Frizbee

I've played it through twice.. once on easy.. once on medium.. and i'm now playing it throuhg on hard.. and its still fun. Definately worth the buy, though if you can get it for cheap anywhere, do so.. Great multiplayer too... and as before said, the Omaha map kicks ass...

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Thorn @ Feb. 22 2002,18:17)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I was just wondering, because I seem to go on the nerves of Hilandor, what is wrong about sensless posts in offtopic area. Maybe I get it all wrong, but what is offtopic here for then? I am sure you can help me. I mean, I do not post crap in general, or anywhere else, but in offtopic it seems to me more apropriate. I do not mean to spam, that's something completely different. If you spam you get a bang, clear and simple. But what about senslessing, I do not get the point realy. Please help outa here?<span id='postcolor'> Maybe you are just a 'Thorn' in his side... Okay, Bad joke I know..

"You know how to fly don't you?" "No, do you?"

I haven't started training yet (for the airforce) so I don't have any funny stories myself, but I can relay on a funny story I heard about trainee FA-18 Fighter Pilots. During each class of trainees, one is bound to stuff up on a grand enough scale to be given a nickname that will be their callsign for generally, the rest of their flying career. In one particular class of pilots, they all swore with each other that they would work extra hard NOT to do anything stupid that would earn them such a title. After weeks of bombing practice, the trainees were finally given a simulated mission. Two flights of two aircraft would perform a bombing run with live ammunition, while another two flights would provide air cover, and strafing support at nearby targets "of opportunity" They were briefed that the target would be a series of long rectangular buildings with a road running through the middle of them, and that all they had to do was follow the road to the target. Everything went fine up until one of the pilots in the escort flights become disoriented as to his position. Instead of radioing in, and risking being laughed at by his instructors on the ground, or worse, being given a bad callsign, he decided to just follow the "Road" that was below him, right as they had been briefed, to the target. Unfortunately, it wasn't the correct road, and the only "target" he came upon, was a nearby Observation base where the bombing runs where observed for impact accuracy. So in the pilot comes, lines up the tower on one corner of the base, and pins the trigger on his cannon, filling the tower full of holes and totally destroying it. Next moment, over the radio comes the message "Cease fire, cease fire, you're shooting up friendlies GOD #### IT." Sheepishly he returned to his home base to be informed that luckily, the tower was empty at the time, but that he might want to buy the Observation officers a drink next time he was in the bar. He was also informed by his instructor, that they had a new nickname for him... SNIPER, as out of the thirty shots he fired.. 29 of them had hit the tower. The highest accuracy of any of the squadron pilots. If it had just been the correct target.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Angry Radish @ Feb. 16 2002,01:56)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I'll see if I can dig up some pictures of the time one of our C-141b's came unseated from it's jacks during the lowering procedure. One of them went right through the wing, fuel everywhere, etc... They ended up removing the wings off the aircraft because of all the damage, and making it a ground trainer for flight engineer and loadmaster training, looks pretty #### strange now. I'd add all kinds of stories, but most of them wouldn't make any sense to anyone, because they pretty much have to do with amusing things pilots/co=pilots/flight engineers did with the systems, so they would require some knowledge of them :-( Â But, if anyone has knowlege of aircraft systems, and wants to hear some geeky avionics stories, let me know and I'll post em here :-)<span id='postcolor'> Yes please... Always interesting to hear funny aviation stories.

Mine came from a Nickname that stuck since Highschool. Its all to do with my accent, and a television ad and a certain person in that ad that everyone said I sounded exactly like. The line he said during the ad:- "Well you don't have to play Frizbee with it"

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (second_draw @ Feb. 13 2002,07:56)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><span id='postcolor'> </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> if i let you suck my tongue would you be greatful? <span id='postcolor'> Face-Off "I'm not me, I'm me... Castor.. Archer.." </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> The lord tells me he can get me out of this mess, but he's pretty sure you're Fvcked <span id='postcolor'> Braveheart </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> I AM WILLIAM WALLACE <span id='postcolor'> Braveheart </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> I know what you're thinking:... <span id='postcolor'> Dirty Harry </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up <span id='postcolor'> The Matrix </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> May I ask, why you felt little Tiffany deserved to die? <span id='postcolor'> Men In Black </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> Human thought is so primitive, it's looked upon as an infectious disease in some of the better galaxies. That kind of makes you proud, doesn't it? <span id='postcolor'> Men in Black </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it <span id='postcolor'> Is that said by the AI computer HAL??

