Well after a day at work, got home to find an email from my favorite game company - Blizzard. The email subject being "ModifiedMatty Welcome to the Heroes Of The Storm Technical Alpha"
Now this could be ranked in the top 10 types of email subjects being "Invite to Alpha/Beta stage of a new game"
So here it is!
A 12min clip of the intro, couple of game crashes (It is alpha remember) and some game play of my first battle!
Enjoy, I did!
MoD
Friday 31 October 2014
Monday 27 October 2014
Soapbox Building / Kite Flying / Hercules Drinking Game / Warcraft Questing and a Roast Dinner to finish it all off!
Well the week that has just past was full of interesting things but i will be high lighting the couple of things that have stood out!
Firstly for a work 2 day team building and conference, we headed up to Daventry (about an hour and 15 from home) the first half of the first day was very informative, the second part of the first day was an activity session, which involved building a Soapbox racer.
We got given a shell and 4 wheels and told to build the rest, couple of mandatory items like side skirts, rear spoiler and front nose cone. Once built each team raced, to try and win a place in the final.
For a team building activity this was a very good one!
Moving quickly on to Saturday with Pat, we had planned to purchase remote control planes as the next fad, this changed after we actually thought about it, we would break them too quickly!
So we moved onto Kites, this seemed more practical!
We headed to the Kite shop in town, purchased a 2.2m wing span "power kite" each. Due to being last years model (with the shop owner saying it was the packaging that had changed) the price was very competitive £35 each! bargain!
We head over to the windiest filed near Pat's house, after a good 15mins of setting up the kites, connecting all the strings and lines, we went for the first flight! Oh boy kites are fun! We must have spent a good couple of windy hours in the field whizzing the kites left and right.
Dont get me wrong, the amount of time the kite was in the air was equal to the amount of time spent untangling the lines once it came soaring down to the ground!
Overall the kites were great fun and looking forward to attaching a Go Pro to them and sending them up again!
Saturday evening we headed to Panda's house, and decided to play the "Hercules Drinking Game", which is essence, is get drunk while watching the disney classic, Hercules. Now the rules are pretty simple, whenever X happens....DRINK! So whenever a song starts (which is disney is pretty often!), whenever he is called Jerk-ules and a handful of other rules - Great game! Makes me want to get the Disney box set, 2 crates of beer and off we go!
Now onto Sunday, this was a very nice and relaxed Sunday, we had one of Elisa's friends round for lunch so we decided to cook a roast dinner, i say we decided, which we did, but Elisa cooked. This in turn left me nothing to expect jump onto Warcraft to finally try and finish off the legendary Cloak Quest line.
I have finally done it! for a second time! (both Paladin and now Mage).
Dont get me wrong it wont take 5 mins to replace the items when WoD is released, but feel i have achieved something by doing it.
Overall another great weekend, ready for a busy week at work!
Side note - I have now sold the Bitcoin Mining Rig on ebay! so now just trading on the markets with the coins i mined!
Until next time!
Peace!
Firstly for a work 2 day team building and conference, we headed up to Daventry (about an hour and 15 from home) the first half of the first day was very informative, the second part of the first day was an activity session, which involved building a Soapbox racer.
We got given a shell and 4 wheels and told to build the rest, couple of mandatory items like side skirts, rear spoiler and front nose cone. Once built each team raced, to try and win a place in the final.
For a team building activity this was a very good one!
Moving quickly on to Saturday with Pat, we had planned to purchase remote control planes as the next fad, this changed after we actually thought about it, we would break them too quickly!
So we moved onto Kites, this seemed more practical!
We headed to the Kite shop in town, purchased a 2.2m wing span "power kite" each. Due to being last years model (with the shop owner saying it was the packaging that had changed) the price was very competitive £35 each! bargain!
We head over to the windiest filed near Pat's house, after a good 15mins of setting up the kites, connecting all the strings and lines, we went for the first flight! Oh boy kites are fun! We must have spent a good couple of windy hours in the field whizzing the kites left and right.
Dont get me wrong, the amount of time the kite was in the air was equal to the amount of time spent untangling the lines once it came soaring down to the ground!
Overall the kites were great fun and looking forward to attaching a Go Pro to them and sending them up again!
Saturday evening we headed to Panda's house, and decided to play the "Hercules Drinking Game", which is essence, is get drunk while watching the disney classic, Hercules. Now the rules are pretty simple, whenever X happens....DRINK! So whenever a song starts (which is disney is pretty often!), whenever he is called Jerk-ules and a handful of other rules - Great game! Makes me want to get the Disney box set, 2 crates of beer and off we go!
