Back to Global Agenda
Been playing a good deal of Global Agenda again lately. Won't go into a whole long post about it, but they've made a lot of improvements with the Sandstorm expansion. If you're interested there's a 14 day trial I believe, capped at level 12. And should you chose to buy it, use one of these coupon codes for 15% off:
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I was wrong
Well, not so much wrong, because I was definitely right, they just fixed what I was bitching about. I'm speaking of Global Agenda, the game I recommended a bunch of people avoid due to various issues making it simply not fun. Turns out all of those issues have been addressed, or removed from the game completely.
I fired up my beta client over the weekend out of boredom, and had a hell of a time playing again. There's a ton of new content in the game now compared to when I last played, to include PvE, AvA, and several new PvP maps and game types.
The PvE starts off relatively simple. In the lowest security level you run through a mine/factory/base killing low level robots until you reach a boss character at the end, who is actually very deadly. In the next security level missions, the missions are much longer, you encounter a ton more low level robots, and also encounter 4 - 5 mobs who were the previous security level missions boss. The boss itself on medium is much more challenging. I hear the trend continues for each higher security level, but I only did low and medium myself.
PvP isn't the grenade spamming melee fest it used to be. There is actual strategy to be deployed, and teams suffer greatly when they don't use it. It is especially evident when stupid ass recon agent think their job is to be Mr. Uber Assassin instead of doing their job, harassing and destroying enemy robos and structures. My teams never have this problem, because I'm the greatest recon to ever sniff a fart.
So yea, I preordered, and am planning on doing the subscription membership for access to AvA.
As if you needed another reason to not buy MW2
I haven't been a fan of the CoD franchise since the first release, but the way Activision and Infinity Ward are handling the PC release of MW2 is beyond ridiculous. There have been articles all over the web about this, so I won't go into detail, but I will pour a little salt on the wound with this comparison I came across.
Great new video on Global Agenda
This video gives those of us not yet in the GA beta some really good info. Watch it.
Damn I can't wait to play this.