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Streamed from http://twitch.tv/bertiebaggio with bertieb and Costello

Continuing with the realistic tactical shooter that is Rainbow Six Vegas 2.

2:30 T shoots the heck out of some concrete
5:00 bertieb fails at ranks
6:15 “Are we terrorists..?”
7:00 “It’s okay, the tactical ninja will save us all- oh I’m dead”
12:00 Act 2, Scene 4: Sweatshops, wherein bertieb listens to what the NPCs have to say
13:15 Showing care and concern for hostages
15:00 Run, Forrest, run!
16:45 Costello has a heart attack… or his connection dropped
21:00 Service resumes
24:30 “It’s like a horror show!”
26:30 We meet the cast of an upcoming horror movie
28:00 Magic chopper!
29:00 Convention centre start
31:00 Coming in hot!
36:15 Fly away gun
37:45 Call of Vegas: Rainbow Duty
42:30 Hoist on our own petard
46:00 Wallhax
51:15 Act 3, Scene 2
59:15 Supercrouch

Streamed live from http://twitch.tv/bertiebaggio with Costello.

We got R6V2 in a recent sale for £Cheap. What with custom downloaders, Tages, unskippable splash screens and the like I thought I had wasted my money, as the modern iterations depart from previous R6 games and are more ‘arcadey’ as a result.

However, once I saw how funny the bugs are, I knew it was worth it 😀

0:01 And we start with the sounds… of enthusiasm
1:15 More enthusiasm
3:15 Dat campy run tho
3:45 Whose voice is that?! Oh, right…
4:45 Stealthy
5:30 “Oh I just threw a grenade”
8:45 “I guess it’s nothing…” *dies*
14:00 Turr’sts with no peripheral vision
16:00 Stealthy approach
18:45 Time to play dress-up!
24:00 “I hope I didn’t just kill a blind person…”
29:15 The art of bomb disposal mime
34:30 Introducing… THE NINJA
37:15 Ladder technique
41:00 Dat blindfire tho
44:30 Collateral damage
53:15 Chivalry Six: Rainbow Warrior?
54:30 Expert grenade badge unlocked

Streamed from http://twitch.tv/bertiebaggio with Costello – a quick win for the Allies on Lyon- though we were on medium difficulty after all!

Just as well the difficulty was what it was- some quite rusty play- I couldn’t remember any hotkeys, and pretty much relied on riflespam to capture and hold territory.

9:00 Sneaky Kettenkrad!
11:00 Rifle squad Vs Pios + Panzer Grenadiers
12:00 Infantry detonating mines
15:00 Enemy medics revive a squad in my face
19:00 Hold still while I grenade you a couple of times from cover
23:30 Are those rockets that I see?
25:00 “They have Hetzers out… I suspect that’s not going to be an issue at this point.”

Streamed from http://twitch.tv/bertiebaggio featuring bertieb Costello aujt74, and joined by MaoTheCat!

After spending some time getting tooled up (ie start of Wasteland SOP), we secure an MBT- for science.

7:00 Shot in the back (probably should have been paying attention, not discussing headsets)
12:00 bertieb takes the valorous option of not ramming a friendly chopper
17:15 Kicked for ‘idling in the lobby’
25:30 Time to engage an immobilised tank
28:15 Shot by AI… and is that someone coming to steal the tank??
30:30 Time to run!
35:15 Tripping over a Hummingbird
38:00 Joined in chat by MrFancypants! (and later Tug777)
41:00 Costello fails to swim… several times
46:30 “Your delivery of: ONE (1) HELICOPTER has arrived.”
52:30 Backup = 🙂 Thieving a Strider GMG = 😐 Blowing us up with said GMG = ]:(
1:01:00 How dare you engage us while we’re doing other things!
1:05:00 Time to secure a tank
1:12:00 Two unarmed vehicles engage us *funeral march*
1:28:00 A wild MaoTheCat appears!
1:44:00 MaoTheCat trips and falls… to his death
1:47:00 Heavy engagements around Gun Store
1:52:15 Flanking a Strider GMG
2:02:15 Arma launches into the air
2:03:45 bertieb decides to start driving just in time
2:14:00 Tanksniping
2:18:30 Comeuppance D:
2:25:00 “Summon help… go light the fires…”
2:26:45 Timing on that restart D:

Streamed from http://twitch.tv/bertiebaggio featuring bertieb Costello aujt74 and MaoTheCat.

Starting off on an easymode Altis Wasteland while we wait for aujt74, then back to Du Sang for some tough firefightin’.

9:40 Pimp my uniform
18:45 Enemy player crashing our gun store = SAVE ME PANIC
36:25 Bad Luck for Lorenzo Cobb?
43:00 When shooting AI, there’s no kill like overkill, then a human APC crashes the party
51:30 Post crash, enemy tank spotted D:
55:00 #bertiederp
1:01:45 Load back into immediate engagements
1:08:00 Failure to notice player 10 feet away = shot in face
1:12:00 Hacker (“invisible voice”) likes to mess with bertieb
1:25:45 Hacker drops a red smoke beacon on me
1:27:00 Mutual kill
1:30:00 bertieb fails to revive by nanoseconds
1:33:45 survive explosion, fail to revive (again), get shot = D:
1:39:00 Ridgeline SUPPRESSING FIIIRRREE
1:41:30 AI tank spoils our day
1:52:30 bertieb gets run over
1:55:45 AI town invasion proves tough to eradicate
2:00:00 bertieb gets magicked into the air (and derps to death)
2:07:00 TANK! TAAAAAANK!
2:10:30 Server gets hacker-teleported to my location :-/
2:12:15 Hacksplosions

Streamed from http://twitch.tv/bertiebaggio featuring bertieb Costello aujt74 and MaoTheCat.

