Team Fortress 2 again, had a few beers and although I was mildy merry and it was a bit blurry. I never really had a deep passion for TF2 just an on - off affair :) so it wasn't be like going back to Battlefield 2 or Quake 3.
The game hasn't changed much and it's still as crazy as it ever was. I haven't quite got the 'twitch' or a competitive PC these days but it was enjoyable all the same.
I do wonder sometimes that I should play these types of games for a long as I could even though I'm just shy of 40 I still think I've got some of the old raw mad skillz knocking around.
Still the game I miss the most is what I regard as my 'war years' :P and Battlefield 2, being a good fighter pilot. There was nothing quite like creeping up on another pilot switching to missles, waiting for good tone and boom!
The best video though is the first one on putfile:-
Jakswans Fighter Pilot Vid
Friday, 5 September 2008
Aggrieved
Still waiting for transfer to GW4 so feeling a bit neglected at the minute, I'm sure they'll do it soon.
In the meantime we've had numerous Stress tests most of which have lagged out and in work I can only briefly log in and have only the odd few seconds to nose about.
The night before last I was home and it was 6pm and the stress test was working. OMG amazing I thought we should have an hour of this. I made myself a coffee and settled down to scout the database for a squad. Great, nearly a month with no FM and finally an hour to have a go at it again.
I looked at two players signed them provisionally 'connection to server lost'. went on forum, stress test over. *&%^ !**!
Just waiting is getting annoying so I won't be updating until I'm back online.
In the meantime thought I'd have a look at potential competition and really the only thing that comes remotely close is CM Online. The rest look worse than rubbish. So Trackmania and Team Fortress 2 it is then!
In the meantime we've had numerous Stress tests most of which have lagged out and in work I can only briefly log in and have only the odd few seconds to nose about.
The night before last I was home and it was 6pm and the stress test was working. OMG amazing I thought we should have an hour of this. I made myself a coffee and settled down to scout the database for a squad. Great, nearly a month with no FM and finally an hour to have a go at it again.
I looked at two players signed them provisionally 'connection to server lost'. went on forum, stress test over. *&%^ !**!
Just waiting is getting annoying so I won't be updating until I'm back online.
In the meantime thought I'd have a look at potential competition and really the only thing that comes remotely close is CM Online. The rest look worse than rubbish. So Trackmania and Team Fortress 2 it is then!
Thursday, 4 September 2008
My mate won't buy FM Live
Odd really he’s decent at the game, loves football and plays Fm08 a lot.
First of all his reason, ‘it’s shit’, I wasn’t going to leave it there. I reminded him that he enjoyed some games immensely; he was bouncing around the sales office one dinner time.
‘Yeah but other managers pay too much for players’, well if their paying too much they’ll become uncompetitive I argued. We went on for a while, round and round, discussing the merits of the transfer auction system and wage auctions.
‘I just find it too annoying’, he said as if that was the real deal breaker. Good point I thought as I had also seen the look on his face when he lost a game to a 91st minute goal.
Surely though you have to have lows to have highs, I mean as a Swans supporter I know a lot about this, lol. I mean if you didn’t care about losing then you wouldn’t enjoy winning so much.
‘Maybe but I just hate losing too much’ he closed with.
This guy from Bridgend supports Liverpool, I don’t think he’s even been to Liverpool!
So there you go if you’re from Doncaster and support Doncaster maybe FM Live will appeal if you’re from Doncaster and support Man Utd then don’t bother.
Eesh I wish they'd get my account transferred to GW4 now I'm really bored.
First of all his reason, ‘it’s shit’, I wasn’t going to leave it there. I reminded him that he enjoyed some games immensely; he was bouncing around the sales office one dinner time.
‘Yeah but other managers pay too much for players’, well if their paying too much they’ll become uncompetitive I argued. We went on for a while, round and round, discussing the merits of the transfer auction system and wage auctions.
‘I just find it too annoying’, he said as if that was the real deal breaker. Good point I thought as I had also seen the look on his face when he lost a game to a 91st minute goal.
Surely though you have to have lows to have highs, I mean as a Swans supporter I know a lot about this, lol. I mean if you didn’t care about losing then you wouldn’t enjoy winning so much.
‘Maybe but I just hate losing too much’ he closed with.
