So… I have totally failed to regularly update this blog. But! I will now do quick screenshot post/review for the game called torchlight.

Torchlight is like Diablo, but it nice graphics. For me this is great rpg game and totally worth of that 15e I used to it. It is also fully moddable.

Sad thing is that there isn’t multiplayer… But still, I recommend to at least try the demo.

I have already ranted about survival mode in l4d, but now I will also rage about problems on versus mode.

There is two primary problems in versus mode. First is stacked teams (clans/friends playing together causing unbalanced game) and second is ragequitters.

Yes, people wants to play with friends. I agree with that, but mostly it ruins fun of the game for the other team. Playing on unbalanced teams is never fun. (Yea, it may be fun to pwn noobs, but there isn’t any challenge!)

Way to solve stacking is simple: Get your friends playing and create your own stack!

Another even more annoying problem is ragequitters. Some players quits game when they are losing (making sure that rest of the team will lose for sure.) With repeating joins/quits there may not be enough stable players left. Sometimes everyone quits on same team, ruining the game totally.

One problem with ragequitters is that they usually shoot/hit teammates or runs to stupid places before leaving server.

If you play versus, please, only quit when level is changing. Because it’s very annoying if players plays just 5-10 minutes and leaves in middle of the game. Play survival if you don’t have enough time for full versus match!

It looks like campaing (and single player) is the only game mode that other players can’t ruin.

L4d is exellent game, but sometimes ragequitting retards ruins it.

The survival mode in l4d is awesome. But there is huge problem with exploiters/cheaters/noobs.

Many of the maps contains way to get out if designed area. Up to somewhere where zombies can’t come or to somewhere much easier place. I don’t like to play this way, but sometimes it is annoyingly hard to find server with people that doesn’t want to cheat.

I don’t say that people should stop cheating, I say that they should stop ruining game of other players.

On server where there is a cheaters (aka noobs that can’t play without exploits) they will try to exploit, if you try to stop them, they will vote to restart the round or to kick you. After that you try to find new server and hope that there isn’t any cheaters.

Ways to avoid this:

• Play only on maps that can’t be exploited – (you can’t play all maps )
• Wait valve to fix maps – (they are doing l4d2, they probably won’t fix maps)
• Play with friends and kick cheaters – (works only if you have friend online that wants to play)
• Host game on your server and manually kick idiots. – (maybe the best one, but only if you have good bandwidth)
• Don’t play survival – (But if you really want to play survival, its not a option)

L4d is awesome game, but some ppl try to do everything to make me ragequit.

Cube/sauerbraten is nice open source first person shooter game. It has nice graphics and lots of bloom.

The engine has been ported for iPod touch/iPhone and it runs very nicely. Full 3d world with all features that is on normal cube. Fps is around 20, it may not sound good but for handheld device it looks nice.

Biggest problem with cube is the controls. I would love to play this game, but with these controls it isn’t fun. However it is possible to get usable controls on iPod for 3d fps games. Example Wolfenstein port for ipod has awesome and customizable controls.

I like to use accelerometer to turn and touch pad to move. (cube uses accelerometer to move and touching to move)

This is great port of cube. And I am looking forward to use the next release. Developer says that controls are easier on next version.

But as it is free I recommend you to try it out and see if you can move around with those controls. I would also like to see multiplayer gaming. (I think it works, but I would like to see couple centrelized servers and maybe some stats )

Yea... I wan't turn ability to Wordpress.

My last post about world war made up big flood of code spammers, but there were some people that wanted to cheat. That’s evil and should not be done. But some peoples wants to play World War on computer. I think that isn’t evil, but storm8 (creator of this game) may not like…

So this may get you banned. You have been warned.

There is a fully working application for playing this game (and others) on computer. It is easy to set up and works very well. There is also some kind of trigger systems that helps playing and automates boring stuff.

http://forums.lavarsicious.com

This site requires registration, if you are not able to register to their site, you are noob and you should not try to use this app.

And here is screenshot of the ToolSuite application:

Ye. My nickname is on the screenshot, but so what? I am not addicted to this game anymore.

Big thanks to Flush for sending me the link to this app.