Now onto Sunday, this was a very nice and relaxed Sunday, we had one of Elisa's friends round for lunch so we decided to cook a roast dinner, i say we decided, which we did, but Elisa cooked. This in turn left me nothing to expect jump onto Warcraft to finally try and finish off the legendary Cloak Quest line.
I have finally done it! for a second time! (both Paladin and now Mage).
Dont get me wrong it wont take 5 mins to replace the items when WoD is released, but feel i have achieved something by doing it.
Overall another great weekend, ready for a busy week at work!
Side note - I have now sold the Bitcoin Mining Rig on ebay! so now just trading on the markets with the coins i mined!
Until next time!
Peace!
Sunday 19 October 2014
Couple of Changes Lately - All for the better!
Well in the last week there has been a couple of changes!
Lets try and bullet point these for you
Lets try and bullet point these for you
- New Warcraft 6.0.2 Patch
- Purchased and Installed a Samsung 840 Evo Pro SSD
- Installed Windows 8.1 OS
Warcraft Patch 6.0.2 - The Iron Tide
This week we saw the release of the new Warcraft Pre Patch, this has changed many aspects of the game some minor changes and others more noticeable. Now for anyone who is interested in the Pre Patch has more than likely already looked up all the changes but here is a quick list of high level changes.
- New Character Models
- Better Looking For Group - Questing / Raiding New and Old (Finally) Content
- Inventory Changes (Mostly structure / Auto Sort and a Regents Bank Tab
- New Level 90 Upper Blackrock Spire Instance
- Toy Box (for all those Toys you want to keep but just dont have space for)
- Changes to each Class
All of the Pre Patch changes, so far ive really enjoyed makes the Release for Warlords even more exciting!
A full list of all patch changes in full details can be found on the WoW website (link here)
New Drive
I have finally purchased a new Hard drive from my PC and this time its an SSD! Now i knew SSD's would change the PC performance but didn't expect it to be sop noticeable, the boot time is very quick, and then once in windows the load times of applications and games is just amazing!
I decided to purchase the Samsung 840 Evo 250GB SSD (Found on amazon) currently £89.90
Now is drive is is highly recommended!
I have a slight issue to start with, where it felt like the PC was hanging for 10 seconds at a time, but after a quick firmware update she is running smooth as a babies bottom now.
If you don't already have an SSD as your main operation Drive id suggest getting one!
Windows 8.1
What goes hand in hand with a new SSD??
That's right a fresh install of the operating system
This time i have decided to go for Windows 8.1 (Normally would be 7) and so far i am really enjoying it. The first 24hrs it took a bit of getting used to, but now its been 4 days and i can safely say that this is a great OS (so far)
I have changed the "Apps" page to things i will actually use, this has helped allot with the transition.
Slowly installed all my old bits of software, Steam being the longest one with all the updates!
Other Bits
The website is slowly coming along, getting more and more views each day and i am slowly adding more bits of code to my collection!
Using Twitter more to get the message of the site out there for "How To" Guides! so check it out.
Fantasy Football - If you have been here before you will know that 1) i know next to nothing about Premiership Football (teams or players) 2) Ive joined the work Fantasy football league, so far this week its not going well with most of my team getting 1 point each!
So that is it for me at the mo, i will keep updating my blog, thinking of doing a "Weekly Win" for Hearthstone - basically all the last X seconds of each game i play that i win. The Finishing Move for each match.
Keep Safe!
Modi
Saturday 11 October 2014
Still Streaming....Curve Challenge
Still streaming Garrosh fight he has still not gone down!
Yawn i may have to call it soon and leave it for tomorrow!
http://www.twitch.tv/modcorev1
See if i finish it or not! :D
Update - now the curve challenge, try and get the curve achievement before the pre patch!
Yawn i may have to call it soon and leave it for tomorrow!
http://www.twitch.tv/modcorev1
See if i finish it or not! :D
Update - now the curve challenge, try and get the curve achievement before the pre patch!
First time Live Streaming
Well its the first evening i'm live streaming some warcraft play. SoO 25man Normal from Spoils and see how far we get.
Here is the link!
Enjoy :D
http://www.twitch.tv/modcorev1
Modi!
Here is the link!
Enjoy :D
http://www.twitch.tv/modcorev1
Modi!
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