Baphomet

We've already had our thanksgiving here in canada. I think we need two thanksgivings a year. I'm in the mood for turkey and mashed potatoes.

I wondered if they'd still retain console variables to change the damage of the weapons. If I ever play halflife 2 it will be good to know I can change those to make the weapons do more damage to humanoids in general, and thus make the game more enjoyable. I made a .cfg mod for singleplay halflife (No, not svencoop) that basically used a ton of those variables to make the weapons and entities (including myself) take more damage. EDIT By the way. Have any people who've actually played HL2 on this thread suffered from sound stuttering problems? Apparently it's a fairly widespread occurence that's making the experience less than immersive for those individuals affected by it.

The problem with that dynamic leaning movement control in raven shield is the fact that you were basically stuck in place whilst fine tuning your leaning. This meant, if someone tossed a grenade or you saw someone run by your pov you couldn't dodge quickly back behind something. Which to me mitigated it's usefulness. Also after you got up from your leaning position you were stuck in that position after you stopped using the dynamic leaning control and that just made things annoying. You had to essentially reset your posture which could mean valuable seconds lost. Furthermore OFP had three movement speeds as I recall. Or at least one posture in which whilst standing and moving your gun would be more steady although you'd move a bit slower. I think you used it by pressing the F key. Semi useful I suppose.

Well. Life as we know it. Has ever present risks. I myself have made some pretty risky decisions However it's all about calculated risk. I just see a place as volatile as Iraq or any similar combat situation as leaving far too much up to chance. To me, the extra security would be an investment that might pay off right when it's needed most. I'm not saying anything about people in general who've suffered disfigurement from war or what have you. Personally I think those people in the end have a lot of courage to keep going in the face of such adversity. Personally. I'd rather kick off than go on like that. So they'd be possessing more inner fortitude than me for it, in that respect.

Fair enough, if you get shot in the face with something powerful. Even if you aren't disfigured or you're not dead. You're not going to be in any condition to fight back immediately. So you may as well be dead if your enemy shoots you enough times. However. Better dead than disfigured in my opinion. An american soldier got in trouble in an incident similar to that in Iraq. They fired on a car which had insurgents in it and when they approached it, the driver I believe was heavily wounded but still alive... miraculously enough. Half his head was missing apparently and the soldier. Put him out of his misery. In that context. I think that was the humane thing to do. In MOUT operations I could see it being most useful. Glare from face shields would make utilizing optics or goggles difficult and or impossible I would surmise.

Random thought. There's absolutely -no- way I'd do any fighting of any sort if I wasn't able to wear one of those 2 inch thick ballistic face shields I've seen the spetz natz wear sometimes. Even if I had to pay for it out of my own pocket if I was a soldier. I simply wouldn't be caught without one if I had anything whatsoever to say or do about it. Ego simply wouldn't prevent me from being legitimately concerned about being hit in such a vulnerable spot. Speaking of which. That's another thing. I'd definitely want some kind of custom made cup for mobility and protection... dammit. Fighting for my country wouldn't mean squat if I had my junk blown off. Selfish as it sounds. Getting shot in the face and living to me would be as bad as dying. Perhaps worse. There's something dehumanizing about being facially disfigured unfortunately. I feel bad for people who have to live with it. In hindsight I can't imagine these people wouldn't even secretly question the events that led to them being disfigured and wonder if it was worth it or avoidable. Despite whatever mitigatory statements they might make about it's effects on them psychologically. You can't help being human. I'm pretty sure that if I had a choice between wearing excessive amounts of body protection or not. I'd opt for the body protection even if it meant sacrifices or fatigue. It might not stop an AK round, but dammit. Better safe than sorry. face saver anywhere but the face don't leave home without it

Whoops my bad. Too many snakes methinks. There was liquid snake, solid snake... and now someone else was code named snake. Yes. Much confusion.

That's the best part about it aside from the fact that it's a pack entirely dedicated to crazy Kozlice rifles!

His code name is... yes. Solid Snake Metal Gear 1 manual Metal Gear 2 manual Was it because of MGS that the title of "solid snake" seemed to be dropped in favor of just snake? Either way. He's solid snake. Â

I think what he's saying is, there's a line between the common conception of religion and when these beliefs are contorted to serve one's own... skewed perspective of reality. At which point I think it's legitimate to contend that at that point we're not speaking so much about each religion in a concrete sense, but a manipulation of it to form some kind of twisted personal dogma that acts as an enabler for people to do things of questionable morality. In my opinion Bush is doing the same damn thing. That's not religion to me, that's something else entirely.

