Now I got this idea, and it could be either hilarious or incredibly stupid… drunk gaming guys?

I figure you didn’t know. That I’m a better gamer when I’m drunk that is. In fact, I’m playing through Bulletstorm on Very Hard while intoxicated. So what do you guys think? I know that Drunkgamers.net does this as well from what I can tell, but it’d give my guildies something to laugh about while we wait for ToR.

Ideas I’m tossing about, a drink counter. Like Epic Meantime’s calorie-counter more or less. And obviously commentary, anything else would be silly. But anyway, it’s more or less just an idea at this time, but it would be awesome to get some feedback on this!

But I’m proud to say that youtube’s finally processed my video, and it’s up and running for anyone to watch!

You can watch my video right here! Click it. I mean like really, click it.  And I really hope that you guys will give me some input in regards to my horrible accent and bad pronunciation.

Obviously things are going to have to go smoothly for me next week. As my shuper-shecret-project will launch. And it’ll be podcasts more or less, gameplay videos or reviews of games. Countless possibilities, so of course a little chaos will be involved before the blog settles down to one subject.

I’m also hoping to get some suppot from whoever’s reading, since input and criticism is always welcome. I’m fairly certain that the podcasts will be a success, and if not then they’ll at least give me somewhere to vent my rage, win win situation, see?

The blog has had a different theme installed, since I find this one a lot more clean, and I’ve rarely seen it used on gamingblogs. I really hope that you guys won’t mind it compared to the other, and of course I’ve added a guild page which is what “official” guild that I’m in. After all, would Buddy Jesus lie about approving this layout?

Paint-Modified Buddy Jesus approves of this theme!

I’ve never been really good at delivering news, but then again you don’t have to be. Either way, I’m really excited about this all in all, and hopefully I’ll get some support from you guys aswell.

I’ll end things on a positive note though, there will be weekly updates, i.e there will be at least 52 videos a year.

These are good news. As ceilingcat saidth so.

Alright, now I’ve apologized for one thing, and I’ll go ahead and take the initiative to apologize in advance for quite some incoming cursing.

Anyway, I’m still waiting for my computer, and the delivery service I bought it from seems to be slightly retarded, no offense to retarded people. As I wouldn’t dare lower people with brain damage to that of the PC delivery staff.

Nontheless, I do have a shuper-schecret-phroject coming up. But, it’s gonna require an up-to-date audience, otherwice it’ll have little point.

But I’ll not bore you with this crap, also have another blog post coming up later this week.

And now I’m going to randomly insert hover cat at the end of this post.

You’re welcome!

So I read up on Bigg’s post on the Marauder’s current state a month or two ago, and it was really good. Pretty much hit the nail spot on.

Taken from Bigg’s post;

I really like the Wrecking Ball/Whirling Axe improvement, since I’ve personally always thought of Monstrosity as a harassment mastery, rather than a DPS one. Not entirely sure on how I feel regarding the Insane Whispers, since now we actually have use for it with the proposed changes to the Sorc/BWs Close Quarter. I mean it’d give us a pretty good reason to be in a oRvR WB along with us for once being on the front and shining more than those pesky Chosens.

But now that we’ve gone over Bigg’s post regarding the Monstrosity Marauder (btw he has to be Swedish with such good C&C suggestions, I’m just sayin’), I’ll go ahead and post my changes to the Monstrosity Marauder.

Always thought this one is lacking, since it’s damage is only justified when using the M3 Broad Swings. But I’m all for seeing a either as Bigg’s said a 25% chance to apply a debuff that increases the targets chance to be critically hit by 10% for 5 seconds, or having their chance to crit reduced by the same amount, both benefits group play which I’m all for.

But another skill that bothers me is Wave of Mutilation. The AE Initiative debuff is massively underrated by both MARs and everyone else in general, the WS debuff is just a bonus though. It’s a 80 initiative which is gone from the opponent, and that’s pretty damn good actually considering how low people’s initiative is in general (unless you’re beating on a PvE tank), along with how initiative scales oddly. So my suggestion (If we get our Monstrosity tree fixed) is to make it a Monstrosity only ability.

And yeah a lot of you guys are going to scream at me and so forth, but this is only how I feel about it.

Now let’s get to the tactics;

The tactic Hulking Brute is definitely a must for your Monstrosity Marauder. Since you shouldn’t really be under the delusion that you’re going to deal damage as a Monstrosity Marauder, but rather support your group and stay alive, does help give you the sense that this is a must for your marauder. But I would like to change so that it grants you 80-120 initiative aswell, but I wouldn’t recommend buffing the initiative stat to the same level as the toughness goes.

I’d actually like to keep the tactic as it is to be quite frank, due to the recent changes to the Close Quarter skill. While I’d certainly enjoy an Area of Effect healing debuff, I’d much rather have a way to help contribute to stopping enemy bombers. For once, it’d definitely feel nice to be the one to support my group, rather than the just the Choppa (out of all the melee members that is).

Can anyone please tell me just how much 225 morale is? Because I sure don’t know. If Mythic could actually state that, it’d be a lot easier to tell just how effective this ability is/could be. But the concept is still great, and it’d work awesome with Wrecking Ball. Still, not entirely sure I enjoy it being at the top of the tree, considering that we have no idea how much 225 “points” of morale actually is.

And that’s basically it, I won’t bother going about with my thoughts regarding Mutated Energy, since I’ve never (never during my entire history of WAR) gotten around to actually fire it of, never.

