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Westwood have completely screwed up classic Dune with their games. I want the intrigue, the politics, the feuds, the venom. I mean, since when did Sardaukar use lasguns? They kicked just abt every1 in hand to hand with a personal shield. *sigh*. I wish there was a good dune game true to the books. Ok, i've had my rant....

Gung Foo=Sounds exactly how it is pronounced in cantonese. Everyone uses 'Kung Fu' though. TKD was evolved from trying to fight Mongolian riders? I was always under the impression that Mongolian Riders were extremely capable cavalry, and to lift your leg that high to try to dismount a charging guy on horseback would seem hazardous to your health.....

Satchel those screenshots look mighty fine. What beast of a computer are you using?

Actually, Taurus, I've found that Transport Unload automatically forces the troops to get out, whether you have a 'get out' waypoint for the squad or not. But yeah, safer to sync a waypoint anyways. Thanks for the Tip on the invis H though. So the Invis H only needs to be placed at the desired location right? I dont need to add any commands?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (The_Taurus @ April 10 2002,12:42)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Do this Place an Empty\object\invinsible H name it HPad1 Name the UH60 to e.g. WAir1 In UH60:s waypoint's on activation: WAir1 Land "HPad1" (Effective if you have two choppers to land on specified locations or if you don't want to name the Invinsible H WAir1 Land "Land" This %unit% Land "%String%" will make the helicopter to land, and after a short while turn off the engines but the pilotes will remain in the aircraft Good luck, and if this won't work, or if you do not know what I mean, please tell me.<span id='postcolor'> So these settings are possible to make a heli land accurately and quickly? I was tinkering around with the editor and when i give it a waypoint to 'transport unload' a squad of black ops, the chopper tends to hover for ages looking for a good spot. Which is not good since I'm trying to get them to drop the soldiers off in a hot zone.

I remember a distant relative that had a bad case of halitosis. I was a small kid then and blurted out 'His breath stinks!!' and promptly got bitch-slapped by my mum I really dont have a clue how to tell'em. I guess you could just grimace everytime she comes in for a smooch.

If I remember correctly, Lucasarts is making a Star Wars online based on the era of the empire at the height of its power like everquest except in space. I think its like Alliance except the world is online and many people buzzing around in their little ships. Dont know when that will come out, if ever, but sounds exciting.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (christophercles @ Mar. 09 2002,16:49)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (MAsta KFC @ Mar. 09 2002,23:44)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Even if you defend someone else from being beaten up, it still comes under self-defence.<span id='postcolor'> Actually in alot of countries this isnt true,i know that in Australia if you defend someone and cause the other person any form of harm, they can bring up charges against you because you wernt just defending yourself. It stupid, and it should be fixed, but thats how it is.<span id='postcolor'> No, I disagree. I live in Australia too, and there have been past cases where one person has defended another and it counted as self-defence. I would quote the case if I remembered it, but I can't be bothered looking up my textbooks atm. As far as Australian law is concerned, defending a less able person is fair and reasonable, as long as the force used is not excessive. If I remember correctly, the case was regarding a couple in a bar, the guy's girlfriend was being assaulted and he jumped in to stop it. Later it was ruled that his actions were counted as self-defence, even though he himself was not threatened physically initially. 'Self-defence' is not strict in its literal meaning and can be extended to others.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (RalphWiggum @ Mar. 09 2002,05:14)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Ex-RoNiN @ Mar. 09 2002,02)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">In the UK you are not allowed to fight back. If you fight back and the guy attacking you gets hurt, then you get charged for assault. So here is a lesson folks, in the UK you have to take your beating like a man, or go to jail. Thank you very much Mr Blair and all this pc-crap  <!--emo&<span id='postcolor'> same here in US. you have to prove that the other person first flew the blow. p.s. Ronin, who's that girl in your sig? what car is that?<span id='postcolor'> I'm sure it's not quite as simple and rigid as that. Everyone has a right to self-defence. Even if you defend someone else from being beaten up, it still comes under self-defence. It just comes down to whether it was justifiable or not and whether the force used was 'reasonable' or 'excessive'. If someone makes threatening gestures or uses threatening words which a 'reasonable' person would take seriously given the situation, 'lashing' out is counted as self-defence. Ie Some 6-foot tall drunk is waving his fist inches away from your face and you are backed against a wall (sorry, I'm short, so 6-fo0t seems tall to me), you don't have to actually wait for the first blow to land or be thrown and certainly don't have to stand there and take the blows.

STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert A. Heilen. The movie is nothing like the book, the movie is a disgrace. The book brings up interesting political views on the modern 'XXth' century and explores ideas of a futuristic militaristic society. Excellent stuff.

You want space sim? Try good ol' Frontier: Elite and Frontier: First Encounters. I remember spending countless hours on that game, doing various cargo shipping missions, smuggling, military assasination jobs and the occasional piracy while dodging galactic police and fines. That game was truly open ended with one huuuge galaxy. Too bad they never got around making a modern sequel like they said they would.

Sorry, when it comes to RTS, I'm a Blizzard fan. Nothing I've seen recently from Westwood beats Starcraft. Yes, graphically SC is getting dated, but when it comes to unit balance, available strategies, ease of play, gaming community via Battlenet, SC is still the best..so far. SC wasn't revolutionary, but it did every aspect of RTS well, making the end product much greater overall. But all that said, I'm willing to give the new C&C a go and hopefully it wont be another clone RTS, just with better graphics and eye candy.

Speaking of SWAT3, I've always wanted to play it. Would it be worth it getting a copy nowadays? Or will I feel like I'm getting an outdated game in light of new realeases like GR and ROTC? (graphically and Ai engine wise. Not that AI exists in GR or ROTC)

Omg i cant beleive thats the first time I seen it too. Its sucha classic. Is there some way I can download that link for my own personal viewing pleasure??? ?

