10.14.06
Face Shooting
Even though I was exhausted after my camping excursion, I wanted to try out some new games. Been very busy the last year or so and haven’t been able game like I used to. So I tried out Company of Heroes for while. That game is pretty amazing. I only got through the first mission, which was the beaches of Normandy. Follows the Battlefield series concept of flags, in a way. When you take over a capture point, you have control of that area and will get more resources. So you are constantly having a back and forth for these capture points.
Speaking of Battlefield, we also got the Battlefield 2142 demo. The three of us hoped on the same server (made God damn easy with their new Buddy List) and before we knew it, it was 3:00 a.m. Was still pretty pumped from the game, so I had to force myself to go to bed. You can do the usual flag maps, but they also introduced a new game type where each group has a massive Titan ship. You take over missle silos to take down the sheilds, then you can board it to do more damage. The first person to blow up the enemy ship wins.
So far my favorite thing about the game is vehicles. There is a good variety and they all have their strenghts and weaknesses. Unlike Battlefield 2, where it was more of an “armor is armor” and some things had a lot of it and others you could destroy with rocks. They also have more incentive to have other ride in your vehicles with you. Most of the really powerful and handy weapons aren’t accessible to the drivers. In Battlefied 2, nobody would wait for anybody else. We would always joke that they thought APC meant Armored Personal Carrier instead of Armored Personel Carrier. We are very clever, we know. But we can’t count the times one man has taken off in a vehicle that holds 6+ as his team mates run after him screaming, waving their hands, and even firing their weapons.