Gamers Nexus - GN

So I've been playing Splinter Cell: Conviction on the 360 and am trying to get the Hunter Master achievement in which you have to "Complete all maps in "Hunter" game mode on Realistic difficulty" Hunter Mode means clear the map of enemies. And Realistic difficulty being the hardest difficulty. There are six maps each having about five areas of 8-10 enemies in them. I got to the last area of the last level and realised that I had not changed the difficulty from Normal. I proceeded in cursing out the game.

We've all been there before, especially in online driving games, where synchronization is a must: lagging to victory. Sure, lag can be the penultimate immersion destroyer, the worst enemy in a gun fight, and cause you to smash up against buildings while racing, but it also works the other way. Teleportation is a sweet thing.

Alright, enough blog posts about APB recently.  Here's something different.  This story takes place - uh... a long time ago - in Morrowind (duh) on the original Xbox (unfortunately, those loading times sucked).

I traveled north from Vos, on some long forgotten mission.  As I neared the sea, a fantastic Deadric ruin appeared on the horizon.  I was a spellsword, primarily a mage but often reliant on my powerful summoned dagger.  I had stolen a full set of priceless glass armor from the Mage's Guild by magically picking the lock, slowly loosing loyalty with them as I rose in rank with House Telvani.  I felt unstoppable as I neared a mysterious Deadric ruin for the very first time.

As stated previously this is for criminals only.

I am extremely bored so I decided to write down some of my thoughts on the best group setups in APB from my experience. I will do this in parts due to the random family things I keep getting pulled into. 

*These are all for criminal players*

This will all be in bullet point form and the order does not symbolize its importance. I will not mention things such as lag since I don't know to fix that :P

Gameplay changes:

I just picked up the HVR a few days ago and I have been using for most of those days. I will real quickly go over its pros and cons as well as how I think it should be used.

Pros:

Din's Curse is one of those indie games that you can sit down and play at any interval of time, but most importantly, it is one of those games that has minimal system requirements - all the gameplay entertainment in all the right places, including my laptop running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

So after putting in 10 hours of APB since its release I have come to realize one thing. The matchmaking system sucks. From the very beginning I have been matched up with people that carried much more powerful upgraded weapons while I carried around a stock weapon. It makes every fight extremely hard. I mean who wants to fight against someone with a fully upgraded OCA(mp5) and stun gun when they just have a revolver and a stock sniper. It is extremely obnoxious. I can lose to players who are much worse than me simply because they can rush in then spray 'n' pray with their uber weapons while I am stuck actually aiming since if I miss then I am screwed.

I still like the game a lot and I still actually do quite well, but sometimes I just want a fair fight where I don't have to go all srs bsns in order to win.

So my sister and a few of her friends started playing League a few days ago so in order to help initiate them I decided to create a new account and play along side of them; this not only allowed me to dominate newbs from a disguise but also allowed them to play people more their level and gave me 3 referrals on their way to level 10. Sounds good to me. Look for me as TheNumber2 or ShimGimmel on League and shoot a message my way. Want someone to walk you through also? All I request is your referrals and I'll make another new account to hold your hand also young noobs.

-That is all.
TinyDancer