-=Squad Play=-

Goodbye Google Video, Hello Youtu...wtf?

2011-04-17T12:39:00.000-07:00

Hello? somebody else registered squadplay at youtube :| - well...good for them, I guess...

anyhow, I've registered at Vimeo and here's a 'new' old video :)

google video will be shutting down soon and will delete all old google video videos :( - oh well.

Watch for 11/11/2011 :) - bf3 is calling old Orca back - I want to return just like Aragorn, only I will have to do it less sexily.

http://vimeo.com/22523114

Squadplay All The Way

2007-04-19T18:19:00.000-07:00

Hi all,

No, no new vids from ol' Orca yet - but it looks like my overseas comrades have been busy lately! Can't believe I didn't run into this until today. This guy is a fantastic leader, and his squadmates are great! Check out their site http://www.ipdclan.com/ for more vids and euro-style play.

The music is pretty rousing too ;)

Orca's Migration Time

2007-04-11T16:08:00.000-07:00

Well, it should be apparent that I am taking a break from the squadplay videos. I'll be back in...eventually (probably when quake wars is released - so long as ETQW has good squad/fireteam mechanics for good teamplay).

In the interim be sure to check out youtube and google video for my friend's squadplay videos (I'd list a bunch, but my work connection blocks video sites). After all, I am but one of many squad leaders, and I really enjoy the other guys' styles.

So, until we meet again! I'll be stationed at Basara in project reality or something ;)

Battlefield 2 baby!

2007-03-09T18:34:00.000-08:00

Don't worry, I haven't abandoned 2142. It's just nice to chill out in good old karkand...you know, sit by the river, have a margarita....

btw I've just gotten back from mexico so my head isn't totally in the game yet.

By the way, my computer (though rad) sucks sometimes. My sound card (audigy zs) decided to start making very disturbing squealing noises and then die. My computer will not start up with it installed. So I am without any sound! I'm running over to best buy to grab an el cheapo sound card and then I will see you all on the snowy plains of europe later tonight!

SquadPlay.com - "We Found A Fight!" - Battlefield 2142

2007-02-20T08:21:00.001-08:00

Download the high-res version here

Outside - Some Battlerecorder Stuff

2007-02-12T15:35:00.000-08:00

Hi all, sorry if I missed you this weekend - it's been pretty busy for me recently, I'm lucky to even get this vid out the door :P

This video was recorded last weekend. I kind of like the battlerecorder footage since it shows the squad's formations better. Also, it makes our tactics stand out a bit better (for example when we hold the corner).

Here's the High Quality version. I'll post the Demo tonight.

Textbook

2007-02-05T08:13:00.000-08:00

Oh man, I forgot to zoom in on the scoreboard :P - well, heres a screenshot

Download the high-quality filefront video.

No battlerecorder PiP or any fanciness this time, just classic, vanilla squadplay. This is a really nice round with a really awesome squad.

All in all the tactics are pretty standard with no frills. But just watch, there are several instances here where the squad sets themselves up in perfect formation and many examples of good teamwork.

Watch the radar to see how well the squad sticks and moves together.

The best part of this episode is probably the very end as we assault the EU's final flag. The ENTIRE EU team spawns as my little squad slides down the hill to our fates!

Amazing squadwork guys, simply spectacular.

A More Sensible Approach

2007-01-29T09:16:00.000-08:00

Tried yet another technique of blending-in battlerecorder footage this week and another filefront.com full download is available from here and for an additional treat, here is the battlerecorder demo right here. Enjoy :)

Also, if you need more footage to get your squadplay fix, check out DirtyLude's (TheDirty) Squadplay vids - Good communication and good gameplay, gotta love it :)

Now, down to business - BTW, the sound levels should be proper this week ;)

So, here we are again at good old Gibraltar - have I ever had a bad round on this map?