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Thehamster @ Feb. 17 2002,21:47)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I got MOH on Friday. I must say what a kick ass game even if it is a bit short I have not completed it yet but I'm on the 5th mission out of the 6 there are. One thing I have to say is that D-day was awesome mission very enjoyable very true to Saving Private Ryan. I'm currently on a sniper mission where I have to protect a tank crew through a sniper laden half destroyed town which I’m finding really fun as the snipers are really well hidden which is providing quite a challenge ohh yeha and I got 3 of the medals so far.<span id='postcolor'> What three medals? and how did you get them? The medals I have are: Omaha beach:- For taking out the Machine Gunners in the center bunker.. by throwing a grenade up there after the bangalores clear the path to it. The Mission you are on: By protecting all three members of the tank crew. The intelligence gathering mission on the new tank: By destroying the two that are parked in the compound using explosives you find in one of the buildings. Then of course I have the Bronze star for completing the game on easy.. and I forgot which other one...

I played MOH through Singleplayer.. it was good.. though not the best of games out there. It is however the first game that I love being a Sniper.. specifically because I'm good at it.. Playing a LAN game with several friends, and started as a ordinary soldier (Allied).. One person chose (foolishly) a rocket launcher.. and the other two were soldiers as well. Well, I got my ass handed to me as the others were all skilled CS and other FPS players... (THe Guy with the Rocket Launcher soon changed weapons) But when I decided to become a sniper... I kicked ass... jumped from 2 frags to 60 in about twenty minutes. Moving from place to place in between ever 2 or three shots, I was just picking them off like fish in a barrel. And they often didn't even know where I was shooting from, because when you crouch, then lean to one side (something only activated in Multi-player) you drop below most of the brickwalls, unable to be seen or shot... It ROCKED...

During the Delta selection. The instructors take all luxury items from the trainees.. including watches. Then, they do not force any trainee to do anything. They do not even wake the recruits up in order for them to catch trucks etc. to transport them to the training fields.. However if you don't wake up by yourself, you are out of the program. In fact, from what little is written or said about their training program, alot of the time the instructors aren't even seen by the Delta hopefuls.

Well, I'm glad I gave you a laugh by posting that Wobble... I thought VERY similar things when I went to that website and viewed the other works

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (KingBeast @ Feb. 11 2002,03:40)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">And Prince charles wasnt caught smoking pot either lol hes an old man that talks to flowers. Its Harry that got caught, I personally think its funny how they are making such a big thing about a little bit of cannabis (sending him to rehab)<span id='postcolor'> As a side note... He wasn't caught smoking Pot. His friends were, he was just with them at the time. He wasn't sent to rehab.. It was a month before the incident he went with his father to a rehab clinic as part of a Royal visit. An educational thing for him I suppose. He has never actually been booked into a rehab clinic because of drugs.

Its amazing just how many people care about the Royals. When Australia had a poll to decide whether to drop the Monarchy and become a republic.. we chose to stay as part of the Monarchy and the British crown.

Well Wobble, its a typical reporters article isn't it... A guy, who has probably never seen combat, let alone been IN the forces giving his civilian opinion about something which more than likely happened while he was a teenager or kid. You can open the paper and see it all the time. The only truth you ever get about a war is from the people fighting in it.. not the politicians. Not the Top brass... not the reporters... but the soldiers slogging it out on the ground.

I have a Voodoo 5 5500.. and it looks awesome when running Flashpoint... but for games like Medal of Honor... my friend switched his Voodoo 5 for a new Geforce card.. and it looks a hell of a lot better than my machine. (we have very similar machines apart from the graphics card.. the main difference is I have a SB live sound card, and he has an inbuilt.)