Maybe they should have a scenario based in southern china/Taiwan strait. It would go like this: Taiwan declares independance, China invades, America and whoever intervenes, North Korea and Russia back up China Or maybe that would be a bit too much.......

*shudder* I still have nightmares over that one

Has anyone here tried the just released DoD ver 2.0? What do you guys think of it? Too laggy? Very good? Personally I think its a great game. Great graphics, the new recoil physics amek is a good blend between realism and arcade fun.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Rogue2020 @ Jan. 31 2002,12:39)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">What's really going on here is people that like one side and try to support what they like...no one can just do like I do and analyze both sides and make a realistic judgment of their abilities....<span id='postcolor'> I agree Rogue. One simply can't just throw the two together and look at them within the same context. Personally, I like the Star Wars universe better because if its rich and diverse cultures, species and technology. I feel that Star Trek is kind of lacking in this at times (do almost ALL Star Trek species look simply like actors with different makeup??). One simply has to look at the bar in the original Star Wars on tatooine (Mos Eisley Cantina) to see what I mean. ST has also seemed a bit to idealogical for my liking. I remember in ST: First Contact, a woman asks Picard how much the Enterprise would cost and gives something a reply something like 'In the future, money has no meaning, everyone works to the benefit of society etc' Call me a pessimist, but the chances of humans every putting aside personal ambition, greed, jealousy and hatred for society as a whole seems pretty slim. But from a pure technological standpoint alone, I have to agree that ST weaponry would outmatch SW quite easily IF THEY WERE IN THE SAME UNIVERSE. Although SW weaponry seems cooler at times, ST weaponry in plain statistics (imagined statistics I might add, and for both sides) would overpower them. Which ever way you look at it, the Federation would triumph in a space battle due to its superior technology. I can't say skill wise they Feds would beat the Empire, but I can't say the Empire would win either. I'm pretty sure you've all seen Stormtroopers make terrible n00b1e mistakes and the same for so called Fed Security teams. Stormtroopers are supposedly the Elite of the Imperial Army, yet they have trouble killing ewoks or chasing down a few fugitives in the Death Star. "And these blast points, too accurate for Sand People. Only imperial stormtroopers are so precise" Umm, yeah right, their performance makes me think that sometimes the droids in TPM fight better than them. And who remembers the bit in Star Wars where the stormtrooper almost knocks himself out walking into a bulkhead? Not too impressive. But then again, although I haven't seen many TNG, Voyager or DS9 episodes, the security team in First Contact wasn't very flash either. Granted, they would've been apprehensive fighing the borg, but these people are meant to be trained dammit, and they way they acted, they were like normal actors trying to look militaristic and organized, and unfortunately, failed. There I could go on for much longer, but I'll let others have a say before I continue (this post was rather mentally taxing). MAsta_KFC The Supreme Being of Poultry.

Now that the legendary LOTR movie is out, waz wondering what's every1's favourite character? This applies to movie and/or the books. I'd hafta say in the movie, Legolas is the best. But in the book, Gandalf the Grey/White is supreme.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Rogue2020 @ Jan. 22 2002,06:23)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">The Borg apart from their adaption skillz, are quite hopeless in hand-to-hand combat. I remember in first contact, all Picard has to do was conjure a tommy gun in the holo-room and mow them down. Vader, with his lightsaber, would cut thru them like hot knife through butter.<span id='postcolor'> It's just for the show though.....the borg have personal shields....that means no bullet could ever get through them....all for show....but other wise sure they are good for combat because: 1.The shields 2.super strength 3.assimilation ability Light sabers can not get through shields either....<span id='postcolor'> Hmmm, I haven't watched the series, but in the movie it doesn't look like they have personal shields. Apart from my Picard example, I remember Worf and his blade along with Data kicking those slow arsed borg. They might be strong, but they look very slow to be. Besides, Vader might not even need to come close, he'll just use the force to rip them apart or throw them continously against a bulkhead until they're pulp.

The Borg apart from their adaption skillz, are quite hopeless in hand-to-hand combat. I remember in first contact, all Picard has to do was conjure a tommy gun in the holo-room and mow them down. Vader, with his lightsaber, would cut thru them like hot knife through butter.

Yups, i have. What i did was stay on the hill west of the base, snipe all the soldiers (or at least most of them), then crawled to the north entrance, behind the buildings (or sheds) and into the t72. Make sure u've taken out the BMP with its crew turned out. The rest easy, total slaughter. Wot u should do then is goto the base where the UAZ started off (a bit further north) and there is a mechanized squad waiting. Take them out, drive back to where u almost started, take out the URAl fulll of troops, then go south where another T-72 is waiting and where the spetsnaz were meant to go. This bit is the hardest, just try driving around with manual fire and keep moving. Guaranteed 5 stars when u finish.

Dont you think that sometimes the damage system is a tad unrealistic already? I mean, if one soldier has taken serious damage, 2 healing trips would be enuff to get him on his feet again, good as new. I would think that certain damage done by bullets (ie a hand wound, or being crippled in the legs) would take more than the nearest medikit to repair. Just my 2 cents..

I think your referring to that single player mission which you need to blow up the convoy and its nightime (forgot the name). It seems to me that to encourage stealth in that mission, if you kill any guard, no matter how silently, it sets off the trigger so other forces move in. Quite unrealistic, i agree. I miss the days of Rogue spear which u could take out 30 unsuspecting terrorists with a trusty silenced MP5-SD5. But then again, i guess that's quite unrealistic too...

According to what I've read in the forums, i dont think you can. Anyone able to confirm/deny this?