I 1v1’d my good friend Tom on my server and pretty much destroyed him 🙂

With the help of my friend Aqwis, I got my hands on a beta key for the game in the title, which several of us tried out. Below I’d like to summarize my experiences.

Here’s a video I made about the game:

The game has two game modes (for now, in the beta): one is terrorist hunt, where you have to clear a house of terrorists, with up to 5 players. It’s a fairly entertaining game mode, but the kamikaze terrorists are quite annoying. Partly because the game’s netcode is PRETTY TERRIBLE, and partly because if you have a shield, you have no chance of escaping, and shooting back with this netcode is pretty difficult.

Recently our friend group set out on the „Man on the Dam„ tour, which is the Mindszent – Szeged route along the embankment, about ~50 km. We decided to do it by bike, since walking 50 km would have been quite a lot (I’ve done it before, it really is a lot) without any preparation.

We took the 17:21 train from Szeged, which consisted of three carriages. Currently MÁV has a promotion where you can transport bikes for free on weekends. This was a bit problematic, since the three carriages could barely fit 8 bikes. Those who arrived after us (another group) couldn’t board the train because their bikes wouldn’t fit. (you could see on the poor conductor lady that she was about to cry from frustration)

Today I migrated the forum from the Vanilla engine to phpBB, since there are far fewer issues with that. If you run into any problems, feel free to write to admin@zoliben.com.

The new forum address is https://zoliben.com/forum

Everyone is welcome here!

I finally managed to carve out some time for the blog, so here’s my post, in case anyone’s interested 🙂

So, how has my summer been so far? Well, in July I went kayaking on the Danube, starting from DonauEschingen down to Regensburg, on one of the most beautiful stretches of the river. I’ll write more about this in a later post, since it was a fantastic experience and I can only recommend it to everyone. As soon as I got back from vacation, I gave myself a week off, then got to work. I’ve been busy with that ever since, and when I’m not working or having fun, I’m on the computer — specifically my newly discovered favorite, Rust.

Recently I installed the final version of the Windows 10 Technical Preview, which is practically identical to the final release (which comes out on the 29th). I didn’t want to mess around with it too much, since my PC doesn’t have a DVD drive and I can’t find my 8 GB flash drive anywhere, so my only option was to upgrade from Windows 7.

I started by downloading the latest Windows 10 build via torrent, since the image file was no longer available on the Insider site, but I got eager and wanted to install it no matter what. The image file downloaded fine, I mounted it to a virtual drive with Daemon Tools. The upgrade started, asked if I wanted to delete everything or keep my personal files. I decided to keep my personal things, since I hadn’t upgraded Windows this way before. The installer started copying files, then restarted, and the system was upgraded in about 15 minutes.

*\* Updated to 9.14.3! ****

*** IMPORTANT!!! You must delete the 0.9.14.1 folder inside the res_mods folder, and copy the contents of the downloaded zip into the game directory. Rename the newly copied 0.9.14 folder to 0.9.14.1!***

I put together a WoT mod pack that contains supposedly legal mods. It includes the following:

– XVM (displaying statistics)

– Zoom mod (up to 30x zoom)

– Artillery mod (arty view from an angled perspective instead of top-down)

Some of you already know that World of Warships has entered its open beta phase. If you liked World of Tanks, you should definitely give WoWS a try.

I participated in the closed beta test as well, and I thought I’d share my experience with the different ship types and provide some tips.

When you start the game, you begin with a cruiser. Basically you can only play against bots until you earn enough experience points and reach the appropriate account level that unlocks random battles.