Sunday, 26 November 2017

How to unlock the Armadillo (COG Armadillo) - Rocket League

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This isn't too difficult, but it will take practice and a bit of time.

You need to complete a Season.

Along side the body, you also get Locust, COG Symbol Antenna Topper, COG Wheels and Impulsion Rocket Trail.

The Armadillo is pretty much the COG Armadillo from Gears of War Series.

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Armadillo Battle-Car

How to unlock the Hogsticker (UNSC Warthog) - Rocket League

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This is easy to do, but can take a long time.

You need to win a game with every Battle-Car Body, not including DLC Bodies.

Backfire
Breakout
Gizmo
Hotshot
Merc
Octane
Paladin
Road Hog
Venom
X-Devil

Just a hint - The flatter bodied vehicles are better at shooting, while the bulky body vehicles are better are saving and destroying other cars.

Along side the body, you also get Guilty Spark, Insurrection Rebel, Now Mombasa Cavalier & Swords of Sanghelios Antenna Toppers, as well as the Puma Wheels.

The Hogsticker is pretty much a UNSC Warthog from the Halo Series.

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Hogsticker Battle-Car

Friday, 24 November 2017

Hints and Tips for Drifting - Forza 7

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Drifting in controlled over-steer of the vehicle. Making the car slide, kicking the rear of the car out away from the corner. Drifting is done in a Rear Wheel Drive (RWD) Car, while Power-Sliding is done in a 4-Wheel Drive (4x4) or All-Wheel Drive (AWD) Car. If you want to know more about what drifting is; watch Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift.

There are many types/methods of drifting:
Kansei Drifting (Japanese Drifting) - Racing into the corner quickly, lifting off the throttle while cornering and controlling the drift.
Brake Drifting - Racing into the corner too quickly and hard braking, causing the car to slide, then controlling the drift through the corner.
Faint Drifting (Rally Drifting) - Starting on the same side of the corner, then steering away from the corner, and then quickly hard steering back towards the corner, making the weight of the car onto the back of the vehicle, then hard throttle to keep control of the drift. (best with soft suspension)
Handbrake Drifting - Quickly entering the corner, and ripping the handbrake, causing the vehicle to slide. The far easier way of drifting, but takes the least amount of skill.
Power Drifting (American Drifting) - Entering the corner slower than racing speed, then hard throttle around the corner, kicking the back end out. Technically, doing a long burn-out. You need a heavy car with a lot of horsepower and ability to spin the wheels at speed.

It doesn't really matter what RWD Car you start with, you can upgrade to your style. I recommend having a lighter car with around 350 - 450 Horsepower, with stiff suspension and roll bars.

On the other hand, I like to use a heavier car with around 600 - 1,000 Horsepower, soft suspension but with stiff roll bars. (Yes, I like to Power Drift with American Muscle Cars)

Tuning is the most important part of a drift car, here are the basic;

Alignment - Toe Angle - Toe Angle is the angle in which the wheels are angled horizontally. Toe In will make the wheels point slightly inwards, and Toe Out will make the wheels point slightly away from the car. Toe In on the front wheels will help for turning into a corner. Toe In on the rear wheels will give you more control on the exit of the corner, while Toe Out on the rear will help with the rotation of the car while drifting.

Alignment - Front Caster Angle - Caster Angle is the angle in which the front steering wheels are angled from the steering column. Making the angle low will allow you to turn the wheels lock to lock faster between drifts; the higher the angle, the more the wheels want to wander around turning into a corner.

Springs - Having soft springs will allow you to shift the weight of car around more easily. While stiff springs keep the car rigid and better for Japanese-Style Drifting.

Ride Height - A high ride height will help with weight transfer with soft springs, with a low ride height, it lowers the centre of gravity of the vehicle.

Aerodynamics - Downforce - If you don't know what downforce is, downforce is the force of air over the vehicle at speed. The faster you gone, the more downforce you have pressing down on the car, which improves grip of the tyres with the road, too much downforce will increase drag will makes the car slower. I recommend having more downforce on the front of the vehicle, this is because it will force the front wheels down causing the vehicle to over-steer and drift better.

But of course, all of tuning is tailors to you and your style of drifting. You need to play around with settings to find what style and what adjustments work for you.

