Subnautica - Reaper Leviathan... comfortably viewed in it's natural habitat :)

I really wanted to view one up close but got fed-up with getting owned, so I spent a great deal of time building a base near where one spawned... this Youtube vid is the end result:

Hunting artillery in World of Tanks

More World of Tanks goodness...



To be honest I got very lucky... if that player had been able to fire on target I'd be the one in flames!

Having fun in World of Tanks...

Here's a video of my latest session in World of Tanks... playing artillery:

2016

Crappy New Year everyone... I didn't do anything for New Year's Eve, just spent the day playing Squad, Reign of Kings and Dayz, then went to bed around 11.30pm and read my Kindle until midnight. I did that 'cos all the fireworks would have woken me up anyway.

Yes, pretty sad but whatever, I spared my liver and saved a bunch of money.

Here's more of me messing around in Just Cause 3:

World of Tanks Update

Last weekend (Sunday actually) I spent a fair few hours playing World of Tanks (Xbox 360 version)... I've now acquired a Tier 7 Heavy - a Black Prince to be precise.

Although I'm reluctant to ditch my Churchill Mark IV as it's been a joy to fight... I've even gone as far as to choose a completely new crew for my Black Prince as I wanted to crew on my Churchill IV to continue to level up in it as I'll be playing it between Black Prince matches (for when I get pwned early and can't arsed to wait for the battle to finish).

So onwards and upwards... can't wait for it to come out on the Xbox One... w00t!

Dying Light

I've had so much fun playing this game, freerunning round an open world killing zombies, what's not to like!

Like most games of this type, the world physics can get a bit screwy, like in this video (link below) where the viral I killed gets inadvertently sucked into a spike trap despite the fact that it was nowhere near it!

Immensely satisfying though because when those buggers gang up on you it get's painful! 

Alien Isolation

I've finally been able to creep out of that confounded locker and make my way into the next part of the game without that damned Alien finding me and subjecting me to an insanely graphic demise.

It's literally taken me months (playing the game on and off, not playing it 24/7!) to do this, bit embarrassing and n00bish really but I have a soft spot for all things Alien and, like a fine wine, I've been savouring every moment of this game.

It was a huge relief to hear, then see the next save point… and now feel like I can get on with my life!!

Sodding thing just wouldn't leave me alone!

Taming an Ocelot

After a considerable amount of time exploring in my new Minecraft world (whilst taking a break from all the mining and building I've been doing over the past few days) I came across an Ocelot. According to the game bumf you have to get them to come to you (no sudden moves or they run off) and you need to have raw fish equipped. So I make a fishing rod and catch 5 raw fish then I go off looking for it… sod's law of course, the sodding thing had disappeared!

I go off looking for it but it's not around so I continue my exploring+mining wood+killing monsters and then, hey pretso! The Ocelot reappears, cue several minutes of chasing it and feeding it 5 raw fish before it was finally tamed, video of the final 30 seconds of me taming it below…




I now have a cat for my farm… all farms need one!

Minecraft Underwater Habitat

I've now started on my underwater habitat, it's going to take a while to finish as I've selected a rather large area to build it in, however I have started in earnest!

The first two sections have now been created, the following video (shown below) shows the method I used to 'drain out' the water ;)

Basically I built a rectangular area of glass that isolated the water blocks off from the rest of the ocean in my Minecraft world, I then placed wooden blocks in the isolated area and then burnt them off. This meant that I could go off and do something else whilst they were burning, rather than having to mine them away to create the air space inside (which would have taken a while)… it creates quite a pleasing building with all the glass blocks as walls.

Minecraft

As I am on holiday at the moment I've been using the time wisely - mining like a motherfucker in Minecraft! I got it for £3.59 for my XBox One, probably discounted because I own the XBox 360 version.

So I start a new world and do pretty much what everyone does, start feverishly mining downwards to collect enough resources to build a shelter for the night. Once that was done, continue to feverishly mine looking for diamonds and whilst looking for diamonds collect any other resource I come across (iron ore, coal, gold, redstone etc.)

After a day's worth of mining and building, I'd established a safe haven, several sky walkways (for getting around at night safely) and a farm full of wheat, pumpkins, melons and trees.

With all the self sustaining shit sorted I then hit the bedrock and started mining out, with the intention of collecting an assload of cobblestone and finding as many diamonds as possible, the reason for this? Get a diamond pickaxe so I could go get some obsidian.

With enough Obsidian secured I then built a gate to the nether... now, the nether is not a place to be scoffed at, I've been burnt there many times, so I like to think I was very careful when I entered it. Unfortunately I never expected the system to plop the damned gate right on the edge of a very high fortress wall with a pit of lava at the base of it!

Whaaaa! Plop! Crackle, pop, crackle, dead!!

I sat there and stared at the screen wonder whether or not Mojang purposely coded in something like that? They must have, probably thought it was a right laugh as they sat in their comfy seats drinking Mountain Dew, shouting "Dude! That sucks but let's totally do it man!"

Of course I lost everything I had on me at the time, including a newly minted diamond pickaxe, a load of iron ingots and tons of wood (and every Mincrafter knows how tedious it is to collect wood).

Rather than throw my controller at the wall (which I've done before), I steeled myself to getting back everything I lost, half a day's worth of mining and I was even better off… fuck you Mojang.

Since then I've secured the obsidian gate on the nether side with a veritable fortress of cobblestone, for two reasons: one, so I don't keep falling into the pit of lava every time I go through it and two, to prevent ghasts from blowing me off said wall! As cobblestone is impervious to ghast fireballs it was a no brainer, I've now got a 'beachhead' for me to start from when I go looking for nether resources.

I am now off to do some caving, I need coal, lots of it, I need a shitload of glass as I'm now constructing my glass fortress in some very deep water! I will post how I produce it via XBox Live's Upload feature.