Hawken Beta

I received an invite for the Hawken closed beta so I thought I would check it out.
In case you don't know Hawken is a "mech" based shooter that will be available free-2-play later this year. 
I'm just going to make this quick here.
Graphics:  Really good, much better than most free-2-play titles I've tried.
Game play:  There are several modes in Hawken and I was not able to try them all since there are issues with joining servers in the beta.  I was able to play death match, team death mach, and one round of siege.  The game mechanics of Hawken make regular death match just feel kind of silly.  From my experience you are able to take down one mech in a toe to toe duel and by that time your mech is messed up enough that you can survive another fight unless you repair.  There is also a good chance that your weapons will have over heated in the dog fight and you wont be able to battle till they cool off.  In case you haven't figured it out this is the difficulty with standard free for all death match games you basically bust one mech and then get popped yourself.
Team death match is a mixed bag because if you can get people you don't know to work together you are golden but if you are on a team that is going solo everywhere its not going to go well for you.
I was confused about the siege match I played since there really isn't a tutorial for the game or tips or any guides.  I was able to figure out that you need to collect energy and return it to your base to get a warship.  The attack/defense part of it was confusing.  I think you need to defend your anti air artillery while collection energy to fuel your battleship while destroying the enemy anti air artillery.  That's my guess.  I didn't accomplish much besides collecting some energy and defending the base.  I got stomped pretty good trying to attack with my brute.
So far Hawken is a pretty good game but I'm looking forward to the bugs getting ironed out.  We'll see how she looks when release time rolls around.   

Borderlands loot chest pc - update

This is an older post that didn't make it up when it was supposed to because I didn't push the button... fail.  Here it is now though.  I'm no artist but I think you get the general idea.
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I did a couple of preliminary sketches. 

I don't intend to use the in game color scheme.  I was thinking more gun metal and red at the moment but since this thing is only in the planning stages at the moment who knows what color it will end up being.

My first sketchup

Today I made my first sketchup and here it is.

I did a mock layout for my borderlands loot case.
It is kind of rough because I had no idea what I was doing.  I saw a whole bunch of posts from people who do builds with sketchup mock ups and I thought I'd give it a try.  I think it came out pretty good for me being a newb.  Sketchup is really neat and way easier to run than learning CAD.  If you want to do some similar modeling and don't want to put a bunch of time and money in to get it done, this is the way to go. Get sketchup here.

Battery has arrived

Good news, the new BP7X battery I ordered has arrived.  Time to charge this puppy up and get to flashing.  ;)

Also received an invite for the HAWKEN closed beta weekend.  :)

Phone update:  It's been running on the new battery for over 9 hours and I'm still above 70%.  Maybe I'll stick with what I am running instead of flashing a newer CM9 build onto the old Droid 2 Global.

Phone update time

I ordered a new battery for my Droid 2 Global yesterday.  When it arrives there will be phone updating to do.  Stay tuned.

Currently running Gummy 1.2.0 and it's pretty sweet.  Thinking about going to CM9 though.  We'll see what I decide when the battery gets here.  I love gummy too bad it was discontinued.

Recovery

Back from a busy weekend out of town.  Must recover!  Back to working on stuff soon.

Site Update

Site update today.
Added:

• Background Pattern
• Custom Header Image

Changed:

• Background Color
• Link Font Color 

This thing is really starting to come together.  I'm thinking the header could still use some work but its not bad for a first attempt.  I'll try to have another go at it when I get a chance.