This guy from Bridgend supports Liverpool, I don’t think he’s even been to Liverpool!
So there you go if you’re from Doncaster and support Doncaster maybe FM Live will appeal if you’re from Doncaster and support Man Utd then don’t bother.
Eesh I wish they'd get my account transferred to GW4 now I'm really bored.
Inter Retirement Manager Interview
Nick Megarity manager of Inter Retirement lead his team to almost legendary status in GW6 as he was regarded as having the best youth set-up in the gameworld. As GW6 was dead and a new world was waiting I caught up with him for a chat.
So Nick I suppose you've played the CM / Fm series a lot but a lot of your players were regens how did you scout players what made you buy the youth players that lead you to No.1?
I tried to sign players that had the basic skills for the position in which they played 2.5* upto 5* I wasn’t worried too much about the potential rating.
So who was your best buy?
My Best buy has to be Alen Kardec who I picked up at the end of season 1 on a wage auction for roughly 40k & went on to be my 1st ever world class player
Which player will you remember most fondly and why?
Diego Sanchez a player that was in my senior side at 18 & could play in numerous positions
A lot of potential managers seem to tire of FM Live quickly what makes the game so addictive for you?
I’ve played some variation of the game since championship manager was 1st released on the good old Amiga. So was already a fan but the thing that really draws me in is the friends I have made in game, with whom I’ve had plenty of laughs
What results/games do you remember most vividly?
My 1st stand out moment was an aefa cup semi towards the end of season 2 ,I had been drawn against Paul McCarthy’s Shenanigans who at the time where romping away with the aefa premier division
The game started quite evenly balanced then my moment came 25 ins in penalty & up stepped my peno king matouko (dc) bang 1-0 managed to hang on JUST till full time for an undeserved victory it took me 10 minutes to calm down after that one!
Losing in the UFFA CWC final to Sassine in Season 4 was a bad day 2-0 down by half time changed to 433 & scored a consolation but didn’t perform well at all that day
Winning the UFFA Youth world cup in season 5 was a good day even though it was only on penalty's in a game I totally dominated against Intergalacticos
I don’t want to remember the UFFA Psycho Youth Cup
3x losing finalists (GRRR) (hey I seem to recall the Jakswans bagging two of them finals)
for 3 seasons i did dominate the XFA feds Youth competitions
If you could sign any youth player excluding your own who would it be?
Diaz A GK from a Side I can't remember best gk I had (albeit on loan) (Diaz = Jakswans legend)
Salih claims the title of undisputed youth champion of GW6 yet he won no UFFA titles, your thoughts?
Salih's side was hard to beat in my early stages on the youth side of things, but once I built my squads I pushed him out of top spot on the rankings not bad when I was running u21,u19 & u17 sides to his u21
He only competed in 1 UFFA season because he kept changing feds during pre-season but in the 1 he did compete in I beat him in the final as I’ve already mentioned earlier in this interview
So the release date approaches I assume it’ll be a strong youth set-up for you?
I’m thinking of retail doing seniors & starting up with just an u17 side which all being well will give me plenty of time to get those training skills learnt so that once there 20/21 they will be well developed & ready to kick some arse & let me dominate from then on in.
So Nick I suppose you've played the CM / Fm series a lot but a lot of your players were regens how did you scout players what made you buy the youth players that lead you to No.1?
I tried to sign players that had the basic skills for the position in which they played 2.5* upto 5* I wasn’t worried too much about the potential rating.
So who was your best buy?
My Best buy has to be Alen Kardec who I picked up at the end of season 1 on a wage auction for roughly 40k & went on to be my 1st ever world class player
Which player will you remember most fondly and why?
Diego Sanchez a player that was in my senior side at 18 & could play in numerous positions
A lot of potential managers seem to tire of FM Live quickly what makes the game so addictive for you?
I’ve played some variation of the game since championship manager was 1st released on the good old Amiga. So was already a fan but the thing that really draws me in is the friends I have made in game, with whom I’ve had plenty of laughs
What results/games do you remember most vividly?
My 1st stand out moment was an aefa cup semi towards the end of season 2 ,I had been drawn against Paul McCarthy’s Shenanigans who at the time where romping away with the aefa premier division
The game started quite evenly balanced then my moment came 25 ins in penalty & up stepped my peno king matouko (dc) bang 1-0 managed to hang on JUST till full time for an undeserved victory it took me 10 minutes to calm down after that one!
