take you a while to defeat but it is doable, once you pass this enemy you will encounter the final boss of this level, be very careful because if you get one hit from him you are finished, this one is a giant wooden monster which causes metal spikes to come out of the ground every time he hits the ground with its hammer, running away doesn’t work since he follows you wherever you move so your only option is to take him head to head in order to beat him. Armor heroes is a game which is sure to keep you busy for good while.
Posted on May 19, 2009 under Counter Strike |
In Counter Strike, Iceworld is a controversial map indeed. People see it as requiring no skill or just as much skill as any other map. This article will attempt to show you some strategies and tactics on iceworld, a map that inspires love and hate from all facets of the CS community.
I learned Counter Strike on classic maps like mansion, assault, dust, and italy. Each one is a completely different animal. The each possess a noteworthy difference from Iceworld, especially as tactics look. They each have an objecive. Plant the bomb, rescue the hostage, and an unmentioned objective, get the VIP where he needs to go. Iceworld has no such objectives. It is a small map and looks very much like a pound(#) symbol from overhead. A buy zone is located in it’s center and T’s and CT’s spawn across the map from each other. With no objectives the goal is total anihilation. Kill all of the opposing force before they kill you.
Environmentally, every wall can be shot through if you have the right gun. When you run around the map you can hear your footsteps, or someone else’s, in the snow. The sound of heavy fire from all sides is all around you from the start, and often to the finish. Small walls peak out of the sides of the map on it’s right and left paths, as well as an extended wall of ice at the middle point of each spawn point. Guns lay on the ground on each side to be picked up. The map is very simple. It’s lack of complication raises the ire of many players who want something more “complicated” to do on the map, like the aforementioned objectives.
I find this map exhilarating. It’s small size and simple design means it’s often total chaos. You really have nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. Iceworld rarely offers any time for a player to take a breath and a lot of players never get to reload once before the round ends or someone gets them. You may find yourself going against 5 CT’s by yourself or turn a corner into a firing squad. A split second decision to reload or pick up another gun off the ground can be pivotal on if you make it out of the round alive. It makes you think on your feet as you could be overwhelmed by opposing forces from any direction at any time. It’s a Deathmatch type map though specific “Deathmatch” iceworld maps exist for those who don’t like the short wait time between rounds on it.
Having played this map for a long time now, there IS strategy to it. The elegance of iceworld is in it’s simplicity, and in some smaller details a lot of tactics and strategy on this map are missed for it’s Deathmatch look and feel. Iceworld is great map to learn human behavior and how people react to intense shoot outs and large player rushes.
Using the AWP and watching two of the three paths is an obvious one. The middle should be guarded first to take out anyone trying to cross through it. Opposing AWPers will often have to be dealt with too because controlling the middle is strong for any team on this map. A second AWPer will usually cover what you are unable to, but if none exists cover the areas they are missing. Slowly make your way around the level. The AWP is not a quiet gun and on it’s sound alone an enemy can find where your shot came from. Use the walls on the right and left for cover shooting through your own spawn point and to theirs. Drop it if necessary.
For the rushing player the SMG, TMP, Mac10, and p90 are taken so they can get to the other side as fast as possible with a gun they can spray with. Typically, this does not end well for the rusher because an AWPer is watching one of the sides they rushed on. Going up the middle often meets the safe fate due to the assault guns, and the AWP itself, well positioned to guard these areas from the start of the round. A rushing player may find it better to turn into the middle of the level and let all the other team’s snipers check their points first before rushing in. Time is short on the map, so staying one second too short, or one second too long, at any spot may have you surrounded at any time, but the pause is important to make use of the opposing players natural rhythm to check the paths for enemies.
Assault rifles, like the Steyr Aug and Commando really shine on this map. At the beginning they’re as good as AWPs watching all the major paths. When the map is winding down they allow accurate shooting at a distance without having to get into close combat. Iceworld’s longest distances are often forgotten and these guns have the ability to let you move faster than when you have an AWP and still get a punch in your power. It’s added power means it’ll be easier than for other guns to take out multiple opponents at one time without the need to reload. Reloading is a skill in itself on Iceworld and making your need to reload less will make you stay alive a lot longer than most.
Shotguns change the game for the person with one. Not the auto shotgun, or “noob tube” as it’s been immortalized, but the m3 single shot pump shotgun. Under a wave of gunfire you’re likely to get one or two shots to their fifteen or more. In a map as chaotic as Iceworld the pump shotgun teaches best the use of the environment, however much or little you have of it. Skills some players take for granted that they have now but had to learn before can also be learned with this gun on this map. Strafing, shooting while moving, using walls for cover. The biggest of these the pump does wonderfully in the chaos of Iceworld is shooting while moving. While rushing on one side you fire at the enemy while heading somewhere else, mix moving and stopping to confuse your enemy’s fire without messing up your own. Making sure the one shot you do get is accurate and will either kill the enemy or seriously hurt them, so if you get a second shot, you’ll finish them off. The pump will have you finding yourself hiding, ambushing, and trying shots you would not normally try if you had a different gun under the same amount of fire from all directions.
Not all servers allow HE Grenades to be used. I find it’s much easier to dominate with them, but are not necessary on the map. Grenade spamming is simple enough to do, and throwing one at the start of the map will almost always hit somebody. There are times when you will not throw them to your enemy’s spawn, but that’s usually when you see a rush coming that way and simply throw it in front of them.
On Iceworld the opposing team is trying to get your spawn point and you’re trying to get to their’s. This is very important to remember. Knowing you’re attempting the same thing will go a long way in raising your Kill To Death ratio. Once they get to your spawn point they’ll come back to their own. As Iceworld is a very time related map with everything happening in under a minute to two minutes tops, the passing time is important to know where the enemy is at any given moment. It doesn’t take too long to cross the map without opposing gunfire coming your way so you should be able to put yourself in the right place as the map is winding down. Keep an eye on your teammates. Use their eyes to see around corners and find out what gun an enemy is using on their end. Locating AWPers is easy when they take out a member of your team as well. Your teammates also provide eyes where you are not there. You can plainly see if your team is winning or losing the gunfight if you went right when they went left. Note the guns they have and if any players over there may cause a problem for you. Particularly useful at the start of the round is to fire at the bottom of their wall, either on the right of left side. Many players simply duck behind a wall being shot at by the enemy and more often than not avoid getting hurt badly, or even hurt at all. Firing at the bottom of the wall often brings them around the corner.
A great training tool and guide for getting better at Iceworld and many other maps is the http://fpsbanana.com. If you’re rusty at anything I’ve mentioned or need to perfect it, it’ll be a great investment and greatly increase your Counter Strike skills on any map. Iceworld may not be the most respected or popular map the game has ever had, but this guide and regular play will greatly improve your skills when put to use. I hope I’ll see you some Iceworld servers.