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I hate Battlefield: Bad Company 2, I honestly try to like it and I fiercely try to ignore it’s issues, but that’s exactly it- why the fuck is it having those issues?

I’m only level 2 (and a half) in BC2, but the first impression of the multiplayer is so horrible to me that I’ll abandon it like I abandoned Modern Warfare 2.

Here are four fundamental pieces of hatred that I have for this game.

- The userbase.

Battlefield is perhaps notorious for it’s sniping, clanstacking, fierce tempered userbase. The little kiddies that liked BF2 bought this game and as far as I’ve seen it hasn’t changed much.

I swear truthfully and honest to god, the very first thing to be said to me was ‘l2p crude oil’, I’m not exactly sure what I did wrong however as constructive criticism isn’t something people of <16 are able to produce much.

This wasn’t the first thing I criticized on the game though, the first issue I dealt with was not being able to join any server. at all.
Wow EA games, bravo DICE. I don’t know what goes across the fat cat at the top of these companies’ mind, but I doubt anything of emotion happens there at all.

I’m not even certain this reaches any good natured person at all, I have this feeling that the developers just cut corners developing what they want to call a game.

These people managed to release a game where the multiplayer part, which makes up a lot of the game depending on how you value the singleplayer, doesn’t work! At all!

The very first thing to happen after I created my account was the delightfull connection issues message after attempting to join a server. Apparently this had been going for a while as well as a newsbar at the bottom of the main menu said that EA/DICE was ‘aware of the connection problems some players are having’, I’m quite certain it’s still there at the time of writing.

I personally find this incredibly lazy and really fucking stupid. one small point of light would be that at least they’ve got dedicated servers.

- Balance

One of the selling points of matchmaking is that it’s balanced.

Hahaha, sorry.
No anyway, matchmaking attempts to be balanced, this is one of the arguments to the fantastically stupid discussion of ‘matchmaking > dedicated servers’ though it’s a big fat lie as matchmaking is never balanced.

Dedicated servers only have one problem: Someone is the head admin of it. And since most of the players in BC2 are ‘professional players’ who participate in ’scrims’ to boost their ’skills’ in their ‘clans’, server are bound to be clanservers.

Clanservers are dynamically horrible, whether it’s good or bad depends if the clan the server belongs to is playing.
Because clans need to be totally ‘professional’ and team up to train their ’skills’, they tend to stack on one team. Thus providing them with much better performance through communication and faster ranking. In the end it unbalances the entire game.

And, since the majority of the servers in BC2 are either clanservers or French, the balance is going to be horrible.

- Account system

I’ve skipped a lot of nitpicking by now, amongst which would be modern game gems such as melee attacks that don’t register or the ‘you can see me but I am in no way defined by the laws of the universe able to see you’-effect.

Yesterday at around.. Actually 24 hours ago at the time of writing I unlocked two quite essential unlocks in BC2:

The Powerdrill, used to repair vehicles as an egineer,
And the Medkit, used to repair clanfags as a medic.

I still haven’t received them

I’m also supposed to get a Tommy gun at level 14 or something, but I’ve already got it and can use it. Instead of that I can’t use the M1 Garand that I AM supposed to have.

- It cost me money

I bought 200 euros of games this month, among which Assassin’s Creed 2, which I love and savor every penny of. And this ‘game’.

The above crap that I typed up in a timespan of half an hour or so just sets me off the game, people can nag me to play it but eventually I’ll ask ‘why would I play it’.

‘Because it’s a game, it’s fun’. In my books, it’s neither. It’s an absolute waste of money.

If buying a game worth costing 50 euros gives me less satisfaction than folding a 50 Euro bill it into an airplane and throwing it around. There’s something significantly wrong.
And the issue does not lie with me. Not this time.

I’m an uptight person at times, I admit. But I can’t say I’m not an integer person.

