See how these wheelmen roll.

See how these wheelmen roll.

Vidmaster Challenge: Deja Vu is considered one of the tougher Achievements in ODST, but as you can see, if Jack and Geoff can get it, anyone can. Well, as long as “anyone” has Caleb and Andrew on their team. Check it.

On our 22nd episode we’ve all heard the how do you dos and public service announcements of on Cap’n Average, and we’re happy to bring him on the show as a REAL guest, rather than a make believe one. Either way we cover Halo 3: ODST, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, Metal Gear: Peacewalker, and more. Dig in.

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Got two new videos for you today. The first (above) covers getting two Achievements: Crash-proof, and Quick Power.

The second video shows how to easily get the Tank Stumble Achievement. Thanks to Andrew for the help on these. Looks for more soon.

Hey Everyone,
Today’s video submission from Gavin is a nifty little guide showing how to get Stunning! in ODST. Check it out, then get the Achievement. It’s a pretty tile isn’t it? Would be great for your collection.

Hey everyone, just want to let you know that episode #29 of the Rooster Teeth Drunk Tank is available for download. You can get it via iTunes or Zune Marketplace or of course via direct download. If you’re interested in seeing the links we discuss in the podcast you should visit the official Drunk Tank group here on the website.

Pretty impressive scores. Email Contest [at] Roosterteeth.com to submit the URL of your new score and group. Guys, remember you need to play on Crater.
1) 2,351,253 Team Awesome Sauce
2) 1,565,283 fMoL
3) 1,234,230 Muppet Patrol
4) 758,458 IDontSpeakEnglish
5) 708,619 YOUR TEAM NAME
6) 597,024 The Man Cannons
7) 475,795 Afro Angel
8) 378,808 MooCow’s Homies

I’m not convinced this is the best way to do this as it doesn’t really allow the level of Google Maps interactivity I wanted (multiple simultaneous editing) but it is a possible first step.

If you launch Google Earth and choose “Network Link” from the Add menu and type in the URL:

http://rampancy.net/sites/rampancy.net/files/mombassa_odst.kml

You’ll get a blacked out Earth with a New Mombassa scan on it with a single (fake) skull placemarker I put on it.

This KML can’t be viewed in Google Maps, since Google Maps uses an entirely different method for displaying image overlays, but I might eventually be able to get that to work.

Anyway, if people were interested, they could load that KML, add placemarkers for stuff they’ve found, save them as KML files, mail them to me, and then I’d add them to the network layer.

As long as I keep the Earth coordinates of the image overlay the same, all the bookmarks should translate to any Google Maps version I might be able to create later.

The one thing I’m not sure of right now is scale— I don’t want to start collecting placemarks for the network layer until I can size the map properly. Is there anyone who can give me an idea of what the scale of the map should be, based on an in-game observation?

(I can’t do it myself, as I still don’t have the game yet).

UPDATE: I’ve repositioned the ODST map actually onto Mombasa in Kenya, on top of a likely-looking intersection that (mostly) fit was was in the map. I’ve scaled it so that the widths of the city streets match. That makes the whole map only a third of a kilometer wide, though, so I’m betting that scale is wrong.

Next steps would involve getting a higher resolution image and possibly converting it to a polygon to make it viewable in Google Maps as well as Google Earth.