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I don't know whether it has been mentioned, but one of the more immediate things that needs to be done is in regards to the actual giving of commands. At the moment, commands are serially given and the entire preceding command must be 'spoken' before the next one can be given. It would be nice if the AI actually reacted to the commands instantaneously and the actual voice/subtitle commands were just for show. It sucks when the squad is under fire and I have to wait 10-15s for a series of commands to go through before the AI begin reacting. It is especially annoying when trying to manage the inventories of the AI. Waiting for 6 "drop grenade" commands per AI is a total pain in the ass.

please stop using PunkBuster CS version first ... it's like compare game from 2000 with game from 2006 ... PB in CS was program w/o any tie or access to game engine code thus limited like hell ... yet it was still more effective than VAC. Also PB for CS was not much different than Cheating Death in that times ... do You complain same about CD ? By this style You will need to complain about "any" anticheat software ... In Americas Army is problem completely different as PB can't stop problems which are coming from mistakes directly in game engine code ... so if You wanna whine and cry about ... send comments to AA dev team not EBI dev team ... i suggest You reconsider what are You saying after new AA version release and PB updates to match that version ... And seriously w/o PB ... AA or Q3 "public" multiplayer will be already turned into unplayable mess (You sure noticed Q3 sourcecode is freely available by ID and as cheat programmer You can find there even more than is known about Unreal Engine 2.5) and WTH is Your problem anyway ... PUNKBUSTER IS OPTIONABLE ... that mean ADMIN and PLAYER can DISABLE IT! Including it is "bonus" NOT curse ! ... Seems like people will whine about anything anytime ... Well, uh *scratches head* thanks for that incoherent fanboy rant. I still fail to see the point of including PB at all if it is ineffective in practice, irrespective of the [incorrect] reasons to which you ascribe the failure. P.S. CD was just as impotent as Punkbuster. That they both failed to stop cheating does not justify the failure, nor does it help much at the current time.

PB is wholly useless. In CS it was ineffective; the only cheats it detected were week old noobs who thought downloading year old hacks would fool everyone into thinking they had pro skillz. In AA it was illustrative; not only did it completely fail to stop any cheating, but it became the major route for exploits, allowing servers to be crashed, players to be kicked, text flooding and so on. In something like 6 months, a single update was released that only managed to stop the exploits allowing people to mass-kick. In Q3A it was the same. It was a hassle for legitimate players and did nothing to stop cheats. I can't think of any others, but why would BIS possibly want attach that fucking useless bit of software to AA.

meh. Given that I've never had a single spam in my ISP inbox, I don't think that spam is a problem, or at least it is one that can be trivially avoided. If he was making $500,000 from the sheer credulity and stupidity of people who not only read spam but are enticed into buying the product, then more power to him. Fools and their money ...

He was right about the coal vs nuclear power plants thing

I think it's a great idea, but everyone's missed the obvious one: firefights at night.

I'm pretty sure said generation of youth will have trouble tying their shoelaces, much less be able to speak/read coherent English in order to read what it says on their voting slips. hi2u2 omgwtflolbbq1!!111 ^^

Socrates would kill himself out of disgust with the species if he saw the current generation of IM/SMS/ricer/pop culture/wigger kiddies.

I personally don't see how Bush could win unless I've significantly underestimated the proportion of Americans that are conservative, religious fundamentalists. In fact, the one thing that struck me, out of all the wasted internet debating and media coverage I have seen, is the sheer pettiness and triviality of most of the issues considered by the American media and people. Less questions of the form "who would likely provide superior economic management" than of "who was in a boat in Vietnam in 1974 and thus was or was not a fucking yellowbellied coward that I will venomously attack on the internet".

It must be a question of perspective then, because there is no denying the very real limits of the refresh rate and extra latency imposed by cordless/usb combo.

I gave up on my MX700 entirely. Not only are they ridiculously oversized and heavy, but the cordless conn means low report rates and lag. Further, despite the fact that acceleration was definitely disabled, the response of the mouse still didn't seem linear in games. Definitely not for gaming and not great for windows either. I can confirm what Greg said: the OFP/MX700 combination only seemed to exacerbate the general problems.

