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Other Means, make sure to download the Fallout 3 fix, if there's such a thing for your vid card. There's been one for ATI cards, I downloaded and installed it (I'm using an ATI 3870), and the game runs fine, has crashed three times so far, in 22+ hrs of gameplay.

I played it twice, both times for about 1-2 months until I realized I just don't have the time for MMORPGs. It's a great geame with amazing depth that only really starts once you've joined a decent corporation. Ah, and the initial learning curve isn't actually a curve but rather a solid wall obviously designed to keep the weak out...

I'm a BIG fan of Wasteland and Fallout 1&2, the latter are actually still installed on my current system. So much for my credentials... I got my copy of Fallout 3 today and have played for a couple of hours now. My verdict: I love the game! It actually feels like Fallout. The grafics are nice, the atmosphere is fantastic, characters and dialogues are great and sometimes hillarious, and the VATS system actually works surprisingly well in combat. Blowing a mutant's head off rarely felt so rewarding in a game before!

The conclusion that she's somehow at odds with reality? Yup. Definitely.

I'm not really interested in Spore. The Creature Creator is fun, but the game basically consists of a series of rather simple mini-games that seem to cater to the industry's newly discovered best friend, the "casual" audience. I can't really see any kind of long-term motivation for me in Spore. Back to Medieval II for me. There's some Heathens that need killing. Oh, and the Engländers are getting uppish, again...

Well, the first thing that struck me when I heard of Palin was that she's against sex education at school and that her 17-year old daughter is pregnant. Sex ed including the basics of contraception IMO might be a tiny bit more effective than telling teenagers to just think of baby Jesus when nature calls...

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I guess I just became less sensitive to grass pollen in general.

I had very bad hay fever until about 10 years ago, since then it has become less of a problem each year. I still suffer from it maybe 2-3 weeks each summer and take antihistamines when it really gets bad, but that's not been the case more than maybe 5-10 days each year lately. The antihistamines I take today are FAR better than the stuff back in the late 80s, today they don't make me feel drowsy any more. If the radio in the morning tells me that there'll be large amount of certain kinds of pollen in the air I'll take a pill and barely notice any effects of hay fever over the course of the day.

It looks a bit bit unusual in here...but I...kinda...like it. EDIT: Ok, just my sig got messed up. I'll take a look into this. Some day.

So, I take it the SpaceLobstersOfDoom are already in the game?

Cadmium, you are aware of the fact that SB Pro PE is a tank/afv simulation while CM:SF is a tactical wargame? Apples and oranges? :confused: For the record: I own both, and IMO few games are as much fun as SB Pro PE online with a bunch of guys.

Chops, great series of pics!

The small and middle bridges need an elevation change of +2 to fit into the map, the large bridge needs one of +4. So, on a normal map (height 7) you simple set the river to height 5 and smal and medium bridges placed over the river will fit with the surrounding higher terrain. For the large bridges you either have to use lower height for the river or adjust the height of the surrounding river banks accordingly.

Something like that? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:M29_Weasel_2.jpg Or that one: http://www.militarycarclub.cz/soubory/weasel%20bitva.jpg

I'd say go for it. We've been waiting for a "To the Volga"-AAR since CMBB was released. The most important point Phillipe already mentioned: you really have to want to do it and enjoy the writing. I did an extensive AAR a long time ago together with Master Goodale and enjoyed it immensely. You can take a look at it here, thanks to Teddy Windsor.

Steve, let me just say that even though I do not agree with all your decisions (and I really don't have to, it's your business after all and I'm just some dude playing a computer game) I really appreciate you taking the time to post here in response to my rants. If this would be possible I'd burn my WEGO altar immediately and convert to the church of mighty RT in a heartbeat.

No, in Falcon 4.0/AF you can only watch saved ACMI tracks after a mission. You load them via the ACMI interface from the main screen.

I know of no game that lets you pause and rewind the way I described it. But there are many Sims/RTS that let you "save" a whole battle/mission and watch it again later.

That's why I suggested only a limited "rewind time" for RealTime, something like 10-15 seconds.

I never said anything like that. The problem is that I feel that WEGO in CM:SF, although viable, is actually a step back from CMx1, where indeed it was perfectly viable. In CM:SF it's just there. I do well understand the decisions that led to CM:SF becoming primary RealTime, but I don't have to be happy about it. I never said I hate RealTime per se. I've been gaming RTS since Dune II and greatly enjoy a Dawn of War skirmish with its frantic pace every now and then. But unless someone can show me how I can control an infantry company with armour and artillery support in a MOUT scenario in RealTime without pressing the pause key every 3 seconds and missing half the action because I can't rewind in RealTime mode I consider WEGO as in CMx1 the better, more enjoyable mode of play. I see that I shouldn't have mentioned the blue bar in the topic title, since it derailed the discussion from my main point, e.g. the need for a rewind feature for RealTime mode. I merely mentioned it since that little bar has in the past become something like a synonym for an antiquated feature that BFC was so happy to lose, while for many WEGO-Fans it represented the core of what made CMx1 so enjoyable.

Doesn't sound silly to me at all. In fact it's exactly what I feel about CM:SF WEGO.

I tried that. And after several turns started to wonder why I didn't play CMBB/AK instead, where the blue bar is a matter of 1-10 seconds and after that the game lets me rewind/replay to my heart's content. AND let me use many of the features that were so helpful in CMx1 but somehow are missing in CM:SF. I'd actually prefer RT in CM:SF. If I could just rewind the action.

Do not get me wrong, I doubt we'll ever see the blue bar again, exactly for the reason that the apparently oh-so important real-time feature seems to be the core design of the game. I even understand that WEGO got somehow reduced to the ugly bastard child of mighty RT. The whole design of orders (-> waypoints implementation) and the lack of order delays as in CMx1 clearly prove that the game has been designed with RT mode as THE mode of play. Since the current state of WEGO simply doesn't do it for me (and actually quite a few people I know), I'd simply like to see some way to effectively control my units in RT, that is, give me a replay mode, even if only a couple of seconds, in RT mode.

Yes, and as I have tried to point out, I simply hate that. I really do, my preciousss... It might seem like a minor point, but having to watch a full turn basically in real-time before I can finally rewind scenes sucks. It's not CM WEGO anymore. It doesn't feel like it, it doesn't play like it. I don't like it.