First Game Crash in WAR

There I was standing around in Morth's Mire Warcamp, in Marshes of Madness, while waiting to get into a scenario to level up my Renown Points, seeing as they have fallen behind my Rank. A rank 20 invites me, a rank 14, into his group that he was forming to go take back the open RvR. Alright, so I leave my queue as more and more people start to arrive in the party making the party approximately 5 people. 

We set out of the camp heading first towards Goblin Armory: Merchants Gift. We got there with no resistance, I saw a elf riding by heading towards the keep. We easily killed off all the guards. I tactically positioned myself by the banner so that when they were all gone I could get the 300 RP boost. We then waited after that for the 3 minute count down timer before for the spot would be ours and defended. After that was done I got another 300 RP.

We then headed north one of our shamans, Kuggle, falling behind and being ambushed. So we rushed back and looked around for a few minutes but didn't find anything. On our way up to Alcadizaar's Tomb: Defensive Boom we managed to grab a few more group members turning the warband into two maxed out groups. We get there and make quick waste of the point while a Cultist in the group runs over a hill and takes out two order's who were watching. I once again positioned myself next to the flag getting myself a total of 600 RP bonus which leveled me up to 9 Renown.

We then ran up to the keep, Fangbreaka Swamp. We started to clear out the guards around the keep, order showing up half way through. Ironbreakers of course were one of the first few to show up killing me and a few others. Once we spawned in the Warcamp we realized that we needed some siege equipment so I grabbed two Orcapults while someone else grabbed the ram and we ran back. 

On the way back there was a small battle, in which I died, where the order were in the field dividing us from the keep. After I had respawned, again, the Order's had hidden within the keep and were firing down upon us with the siege equipment and taking out the ram slowly with the burning oil. I set up the two Orcapults and jump in one and began to fire stone after stone into the midst of the battle jumping out just barely before the thing blew apart. 

I summoned my Horn Squig and stayed near the back of the fray, next to the healers of course, and began to fire hell upon everyone. Luckily whenever I would die a healer would ressurect me allowing me to continue the fight. We needed siege equipment, alright, I died anyways, as did my healer, and we both grabbed a bunch of equipment.

I grabbed a few Chuckas, Orcapults, and a Ram and began my decent back upon the battle field. Upon arriving in the mass of chaos, our wargroup now maxed out in number of players and a bunch of Order's waiting for us on the wall. I realized that all of the siege pads were gone, minus the one that was currently in use with a chucka on it. So I start to run towards the gate, going to plant the ram so we can bust the door open. 

I get to the ram loading spot, right click on it and my game crashes. I was quite annoyed at the fact that my epic battle had to be shortened by the fact that the game could not handle that many players in one spot. I do not know if anyone else in the wargroup game crashed or if it was only mine.

When I logged in this morning all the points were recaptured by the Order and the keep still stood as it was. The battle might've been over when everyone's game crashed, if they crashed, or we could've just gotten our asses kicked and decided that it wasn't worth it. Who knows? All I know is that they should start working on the crashes, even though I thought that they claimed to have fixed the issue.

Patching Error Leads to Discovery of New Games.

I get home from school today sit down at my computer and wait for it to boot up. While it's waiting I'm anticipating what to do in Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning today. Whether I should continue to increase my ranks or grind renown points to catch up to my Rank.

Finally after my system boots and I'm connected to my network I launch the game. There was a 154KB patch, okay nothing to major. After the first bar loads completely I get an error that states:

"The program was unable to complete the patch operation. Please try again later."

Alright nothing to sinister so I close it and let it sit for approximately twenty minutes then try again. I get the same error message. I then attempt to reboot my system and see if that helps, still I get the same error message. 

Alright fine, Mythic wins. I closed down the patcher, again, and decided to boot up Guild Wars (Seeing as it has been awhile). I log into my prophecies Warrior / Monk, seeing as prophecies is the only good game ArenaNet came out with. Of course no one is on, and my guild has become barren, people only logging on to get their yearly presents.

