From the couch front, to the Battlefield 4!

By Mr. Grey

Everything hurts... My feet, the scars on my face, and hell, I think even my boots feel like they're hurting... And at the forefront of my mind is how hungry I am getting. One can't help bu feel hungry when they are beat, electrocuted, and forced to watch one of your friends get his teeth knocked in. Funny thing is, we did not give them any information. The funny thing is Irish would have spilled his guts for some food, but all that is in the past now. Out objective, we must destroy the dam! I pick up my very expensive, and very fancy PLD (Portable Laser Designator).

I see at least fifteen enemies, with another hundred yards or more to cover as more enemies hide, each one wanting our heads impaled on a stick. I can still hear Irish and Hana fighting about where we should plant the C4. I get very tired of this and pick out two enemies that had wondered off by themselves. I grab my Steyr Scout Elite sniper rifle I hold my breath and let the bullet travel to the first target. He felt nothing as I quickly found the second one in my sights. I follow and lead him as he RUNS OFF the dam!

I switch to my PLD and watch as he lands on the ground safely and still continues to run. I pause my game. Great another thing I can add to the list of crap that has happened on battlefield 4. So far the list of bugs I have found in this game is as follows:

three times my memory and game progress has been wiped along with the awards I worked hard to achieve. So I had to start all over again, I even had to pull an all nighter to get this done. Even so, I tripped up two times in the process. It got to be such a problem that I had to report the problems to Sony. But even then, I had to pick up the game and fight my way through enemies that I already killed before. Another time, as I was climbing up a ladder, I glitched through Irish. After that, I got tossed through the air, landing on a pile of sharp pointy rubble that was on fire. I was stuck, and could not escape as the fire began killing me. Basically this forced me to restart again...

So what do I think of Battlefield 4's storyline? Over all it is good, but having to watch the same crap over and over thanks to all those glitches got old fast. This really does not feel well knowing that the game was not finished. It's nice that they got multi-player polished up, but the holes left in the other aspects of the game made it frustrating. Like the game crashing, and losing memory files. But if one of you were to buy this game, more than likely you are getting it for the multi-player, which they were ACTUALLY able to get done in time. So my question is, when will the new “Battlefield: Bad Company” come out? will they ever finish that story? All questions we want answers to, and so far... no answers... *sigh*

Boxing Training, Entry 4

three full hours of training, man that was a work out. Got so tired at the end, but just had to keep hanging in there, but I felt confident for once. I don't have too much to say, other than I really needed to let off that excess steam. Everyone I sparred with was just great, even if they don't think they were, they did fine, they just need to build up that confidence.

Boxing Training, Entry #3, Sparring with a pro

I managed to get some really good work in today. Did some mitt work with a friend of mine, and sat in on Beginners class. After that, I jumped over to train with Coach Alex and Other Jeff. We did a lot of mitt work, feinting, and feeding punches. Afterward Coach Brent Weedman, of Bellator fame on Spike TV, asked if Other Jeff and I would like to spar with the guys he was training. I was hoping for some sparring training today, so I was pretty happy. Things went okay, didn't get hit too much, or too hard, though Other Jeff and Khan both hit me in the gut pretty good, but I had to breathe in deep to keep pushing on. Afterward, one guy was gassed and decided he didn't have another round in him. So Coach Brent suddenly say's “eh... I'll go a round then”

I took a look around and thought about the rotation we had been maintaining. Then the thought hit me “... shit... that means me...”

I dunno if Coach Brent remembers, but it was about 8 months back, the first time I had sparred him. He caught me in the chest with an uppercut. Then shortly after that one, another Uppercut followed. The second one floored me, causing INTENSE pain in my chest. I was partially freaked, mainly cause I was like “I didn't think punches like that were only possible in anime!” I thought, like the nerd I am. He encouraged me to finish the round, which I did, BUT those two punches continued to follow for the following 4 months after. My sternum had been bruised, and anytime contact was made, it would pretty much make he fall into the ropes. This happened 7or 8 times before I decided I need to rest my body, so I cut back on sparring for about a month. Time past, it healed, and I've never felt pain like that ever again.

Well, when I saw him putting on gloves, I had flash backs to that moment once again. I was a newbie standing before I giant, just waiting to be crushed. If memory serves correctly, last time we sparred, I only landed two punches, to his abs... which were like bricks...

I took some deep breaths and thought back to What Coach Jeff had told me. When I sparred him recently for the first time in about 4 months, he told me that I has came a long way. I landed more punches on him, and I wasn't phased or intimidated by his punches as much anymore... though they still hurt... a lot. So I thought about that, and decided that I wasn't going to think of Brent Weedman as the fighter that I know him as, and just thought about how I had to use everything I know to not let his experience give him as big of an edge as I knew it was going to. I managed to land more punches, actually turned his chin a couple of times. Though Coach Brent definitely had the more experience. I wasn't laid out like last time, but the feeling that I learned something from someone better than me was still there.

Sadly Coach Brent Weedman will be leaving us at Derby City MMA, but it has been an honor and a privilege to know him, and to spar him. I felt I learned a lot from the few times we sparred, despite injury the first time. All today's sparring session assured me of, is that I have definitely made progress over this year at DCMMA, and it takes fighting someone much greater than you to realized what you have truly accomplished, but what you still need to achieve at the same time. So to Coach Brent, I hope life treats you well, and here's to maybe sparring again someday.