Tales from the frontline

[Dustan]

yeah just have to wait till someone gets the cars worth 1mil +

[tabletop]

Anybody buy that 'Hot Cars' pack?

[Dustan]

I was looking at it thinking I dont even have money for the cars I have available now let alone the ones shown here, I dont like racing cars I dont own. I never brought any of the Forza 2 DLC's and yet still managed to win a bunch of times. If it had new tracks that would be different.

Jonathan, have you put in your code for the forza 3 map pack yet?

I cant remember if I made it to lvl 62 on MW2 last night I was getting wild at the lag cause I swear to good half a clip in the face wasnt killing anyone. I hope a match making update isnt to far away.

[Jonathan]

Jonathan, have you put in your code for the forza 3 map pack yet?

Yes, haven't used any of the new stuff yet though.  We might have to arrange a foursome one night soon.

[Aaron]

Anybody buy that 'Hot Cars' pack?

I've been cut off from Xbox live for a few days now... not sure why but I seem to have the shakes...

Anyway haven't caught up with that but I reckon the one thing they need to release is the Top Gear test track and a Chevrolet Lassetti.  that would be awesome!  If they gave you the scores the stars got in proper racing too that would be cool.

[tabletop]

I'm probably going to wait until the 01/01/2010 and then splash out $80 on a Live Gold membership again, cause I miss multiplayer

Ssshh. Don't tell the wifey!

[Dustan]

You would almost think a top Top Gear game would  be a good bit of IP for a company to pick up, I would rather see it in Forza 3 though.

The thing about the times though thats a little unfair

In a bid to compare real life versus video games, Jeremy Clarkson of the British automotive show Top Gear attempted to beat his Gran Turismo time of 1:41.148 in a Honda NSX by racing the real track in the same car in 2005. During the trials, Clarkson determined that the game omitted a few details of the track, and the game's physics allowed him to brake later when coming into turns than he could in real life. As a consequence, reality prevailed and he managed a best time of only 1:57 on the real course.[5] However, both he and the track instructor agreed that it is possible to complete the course in 1:41 if the driver were sufficiently experienced and talented.

from wikipedia

[Jonathan]

I'm probably going to wait until the 01/01/2010 and then splash out $80 on a Live Gold membership again, cause I miss multiplayer

Ssshh. Don't tell the wifey!

Why wait?  Isn't Christmas the ideal time for late night Live sessions?   

[tabletop]

Apparently we're going to be doing things with the kids and 'not playing Xbox all holidays' (that's an actual quote).

[Aaron]

Apparently we're going to be doing things with the kids and 'not playing Xbox all holidays' (that's an actual quote).

HAHHAHAHAAAAHAAAAAAHAAAAAAA

Oh my god thats great, thats exactly the kind of thing I get told.   

Dustan.
Yeah the times would be unfair to compare but would still be fun.  What they should do is get them back to race on the game so they could do actual & Forza times (or something similar) I just dont think it'll work. You'd probably only end up with a few of them doing it.

[Aaron]

More Forza for me over the weekend, managed to complete season 4, levelled up to 37 and completed the round the world achievement.

A pretty good weekends work.   

[tabletop]

Aaron man, you need teh gamer signature .

I should play some Forza 3. For some mad reason I picked up that extra car pack in the weekend...

[Dustan]

Jeebus I need to get back to Forza, I cant even remember what level I was up to.

Stu, how is it you can get the DLC car pack but you got a silver account. I am surprised that you cant us MS Dollars to buy gold status.

I finished of COD 2 on veteran for another 1k gs. I was a little disapointed really The part i was told would be hard, Hill 400, was a piece of cake I pushed through 95% of the game with the hope of some character defining moment of brutality that would catapult my skills to hitherto unsoared heights but on the whole its was another stroll in the FPS Park.

In fact the hardest bit was climbing down a ladder on the last mission of the chapter before hill 400. I wish ladders were implemented properly so you could hold X to climb onto a ladder as well as trying to inch off backwards until you finaly grabs onto the rungs at which point I jump back up for fear of falling to my death again. You see I only died once but which caused a couple more replays of a 2 minute snipe fest but it then took about 5 minutes to climb onto the ladder. Sure there were places I died more but nothing that ended up being as hard as climbing down a ladder.

I am also level 66 or 67 on MW2, so close I can almost lick my first prestege class. Yay an extra create a class and I get to unlock all the challenges agan, this time it wont take me 2.5 days to get this far.

[Dustan]

Well last night I hit level 70, got all the extra XP and presteged, Now I am level 16 (or 17 I cant remember) Boy it seems like its going to take forever to unlock the Ninja and Cold Blodded perks again. I am going to try some soft core ground wars or mosh pit later then a silencer is almost as good as cold blooded.

I think level 31 is was the point at which I was esspecially happy with all my classes, I know I am going to be going for a lot more weapon mastery points this time, FMJ are the hardest ones to get but there are ways.

[Aaron]

All I really managed last night was to spend a lot of credits on crap cars...

I think I made it halfway from level 37 to 38 but bought 2 cars and did up 1 car all of which will sit unused in the garage... they dont even help me with the connoisseur achievement!   

I need to get my hands on a descent R2 car as the three I have are pretty average and Im such a cr@p driver if I dont have a higher PI I cant win races on hard so I've done up an F class car and will see about knocking off those F class races for some good money and hopefully a couple of levels and a descent R2 car so I can get back to the season events.