Warrior - Enter the Lost Garden

Warrior - Enter the Lost Garden, a photo by Acedog 007 on Flickr.

I just thought I'll let you see my latest desktop but it doesn't mean that I'll be doing the monthly post again. I listed all the stuff below so check it.

Via Flickr:
Rainmeter - GeoSans 2.0 ( www.customize.org/rainmeter/skins/61120 )

RocketDock - www.rocketdock.com/

Text Icons - Reflections DOCK by styrizo ( www.styrizo.deviantart.com/art/Reflections-DOCK-63898044?... )

WIndows Theme - Licorice VS by lassekongo83 ( lassekongo83.deviantart.com/gallery/21207?offset=72#/dtbgwq )

Wallpaper "I had to edit this awesome wallpaper due to it's massive size" - ( wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=131956 )

Monday Night Combat Tips & Tricks & Fixes

Maybe I don't want to see her face after all.

MNC been out for almost a year now on Xbox and a bit less on Steam. I want to share some things w/ you like my class specs and how I use them (most of the time) followed by what need to be improved.

My Class Endorsement / Gameplan

Support (My most played Class)

This is more of a defensive Support that can turn offensive in a heart beat. Total Recoil (Rate of Fire) can over-heal and hurt (gun) faster while building Juice w/ the boost of GrenADE (Bonus Juice). FocusAll (Shortened Recharge Time) is for his abilities of course making it available sooner. The only downside is his lack of health can lead to him getting kill by a Dagger Assassin for free unless he's overhealed "excluding a backstab" but you can replace FocusAll for armor.

My gameplan w/ Support

Buy the turret upgrade and hack upgrade as soon as the game start then overheal any and everyone you can before they depart. Find an good flanking or defense spot for your turret and hack to make it more effective. If enemy bots are near you and the area seems to be safe, melee them for twice the juice boost instead of grabing them or otherwise and don't forget to heal teammates and defense towers. (so many forget that it's frustrating). If team has advance deeper into enemy base, you'll probably want to move your turret in to help. If enemy is in your base, try to put your turret in an unsuspected spot and heal injured teammates and turrets. But if your teammate sucks or/and the enemy is to smart, you're fucked since you are after all a support.

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Assassin

An in your face, get kill(s), get out is what my assassin does. Assassins have the lowest health out of the 6 classes so to protect her, I went w/ Gold Armor (Gobi Numb) and Speed (LaseRazor) to be very moble. FocusAll is there to recharged my Sprint,Grab,Smoke bomb, and Cloak cause it would suck if you need to get away and it's still on cooldown.

My gameplan w/ Assassin
First off, I find it crucial to get my Sword so only invest in that 1st then  kill some bots to get $ and boost my Juice. If I see an opening for a kill early on, I'll take it other wise just keep killing bots till you can buy the sword. When u get juice and they have defense guns out, use it and take those out ASAP giving your team an advantage by opening them up. If all else, be a freaken pain in the ass the entire match. (You'll usually tell when they have to resort to either making an Shave Ice machine or adding extra defense.)
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Gunner

What's a gunner w/o tearing his enemies to shreds w/o Total Recoil (Rate of Fire) while wearing some Fine Steel Peel (Armor). Finally for your needs, you got BionoGrip (Reload Speed) cause him reloading that machine gun is slow as fuck as it is.

My gameplan w/ Gunner
Their only 2 ways to play a Gunner. Attack ASAP or Kill bots to get $ and Juice then become Rambo and use your machine gun on pros and Mortar Launcher on everything else. ONLY invested in Gunner Machine Gun till it's level 3 then after that, Invest only in Slam till level 3 and either Gunner Deploy, Buy Gorilla Bots or/and buy/upgrade defense towers. NO $ Should be put in Grapple what so ever. It's not worth it. while juiced, Mortar Launcher can destroy almost everything so for the Gunners out there, use it more often.

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Sniper

I like to call him Mr. Gadget. Aptilube (Faster Ability Recharged) is for very quick trap refresh and Flak Grenade for serious damage and of course flanking. Steel Peel (Armor) for more health cause you'll likely be spending more time closer to the enemy then sniping from afar. Only downside is having Itchy Finger (Fast Firing Rate) but it's an necessary. You can still play the long range game but the endorsements will be kinda wasted.

