Like a Boss

Got to thinking about SWTOR again.  1.3's out now apparently, and there's still, still, STILL no Nightmare Mode Denova.  Holy shit, it's been almost 2 months now since I quit and that was several weeks into 1.2 and the original release of Denova and I'd already been sick of the instance by then, I can't imagine wading through that bore weekly still and waiting desperately for the day when they finally release a slightly difficult retread of the same instance.

It seems most of Helm of Graush transferred to a server named Prophecy of the Five.  Poor ol' Darkhorse seems to have been forced to change his legacy and main's name to Moxboss.  Tragic.

In spite of my previous post, I've actually started playing APB: Reloaded regularly.  I've had to reinstall it twice and continue to tweak the settings to get it to a vaguely workable state, but whenever I'd stop playing it for a few days I would get this really peculiar craving to start playing it again.  I found a pair of absolutely boss chicks to roll through bronze districts with (my actual threat keeps bouncing between silver and gold and finally seems to have stabilized at gold) and it's hella fun when the two or three of us are teamed up.  I've been trying to talk alice, with whom I still occasionally duo in SMNC with, into giving it a try as well while we wait on Torchlight 2.

Vi Sittar Har I Venten

I've recently gotten no less than three e-mails demanding that I TRANSFER MY CHARACTER NOW from Bioware.  There's a lifeboat analogy there somewhere.

I played APB: Reloaded for a while last night.  It was fun and I'd like to continue playing it but for three strikes:
-The game is optimized terribly.  My computer is no powerhouse but I turned all graphical options to their minimum and went to lengths outside the game to limit performance hindrance, yet the game still has 3-minute long loading screens and rampant framerate drops.  This game's been out for over a year and this is still apparently an issue.
-This is may be two points, but I'm combining them into one: the game apparently at one time had a tutorial zone which was evidently removed--though the game still assumes you went through it.  There is nothing to tell a new player what's up, though I was quickly informed that I was leagues ahead of the vast sea of trainees having equipped my grenades and supply pack.  An hour into the game it's easy to see why there's no tutorial zone however, as an hour into the game I'd seen pretty much the extent of the gameplay--there's little else to do but run missions all day for small pocketfuls of cash and rep.
-And the matchmaking was the last straw.  I was actually on a 9 mission win streak when the matchmaking decided it'd be totally alright to put me alone on defensive missions against a group of 3 experienced players after I'd barely scraped through a previous solo mission against two fairly determined opponents.  I play enough other games with shitty matchmaking to humor yet another.

So that's going far on the back burner as far as games I'd like to keep playing go.

I decided to learn how to jungle in Dota 2 in order to broaden my experience with the game beyond what I'm used to from my old HoN days.  I briefly tried to get into jungling in LoL; I'm finding jungling is much, much easier in Dota.  Learned all of the "jungler" labeled heroes that don't involve additional unit micro and am now wading into the ones that do starting with Lycanthrope.  It's tricky.  Need to find a better way to hotkey groups.