Baphomet
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In Daggerfall vampirism was as easy as going to the nearest temple that offered services to cure.. which I kind of like better...
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Yeah but I -always- got shot out of the sky by what I assume to be a strela, if there was any AA around.
So it was a foregone conclusion that I would be forced to use APCs and trucks to remain safe.
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In Daggerfall if you stayed a vampire for long enough you became a "vampire ancient" and essentially lost the game because you became a totally evil-consumed mindless bloodsucker, type-thing.
Is that how it works in Oblivion?
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How can you not discuss Iraq without discussing the politics involved and the media that covers it?
Fair enough though.
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While I was playing CCE, I noticed I was getting blown out of the sky quite a bit using my transport helo, so I thought I'd try using the BAS_MH47 which incorporates amongst a wide variety of great features, countermeasures for AA missiles.
However as I was playing I started to wonder if it would be possible to integrate other features of the MH47 into the transport helo role via scripts, etc.
Has anyone tried this?
Most notably would be key features normally requiring being a part of the same squad. Stationary flight, raising lowering height, etc would be great features to be able to use through the helo orders menu to facilitate the use of rappelling, etc.
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Quote[/b] ]@Baphomet:Well I've played Morrowind for some time on a GF3 ti200 can't remember any slowdowns, the game used a new water shader thingy which was quite fun to see especially when it was raining. I don't want to try Oblivion on the 'minimum' system specs ever lol its really horrible when you put everything down, looks even worse than Morrowind imo. You should atleast have the recommended specs unless Bethesda comes with an sort of magical patch that increases performance.
No, no. It had nothing to do with slowdown and had everything to do with the pausing every 20 to 30 seconds to load the next block of trees, etc.
The framerate was always decent no matter what PC I ran it on, however it always did that frequent loading stutter that lasted a fraction of a second and it just killed it. A good frame rate means nothing if the game pauses intermittently to load random crap.
And additionally, I won't touch Oblivion until I have a new pc. End of story, but I mean if it still suffers from the "morrowind syndrome" of running like complete garbage for completely arbitrary reasons regardless of how powerful your PC is, it makes me question even wanting to buy it to begin with.
If the 360 version had support for a mouse+keypad, there wouldn't be a question I'd opt for it just because it's easier than agonizing over how to configure and spending retarded amounts of money on a system to run it. But I absolutely cannot enjoy games like that with a controller.
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As far as the AP goes and their coverage if Iraq, by comparison to that site you mentioned they seem less biased. At the very least they're not criticizing other publications of being biased by pushing a personal bias of their own.
To refer to an individual with a term that is commonly used to describe them within their own culture or social circle, doesn't seem like an issue of partiality to me.
When I see "martyr", or "militant" or "mujahideen" I see them referring to those individuals in general (regardless of region) as being defined in concurrence with their culture. I don't see it as an attempt to change my opinion toward or marginalize what the particular individuals in question are or do, it's up to the rest of the article to define that.
To label that as a political bias seems like the response of a politically biased reactionary, in my opinion.
Much as how spanish inquisitors  historically weren't referred to as sadistic murderers by definition, the fighters in Iraq, etc, are referred to as mujahideen or martyrs, as per the tenets of their culture rather than murderers/terrorists, etc. You know just as well as I do what the broad spectrum of armed partisans in Iraq are capable of (ranging from attacking/bombing american troops, to kidnapping, to torture, or killing of civilians, acting in organized outfits or in small groups) . An article doesn't need an unequivocal idealogical bias to point that out. Any intelligent reader would undertand this point. If anything to use such simple terms would paint the diverse range of situations in Iraq with a inaccurately broad brush. So, really I think it depends from article to article what is appropriate.
That to me seems more impartial than labeling them "murderers", "terrorists", etc, as a whole. The Israel article notwithstanding seeing as how it's not Iraq related and seems somewhat irrelevant to the armed conflict that's occuring in Iraq.
Oh and saving the forum from a consecutive post, here's an interesting article
Ex-Delta force member criticizes the situation in Iraq.
Quote[/b] ]Tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis have been killed in which no one in the U.S. really cares about those people, do they? I never hear anybody lament that fact. It has been a horror, and this administration has worked overtime to divert the American public's attention from it.It's my personal moral/political bias talking, but... I can wholeheartedly agree with what he's saying.
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Quote[/b] ]You need to tweak this game carefully :P Yesterday I had a perfect 30 fps now I changed something and have ~15 fps  . Back to the x360 then. ÂThat's extremely discouraging.
Someone mentioned the game running flawlessly on a slower computer, that's the same problem I had with Morrowind, only the three pcs of varying speeds I owned never ran it right.