My gameplan w/ Sniper
Invest in Traps and Upgrade your gun and find a place to make camp and start killing anything you see. Later you'll either want to upgrade gun again for Splash damage (great for more bot killing and Gunner/Support combo or lvl 3 traps to halt enemy progress and likely easy kills / get aways. If you see an Support w/ turret near enemy base, you can double your protection and hinder your enemy progress and get payed quicker. After that, you can go into upgrading Flak Grenade or/and Grapple to lvl 2. Grapple should be the last lvl 3 upgrade and sometimes, you don't even need it unless an assassin REALLY loves you to death... literally.
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Tank




Tank does what tank do. Having Gobi Numb (Armor) in addition to having the highest HP makes him well, harder to kill especially when juiced. Dr. Trigger (Rate of Fire) makes his Jet Gun (from an actual Jet) and Railgun much faster to dispose of enemies. Hipclip (Clip Size) is not only for his guns....ok it's only for his guns.


My gameplan w/ Tank
Invest in tank health regenerate (not the deploy one) and on your choice of Jet Charge (recommended) or Product Grenade. Follow the bots and help push you bots to enemy base. If alone on your side you can do the juice boost by melee them a few times. If you taking damage from opponent that to far, use jet charge to get away and if you want, invest in level 2 deploy so you can heal faster. If you fully juiced, rush their base and destroy every turret you can or/and destroy your enemies w/ 1 hit kill DEATH BLOSSOMS!!! Laugh at any Assassins that actually tries to kill you from behind to only see you Jet Charge them. Also in my personal opinion, his best map is the LaseRazor Arena followed by Spunky Cola Arena.
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Where's the Assault class you ask? I actually suck as him so I fell their wan't need to put a spec up right now but oddly enough I use to be awesome w/ him when the game started. So I gave you my Class Set up and Gameplan now to address a more serious issue about the Xbox version.

The Plea and What need to be Fixed

This is merely a simple request of let Uber Entertainment update the game like steam and get the new (very fun looking) Map. You are alienating the rather large Xbox community for MNC (keep in mind it's bigger then the PC community) to not see Crossfire matchmaking fixes that literally a team that is full of "prestige" players face against a long experienced players and 5 no so experienced and literally quit seconds before the match starts.

Their's also the Blue Logo screen of death when you try to connect to a server only to get "could not migrate to host" and force to quit game and restart it.



Their's a similar one that basically saids "Server is already at capacity" and it pops you back to main menu but if you go to any of the gametypes, it will automatically assumed it's looking for a match (even in single player) but it only freeze.

Their are many glitches and a few arena errors but just to name three that is the most common that I've experienced.

(This happens mainly when I play assassin) Upon respawning, 1 or 2 of my abilities won't work. This can be Sprint, Lunge, Smoke bomb, and the most crucial ability in Grapple. It basically handicaps her and simply dieing won't fix it.

The Airstrike glitch where an Support can toss up to 3 under the enemy spawn room and can kill them and sometimes lock them in stats menu for the rest of the match or they leave.

Tho not a glitch per say but still pretty bad. In the Spunky Cola Arena, their's an area where 4 out of the 6 class (especially assaults) can sneak on a ledge behind the field of play to the enemy base and either launched a surprised attack, destroy defense towers and free attack on the moneyball fore free.

Don't charge us for updates and maps that they want to give out for free and do away w/ your priority or whatever system. Just don't want to see an good game die like the way TF2 on consoles is.

BTW how awesome Uncle Tully's Funland looks.



Got an Opinion about my class or anything else about this, fell free to post and you can check the review I did for MNC Here. Oddly enough it was after last year's E3 post as well.

E3 predictions Round 2

E3, the most magical week in gaming (before PAX Prime) is almost here and I thought I'll do another E3 prediction write-up for the Big 3 and add Bioware into the mix so w/o further delay, here's my 20 predictions.

PS: High chances of me updating predictions up-till E3.

