To anyone who reads the posts here. As previously discussed, more of the content will be collation and posting of the email escapades of myself, Vellan, Cookienut, Gozznut, Sicvy001 and Vandea. Perhaps one day we shall go so far as a podcast, but this will suffice for now.

More recently I emailed them about the Modern Warfare 2 release date (November 10^th, 2009), which I gleaned from Atomic MPC here:

http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/News/141049,modern-warfare-2-gets-a-date.aspx

And so it follows our rambling email conversation…

Striek:

Some Modern Warfare 2 info.

[screen clipping inserted in email]

Will it make me play MW2 instead of Halo 3? Highly doubt it. I love COD4: Modern Warfare, but it just doesn't interest me enough and doesn't provide the experience and variety of play that Halo 3 + Forge + Shishka provide. But I am still super-looking forward to it.

Also, I know Vellan doesn't care at all about Modern Warfare 2, I just like to include on the recipient’s list because she's my sister, I love her, and I know reading Cookienut's prose lightens her day. [that was sarcasm]

Cookienut:

My prose hey? Well I do what I can.

MW:2 should be really good. I really enjoyed COD4 so if it's anything like that I'll be super pleased. I have to agree with Striek, COD just doesn't seem as fun as Halo. Especially multiplayer. It's the balance of Halo that makes it awesome. Halo gives you the ability to turn a match around within a few seconds. Plus the grenade/melee combat cannot be matched by any other game in my opinion. Plus you cannot deny the amazing replay and screenshot feature. Oh and the immense tight integration with bungie.net for all of us stat whores.

I have been trying to get the lone wolves achievements in Halo 3. I have only got about 3 or so left. This morning I had a spare 30 minutes so fired it up to see if I could get some more achievements for Halo 3. I played one match of lone wolves and got a killing frenzy straight away! It was the rist time I had completely owned 5 other people. Whenever slayer BR's come up, my chills start multiplying.

[Screenshot of Bungie.net for one of the games was here in the email]

+19 K/D spread...I'll take that thank you!

There is something so awesome about landing BR headshots. In fact it now fully reminds me of the pistol from Halo: CE. Remember how you could go through pretty much the whole game and own with the pistol? Well it's not that unbalanced for the BR in Halo 3 as it takes time to build up your BR skill and you're not always effective with it.

I had two guys charging me with their AR's. I killed them both by just landing BR headshots. It seriously is the best weapon of the game. Man, I wish I was home playing right now.

Vellan:

You always remember your rist time.

[see the second to last sentence on Cookienut’s second paragraph, we love mocking typing errors in this group]

Striek:

See! That’s what I’m talking about!

[a la Cookienut’s prose and Vellan’s retort]

I played a few games last night, did alright. Had a decent game with some really annoying Americans (are there any other kind? Yes, but not in general). When the game started they were talking about Firefly like it was some new series, I was cool with that. Then they instantly started spoilering Battlestar Galactica Season 4. I told them to shut up, but they just didn’t hear me, so I took my headset off for a minute. I put it back on and realised now they were actually talking about enemy locations, tactics etc. And then they started complaining that there were only a few of them talking, to which I said I was also. Then they said…

Douche #1 a.k.a. BSG spoiler guy: Oh yeah, there’s that other guy.

Douche #2 a.k.a. Whiney Voice: What other guy?

Douche #3 a.k.a. Random chick that sounds stoned: huh?

Striek: The name’s Striek (said as Streak)

Douche #1: Strake?

Striek: Streak!

Douche #2: Stree-ake?

Striek: Close enough.

Douche #1: Strake!

Striek: Whatever. There’s a guy coming up behind you with the ghost.

Douche #1: Steek?

Striek: Look, say it however, I don’t care.

Douche #2: What the hell is it supposed to mean?

Striek: It was a typing mistake a long time ago. I typed Strike, but I got the e & the k the wrong way round. Thought it looked cool.

Douche #1: So you’re dyslexic? Ha ha hah…

Douche #3: hah ahaha

Striek: Yeah, super funny.

Douche #2: So it’s Straay-eeeakk?

Striek: Look, I don’t care, say it with a fake Australian accent if you like.

Douche #1: Yeah, I speak other languages.

Striek: Obviously English isn’t your first.

All Douches: Huh?

Douche #2: Hah ah ah a dyslexic foreigner!

Douche #1: hah foreigner.

[Striek now ignores them and talks only about tactics and enemy locations]

At least they talked and tried to act as a team… and it showed. We cleaned up 100 to 68, so at least that was something.

I played some Lone Wolves, Team Slayer and Squad Battle, ranked up in each playlist.

Played some oddball in Lone Wolves, I swear some people have no idea how to play that mode…

sicvy001:

what a bunch of knobs

Cookienut:

I know. There's usually some numb nuts that go next to the ball but don't pick it up. Sometimes they get to it and then just run off!

Lone Wolves is pretty cool. I used to stay away as it's not team based, but as long as you finish the game in the top half of results you get EXP...which is nice.

Hopefully I'll be online tonight. I'm so up for some squad battle - Striek and Cookie in a warthog = win

VANDEA:

I’m still keen for Saturday if people are still in

I mean I’ll be there anyway but just keeping it out there and ummmmmm  REAL . yeah  **punches fist in air**

Striek:

I’ll be there on Saturday!

And that was well said sicvy001.

sicvy001:

I hate playing oddball online with players that like killing everyone else but the 'oddball', ditto with King of the Hill. Even before you’re in the ring some tool will try to kill you off.

[Thus endeth the email conversation. More to follow soon… because my vast blog audience crave & desire it… more sarcasm for you. Next up will be about some “Console Wars Veteran” medals on the web and then “What we played last week, Part #1”]