I was sent this article by a friend who's father is in the Navy. Thought you all might like to read it. But before anyone flames me.. I'm not necessarily agreeing with this article, I'm just posting it so you can all read it. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> -------------------------- Both saviour and victim Black Hawk Down creates a new and dangerous myth of American nationhood George Monbiot Tuesday January 29, 2002 The Guardian The more powerful a nation becomes, the more it asserts its victimhood. In contemporary British eyes, the greatest atrocities of the 18th and 19th centuries were those perpetrated on compatriots in the Black Hole of Calcutta or during the Indian mutiny and the siege of Khartoum. The extreme manifestations of the white man's burden, these events came to symbolise the barbarism and ingratitude of the savage races the British had sought to rescue from their darkness. Today the attack on New York is discussed as if it were the worst thing to have happened to any nation in recent times. Few would deny that it was a major atrocity, but we are required to offer the American people a unique and exclusive sympathy. Now that demand is being extended to earlier American losses. Black Hawk Down looks set to become one of the bestselling movies of all time. Like all the films the British-born director Ridley Scott has made, it is gripping, intense and beautifully shot. It is also a stunning misrepresentation of what happened in Somalia. In 1992 the United States walked into Somalia with good intentions. George Bush senior announced that America had come to do "God's work" in a nation devastated by clan warfare and famine. But, as Scott Peterson's firsthand account Me Against My Brother shows, the mission was doomed by intelligence failures, partisan deployments and, ultimately, the belief that you can bomb a nation into peace and prosperity. Before the US government handed over the administration of Somalia to the United Nations in 1993, it had already made several fundamental mistakes. It had backed the clan chiefs Mohamed Farah Aideed and Ali Mahdi against another warlord, shoring up their power just as it had started to collapse. It had failed to recognise that the competing clan chiefs were ready to accept large-scale disarmament, if it were carried out impartially. Far from resolving the conflict between the clans, the US accidentally enhanced it. After the handover, the UN's Pakistani peacekeepers tried to seize Aideed's radio station, which was broadcasting anti-UN propaganda. The raid was bungled, and 25 of the soldiers were killed by Aideed's supporters. A few days later, Pakistani troops fired on an unarmed crowd, killing women and children. The United Nations force, commanded by a US admiral, was drawn into a blood feud with Aideed's militia. As the feud escalated, US special forces were brought in to deal with the man now described by American intelligence as "the Hitler of Somalia". Aideed, who was certainly a ruthless and dangerous man but also just one of several clan leaders competing for power in the country, was blamed for all Somalia's troubles. The UN's peacekeeping mission had been transformed into a partisan war. The special forces, over-confident and hopelessly ill-informed, raided, in quick succession, the headquarters of the UN development programme, the charity World Concern and the offices of Médecins sans Frontieres. They managed to capture, among scores of innocent civilians and aid workers, the chief of the UN's police force. But farce was soon repeated as tragedy. When some of the most senior members of Aideed's clan gathered in a building in Mogadishu to discuss a peace agreement with the United Nations, the US forces, misinformed as ever, blew them up, killing 54 people. Thus they succeeded in making enemies of all the Somalis. The special forces were harried by gunmen from all sides. In return, US troops in the UN compound began firing missiles at residential areas. So the raid on one of Aideed's buildings on October 3 1993, which led to the destruction of two Black Hawk helicopters and the deaths of 18 American soldiers, was just another round of America's grudge match with the warlord. The troops who captured Aideed's officials were attacked by everyone: gunmen came even from the rival militias to avenge the deaths of the civilians the Americans had killed. The US special forces, with an understandable but ruthless regard for their own safety, locked Somali women and children into the house in which they were besieged. Ridley Scott says that he came to the project without politics, which is what people often say when they subscribe to the dominant point of view. The story he relates (with the help of the US department of defence and the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff) is the story the American people need to tell themselves. The purpose of the raid on October 3, Black Hawk Down suggests, was to prevent Aideed's murderous forces from starving Somalia to death. No hint is given of the feuding between him and the UN, other than the initial attack on the Pakistani peacekeepers. There is no recognition that the worst of the famine had passed, or that the US troops had long ceased to be part of the solution. The US hostage-taking, even the crucial role played by Malaysian soldiers in the Rangers' rescue, have been excised from the record. Instead - and since September 11 this has become a familiar theme - the attempt to capture Aideed's lieutenants was a battle between good and evil, civilisation and barbarism. The Somalis in Black Hawk Down speak only to condemn themselves. They display no emotions other than greed and the lust for blood. Their appearances are accompanied by sinister Arab techno, while the US forces are trailed by violins, oboes and vocals inspired by Enya. The American troops display horrific wounds. They clutch photos of their loved ones and ask to be remembered to their parents or their children as they die. The Somalis drop like flies, killed cleanly, dispensable, unmourned. Some people have compared Black Hawk Down to the British film Zulu. There is some justice in the comparison, but the Somalis here offer a far more compelling personification of evil than the blundering, belligerent Zulus. They are sinister, deceitful and inscrutable; more like the British caricature of the Chinese during the opium wars. What we are witnessing in both Black Hawk Down and the current war against terrorism is the creation of a new myth of nationhood. America is casting itself simultaneously as the world's saviour and the world's victim; a sacrificial messiah, on a mission to deliver the world from evil. This myth contains incalculable dangers for everyone else on earth. To discharge its sense of unique grievance, the US government has hinted at what may become an asymmetric world war. It is no coincidence that Somalia comes close to the top of the list of nations it may be prepared to attack. This war, if it materialises, will be led not by the generals in their bunkers, but by the people who construct the story the nation chooses to believe. www.monbiot.com ---------------------------------- His contacts in the military concur that the movie "Black Hawk Down" is utter rubbish in terms of its representation of the situation. Amongst the comments made was to note that when the SEALS came ashore to seize what they had been told was an enemy-held and hostile coast they were met on the beach by a horde of international media complete with arc lights, video cameras and shouted journalists questions. The publicity had been organised at the highest level for publicity purposes. Apparently the U.S. operations were such a shambles that Australia declined to extend use of Australian soldiers there <span id='postcolor'>