Yet my friend with an 1.3ghz AMD ran just fine... fucking killed me.
The only problem is I have a serious problem playing games like this with a controller. I just can't do it. The reduced precision of a joypad just kills it as bad as unreliable performance does.
Bethesda is a shite company for not providing better tech support.
Quote[/b] ]Well best tweak for me was putting grass, distant off and decrease viewdistance. =) I tried the thief class yesterday was quite funny to rob the "best defence" shops armor on the table and selling them.That's a classic gameplay feature that dates back to Daggerfall, stay in a store after it closes, rob it blind, sell the inventory back the next day.
I miss Daggerfall
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I'd suggest tougher versions of the cars with stronger windshields be made, for deathmatch purposes. I've played with the cars + modified offroad coefficients on my LAN and it was pretty damn easy to just shoot someone and kill them, effectively reducing the whole driving and shooting potential.
Ever consider making a car themed similar to a merco benz?
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Quote[/b] ]Blame it all on the soldiers who went there and spit on them when they return home, as the yanks did in Vietnam.I don't know if anyone here is doing that. Personally I feel bad for the majority of them, I know I couldn't feel proud of where I was or what I was doing if it were me, and being aware of the circumstances, it'd take some strong mental contortionism and denial to do so on my part.
From what I've seen and read, it seems a lot of the soldiers over there are just trying to get by and make some good of it in any way they can, others seem to become frustrated and aggressive, as we saw with the british troops.
I've got the most sympathy for the ones that were signed up before 9/11, they're just doing their job. A lot of regular everyday people just making a living as a soldier, which isn't an easy thing to do.
I do however personally have a lot of contempt for the administration that sends these people to die based on shitty intelligence and lies. I spit on them, not the troops.
If one correlates the criticism and  trivialization of this conflict, and the reason why they went into it as spitting on them. Well that's just a truckload of sweaty bollocks. To me it just means the whole situation is fubar and unfortunately for them, they've got to make the best of it.
On the other hand though. They all DID sign up for military service, which precludes possible military action, which involves combat and death and all those other things.
The Iraqi people did not. There are a lot of average every day people like you and me, who have had to make do in a rather crappy country, which was made exponentially crappier since it was invaded and destabilized. I've got the most sympathy for them, they're not the enemy, yet they're bearing the brunt of the hardships caused by this. This is where they live, soldiers if they survive get to go home. A place a hell of a lot nicer than what the majority of Iraqis will ever have.
I don't reserve my sense of humanity for those who share the same country or skin color. The average Iraqi has it much worse than anyone else in this conflict.
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You're missing the point, any perceived political bias is irrelevant to the core of the articles which describe both Bush and McCain behaving like impotent jackasses spouting off using two different methods to achieve similar goals.
The point is it's just inconsequential showmanship on their part. Bush is in effect preaching to the choir with his attempt at an optimistic spin, and McCain is trying to shift blame to the interim government for the current mess in this country, both try to effect public opinion in the U.S about where the governing party and it's leadership are going. Which is important I guess, what with Bush and his administration waning in approval.
Unless of course you're implying that these articles are outright lies. At which point I'd say you live in the same logical realm as Bill O'fuckchop-Reilly.
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Curse Microsoft and their resource sucking .net.
Do not want.
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Quote[/b] ]McCain, Feingold pressure Iraq’s leaders, Key senators tell officials that American patience is growing thinhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12010122/
To paraphrase: omfg, fix the mess we've made of your country already... or else.
My question is exactly what else?
I guess they're playing a range of their diplomatic cards on this one, ranging from empty threats, to asking "pretty please" Â trying to cover any effective means of keeping this from spinning out of control.
Ya think it's going to work?
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Two replies! This is great, thanks for taking the time to give me a hand!
@ Terox, that's not half bad. Only I personally find the repair times to be sitting at the other extreme as far as time consumption goes. I'll probably fiddle with it to see if I can cut down the time, thanks for posting it.
@Xcess, that looks pretty simple and straightforward, except I'm not sure about implementation of it as far as the first script goes, and what I should put in the initstring of the unit using these scripts.
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The predators would go well with some kind of jumping/wall climbing script such as those used for itweas ninjas.
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Has anyone been able to make a more versatile repair script for infantry with the improvement of scripting commands way back when?
Gandalf's infantry repair script is probably the one I most liked, however you must define vehicles by name for them to be repaired.
I don't suppose it's possible to define repairables by their parent vehicle classes, otherwise someone might have already done it.
That script is fine for missions that don't randomly spawn vehicles, but otherwise, it's not as useful.
