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OMGeek.net Updates

inque — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:00:11 +0800

Good day to the good folks of Lowyat.net!

We just wanted to let you guys know that, we've done a major site redesign on OMGeek.net! We've been focusing on delivering quality content for all gamers who are still passionate with hobby but are struggling with time due to real life getting in the way.

We're also working hard on producing a bi-weekly audio podcast where we discuss games (of course!) and some in-depth gaming related topics. Please have a listen here: http://www.omgeek.net/podcast/

If you like what you see and want to follow / stalk us more, you can follow / like / +1 us on the following channels:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OMGeek
Twitter: https://twitter.com/omgeek
Google +: https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/1020310695873...323958206/about

Hope you guys like our work and if you have any comments (good or bad), we would like to know!

OMGeek.net is recruiting for Guild Wars 2

inque — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:59:22 +0800

Shameless plug to those who don't have a guild yet for Guild Wars 2

OMGeek.net is open for recruitment!

We are a SEA (Souteast Asia) based PC Gaming community that not only focuses on AAA titles such as GW2, but also hosts games such as ArmA II and Minecraft. We invite everyone who's open to PC gaming and would want to come hang out with a fun loving, yet organized and mature PC Gaming group.

World of Tanks with OMGeek

inque — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:41:23 +0800

Hey guys it's 2012 and its time for me again to bug you once more

We're planning on organizing regular games for World of Tanks, because we all know, playing this game with lots of teamwork and tactics could be loads of fun. We're trying to start off first on forming a decent tank company (Minimum of Tier 4) starting this Thursday Jan 12 @ 8pm (GMT+8). We're hoping to do this as a regular thing as well.

Since WOT is a free to play game, and the ability to create tank companies needs to be done by a premium account, one of the Original OMGeeks (me, blitzio or jRev) will be footing the bill for the premium account and create the company so we got that covered!

Just let us know if you're interested or need help leveling up! If you have questions also about the game, don't be shy to post em here

You can go download the game here

You also need a US account since majority of us already started there

My in-game name is inque54 so add me up if you already have the client!

Hope to tank with you guys soon

Being a PC gamer in Southeast Asia Makes Me Jelly

inque — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:06:51 +0800

I wrote an article today on how I'm jealous with our Western counterparts when it comes to gaming.

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But before this great community existed, I’d always find myself craving and wanting to join established communities such as Tactical Gamer and Forgotten Honor. Both communities are founded on the same principles of my gaming philosophies. Unfortunately, since they are based in the west, two big roadblocks stopped me in my tracks from joining them: server location and time zone.

Full article could be found here

Do you guys feel the same way?

OMGeek and Malaysian Gamer Partnership

inque — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:09:34 +0800

We would like to let you guys that OMGeek has partnered up with Malaysian Gamer. As it is OMGeek's goal to bring gamers from Southeast Asia together and this is our first step towards that direction.

More info could be found here

OMGeek Platoon Recruiting

inque — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:05:01 +0800

The mighty OMGeek [OMGk] platoon is looking for a few good men. We need people who have tactical and team play in mind first and don't mind following orders from appointed Squad leaders.

Each of our squad leaders have their own play style as listed below:

Frontal Assault - INQUE (SL)
Hitting the point hard and direct if needed. Flanking is reserved when another squad is already directly enroute or if it's too hot, but I always like taking the direct path. Hunkering down is also a key objective after taking a point.

Force Recon - Blitzio (SL)
We go after the far targets and hold until relieved. Our focus is on tactical aggression, precision attacks, surgical strikes. I am also instituting a suppressor policy for all firearms.

Frontal Assault / Vehicle support - jRev(SL)
When I'm leading a separate squad, we will most likely attempt to flank a point, attacking from different angles. I also don't mind incurring some downtime by guarding points when the need arises. I also like vehicular support roles--fire support from tanks and LAVs, CAS from helicopters, air superiority in jets (I keep crashing!), and so on. As you would expect, my most-played class is the engineer.

You will definitely be needing a mic as we communicate a lot via mumble and have set up multi-squad channels to communicate on a squad level. Squad leaders and members a like, have access to a global transmit channel to be able to feed in updates to the whole team, but this is mostly reserved for Squad Leaders to coordinate properly.

If you have more questions, just look to this thread or simply post em here

Or come chat us up in our Steam Chatroom (click on the link and you'll directly join, don't be shy!)

And here is our platoon in battlelog

Hoping to hear from interested parties soon!

[addedon]November 18, 2011, 2:55 pm[/addedon]This Sunday we are definitely pushing for Skirmish Sundays!

What is Skirmish Sundays you ask?

Skirmish Sundays it the one day that the OMGeek community can come together and do some organized teamplay. On this day we can now really follow our official Squad designations and work as a unit.

Again we focus on some tactical team play while having good ol fun!

If you have questions, hop on here , or simply reply to this post

Hope we can get more interested parties!

How Gaming Made Me: Love Firearms

inque — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:24:15 +0800

Something I wrote on how I came to appreciate the most used tool in any action game made today.

A clip from the post

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I wanted to know why some weapons dealt more damage than the others, why some had higher recoil and some didn’t kick as hard, and why are there so much freaking pointy things that go bang. You could say curiosity got the best of me and I wanted answers to all these questions. From then on, I knew that the M4 carbine was a shorter variant of the M16 rifle, why the M1 Garand made a pinging sound after the last round, why the 1911 superior in terms of stopping power and operability versus the M9 Berreta. I have become a proud Gun nut and began scrutinizing firearms in games.

Full article could be read here

Hope to hear your comments on this!

Particular PH ISP not peering well to SG

inque — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:56:09 +0800

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That was my reality with my former ISP, PLDT. Don’t get me wrong though, the bandwidth allocation was pretty constant and rarely did I have any service interruption. But what’s the use of all this bandwidth if I can’t play a smooth game online? But the most baffling and irritating part of all of this is that PLDT used to peer well with Singaporean servers. I had to do some investigating on this matter.

http://www.omgeek.net/2011/10/frustrations...he-philippines/

I would just want to share this article to you guys on how frustrating it us for us Philippine PC gamers that we need to deal with this because one of the major ISPs don't peer well to Singapore.

Thankfully there's an alternative, but not yet widely available yet in the country

I doubt you guys can relate to this problem, I just want to bring some awareness to this issue.

Let me know what you guys think

Help us ping test a potential BF3 Server

inque — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:43:57 +0800

Hey guys we're planning on renting a BF3 server but we would like to know how well you ping to it. Please reply to this thread on what the average latency you are getting. Also please list down what ISP you are using

IP Address: 216.12.196.114

Thanks in advance

I wrote a little something on Sound design

inque — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:36:49 +0800

Hey guys I posted soemthing in our blog on the appreciation of sound design. It inspired me to write this article after having my time with the BF3 beta and remembering my time playing Bad Company 2.

Let me know what you guys think!

http://www.omgeek.net/2011/09/under-apprec...f-sound-design/