So those are my thoughts regarding a buff/tweak to the Monstrosity Mastery Tree. It isn’t a whole lot of “buffs” so to speak, and even a nerf in it, but I’m still pretty pleased with the result on how it ‘could’ look if Mythic did this. Also big thanks to Biggsie and his blog since I got a certain “template” to look at when finishing this draft.

Oh and for anyone curious on when I’ll get back into the game, not before the 18th of August by the looks of it, since the company assembling my computer seem to be more lazy than me when it comes to blogging.

So I’ll see you on the Battlefield (in a distant future)!

You can read the two different threads here and here. (Part 1 and 2 of the forum discussion)

Very excited for both the Beta and the launch, as said certainly hope that I get to enter the closed Beta, but my usual luck states otherwice. Either way, good luck to everyone who’s signed up for testing!

May the force serve you well.

EDIT: Looking through the comments and posts on swtor.com, it’s fairly certain that if you have not recieved a Beta invite already, you won’t be getting one. Sad Spuxy is sad.

If you’re not interested in neither the game or the career, then no need to read the full article!

First of, let’s get some ground covered as to what the Brutality mastery tree is supposed to do for the class;
“A Mastery path focused on inflicting heavy damage to a single opponent.”

In short, it’s a tree meant to burst down opponents, or a PvE tree aswell if you will. And looking through the career builder, it’s easy to tell that the utility on this is rather low.

However at it’s current state it does lack utility, but it also lacks damage to make up for it. There are some easy changes to this and they don’t quite require much to change;

A close to useless skill in the Brutality tree. It’s supposed to give the Marauder some ground for attack when he’s not in any position to use either Impale or Guillotine. However, as it stops your Auto-Attacks it also drops your damage considerably, along with having rather low damage aswell. But it’s easy to revamp into a better version;

• 3 Attack hit, instead of it being channeled it can actually work as a burst ability, making it hit the enemy three times along with allowing Auto-Attacks in the process.
• Keeping the current base damage, would that be overpowered? Hardly, as the current damage is equal to that of Flail (monstrosity’s spam button skill).
• 45-55 AP cost per use, as it would be a great boost towards the skill in general, a higher AP cost would ensure that it would be handled with care.
• No Cooldown – But as it would become the main attack of the Brutality tree, a cooldown would be a bit much over the top when adding the high AP cost to it.

And that is my suggestion to making that skill a lot more useful. But, we still got some ground to cover, so bare with me!

Growing Instability, it increases your Critical Hit damage by 10% per 10% HP lost. But it’s too situational to be worth it in all fairness, and if we are going to balance mirrors more towards each other, it would most certainly be a good idea to let this ability mirror Pack Synergy (a flat 50% Critical Hit damage increase).

A would-be good skill, but tied to a horrible ability. And here the answer is simple; Turn it completely around and make it into a 50% Auto-Attack speed increase that is only avaible within the Brutality stance/mutation. In short, a mirror towards the Pack Hunting tactic. And it would actually work well with our stance/mutation proc.

Only one situation where I can consider Wave of Terror to be usefull; Chokepoints. Keep sieges mainly. Why it’s also located so high up in the Brutality tree, I truely cannot tell. And another thing that I’m uncertain of is how to balance this skill to work in a PvP situation. Any suggestions would be greatly appriciated!

And the rest is the rest. In short, these key abilities and tactics should be changed into something that’s actually viable. And while some may argue that these changes would be OP, you still have the stance system to keep in mind. While in the Brutality tree, there is no utility, just like in the monstrosity tree there is no damage.

Feel free to add any thoughts or comments on the matter!

And the feeling of being back in Rapture definetly got me going to analyze just why it’s such a huge success.

2K games definetly knew what they were doing when developing this epic campaign. The multiplayer wasn’t a very hot topic for me, but as usual it mattered little as an epic campaign was included.

Awakening in a strange but yet familiar place does raise some questions, and as such the only option were to pursue the answers. Navigating through the many floors and rooms that completes the city of Rapture is certainly a challange at first. But since it’s quite liniar at first, it gives a new player a fighting chance not to become lost in this vast sea.

Now, there’s certainly one big difference to the previous game. You’re not just somebody, you’re a Big Daddy. That’s right, a  metal scuba diver who’s seriously pissed off!

About the plot of the story-line… it’s a bit sad, and a bit odd (which co-incidently could work well for a Tim Burton movie). You’re an earlier series of a Big Daddy, more specifically you’re one of the Alpha Series. An earlier experimental Big Daddy, tied to a single little sister for your entire life. Straying away from her weakens the Big Daddy’s body, and either kills him in the process, or blinds him in an endless rage if it survives.

So your goal is to re-unite yourself with your Little Sister. But as you progress you start to see a bigger picture of the story-line, as it’s not as simple as you thought when you launched the game.

Now there’s obviously the combat, and not much has changed since the predecessor. A few new weapons came along, and also a few new plasmids. But there’s one obvious weapon that you notice right from the beginning; The Drill.

With this insanely awesome Drill of Doom, it surely can’t get any better! So what uses does a drill have? Several, and most are gory and fun! Let’s look at our options; We can obviously upgrade it for even gorier executions, and we can certainly clear some of that pesky rubble with it. While there being several other weapons such as the Shotgun, Machine gun, Spear gun and so forth, the Drill is definetly my personal favorite.

There’s little point in me trying to compress every aspect of Bioshock 2 into one single post, but I will continue with another part (possibly part 3) in a near future. Until then you’ll have to bare with me as I’m still relatively new to reviews and blogging!

- Spuxy

Questing and PvP

Travel Powers

Flying through Millenium City.