Natural Selection 2 is here

It's all good to go, folks... Launch happened yesterday. I pre-ordered this game over 5 years ago, and it was worth the wait.

Think Starcraft or Warcraft (1 2 or 3) where the minions and units are all real people.  Aliens versus marines in a fight over a mining colony.

As the aliens take over the map, their biological "infestation" begins to cover the walls and floors.  The marines must fight this back, along with the aliens, to be able to control resource nodes needed for researching and creating weapons and equipment.

Play as a marine with options for jetpack and exosuits, and weapons from MG, shotgun, grenade launcher and flamethrower.  Play as alien and be a "skulk" that can climb on walls and ceilings, leaps and bites, a "lerk" who flies and bites, and shoots spikes or poison gas, a "fade" who kind of teleports or phasewalks and slashes, an "Onos" which is the giant rhino and can stomp the ground knocking over nearby marines or the "Gorge" who builds and heals, and has a spit that erodes marine structures.

Then there's the commander for each team who gets a top-down view, decides the research path to use and provides orders and support to the team.

This one's for Stinky:

http://www.ragecry.com/images/102153/a-dea-officer-stopped-at-our-farm-yesterday/

First Borderlands 2 DLC

It's called "Captain Scarlett," and it will be available for ten bucks on October 16.

Details are few, aside from a new vehicle dubbed the "Sand Skiff."

PLEX spiking

I thought I was being clever speculating on PLEX about a month ago. I should have waited another month:

I would have made another 37.5% profit if I had held on to my stock until today. At this rate (it won't last, but in theory), one PLEX will get you a billion Isk in the December.

Quoth the Raven ...

... nevermore.

It has never been my mission in Eve to suicide gank anything.  But when a Caldari Navy Raven is just sitting idle on a gate in your home system, what are you going to do?

Answer: fleet up with a dozen arty Thrashers, a Tornado, a Hurricane, and assorted hangers-on, and whore your way onto a kill mail.  That's what.

And you do it in a Condor:

http://rvbeve.com/red/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=319346

Nuff said:

First solo kill

ATRON vs. KESTREL

(I was the Kessie.)

I didn't even know that I'd been targeted until I started taking damage. He was a hell of a lot faster than me (3700 vs. 2456 m/s), and that's what killed him. He had no tank, 46 less DPS, and no tank, and he flew right up my tailpipe.  

It was a no-skill kill ... and I'll take it.

And yes:  his buddy killed me 10 seconds later.

Can't wait to get home to Borderlands 2?

Then play the prequel in your browser from work!

Next: Minmatar Destroyer

Tier 2 Caldari Destroyer

Swoon.



Coming this winter.