We hold a stiff defense at the eastern entrance. We are successful at holding them off for a bit but inevitably we hear "an outpost is lost", and it's time to skedaddle. I order my spawning members to spawn at EU base in order to hold off the attackers from taking out our assets.

We move in on central camp across the ramp and take the flag with no incident. We then move to ruin with a bit more difficulty. I run into an unfortunate circumstance but am revived at central camp. The flag goes neutral and I move in to help finish the cap. We clean up the remaining resistance. Somehow my drone winds up teamkilling a squad memeber - I hate it when it does that.

We move back towards toll station. Simpson takes the lead on our approach. I hastily run forward at toll station only to get killed by a friendly grenade. When I respawn I decide to take the "hard way". I am reminded why I refer to it as the hard way as I run directly into the middle of the enemy :P

At this point I decide to take a "more sensible approach" along the east side. Unfortunately this approach is not necessarily a more successful approach.

At this point we run into a tenacious couple enemies, but are able to take them down. Since I am in the position, I decide to take the upper walkways. It's a pretty painless approach to harbor, actually. Toll station goes down, but I decide that harbor is the better flag to take.

We move up to harbor, encountering stiff resistance upon arrival. My first attempt at the flag is thwarted, a few moments later my second attempt is also unsuccessful and I am killed by an APM. Fortunately I am revived and wind up with a krylov kit after revive.

Finally a third attempt on the flag works and I place the defend order. The squad intelligently spreads out to cover more ground.

At the end I encounter a new and weird bug where the squad completely disbanded/disappeared. I recreate the squad, but only four original members realize to join before the round's end. Still, with only 4 people on the squad we nonetheless take first place squad.

Sentry Gun Fun!

2007-01-22T20:25:00.000-08:00

Boy it was a fun weekend! We have three innovations for squadplay this fine day.
first from the European continent, Silver.7 adds depth buy cutting between the pilot and gunner view in a cool video Gunship Funship 1 and Gunship Funship 2 - you can download a higher-quality Here

Now below is my new video titled, "Sentry Gun Fun!" Enjoy!

BTW - for some reason I felt like offering the entire 700+ meg WMV video in 1024x768 for download for whomever feels like it's not a waste of disk space - Download the big beast from FileFront!

Tried a bit different way of getting footage - I played on a Battlerecorder enabled server (Band Of Brothers 48 player conquest).

The round starts off with a wonderful team kill by me. I follow the arcing path of the grenade until it explodes and wastes Orange...sorry Orange :(

We then move on to ruin, only to hit a stiff mass of resistance: I count somewhere around 10 players waiting at that one map point. I exploit this fact by dropping a sentry gun right into the middle of the mass.

On my second approach there seem to be even more players and I throw my grenade, hoping to get the biggest nade kill ever. However the nade takes a weird path. We finally take the flag and '50 makes the observation that our testicles must be in the multi-ton range. They are actually 10 tons.

We decide to move up on statue around the back and '50 makes the suggestion to take the monorail - a very good idea, as we are able to escape a very dedicated and hungry-looking walker. Half the squad stays on the monorail to rain down bullets and rockets onto the flag as I wait below for a good opportunity to rush the flag. Orange takes the initiative and rushes the flag with several guys surrounding him. I decide I don't want to look like a wimp, so I run up on the flag with him.

50 asks how the monorail guys are doing and Shart replies that it's, "tough all over". he then takes some rockets to the dome and his lifeless body tumbles off the monorail. We fend off one more enemy attempt at the flag.

commander wants us to take ruin, so who am I to argue? I'm Orca, that's who!...but I agree with the commander so we defend the statue one last time and then get the move on to ruin. But it doesn't go exactly as planned. Our second attempt is not much better. Our third attempt takes the flag, but at what price!?

We end the round by pushing the PAC back to pond and their uncap.

Shart's Assault: A New Episode, Finally!

2007-01-17T08:04:00.000-08:00

Finally back.

