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Okay, I'll rephrase that. At least EA doesn't stamp on community modders with nasty big boots on like Ubi does.

At least EA doesn't stamp on community modders. Ubi's done their damndest to stop SDKs for Lock-On and Raven Shield.

Yeah, if the whole murdering-people-with-plastic-bags thing had been a tiny little detail in a big, innovative game it would have been kind of interesting. But when the point of playing is just to kill people with househole objects... well, you could play a Flash game that deep! EDIT: On Konyak's post about training tools etc. Racing cars is about reflexes, and games are all about hand-to-eye co-ordination and reflex actions. For example, people who play a lot of shooters and the like usually have better hand-to-eye co-ordination. However, clicking a mouse button while looking at a screen with rifle sights on it does not constitute instruction someone how to shoot. I can shoot the nose hairs off an enemy trooper at 100m with a pistol in OFP, but the few times I've fired a gun of any sort, I've been a crappy shot. Plus, the AI in OFP don't react as well-drilled, professional soldiers would, and they certainly don't respond to things that a soldier would. Saying that playing OFP for three years will make you more likely to survive a battle is a bit daft, it's like saying that playing Falcon 4.0 will make you adept at flying jet aircraft or that playing Baldur's Gate will make you a wizard. Besides, there are very few games that are anywhere near realistic. For example, OFP is a reasonably accurate game when it comes to simulating a combat situation, but it doesn't simulate a million and one things. For example, can you hear enemy troops snapping twigs in the woods as they walk over them? Is there a fatigue model? Can you peek around corners? Does a night attack during a full moon differ in any major way to a night attack with cloud cover?

My parents never supervised me 24/7, they brought me up to know what you do and what you don't. It's not a matter of banning this or banning that, it's a matter of educating people into using the responsibly. Example: Last night I had five drinks. One was a pint of bitter, one was a single Southern Comfort. The next was a double Southern Comfort. The one after that was a quadruple Southern Comfort, then I had another double. After being sick on a girl's shoes and apologising profusely in the taxi all the way home, I realised that drinking the best part of half a bottle of Southern Comfort in under an hour on an empty stomach is a silly, silly thing to do. I won't be doing it in a rush again, even if my mates all drunk about twice as much and were much less gone than me (they're taller, y'see ). Now, my parents let me drink in the house (most of my preferences are down to drinking what they've drunk over the years), under the premise of letting me get used to alcohol and finding my limit. I think I found it and threw up on it last night. I just remember my dad patting me on the back as I threw up in the kitchen sink and saying "You're the son of a squaddie alright" and hearing my guts churning. Now, a couple of years ago my cousin (let's call him Chris, that being his name and all), who wasn't allowed to drink in the house and who lived out in the sticks went to a party with his mates. He drunk about eight bottles of Bacardi, four pints and an entire bottle of Bells whisky. Chris then proceeds to wake up in hospital on an IV after a good stomach pumping. As soon as he came round, his parents gave him the bollocking of a life. He never heard the last of it. Now, he goes out the next week and drinks twice as much, and ends up back in hospital with alcohol poisoning. It's all about educating people as to the effects of their actions and letting them get on with things, not watching their every movement. Most people will get it and not do wrong. It's more down to how you were brought up than the kids at school, unless you're the kind of weak-minded sap that'll do something because his mates were doing it.

Strange but true: 1). My dad went into a shop and bought GTA2 for me a few years back. He said "What's it about?" in the car on the way home and I said "You're a criminal, you get to run around and generally be an arsehole; nicking cars, shooting people and stuff." He shrugged and said "Cool. As long as you're not doing it for real, what's the problem?" 2). I listen to heavy metal occasionally. Right now I've got "F**king Hostile" by Pantera on. Eminem was on the radio this morning too. 3). I own a couple of airsoft replica pistols. I have also fired a crossbow and handled a (deactivated) Lee Enfield rifle with a spike bayonet on it. 4). I belong to an Aikido club, and the week before last, we were shown several attacks using a samurai sword until we could do them to a reasonable level of proficiency. Last week we learned how to disarm someone with a bladed weapon by breaking his wrist and then cutting his throat with his own sword. On top of this we know how to put strangleholds on people, how to break arms and necks, and how to inflict a lot of pain on an assailant with a handful of simple wrist applications. 5). I play a lot of shoot-em-ups, most of them military-themed. On my desk right now are Call of Duty, Max Payne 2, OFP (naturally) and Raven Shield. If these people are right, I should be a car-stealing, granny-mugging, drug-taking master criminal who regularly kills people with his bare hands and/or a bladed weapon. I should also have a major grudge against Germans in 1940s military uniform and Russians in 1980s military uniform. Of course, this is all because I listen to "evil" music and play videogames. Now, let me put this in perspective. 1). My father bought GTA2 for me because he sees the difference between what I do in real life and what I pretend to do on the computer. 2). I also listen to classical music and blues. I have a major dislike for most contemporary metal bands (I use "bands" in its loosest possible sense). 3). I've not handled either of my airsoft guns for about a month, and I handled both the crossbow and Lee Enfield under the supervision of the owners. The former I used at a registered shooting club. 4). I also learned how to disarm people without causing them any pain or lasting damage. It is also drilled into us that you should only ever use Aikido to defend yourself or another, and that you only ever use it when there's no alternative. 5). I also play flight simulators, empire-building games and the odd strategy game, as well as fighting games on my Dreamcast. If playing shooters makes me proficient at killing people, then I should also be capable of flying a variety of aircraft, from a Schweizer glider to an Avro Vulcan. I should also be capable of running a country, managing its infrastructure (with the current British government, I could probably do a better job ). I should be able to command armies effectively, and playing Soul Calibure should make me an expert in Chinese and Korean sword and staff fighting, two forms of Kendo, using nunchaku, chain weapons, axes and broadswords. Fair enough, some people may be influenced by playing videogames or watching violent films, but if you can't differentiate between reality and make-believe, you shouldn't be allowed to watch or play things that may influence you do bad things. It's all to do with the parents. My parents never really stopped me from seeing anything unless unless it would upset me (seeing The Fly when you're about six, for example, would do that well). They've brought me up so that I know that doing bad things brings about bad consequences. I mean, I've on occassion sickened myself playing certain games when I've realised that everything and everybody are totally irrelevant and that you can do whatever the hell you want, especially when what you end up doing is inevitably "wrong." Besides, if games and films and music really do turn you into raging psychopaths, why the hell aren't the censors all murdering each other, as they've seen films and bits of films that we never will because they were really violent or explicit etc.