It wouldn't have mattered what helicopters the Americans had been using. Any transport helicopter would have been taken down after two RPG hits like that.

Thanks for your help much abliged.

Okay, I know that to end the cutscenes you need to use a End#1 trigger... after setting the mission editor to INTO instead of Mission... but somethings I don't get. 1. Can scripts be used to control the cameras? 2. Does a Player Character have to be put onto the map for the intro to work? can anyone answer that for me? thanks

Grab a script for launching a flare from the Flaspoint Editing Centre or another site. Make a trigger (West detected.. or East detected) and have the trigger call the script that tells the unit you want to fire the flare to fire...

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (christophercles @ Jan. 30 2002,03:30)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Poo = people do it, soldiers are poeple, soldiers are in the army. Lets talk about poo.<span id='postcolor'> Um.. lets not and say we did.. or didn't.. yeah, that's even better. lets not and say we didn't.

The Borg have done Warp 10 and faster while travelling through their artifically created wormholes. As for transporting Anti-Matter.. it is possible, it just is unstable. There is an episode of Star-trek where terrorists steal anti-matter from the Enterprises core when it is empty of crew and being cleaned of ion radiation. They transport onto their ship.. which later blows up because Picard removed the safety device from the container. Star Trek would kick ass over Star Wars ships and technology.. but then really.. Star Trek is set in the future of Earth.. Star wars in a galaxy far away, and a long time ago.. hence they can't really be compared. "We are the Borg, we have analysed your technology to be that of A galaxy far away, from a long time ago. We do not assimilate beings such as you, you would drag us away from perfection"

Its a bug, because you are listed as 'Captive' until you steal a weapon, if you get into the BMP before grabbing an AK, it lists you as a Team killer, and so the Yanks still attack you, as do your 'Team' the Soviets.

In the last mission of the 1985 campaign, the one where you meet up with old friends, if you go to the Resistance HQ (the castle ruins near Saint Pierre) and run to the top of the tower, the resistance guy says "Commander Gastovski, what are you doing back on Everon?" and joins the group to go to the pub (even though getting him isn't a mission objective) There are small things like that as easter eggs.

A silenced sniper rifle would be interesting in some multiplayer missions... like one where one team is defending an officer, and the other side (consisting of four or so people, two sniper teams) had to assassinate him...