TUNIS HARBOR:

So we decide that shart should lead the assault o n this flag at tunis harbor. It goes easily. it was ... all » neat. the round was slaughter. Shart gets 16 kills and 1 death. No doubt thanks to the awesome medic work of the squad - shart was in the front quite a bit. Kind of a new tactic for me, having a squad member lead/walk point. I'm going to try it out more often - seems to work pretty well.

CAREBEAR LANDING:

After taking church and town center we move up the hill towards com station, and there is a mass of dudes. We start to get hit pretty hard, but our sheer macho attitude overcomes and we take the flag. Of course, we battle a tenacious squad, perched atop the com station tower. I take a rocket to the head, but shake it off. Kyle fires rockets back, thus distracting the enemy on the tower until scream can get up there and take them out.

I wander away absently and get deaded.

we then move down the hill.

Resistance is stiff. Our approach is not optimal, but we arrive at the roadblock flag, finally. Upon taking the flag I am owned by friendly jeep and a wall.

we move down to south town center but orange informs us that we should move back to command center. Unfortunately we run into problems attempting to get out. when we finally make it out we see Roadblock being taken again: we take it back.

back at command center we arrive just in time to intercept an attempted capping of command center. We then witness two guys getting ran over. A short while later I destroy the same jeep, only this time it has two enemies in it! We rush roadblock again, but are thwarted as we all die.

"A Severe lack of cover" is Shart's suggested reason we were unsuccessful.

the squad gets a bit separated at this point and shart and I die.

We don't all manage to converge properly and so the strong defense at roadblock holds us back until the end.

Guest Squad Leader - ExplodingSilver

2007-01-02T21:04:00.000-08:00

Whack-a-mole; familiar with this game? If you work with computers, then you are probably more familiar than you care to admit.

I get everything back up - finally, but now my 120g external hard drive appears to be out of commission - so no FRAPSing. The gaming gods have frowned upon me this season.

So, old Orca is still off the air for another week.

In the meantime, enjoy these gaming goddesses

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Well, my computer is almost back up - but I'm still having CD key issues due to the fact it's a download and I've repaired windows XP.

In the meantime it appears that I'm not the only squad leader in the world who knows how to talk!

Check out ExplodingSilver and his merry band of Tactical Gamers Tacticalgamer.com

Very smooth guys!

Part 1.

Part 2.

My computer is dead!

2006-12-29T20:33:00.000-08:00

It is a sad day for squadplay.com - Alas my computer, whom I love like a woman, is disabled.

My chipset fan decided it had had enough and happily melted itself off it's bracing. I'm going to try to replace the chipset fan tomorrow, but if the chipset itself is blown, then it's time for a new motherboard :P

And all this on a three day weekend! I even put on my special w00t shirt!

It is enough to make a grown man cry. At any rate, good gaming guys. I'll catch you when I get back up to speed :'(

Squadplay.com - This Isn't My Kit! - Battlefield 2142

2006-12-25T16:43:00.000-08:00

So for Xmas we start out with a nice peaceful approach to the pond flag. Right as we are rounding a corner I notice a string of several red blips on my radar. I then curse, because they are the enemy. A rapid, fierce gun battle ensues from which we somehow cut them all down. It was an Xmas miracle!

Then it's off to the warmer, yet damper, climate of Tunis harbor. 'Scream is able to give me my squad leadership back after a crash-and-rejoin on my part - another miracle!

We move onto the power station flag and it is ugly. I thus curse some more.

I curse a lot this episode.

We clean out a couple stragglers after the flag-cap by having slippy flush them off the roof. We then move forward to the garage choke-point - and it becomes utterly insane pretty quickly. I then create a new curse-phrase, "Jesus Christmas!" this is a very hazardous location.

Amidst the craziness I realize that I have someone else’s kit, because I didn't have spawn beacon. We make it pretty far back, but then get taken out due to my impatience. Orange' takes note of the yellow sky, and I defer the explanation to "An Inconvenient truth".

