I have noticed some things in MW3 that could easily be changed to make the game much better. Nothing major, but little things that are just annoying.
1. When calling in air support I often get the message "air space too crowded". I have no idea how the developers programed the game to figure this out, but it needs a LOT of revision. I was recently in a game on "bootleg" where this was displayed. The enemy had an attack chopper and two care package choppers all in the air at the same time. I earned the Escort Airdrop but was not able to call it in because the "airspace was too crowded" with only one attack chopper in the air. Then the attack chopper died but before I had the chance an enemy pave low was called in and I could still not call in my Escort Airdrop. How is it that a strafe run has 5 choppers and can be called in while there is another attack chopper but I can't have my Escort Airdrop?
2.This goes along with number 1, but in MW2 with choppers they could be stacked; it would be very easy for this feature to be brought into MW3. What I am referring to is that if there is a chopper in the air, and no more air space, and you call in a chopper, it puts your chopper on a waiting list and is called in as soon as there is room for it. That way you dont have to worry about waiting for the air space to clear and getting yours in.
3. The escort airdrop is also very underpowered. once you call it in it takes almost 30 seconds to reach your location, as illustrated in this youtube video (not my video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl5WHXMLJdI
That gives it plenty of time to be shot down and if the match isn't over by the time it poops out its packages you only get 5 and they are support packages, so they aren't that good anyway.
4. Not many people have complained about this but the team balancing seems off. I feel like it is a regular occurrence for the teams to be stacked with lots of high prestiges on one team and all the noob ranks on the other.
5. and of course the spawning logic could be better.
overall I LOVE MW3 but these little issues could easily be fixed to make it even more epic.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
break
I had an awesome Christmas!!! Anybody else? Brandon just went back to college today and I already miss him a lot... we did a lot of stuff this break but there is never enough time. It's always fun the chase him around the house just like when we were young and sit on him ;-)
It will be very bitter sweet when I go back in a week. I love it here with my family, but I love my friends at college and college life, and its my last semester.
Started reading in Romans the other day... I have been looking forward to it. I also finished not too long ago "The Case for Christ" by Lee Strobel. He was an extremely secular journalist and decided to go out and find the real truth behind the validity of Jesus Christ. He took a journalists' approach by consulting experts and weighing the evidence. His quest to disprove Christ caused him to become a believer and this book documents his journey through interviews of many experts on everything ranging from history, to medical. I highly recommend it for anyone who doubts the validity of Christ or just wants to strengthen their faith. http://poptop.hypermart.net/testls.html
stay peachy!
It will be very bitter sweet when I go back in a week. I love it here with my family, but I love my friends at college and college life, and its my last semester.
Started reading in Romans the other day... I have been looking forward to it. I also finished not too long ago "The Case for Christ" by Lee Strobel. He was an extremely secular journalist and decided to go out and find the real truth behind the validity of Jesus Christ. He took a journalists' approach by consulting experts and weighing the evidence. His quest to disprove Christ caused him to become a believer and this book documents his journey through interviews of many experts on everything ranging from history, to medical. I highly recommend it for anyone who doubts the validity of Christ or just wants to strengthen their faith. http://poptop.hypermart.net/testls.html
stay peachy!
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
hi
hey people sorry I have been a jerk and not blogged in so long. This semester has flew by! So many people complain about wanting it to be over but I am enjoying my life. I have a lot of work to do but I am enjoying myself.
The project I am now working on is for studio. I am designing an opera house for a site in Buffalo. It is a very interesting challenge because I have never done anything like this before. It is proving to be very challenging. I have been dealing with lights in the atrium for a couple hours, and here is a pic of some progress, but nowhere near done. I will have lots of pics of it later.
It WILL be nice once this project is done. I will be able to stay up late with my friends playing video games, watching movies, and playing risk instead of working on this stuff for 8+ hours a day. I am already done with two of my classes and the another one just has a 1.5 page double spaced paper to write so my efforts are basically all on this studio project.
