The Brewer, The Battlefield and Sith Assassin

Posted by Wighar Stamfaste on January 16, 2012
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January 16th 2012

Happy new year … yeah 16 days later, but still.

So during the Holidays I got the idea of using fresh pressed fruit in total of 80% Orange Juice and 20% Mandarin oranges Juice which I later ferrmented with wine yest using the same method as you do with apples or Pears to make Cider.

So now in January the mix was finished oddly enough earlier then I had expected, As there was a lack of an offical name for it I named the mix “Pirates Screw” mostly cause it a first test tasted like a screwdriver(Vodka + Orange Juice). Now I don’t know how much alcohol it ended up with but an estimate is around 10-15% something like that, though as understood this was made on raw fruit juice so its not sweetend at all, works ok to mix with Cola or any Schwepers mix I guess. Before you ask, yes it is totally legal to ferment own juice for own consumption BUT not for sale or so I have understood the law as it is written.

Quoted Swedish Law on ‘The Alcohol Law’ reference: AL (Alkohollagen), SOU 2000;59

“Vin, starköl eller öl får inte tillverkas utan tillstånd om det inte gäller tillverkning i hemmet för eget behov. Vin, starköl eller öl får endast tillverkas av den som enligt 9 § första stycket 1 lagen”

English Translation of Quote: “Wine, beer or light beer may not be manufactured without permission (this) does not apply to manufacturing in the home for their own needs(use). Wine, beer or light beer may only be produced in accordance to § 9 first paragraph of 1st law”

So I am within my right as I am not making it for sale but for own consumption :)

So that is one experiment I have been toying around with for the new years and its been a buzz (sorry I just had to pun).

I have been playing alot of Battlefield 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic since I last wrote and its been alot of fun, I had been planing on getting my hands on Modern Warfare 3 but the price is still to high for a game I have heard so much bad reviews and response to even dwel my head into it… From what I have heard of Modern Warfare 3 is that its simply a retouching on Modern Warfare 2 which it in itself was a retouch of the first modern warfare, so the idea kind of disguts me from taking any chance at all if not at a good price to do so.

Stronghold 3 proved to be interesting but had alot of bugs (though not as bug striken as some games I could quote), Firefly Studios however are somewhat faster then most companies to repair the bugs so its still a valuable game to all and any :) Talking about Firefly Studios, isn’t it about time they make a sequel to Space colony or even CivCity:Rome, I know I enjoyed hours of gameplay with Space colony, even had tantrums over it when things went south faster then a wookie when losing a game…

Now on to Star Wars: The Old Republic(SWTOR) I find myself back in the world of Star Wars once more and loving it, this time as a Sith, now that from most who know me is not my cup of coffee as I am not the type of player to go for the “evil” characters as priority but I can play it, afterall Evil is also a way to be, as long as your not such in real life.

So as a Sith Inquisitor I gained rank as a Level 42 Sith Assassin with Dark alignment III, I seem to get the better gear if I choose dark options so I have had to adapt to do the dark evil deeds, much like torture and death in the game Overlord when going for the Evil victory for achievement hunting :)

While I do play on an RP server, I do not really RP but I do not interfeer or try to block or get in the way of those who do, respecting that they wish to do such I am just on here by the guilds choosen path, though it has a benefit of less childish and/or abusive players to play with.

There are still a few players that dosent seem to know the difference between ” /1 ” General Chat and ” /3 ” Trade Chat, now It can be fine if its just the single player doing a WTB or WTS in general, but we all know that pretty soon it will be several trying to post over the other thus they should be in the Trade channel… but that will come sooner or later and it dosent really bother me to much.

Anyway I am to tired to write anymore right now, so I will go take a nap after dinner, have fun and play fair.

Stronghold and Battlefield, 3 is comming.

Posted by Wighar Stamfaste on October 24, 2011
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Stronghold 3

 

From what I have seen in dev trailers and media, the game will be a canonical story from that of the first Stronghold game, the story apparently takes of where the arch villain of the first game “the Wolf” was killed or rather presumed such, returning on a march of revenge.

Much of the media shows new features like that of daytime passage to night and vice verse, using the game engine Trinigy Vision Engine that was used in Settlers 7 & Arcania: Gothic 4 to name a few, thus the game uses Havok Physics Engine which was used in games like Company of Heroes, Fallout 3, TES4:Oblivion and Starcraft 2 and Portal 2 to mention a few selected games.

So far the game sounds like a wining concept and building on my own experience with Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader and Stronghold 2, It would not surprise me if lessons learnt from what worked and what did not in the game series might make this a heavy seller and a major attraction to castle builder fans and newcomers to the series.

I don’t remember if it was after a year or just how long after I had played stronghold 2 for several month on end that I took the guts to contact Firefly studios about if there would be a Stronghold 3 to be seen in the coming years, the answer back then was that they were busy with another project that for the moment slips my mind… but conclude that a new installment of the series would possibly be in development in a few years time and here we are now a few years later and just 24 hours of its release on Steam.

 

Battlefield 3

 

Battlefield 3 has seen a lot of good response and bad responses in social media, most of the more common talk is the EA retraction of some digital titles on Steam in favor of its own Origin platform, many seem to think of the Origin client app as rather buggy and less intresting or useful to the consumer and feels more like a DRM infected inbetween client rather then what I believe EA was aiming for a Launchpad application with secured login and digital store for unlocking access to other games.

To me Origin is just a lite version of steam with limitation and feels like it was rushed into competition with Steam and Impulse when it should have made a bigger name for itself before it began kicking at Steam and removing titles instead of co-releasing on both platforms at once, though I see that Battlefield 3 having a browser based interaction interface before entering the game itself would cause a major delay and a lot of work to make it compatible with steam…

Anyway back to Battlefield 3.

From my own experience and the luck I have had with being in multiple beta and alpha versions of Battlefield games among most proudly Battlefield 2142, which was a reason me and a few friends invested in setting up a Battlefield 2142 dedicated server with the GSP I am still a customer at *wink* where we ran under the tag [BLYFRI] for a time until we could not keep up payments and had other issues at hand.

The frostbite 2 engine use in Battlefield 3 is indeed impressive and makes the game great, I myself would prefer the old Battlefield 2/2142 graphics, though I think that is because of nostalgia.

What I found to be a good addition is the suppression feature, now at least you can include tactics based on suppressive fire where a support infantry can suppress the enemy making it harder for the enemy to hit your friends advancing from cover to cover to get to the objective, though this type of gameplay is unheard of in games below professional gamers or those who are prone to good teamwork.

I like that they have once again included Jets into Battlefield, kind of missed them since the jets in battlefield 2, though i was never a good pilot due to less experience or practice with the jets in battlefield 2 mostly cause they were always the first to be taken, much like attack helicopters in bad company 2 and so on.

I am hoping to see a lot of interesting battles in the future with Battlefield 3 as well as on the stamfaste.se server, even though its limited to 24 slots I still think it will be good for a low ping server and if funds increase I can always increase the amount of slots on the contract.

Anyways I shant be dragging on any longer I have more things to do and some preparing for the Stronghold 3 release :D