Took the plunge (the very blocky plunge)

Whelp my last few recording sessions where pretty bad and ive not been able to get any videos out, still been gaming, Age of Mythology, Hearthstone, tried to play Planetside 2 yesterday but it was down for maintenance pretty much all day, and then today just not been feeling it. Had a 1 and half hour match of AoM I might edit and put up later in the week, will try edit it down to at least an hour or less.

Bought minecraft, Might have been a mistake as I am likely to get sucked into it. Played a bit, learned the basic mechanics, food, crafting tools, mining ETC and then looked at modding the hell out of it.

Have spent prob 3-4 hours fiddling with mods, getting them to work, tried a few mod packs, and have ended up going with the "custom" Galacticraft pack that the Yogscast have been using in there moonquest video and then I added a few of the good ones from tekkit, like dimensional doors, battletowers, ETC, had fiddle around with item IDs to get it to work, but you can see where this is going right, gonna be doing the minecraft, going to be starting soon, live on twitch because why not! http://www.twitch.tv/gobbybobby/

I have played minecraft only a few hours so I will no doubt suck, do things in horrible ways, make seasoned played cringe I am sure!! That said Ive watched several minecraft play through, people playing a variety of mod packs, and in different ways, and I can see how complicated it gets, 

Now I know everyone and there mother is making minecraft lets plays, my play through is going to be for the sake of playing, Ive got mods that add dimensions, moons, planets, I have plenty of options available, but right now, for the start of the series I wanna build something, fight some mobs, do some battletlowers. I will do what I want. 

I won't be streaming all play through, but am going to try and twitch stream as many games as possible, so if you happen to be idling around the interwebs when I am streaming, follow here. http://www.twitch.tv/gobbybobby/

so behind on videos

Whelp recorded 2 Banished videos today, and long story short, was a bad recording gonna have to do it again :/. Need to get an Open TTD episode ready for the weekend, so theres only going to be the 2 Banished episodes this week. Right now have an Age of Mythology Episode rendering so that should be up this evening. I actually win in this one. I have been away most the week, I went away for the weekend and ended up not coming back till yesterday evening, also have a stinking cold can barely talk which does not help when recording commentary's!

What have I been playing??

Well I played banished today but messed up recording so gonna have to revert save and do it again!
Played some AoM today, yes recorded, but unfortunately had some problems! First game there was an Internet disconnect. Second there was a Power cut. Then another power cut... Had a pretty bad afternoon with Intermittent power for a few hours. Then I checked out Hearthstone. Had some fun playing that so will defo record my next play through and get a video on that up. http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/

Tomorrow I will record Banished, get a video ready for Saturday, will try and get a PS2 Video for Sunday, and an Open TTD for tomorrow. I want to do a video on Faster than Light, so if I get some time will get that in!

Easter weekend

Actually going home this weekend, just rendering up last video before I leave, will have 2 banished and 1 Open ttd video to put up over the weekend, no Planetside 2 I am afraid, will try get some more PS2 videos up next week with the new patch out. I was meant to get another AoM video out, but don't have all the files together to do it just yet, so that will have to wait till next week.

talking about the PS2 patch, there the expected crying about nerfs on the PS forums, they bought the 64 bit client out again, only to then take it away after everyone started crashing/ freezing, so for the second time we have been given a taste of the x64 client only to have it taken away, apparently theres a workaround if the 64bit client was working, which involves renaming the .exe before you press play on the launcher (the launcher will auto correct the file when launched so you have to do this every time you play) hardly ideal but if the x64 client was not causing you issue, and did give you some performance boosts then go for it. I would link the forum thread but closed it.


Saw the new Captain America movie yesterday, that was pretty good, worth seeing had some cool and interesting plot twists, I would recommend checking it out if you enjoyed the Avengers, or if you where put off by the first captain Americas whole propaganda America is #1 rubbish, much less of that in this one. With the Western world mostly on holiday over the weekend, not expecting too much in the way of news in the gaming world, so I will prob not post until next week





ave a good weekend!

Worms clans wars

Always been a big worms fan, love it, great little MP game that can be played both locally 4 player (or more) or online, but the most recent installment is so poorly optimized, I paid full retail for it like a chump and while it runs fine on my current system, its still really pushing it with high CPU/ Temp readings, similar to what I get with Planetside 2 which is a really demanding game. On my previous set up I had to run the res right down, while it looks great at a higher resolution on my new system, I can really hear my system working hard, and that's not something I expect from Worms!

Yea been playing worms a bit today with a friend, pretty fun do love it, but I might have made a bad decision on impulse buying the new one when it came out, the story's not that great although I do enjoy the voice actor and humour, but I have got stuck on it, and its very frustrating to play at times puts me off.

Whelp Pax east was, boring heh

literally nothing was announced, there where very few games shown off that I was interested in, pretty quiet all round. Having not gone home this weekend, I did sweet nothing, made a few videos, played a few games including Age of Mythology which I had not played in a while, played against a friend, and lost, oh well I must have a rematch. I also purchased FTL (faster than light) after watching TB (Total Biscuit) streaming it on twitch, defo a good game, I will have to check out the mods, maybe put out a few videos on it when I am actually good at playing it heh.

Open TTD video is up, got hours of this to edit and upload + prob gonna be recording some more later in the week, so if transport sims are you thing be sure to check it out!

Also in the Quest to 1.0 KD in planetside

I think I should be there now!!!