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OFP2 definitely needs radar to modeled reasonably accurately, including only giving radars to vehicles or aircraft that actually possess them, or at the least, in veteran mode. The current radio targeting and radar system that also underpins the AI targeting really needs to be replaced with something more realistic, which would be great for both SP and MP as you would not longer take a sabot/ATGM/AGM as soon as you get in a vehicle. Steal Falcon4's radar code

Democracy is an exercise in naive idealism, giving people the fuzzy feeling that they have the ability to determine the future direction of the country in exchange for gross inefficiency and decision making which is essentially a lottery based on specious moral arguments and ignorance. This thread is no different. It strikes me that it is abhorrent to have people voting on little more than what they personally feel (with no education in the relevant areas) is correct policy, largely guided by media reports, which, to quote Oscar Wilde: Of course, this stance will be attacked. However, it amusing how frequently I am vindicated when I refer to my litmus-test-for-unfounded-political-beliefs* free trade. The number of politically-active individuals who unhesitatingly respond 'free trade is evil', thus bringing all their other similarly baseless opinions into doubt....quite funny *which is actually a misnomer - nothing is intrinsically political - politics is based on real world issues. You, nor the media, do not automatically assume the knowledge of experts, or at least knowledge sufficient to make a competent decision, as soon as an issue becomes 'political'. It is amusing to see how a subject that people would ordinarily never profess to be informed upon instantly are capable of lengthy (albeit pointless) debate when it enters the political arena. War materiel, international relations, quantum physics, stem cell research, the economy - oh yeah, I know all about those!

I don't understand why it was done in the first place. Presumably they do not view or label themselves as terrorists. Freedom fighters, rebels, resistance perhaps, but not terrorists. However, to take hundreds of children hostage cannot be justified in any sense as an act of resistance: it cannot be construed as anything other than an act of terrorism. It did nothing to further their cause, did not promote the righteousness of the Chechen resistance and served only to turn the international community against them and reinforce notions of brutal, inhumane, muslim religiously-brainwashed terrorists. So therefore, why would they do such a thing? Revenge, maybe? It would still seem bizarre - they may be currently caught in a struggle against Russia, however at some point in the future they will be free or the conflict will have otherwise ended. In which case, one would expect they revert to ordinary, peacetime human beings. It strikes me that ordinary human beings, albeit ones engaged in fighting a guerilla war, do not purposefully kill children whether for ideology or revenge. Inexplicable...

It may be a driver problem. The other people in the thread had memory artifacting from overclocked/overheating memory, however that typically affects random vertices, leading to randomly skewed geometry, which the first poster's isn't. To make sure, underclock the X800's memory by 20-40mhz and see if it disappears. If not, post the thread/screenshots at Rage3d and/or report it to the Catalyst feedback program. Edit: Whups, looked at some more of the screenshots - that there are polygons which are not being rendered properly makes me think it's definitely a driver problem. Similar things have occurred with 8500s in BF1942 - definitely post at Rage3d and be sure to include the screenies where there are 'holes' in the terrain.

It is because rendering/z-sorting the sprites that comprise the forest is very fill-rate intensive. As the proportion of your screen occupied by the sprites/forest increases, so does the amount of memory bandwidth required to render it. So while looking at a forest from a distance won't hurt because it is proportionally small (and perhaps most of the forest is not being rendered), zooming in on it up close will, because it takes up close to 100% of your screen. As you've seen yourself, turning AA/AF off or lowering the resolution (all of which reduce the strain on the video card's memory bandwidth) alleviate the problem to some extent. There is nothing you can do about it, other than the above, it's just a hardware limitation.

Missing ural3d.pbo etc? The same thing happens to me too - it's because of missing files during the install. Hisky always used to work, but now whenever I try and install it, the bat generates missing file errors and the resulting pbos are incomplete, crashing the game whenever the missing models are called upon. This is with a pure install + 1.96, so ...

Missing ural3d.pbo etc? The same thing happens to me too - it's because of missing files during the install. Hisky always used to work, but now whenever I try and install it, the bat generates missing file errors and the resulting pbos are incomplete, crashing the game whenever the missing models are called upon. This is with a pure install + 1.96, so ...

If you're using an ATi card, the only way to get rid of the mipmap transitions is to force trilinear filtering on all texture layers - by default, ATi's aniso implementation only performs trilinear on stage 0.

