I hate hate hate these

constant fucking freezes! I'd say it's even worse after the latest patch, although now it never freezes in combat but always in the respawn menu. Always. I get so furious since it has nothing to do with me, I can not do anything about it. And for me, the problem is multiplied by the fact that I can't join deadie in his game without throwing him OUT of the server. So if we're playing together he needs to quit the game and rejoin with me. Same when his game freezes, I need to quit and rejoin.

This is what I do not love about you, Battlefield.

Play with me DICE!

There´s a premium exclusive event this week where you can play with DICE developers. For the ps3 its on wednesday the 27, and I think xbox is the 28th. They have said to keep our eyes on http://blogs.battlefield.com/ for further information. This is such a great idea, I'd love to play with the devs, see how they play and maybe even ask a question or two. Oh and I want those DICE-dogtags really bad!

Damavand Danger

And this, by RoyalVegas. You make beautiful things, youtube battlefielders!

A nightmare at Metro

I am constantly amazed by the creativity of this community. This is another wonderful machinima made by someone called kbmwla93.

So why did I die?

1. Grenades. They get me every time. Sometimes, when there is no grenade around, I will run in a random direction and find one.
2. Bolt action sniper rifles. Not that I get killed by them too often, but trying to use one of them equals death. I am a terrible sniper.
3. The Gun Master mode. Who ever thought that shit up? I'll be running around with my MP443 getting headshot by the guy who took five minutes to advance to a JNG90.
4. Running around corners. Yep. I'm still doing that. And in spite of my complaints, the corners have still not been nerfed. Seems DICE only listens to the whines of angry forum trolls.

Love is shooting at random digital shit

Fuck, DICE, what did you do? You took a perfectly normal rpg/adventure gamer and you distorted her, destroyed her. Now she watches the Medal of Honor trailer thinking that looks really cool and interesting.

Sister machine gun

I haven't been blogging much lately. That is partly because of, well, summer. And various obligations. But I have been busy on the Battlefield. I decided, much on a whim, to start a new "character". Soldier. Whatever you call them, I don't know. Anyway, I do have more than one account on my PS3, and that is about what you need.

Besides my illuminatia-account, I have my "Shaktie"-account ("shakti" being the ultimate divine feminine power or force streaming through the universe in hindu tradition - well you gotta have aspirations!), which I have occasionally used in Battlefield to test things out and fooling around with stupid ideas, and as a sub-account to Shakti I have had the "sistermachinegun"-account, which I have rarely or ever used for anything. I created it years ago just because I liked the sound of it, it is taken from an essay where the author says we humans are "placing our faith in sister machine gun, brother bomb" (it is also the name of a band which I do not listen to). And now I thought, what could be a better gamertag for a soldier than that?

So I dusted sistermachinegun off, and off she went. All iron sights and no gadgets. A measly rank 0 incapable of even placing a claymore. I missed my AEK badly, and kept pressing right as an engineer only to get reminded that I have no mines. No mines, no claymores, no C4, no SOFLAM, no MAV no NOTHING. But what I had was fun. Since I have everything unlocked if I want to on my illuminatia account, and I have all the ribbons and thousands of flag caps and kills, nothing really meant anything with sistermachinegun except playing, and trying to manage with what I got. She is currently at rank 43 and I have my golden leaf. It's a start.

And this is interesting to me. My stats when I'm doing it from scratch. Remembering my awful, AWFUL beginnings and how I was constantly disoriented and dyingdyingdying, I look at my stats now and they are decent. Really. I have a kdr of 1,15 and an spm of 749. 749! How about that? I'm kinda proud.

Language

On account of the traffic I get from other countries, and the fact that google translations from swedish to english are plain ridiculous, I am changing the language of the blog. I will translate earlier posts myself, but it will take a couple of days. And since english is my second language, I am sure I will make some mistakes. But I'm still better than google at this. Which isn't saying a lot.

Got a shit bucket???

No? You need to prioritize. I have laughed so hard at this, watched it five times and I'm still laughing...

Rape metaphores

I hate them. Could you please stop using "rape" as a synonym for crushing superiority? I guess most of you use it out of habit and as part of the jargon, and you will say it does not mean anything, and that it isn't an expression of hatred or contempt against women, and that it doesn't even have anything to do with women. It's just words, just a game.

But you are mostly male. You have the luxury of living in a world where you are not the ones defined as rapable (although you are sometimes raped too), and where rape isn't a constantly present threat that you are supposed to adjust your lives to. You are not making decisions every day that takes rape into account, when walking to your car, when a strange man approaches you, when your boyfriend comes home.

And the most important thing: every sixth woman has been raped, many more have been subjected to sexual violence, even more have experienced seriously rape threatening situations. So when you say you raped someone in the game, you are most likely saying it to someone who has been raped or has a girlfriend, friend, sister, mother who has been raped. And you just labelled the perpetrator as a "winner".

How a person chooses to express him- or herself is always an individual choice, and you can choose to think that your own interpretation takes precedence and that 1) other people should understand how and what you really mean or 2) no one should fucking tell me how to speak because I say what the fuck I want and if people have a problem with that they are too fucking sensitive and that's their problem. Or 3) "I know a girl/I am a girl and she/I have absolutely NO problem with this, so if anyone else has, they are being RIDICULOUS.

Or you could just follow the main rule: Don't be a dick.

In any case, don't just throw the word around without a thought. It is not trivial.

Come closer, give me more

I am now a premium player. It cost me 500 SEK, but I am now a little more prime, a little more exclusive. Was it worth it? Yes. If you are going to get all the expansions, which I know I will, going premium will actually save you some money. Plus you get early access. So really it’s a no brainer. Will it give me more Battlefield? Yes. Very well, take my money, DICE.

And at the same time as I became a premium player and my menu guy started to glow like he just swallowed a radio active Jesus,  I also got access to Close Quarters. So I should have been happily skipping around the Ziba Tower wielding my pretty, new combat knife, but alas, this launch coincided with terrible job stress, concert tickets, the Prometheus premiere, a visit from mom etc and etc. So I haven’t played that much.

From the time I have spent in close quarters I can say this much: first time I spawned into the Donya Fortress I loved it. I spent the whole round just: “ilovethisilovethis”.  It’s tight, winding, full of little rooms and corners and corridors and holes in the ground and holes in the floors. And it flows. You never need to stop and you can flank everybody anywhere.  It gets a bit frantic, not what I’m used to, and it doesn’t really set the stage for tactical, careful gameplay. But it’s another flavor of battlefield, another side to its personality, and I find the tight, vertical gameplay incredibly entertaining. I just wish there were room for 24 players so you could seamlessly put it in a mixed map rotation, because I think it would be at its best as an upbeat release after a slower, dead serious Kharg Island or Firestorm.

And also, the maps are gorgeous. Just gorgeous.

I haven’t unlocked much of the weapons, but my first one was the AUG, which I’ve been interested in trying out since the trailer, and my god is it a great weapon! A bit slow for very close combat, but it’s crazy accurate, I mean crazy. Where you aim, it will hit. It has virtually no recoil. You can mag dump, it will not move. Plus, it’s a bullpup so it moves fast sideways even ADS. I will spend many hours cradling that baby. 

Thank you, DICE

They are fixing the stat tracker bug today. Surprisingly fast, but that bug was totally game breaking so I can only imagine the frenzy at DICE these last few days.