Upon respawn its back to the choke-point. Madness ensues once again.

I move behind the trailers and scan, only to see about 15 netbat diamonds - we find ourselves in a tight spot, cornered like rats. Yet, somehow we prevail - probably because we are so super.

We set-up and hold the harbor garage and I notice that somehow I have someone else's kit yet again! We take the harbor flag and then move back to our holdout.

We then implement a nice defense for the rest of the round. It's a nice change of pace from the initial madness. I leave the rest of the rounds assaults to the squad with [W33T]Canadian23 - that guy can handle it ;) - the W33Ties are killa's.

We then decide to play a little game of "Emergency", only for a real emergency to occur! A real bad-guy's grenade actually takes two of us out!

I really am enjoying myself at this point. But I do pay for my irresponsibility as a couple rockets explode in my facemask. But my sentry gun scores me a combat efficiency pin.

In the end I wind up with even another kit! I guess everyone was just in the giving mood of the holiday spirit with their kits!

Merry Xmas Simpson!

2006-12-18T08:50:00.000-08:00

We start off with Voodoo offering us a ride. I gratefully decline and he takes off, only to almost run us over moments later. Simpson and I then voice our opinions. After taking a flag Voodoo pulls away from us while we try to catch a ride with him, only to meet with an unfortunate end.

We then launch into some good middle-flag action during which we try very hard to keep each other alive and calm Voodoo down. Maximumbad comments on my kill-streak, which jinxes me. Simp' wastes a couple guys, we take another flag, then get wasted by the APC - as per usual.

Upon respawn we identify a podding squad and proceed to eliminate the threat. I take out one and the beacon, and my squad rides in like the calvary and takes out a final threat. We avoid a tank on our way to Com Station and eliminate various threats. We take com station without much issue.

It's now time to move up on ruins. Only to meet some unpleasant circumstances.

The second attempt is more successful. In this attempt for ruin I decide that I'm getting bored, so caution is thrown out in favor of craziness.Fortunately "we're a top-notch squad"! and I am revived and proceed to grab a couple pairs of tags and we successfully take ruins despite strong resistance. I then die somehow. It's very enjoyable.

Things start to get a bit more deadly, and then I make the fateful decision to take com tower back.

The approach starts out nicely enough. A couple kills, a nice approach. But then things start getting bad as the enemy squad has good medic work. Additionally, I do not help things by trying to get knife and defib kills. I am finally taken down. But it's fun anyhow.

Our second attempt is met without much resistance. That is, until I die in a hailstorm of explosive death.

Things kind of wind down towards the end as we approach playground.

I comment on a good player, "crazy yossarian" and wonder what exactly that is. It turns out it's something from the book Catch-22. His name must be a word play on Yossarian, since he would have to be crazy to fly the mission, but if you were crazy you were grounded: catch-22. Nice. Class dismissed.

At the end a team mate embeds a couple bullets in my torso.

All in all a nice match. One of many from last weekend.

Please join me next Friday night and Saturday, I'm "Orca".

Shart needs a hug, Great Gibraltar!, and some fun clips

2006-12-11T08:19:00.000-08:00

In this episode we start off with a short journey to the outpost base on "Fall of Berlin". Along the way we discuss Shart's emotional state as well as proper protocol for laying claim to a knife kill.

We take the base with little difficulty, only to be forced into reclaiming it upon the stealthy arrival of a three person squad. I dispatch the three soldiers and then ask Shart to hold me close, as I am quite obviously shaken by the experience.

We then move on to some good old Gibraltar action. In this segment the squad executes the classic "harbor rush" and manages to clean out another squad after the deed. We fight off fierce resistance and successfully cap the central base only to learn that harbor has been retaken. On the way back to harbor I am obliged to take a call from my wife, which - as per usual - winds up getting me and some of my squad vaporized by an orbital artillery strike.

