Wednesday, February 27, 2013

XCOM, LoL

I did it!  I finished XCOM.  Checkout my unlocked achievement.

Humanity's saviour

I started playing over Christmas at my in-laws cause we were visiting and I had buckets of time.  I was power levelling at the end cause I thought the last level was going to be stupid hard.  That, and there would be 2 or 3 diffident squads assaulting select parts of the ship (as opposed to just 1).  After all that grinding, apparently for no good reason, my soldiers beat the game in a blow out.  A little anticlimactic, but I am satisfied.  Here's a snapshot of our heroes:

The team that accomplished the mission

vs.

Team Valkyrie that I wanted to end the game with.
Wait.  They're all...how come they all have the same colour...

ARMOUR!  Yes, good question.  I am too cheap to pay for the Elite Soldier Pack and did not expect enough of the game to pre-order it, which again, would have given me the same thing.  Um, as of writing, I just remembered my brother customizing his XCOM squad with flamboyant colours  You know what?  Never mind.  Moot point now.

So what's next?  I'm not going to play the Slingshot expansion pack right away.  I'm going to play the next StarCraft 2 episode.  But, seeing as how there are still a couple weeks before Heart of the Swarm, I'm jumping in and out of some sweet League of Legends.  Check out my primary and secondary champions:


I really had no idea the Monkey King was going to be one of the champions, but I was scrolling sawhimERMAGHED!!INSTABUY!!so here he is.  Lux is little more of a different story.  It was a toss up between her and Fiora what with the fencing and the sword.  But really, when I considered it a little more carefully,  2 melee charters may get kinda old kinda quick.  Therefore, I elected to go with a ranged support glass mage.  Very low HP.  Very squishy.  =(

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Pavilion

Here's a work in progress that almost slipped by.  A Chinese pavilion digital model based on an elevation of a gate from the Laio Dynasty.  

Oh, that Liao Dynasty!  Why didn't you just say so?

Sounding like a broken record, this is part of a bigger master plan (that is crawling at a snail's pace).  But I least I have some colours in mind.  Without further delay, how about some quick spin arounds?

The same way I love them Lamborghini convertibles. Topless.

I have no clever pun for the roof.

Lots of work left.  Especially modeling a suitable site.  In the likely possibility that never comes around, I'll just slap this on top of Queen's Park.