And seeing as my system crashed awhile ago and I had to reinstall everything. The maps take approximately 20 minutes to load each one, which means that I cannot group to do anything, and it's near impossible to do anything else unless I feel like waiting awhile.

All of those issues drives Guild Wars out of my view of games to play instead of WAR. I try WAR one more time, same issue, on to another game. I'm not about to wait around for hours for the patcher to decide to magically start working again, so I decide to plug in Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion. 

I must say even though the game did come out a few years ago, and I did have to start a new character. Having lost my Wood Elf who was the Listener for the Assassin's Guild and Head of the Thieves guild with a total of 3,000 + items stolen (Due to system crash). The game is still extremely enjoyable, and the graphics are still amazing (In my opinion).

I made an Imperial and spent a good twenty minutes tinkering around with the elaborate character editor, making him just perfect. I named him Ali, after Muhammad Ali seeing as I was going hand to hand combat. 

Hand to Hand takes dedication, to me, trying to fight the urge to keep that large sword and shield. I still enjoyed it though, minus the fact that you cannot really block, I had a lot of fun. Running up to enemies and just started to punch them repeatedly in the face. Also what's pretty nifty about Hand to Hand combat is the fact that your punches drain your opponents fatigue. So about half way into the battle they will just fall over while you whale on them while their on the ground, they stand back up you punch them in the face a few more times, they try to swing, and they fall over again.

I played Oblivion to death for about 2 hours and then got tired of it, realizing that fists cannot do damage to ghosts and haven gotten the title of Bloodletter in the Arena.

 I then decided to see if Warhammer was working yet. So I logged in, got the patcher and waited as a much larger patch, 3,000KB, started to install. That went smoothly and I was then able to enter the game and run around on my Squig Herder, bashing the stunties.

Hopefully next time I do not come across this error again.

Warhammer Glitch

Alright I was fighting in the Gates of Ekrund on my Squig Herder. I was running away from an opponent by running down the ramp and turning to go down the other pair when I feel through the floor of the Gate. I then proceeded to land on the ground coming near to death. I couldn't shoot anyone, but I got some screenshots of me looking around, enjoy.

Turncloak, for good?

So I decided the other day to go chaos on a RP server. Seeing as my current one is pretty much empty, and my Ironbreaker was getting boring. I chose a full server, much easier to group that way. 

I first started out with making a Deciple of Khaine, after hearing all the hubbub about the dark elve's starting area. It was okay, didn't really appeal to me, got bored after about four rank increases.

I then decided to make an attempt at Greenskin, figuring that RPing as a Greenskin would be an enjoyable experience. I made a Shaman, decided it wasn't my cup of coffee, so I tackled the Squig Herder I was actually shocked when I noticed that I was starting out in Mount Bloodhorn, the second zone for the Dwarfs. 

I had a really, really good time with it. Leveling up soo much faster then I did with my Ironbreaker. The first public quest I encountered made me laugh. It was the one talked about in Mythic's Podcast about the game features, the one with the giant troll and the squig bomb. It was very exciting, seeing as I managed to get top of the contributor list both times. Unlike my Ironbreaker who was always dead last.

The PQ's are fairly easier this time around, maybe because I actually have people to do them with. They're also much more enjoyable (In my opinion) smashing down the "Stunties" and completely obliterating the forests.

The Greenskins' are a very exciting race to play as well as role play. They're blood thirsty savages who if they have killed everyone else off they'd turn on themselves. They live to fight and carry on a very illiterate way of talking that would make any English teacher cry in pain. They're quests involve throwing Stunties' off of walls, stuffing them in barrels, and just running around bashing everything into smithereens. 

I will soon pass my Ironbreaker in rank and I do not think I will be going back to order anytime in the near future. Not as long as I have more Stunties to smash and buildings to pillage.