The Field Test

July 13, 2010

Send Us Your Screenshots!

Remember that time you got 2 headshot's with a single sniper bullet? or the time you exterminated the whole team with that carefully placed sticky? Well I hope you saved a screenshot to your bungie.net because we here at FieldTest want to see it. And better yet you could be featured on our screenshot of the week. It can be a picture of anything. A halo glitch, a insane multi-kill or just something funny.

All you have to do is send us an email to FieldTestScreenShots@gmail.com with a description of the photo you want us to display and a link to the picture and you just might see it posted right here at TheFieldTest for everybody to see.

July 9, 2010

Screen Shot of the Week

1v1 Pit Slayer:
I was retreating, running backwards down long haul when a nade was thrown off the wall and a sniper shot was fired. The bullet bounced off the wall and hit me, nullifying my shields. Then the nade ("with the hands of the guardians that hate me") lands right between my legs. Very unlucky!
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Luckylately

Cheap Xbox Wireless Network Adapter Alternative

This might be old news for some of you guys, however it is our job here at Field Test to inform the rest of you everything we know to make your Xbox gaming experience better. For just a Microsoft xbox wireless network adaptor G, $80 is way to steep a price for the gamer on a budget and upgrading to a N adaptor jumps up the price to $100. So what are the other ways to connect to Xbox Live? We have complied a list of our best Xbox network alternatives and links to where you can find them.

1. For those gamers who loath slow connections and truly believe anything not running a Wireless N is just a big waste of space, we have the Mad Catz Wireless Network N Adaptor. Coming in both white in back this alternative will hopefully satisfy the picky gamers out there who still needs to match there PJ's with there favourite Video Game. (mine are indeed the Halo3 PJ's i got from Walmart) but for only $20 dollars less we were determined to do you better.

2. For the gamer who doesn't want to have to tinker with their xbox for a few hours and would prefer a plug and play option we found this Xbox Wireless adaptor replica. Although not made my Microsoft this Wireless adaptor looks and works just like the real thing but for $45.64 its at half the price. You can find this HERE at Dealz Extreme. Although it only comes in the network G model, it does come in black and white to match your xbox.

3. An awesome alternative we found that beats any wireless network adaptor is a power-line network adaptor. What this does is it connects your network signal from your router into your house power-line. From there you can access your network signal from any room in your house that has a power outlet nearby.We found this Video to explain how it works HERE. This allows you to have ethernet quality internet connection anywhere in your house with out running 100 feet of cable. We found this adaptor for as little as $24.19 HERE. Please note that this option at a good price may be a difficult find but it is out there. With the best connection of all our options and a more than reasonable price this is defiantly a Field Test Favourite and we encourage anyone who is looking to re-amp there networking system to check this option out.

4. Lastly for the gamer who has just scraped the bottom of his pocket to pre-order halo reach this summer and is flat broke, we have an option that will cost you nothing. This is if you have a laptop. With just your Xbox, an ethernet cable(cross over cable in some cases) and your laptop we found a way to run xbox live off of your laptop's wireless connection. We cant say that it is super fast however he have tested it on both Mac and PC and it runs perfectly fine.

Mac
Windows XP, Vista and 7

So there it is folks. The good, the better and the free. We do advise that you research any option and read reviews before purchasing anything to ensure its the perfect fit for you. We are not paid by any of these products. These are just our opinions. This is Field test signing off and hoping one of these alternatives work out for you. If it does, we may be seeing you soon on Xbox Live.

July 7, 2010

Bungie Day! Can you say Flaming Armour?

With a surprise move, today July 7th 2010 Bungie has given everyone a chance to look like Bungie employees with their flaming helmets making everyone in the halo community go snap happy. Everyone is dashing to their consoles as word spreads trying to capture their moment with their character's helmet roasting under an inferno. We are just waiting for the youtube posers to upload new videos screaming "I'm a bungie employee!!!" Never-the-less, we at The Field Test cannot deny that we took a video running around with no apparent direction just to get ten minutes of video with our heads lit. After numerous photos being taken and several reminders that "You can only upload 100 custom content items and you are running close to that limit," we finally put down our controllers happily. Thanks Bungie!!!

July 6, 2010

The First Video - Quick Scope Tutorial!

Well, it has been in the making for many weeks now and finally the day has arrived! Field Test's first video has been released on youtube. The video is a tutorial of the quick scope, a necessity for any good sniper.

