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“Gentlemen’s Siege” – ArcheAge castle siege video, Kyrios server. Recorded by Pantyhose, lvl 50 tank-spec Blighter Discussion: http://forums.archeagegame.com/showthread.php?169708 ArcheAge: http://www.trionworlds.com/archeage/en/ Kyrios (NA): http://forums.archeagegame.com/forumdisplay.php?56-Kyrios-%28NA%29 Castle siege by The White Order against Refuge for Nuimari’ castle. I participated on my west alt, Pantyhose, along with numerous other members of the General Assembly alliance. I was hoping for an interesting fight but it ended up being a boring spawn camp lasting less than 10 minutes :( Hope there’ll be no siege-blocking next week so I can make a more interesting siege video. The song clip in the intro is “Bullet for Prisoner” by …

“The Guardians” – ArcheAge castle siege video, Kyrios server. Recorded by Pantyhose, lvl 50 tank-spec Blighter Discussion: http://forums.archeagegame.com/showthread.php?164892 ArcheAge: http://www.trionworlds.com/archeage/en/ Kyrios (NA): http://forums.archeagegame.com/forumdisplay.php?56-Kyrios-%28NA%29 Castle siege by The Guardians agains The White Order for Heedmars’ castle. I participated on my west alt, Pantyhose, along with numerous borrowed members from Gank Bus, Chill, Refuge, Catalyst, Lazy Gamers, OPP and many more (I’m not very familiar with the west faction guilds, sorry!). This siege was done using siege tanks only so we were not expecting to win, especially with TWO’s abusive castle design (walls around both the gatehouse, the spawn point, and the …

“Carpe Diem” – ArcheAge 1v1 arenas PvP video, Kyrios server. Recorded by Desiree, lvl 50 tank-spec Blighter Discussion: http://forums.archeagegame.com/showthread.php?163077 ArcheAge: http://www.trionworlds.com/archeage/en/ Kyrios (NA): http://forums.archeagegame.com/forumdisplay.php?56-Kyrios-%28NA%29 Contains various random 1v1 arena PvP footage as a Blighter. I got bored of 5v5s and only recently decided to start doing 1v1 arenas again so my skills are still quite a bit rusty. You’ll notice me missing the Shadowsmite backstab a few times and a few other dumb mistakes, but being in tank gear really helps with that leeway. Now that I’m finally done with Serpentis and have 10-man Dahuta on farm, those on Kyrios …

“Sea of Drowned Love” – ArcheAge 10-man Dahuta-boss PvE dungeon clear video, Kyrios server. Recorded by Desiree, lvl 50 tank-spec Blighter Discussion: http://forums.archeagegame.com/showthread.php?159744 ArcheAge: http://www.trionworlds.com/archeage/en/ Kyrios (NA): http://forums.archeagegame.com/forumdisplay.php?56-Kyrios-%28NA%29 The “Sea of Drowned Love” dungeon consists of a single boss (Dahuta), who has 4 stages. Stage 1 is waves of mobs, Stage 2 is a regular tanking with more waves of mobs, stage 3 (“First Declaration”) requires a secondary tank to switch aggro with due to her stacking debuff while waves slide across the screen, and stage 4 (“Second Declaration”) involves more waves and more mobs. This was a video of …

“Heaven’s Fall” – ArcheAge open world PvP video, Kyrios server. Recorded by Desiree, lvl 50 tank-spec Blighter Discussion: http://forums.archeagegame.com/showthread.php?157755 ArcheAge: http://www.trionworlds.com/archeage/en/ Kyrios (NA): http://forums.archeagegame.com/forumdisplay.php?56-Kyrios-%28NA%29 Contains various random open world PvP footage with Last Resort. First clip was an impromptu 5v5 that TWO invited us to, which was unfortunately interrupted by PRX just before we finished the fight. Second part is some group PvP in Hasla since it was war time, in which we pretty much wiped the area of reds and kept them spawn camped for a short while. Third part is some more group PvP in Cinderstone where we …

“Kyrios Ravens” – ArcheAge castle siege video, Kyrios server. Recorded by Desiree, lvl 50 sword-shield Blighter Discussion: http://forums.archeagegame.com/showthread.php?146417 ArcheAge: http://www.trionworlds.com/archeage/en/ Kyrios (NA): http://forums.archeagegame.com/forumdisplay.php?56-Kyrios-%28NA%29 Contains material from the castle siege attack by The White Order against Mostly Harmless for Marcala. The Mostly Harmless side consisted of a mixture of MH, PRX and Marked members, with myself being borrowed from Marked, fighting for the MH side. The first half of the video contains castle siege footage in which the defenders attacked the front gate with trebuchets and glider bombs, to which the defenders responded by suicide destroying the trebuchets and Imprison-blocking. The …

“The Keeps of Kyrios” – ArcheAge Conquest of Auroria keep claim video Recorded by Desiree, lvl 50 sword-shield Blighter from Mostly Harmless Discussion: http://forums.archeagegame.com/showthread.php?115731 Mostly Harmless: http://mostly-harmless-guild.com ArcheAge: http://www.trionworlds.com/archeage/en/ Kyrios (NA): http://forums.archeagegame.com/forumdisplay.php?56-Kyrios-%28NA%29 Contains material from the launch of Auroria on 2014/11/04 on the Kyrios (NA) server and footage of PvP fights in Sungold Fields map mines and the subsequent keep claims. The Auroria map server was extremely overloaded and laggy that day, making PvP extremely difficult and even impossible in the case of the claiming of Marcala’s keep). Also had to click a lot of my skills as keypresses would …

This is actually a video I found uploaded on Youku. Was surprised it wasn’t reposted on YouTube so I took the liberty to do so. Enjoy! (It’s infinitely much funnier when you actually play the game xD) ~Keripo

After 5 years of gaming on a laptop, I finally decided to go all out this Black Friday and build myself a powerful gaming desktop. After some researching around (aka poking around Logical Increments and Tom’s Hardware) and getting some advice/assistance from friends, I put together my first desktop, a pretty mean machine too. And of course, this called for many pictures as well as an obligatory FRAPS test. Blade & Soul (CN) at max settings, killing a random world boss. YouTube compression completely killed the video quality unfortunately :( See the higher quality version here

This post was originally written for Guild Wars 2 (specifically in explaining why ArenaNet hasn’t stopped fly hackers stealing orbs in WvW yet), but applies to pretty much any and every online game with damage/fly/wall/aim-bot hacks. In this post, there are two sections: “How does game hacking work?” and “What kinds of hacks are there?” I’m reposting it here after hearing about the recent Final Fantasy XIV hack as it is a “how-in-the-world-was-this-even-allowed-to-happen” example of a network connection hack described in the last section, although technically no game client is even needed in FFXIV’s case and no decryption is necessary …