2015-09-23

Wide Windows 10 Command Prompt

Wide Command Prompt!

Finally it happened. Windows have an expandable command prompt! I'm starting to like you Windows 10.

0 Kill H1Z1 Battle Royale Victory!

0 Kill BR Win!

By chance, I won by zero kills!

Description

Dropped down at Bubbas gas station and got two cars. Drove through the houses south and looted to more cars. Drove to the church and looted two other cars. Drove south to the corner and looted. Drove up to the stores east of Bubba and had real-life breakfast. The gas was at the mountains. I drove north of the mountains and the final was south of the mountains at the road crossing (north of Carnberry).
There were less than 10 players left and I saw a few cars. Shoot at them and destroyed two. Drove around to find players but couldn't see any at the forest border of the road. Finally saw someone shoot and immediately die. And suddenly I won!
2nd and 3rd killed each other at the same time I arrived.
0 kills.

2015-09-22

H1Z1 User Input Control Problems

List of Problems with User Input

Camping to the final players in a Battle Royale (BR) is pretty easy, but you need to win a few dules to win the game. Except aiming which includes tapping, spraying and bullet drop compensation; you need to know the controlls very well.

List

You should know about these limitation H1Z1 have with user input a.t.m
  • The player head will cover your aim downwards
  • If you you have a granade at weapon position 1 or 2 and throw it, if no other granade takes the spot, your other weapons will move one position.
    So if you have one granade at position 1, and AK at position 2. If you throw the granade your AK will move from 2 to 1! This can be very confusing and therefore always have your granades at weapon spot 3
  • All interactions with doors, pickups, entering car etc is lagging and takes like half a second
  • When entering a vehicle you will exit the vehicle with the same weapon selected. If you enter it with a granade selected, you'll exit it. Therefore always select a gun when entering a car since you usually need to exit and fire in a duel
  • At driver seat, you cannot change selected weapon. You need to exit vehicle or change seat (ctrl-2, ctrl-3...) and then change weapon. 
  • To drop all ammunition, press shift and drag the ammunition. 
  • If you're healing, don't make a move, change weapon or reload weapon!
    I've been stressed in several duels and be forced to heal at the same time I reload. That won't work. Try to prioritize and do them in sequence.

2015-09-13

Requiem for my H1Z1 Battle Royale Victory Screens

Requiem for my H1Z1 BR Victory Screens

It's sad news that my screens of all my victories (except one) has been lost. When changing to new SSDs, I forgot those. Formated in action.

Requiem

But, since I remember them all, I'll write them down. Never forget.
  1. My first win. Running around at steep slopes down to water. I hear shoots and finally get hit by arrows. I shoot into a bush and win!
    That player probably wanted a victory with bow and arrow.
  2. Big battle at hills. People everywhere. A sudden duel at a crown. Advancing towards a rock with camper, kill in the back, number two running against me and I win the duel.
  3. Advancing by the gas border and avoid players. Hiding behind a tree and see my opponent running straight at me. I step out and kills!
  4. Forest setting with a meadow. Is pushed out but keeps cover. I flank a team and kill them both.
  5. Monster kill! Tried to play casual without headphones and it went well! Running around and in the end I spotted several in the woods. The last one was forced to run cross water and in a close shoot out, I won.
  6. Lots of firing from different directions.
    https://youtu.be/mZYovvxVvWQ
  7. Once I camped by the gas border but it closed in the middle of a city. I heard lots of shooting and at the end there was only me and one other. The circle was so tiny it wasn't possible to see which buildings were safe. When leaving my place I saw the other one on top of a building and shoot some. I ran into the building next by and into one room. By chance, my opponent rushed my building and up the stairs and I shoot it in the back!
  8. By testing a new tactic, I camped with car. Found all gear I needed at gas station at G8. It ended by the mountains where I left the car (since it was too steep) and win three duels.
  9. Straight after my first car camping win, I play again and won! Also camping with a car and looting at gas station at G8. Actually three people have a duel next to me and I kill the last one. Had loot for five people after that! It ends with a shoot out in a meadow with forest around it. My car gets shoot down and I escape. By crouching I flank and kill.
  10. The day after I try car camping again and found my second sweet spot, the fortress at B2. By camping it also ends in a open meadow in a forest. Wins at least three duels and victory is mine!
  11. Car camping and killing some in duels. It ends at some buildings and I see one at the top, shoots but only damages. I'm outside and need to push to the buildings. Standing below I finally see them, also at the ground. I throw Molotov, flank and kills a team. One of the bodies was burning and was probably hit by the Molotov.
  12. Early in the morning I play and camp with car. It ends to the west of the mountains west of Pleasant vill. I win a duel against a cop (dressed and with car), spray at car and in the end flank the last one who didn't see me.
  13. Yesterday I played with car camping. In the end I won a duel and finally gets body armor. I see that one of the last players kills a lot! Using AR and hunting rifle. And in the end it's only we two left. There's a big hill in the middle of the forest south of the big mountain. I see him on top at a rock and shooting at me with hunting rifle. I jump around to get shoot at since the hunting rifle have a longer reload time I shoot in between. But it doesn't seem to help. I jump into my damaged car and push against the sniper. Driving up I jump out of the car and wins! Probably the car ran over my opponent!

2015-09-12

App Engine + Scala + Java + SBT + Eclipse

Combining Java App Engine with Scala and SBT, and Import to Eclipse

Forked and added Eclipse plugin, to in a easy way run a App Engine project in Eclipse and with Scala.

2015-09-02

Scala JS Target Folder

Scala JS: Set Target Folder for JavaScript Build

Recently I've been interested in  Scala JS. It would be great to share logic on client and server side and to write all code in Scala. But SBT can be a bit tricky and my project setup was divided into two:

  1. One webapp with a Java web container
  2. Scala JS with logic shared between frontend and backend
To get SBT to build the JavaScript from my Scala JS project to my webapp I needed to add the following lines in my root build.sbt file:

val jsDir = "../gae/src/main/webapp"
crossTarget in (Compile, fastOptJS) := file(jsDir)

Project combining Scala JS and Java web container

You can check out my project which uses this build at


2015-09-01

Over Powered Battle Royale Tactic in H1Z1

OP BR Tactic in H1Z1

So I found out a OP tactic when playing Battle Royale mode in the zombie survival game H1Z1, it's called "Car Camping". 
Here are some guidelince to follow:
  1. Get a car
  2. Go to a remote place to loot. For instance the fortress at B2, Gas station at G9 etc
  3. Follow the circle at the edge which is as far away as possible.Remember to drive as little as possible to
    1. Save gas
    2. Not make so much noice. The car is loud and give out your position
  4. At the end you need to win some duels to win.

Driving a car

A car have many advantages:
  • Fast. Lets you loot at distant areas, change position and also easily escape the gas.
  • Running over people. Don't use turbo because there's a bigger chance you kill your opponent if you move slowly.
  • Gives you cover. Make sure to have your target on the right side of the car to use your vehicle as cover!
But some disadvantages also
  • Can blow up. If it's close to blowing up, run away as fast as possible!
  • Bigger target which means it's easy to hit it at long range. Usually you won't see the person shooting at you!
  • Can flip over. Don't use turbo in grumpy terrain, you will easily flip over.
  • Clumsy. It's hard to maneuver between trees and rocks