I know it's possible to add transportrepair=xxxxx to an infantryman; the only problem is you need two people to repair the vehicle, and it's just ridiculously fast how the vehicle gets repaired, I'd like something a bit more balanced.
I was considering a check at OFPEC, but since they're down. I'm asking here. I've also poked around OFP.info for any addons that may have addressed this issue.
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Will the punks, etc be made to accept standard bis faces? It'd make them a bit more useful in creating a variety of them for post apocalyptic themed missions.
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Quote[/b] ]The neighboring countries might disagree.Oh come on, Saddam got royally spanked by the Iranians during their little set-to. Of course Kuwait is an other blue-chip oil-rich nation, so they're got all the help they needed to put him in his place.
The kurds had it shitty, but no more than some of the african nations during the 90s. You didn't see the U.S or anyone running up into those places and shutting it all down to save their asses. By comparison to other individuals who committed atrocious acts in conflict ridden areas of the world. I don't think he's especially worse, it's just the fact that so much attention was brought to him. He was just a selfish twat with a lot of money and a cold heart, he wasn't terribly smart with what he had though.
What I'm saying is, if the U.S was dead serious about addressing REAL threats to their national security, they would have forgotten all about Iraq and focused on a nation that's, you know, actually got weapons of mass destruction.
The Iraq invasion pretext was rife with lame excuses and outright lies, there is an ulterior motive there and it wasn't the philanthropic deed the administration tried to spin it as to drum up support. That was just a bullshit afterthought aimed to shore up any uncertainty. At the most you could call it a generic attempt at imperialism, nation building.
As far as Iran goes, I seriously think that this whole Iraq mess has exacerbated the problems with them, because they see themselves as the next target, which is why I think it spurred them on to start or expedite the development of a nuclear deterrent strategy. From my perspective the Bush administration is going to have to lie in the bed it's made as far as the political landscape of the middle east is concerned, and right now... it's looking like some kind of nasty stained, flea-bag hotel kinda bed. Not pretty. However it was for the most part, avoidable.
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It is a good addon, only I see there was quite a debate about the overall scale, and to be honest, fudging on the scale of the gun so that it fits properly in the players hand would, since it just looks funny to see the grip just hanging there not being held.
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Quote[/b] ]1.No mounted combat.
2.No pole arms, crossbows, or throwing weapons of anykind.
Mount and blade owns that. Not even metro can touch it.
Quote[/b] ]Call me back when they make a falloutish version of it.Ugh. No. That's one thing the fallout community DOESN'T want.
Morrowind with guns... Â
Great way to rape a good franchise, turn it into a shitty post apocalyptic Deus Ex.
Quote[/b] ]an that would that be what exactly? (never played fallout)Have you been living on the moon!? Fallout is only one of the greatest RPGs eva!
I watched the Gamespot 12 hour marathon of morrowind... well three hours of it. It does look like they basically learned from all the horrible mistakes they made with Morrowind and made a reasonably decent sequel to Daggerfall finally. They added a lot of gameplay features that generally seem to enhance upon the idea of the original. It's nothing absolutely ground breaking but if I could get it to run on a new pc as well as it did on the 360, I would buy it.
One of my biggest complaints about morrowind was the lame pausing every 10 seconds to load the next block of trees, regardless of how fast my pc was, ranging from 1.8 to 3.2 ghz, it always did that, and it just killed the game for me.
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The only thing I want to know is: Why hasn't this been done sooner!?
I've always wanted cars and bikes with guns... whyyyy?
Anyhow I'm definitely going to check these out.
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Quote[/b] ]Also, the latest release of CCE incorporates DAC.I noticed that, and I'm a huge fan of the CCE. If Game 2 is anything similar to this type of gameplay, I'll have a lot of fun with it.
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Oh I'm not saying Kim Jong Il isn't a threat, but it just goes to show where U.S priorities are that they go after the practically non existent threat, and completely ignore Kim Jong Il altogether.
Of course big brother china is also a factor, so it's just easier for them to knock over the Iraqi military, which proved to be easier than it was the first time around.
The point is Saddam never really had any serious chance at getting WMDs even his "super gun" was a monumentally useless waste of money. He was a selfish profit driven sociopath. But that could be said for a lot of world leaders. He was a threat to his own people, for sure, but there are a lot of oppressive regimes that have come and gone throughout the years. I didn't see the U.S going into Rwanda to prevent that genocide, or currently the killings going on in southern sudan, which the U.S government jointly deemed "not" a genocide scenario, to avoid having to deploy there.
