Sov's Crazy Ramblings

I was just asked by Lobster((Rethius)(Ret)) where the name sovhed came from… and let me tell you wow thats a story.. I think its a good idea that I tell you just so you arent wondering and I thought that it would make for an interesting, though maybe not funny read.

It all started one day when I got Battlefield 1942. I had been playing alone happily and decided I wanted to do something else, I downloaded Desert Combat.. at that stage it was in early development.. After a while I met someone called *S*G*Something (can’t remember the name now). They invited me to their clan and I thought “oh what the heck”

I joined, the day after the clan fell apart, not due to me or my choice but the clan leader got bored, as most of the small clans do.. I figured… okay whatever..

A few months later and I had Battlefield Vietnam, an awesome game… I was in operation irving and this asshole called “=SoV=DefineDeath” pwned my ass in an f4 Phantom, napalming me to death with my own plane.. We got talking and he invited me to join the clan he was in.. “Shadows of Vengeance” Cool name I thought, so stamped my name and signed, choosing the game name of  ”=SoV=hEaD_bUsTeR”. Lovely eh?

Over the next 2 and a half years I enjoyed =SoV= life, playing in clan matches, working my way slowly to near the top, eventually providing the teamspeak and game servers for the clan at the start of my hosting company. We saw our way through battlefield 2 and won many battles, but eventually when the release of Battlefield 2142 was nigh we decided enough was enough, we didn’t enjoy BF2142 and we could see that we wouldn’t be doing it for fun. We decided to go our own seperate ways with gaming, leaving the =SoV= clan in the dust of the past, a great era of gaming laid to rest.. a sad day.

Well as you can see, my name is from here, it changed slowly over time, evolved even. I started as “sovHead” in planeshift, then “SovHed” in numerous free games, then eventually WoW, leading us to the present day where my name is SovHed still… I may go by Ephirus on WoW but there is still SovHed inside me.

I purchased this domain about 3 years ago when I first took up the name SovHed and its stuck ever since.

Anyway that is the story of all about how my life got quick turned upside down and i just took a minute to sit right here, and tell you how I became the prince of …wait a minute…

Okay, I’ve been playing the Beta test version of Battlefield Heroes.

Its a cartoon shooter, a bit like Team Fortress 2, except… its a bit more basic, you can’t get one shot kills, its truly a cartoon game, realism is something that isn’t even considered in it. Its an online browser based game, which actually downloads and runs from your PC, so its not REALLY a browser game at all.

It strikes me as an addicts game, suitable for someone who would really play it over and over day in, day out. When you start out, your choice is Commando (spy), Gunner(rambo) and soldier (sissy in between) and you all look the same… As you level up you get various types of points which you can spend on gear/guns/accessories, most of which don’t actually help you. When you buy clothes/weapons/armor it only lasts for 7 days before it dissapears, meaning if you want to keep something you either pay more (to keep it for 1 month) or you rebuy it every week. Which doesn’t really stike me as fun, or unlocking something… because you unlock it with progress and playing…only to lose that a week later. So if you’re off for a 2 week vacation you could quite easily come back to what is in essence a new character, except for points in abilities..

You can buy another kind of points with REAL money, but the items and upgrades you buy with those also expire after a month… So after spending $25… you get a little bonus and some cool clothes for a month… I could buy real clothes that would last years for that!

The game however is enjoyable and very playable without the unlocked/purchased content. Plus its free to play and download! so… really when it comes out it might be a good investment of your time, its small and doesn’t take long to install so its quite a fun little game. You can jump right in for a few rounds, they don’t take long and you feel better for having killed some stuff…

Of course you will have to wait until the beta is over and its actually released…. but by then it should be even more impressive.

So all in all, worth checking out!

I thought I would just post a quick one, as its very late, or early here and I need to get to bed. I have had this song in my head today and I though i’d share it with you so here it is.

 
On other topics I have started a new druid character thinking that I can go resto with it and also have some pvp flexibility, plus I can be a fluffy moonkin and a tree. I’m not sure if i’m sticking to it yet but we will see, it will also depend on the willingness of my refer-a-friend buddy to level again with me.

I need to get to bed so I will leave it here, I hope you enjoyed that song as much as I did.

Ohh also I will make this a double dose of video as I saw this earlier this morning from Geriatric1927 and I thought I could share this with you also. Its quite a moving poem.

Going to say something about my sexuality after all these feelings and emotions??

