Colin

Hope not. It just seems wrong to me, I can't really explain why. The last thing I wanna see is CM at Toys R Us.

Generic comment regarding degradation of forum. Brief mention of seniority and the days before the beta demo. Anticipation for CM for OSX heightened by the fact this thread didn't contain screenshots to keep us from feeding on each other.

This is my favorite extra to ask for.

PREORDER!!!!????

Rule 3 is never picture Madmatt's area where the sun is lacking.

Weakspot vs mines?

I thought that was bloody hilarious. Seriously though, the response to the game here is more interesting to me then Under Seige is. Imagine how a game like America's Army must look to foreign governments. The Palestinians do have legitimate grievances, in my opinion. If the same thing had happened to any nation in the world involving any two peoples there would be grounds to complain. All I have to say is if you look up 'ancient Israel' in my encyclopedia it says see 'Palestine'. I know this is political but if you could choose just one other viewpoint to be aware of this would be a good one.

Does anyone have any of these games or even demos running successfully within Classic on an OS X machine? I cannot wait any longer for CM:SF. My copy of CM:BO won't work, it just hangs at loading 3d. I assume it's the RAVE driver that doesn't quite function the same in classic.

I don't want to have to place walls in the editor. I also don't want to have to aim at individual windows. Thats what AI is for. This is the stuff the BFC is good at guys. Let em do it.

I believe the hot gaming setup are the AMD64 Dualcore's with the 7800 Nvidia series SLI card(s). Next is the most important advice you will ever get in your computing life. If you are choosing between a 3.0 or a 2.5 with more RAM take the 2.5 every time. Put a 1GB of RAM minimum of course, I'd suggest getting to a nice 2GB. Set yourself up to upgrade if you can't afford it initially. EDIT: You know I just started thinking and it's all about the combination of quality parts and good drivers. ASUS/MSI are my favorite motherboard companies, and they also make video cards also. Video cards are a hard buy. Buy just behind the cutting edge. New cards are always obscenely priced. Never buy lite CPU/GPU's. A dedicated Audigy 2 always helps the sound also. Building a machine is the only way to game. [ January 25, 2006, 09:44 PM: Message edited by: Colin ]

Isn't that like CM:C?

Actually iTunes itself isn't that profitable. At least not for Apple. Apple makes money on the iPods and the record companies make money on the songs. <rant> HOW THE HELL CAN RECORD COMPANIES STILL WANT PRICES TO GO UP WHEN THEY HAVE A DELIVERY MODEL THAT IS 99% PROFIT!?! </rant> In some ways, having free mods is a selling point for CM. I would think a better method would be to have a 'texture expansion' with the next module. I've never seen a game with a paid mod system. I don't know many people that would spend the $ to refit all their units with paid textures. You could easily spend $1000 making your $50 game look good, only to have a better looking texture released the day after.

The used white phosphorus. Legally it is NOT a chemical weapon. However if it is used against civilians and not for illumination the Geneva Convention considers it a chemical weapon. The official line is that they used WP for incendiary purposes in areas that were not occupied by civilians. Regardless of whether or not they targeted civilians on purpose they did hit them. There is a very legitimate Italian documentary about Fallujah that shows some very graphic film. It also includes interviews with Iraqis that saw 'strange explosions' (paraphrasing there) and images of people burned in their clothes. If the US didn't hit a notable number of civilians with WP then the insurgents/al Queda have a Hollywood quality effects studio to fake a propaganda video. Link to video (graphic) I do not however personally believe the US would or has targeted civilians.

Played it on the PC. Fun game but there's a fare bit of the spectrum missing I'd say.

Played it on the PC. Fun game but there's a fare bit of the spectrum missing I'd say.

Played it on the PC. Fun game but there's a fare bit of the spectrum missing I'd say.