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Mazda RX-7 Veilside - 2005 (Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift)

Gym Leader #1: Brock - Pokemon Yellow

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Gym Leader #1: Brock - Rock

Brock has two Pokemon; Geodude & Onix. His gym is extremely simple, you just need to walk up to Brock, you don't even have to battle the Jr. Trainer.

Geodude
Level: 10
Types: Rock/Ground
Attacks: Tackle
Weakness: Ice, Ground, Fighting, Water & Grass
Strategy: You probably don't have a Super-Effect Attack against either of Brock's Pokemon, but you can get a Mankey on Route 22, or a Nidoran on Route 2, it will learn Double Kick at Level 12.

Onix
Level: 12
Types: Rock/Ground
Attacks: Tackle, Screech, Bind & Bide
Weakness: Ice, Ground, Fighting, Water & Grass
Strategy: Same goes for Onix, but when Onix uses Bide use a non-attacking move other wise you will get hit with twice the damage you gave.

Once you defeat Brock, you will get TM 34 Bide and the Boulder Badge.

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Brock

Monday, 20 November 2017

Rant about the age of A.I.

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A.I., or Artificial Intelligence, is defined as "the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence", in layman's terms when a computer or robot is able to think for itself and make decisions. A.I. is being used hospitals, production, transportation and even your normal working lives, it is becoming a day-to-day technology which we are taking for granted. For example; Siri, Cortana & Alexa are personal assistants for iPhone, Microsoft & Amazon respectively, which we use everyday to help us through meaningless tasks; from a keeping a schedule to asking how old Stan Lee is. 

A.I. is even being programming into driver-less cars. Yes, allows you to have a couple of drinks at the pub and the car will drive you home, or allows you to sleep in the car on the way to work, but what happens when the car comes across a moral decision, such as the Trolley Problem. The Trolley Problem is a thought experiment which makes you think about does the few out weigh the the many. The robot car will have the make that decision. Do you really want to put this kind of decision in the hands of the driver-less car?

Robots are becoming so advantages that they have been developed to look like humans and mingle with people, as well as do a human's job more efficiently and quicker. There are even Robot Football Matches and Robot Racing Car Championships being held today. With technology of today being so advantaged, what's stopping the A.I. from making the discovery that humans are the main cause of human death. Faces the facts; we as humans have messed up this planet... pretty badly. The robots will be able to see this, making the ultimate decision to protect its own existence, therefore getting rid of the cause of pain - humans.

Yes, I understand that I, Robot was just a film, but it is foreshadowing a future in which we live along side robots, where they will be able to think for themselves and carry out day-to-day jobs. Where robots won't see themselves as robots, but as other living lifeforms who share a planet with us. And I'll leave you with "Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics" from I, Robot:
1 - A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2 - A robot must obey orders given it by human beings expect where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3 - A robot must protect its own existence as long as protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

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Honda ASIMO Robot

Sunday, 19 November 2017

Brutal - Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - Jack the Ripper DLC

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Perform 30 Complete Brutal Takedowns - 30

This can be done with either Evie Frye or Jack the Ripper.

Evie Frye's Brutal Takedowns are quicker to do and don't kill but do frighten enemies.
Jack the Ripper's Brutal Takedowns are longer but kill the enemy, mutilating them.

Brutal Takedowns are performed by holding X, instead of tapping X, doing so will start the Brutal Takedown Sequence.

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Keep calm and carry on - Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - Jack the Ripper DLC

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Kill a Brute while he calms down his panicked allies - 30

Brutes can not be frightened, so you need to scare a small group of his allies with a Fear Bomb, Fear Fear or a Brutal Takedown. The Brute will slowly make his way to the panicked allies, where you can kill him. I recommend killing the Brute with Throwing Knives as it is quick and a headshot is an instant kill.

This is a reference to the British WWII Motivational Posters, which encouraged the British Citizens to keep calm and carry on with their jobs and lives.

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Keep Calm and Carry One British WWII Poster

Put the fear of you into them - Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - Jack the Ripper DLC

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Scare an enemy and make him kill someone else by mistake - 25

You need to throw a Fear Bomb into a crowd of enemies, making sure that the enemies are frightened. There is a chance that one of the enemies gets so scared that he doesn't trust his own team members, that be begins to shoot them.