Break will be kind of crazy! As soon as I get back I am having people over, then other people the next day, then hopefully I will be off to visit Boston the day after that! I also have a HEFTY to-do list for Christmas break-
1. I need to start on my Thesis project for my last semester. I will be designing a Jewish Messianic church!
2. I need to do the other part of my thesis which is designing a real building for that same congregation. This one is the realistic version. (I needed a larger project for the actual thesis so for that I am assuming a $50,000,000 budget)
3. my portfolio and grad school applications. I have my sights pretty much set on BAC- Boston Architectural College.
stay peachy everyone!
if you hate the music at least mute it and read the words ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYnA3yt8_yg
I will TRY and write more but I need to go to bed now.
The project I am now working on is for studio. I am designing an opera house for a site in Buffalo. It is a very interesting challenge because I have never done anything like this before. It is proving to be very challenging. I have been dealing with lights in the atrium for a couple hours, and here is a pic of some progress, but nowhere near done. I will have lots of pics of it later.
It WILL be nice once this project is done. I will be able to stay up late with my friends playing video games, watching movies, and playing risk instead of working on this stuff for 8+ hours a day. I am already done with two of my classes and the another one just has a 1.5 page double spaced paper to write so my efforts are basically all on this studio project.
Break will be kind of crazy! As soon as I get back I am having people over, then other people the next day, then hopefully I will be off to visit Boston the day after that! I also have a HEFTY to-do list for Christmas break-
1. I need to start on my Thesis project for my last semester. I will be designing a Jewish Messianic church!
2. I need to do the other part of my thesis which is designing a real building for that same congregation. This one is the realistic version. (I needed a larger project for the actual thesis so for that I am assuming a $50,000,000 budget)
3. my portfolio and grad school applications. I have my sights pretty much set on BAC- Boston Architectural College.
stay peachy everyone!
if you hate the music at least mute it and read the words ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYnA3yt8_yg
I will TRY and write more but I need to go to bed now.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
This semester
Hi all this semester is started nicely! I live at Peet 103 this year and I have 13 credit hours and 6 hours of work a week. I am taking Studio, Tech Writing, Studio Thesis research, and General Sociology. My roommate this year is a weird dude named Doug but hes cool ;-)
We visited Rochester a couple weeks ago just to have fun. We played mini-golf, kan jam, swam, and jsut kinda hung around.
Intervarsity is going well. It seems like we have lots of new people and people eager to get involved. We are going apple picking this weekend sometime.
I promise to write more! here are some pics!
We visited Rochester a couple weeks ago just to have fun. We played mini-golf, kan jam, swam, and jsut kinda hung around.
Intervarsity is going well. It seems like we have lots of new people and people eager to get involved. We are going apple picking this weekend sometime.
I promise to write more! here are some pics!
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2389507575335.283033.1180226545&l=1aeff89eef&type=1
The last 4 of this one is from my latest project.
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1697160507091.240177.1180226545&l=b41d551f2b&type=1
Friday, July 29, 2011
What I think Modern Warefare 3 needs to be awesome on PC
I have been playing Call of Duty since COD4: Modern Warfare and I am a PC gamer 100%. Obviously I want dedicated servers and mod tools off the bat because that is one of the many things that makes PC gaming better than console. We can find servers we like with server rules we like instead of matchmaking with random people every time and cheaters running wild. One thing that I miss from COD4 and World at War is the large games. Servers in the earlier two games could have up to 32 people in them if I remember correctly. It was awesome having 16 people per side in those giant maps. Then in MW2 nine people per side was considered "ground war"? and in Black ops the cap is 18 total. I think maps should be bigger and larger games allowed.
In every Call of Duty there seems to be spam weapons that are better than the rest. Some people may disagree but on any MW2 server there will be people on each side with the UMP and ACR. Black Ops its the AK74u and Famas. I would like to see MW3 have weapons that are perfectly balanced. There have been enough COD games so that they should be able to do it right by now.
With how powerful some of the killstreaks can be, I would LOVE to see MW3 have destructible environments. that would put an amazing new element into the game and make multiplayer a much better experience. They need something awesome for it cuz they don't have Zombies.