1:30 Spawn in on Pythos Island (from the end of the previous session)
9:30 Hellcat acquired 😀
13:45 AA lock while in map = ):
26:00 Rearmed
32:15 Tank acquired 😀
44:30 Expert driving badge unlocked
47:30 Attacking an AI enemy outpost
1:11:30 BTR discovered 😮
1:14:00 Second expert driving badge unlocked
1:16:30 BTR righted! 😀
1:18:30 “This might just expl” *BOOM* “..ode.”
1:21:30 “I’ll be the guinea pig…” *dies*
1:30:30 After 5km of driving, Costello gets enaged while bertieb is still half a klick out
1:32:00 *frantic engagements*
1:36:15 Rearmed!
1:47:30 Hostile close :O
2:16:30 Re-kitted and rearmed, now to take on a downed chopper
2:18:00 AI close!
2:21:45 Chopper secure’d (& bertieb incap’d)
2:31:30 Pimp my ATV
2:35:15 Inbound hostile gets ALL THE BULLETS
3:07:00 Hostile contact at Air Station Mike
3:09:00 bertieb can’t hit someone mere feet away
3:13:00 Rearmed, with CAS supporting…
3:15:00 Hostile down (shot by MaoTheCat from chopper!)
3:21:30 Enemy vehicle spotted
3:33:00 Another CAS kill (and run over for good measure)
3:40:30 Engagement near gun store…
3:42:15 AIs down
3:42:45 Enemy player pilot of chopper taken down 😀
3:33:00 Corpsedance
3:50:30 Hostile close!
3:55:00 Hide for next time!

Streamed from http://twitch.tv/bertiebaggio featuring bertieb and Costello.

2:45 Got shot as punishment for tabbing out
5:30 Time to borrow a gun
8:30 Losing a firefight D:
33:30 Reconnected after a server reboot
40:15 So I’m an admin now? 😛
49:00 Test firing (RIP my ears)
1:01:15 Enemy boat spotted
1:11:30 Tooled up!
1:27:00 Landed chopper spotted
1:29:30 Engaging!
1:33:00 Chopper secured
1:37:30 Expert flying badge unlocked (D: D: D:)
1:46:30 Engaging more AI guards
1:49:15 Chopper #2 secured
1:56:00 ROUNDS AWAY!
2:00:00 Strafing run
2:07:00 All done, sit down

Streamed from http://twitch.tv/bertiebaggio featuring bertieb and Costello, with aujt74 joining in!

00:40 Fastest start-to-death yet
1:45 Dead again (off to a good start here)
7:30 Revenge! (thanks to Costello)
14:00 Back after server reboot (where I somehow confuse Costello as to my location)
16:30 Time to borrow a chopper
28:00 Aerial cap
35:00 Takedown!
39:00 What’s that beeping noise?
40:00 Was that a… boat dropped into the airbase?!
43:00 “Please don’t have peripheral vision, please don’t have peripheral vision…”
49:30 aujt74 has joined the party!
51:15 Territory under attack? 😮
57:15 bertieb fails a spot check
1:03:30 Booby trapped corpse?
1:06:00 Someone spawns in with… no clothes?
1:08:45 Headshot!
1:12:45 dat phone call timing tho
1:14:45 Another no-clothes respawn
1:20:30 Back off phone!
1:26:00 The ‘disembodied voice’ (a hacker) is back to talk to me
1:32:00 Stealing, stealing, stealing a spawn beacon for Moe. Dadadada, dadadadada, insurance fraud today!
1:35:15 Taken on at the gun store, try to make it out alive…
1:42:30 Dead or alive?
1:46:30 ‘Mystery’ explosions
1:48:15 More explosions
1:49:30 Practically a volcano… time to tool up and disconnect

Streamed from http://twitch.tv/bertiebaggio featuring bertieb Costello and aujt74.

2:15 Spawn in to bertieb dying of thirst
6:15 Time to walk into a hail of bullets
8:15 More bullets addressed to bertieb
12:00 Explode to death (noticing a pattern here?)
13:15 Dead in under a second!
15:00 Tooled up (don’t worry, it doesn’t last long)
20:15 Re-tooled up (and on phone)
28:30 Off phone
30:15 Yay for mouse batteries
34:30 bertieb explains “the key to not dying”
47:30 HMG Strider: locked on
52:30 Re-Titan’d
1:16:30 Taking fire… CHEESE IT
1:30:15 The appearing disappearing Strider
1:33:30 Hostile AAA + Titan = 😀
1:42:15 Strider GMG acquired
1:47:15 *BOOM* “…which is why it’s better to put too many bullets in the head than too few. ”
1:58:00 AI rifleman eats bullets and grenades
2:08:00 Go hide in bushes to save

Streamed from http://twitch.tv/bertiebaggio featuring bertieb Costello and aujt74. Joined by MrFancypants!

(Arma 3 Zeus mucking around for the first 50 or so minutes.)

53:00 Wasteland begin!
56:00 Server restart (that was quick :P)
1:19:30 Friendly vehicle! Not friendly! Friendly! Not friendly!
1:30:30 Attacking Air Station Mike
1:37:30 RDM on Costello
1:43:15 aujt74: CHAERG
1:45:00 Forward roll d’ATV
1:46:16 Do a barrel roll
1:51:15 Combat at the Gun Store
2:05:30 Hotfoot