DEFCON

Now if you've seen the movie Wargames from 1983 you might have felt a need that I felt the first time I saw the movie a few years ago. The need to play Global Thermonuclear War and after some searching I found the game DEFCON which captures the essence of the idea.

In DEFCON you get to play as one of six superpowers those being North America, Europe, Russia, South America, Africa and Asia. The games goal is quite simple, eliminate the enemy without taking too big casualties. When you nuke an enemy city you more or less wipe out all life, kill counts as high as 10's of millions is common in the game. The combat revolves around two different things, the first being your land based nukes and the other being your sea based nukes. On land you have airbases, radar and silos, the latter being the most important as it not only launches your nukes it also serves as air defence against enemy planes and nukes. The two types of aircraft is light jets and heavy bombers, both playing an important role in both defence and attack. The jets scouts for enemy units and is very useful for shooting down enemy bombers trying to nuke your cities. The bomber is a very important unit not only for nuking enemy territory but also attacking enemy naval units of your coast.
Each player has a number of naval fleets compromised of subs, battleships and aircraft carriers. All units are important in attacking roles as the subs carry nukes, the carriers carry(wut) planes which carry nukes,(oh man I need to learn another word for carry), and battleships used for defending your other ships against enemy air and sea attacks.


As the game draws towards it's climax you'll most likely see almost every nuke in the game being fired at the same time, seeing as a launch from your silo causes it to be revealed to all enemies. However you wish to play the game, defensive or aggressive, you'll see death. Lots and lots and lots of death, in a 6 player game with no alliances you wipe out most of the earth's population, as a real global thermonuclear war would do.

DEFCON is a good independent game based on a unusual idea that provided a very entertaining game. Sure you can't play it over and over for days on end since the games almost always end the same way. How ever it is entertaining enough for you to dust of and play a few times a year and with a price of only 10€ I feel it's worth buying.

The ship

The ship is, well I suppose it's quite hard to outline what it is exactly, but I guess you can call it a first-person shooter mixed with the board game clue. It's set on 1920's era luxury liners, boats like Titanic fit right in here. There is a major twist in the game and that is that you are the killer. The game play mechanics revolve around finding your target, and bash their skull in as stealthy as possible. To achieve this you have a wide variety of face breaking weapons at your disposal, such as the poison syringe or exploding wallet. The majority of weapons are just basic melee weapons and firearms.


To make the game a bit more interesting everyone else on the ship has a target as well and while trying to assassinate your own target you have to watch out so you don't get a dagger in your back.  Every time you kill a target you are awarded with a big chunk of cash and the goal of the game is to have as much money as possible. While moving around searching for your target you have to watch out for security, in the form of guards and sometimes security cameras. If you are caught with a weapon in your hand you are given a fine and thrown in jail for a period of time. 
Even though your time in jail strips you of your entire inventory and removes you from the action for a brief period of time, the real problem is the fine since it hinders your chance to win the game.

2 tips for you people

If you like dubstep you should check out the game Syndicate, is has one of the best soundtracks I have ever heard (I am a bit of a dubstep freak). Check out the trailer below

This tip goes out to basically everyone, you should check out the HBO series Game of Thrones.
It's a really good series that has just started the second season, and if you haven't seen it you should check it out.

Well that's all from me today, come back tomorrow for some more gaming videos and reviews.

Europa Universalis II

Now this is a game I acquired years ago when it was released and I've been playing it since, as you might have noticed on my other posts I enjoy playing strategy games. This is one of my favourite games ever. 


In Europa Universalis II you control a nation's political, economic and technological development through the centuries. Military force, trade, religious upheaval and diplomacy are some of the tools you have at your disposal for a successful victory. The time span you are playing is from 1419 to 1820, and you can choose to start any time during these years.


The game starts in the late middle ages, at a low technological level, you have to research new infantry, cavalry, cannons and boats to be able to wage war in an efficient manner. The games is pretty much a sandbox game since you can form alliances with whoever you want and attack whoever you want. It's sometimes fun to invade a small city state just because it produces a high value goods, but as I noticed the first time I played is that if you expand to rapidly the entire world will hate you and form alliances to take you out. It's not fun to be attacked by every of your neighbouring countries. 


As I have already stated this game is one of my favourites and that's why I've given it a 5/5.


Check out the video for some game play, if you're good at the game that might be how your empire will look after a few days of playing.

New post soon

Just a short notice that I will post a new review tomorrow or the day after tomorrow

Battlelog

After a few hours of Battlefield today it has become clear that my favourite class isn't the support, it's a tie between assault and engineer. This became clear to me today as I got the MG36, the gun I see other players with the most and it's just as bad as all the other LMG's. You have absolutely no chance to hit someone far away unless you are using the bipod instead of the vertical grip which I find bad because if you use that you have no chance of hitting someone up close. So I've gone back to using assault and engineer with carbines and assault rifles. Vertical grip is a must for every gun that has it, if you want to hit anything, and I usually the HOLO or RDS sights on the guns, the acog sights I find to be bad in close quarters but with HOLO and RDS you can still hit people at medium range. Heavy barrel or suppressor is what I use the most on the guns aswell. I find that with the slower rate of fire on the suppressor you can hit stuff. Another post is coming about my favourite weapons as I feel the urge to play coming on.

WoWmatrix and Curse client

WoWmatrix and Curse client are two programs made for updating your addons automatically I feel that WoWmatrix is the better of the two programs that I am using simply because you get all it's functions for free, which you don't with curse client. WoWmatrix is also easier to use since there is no setup process, you just install it and you're ready to go. You can install new addons with it aswell and when you need to update all you do is click a button, sure not all addons are on WoWmatrix, and that's why I use both programs. Curse client is only good for one thing and that is updating the addons that aren't on WoWmatrix.