Look, the problem is that occupation is among the foreign polices that the US exercises. Everyone (Brits, French, US, Israeli's) has a poor history of occupation because it's generally an unpopular and often tyrannical thing to do. The reason so many other countries have a problem with the US is because the involve themselves so heavily in the affairs of other countries. The US, as such a influential country,(economically, culturally) often steps on the toes of others and doesn't realize it. In fact, if you examine the history of other dominant empires in the past they follow a cyclical pattern. You can only inflate your economy on false market optimism for so long. A democracy that spends its money on the military and has a two tier labour system deserves to be criticized and should be policed carefully. I really hate people that jumped on the 'US is bad because of Bush' bandwagon. He's really just continuing the policies that the American people allowed for years before. For some reason American's have always been okay with decreased domestic investment and more multinational development. The average level of income has only changed in the top 20% of households since '75. Bush is doing what the US needs to do to maintain the standard of living that Western citizens enjoy daily. Oh and the two tier labour system is an idea from the CIA world fact book, not a liberal point of view at all.

Steve, That article didn't give me the feel that it seems you felt. They use the British as an illustrative example. It's not at all outlandish to say the British are better at this urban stuff. It doesn't say the Brit's are infallible although I'm not sure you'd have any argument at all if the author had said 'the Brit's aren't flawless'. The 'hat's off, lads!' is particularly interesting and a prime example of this. It merely serves as an example of one noticeable way the Brit SOP is different. I don't personally think that American soldiers go in gun blazing, I do however know that there is consistently certain administrative personalities that want to. I think that people pass this along to the individual soldiers, so I can understand your defensive post. The articles main purpose was to suggest that the way to win in counterinsurgency situations was to gain cultural understanding. In war situations it is difficult to say broad things like 'it's easier in Basra' or 'the American's are trigger happy' because there are obviously examples of situations that counter each. Lots of armchair experts. I thought it was a good article, definitely with some insight (despite the contrived quotes). A couple of nits: British occupation policies are the same as America's occupation policies. The thing that caused problems in Africa was the fact that the Brit's attempted to make static borders between factions to protect resources, something that only causes friction between native groups. The Brit's never left Israel. Israel only existed from 1948 onwards. Maybe also from approx. 1600BC to 130AD depending on the histories you read. Conveniently they avoided the British empire and their occupational strategies. Palestine, however, was subjected to that empirical strategy via the UN and has suffered as you say. Another aside: That survey makes me laugh every time. I'm not saying it's not true, a lot of young people out there are quite stupid. I think it's arrogant to suggest that ethnic groups bring down the non-ethnic GPA curve. Canada is an extremely mixed culture (at least in the areas that the populace is situated) and they score similarly to the US, although consistently edging them out. I've personally learned under both curriculums and the US one is about a year behind as far as math and english skills. The economic geography program I was in, despite being in a well educated area, was only US centric. The teacher really didn't know much about what was going on around the world beyond US interests. I think a lesson can be learned from that article here. It never hurts to learn more about other cultures. Maybe 34% of US kids wouldn't have said that America had a quarter of the world population if the education program was made more global.

Maybe it was something that was changed early on and I am incorrect about the two types being used. Here are some quick links, all my reference stuff is at home and I'm at school. http://world.guns.ru/ammo/am05-e.htm Yes I am aware its the shady world guns site but I have read something along this line, I didn't have any idea of the designations of the rounds and didn't know what else to call them so I used that site. http://matrix.dumpshock.com/raygun/basics/pmrb.html#sov545 http://www.forensico.com/For-List_of_Firearms_A-/AK_74.html These sites describe the function you mention although the last one says a few things like the 5.45 is better at penetrating Kevlar then the earler 7.62mm round and that is doesn't yaw consistently enough. Both worth a quick read. I will try to find another source for the AP bullets but I guess it doesn't matter either way cuz I'm tired and I'm going to sleep.

I'm 20, I've been posting here since I was 14 however I had a hiatus during the period BFC had no OS X offerings. I have always kept a machine around with OS 9 but work/school/tactical FPS's kept me in OS X. I found CM looking for CC2 maps when I'd played that out. Basically have been a sponge for weapons/warfare since 9 or 10ish. I like to think I've done quite well, I don't know any other people my age that can tell you what revisions of the PzV had the mantlet ricochet defect in them, or for that matter what a PzV, mantlet or the proper spelling of ricochet is. I owe it all to Steve now. Also, my pride and joy is my name being on the CM:BO FAQ. Self rant over now. Sorry bout that.