Just now I walked a large distance instead of biking because my rear light was broken, now I wasn’t bothered that I (by law) had to walk, because I like walking more than I like biking. But it also made me realize that this small adherence to the law (even though I didn’t stumble across policemen) was something I could somewhat respect myself for.
People can go and say I’m an uptight suck up to the law, but I think people should rather realize that I do what I feel is right and that which I feel just so happens to be right.

I am of opinion that the Netherlands has way too much of a “It’s not allowed but who gives a fuck” mentality, this also spawns asocial behavior. I cannot help but have a deep passionate hate for music being played in public or disturbing the peace in the evening and hiding behind the excuse of being drunk.

It should be common sense for people to behave, and for some reason it’s not.

Ironically I think our own government puts it in the best way: “Without realizing, we’re all becoming more asocial.”, additional stock sentences to fuel my opinions would be “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem” and “Fuck you”.

Anyway this is my view on it, and I know that most people won’t share it with me. Most Dutchmen won’t at least.
But please by all means go ahead and bike without light, turn right without indicating so, claim..
Actually I don’t know the word for this, in the Netherlands we have a rule where at a normal crossroad, the person coming from the right is allowed priority against a person coming from the left.
Similarily, someone going straight forward has a priority when someone comes from the opposite direction and wants to take a turn.

Anyway, please claim priority when you can’t legally claim it.
And of course by any means be angry at the police officer who would write your ticket, as it is totally and completely

your fault.

Also, I’m learning to play guitar. I want to be able to play electric well but I’m also practicing on an acoustic.

Elexar said I had to do a blogpost, so I did.

Bye!

Today, or by now yesterday, was probably one of the better days of my life so far.

I woke up this morning already feeling really good, took a shower etc etc and made sure I looked neat since I had a job interview (well, for an internship, but it’s paid work) coming up.

Skipping to the actual interview, I was nervous as you’d expect a mostly-introvert 17 year old to be, but it went really well and ended in success.

So now I’ve got an internship I’m really looking forward to and seems like a lot of fun, I walk with my dad to his place (he actually works at the same building my internship will be at) and I get bombarded with how proud he is of me, which is something I always appreciate hearing a lot.

Back at my mother’s, which is where I live at, I had the most fun in months playing a game; Zombie Survival in particular with a lot of other people of Facepunch.

What made it so fun was the buggy nature of the gamemode, the players that were on, dragons, apples and that kind of nonesense.

When my mother came home I again got told how proud I should be of myself, adding the icing on the cake.

So now here I am at 12:50, typing this, reviewing a good day. One I haven’t had in a long time.

Been admiring dragons lately, and drawing some myself.

I know my drawing skills aren’t great but they work well if you’re trying to make a smarmy reply or prove a point. Or draw burgerloving dragons.

Never mind, got it open again.

I’ve been getting into lockpicking, it’s quite satisfying screwing around with locks during a loading screen.

I have this little padlock near my keyboard, I keep picking it with a bobby pin and I’m pretty sure that after opening it 17 or so times I’ve damaged a tumbler or something.

I ordered a lockpickset from Dealextreme yesterday, It’s free shipping and shit and it comes from the USA so it only cost me ~4 euros.

So yeah.

Lots of it-

First off, I’m still searching for that fox.

I’m seriously considering getting a Novint Falcon seeing the reviews it’s been getting, I have to save up some more money though.

Still playing Modern Warfare 2, dual shotguns are rediculously overpowered.

Not playing TF2 a lot anymore, REALLY needs an update.

Lots of work for school, I’m getting the law part of my study now and it’s a pain to learn.

This is all I can think of right now, Garry style.

I’ve been searching for this specific picture’s origin/site where it came from:

Whachoo lookin' at

Gotta love searching for fox on the internet, deviantart alone has 30000 pictures of foxes in it’s photography section.

.. I’m at 5100.

I estimate I’ve seen over 20000 pictures of foxes by now, they’re actually pretty awesome creatures too.

Sometimes I get ocd-ish like this, I just HAVE to find the site this picture came from.