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Quick scoping is a skill that is great to have in your arsenal when it comes to sniping. Everyone and their grandmother can snipe a guy standing still while zoomed, but this will teach you how to take out almost anyone, before they have a chance to shoot back.
Here’s the theory. While zoomed, you have better accuracy. That’s obvious. So we are going to take full advantage of that.
1)Coarse Adjustment: No scope. Make your major adjustment without scoping. This isn’t too hard and is fairly easy to get good at.
2)Zoom: Once your reticule is close to your target, zoom in.
3)Fine Adjustment: Once zoomed, make any small adjustment needed. This shouldn’t be very much since you did all the work before you zoomed.
4)Shoot: Pull the trigger.
Quick scoping has saved my tail more times than I care to mention. It is a must in team snipers and comes in handy when playing Team Slayer or MLG. You can even quick scope while being battle rifled. There is enough time in between the battle rifle shots that you can scope and give the opponent a quick headshot leaving him shocked that you just “no scoped” him.
As always, techniques don’t come right away. Practice, practice, practice. Take some time and get to know quick scoping well. I promise, it will help your K/D in team snipers and improve your gameplay. Keep the scope moving.

If you want to see a quick scope master at work, then look no farther than Neighbour in this gameplay:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dLSHUbxkYI

July 2, 2010

WHERE DO I WATCH MY TV SHOWS NOW!?!?!?!? RIP Ninja Video

It was a sad day yesterday for the crew here at Field Test. Our daily ritual has been jerked into a sudden hult when the news about the end of Ninja video hit the news papers first thing July 1st 2010. Thanks allot for dealing with the issue on CANADA DAY by the way.(HAPPY CANADA DAY BTW) It seems that the TV and film industry has had enough of us watching everything on the net. I mean you can't really blame them but you can't blame the rest of us either for making our lives easier. Now a days everything is done over the internet like Banking and shopping. It was just easier to watch the shows we wanted in the comfort of our homes on our own time schedule. For a minute it seemed like the way of the future. Never the less its their right to fight back and ninja video seems like just another beautiful thing the american government have destroyed like the Avro Arrow.

On the morning of July 1st 2010 United States Federal Agents shut down 9 websites charged in Film and TV piracy. Sites include NinjaVideo TVShack, ThePirateCity and PlanetMoviez. NewYork Times stated, "The sites had made pirated versions of Toy Story 3 and Iron Man 2 available within hours of their release in theatres". I would firstly want to point out that they have ALL movies out in a matter of minutes after the first showings. If your gonna charge them atleast give them the credit they deserve. Secondly i personally watched both those movies on opening day. I do Understand piracy is wrong however allot of us out there still go to the movies and watch TV. These sites just provide us with the ability to watch some of the shows and older movies at a moments notice with out having to remember to stop by the local video shop or rush home to make the 9 o'clock airing of "Big Bang Theory". But thats just this writers opinion.

Update: July 12, 2010 GreatStuff TV Bites the Dust!

July 1, 2010

Xbox 360 is Back With New Pet Tricks?

Thanks to the economy in the current state it has been for the past few years, Microsoft has gone ahead and declared that the Xbox 360 will be the latest console from Microsoft until at least 2015. This is great news for the money conscious gamer who wants to keep up with all the new games. With this said, Xbox has released its Xbox slim which has been rightfully nick named “The New Xbox”. With only a 17% size reduction compared to the PS3 30% reduction, it has us at Field Test wondering what crappy diet Xbox has been on. With all joking aside the new Xbox was designed to prepare for the system requirements of the Kinect system designed by Natal. Microsoft intelligently took this opportunity to throw on some of the add-on’s the fans have asked for like built in Wi-Fi.

With the biggest complaint about the Xbox so far, its inability to hide finger prints, we at Field Test would have liked to see Microsoft to throw a HD player on there console. Playstation was able to slap on Wi-Fi and a blue-ray player the first time. With that said the verdict is that for only $50 more at FutureShop, anyone looking into buying a Xbox should defiantly look in to the “New Xbox” considering a wireless add-on is going to run you 70 bones. For existing Xbox users, Unless you are crazy enough to fill up 120Gb on your HDD (Cleanup those friggen demos already) or are extremely acoustically sensitive to the loud disk drive, we at Field Test think we all can last till 2015. That’s unless we all RED RING!

For Those of you worried about not being able to running Kinect on your old Xbox, Microsoft has announced that the old Xbox will be compatible. We at Field Test however are assuming you will need an additional wall outlet to make up for the "USB on steroids" build in on the New Xbox.

Amazingly, for the first time in Xbox history, there are currently no known over heating problems with the "New Xbox"as of yet however you can be sure that if there is, The Field Test will be here to inform you.