I thought the vehicles in World at War were pretty cool so it would be nice to see that come back. not jsut tanks, there could be motor cycles lying around and stuff to make it interesting.
Two more small things I think should just be straight up copied from Halo 3. First, wouldn't King of the Hill be fun!? and come on its about time we can look down and see our feet in game. Our feet are there in the single player menu of BO. Would it be so hard to put them in all the time?
thanks for reading my thoughts!
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In every Call of Duty there seems to be spam weapons that are better than the rest. Some people may disagree but on any MW2 server there will be people on each side with the UMP and ACR. Black Ops its the AK74u and Famas. I would like to see MW3 have weapons that are perfectly balanced. There have been enough COD games so that they should be able to do it right by now.
With how powerful some of the killstreaks can be, I would LOVE to see MW3 have destructible environments. that would put an amazing new element into the game and make multiplayer a much better experience. They need something awesome for it cuz they don't have Zombies.
I thought the vehicles in World at War were pretty cool so it would be nice to see that come back. not jsut tanks, there could be motor cycles lying around and stuff to make it interesting.
Two more small things I think should just be straight up copied from Halo 3. First, wouldn't King of the Hill be fun!? and come on its about time we can look down and see our feet in game. Our feet are there in the single player menu of BO. Would it be so hard to put them in all the time?
thanks for reading my thoughts!
twitter- andy777bennett
steam- andydabeast
RAIN
It's pouring out for the first time in I don't know how long. My family and I went to Keuka lake a couple weeks ago and that was an amazing vacation! We did all the usual fun stuff there, like swimming, kayaking, riding around in the little boat we can use, biking and just hanging around. It was very relaxing and fun. Being back isn't too bad tho. Work in my landscaping job is good. It has been hot but I live with my gallon water jug.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
God
God has an amazing and sometimes confusing way of doing things. I was talking with a friend the other night about how He knows how far to push us and its just amazing how perfect His methods are and we don't even know the half of it. He knows how far we can go, how thin we can be stretched, how much we can take, at what level we will crash, when we will fail... He knows all of it and I think most of the time it is further than we think. He can bring us all the way to the very edge of when we are about to fall, so far exceeding our own expectations, and then right at that last moment lift a burden, make things fall through, turn things around, and renew us.
It is sometimes like we are walking backwards toward a cliff and we know the cliff is there, and we know that God is there to stop us at the edge, and we just need to trust Him. When He tells us to keep walking backwards strongly we need to do just that and have the faith that He won't let us walk off the cliff, because He is standing right there to stop us when the time is right. I am afraid sometimes and slow down or shuffle my feet to try and feel the edge, but we just need to have faith in Him.
This applies a lot to finding a spouse and anyone who's single but doesn't want to be knows what I mean. We have this desire in us to have someone to share our lives with and we feel like we will just die if we don't find SOMEONE. But the truth is we need to be content with having JUST God, because He is all we need. He is all we should need. How can we effectively serve God AND a spouse if we are too distracted to serve God by trying to find that person?!?
God is good at teaching patience, and I think that He exercises that skill a lot when people are eager to find that special someone. He knows how long we can wait before we explode ;-) and the longer we endure the stronger we get. And there's always room for improvement, otherwise we wouldn't need God anymore.
So have faith, and walk strong!
It is sometimes like we are walking backwards toward a cliff and we know the cliff is there, and we know that God is there to stop us at the edge, and we just need to trust Him. When He tells us to keep walking backwards strongly we need to do just that and have the faith that He won't let us walk off the cliff, because He is standing right there to stop us when the time is right. I am afraid sometimes and slow down or shuffle my feet to try and feel the edge, but we just need to have faith in Him.
This applies a lot to finding a spouse and anyone who's single but doesn't want to be knows what I mean. We have this desire in us to have someone to share our lives with and we feel like we will just die if we don't find SOMEONE. But the truth is we need to be content with having JUST God, because He is all we need. He is all we should need. How can we effectively serve God AND a spouse if we are too distracted to serve God by trying to find that person?!?
