Ok so this evening I was planning on playing a few hours of Halo 3 with my girlfriend and some of her friends… However my internet decided to have other plans. I don’t know if it was fellow family members making sure of the internet to watch shows on Hulu or just random internet failure on the part of Frontier Communications. Either way my connection was riddled with high ping and packet loss.  I took some video which I’m uploading at this time and will include it here to show you just some of the issues I was having. If you start seeing people walking really slow or my dead corpse just staying there… Its a side effect of the packet loss… Which was severe at some points.

However Halo 3 on the other hand is a very good game. Its a bummer that it has to be riddled with 12 year old kids who can’t understand when its time to settle down and play some games. I think I burst an ear drum from one a few days back.

Sorry for lack of any sound in the Video. My webcam’s mic totally failed and I need to figure out whats going on with it.

Now I was kinda dense today when I had my practice with my TAW guys tonight and forgot to take screen shots of the custom maps we played, however I will say this. The customizable ability of Valve games is amazing.

The first map we tried was a mix between a constant cart moving and Capture the Flag (CTF). It was an ingenious  design and was pretty fun to play on. The second map of the night was produced by one of our own members. It was a no holds bar fight for the center of the map between Squad Canada, and Squad Texas. No one wanted to give the other side an inch of ground and it was just chaotic symphony of explosions and whizzing bullets.

Tonight’s a short post because I was dense and forgot to take the screen shots that assist me in bringing out more to write about.

So I again spent a bunch of the day playing World of Warcraft. Besides my other hobbies at the moment which involve looking for a job, applying for a job, calling jobs, and being told they have 200 applications to look through. However I did get plenty of time to play WoW and leveled from 76 to 78, running mostly Random Dungeons with some friends and a few quests out in the world.

From today’s experience I have learned that it takes only 5 minutes to know if someone in the party does not understand the concept of being lead or if they understand English at all. I ran into a fellow that played a Death Knight and failed to say anything except for LoL. It took my party a total of 7 minutes to figure it out and kick him for failing to listen to instructions.

In my honest opinion, I think MMOs should have a literary requirement to prove that you can communicate within the game with others. It would make events such as I explained, less common.

But I digest, tomorrow I’m gonna try and post about something other than for World of Warcraft, however right now I need to be getting to sleep so I can wake up bright and early.

Okay so I have changed my mind on how I’m gonna do my blog here. It will be daily, but only on weekdays. Weekends I’m gonna take off so I can rest and relax and not think about writing something.

So where to begin. Lets see, my Army friend got back from Iraq that week and just so happen to be an awesome friend and put 3 months of game time on my Alliance World of Warcraft account, and that is what I’ve been playing all Wednesday, Thursday, and Monday. World of Warcraft has always been one of my favorite games since I first pushed my hands into the addictive bright colored world.

Now I’m not afraid to say I’m addicted to World of Warcraft, but I don’t see how that can be an issue. As with all video games, real life is more important; eating food, drinking water, being there for your girlfriend, helping your sister move, and all around being a normal human being. However when your alone and nothing to do, then that’s when I see its okay to just go all out and enjoy the game.

My adventures in WoW in the past week or so has been with the Random Dungeon Finder (RDF). The RDF in WoW is one of the greatest tools so far created in the game. It puts your character into a random queue for a dungeon your level with characters from any server! Now it has its flaws which cannot really be fixed do to the number of people playing each specific type of character. Obviously if your playing a Damage role your gonna have a hard time finding a group, and having to wait a longer time because there are so many other players playing that same role. Now if you were a Tank or a Healer you can get a group in no time.

Using this tool I had many great adventures meeting many new wonderful and annoying people. Which is what gaming is all about to me. A single player game is fun, but I love the human aspect of Multiplayer games and you get the greatest experiences in Massively Multiplayer Games.

There is no real review for WoW from me because the game is in a class of its own but, here are a few more images from my exploits.

I will be doing a double post later tonight for not doing one yesterday. Got carried away with World of Warcraft. Hint on the subject.

Well its been almost a year since I rebuilt the site to be my personal blog and do you think I’ve posted on it once? Well nope I haven’t, but that’s about to change. DaSniper.com is now my Daily Video Gaming Blog (DVGB), which will include images, and video of me playing games, whether its a web cam recording of a console game or a Fraps recording on the PC, along with my two cents about the video game. I hope you enjoy what I have to read or utterly hate it, and make hate comments which I can enjoy reading. So without further to do with anything but gaming, my first topic is going to be Star Trek Online.

I recently played Star Trek Online Beta (the last 2 weeks of my life) and was both thoroughly enjoyed it and utterly hated it. The people at Cryptic did a fine job producing a game that both Fans of the Star Trek Series and regular gamers could enjoy. For the first time in an Massively-Multiplayer Online (MMO) game that I have played has there been both space combat and ground combat.

The space combat is pretty straight forward and intuitive. I fell into aligning my ship and firing forward and aft phasers at the same time, and one feature I love there is no Auto Fire. You cannot click one button and step away, and unlike other MMOs such as Eve Online your weapons don’t work in any direction. One must pilot their ship twisting and turning, angling their ship to front or rear depending on the scenario. This I think will remove a lot of the unskilled players getting an upper hand just by having a faster stronger ship. If you don’t know how to pilot you won’t win.

The ground combat is not something I really enjoyed. I myself think it still needs work. Right now you can pretty much run and gun. If you turn your side or your back to the enemy your pretty much done for so for me there was a lot of holding down S. In ground combat there are many different devices anything from Plasma Grenades, to Mortars, to Phasers, to melee combat which included actual melee weapons or just ramming the butt of your weapon into the enemies face which has been coined in the forums “Butt Bashing”… Either way there is still many things that I don’t understand about ground combat and its still pretty glitchy from what I played.

Though all around I really enjoyed my experience on the Beta. I have every intention to one day buy and pay the subscription cost of approximately $15 a month to play Star Trek Online.

Alright normally at this point I would give it a rating, but I have not created a rating system that fits me when I do I will go back and rate all the games I will have talked about by then.

I hope you enjoyed my first post. Not all of them will be this long, however I will try to keep as informative as possible.

This is the category I’m gonna use for posting ingame footage of myself playing games.