An Interesting Week
Well, its Saturday now and I’m getting sorted for a fun night of playing Halo.
This week has been quite eventful, it started with a trip up to my parents last Saturday to say hello and pick up my suit, and in between now and then I have gotten two games I have been waiting for, a new flashy G15 keyboard and a placement interview!
On Monday I was in a bit of a spending mood, and started noticing that my keyboard was on its last legs, after doing a bit of online comparison I decided to get the Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard, which I am enjoying thoroughly so far. It has a small LCD screen which can be used for displaying PC statistics, download meters or game statistics (among many other things). The keys are alot nicer to use then my old keyboard, and the whole thing has a much nicer feel to it. It also has ‘G’ keys, which are basically very powerful macro keys.
This brings me quite nicely onto my next topic, Darkfall. This week Aventurine have been opening up a certain number of orders per-day and myself and quite a few Sturmgrenadiers were lucky enough to get in. So far I have been contributing to the building efforts and playing a role in our defence efforts. Its really living up to my expectations and I highly recommend giving it a go, so very enjoyable.
Using my new G15 and Darkfall together has been quite interesting. The Profile Manager which comes with the keyboard allows you to setup an infinite amount of key-presses, mouse clicks and delays in order to chain together interesting macros. For Example; very quickly you can put together a macro that will swap actionbars, equip a staff, cast a heal spell, then go back to the other weapon. Having this power really opens up a lot more opportunities.
This week has also seen the release of ‘Empire: Total War’ the next game in the long line of Creative Assembly’s Total War series. The main game is set in the 1700’s with an additional scripted campaign set as America battles for its Independence. If you have not seen this or other Total War games before then there is a demo out on Steam, you should also check out the video review below:
So far I am working my way through the Road to Independence campaign and am loving it so far. Its very strategic, detailed and in-depth. Despite some initial problems we had, myself and a few friends have had quite a few online games against each other and some AI. Unfortunately so far we can only have 1v1 sieges, however new maps may unlock later. Definitely pick up the demo for this!