God is good at teaching patience, and I think that He exercises that skill a lot when people are eager to find that special someone. He knows how long we can wait before we explode ;-) and the longer we endure the stronger we get. And there's always room for improvement, otherwise we wouldn't need God anymore.
So have faith, and walk strong!
stuff
Wow has this blog gotten away from me! I didn't realize that it has been MONTHS since my last post... Spring Break??? Sorry about that. In case people are wondering no, I did not die or something. I finished my Junior year of college pretty good with an acceptable GPA (not as high as I would like).
The week after school ended I went to a fellowship camp thing called Basileia on Saranack Lake in the Adirondacks. Here are some pics-
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2062976252256.268930.1180226545&l=30cd2fac8a
It was an amazing experience and I really grew closer to God there. And, yes, I did go para-sailing ;-)
Once I was home from that I started my landscaping job! Someone I know from church owns a landscaping business so I am working on lawns and mulch and stuff with him.
Other than that I have been hanging out with friends a lot and just chillin.
The week after school ended I went to a fellowship camp thing called Basileia on Saranack Lake in the Adirondacks. Here are some pics-
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2062976252256.268930.1180226545&l=30cd2fac8a
It was an amazing experience and I really grew closer to God there. And, yes, I did go para-sailing ;-)
Once I was home from that I started my landscaping job! Someone I know from church owns a landscaping business so I am working on lawns and mulch and stuff with him.
Other than that I have been hanging out with friends a lot and just chillin.
Friday, March 18, 2011
spring break
Wellllll I have not been doing much this spring break. I have been doing a LOT of work every day on my architecture project. It is turning out to be much more labor intensive than I ever thought it would be. In the end I don't think my teacher will like it but it will be complete and developed so I am hoping for a decent grade. Too late in the game I realized that my design solution is a little unrealistic given the program and its surroundings, but I have some impressive things up my sleeve.
I go back to college on Sunday and as soon as I am back I want to go and print my project because if I wait till Monday EVERYBODY will be printing. my break would have been a lot more fun if my friends here had nothing to do and if I had nothing to do. BUT summer is not that far off so we will find time to hang out then, and my friend Kyle will be back from California so we will be able to hang out and we will be working together too.
I go back to college on Sunday and as soon as I am back I want to go and print my project because if I wait till Monday EVERYBODY will be printing. my break would have been a lot more fun if my friends here had nothing to do and if I had nothing to do. BUT summer is not that far off so we will find time to hang out then, and my friend Kyle will be back from California so we will be able to hang out and we will be working together too.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
strung out
Do not love the world or the things in the world
If anybody loves the world, the love of God is not in 'em
The world's passing away...
Along with its desires but...
Whoever does the will of God will live forever
I know it hurts sometimes
We've got to go through withdrawal
'Cause we've been strung out
http://www.lyricsmania.com/strung_out_lyrics_lecrae.html
I have been strung out, and it is nobody’s fault but my own. I put things off, I have been lazy over the last couple weeks and not putting my all into my life. I have been scarping by with the minimum. I know how to go through the motions and do good things that I say to myself are for God, but really are just for me to feel like I have done something good. I spend time doing stupid crap that doesn’t matter when I haven’t spent time with my Maker in a week. I DO love some things in this world and for every ounce of love I give to it and not to God is another ounce pushing me further away from Him. I can’t remember the last time I have felt like I was up to where I should be. Everyone thinks that I am better than I am and I like it that way. That’s a problem. I am not on top of my game, I just know what to say to make people think that I am. I am tired of giving the Devil an inch and letting him take a mile. I am tired of letting things slide. I am tired of being tired and not drawing my strength from the only one who can truly give it. My façade of Godly ambition many a time is not grounded in much truth. I want to be a true follower of God, transparently following Him with my life. I’m not gonna be strung out anymore because I have had enough of believing the lies and thinking that I can handle them.
Are you really living for Him or are you strung out? The slide into ineffectiveness is long and gradual, sometimes we just need to chill and take a look at where we are sliding to and how much further down we are than we thought. WAKE UP and stop loving the world and start loving God. Don’t get strung out.
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