Losing in the UFFA CWC final to Sassine in Season 4 was a bad day 2-0 down by half time changed to 433 & scored a consolation but didn’t perform well at all that day
Winning the UFFA Youth world cup in season 5 was a good day even though it was only on penalty's in a game I totally dominated against Intergalacticos
I don’t want to remember the UFFA Psycho Youth Cup
3x losing finalists (GRRR) (hey I seem to recall the Jakswans bagging two of them finals)
for 3 seasons i did dominate the XFA feds Youth competitions
If you could sign any youth player excluding your own who would it be?
Diaz A GK from a Side I can't remember best gk I had (albeit on loan) (Diaz = Jakswans legend)
Salih claims the title of undisputed youth champion of GW6 yet he won no UFFA titles, your thoughts?
Salih's side was hard to beat in my early stages on the youth side of things, but once I built my squads I pushed him out of top spot on the rankings not bad when I was running u21,u19 & u17 sides to his u21
He only competed in 1 UFFA season because he kept changing feds during pre-season but in the 1 he did compete in I beat him in the final as I’ve already mentioned earlier in this interview
So the release date approaches I assume it’ll be a strong youth set-up for you?
I’m thinking of retail doing seniors & starting up with just an u17 side which all being well will give me plenty of time to get those training skills learnt so that once there 20/21 they will be well developed & ready to kick some arse & let me dominate from then on in.
Wednesday, 3 September 2008
GW4 it is, and GW’s 14 and 15 don’t start
Whoop I’m in GW4, well not actually in but the paperwork is being done on the transfer. So now instead of waiting for GW14 to start I’m now waiting to transfer, gah out of the frying pan….I though it would be simple and quick but apparently not.
SI have announced that GW14 won’t be released the middle of this week but sometime next week. I’m not surprised although a little concerned about October as a release date looms.
With serious withdrawal symptoms I bought FM2008, it was only £9.99. I haven’t really played CM / FM since the Amiga days, I’ve bought it since and played demos but I never really got the bug. I remember why….
The game tries to simulate man management and with these being a highly complex thing to do in real life just fails miserably to come close. An example would be Roberto Martinez, now Martinez is a very clever man and knows football inside out.
I’ve watched Martinez though on the touchline he stands there arms folded the total opposite of most other managers. Other managers stomp up and down and shout and scream to try and get his team to play the way he wants. Martinez calls a player over and tells them what he wants done, it’s all very calm. He nods towards the bench and signals for a sub to start warming up or to summon his assistant over.
He is obeyed period, he must have charisma to command that sort of obedience. How on earth can you hope to simulate that with a mouse click to select ‘encourage team’? I’d much prefer if this side of the game wasn’t in FM at all. In FM Live it isn’t, the interaction is with other managers and with them being real people simulation isn’t needed.
In other news the first hint at FM2009 promises a 3D match engine, there is a video on YouTube which lasts 7mins and there was around 5 seconds of a 3D match engine. My main thing is can we have this in FM Live PLEASE!
SI have announced that GW14 won’t be released the middle of this week but sometime next week. I’m not surprised although a little concerned about October as a release date looms.
With serious withdrawal symptoms I bought FM2008, it was only £9.99. I haven’t really played CM / FM since the Amiga days, I’ve bought it since and played demos but I never really got the bug. I remember why….
The game tries to simulate man management and with these being a highly complex thing to do in real life just fails miserably to come close. An example would be Roberto Martinez, now Martinez is a very clever man and knows football inside out.
I’ve watched Martinez though on the touchline he stands there arms folded the total opposite of most other managers. Other managers stomp up and down and shout and scream to try and get his team to play the way he wants. Martinez calls a player over and tells them what he wants done, it’s all very calm. He nods towards the bench and signals for a sub to start warming up or to summon his assistant over.
He is obeyed period, he must have charisma to command that sort of obedience. How on earth can you hope to simulate that with a mouse click to select ‘encourage team’? I’d much prefer if this side of the game wasn’t in FM at all. In FM Live it isn’t, the interaction is with other managers and with them being real people simulation isn’t needed.