WoW

I'll want talk about raiding today, raiding in world of warcraft that is, and how easy blizzard has made it. Dragon soul was the easiest raid in this entire expansion and I mean that's just strange, it's supposed to get harder, not easier. I remember a year ago when I was raiding Blackwing Descent and the Bastion of Twilight, that shit was hard. It took a long time for us to down the bosses there, if I remember correctly we had 50 try's on  Cho'gall and just as many, if not more, on Nefarian. We just shouted in team speak when we downed those two bosses and we had lots of fun doing it. Blizzard has made a real fail here with the instances becoming so easy. The players that matters, not the 13 year old's, want challenges in this game. We don't want to go through the entire instance on normal in 4-5 weeks and start HC. We want to try stuff out deciding our tactics and then trying to down the bosses.

Mount and Blade: Warband

Mount & Blade: Warband is one of my favorite games. It's a sandbox strategy game where you take on the role as a hero in a fictional land called Caladria. It's not the best looking game and I'd like to quote Gamespot and their review of the game. "Mount and Blade: Warband would be that girl with a hormone disorder that made her have kind of a beard. But like beard-girl, Warband has a really good personality and if you close your eyes when you kiss you can pretend that the facial hair is just a scarf or something."  This is really true and they make a great point. It's not a good looking game but it is one of the most fun games I've played in recent years. It's personality is great, you just go on playing for hours and hours on end. 

The game itself is built up around your ability to do anything you like and not having a fixed set of quests to follow, if you'd like to follow King Ragnar for a while that's alright and if you later decide to revolt, capture, put him in a dungeon and join his worst enemy that's also ok. Sure you loose your friendship with his faction but that's ok since you just want to pillage and kill everyone who's a nord anyways. The combat system could be improved, (which it is in some mods, ill go on talking about mods later), since 200 guys just running towards each other isn't really a good strategy in a battle. The damage system itself is quite complex and a lot of factors decide how much damage you do, if you're on horseback thrusting your sword or lance towards the enemy you'll make more damage then if you are on foot. The four different swinging directions of your weapon also makes a difference since thrusting your sword doesn't deal as much damage as swinging it from above your head. There are a lot of more mechanics and factors which decide how much damage you do and this makes the game have quite a steep learning curve that must be overcome before the real fun begins. 

It is how ever quite fun watching 100 of your men run towards the enemy throwing their spears just before the two army's clash. 

Mods

There are a lot of mod for M&B out there but the ones I've fund most fun are 1257 AD and Brytenwalda.
Most of these mods adds things to the game that really should have been in the original version, like the ability to join a lords army and sending messages to your vassals telling them to join you in campaigns.

1257 AD takes place in the year 1257 (orly?) in Europe, the map is huge it has Europe, west Russia, parts of the middle east and north Africa. With so many factions to choose from the games can run for quite long before you decide you've defeated everyone worth defeating and choose to start a new game. 

Brytenwalda adds pretty much the same things as 1257 AD but it does so on the British isles during the early middle ages. The factions are pretty much historically correct and there are lots to choose from. 

Overall Mount and Blade is a really fun game which is very worth it's price. The game is fun to play and will give hundreds of hours of fun, since you can choose to do things different every time.

 

Battlefield 3

Working on my stats in BF3, im on rank 25 right now and moving steadily upwards. Fun game if you can do some kills, which I sometimes can. Also looking for good eu servers if anyone got any ideas?

New spec

New spec for main, what do you think?

Supremacy 1914

Now I like historical games, it doesn't matter which historic era they are from, I always find them interesting. Supremacy 1914 is a free browser based strategy game, which allows players to take control of a country the days prior to the start of World War 1. The player's challenge is to conquer the world, this can be done with or without allies. So you need diplomatic skills and/or military skills. The military skill is always very important, if you don't attack someone in the first week of the game someone else will eat you up 3 weeks in. The games can run for quite a long time, up towards 2 months is not uncommon, but you only have to spend 5-10 minutes in the game each day to be able to safely maintain your country. To become World overlord you have to spend probly 30 minutes per day in the game, so it's not a really time consuming game. Great for gamers that doesn't have a lot of time the weeks to play other things, 5 minutes in the morning and 5 minutes in the evening each day.

Thursday is altraid/farm night

Farming a few hours on a Thursday night

So yeah Thursdays are alt raid/farm night for world of warcraft and tonight there weren't enough people who wanted to raid and therefore I farmed and this is the nights catch.    

This is my main farm char, a hunter, and I mostly farm leather which I sell to my guildmaster. I don't make as much as everyone else but it saves me the hassle of running to the Auction Hall to put it up 5 stacks at a time to not flood the market. 

Jochen's gaming

Jochen's Gaming Diary

So yeah this is my first blog and I suppose that it'll be about what I intend to do with this blog, and as the name suggests I'll make posts about my gaming. I play almost every genre of game everything from FPS to RTS. However I do play Battlefield 3, World of Warcraft and World of Tanks most but my entries here will be about everything. When I try a new game I'll tell you what I think about it and you know stuff like that. Well i suppose that this is the time for my first entry.

World of Tanks - A game for the tank interested.

World of Tanks puts the player in command of a World War 2 era tank. It's a team based game where two sides with up to 30 players compete to destroy each other. With over 150 vehicles, both tanks and artillery, WoT offers an in-depth gaming experience. The publisher wargaming.net, an independent game developer, promise a historically accurate setting with fun and high tempo gameplay. Some RPG elements also make an appearance as players are able to upgrade their vehicles with new parts and crew members. New players start out with a light soviet, american, french or german tank which can be upgraded to a new one after you accumulate experience and credits. The tanks themselves are upgradable aswell as you can upgrade individual part such as turrets engines guns radios and ammunition types.