Thursday, May 23, 2013

Carrier from Starcraft 2

Hey guys , whats up and today the subject will be the mighty Protoss Carrier from Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm. This unit does not attack directly, but instead sends out lethal waves of interceptor drones to attack the enemy continuously. With the interceptor's low damage per shot and fast attacks it is advised to stay away from units with heavy armor like the Battlecruiser and Tempest, which also deals bonus damage to massive air units.

The Carrier is great in small numbers to support a ground army, usually consisting of zealots, stalkers, and/or sentries. The interceptors can be doing solid damage, while taking hits for your ground army and targeting potentially dangerous units like Thors, Colossi, or Ultralisks. If you can afford it, I cannot overstate how important it is to keep "train interceptor" on autocast. This way, whenever an interceptor gets destroyed in battle, it will automatically receive a replacement in 8 seconds. Interceptors cost 25 minerals each to deploy. The carrier can deploy interceptors from beyond the range of fixed defenses, making it a siege ranged unit in a sense. The carrier is quite expensive to deploy at 350 minerals, 250 gas, and 6 supply, taking 120 seconds to build, twice as long as a void ray.

The carrier is most effective against light units of any type, like mutalisks, hydralisks, phoenixes, stalkers, and marines. However, it is easily obliterated by capital ships or other units with high bonus armored damage. The carrier also requires a fleet beacon to be built from the stargate, and it can also pick up the "graviton catapult" upgrade, which makes carriers deploy interceptors about 3x faster.

I hope you guys liked this blog. Let me know if you use the Carrier extensively in battles, I'm sure I could give you some pointers!

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

How to Farm Wheat in Minecraft


Have you ever wanted a better way to fight off hunger than go around killing animals all day in minecraft? Well, I will tell you how to make a simple but effective wheat farm that will eliminate hunger easily.

You will need:

1. Hoe

2. 8 water buckets

3. wheat seeds

1. Dig out an 8 block long, 1 block wide trench and fill it with water (make sure that the water is not flowing, as the plants cannot soak it up easily).

2. hoe the ground on all of the blocks touching the water (including the corner blocks) and plant seeds in them (seeds are found by destroying grass growing on grass blocks).

3.  Dig out an 8 (or longer) block long, 1 block wide trench like before next to one of the long sides of the existing farm.

4. Hoe the ground around that trench too and plant seeds in it as well.

5. Hopefully the hoed land has turned dark brown. If it has, then seeds will grow in it much better, about 4x as fast as non dark brown (if seeds are more than 4 blocks away from water of some kind, they will not be able to grow at all on PC).

6. The seeds do not have to be wheat. You could also plant melon seeds or pumpkin seeds in case you needed those too.

7. When your farm is done, it should look somewhat like the picture.


I hope this blog was helpful and if you have any comments or questions, be sure to tell me, I'm sure I can answer them ;)

Semtex Grenade in Black Ops 2

Hey guys, what's up and I have a blog today with an awesome Black Ops 2 topic: the Semtex grenade, a lethal grenade that sticks to anything it touches: vehicles, walls, floors, ceilings, or even other players! This sticky grenade is really fun to use and is very powerful, killing any player that gets the Semtex grenade stuck to them, even when they have Flak Jacket. Here are some interesting things about the grenade and what you can use it for:

-The Semtex works extremely well as a one hit kill as long as it sticks to the enemy player you are targeting. It can also be used to good effect against ground based scorestreaks like the AGR. Just don't expect to be able to land the semtex grenade on an enemy if you are in a CQC (close quarters combat) area if your opponent is already using submachine guns or pistols, you'll get mowed down before you have a chance to kill the other player.

- It can also be used effectively to keep pursuers off your tail by throwing semtex on the inside of a wall where it can be used as a short lived "proximity mine". If you throw it at the correct time, it will blow the player up and you will be successful in the skirmish.

-Another thing it is used to great effect for is getting fairly close to an enemy player, throwing a semtex at them, and then running away. This is very effective for sticking an enemy with semtex and having him blow up all of his teammates, being very satisfying to watch.

-The semtex grenade is also available in zombies mode on the map "town". It can be used effectively for killing large packs of the undead, or damaging them heavily in the later rounds.

I hope you guys liked this blog and if you have anything to say, don't be afraid to tell me, and with that, have fun experimenting with this lethal!

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

StarCraft 2 Viking


Hi guys! This blog is going to focus on the Terran Viking from StarCraft 2, a unit that can transform between fighter (air) mode and assault (ground) mode. Note that Vikings can only attack units in the same form as them in their current state (An air Viking can only hit air units, while a ground Viking can only hit ground). I will tell you how to use Vikings efficiently in battle. 

