Kirkendall 1st MRB

I still maintain that The Old Republic is fun, but they did it wrong. As if yet another person saying it will change about the poor job Bioware/EA did. It's almost like a singleplayer game that was made into a multiplayer one, so you run into a wall once you hit max level. Huttball and instances, yay. GW2, on the other hand, doesn't let you forget it's an MMO. There's numerous ways the PVP works. There's no openworld PVP, love it or hate it, but you can queue up and go into 5v5 style PVP at any time. If you do, you'll find yourself equipped with good PVP gear, be level 80 and have a multitude of skills unlocked, but none of the race-based skills (I assume to keep more even play). Another big form of PVP is the World versus World. Or WvWvW. In World PVP, Guild Wars 2 pits servers against each other in massive PVP. Once you join (and queuing for this I find is tough to wait through) you will be put into a castle with your server team. Outside of your castle, there will be forts, fishing villages, caravans and other things happening. You'll find the two other servers will have their own castles, somewhat mirrored but still usually different based on who's winning. About once every two weeks, the servers will shift, so you'll never have a circumstance where one server just repeatedly bashes on another. At least not for longer than two weeks. But it's cool because you can "follow the zerg" or your main force as it seeks out others for a fight, or maybe band together with a smaller group and attack a caravan or fishing village that another server has just left NPCs to defend. Oh, and you can only create characters on one server at a time, so no spying! If you're server is "winning" you will give buffs to everyone in your server that enhance everything from XP to damage, and usually boosts renown gain for Guilds as well. I haven't gotten to the max level, mostly because I'm OCD about completion and I haven't had a lot of time. Guild Wars 2 rewards my OCD, giving me a nice chest full of rewards every time I complete a zone. So every race has their "starter area" which you usually stay in from level 1 through 15. But even if you're level 62, you can go back into a starter area, and the game matches your level to the area you are in. So you're still challenged, you still get good experience, and you can still take in more of the game. For zone completion you will need to find all the Waypoints, (which you can then spend money to teleport to) Points of Interest, (which are just basically area identifiers) Vistas, (which sometimes require platforming to get to, then provide a little view cinematic {ooo, pretty}) Skill Points, (Which are mini-quests that give you a skill point, usually constitute of kill this special enemy) and Hearts. The "Hearts" are quests that are around for you to complete. Any zone can have from, from what I've seen, 8-18 quests. As you run around, you'll just get in range of one and it will automatically tell you the objectives, so you really don't have to even talk to the quest giver. On top of all of those, there are random events happening all the time. So you'll be trudging down the road, and you'll see a random caravan that a bunch of people are escorting, and you can jump in and help. In fact, probably one of the most fun events I had was in a level 50ish zone, where I was running along and ran into a storyline event. Which means there's multiple parts to this quest line, and if they are all completed... You get a surprise. So, lucky for me, I jumped in towards the end of the line, with the quest heading stating "Dork BloodHammer (I can't remember the name) is escorting supplies to the front." So I helped escort supplies and I got to this camp with a number of people standing around. The Quest changed saying, "Battle lines are drawn, an ominous wind is blowing..." I said to the people I was with, "Not sure I like where this is going..." Cut to a giant dragon/world boss swooping down and starts attacking everyone and killing a number of us. At the same time, two other camps that all had equal people to ours all charged over and helped us kill the dragon. After a long and interesting tuffle, we killed the dragon and were well-rewarded for our time. Honestly, just the spontaneous nature of that fight puts this game at one of the more memorable and fun times I've had. Plus it was hilarious seeing everyone else who was new to that area freaking out and trying to fight off mobs that the boss spawned, while trying desperately to avoid the dragon stepping on them. The main storyline... is weird. I can tell it's influenced by the choices you make at the start, as well as the choices you make while you're doing it, but I find that you can miss out on an important tidbit if you hit the "next" button in the cinematics. Who is this guy and why do I care that he calls me a bull's ass? Oh I'm killing him now, well that seems a fitting punishment for verbally insulting me. Still, there are things happening, I can see where it branches off into three different chains that you can follow, and your choices will influence how those play out. Right now, my main quest is glitched, and I was unable to advance it last time I logged on. That made me squint my eyes in anger at the screen, but only momentarily considering how much other stuff I'd done and how few glitches I'd encountered. Don't get me wrong, there are glitches, but very few were game breaking and I could trick the game into fixing itself for me. For example, if you log in and your zone is full of lots of people, you'll be put into an "Overflow" zone where you queue to get into the real zone. The Overflow zone is exactly the same, it's just another instance. You can stay in the overflow if you want to. Anyways, I encountered a glitched out quest, I logged out of the character, then back in. I was then put into the overflow queue as the main instances are frequently filled. Since I was initially in the "main" instance, when I was in the overflow, the quest wasn't broken. So I completed the quest in the overflow, and went on my way. Success! In short, Guild Wars 2 is a fun game, and since it's free to play (after the initial $60 American) I've found it well-worth my time. I'm not feeling obligated to play, play, play to get my $15 per month worth. Any game that lets me run around with a pet wolf I can name is pretty badass. TL;DR: I'm bored at work, my work computer doesn't let me play Guild Wars 2, and I'm thinking about Guild Wars 2 while I'm at work.

Due to the duration since the ban, I'll lift it. Behave yourself in the server or it won't be lifted again.

The remake of the original Half-Life is on the way to being released! If you don't already know about it, I highly recommend going onto Steam's new "Greenlight" system and vote for it to be released onto Steam. That way, you will be able to download it unto Steam at no cost. Truly, the best way to play it. Otherwise, expect the release to be on Black Mesa's website. This is a truly impressive remake, and it will be free upon release.

In a very basic sense, however it will be distinctly different from Half-Life. Main reason being that they've basically rebuilt the entire game from the ground up. So a lot of things are promised to be different.

I have unbanned you, take care to not let it happen again.

Close enough.

I'm no marine biologist, but my guess is the first image is a "Giant Sea Turtle" otherwise known as the Leatherback Sea Turtle:

This topic is the shining example of why Slope Chute posts don't count towards your total.

Keep in mind that certain sections of the forums, such as the Slope Chute, do not increase your post count.

I got in on this, very interesting so far.

I cannot find you in any of our ban lists. Try to join the server again, otherwise provide me with a new Steam ID.

Just throwing this out there since it seems to have been forgotten, but Anderson have you tried updating your display drivers? What version are they on?

Frostbite2 is the graphics engine that runs it, not the name of the game. Frostbite2 is also the engine that runs Battlefield 3 and was developed by DICE.

For future reference, when someone asks for your Steam ID, yours is STEAM_0:0:32505625. Anyways, I have unbanned you. Unless the Lt. Col or another admin has a reason to keep you banned, you should be clear to play in the server. Behave yourself. If you have any issues connecting let me know.

Try again when you get a chance, and let me know if you are still banned.

Name: TRANNY BUTTHOLE LICKER Steam I.D: STEAM_0:0:21130252 Duration of Ban: Permanent Reasons for the Ban: Alternate account of person previously permanently banned. Demo Provided?: N Comments: Name: TRANNY BUTTHOLE SPREADER Steam I.D: STEAM_0:1:21107185 Duration of Ban: Permanent Reasons for the Ban: Friend of the former banned, began team wounding after realizing his friend was banned. Demo Provided?: N Comments:

The game exploits have been posted in the BAR section, as well as the Sergeants' Quarters. I have lengthened the ban to permanent, I have no more patience for this player.

Ford, why don't you just get back online with a computer? Or are you to cool for PC gaming?

Done.

Unbanned.

Done.

Done.

You already banned this person for a week, did you want his ban extended?

Done.