6 Hour monday night session

Another succesful night on L4D… apart from the complete lack of success with regards to completing ANY campaign on expert… Although between Gazmo and myself we helped Iron Man Jakes to get a few achievements and I demonstrated to him how to get the All 4 Dead achievement (somehow i’ve managed to do that twice in less than a week :-) i fucking rule!)

We have a nice little witch hunting trick at the moment… it plays on a glitch that she’s unable to turn around once she’s attacking you… so if you stand behind her when you startle her you can shoot to your hearts content and she can’t do anything to you!

Another neat little trick that helped me end a round vs Jakes and Benny is the smoker instant kill on No Mercy’s Final level… i love it, just get the first one out of the hatch with a smoker and he’s dead, no saving him, no health lost, just plain dead :-)

We managed our untouchables achievement yesterday in the 11 hour session… On Dead Air, back up against the plane, we used 3 human & one computer character, each defend a different angle, and make sure the computer stays well away from zombies… the hardest part is actually getting the computer on the plane, they have a tendancy to stand at the door trying to kill a few zombies first… in which case you have to be quick on the trigger (and bloody accurate) to save her…

Tanks can be taken down with a molotov and using the assault rifle… 3 of you emptying a full clip each takes him down before he’s even reached the hill…

Our last game tonight was an awesome one… Jakes, Gazmo, Benny and I on one team, 4 randomers on another… Their score… 1600… or score over 3200…  We got some awesome streaks in that… and the only exploits we used were skipping the crescendo event at the gas station and killing the witch… a few cheeky moments of standing near a witch as an infected to lure their fire, and best of all… watching another team try our witch trick and die in failure :-D if only they watched YouTube! :-)

6 Hour Session

Well it started with Me and Dink going for Achievements, soon to be Joined by Gazmo and Iron Man Jakes for a helping hand… Dink got some of what he needed and we spent a good 2 hours going for the “Untouchables” achievement… we failed…

Onto versus mode… Myself and Dink vs. Gazmo, Benny, Fat Man Kev… Dink and I were being massacred all through… cue final showdown at the farm house… the rescue arrives, i spawn as a tank… ALL 4 DEAD!!! I am now 30 points above Gazmo and number 1 in our leaderboard… AWESOME :-) Plus i did a whole level in VS without firing a shot!

 

L4D Update… some good some bad

http://store.steampowered.com/news/2162/ Check out the update here… No Minigun trick anymore :-(

GTA IV – The Lost And Damned

Started playing last night… awesome! I’ll update as i get a better feel for it… Oh and my L4D achievements… 6 left to go :-D

Off Topic – Friday the 13th (2009)

Saw this last night… apart from the insanely predictable plot (as in, you see a character for the first time and within seconds anyone who’s watched a slasher movie before can see instantly who’s going to end up as a corpse and who’s going to live) i thoroughly enjoyed this, perhaps it was down to the fact that it was the first horror movie i’ve seen in the cinema in the last 2 years, maybe it was the interesting death scenes… a fantastic machete through a Jetty into a girl hiding underneath’s skull…  The only thing missing in my eyes was (as they made a point of two people standing right near it at separate moments in a rather ominous way with Jason close by) was “Death by bug zapper”.

My biggest problem with it was how Jason at times was superhuman but during the final battle with Jared Padalecki and his on screen sister, he was just another normal man in a hockey mask, overcome all too easily by a couple of kicks and punches.  Although in true F13 style… there’s always one last Jason moment :-) Worth a watch if you liked the others, not as good as the original movie, probably on a par with Freddy vs Jason, definitely better than a lot of the weaker offerings out of the now 12 movies (if you count Freddy vs Jason as a F13 / Nightmare movie). 

Plenty of kills, could have done with being made in the late 70’s or early 80’s for more gore, or at least having Tom Savini return for the effects but still worth a look.

http://www.fridaythe13thmovie.com/

L4D

More of us with L4D now :-D So far the most in a VS match has been 7 but that’s only coz i was asleep and didn’t know i could have been slaughtering infected… Only 140 damage points off my Dead Wrecking achievement too!!!  I’m slowly getting better although Gazmo is now ahead with the “Stomach Upset” achievement… GIT!!!  I feel another session coming on tonight…

Tip of the day… punch a mini-gun a few times, jump on it, and then jump off…. so much fun flying over everything, especially on No Mercy’s final level… suicide off of Mercy Hospital :-D

Off Topic - Gigs

2 Gigs in less than a week at the junction! Alkaline Trio last Wednesday (04-02-09) and Reel Big Fish last night (09-02-09)  Both gigs were awesome, photos are up on Facebook now! Here’s the link (there’s some pictures of snow in there too…) (2009 - So Far)

Another awesome L4D evening!

Last night after the pub, Gazmo81, BennyK and myself went for a bit of L4D versus mode… a few achievements here and there, i had both smoker ones, the hunter pins someone twice in one life, and the incapacitate a survivor who has entered and left a safe room… this put Gazmo and myself level on points again (only in this game). 

However, not to be outdone, and so i can be back on top… I just got Safety First… survive a whole campaign with nobody taking friendly fire damage… unfortunately i was the ONLY survivor on No Mercy on Easy… Zoe, Bill and Louis all got knocked off the hospital by the tank in the final hoard as the chopper arrived… damn fools but sod trying to save them.. i was on the chopper and quite happy there :-) I now have a total of 745/1000 on L4D (40/50 achievements) i doubt i’ll ever get 1000G from it because of the “Complete all campaigns on expert” one… what an arse! :-)

Bioshock Down :-)

Just finished Bioshock today… can’t be that long of a game, i recon I'd put in 2 hours prior to today and about 5 – 6 hours play today and I've bumped my Gamer Score up by 610!!! Great game though, may have to find out whether part 2 is already out or not and get that :-) Catching up with Fat Man Kev48’s score now too :-)

Gaming tonight!

Left 4 Dead versus mode tonight at Carlos763’s place… fingers crossed Gazmo 81, Fat Man Kev 48, Deadly Dink, and BennyK will get involved too…  Going for some versus trophies now after getting my “Man vs Tank” the other day… ON EXPERT! It was great, Zoe died from a boomer / horde.  Francis was taken down by the horde too on a stairwell, the tank came through a window.  I’d molotoved the room causing the tank to set on fire shouted Gazmo81 to leg it away (head back towards the beginning of the level, diving out of a window and run for the opening safe house) the tank seemed to get stuck somewhere in the building, and without having taken a single bullet burned to death on his way to kill us.  As it was my Molotov… 30G came my way in the form of “Achievement Unlocked – Man Vs Tank” :-D.  Time to go for my “Kill all 4 survivors with a tank in one sitting” So close the other day, 3 down one already dead….

Left 4 Dead – VICTORY

Gazmo81 and I kicked Fat Man Kev 48 and Benny K 23’s arses last night in VS mode… if only Zoe had still been alive i’d have the tank achievement for killing 4 in one turn… awesome teamwork, Gazmo81 vomits on the 3 survivors up the stairs and whilst blinded my tank incapacitates all 3 :-) AWESOME!