Call me crazy, but I prefer beer

You don't need to announce every time an addonmaker opens O2 up. Just because a team's quiet doesn't mean they're not doing anything. Thing is, in this community, there are a lot of whiners who complain if a mod team does regular updates because they're "teasing" us. So most teams have just said, "yeah, whatever" and only release the odd bit of news before a release.

You don't need to announce every time an addonmaker opens O2 up. Just because a team's quiet doesn't mean they're not doing anything. Thing is, in this community, there are a lot of whiners who complain if a mod team does regular updates because they're "teasing" us. So most teams have just said, "yeah, whatever" and only release the odd bit of news before a release.

Call them mountains? They're just bloody dimples, a toddler could walk up them!

I think he meant as in a map or image on a stand/pinned to the wall ingame rather than in the notebook.

But the Sea Harrier still looks the dog's danglies, that you can't deny

The FRS.Mk.1 is the Fleet Air Arm's Sea Harrier. It's a carrier-borne jumpjet used to defend the fleet against enemy aircraft, and can be used for ground attack. It has a pretty tasty radar too. The AV-8B is the US-made version of the Harrier. It's comparable to the RAF's Gr.Mk.7 and is tasked with ground attack rather than air defence. The Sea Harrier looks way better too

I played OFP and Raven Shield at a friend's place on his big widescreen telly with 5.1 Dolby setup, it was like watching a war film at the cinema, but with the ability to shoot the whiny new guy in the back of the head when nobody was looking!  The only problem is, if you're the kind of person who either has something set to max or off, your ears are going to feel like you've been sat in front of the amps at a Mötorhead show for six hours every time you pull the trigger

If you could follow up with a G41, I'll die happy

Yatta defies explanation. I suggest you anger Sanka at watch it again until an explanation doesn't matter

MP, I play exclusively with my squad on our server. SP, I tend to arse around in the mission editor more than anything.

That's better. Japanese weirdness I can dig. Even the French can't compete with the Japanese when they want to be strange

Here here. These stopped being funny a long time ago if you ask me. About when my girlfriend literally wet herself and refused to speak to me for three days because I made her do one Â

What was the grumpy red van called in the "original" seasons? Tinhead or something like that?

It's nice to see Transformers bringing mods and ordinary members together

Gundam Wing was too melodramatic for my liking. I want to see giant robots kicking the tar out of stuff/each other, not thirty minutes of bad anime melodrama punctuated by a couple of shots of a load of blips moving nearer each other on a starry backdrop. If someone could point me towards some more action-packed stompy robot anime, I might put my copy of Lone Wolf and Cub vol. 3 down for a bit. Hang on, I think I have some of my old Transformers videos in the attic from when I was little. Yay!

Operation Backlash: After the British HQ on Lorient was attacked by rebel troops with light armour and artillery support, the members of the Volunteer Commando Battalion, with air support from 120th Flight, Army Air Corps, staged a hasty attack on the rebel guns. Close Air Support: Sgt. Tengah and Pte. Altaedeus ghosting the ground team Detonation: The four enemy 105's cease to be. Aftermath: As the dust settles, Staff Sergeant Mav and Lance Corporal Bam pop their heads up to have a look. [mg]http://img18.photobucket.com/albums/v54/CuriousBadger/backlash_puma.jpg[/img] >100kb Extraction: The extraction Puma pops flares as it returns to base. Sorry there's no actual combat shots, but me and the other VOLCBAT guys present were too busy dodging bullets to dig our digital cameras out Addons used: UKF DPM Pack BDM Lorient Island OFrP Air Pack 1.3 VIT APC Pack 1.3 ECP 1.071

A version in black, navy blue or dark grey would work as a stand-in for practically any anti-terrorist unit in the world

They're VBS units. Not for OFP, I'm afraid