Minecraft 1.3 hardcore!

Hey everybody. Phew...this week has been quite a hectic one, we here at Hazardous have had three birthdays: Ghost was on the 3rd, Urbandroid on the 8th and Nightmare on the 9th so that explains some of the posts being MIA this week...but not to worry! Things have gone back to normal and will resume as planned. 

Now then back to what I had to say...Not too long ago I said I would provide some Minecraft 1.3 information for you folks so how I'm going to start that is by telling you about probably one of the best MC pvp servers (definitely my favourite at the moment ). It is hosted by a website called mcpvp.com, it is a hardcore pvp server with some really awesome server-side addons to make the game more interesting.

First they have no white-list! (Come on, you know white-lists suck ;). They also have a very unique (and sometimes annoying) kick-on-death feature for those who haven't donated to their site, basically if you die in any way, you get kicked from the server for one minute (it makes surviving more beneficial.) Bringing an extra card in to play are trackers, pretty much it involves you building an obsidian cross with gold blocks at the end and a diamond block in the middle that allows you to tack the location of any and all players in your vicinity. 

Other features involve economy, factions, capturing mobs with chicken eggs and many more. This server is true pvp and it can get really hard to stay alive. So if you want to check it out head over to www.minecraftpvp.com

PS: They also have hunger games and Capture the flag servers, it's an insane amount of fun so go try it! :)

Like always comment, or send me an email at TheStrangerHazardous@gmail.com and if you see me in-game say hi! :) 

PPS: We recorded some more vids at our last LAN so hopefully we can publish those soon.

TheStranger out. 

           

Modding

Right so as most gamers have realised occasionally vanilla gaming (stock gaming) as it comes in the box or the download can become boring. There are only so many things you can do in a game even if it's a game like Skyrim where the quests are almost endless, they get repetitive and thats where most gamers such as myself and others here at HAZ turn to mods...


Mods are (in a brief description) when one alters game files to either add items to the game, enhance it visually or just make some changes that cannot actually be seen but just improve the feel of the game and remove known bugs.


You can get a mod for almost any game, just google it, but in my opinion the two games with the largest modding community are Skyrim and Minecraft. Of those two Minecraft has the largest community. Mods allow endless addons to your game.

 Adding cars to Skyrim :D

Adding planes to MC

The possibilities are endless... seriously just search for the mod you want and (odds are) you will get a hit, but be careful as awesome as mods are, it can lead to ruining your favourite game by making it too easy for example, Too Many Items in minecraft.

Before you use mods make sure that you understand the risks of what you are doing. Adding mods does alter your game file so it can lead to corruption of your game and this can be tricky to clean up, so back up before you do anything.

DeathStrike

Feelings of Relief

Don't you just love that feeling of relief when you know that you have no work to do for a couple of weeks? Well that's how we are all feeling. This past weekend we had quite a decent sized LAN as a nice way to wind down after tough exams, so now we all have got lots of time to spend on posts and other interesting things for you guys. 

We took the oppurtunity and recorded some Crysis Wars video's which I will upload soon and we worked a little on a Minecraft world where we will record a series in, at a later date. 

As I know some of you also have a bit of time off now so if you're looking for some good games I will be happy to oblige.

The games some of us at Hazardous are playing right now are :

Syndicate
A game all about the power of technology and giant enterprises called Syndicate's where a hostile takeover literally means a HOSTILE TAKEOVER. If you like the idea of being a super soldier working in a very tech based world, this is one you will like.




Serious Sam 3
An odd mix of action, arcade and big guns, if you liked the previous Serious Sam or like killing hundreds of enemies at a time this arcade FPS is for you.




COD Modern Warfare 3
Yes this is a big one that came out in November so it has been out for a while, but some of us were living under a rock for the last few months. Great game, great story, still with a short campaign and awesome multiplayer. If you haven't played it yet I suggest you do or else some of your buddies will just love putting a spoiler in casual conversation just to mess with you.



The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series
No not like your creepy neighbour, this is all about trying to survive a nuclear wasteland Russia. A great series that has been out for a few years which (surprisingly) only a few amount of people know/play. Lots of freedom, surprising mutant attacks, great multiplayer and some of the most fluid combat mechanics of the FPS genre. This is defineatly a great choice if you have time and love a good scare every now and again.

 

Minecraft
A game that never dies no matter how many times you have built a giant castle and destroyed it. Amazing mulitplayer, a huge amount of mods and with 1.3 being released soon you will want to jump in all over again. A great game especially if you have a lot of time. 



Well folks that is all for now, stay tuned for the Machinima that is on its way and a whole bunch of LAN tips and tricks.
TheStranger out.

PS. I have not forgotten about the LAN access and other articles, they will be posted soon :).
As always any suggestions on LAN articles you would like us to post or research send me a message on TheStrangerHazardous@gmail.com or comment on this page.  




  

The Snipers

Hello, Hello! TheStranger here! Filing you in on another daily snippet of Hazardous information. Ghost let know that Dead Island LAN works great but that you might need to start the game with the internet (just start then you can remove it). 


I also want to let you guys know more about the Lets play's. I was going to put one up today (A Minecraft hunger games) but as luck would have it after 5 minutes of recording my MC ran out of memory and now seems to not want to run properly. I did try to assign it more memory but got a java problem so my solution was to just re-install java and I am downloading it now, sorry guys :(. You will have to wait until tomorrow :\. 


In other news nightmare will do his first post this week! It will be a COD: MW3 review since he is  obsessed with all things COD (I mean seriously, it gets to a point when someone knows every spot a ghille sniper is hiding in MW2's "Hidden" spec ops mission and is able to run out and kill every one using a smg without dying...ya he's that bad...)

This is the mission I'm talking about if you guys aren't sure :p

As always any advice, complaints , suggestions 
or just a "hi!" Comment or send me a message at TheStrangerHazardous@gmail.com


TheStranger signing out.

The Line Up

Hey Everybody! TheStranger here. Firstly I know, I know, what I promised hasn't come yet but unfortunately Ghost has encountered some technical difficulties and can not do the posts. I will ask him to teach me everything about what he was going to post if he can. Titan has been waiting for the go on his post since I thought Ghost would be first :p so I will let him know and we will carry on with normal life :). The next line up is looking like this:

• A LAN game review, still deciding what it will be but it will be an interesting one :).
• LAN fix for COD: MW3, yes a LAN fixed that allows multiplayer, survival and spec ops.
• Some awesome gaming wallpapers I think you guys will like ;).

So as you can see there are some awesome things coming up. In other news the we are planning and recording Let's play's, Woohoo!! Those will be plenty of fun to watch and record!

What do you guys think about Hazardous hosting a Minecraft PVP server? If you think it's a good idea send me a message and I'll give you the ip.

Until next time,

TheStranger out.

PS: This is also a very busy time for the students in our country, we all start writing exams soon so please be patient if we take a while to reply to requests and things we'll get there :).

PPS: Here's a pic of something I've been building in MC

I hope creepers don't grow that big :<

The Background!

Hey everybody :) . How's it going? HighVoltage and DeathStrike posted some things and we changed the background, let me know what you think. The let's plays are also coming up soon, we are recording. :D Minecraft, Counter Strike and Crysis Wars are going to be the first and I'm also going to try squeeze in some Minecraft hunger games :). It's really awesome and pretty intense so look forward to that. Sorry about the How to's I promised that haven't come up yet (It's Ghosts fault) but he will do them soon (This weekend most likely). 
Like always send me a message at TheStrangerHazardous@gmail.com for any suggestions, complaints etc. or comment. :)


This is TheStranger out.