-A good thing to do with Vikings is take advantage of their transforming ability to avoid ground or air only units. A good strategy when facing zerg is when you destroy a zerg structure do the "Viking hop" a maneuver that involves being on the ground, shooting a structure until it dies, and then lifting into the air to avoid the vicious broodlings spawned from the structure. Another use for this is when there are air only units or structures like missile turrets or spore crawlers posted, you can fly in, land and destroy the turrets to make way for a drop ship land in hostile territory.

-Vikings are useful for destroying unguarded expansions too far away from your opponent's army for them to retaliate. This will slow your opponent's economic development and therefore making it easier to destroy their army.

-Absolutely make use of the Viking's bonus damage against armored units, especially capital ships like battlecruisers. They can also kite battlecruisers because of their significantly higher speed and longer range (kiting is shooting at the unit, moving back, and shooting again until the unit is destroyed). Kiting is necessary for this unit for it is very fragile in direct combat.

I hope you enjoyed this blog and learned about Vikings and If you have any comments or questions, be sure to let me know.

How to get Coordinates in Minecraft


Hi guys! Today I will show you how to get coordinates active on minecraft! Coordinates are useful for knowing where certain objects are on a map and knowing what biome you're in and how high or low you are  underground! To get the coordinates up, you have to press F3 on your computer (if that doesn't work try using FN-F3). With coordinates you can find the coordinates of your house and use the coordinates to find it  again if you are lost.

When posting seeds it is important to list the coordinates of all the main attractions (dung
eons, pyramids, etc.) so your viewers know where to look for the cool things in the seed. When you are underground, your coordinates menu will tell you what biome you're in so when you dig up to the surface you know approximately what to expect.

As you can see in the picture, the coordinates tell you where you are in x (length) coords, y (height) coords, and z (width) coords. It also tells you which direction you are facing, which biome you're in (which I've mentioned before) and other info about your location. (Y coordinates tell you how many blocks you are above bedrock, so the perfect place to look for diamonds is between 12 and 16 y).

I hope you guys learned something from this blog and found it helpful. Let me know if you have any ideas for what I should blog on in Minecraft next.

Pyramidvillage in Minecraft



Hey guys! Today on minecraft I've got an amazing seed that has a pyramidvillage! Not sure what that is? Well, it's a desert NPC village with a pyramid in it! The village does have a blacksmith, so you can loot it's chest and then take the treasures from the pyramid for a quick start on resources.

A sight like this is pretty rare, and because of the neighboring forest you can get a quick start on wood.


Even though the village is close to your spawnpoint, you can still get lost, so the coordinates for the NPC village are X-37, Z-117 (if you don't know how to use coordinates, you should read my previous blog). You spawn in the swamp, but the desert can be seen from spawn, so head over and the village will be there.

I hope you enjoy this seed. Let me know if you found any other cool things on the seed, and stay tuned for more MC seeds to come!


Death Machine And War Machine Scorestreaks In Black Ops 2

Hey guys! Today I will be talking about the War Machine and Death Machine scorestreaks in Black Ops 2! These guns can be a serious warning for other players to find cover or somewhere to hide once one of these nasty guns is deployed. Here is what they are, how to use them, and their strengths:

The War Machine is a drum loaded grenade launcher that fires lethal grenades at foes that always deal instant kills and inflict massive damage on hostile ground based scorestreaks. This is very useful for clearing out tightly packed groups of enemies and bouncing off of walls and buildings to hit enemies under cover from behind. However, to compensate for this extreme power, the War Machine only has 12 grenades, and cannot effectively get a one shot kill on an enemy with flak jacket. They cost 900 scorestreak points to deploy.

The Death Machine, on the other hand, is a very powerful minigun capable of clearing out tightly grouped packs of enemies in seconds, and it has 200 shots, much more than the War Machine. It has a fire rate of about 10 bullets per second, so be careful how you spend your ammo. When handling this weapon, on the PS3 press L1 to start spinning the minigun's barrel. this increases accuracy and greatly reduces the delay before firing, but won't be good to use in close quarters combat. When your opponent hears "be advised, hostile death machine spinning up", they will have to get inside or risk getting ripped to shreds by this weapon's high damage and rate of fire. They are quite cheap at only 850 points to deploy, and have a 5-10% chance of being in a care package.

I hope you guys liked this blog and if you have ideas for future blogs or questions, don't be afraid to tell me, I'm sure I can answer them ;)