It's not just his people...Quote[/b] ]but the amount of terror his peoplelet's not conveniently turn a blind eye to the fact that torture has been conducted by coalition forces, and the sheer amount of incidents where innocent people had been killed in the ensuing chaos, intentional or not, still has a powerful effect on the lives of Iraqis. Absolving them of that responsibility is entirely wrongheaded. Yeah, they're doing a job over there, but that doesn't detract from any of the substantial damage this invasion has caused the country.
It's now just a big giant mess altogether, doing something about it, and not doing anything about it have roughly the same effect, and both are going to be fraught with death and discord. But that doesn't make them any more noble for it. It's a job, and it really really sucks for them right now. But, you know. The average Iraqi is just as bad if not worse off than they are, and they didn't voluntarily sign up for this war.
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Quote[/b] ]Im always going to think that this current war was a very bad idea to get some cheap oil that back fired spectaculary.The thing is, as brutal as Saddam was to his own people, he was by far a more secular leader and less resistant to incentives to give up cheap oil than most of the other hardline muslim leaders would be.
You'd think he'd be one of the last last people they'd need to invade, to get the oil train rolling so to speak. I think they knocked him over because they thought it'd just be easier than haggling with the guy, and then yeah... the whole thing just spiraled out of control.
After the invasion, et al. We find out the facilities that were supposedly part of his nuclear enrichment program had been inactive and dilapidated since the 80s, and I watched some idiotic documenary on television that dated before the invasion saying that Saddam just needed that "magical ingredient" to set off production and dissemination of nuclear WMDs, etc. And what with the blatant lying on behalf of the Bush administration about them having incontrovertible evidence about him possessing WMD of some type, I think we can assume it was done in the name of financial gain.
Either way, a muslim leader will emerge from this mess and he will probably hate the U.S on principal a lot more than Saddam did. Which was effectively like shooting themselves in the foot... what are they going to do? re invade?
Quote[/b] ]I don't see how we can criticize this war, the US and UK liberated the people of Iraq from a dictator that should have been removed in 1991...So you're saying that by comparison to other wars, the casualties incurred somehow mitigate the need for criticism as to why they were sent there? You don't seem to make any mention of the thousands of innocent people that have died, and continue to die as a result of the now rampant crime, sectarian violence and collateral damage from fighting by coalition forces and insurgents. The country is currently in a worse place for those living there, than it was pre-invasion. Civil infrastructure is practically nonexistent, there's not enough work to go around. That's ridiculous to imply that this little venture is beyond criticism because enough people haven't DIED yet.
Quote[/b] ]Seriously, he is pretty much Hitler of our time and the douche bag in North Korea is worst than Saddam.So you're equating Saddam to a person who during his era was the most universally reviled man on the face of the earth, and then you say that Kim Jong Il is worse? (o mi gawd, double the worse!? Â
) That makes little sense. On top of being a truckload of bollocks. Saddam was a bad man, yes, the world is full of bad men, ones especially worse than him, he himself posed very little threat to neighboring countries. He was content to live a life of luxury whilst terrorizing his own people, he tried the whole "invasion" thing twice as far as I know and both failed miserably. He was wholly an ineffective leader who was only good at keeping himself and his cronies in power.He was as I mentioned before one of the most secular leaders in the middle east, more interested in money and power than religious persuits. Bin Laden and Saddam shared an enmity they did not work together!
Quote[/b] ]Al QAEDA was in South FloridaHuh? Â
Quote[/b] ]and you wanna tell me they where not in Iraq, lol. Â We definately know its not for oil because i'm paying 2.50 right nowUh, no. You see that's not how it works. More oil is wanted to sustain their wealth, keeping prices high enough that people will still BUY oil is in fact very good for oil companies. Keeping the price of oil very low is not something they want to do. It was NEVER about helping the average american pay for gas, it was about making more money for themselves. You could cite trickle-down economics, but we all know that's a giant sack of lies.
Quote[/b] ]Especially the assholes that did it at the funeral. Â That was not right.Yeah, and those people were ironically far-right wing christians that are angry with prez Bush and his ilk and the whole country, not for being greedy warmongering twats, but because they weren't extremist christian enough for their liking. Do a web search for Fred Phelps. And yes, the world would be better off if him and his followers ceased to exist.
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Ok. So I started to convert CCE to another island. Specifically Jellalhabat island.
And I did a pretty basic transfer of everything that I understood, from reading the editors documents that came with it.
However I didn't catch anything on what the colored markers do, both squares and spheres.
The large green one, for example and the small spherical yellow and red ones. Can you tell me what impact the placement of those have on the game? I just want to make sure I'm not stuffing anything by not putting them in a specific place.