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My Microsoft Prediction(s) - Press Conference date/time -> Monday, June 6, 9:30 AM PDT

• Halo CE remake confirmed, crowd loses it's shit. ( we will just say yes.... for halo 4,5, and 6 )
• Getting a Timed Exclusive DLC that will look awesome.
• Lots of Kinect info, pie/bar charts and new upcoming games for it. ( Yes then no and then Yes again )
• Announced another extension to Xbox like (facebook,ESPN, etc) and leave you wondering..... Why? ( when you think about it, no.. Youtube, Live Tv, and the eh "from many ppl" of Bing is welcome. )
• To somehow be the baddest press conference for the 2nd straight year. ( I'm actually gonna say no but I wlll throw sony in the mix. They both focus on Kinect and Move/Vita a little to much to my liking. )

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My Sony Prediction(s) - Press Conference date/time -> Monday, June 6, 5:00 PM PDT

• Sony to get Booed at the start unless they start out w/ their pitchman. ( Double no, He didn't even make an appearances )
• Sony to address their recent issues for like 3 mins. ( Probably more but yes, but don't make a joke out of it at the start on you conference. Just a slap in the face to the ppl that was effected by it.)
• Sony to get more support from Valve (like w/ Portal 2). ( Nope.avi ) 
• Reveal of Never heard Exclusive game.
• Even more Free giveaways on PSN! ( Nope )

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My Nintendo Prediction(s) - Press Conference date/time -> Tuesday, June 7, 9:00 AM PDT

• "Project Cafe" will be equally powerful as the PS3 (It kinda looks like it so Plausible?)
• Release Date of New Zelda game ( all we got is This Year so nope )
• A WTF Moment not including the "New" Console ( Yes, many times, Ninja Gaiden 3 on Wii U for one )
• Star Fox finally makes a console return. The Space shooter, not that crap that is Star Fox Adventure. ( unfortunally nope )
• Best conference out of the big 3 again. ( Yes Yes and............. Yes )
• Online features to either be left out OR be like the PS3 in ways for "Project Cafe" ( their keeping that info for now so ??? )
• Xenoblade or/and The Last Story to comes to the west. ( I wish man )

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• Mass Effect 3 will have multiplayer aspects like Fable 2 and 3
• Mass Effect 3 will also be 2 times as long as ME2
• Plans of what they will do to expand on the Mass Effect universe after the trilogy.
• Star Wars: The Old Republic will announced open beta (to do what RIFT did to perfection) but still no release date cause of beta.
• A "Here..Take my Money" game that Isn't Mass Effect,Dragon Age, nor SW: TOR.

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And there are my predictions. You can watch G4TV's Live E3 Coverage on the 6th and for those who's on Direct TV (they gave G4 the boot this spring for.. you know why..) them along w/ IGN, Gametrailer, and more will be live streams on their respected sites. If you wanta chat while watching it, Justin.tv (gaming section) is the place to go since brodcasters will be streaming it as well.

I'll put up the results after E3 so stay toon. Till next time folks.

Baby.......Cake!

This is crazy and kinda life-like when you 1st see it then it feels weird. More HERE if you want to see everything. o_O

RANT: Pimps = Suspended

DA Hell!! I Planed a 3hr of playing MNC and now I can't!?  =(

9:44 P.M., I booted my Xbox 360 while watching some Draft aftermath on ESPN (Shotouts to Jake Locker going #8) 6 mins later I switch over to see I'm suspended from Xbox (till Saturday or longer as they deem fit as the email saids). I'm like thinking this came from a VERY SALTY person who RAGE Quit on MvC 3 or locking entire team down w/ Sniper (Frost traps into easy headshots) or other things in MNC so I was piss off cause a player basically got me suspended. Minutes later I read the email stating the suspension and what they did this for is on my bio.


"Games a pretty cool guy doesn't afraid of anything. Visit my blog at - darkshields.blogspot.com - Drop a line in pimps."


I had that exact bio for way over a year and nothing was made of it until today. I just figure cause I use the word "pimps" alone that they did this is really unfortunate. I do not mean negative things when I use the word "pimps".  I get it can be a negative word, I just use it to express awesomeness sometimes but I digress.

Actual Pic of an actual bio that will not be seeing this any more.

I would of like to have a warning of sort or even speak to them about this before it happened but now, it leave me w/ a now "scared" record and for ppl that knows me I do not want to be associated w/ anything that can be damaging to myself, family, or/and friends even tho this is no where near a crime.

Microsoft and Xbox Team, I'll surely change it when if ever this is lifted but I'm just sad that this happened the way it did. If the word "pimps" was NOT the reason why I can't play online then what the hell is the reason behind this. I might talk to them via Email just to clarify the reason but I believe it won't even be answered. All I can really ask at this point if to not put the "CODE OF CONDUCT" on my account just to have people think I'm a cheater as well. I do not want to be something I'm not. 


PS: You know what, this still could of been an act of a SALTY (look it up if you're lost) player but use my Bio as a means to get me banned.