I'm surprised noone has mentioned Falcon 4 - it has a wholly dynamic campaign engine, and models factors such as experience, fatigue, fuel, ammunition, electricity, transport networks, airfield status, C3 networks and so on. Â Not only does it model the war, but the tasking engine orchestrates both sides of the battle to the unit level so that they have macro/micro objectives and fight the war in an intelligent way. It is possible to give individual units orders or edit their tasking to achieve specific objectives. The 2D/simulated war is continued into the 3D gamespace so the units you see fighting on the 2D map are the ones you see fighting as you fly over in 3D. IL2's dynamic engine is frankly a piece of shit. Â It is simplistic to the point where it essentially chooses a type of unit, a local spawn point, and makes you go after it, with progression occuring when you achieve a fixed number of kills or sorties. Â A less-than-dynamic mission generator, really. To see a dynamic engine of the calibre of F4 in OFP would be amazing. Â It is much preferable to a linear campaign, in terms of realism and replayability.

Actually, they're not FAE weapons at all. They both use gelled slurry explosives and aluminium.

Let's retire from the field of battle so we can watch Denoir own them All of the arguments put forward thus far have not even succeeded in getting past the most basic and misguided christian attempts to explain their faith: "I find it hard to believe..." "I have not troubled myself to learn the science, therefore I put to you these relatively simple questions as though they are something that will forever remain unsolved..." "Faith in itself is sufficient, and thus requires no evidence..." Ex-Ronin, you can hardly tell Hurlothrumbo not to insult you when demonstrate what he said by trying to equate science with a faith-based belief.

I never did. I called the writers of GSMS batshit insane, and they were certainly earning that title with their various articles. "Why is the black man black?" "Arabs are the root of all evil." etc... I know you didnt but the person who did say that seems as much of a radicalist and fanatic in his opinion as any of his religious conterparts that the difference can hardly be noted ... Hardly. You assume that religion has a justifiable place within society and scientific advancement. I believe that it is an anachronism without any evidence to support its positive claims, and plenty of evidence to refute those claims, in addition to the notion of deities in general. You also post with the mindset implied in the definition of delusional - that something which in another context is perfectly irrational should be legitimised through the sheer number of people who subscribe to it. The reality is that the notion that a widely held-belief imparts authority or credence in itself is wrong. It follows then that, if we are to assume that religion can provide nothing with which to substantiate its claims and it does not have weight of authority by virtue that many have faith, the religious are delusional, and I am justified in calling them 'batshit insane' and furthermore, that to support such a view is only a recognition of the clear departure from reality that religion entails. It is not radical, it is not fanatical, it is simply fact. How you can possibly call me radical or fanatical for claiming that people who believe in supreme beings (which have not shown so much as a hint of themselves over the entirety of human history), believe that when they pray is listening to them, believe in such things as the devil causing all of the wrong in the world [etc] are insane? Again - if people were to make such claims under any other pretext, they would be treated with due contempt. Religious beliefs do not differ from those of alien/government conspiracy theories that are so widely, and hypocritically, mocked. You just don't seem to grasp that. It is quite black and white. Only one side can be right, and as I've said, if athiests are right, the religious most definitely are "batshit insane".

Does that mean that nothing contrary to the teachings Christianity can be said in this thread?  The elements of religion that give rise to fanatacism are wholly incompatible with science, and therefore there can only be one right answer.  Assuming that science is correct, the implication is that the religious are living under a fantasical delusion. It isn't a flame, nor is it intended to be a flamebait.  It is just a statement of fact. de·lu·sion   ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (d-lzhn) 3)Psychiatry. A false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence, especially as a symptom of mental illness: delusions of persecution. In the most recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a delusion is defined as: A false belief based on incorrect inference about external reality that is firmly sustained despite what almost everybody else believes and despite what constitutes incontrovertible and obvious proof or evidence to the contrary. The belief is not one ordinarily accepted by other members of the person's culture or subculture (e.g. it is not an article of religious faith). Again, religion clearly meets the definition, but for the qualifier that it should not be applied to religious faith.  Why religion differs from any other "incorrect inference about external reality that is firmly sustained despite what ... constitutes incontrovertible and obvious proof or evidence to the contrary" is beyond me. In fact, that they needed to make special exception for religious faith could be considered an acknowledgement that religious faith is a false belief regarding external reality, without evidence.