Before doing this, I recommend buying the 2 Fear Bomb Skills; Make Some Noise! & Closer to the Epicenter, gives you a large Fear Bomb Radius & enemies to become instantly frightened who are at the centre of the Fear Bomb Explosion.

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Fear Bomb

Tuesday, 14 November 2017

Most Unsporting - Assassin's Creed: Syndicate

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Shoot 50 Enemies before they shoot at you - 15

This can be annoying, but it can easily exploited by finding a marksman on a roof or vantage point.

You need to make sure that your weapon is drawn, before attempting to shoot first. You can do this by making it that enemy has seen you (yellow), but not attacking; or allow the enemy to shoot you first, doing this will make one of the Frye Twins draw their weapon, shoot them first when the enemy attempts to shoot you for a second time.

You will know when you about to be shot by an enemy as the Counter Shoot Button will appear above your characters head.

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Remington Model 95 Double Derringer Pistol

Friday, 10 November 2017

Godlike - Assassin's Creed: Syndicate

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Unlock all of the Secrets of London - 30

To do this you need to collect all 32 Secrets of London.

The Secrets of London are small Music Discs in small brown boxes, which are found all over London.

City of London (4)
Lambeth (4)
Southwark (4)
Thames (4)
Whitechapel (4)
The Strand (4)
Westminster (4)
Westminster - Buckingham (4)

Once you have collect all 32 Music Discs, you can go to the Reuge's Vault, in the City of London Borough. Continue through the sewers for a little while until you get to the Vault Room. You need to place all of the Music Disc in the alters which are in a circle around large metal cylinder. Once all of the Music Disc have been placed in their alters, the cylinder will open, revealing the Aegis. An Outfit and Cloak, which was the garments of Minerva.

The Outfit is only for Evie Frye; the outfit grains;
10% Decrease Melee Damage taken.
10% Decrease Ranged Damage taken.
10% Cane-Sword Damage given.


When upgraded for £7500 all buffs are raised to 20%.

The Cloak is only for Evie Frye; it needs to be crafted from:
Golden Spider Silk
£10000
150 Pieces of Leather
100 Pieces of Cloth
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The Aegis Outfit

Friday, 3 November 2017

Look Out Below - Assassin's Creed: Syndicate

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Kill 3 Enemies with a Single Stack of Hanging Barrels - 15

Hanging Barrels are found all over London, hanging from small pulley cranes and outside of factories. The Hanging Barrels can be released by shooting your handgun or throwing a knife at the rope holding the barrels, you can even release the hanging barrels by cutting the rope from the top.

You can increase the number of Hanging Barrels in London by buying the Gang Upgrade - Delivery Service.

It is easiest to do in Sequence 4, Memory 2 - Outside the main door of the factory, there is a stack of hanging barrels. Waiting for a little while 3 Blighters will stand underneath them. You just need to shoot the hanging barrels to fall and kill them.

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Victorian Spirit Barrel

Opium Scourge - Assassin's Creed: Syndicate

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Affect at least 4 Enemies simultaneously with the Hallucinogenic Dart - 15

The Hallucinogenic Dart is an opium based liquid which is shot from the Frye Twin's Gauntlet, causing an enemy to begin to attack close by ally enemies. The dart can fire into a fire which causes the opium shot to vapourise and affect nearby enemies. You need to affect 4 enemies by shooting a dart into a fire.

This easiest to be done in Sequence 4, Memory 2; the mission when the hallucinogenic darts are given the the Frye Twins. You need to run round the area, getting the attention of the Blighters, running round each of the fire pits, ending at the one near the crane. Climb the crack and shoot the fire with the dart, hopefully affect at least 4 Blighters.

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Opium Pod

Blade from Above - Assassin's Creed: Syndicate

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Air Assassinate 20 Enemies from a zipline - 15

The Rope Launcher is given to Frye Twins in Sequence 2, Memory 3. To use it, you need to face a ledge of building and press Left Bumper. The Rope Launcher will then fire and repel you up the side of the building or a shoot a line across, bridging the gap with a zipline. You need create a zipline above an enemy, then you will be able to air assassinate the enemy. This need to be done 20 times.
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Rope Launcher