Bring on the weekend

No gaming for me this weekend sadly, heading home, but fear not have some episodes to upload over the weekend, just finished a Banished episode, that will be up tomorrow, I also have a Brand new series starting on Open ttd (transport tycoon) which will also be going up tomorrow as well. I have already recorded about 5 hrs of Open ttd in advanced so will be uploading 2-3 30 min episodes of this next week, I am playing with a friend, and we pretty much are doing a weekly recording session, also looking at other people jumping in and playing, so if at any time you feel the urge to play TTD, let me know, I will let you know when we are playing, get you in the server!

I am about to start commentating over a PS2 video, and will have a full 60 min video of that up on Sunday, sort of experimenting with how many people would actually be interested in watching me playing PS2 for a full hour mins, after my 10 min play was so widely received instantly becoming my most watched video (just over 30% watched it all the way through according to youtube analytics)

You can watch it here if you have not already.

PAX EAST + Eurogamer

It is of course also PAX east this weekend, and I will try and bring the big story's here on the blog, and also on the KEQ forums as things unfold. I will be writing from my phone tho, so don't expect mega walls of text as I will be summarizing as much as possible. Pax East does not usually have any big announcements, as always they are reserved for E3, but there are announcements, and usually some pretty cool stuff to see,

I am also looking at getting some tickets for the Eurogamer Expo in London this year, that one is in September, usually also pretty good although rarely see any announcements at all, there usually playable demos of stuff, last time I went lot of E3 demos where on show

Why can't I pre order Watch dogs

Watch dogs is available to pre order on Steam in some country's, but not in the UK, Why not??? I want to give you my money Ubisoft, why won't you take my money!!! Its $60 on the US store, but everytime I click it,

 An error was encountered while processing your request:

This item is currently unavailable in your region

I wonder why this is? Is it still awaiting certification, are Ubisoft trying to strike a deal with some retailer for exclusive pre orders, Whatever the reason, I hope I can pre order it soon. 

What else am I looking forward to?

Daylight

http://store.steampowered.com/app/230840/?snr=1_4_4__105_2

this is out at the end of the month. It was one of the first announced Unreal 4 Engine games so should show off some of the new features of  UE4 I will prob pre order this soon.


Evolve:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/273350/

this looks really good!

Getting good at Planetside

Recently been hammering in the Planetside hours, my current goal is to break 1.0 KD, which is proving difficult with so many lvl 100s running around now, not that the KD matters, medics, engineers, ETC can make a big impact to the faction even if they are not the best shot, but I like to have at least 1.0 :) It all comes down to experience really, I think it took me almost 500hrs play in another game, MAG to break the 1.0 KD, I think I finished 1.5 when the game was shut down, racking up nearly 2000 hours, I have about 300~ hours into PS, and currently sit on 0.96 so I am almost there! Hopefully if your reading this a few weeks from now it displays over 1.0 on the sig below!

Nailing down the which class works best in which situation is comes down to experience, and I still get the old death streak, or go up against some lvl 100 guy who just will not die!!! Might have something to do with playing US west, 200~ ping.

Right now I appear to be doing better in smaller scale fights, while the massive fights are great, I am still struggling to hold my own in these battles, might have to try getting into vehicles more, something I have just recently started doing, and put some certification points into. The ;larger fights are laggier, they give me a lower frame rate while recording, really has me shying away. I plan on getting an aftermarket cooler for my PC soon, so I can overclock CPU a bit, perhaps squeeze out some extra FPS. Hopefully the PS devs optimize the game a bit more as well, as there are still people on the forums moaning about performance issues when using beastly £1000+ PCs,  Fingers crossed. 

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The BT fiber rant

BT are to introduce a new Broadband package running of FTTP

In order to get this new package Openreach engineers will need to run fiber from you local street cabinet, along either the existing underground cable ducts or overhead cables (yes they will be running fiber cables overhead to reduce costs in some areas) 

The first package starts at up too 330mb downstream, but a very slow 30mb up. (WTF BT! thats what you can get now on FTTC!)

Cost: 

here is where it gets complicated.


WOW, BT you taking the piss here!!!

unless the Box is right on your door step, £1000+ installation fee

and then its: (before VAT, so add 20%)
40Mbps down/2Mbps up: £6.90/month
40Mbps down/10Mbps up: £7.40/month
40Mbps down/15Mbps up: £9.95/month
80Mbps down/20Mbps up: £9.95/month
100Mbps down/15Mbps up: £12.90/month
110Mbps down/15Mbps up: £13.15/month
100Mbps down/30Mbps up: £36.35/month
330Mbps down/20Mbps up: £24.61/month
330Mbps down/30Mbps up: £29.61/month

and thats based on your also taking Line rental, so slap on another £38~ a month

so for the 330/30 your looking upwards of £70 a month


+ There is a non refundable, Flat Fee of £500 just to get the process started


so just to gett his installed its estimated the Average household will be charged £1500

but thats an Average

some are looking at £3000+ if there quite a long way from there Street Cabinet, where others who have won the broadband lottery will be charged £700~ to have it installed. Now these people living near the box will already be able to get the 78mb/38mb~ Up. YES 38 up which is FUCKING FASTER upload speed than there offering with the 330 down service!


so?
who is going to want this service??


NOBODY!!!! you are going to have to be pretty dam stupid to shell out for this! Maybe in the future they will be offering faster speeds, but right now, fuck off!