Once we have finished with these two main portions of the episode I proceed to string together a series of highlight clips from the weekend.

Please understand that these clips serve merely to show squad morale and are not indicative of proper, or even good squad tactics...especially the game called, "Emergency!". You should never play this game, it is likely grounds for immediate kick and possible ban from a server.

It is not an exploit or blatant team killing or anything of that nature...but it is wholly irresponsible and should not be participated in. It is also very fun.

The Good, The Bad and OMG That Was Ugly!

2006-12-04T18:53:00.000-08:00

Not every round goes perfectly ;)

This episode starts with a little charge that ends too early. We then cut to a Berlin Dive Play which works well but is ugly!

We then move onto Tunis Harbor where we have to really earn our flag! It takes us some time before we get it, but we finally do. We then move to take the back flag, only to have the round end before we do :(

After this I have a clip of us taking the Ruins in Minsk - I "look before I leap", but my squad saves my ass (again!).

Then it's time for me to die! Cerbere Landing is murder. I have to hit my head against the brick wall three times before I change my strategy.

After deciding upon the new move we do make our way up to Harbor...a bit too late.

Then it's off to Gibraltar - we charge up the middle (my favorite play) and get the flag succesfully. But get quite pinned-down in our attempt to move up.

We then shift our strategy again and start gaining momentum only for our round to meet an untimely end :P

Recorded on the Straferight 64 player conquest and TeamHAF 64 player conquest servers.

SquadPlay.com - Attack, Defend, RUSH!!! - Battlefield 2142

2006-12-03T21:21:00.000-08:00

This SquadPlay episode takes place on the "War Is Hell" 64 player conquest server for Battlefield 2142. A great server with a good community of team players.

This episode begins on the Suez Canal map as an opposing squad takes a flag from under us. We then proceed to enact defensive tactics in order to reclaim the base.

After some fancy footwork we then take to the road and switch to assault of their flag, effectively capturing the base and wiping out any resistance right at the round's end. Very good squad play - and the first time I had played with any of these squad members.

The episode the proceeds into two videos which show how an effective "flag rush" is executed. These rushes are very intense and emotional, thus they involve a bit of profanity on my part. I have censored the worser swearing by cleverly inserting sounds.

I hope you enjoy this video - and please join me on Friday and Saturday nights, I plan on recording new episodes regularly.

:) - Good Squad Play, Boys!

Smokey_Squad_FlagAttacks_Gibraltar.wmv

2006-12-02T17:40:00.000-08:00

This is a video of my squad "smoky squad" taking multiple flags on the map "Camp Gibraltar" in the online multiplayer FPS video game, ... all » "Battlefield 2142".

This video is from the the squad leader's perspective, and serves as a good example of communication to and from the squad. Standard tactics are employed as we move up and assault the enemy flags. However, a few non-standard surprises always lie in wait for us.

I utilize the RD-4 Otus Recon Drone in tandem with the DysTek pulse meter, in order to report the general location and number of enemy troops within our vicinity. Our squad had two dedicated medics, which I make regular use of! ;)

Smokey_Squad_fragfestNov06.wmv

2006-12-02T17:36:00.000-08:00

A short frag video of battlefield 2142 involving some footage of me driving the c7 death car, a pre-game knife fight, some rorche ... all » (spelling???) ownage and the dire consequences of the no-nametag bug.

Footage obtained on the 420 jedis 48 player server while a member of Smokey (smoky) squad.

Getting a Squad and Holding a Position in Battlefield 2142

2006-12-02T17:21:00.000-08:00

This is a movie which starts on the map "Camp Gibraltar" showing how I gather a squad together and then hold a choke point on the Battlefield 2142 map, "Fall of Berlin" on a 64 player server.

I also talk about my technique as a squad leader and what I consider good practice for running a squad.

It's not a frag video per se, but I did wind up with the gold star as well as the distinguished combat efficiency pin (though interestingly I rarely actually saw who I killed :)