Becauase they might put sand into my gas tank! Actually, no. Frisbee. His reply does have some worth if you look at it in the right way. You see. His flippant response to your legitimate query as to what he finds so disconcerting about Iraq, before the invasion. Is a pretty good indication of where his true opinions lie. It's my opinion this Duke of Ray is just some ignorant adolescent desk jockey who gets a laugh out of somewhat bigoted humor and the whole concept of his country knocking over a disadvantaged nation because the idiot leader of his country says it's justified. It also seems to me that he's not a native english speaker and he may or may not have been born in the United States. Either way. It would seem rather ironic that he would enjoy making off color remarks about other cultures when his own could quite possibly be the subject of the same kind of treatment in the U.S.

If you fly like you spell, you'll just end up doing your enemies a favor.

Half done or just not Raven Shield/Doom 3/Halflife/(insert ridiculous graphical comparison to any modern game here)? I like the fact that this guy is making some units that are much closer to stock OFP detail levels than others as of late? If I want a game to look immaculately detailed. I'll play a modern game. OFP was never about that level of detail to me. Making high poly/detail units for OFP is like lowering the suspension on a pickup truck to make it a lowrider because it "looks cool". It's not a sportscar, yet it can't do what it was originally intended for now... Pretty, but useless.

FC's unscripted AI was less impressive when you came to the realization that getting that "unscripted AI" to do what you want in your own custom mission requires a pretty big whip. The editor wasn't as simple and user friendly as the videos implied. There was a lot of setting up of AI profiles etc that seemed like a bleedin pain in the ass to me. I really wished they had made a simple mode for it so that you could get a relatively basic mission with the elements you want in it without a lot of work. Especially in the AI department. Also the fact that the missions in the single player game could could determine individual LOD settings for entities made it VERY annoying in making my own realism mod. I was constantly getting sniped beyond my visual range for a few snipers at certain points of the game.

Is it true you can get Airsoft guns with battery operated compressors? (ie: No frigging gas to buy?) If so, are these guns any good? I'd get into airsoft if I had people to play with, however airsoft isn't entirely legal here I think. It's also bloody expensive. I could buy a nice -real- gun for the prices they fetch here.

Powerful nations with invasive foreign policies are more dangerous to themselves as well as the international community as a whole, in my opinion. Some nations were savvy enough to stay the hell out of the whole Iraq debacle and some now are disillusioned as to what the actual goal of the whole invasion was to begin with. So yeah. I have a feeling the United States will inevitably be alone. Except for the U.K. I've heard that one of the reasons why Blair joined so willingly was more of an over compensatory gesture to dissmiss any concerns about where the country's standpoint on terror really was. Especially since I've heard that the U.K has seen a steady influx of islamic extremists over the years. Otherwise some have speculated Bush would have turned his accusing beady little eyes towards his "greatest ally".

I fucking hate steam. I just can't play any HL games online anymore. It bothers me too much that I have to have another program running on top of HL since I habitually kill almost every memory resident program that isn't essential before I start a game. Furthermore this hit's the nail on the head as far as my concern of Steam and this whole download and online registration bullshit. I mentioned in the OFP 2 forum. I still maintain, I would not buy a product if I had to run a program like steam and or authenticate via the internet. Not even OFP2. I see this is where it's it's going. I really loathe the concept of having to download a game what with how often I reformat my PC. What if you have to keep downloading the game or renewing a licence to download it every time you lose it? What if you can't burn it to a CD so you actually have a tangible copy of the game? Fuck that shit. I buy my games from a store. I don't know if that's how it works in Canada what with EULA's being void if you buy from a vendor but I think it's a good idea. Either way. I won't have anything to do with Halflife 2 if that's the case. Oh well. Oh fucking nothing! It's a serious problem. Not everyone is going to have internet access whereever they go. It's horse shit. It's bad enough microsoft is pulling that crap. I think this is going to create two estates of gamers, one of which might be left by the wayside. This will separate the hardcore nerds from the people who don't care enough about a game to go through all the crap just to play it. Personally. I can do without.

link I wonder if this will increase the United States' curiousity about what's going on over there.

