Monthly Archive for February, 2009

I can’t say it’s slow, as I’m currently being able to download something at more than 15KB/s speed. It’s just simply UNRELIABLE – there’ll be hikes and spikes when surfing, either it loads smoothly or it simply don’t load at all and kept me waiting forever. One word – SHIT.

Was about to blog about star stone by posting the “Point Booster” picture (from DoTA), but the browser just kept saying HTTP error after the “crunching” thingy (“crunching” is a term for wordpress users) – problems with the digestive system maybe?

Anyway,you can see a picture of the star stone thingy here on Wikipedia. I saw a black stone (don’t know what stone it is) with a star in it during our trip in Agra, but it was only a 4 edges star. The price was quite scary, so none of us bought any star stone. Anyway, being able to see something like that is pretty fascinating.

Was about to blog about the stupid firewall in our college too. But again I am not able to post the stupid firewall screen, so no more ‘semangat’ in criticising it. LOL. The newest word (I discovered) being blocked is “mpe”, really WTF. Discovered it when I was searching for information about Enchantress’ Impetus.

Might get myself a personal wireless internet, will see how the arrangement goes.

Finished Dungeon Siege 2 (was like 2-3 weeks ago, LOL). I even deleted the savefiles and walkthroughs because I don’t think I’ll be playing it at a higher difficulty. I’m not saying that the game sucks, but in terms of ‘replayability’, it’s just unlike Diablo, even though some aspects of the game are better than Diablo. Anyway one of the more major factor is – the one who introduced this game to me is happily playing with “x4 skill points mod”, which make me think that this game sucks more

After DS2, I got myself busy with Titan quest. It’s again an action RPG game like Diablo, but the background of the story is no longer those medieval aged era, instead it features an Ancient Greek’s background. The story is mainly about the sudden overflowing of monsters throughout the world. The reason – I’ll leave that for you to figure out yourself. Anyway, you’ll be fighting Medusa as well (with the stony glare skill of course), as she’s one of the monsters that are awakened.

Too bad the company who developed the game bankrupted (thanks to people like me ), leaving a lot of bugs in the expansion pack unfixed – though one can choose to use the fanpatch available on the TQ forum, but it just make me feel that something is missing. It’s a great game though. Will surely buy the original if I happen to come across it over here.

Finally got my hands on RA3 (thanks to room 3B ), lots of ‘verdicts’ to be given:

the girl in red is Soviet's hero - Natasha, basically a combination of Jarmen Kell and Boris

• It’s cool
• Though the cover art and the starting interface are so 2D, it still rocks – the 2D is no simple 2D art
• The game runs smoothly on my laptop (on low settings of course), which surprises me, mainly because:
  • The 3D is really simple when set at the lowest detail
  • From what I see from the tutorial videos, the 3D can be WTF-ly stunning, especially the water, it’s one of the best water (in RTS) I’ve seen.
  • So far I experience no lags (yet) when there’s a big amount of units firing happily
• Naval aspect is one of the biggest breakthrough – water and land seems to be same now, there are amphibious units to surprise you by climbing out of the water near your base, and buildings can be built on water as well. I wondered why tesla coils don’t damage several units together when placed on water
• Air war seems to be a little bit unsatisfactory to me. Some anti-air tanks (and boats) are purely AA only, they can’t attack land unit, how stupid. Only Japanese units are versatile enough to engage both land and air, other factions will lose to Japan if they don’t know how to balance their AA and land units.
• Units die VERY easily, maybe my sense of micro is getting old, but units don’t die so quickly in Warcraft at least. My tanks got blowed up by an anti infantry gun because of poor micro Anyway micro is no longer that easy because tanks pathfinding is much more realistic now (as incorporated in C&C3), they will need much more space to turn around (yea I know there’s a reverse command but in the midst of battle who will care to press the reverse command? You’ll just want your tank to move away as quickly as possible!)
• Again more on microing, I found out that you should control your units as soon as you see the composition of the opposed army, not when firing starts, because that’ll be too late.
• Wierd superweapons, they just fucking blow up an AOE carrying some wierd names (Psionic Decimator, Vacuum Imploder, Proton Collider) – more importantly they lacked distinct features like all C&C superweapon does (or maybe they do have, just that I haven’t realise, LOL).
• AIs are much more intelligent, they no longer fall for your lure-a-bit-then-kill tactic, on the other hand if you leave your force unattended, the AI will in turn try to lure-a-bit-then-kill your units, WTH.
• My dream tank finally became reality, LOL – the mobile particle cannon, now called Athena Cannon. It’s so damn cool.
• Apocalypse SUCKS. Not only that they can NO LONGER attack air, they are pretty squishy as well. Of course it’s still one of the sturdiest tank, but 2 V4 rockets are what it takes to finish a so-called Apocalypse. V4 now fires pretty quickly, and Apocalypse move very slowly, so there’s no need to think of attacking V4 launchers with Apocalypse in that case.
• Anti air-missile missile/laser is no longer to be seen, that’s why now V4 rocks.
• Dolphin gets to stay but no more Giant squids, that sucks.
• Repair is DAMN slow – it serves the purpose of units to DIE VERY FAST! Building repair is EVEN slower – my naval yard got attacked and I finished up the force and started repairing, then I wipe out the whole base of those who kacau-ed the naval yard and guess what? The naval yard is STILL REPAIRING.
• Thought that the “power” feature will be continued in RA3, but it’s not – it was in C&C3 where some buildings can be ordered to “power down” in order to cope up with power insufficiency in case of power plants being destroyed.
• Again, UNITS get destroyed TOO EASILY!!! You can see situation like the veterancy jumping over and over between players, e.g. I am having a Heroic rank tank, in a battle it died EASILY (AI’s fault) and one of the enemy’s tank became Heroic, then I angrily ordered my plane to finish up the tank, and my plane became Heroic, but later was shot down by a flak trooper – he became Heroic!
• Currently stuck at a mission where Japanese cibais are too versatile for me to handle. Hmmph. Play Titan quest better lah. LOL.
• I’m certain that there’re more I wanted to comment, but I currently don’t know what else to comment, kakakakaka.

That’s all. It’s Monday, AGAIN!!! ARGH!!!! Have to see the psycho bitch in O. Path. Can I combine psycho bitch into psycitch?

P/S: Just realised that the “Point Booster” picture is not actually a star stone, LOL.

Update: Below is the Point Booster picture.