I'd try to use explosives on their softies and stay away from a straight fight. Obviously any traditional combat situation will see the US on top. Guerilla tactics are the only way. Key use of ATGM's will be fairly large. I think that skeleton defense's would be far more effective then any fake vehicles. Try to make the US player commit all his assets on destroying a portion of yours, while maneuvering to flank. Drawing infantry in and waiting until they dismount to engage them with HE from any armour you might have. Obviously if you can hit the Strykers while they are loaded with troops would be ideal but at range the US will have numerical advantage. It's only up close can you use mobility as a multiplier. What about things like Blackhawk Down? Large fires at streetcorners to prevent the units from moving down. Seems effective against the Humvee's, would it work against Strykers? Funneling their units into your hit areas will be key.

I'll inject some disrespect then. In forums frequented largely by actual serving military members, the term 'Walt' has come into play. Generally they look like the gentleman in the foreground: PICTURE OF FAT GUY IN UNIFORM Walt is short for "Walter Mitty", but he also answers to 'wannabe'. You can find him on Airsoft bulletin boards, or message boards like this: Link Pretending to be something he's not. You can generally tell he's not really a serving soldier by his use of all the correct slang, with just a titch too much "gung ho" thrown in for verisimilitude. I don't have a hard time believing someone could blow off another human being's arm with a .50 and then go on the internet and laugh about it, but such a thing would have to be pretty rare indeed. If Cipher is the real deal, well, my apologies, but you don't need to go on as if you're John Wayne. Certainly we don't need the offensive racial epithets here. It's mostly a civilian crowd. The real combat veterans that have posted here in the past - Forever Babra, Desdichado, Nidan1 - have been pretty reserved about their experiences which is what one expects of a combat veteran. That's something most Walts don't get. Again, apologies to Cipher if he is the real deal, but of course all we have to judge anyone on here is what they say and how they say it. Knowing all the right slang doesn't prove anything one way or the other. Rant off. </font>

It saddens me to see people respond like this on the forum. We are posting ontopic and then someone posts something blatantly offensive not ten posts after Steve tells us he banned someone for something the page before. Ban and move on please. I miss the beta demo and gold demo days. There was still a post every 15 seconds so I could just stay here and refresh and never have to leave, just each post was so carefully crafted because no one wanted to offend another grog. Plus Fionn would just correct you anyway.

Hey John, I know better then to test your grogdom but isn't that just the opposite of what was being discussed? The 7.62x39mm round @ low velocity has better CQB stopping power then the faster 5.45mm round. Now perhaps the 5.45 round is inferior to the 5.56 round that the early M16's used. The other issue is that there are 2 major models of the common Russian rounds. The 47 round comes in the 57-N-231S design but also the 7N23AP round that has much better body armour penetration. Similarly, the 7N6 5.45mm round is also available with an AP core (7N22 AP). These variations make it hard to know what is happening. Maybe the AP core was actually helping against soft targets because it would tumble as you say. Impossible to know which they were using. If I could pick for CQB I suppose I'd want a 7.62mm round but the AP core or a standard 5.45mm round. The 5.45mm AP round would probably not have the 'stopping power' (knock you on your ass fast) for CQB. Just more extremely bland numbers to soak into everyone's brain before Steve releases the 'stealth demo' that we're all waiting for. Also, re: the AN-94. Right now it's basically seen as an elite AK. Spetsnaz,SOBR,OMON and other upper echelon units are using them. I'd heard that the Syrians fielded a decent special forces and might have a better rifle then the masses.

Okay but the real question is... is it .223 or 5.56? .303 or 7.62? EDIT: No but seriously, how about a screenshot of you not giving us screenshots? Charles in action. Anything.......arrrrrrrrgh. [ December 07, 2005, 08:00 PM: Message edited by: Colin ]