Does it seem just a bit unreasonable to assume that there's a difference between the movement characteristics of a fleeing family and a group of routed insurgents? I don't think so. Furthermore they were trying to swim across the euphrates, desperate to get away from the american's indiscriminant blasting of homes only to get shot while in the water. That's just the ultimate in absurdity in my opinion. Being in a helicopter, one would have an excellent opportunity to assess, with relative safety if the people who are helpessly trying to cross a river are insurgents or a family with small children. Same thing goes for snipers. It's their job to engage targets at a long range. This again. Affording them the ability to determine if those individuals trying to keep buoyant are hostile or not. I could see that as if it was a large civilian procession of any type it seems to me that it would look extremely bad and obvious that they were being indiscriminant about who they were shooting over there.

Thats no different than making sweeping generalisations about american soldiers in vietnam. In my opinion both are just as bad. So yeah. I'd say the situation for civilians is pretty catastrophic there. People fighting to save you from murderous extremists by killing innocent people fording a river from a helicopter is a bit counter productive. Sure however, if there are any people left. I'm totally sure they'll be grateful they weren't mistakenly blown away. Not. article here

What with the pretentiousness of a lot of pseudo realistic game/mod developers. After reading the pedantic treatise on why a certain mod developer decries Free-aim based targeting systems (like ofp's) unrealistic. I just want to know that the OFP we've come to know will only be improved upon. Not changed. I swear a non free-aim targeting system would suck so bad. It's like going back to the dark ages when all we had for FPS games where shitty sci fi ones like quake. I'll curse BIS forever if they get rid of free-aim.

Ugh. It doesn't use free aim? Sorry. These guys have it a bit fucked up if they don't think free aim is realistic. I think OFP is a perfect example of how aiming -should- work. I've never seen a human being whilst shooting hold their gun rigidly in sync with their point of view when simply looking for a target to aim at. Oh wait. Not unless you count Robocop! I personally think they've hamstrung themselves in terms of realism as with their fixed view weapons. In ofp if you wanted maximum realism that the game could offer. You'd use FDF and turn off the hud reticle and try to shoot accurately off the hip... Pretty damn hard. It in my opinion better simulates the vast difference between using sights and not. In this FAQ it seems to imply they just write some code to make the bullets fly a bit more erratically out of the barrel. Depending on your current state. Lying, crouching, aiming or not aiming. That's sloppy simulation IMO.

I've been always wondering about these two types of assault rifles and the immediate pros and cons that contrast one another. I have a general understanding about why .308 assault rifles seemed to have gone the way of the dinosaur. However I'd like to know the truth about the real performance differences between the .223 and .308 assault rifles. The three I'm most interested in would be the M14, the FN-FAL and the HK G3 assault rifle. The most immediate benefit I can see that .223 assault rifles have over their .308 counterpart is controllability. That's been a staple for all the articles I've read about these .308 assault rifles. Does this necessarily say anything about the accuracy of these rifles in general? With all the problems of their full auto fire rate aside? Do .223 assault rifles gain only a  perceived benefit in accuracy because .308 assault rifles are harder to control? I'd personally like to know. Hopefully with someone who has experience. Do the .308 battle rifles in semi auto fire suffer from a lower effective range or is it the inverse? I know the M21 is essentially a match grade M14, and they're supposed to be fairly competent when it comes to hitting targets at a long range. What of the other two? The FAL and G3? Do they still have a viable role as an assault rifle with the advent of lower caliber, more easily controlled .223 battle rifles we commonly hear about these days?

One question. The only question that to me will matter. Does it use the unrealistic expanding ring system? Or something similar? Thing I love about ofp is wherever you see the muzzle pointing at that given time. thats where the bullet will travel. It won't travel in some random arbitrary direction within a certain angle threshold (ie: the stupid aiming ring). The expanding ring system, typically forces the player to adopt a certain knowledge of the expanding ring system which is contrary to what it's like to actually fire a gun, unless you're one of those FPS fanatics, the learning process of such a system isn't intuitive. Take counterstrike for example. It's pretty much quake with realistic models. Even though OFP isn't perfect by any means. At least you can expect a bullets point of origin to be from the muzzle in ofp.

I was thinking he meant the wear and tear factor. However I'd think that would primarily concern the firing mechanism and the barrel. Unless he's simply talking about how easily it can be manhandled without it breaking or what have you.