War Rock out of Beta

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...And it is incredibly good fun. Myself and Mesmiley had an hour long shot on the Urban Ops maps in which we were taught valuable lessons by , I think, a group of Polish players. Apologises Meggie if you and the others that were playing are from some place else. The lessons? Always and I mean always move in pairs, team up with a buddy or just follow another player. You can provide and be provided with covering fire and exact revenge instantly if your buddy is killed. Of course this only applies to those close encounter situations. If they get killed by a sniper chances are your dead too! However on the Urban Ops maps there is very little occasion where a sniper gets away with that.

Unfortunately we also learned that spawn/base raping is an accepted practice. For those that may not have heard of these terms, I'll explain. Spawn/Base raping is the practice where by you camp in the spawn base of the opposing team and rack up cheap kills as the newly spawned players will envitably spawn with their backs to you, and in war rock armed only with fists for the second it takes to press 3 for main weapon.
For me it takes the fun out of it and the challenge of engaging an enemy that can actually fight back. But hey that's just me and to be fair it wasn't all that bad, just annoying.

After the Urban Ops map we joined up with Chezzie for some Battle Group maps, in actual fact the maps turned out to be the same one twice due to an administrative cock up! Eh Mesmiley? The map played was Emblem But regardless it was a good laugh. The first game involved only 4 or 5 a side and pretty much concentrated on an intensive battle for the central control point. Game 2 saw most of the players drop out and started with only myself, Mesmiley and Chezzie. No problems there as we decided that now would be a good time to practice some sniping. After 40 odd kills and the score being 172 v 168 (we had accidentally started the map with a 300 point limit!) we were joined by Vincenzio, who immediately made his presence known by killing me as I was lining up a shot on Chezzie!

From that point on the game was played out as a classic Battle Group map with all manner of vehicles and weapons being used, and most of the control points changing hands numerous times. Unfortuately at around the time it started to fill up with players, Mesmiley's connection the server was lost and he missed out on the last hour and a half of the map. Yes it did take that long to complete. We also got hit with severe lag in places, which didn't affect all players just some and for varying amounts of time. But this issue passed and the mayhem continued.

Vincenzio and I had a bit of a friendly grudge match around the left control point, as viewed from the orange team, and racked up a severe amount of kills on each other and some very humourous synchronised deaths. I think we killed each other by headshots at the same time at least 12 times. We also had a fair amount of kills due to some intense punching action. Is it just me or does that sound rude? In the end though Vincenzio was the much better player and finished the map with a 110 kills and something like 60 deaths (not sure about the last figure). I managed a 1:1 ratio with 75. Angry999 takes the award for being Vincenzio's 101st kill on a single map beating his previous record of 100!

I shall be looking for a re-match...