In other news the first hint at FM2009 promises a 3D match engine, there is a video on YouTube which lasts 7mins and there was around 5 seconds of a 3D match engine. My main thing is can we have this in FM Live PLEASE!
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
New Podcast and GW14... Well maybe not
Chief Mod, Richard Tebbutt (not sure of his exact title) made a call for mods in an older gameworld and desperate to get back I found myself with my hand aloft. My thinking is that there are two sides to my time in FM Live the game and the modding. I know (ish) the game but I’m still green on modding.
We’ll see if I get picked.
As expected it looks doubtful that the new gameworlds will be up Tuesday / Wednesday as of yet there is no feedback coming from SI. However they promised to look after the chaps that lost their worlds so I’m sure it won’t be long.
Slightly more worrying is the stress test that we had today. As I’ve said they are miles more fun then before but sadly things lag like heck till it gets unplayable. I spent 30 minutes logged in and spent two minutes actually doing something.
I say it’s worrying as GW14 / 15 has a lot of active managers that could make a stress test look like a walk in the park.
Jordan and Co from Getsacked have another podcast out and they do an awesome job. This week (hopes it’s every week now guys!) they discuss the price of FM Live and towards the end of the podcast Jordan did paint a potentially grim picture.
His thinking was that really the retention rate come release would be quite the same as in Beta. Furthermore whilst in Beta you always had an influx of new beta testers but once you were paying for the game you would not want to join an old world.
We’ll see if I get picked.
As expected it looks doubtful that the new gameworlds will be up Tuesday / Wednesday as of yet there is no feedback coming from SI. However they promised to look after the chaps that lost their worlds so I’m sure it won’t be long.
Slightly more worrying is the stress test that we had today. As I’ve said they are miles more fun then before but sadly things lag like heck till it gets unplayable. I spent 30 minutes logged in and spent two minutes actually doing something.
I say it’s worrying as GW14 / 15 has a lot of active managers that could make a stress test look like a walk in the park.
Jordan and Co from Getsacked have another podcast out and they do an awesome job. This week (hopes it’s every week now guys!) they discuss the price of FM Live and towards the end of the podcast Jordan did paint a potentially grim picture.
His thinking was that really the retention rate come release would be quite the same as in Beta. Furthermore whilst in Beta you always had an influx of new beta testers but once you were paying for the game you would not want to join an old world.
Monday, 1 September 2008
Gameworld 14
Si are taking a step in the direction of stress testing in the new Gameworlds. Five Gameworlds were lost in their crash but they are only creating a two to replace.
I think Tuesday was touted as being opening day but this being FM Live I’m expecting a small delay maybe Wednesday or Thursday.
I think the idea is that the 2000 odd joining will be super active and thus we’ll do a mini stress test. Personally I can see the server crashing or at least becoming unplayable but it’ll help SI focus on the issues that cause this so it’s not all bad.
Assuming we get to play for any length of time and are not just waiting for the next patch that’ll sort it out (seem to have been waiting fir that for six months now) then I’ve been considering the strat to employ at the start.
There is an exploit of trialing players but it doesn’t really do it for me so I think I’ll do what I did last time and go for the slow burn.
I think many will just go guns a blazing as in theory it’ll only last a month, but even that proves to be true I shall want to approach like it’s the full version.
I need to spend a lot of time learning the mod tools and how to mod although I suspect a lot of common sense should be used. Mmmm that's me buggered then :)
I think Tuesday was touted as being opening day but this being FM Live I’m expecting a small delay maybe Wednesday or Thursday.
I think the idea is that the 2000 odd joining will be super active and thus we’ll do a mini stress test. Personally I can see the server crashing or at least becoming unplayable but it’ll help SI focus on the issues that cause this so it’s not all bad.
Assuming we get to play for any length of time and are not just waiting for the next patch that’ll sort it out (seem to have been waiting fir that for six months now) then I’ve been considering the strat to employ at the start.
There is an exploit of trialing players but it doesn’t really do it for me so I think I’ll do what I did last time and go for the slow burn.
I think many will just go guns a blazing as in theory it’ll only last a month, but even that proves to be true I shall want to approach like it’s the full version.
I need to spend a lot of time learning the mod tools and how to mod although I suspect a lot of common sense should be used. Mmmm that's me buggered then :)
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