Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Wolfenstein: The New Order Chapter 3 Uber Tips

We continue my series of tips for Wolfenstein: The New Order, Chapter 3 "A New World" on the Uber difficulty setting. If you haven't read my general tips for the Uber setting, here they are. This chapter requires you to clear out a section of Nazis so that the grandfolks can drive the car with Anya in the trunk. At the end, you will face two guard robots. Okay, first do your best to complete this with stealth. You can't avoid the robots quietly at the end though. Second, before you get to the car again and spawn the robots, collect all ammo, health AND especially Tesla grenades. Find these in the barracks and the gun turret building on the right. Burn through the metal opening with a dismounted gun turret. The metal portal is covered by a wooden crate. Inside you will find more grenades.

Okay, get back to the car and ride the side. This will cause a cutscene in which the guard robots bust out of two transport trucks. KNOW YOU ENEMY. Hitting a guard robot with a Tesla grenade will shock it and cause it to freeze. So, hit the first robot, closest to you with a grenade. Now run to the back of it. Near the top of the back is circle. Shoot at it with your assault rifle. The guard robot is now fatally wounded where it overloads. BOOM. Now run to cover and hit the second robot with a Tesla grenade. Same thing. Shoot the circle. BOOM. It's over in less than five minutes. Now get back to the grandfolks. They'll take you to the train station. You will get to ride the train to Berlin and um... celebrate Christmas with Anya.

Monday, August 11, 2014

Rest in Peace, Robin Williams

Today, Robin Williams passed away. (Huffington Post story) He was a great comedian, actor and humanitarian. His wife, Susan Schneider asked us to focus on the joy and laughter he brought us. So, here are couple of clips of Willams in action. Oh, by the way he was a video game fan.

From Disney's Aladdin. (1992)





Robin Willaims was also very funny as a guest on talk shows. I love it when he has fun with politics. Here's an appearance on Bill Maher's Real Time with then Senator Joe Biden before he was Vice President. Check out how he cracks up Biden when riffing on Bush having a gay male prostitute in the press room.

CNN matters again...

CNN's Ivan Watson was on an Iraqi army helicopter that was dropping supplies to trapped Yazidi people. It's an incredible video as desperate people struggle to get on the helicopter. This is why CNN for all the garbage it gets from competitors and Jon Stewart, shows why it matters. There's a picture of a young girl, crying. You can see the worry and sadness in her face. This is the face of the suffering that ISIS or ISIL is inflicting on innocent people. ISIS is killing, stealing and kidnapping people. Here's the story with the heartbreaking video.

Thank you CNN for showing the world the evil of ISIS.

Wolfenstein: The New Order Uber tips for Chapter 2, Asylum

This is first in my series of tips for the hardest parts of Wolfenstein: The New Order on the Uber difficulty setting. First, check out my general tips for this game on the Uber setting.

Today, we look at the end of Chapter 2: Asylum. The hardest part of this is the end. It starts when you're in the office and push the button to open the asylum's entrance to the outside. You get attacked by about ten soldiers. Stay in cover and take them out. When they're all dead, pick up all of the ammunition left on the ground. Then pick up any health and armor. There's a helmet in one of the rooms on this floor. This might mean you are going outside overcharged on health. That's okay.

Before you open the door to the the courtyard, arm your assault rifle and switch to RPG mode. Now go outside. You see Anya being pushed down by Nazi soldiers. Go to the left of the porch. Get the Tesla grenades. Kill the Nazis with the RPG. You can't kill Anya with friendly fire. When they're dead run to cover behind a wall to the left.

A truck busts through and launches two drones. Try to get them grouped together. Throw the grenades on the ground under them. The electrical charges from the grenades takes them out. Now kill any stragglers. Pick up Anya and end the chapter.

Saturday, August 9, 2014

Best Song from Guardians of the Galaxy

The best pop song featured in the movie Guardians of the Galaxy is Redbone's "Come and Get Your Love." (1974) It's a joyous piece of rhythm and blues, rock, and Native American. Indian. Featured in an opening scene in the movie, it tells the audience that they're going to have a great time. I almost got up and danced in the theater's aisle. Here's a video of Redbone, which was a Native American band, singing their big hit.

Stephen Colbert destroys Trump over his Ebola virus comments

Here's Stephen Colbert on conservative Donald Trump's stupid remarks about treating the two Americans who contracted Ebola for their charity work. Trump said on conservative Fox News, "But they have to suffer the consequences." Colbert has a great joke in his fake conservative take.

Stephen Colbert rips Putin for banning food imports to Russia

Wow, Russian President Vladimir Putin is banning food imports to his OWN country in response to Western sanctions. Hooray for Stephen Colbert who uses this story to great comic effect. Yes, Stephen, let's fight back Eat more chicken.