I actually played this for much of the afternoon, but thought I’d combine it all into one eye-friendly post. So I’ve played it a lot today, almost entirely on 2Fort. Again. Had a great time this afternoon with a group of people, and we were all pretty devious. As soon as a “hole” was found, they plugged it. So we found another hole. And so on. It was really good, and we won (which was even better). This evening, SomethingWitty …
I am best! Well, OK, so I’m not. My first few games on Attack/Defend resulted in complete failure, but I think my choice of Sniper and the fact we were down a player (and I’d not played that map before) didn’t help. Then the host quit. So I joined a game of CTF on 2Fort. Yeah, again. And we won! Lots! It is true that I didn’t manage to get all that many points, and everyone on my team bar …
Hurrah! We won again! Twice! Played three games (all CTF on 2Fort), but the host left part way through the first game, so I joined another instead. For the next two, I played as a Demoman, and had much fun with sticky remote mines. Managed to unlock an achievement for winning by shutout on 2Fort as well. It really is fun, this.
OH! MY! GOD! I was actually not only not crap, but actually absolutely vital to my team’s success today! I played a looooooong game of 8-on-8 Capture the Flag on the 2Forts map, as a Pyro. To start off, I thought I’d defend the flag (briefcase), seeing as no-one else was doing that, and saw off a fair few would-be thieves, but after a while my team got their act together defending, with gun turrets a-plenty and snipers and guards, …
I’ve been having internet problems this week (a man from Virgin came and fixed them a short while ago), and I’d also, before any problems, bought some new networking kit to replace my aging stuff. I was hoping all this would fix any lag issues I’d been getting on Xbox Live. And they did! Played two full games, with a load of Americans, and barely a glitch or jump in the action. Excellent! Not that I managed to do particularly …
How is it possible that I faired even worse than last night? It was still fun and all (and I even got a neck-stab in with a spy – yay!) but I always seemed to be on the losing team. I was usually the best player on the worst team, mind. Clearly not my fault then!
I’m not really a big fan of multiplayer vs shooters, and team based ones even less so, but Halo 3 put me in the mood for some and since I have what many consider the best of the genre in the form of Team Fortress 2, I gave it a go. And? I was pleasantly surprised. It’s all cartoony, which is a plus for me, and the variety in the characters you can play as is great too. I didn’t …