Well as you may have heard I have been playing Fallout 3 recently and I have to say at first I was very impressed, I liked the story when I started out. You start by plopping out of your mother who quickly dies off letting you grow up with only your sciencey father to guide you. He gives you a gun at 10 and 8 years later decides to fuck off into the wilderness, leaving you at the mercy of the crazy vault overseer.

The game actually gets going after that and it becomes “openworld”. If you’ve played oblivion you will know the controls and and the feel of the game is pretty similar. With open world comes the ability to make your own decisions and movements in everything you do, sadly however this feels both restricted and undirected as the amount of side-quests is laughably small compared to oblivion and the storyline doesn’t allow for much open playing. 

You spend most of the rest of the game chasing after your father, beating/hugging as many people as necessary to get information relating to him and performing deeds which shift your alignment from good to evil very easily. This doesn’t seem to matter that much as characters don’t really seem to give a crap whether you are bad or good, and a quick visit to the church and a small donation will take you from the most hated person ever to the cuddliest fluff ball ever.

Other than these small problems the game plays nicely, there are a few interesting places along the way that you can visit and do quests at which are just generally fun. Overall I would rate it a fun game, with some interesting twists so check it out

The only MAJOR bug I have seen from start to finish is really just a guy in little lamplight whos head spins around as if his neck is made of spaghetti.

So I guess my score is: Play it

Come back! Its over, theres no more need for trees or presents or cleaning or cooking, its all done!

I hope to see everyone again soon as it has been quite lonely on teamspeak/skype for the last few days over this xmas period. 

So, what good news is there? Well I got socks! I sold some servers on christmas day, a few people randomly buying servers as a present to themselves or something I think.

Speaking of which, erg look at me this is turning into an advertisement… If anyone wants a server its 50% off time!

On away from RL news: I’ve started a priest though im not really sure whether to level as shadow or holy, thats a hard one. I also respecced kelate’s priest to shadow to give it a little try out and I really enjoyed it.. Oh crap don’t tell her as I didn’t ask before I did it, I don’t want to die!

I also notice that I have 3 titles lined up for reviewing there on the side and I might just do those. I’ve also been playing some GTA 4 and left4dead so I might just have to give those a mention when I’ve finished them.

Well actually I finished l4d already, it wasn’t bad if you like zombie survival and play online, otherwise it will get old amazingly quickly as there are only 4 missions. Probably not worth the $50 at the moment. Maybe when its down to 15-10 in 6 months time.

As I previously promised here is my personal opinions on the recently released S.T.A…. What the hell, stalker.

Stalker Clear sky is a prequel to the first title, STALKER: Shadows of Chernobyl. Both games take place in a strange future ukraine where instead of killing everything, the destroyed reactor at chernobyl instead spews out strange waves that change the fabric of time and space and twist it everywhichway. This makes for some interesting gameplay, with the player constantly having to dodge dangerous anomalies and work out how to use the zone to his or her advantage.

You can’t actually change the sex of your character as that is an integral part of the story, another strange thing that perhaps should be noted is that not once does there appear a female character in the game. I seriously hope in this post apocalyptic world there are indeed females, otherwise I would like to reconsider walking through that odd looking white marsh a few miles back. o.O

STALKER Clear Sky, however, has some rather sad features that its predeccessor did not. Yes it has some beautiful graphics and I was in fact so amazed by the graphics that I took a good five minutes upon starting up the game to look at some of its beauty. It features some of the best HDR, lighting, shadows, mapping etc.. that I have ever seen in a game. Okay its not perfect but very little is. Added to that the performance level of it was good even at highest settings, so they got my hardware actually working.

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Well for 2 reasons, 3 reasons I am writing this.

Firstly, because Kelate is back and its good to have her.

Secondly, she said not to talk about her in my blogs, she is just awesome how can I not? Seriously…

And Thirdly, my idea of rejoining planeshift was smashed today and yesterday by the refusal of my next generation PC to bow down and be slowly digested by Planeshift’s poor technical design and engine flaws. I have also decided not to go ahead with the idea of restarting the planeshift guild for a number of reasons: I can’t get the game to stay on for more than 10 minutes without it Bluescreening on me, I don’t have enough time to play the 2 MMOs and that thing called “Lief” all in one lifetime, sadly. Thats it actually, I will however try and help out with the planeshift project some more, my servers will stay up and I will keep trying to get another server accepted, Though that seems doubtful

Anyway, It is late again and I should be in bed, sadly my clock is all scrwed up and I am really not that tired, my hand hurts from playing mercenaries 2, carpal tunnel… me thinks.