Crash and burn

I've got a confession to make. I suck at vehicles. I have destroyed about a thousand more vehicles than I have gotten kills with them. The reason is simple - in the beginning, when i sucked at everything, just shooting straight with an assault rifle was hard enough. Vehicles, they were the advanced class. And later, when I had figured the infantry part out, everybody else had gotten really good at driving tanks and flying choppers. So it seemed a waste of a precious commodity to selfishly claim an attack chopper and smashing it to bits. I'd never even consider a Kasatka - plunging half the team into their graves, no way.

I have zero jet kills. Zero. Jets are a bitch to fly. And by bitch I mean they are awesome, but they are not, um, user friendly.

Anyway, this is my new project. Learning to fly. And to do that, I used a throwaway account, I bought the air vehicle shortcut (I deserve some slack, goddammit), I went to empty servers and I flew.

I mean, I crashed horribly.

But after a couple of hours of flying Vipers, Little Birds and Frogfoots, I decided to try it out on a populated server. They were shooting at me there. Not helping at all!

I managed to get a couple of kills with the Little Bird (lovely little machine) and some vehicle destroys.

But I'm not really impressing myself right now. And it's really hard to even get the choppers in the first place. Everybody wants to fly - which was never a problem before, hell, take the death trap away from me, I'd say.

As far as jets go, I managed to get a lock on another jet. Just the lock, I didn't even hit it. I still consider that my greatest achievment in flying.

Sister machine gun

I haven't been blogging much lately. That is partly because of, well, summer. And various obligations. But I have been busy on the Battlefield. I decided, much on a whim, to start a new "character". Soldier. Whatever you call them, I don't know. Anyway, I do have more than one account on my PS3, and that is about what you need.

Besides my illuminatia-account, I have my "Shaktie"-account ("shakti" being the ultimate divine feminine power or force streaming through the universe in hindu tradition - well you gotta have aspirations!), which I have occasionally used in Battlefield to test things out and fooling around with stupid ideas, and as a sub-account to Shakti I have had the "sistermachinegun"-account, which I have rarely or ever used for anything. I created it years ago just because I liked the sound of it, it is taken from an essay where the author says we humans are "placing our faith in sister machine gun, brother bomb" (it is also the name of a band which I do not listen to). And now I thought, what could be a better gamertag for a soldier than that?

So I dusted sistermachinegun off, and off she went. All iron sights and no gadgets. A measly rank 0 incapable of even placing a claymore. I missed my AEK badly, and kept pressing right as an engineer only to get reminded that I have no mines. No mines, no claymores, no C4, no SOFLAM, no MAV no NOTHING. But what I had was fun. Since I have everything unlocked if I want to on my illuminatia account, and I have all the ribbons and thousands of flag caps and kills, nothing really meant anything with sistermachinegun except playing, and trying to manage with what I got. She is currently at rank 43 and I have my golden leaf. It's a start.

And this is interesting to me. My stats when I'm doing it from scratch. Remembering my awful, AWFUL beginnings and how I was constantly disoriented and dyingdyingdying, I look at my stats now and they are decent. Really. I have a kdr of 1,15 and an spm of 749. 749! How about that? I'm kinda proud.

What the hell...

I am so bad. I am so bad at this I suck fucking horses ass. Shitty fucking game, I hate it. I swear will never play it again. Go to hell, Battlefield. Fuck!