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It drives my chica nuts when she's watching tv and I suddenly blurt out "Ridge, sou'west! Nail him!" from the area of the computers.

Use Hold Position to stop them shifting on you.

Dude...kicking out an update over Labor Day weekend? Impressive.

Now that is something worth thinking about! OK put the long nose Loki on the back burner for a bit while I think up a front turret model.(hitting self on head for not thinking of it already) </font>

A thor...properly handled, is terrifying to infantry and isn't easy to chase around without the proper use of cover.

Me experience yesterday was the I got 'server no responding' in about 4 out of 5 games right at the end.

I don't mind the crazy or the accurate...I mind the xray vision.

lol...there were potholes about 10 meters deep all over the place. Pretty funny (and helpful to us infantry types). Things were juddering around so badly it was essentially impossible to aim.

I think the server disconnect should be OK now, but are you also getting client-side crashes (crash to desktop with error dialog)? If so, please send a crash dump to me (if the Send button on the error dialog isn't working). If you don't know what I mean then say so here and I'll post instructions. Thanks! </font>

Clay...lots of problems tonite...hard to get on and lots of crashes and hardly any normal game-ends..usually just a server disconnect at the expiration of time.

I'm having alot of crash problems too..especially with Hide and Seek.

Hey man...don't sweat it...we hate you too....

Fixing the bug and using Crimson's tactics should even things out.

Bones...in the ice mountain game last night they were being used to enormous effect on Vorlon..were you getting it on the other side? I was stalking Vorlon the whole time so I got to watch it in action only on the west. In rough terrain they are brutal in combo with infantry. If you are the target, a good dropper can effectively freeze the afv in place or force it to kill itself.

Excellent point...from where I sit one of the joys of playing infantry is the slow stalk. I have also found recently that you can get much closer than you'd imagine simply by walking in to the target...even without foliage. My goal is usually to work my way in to where I think the fulcrum of the battle will be. An additional quirk with the 20mm hmg specialist is that his rounds are fantastic for putting vehicle turrets out of action. From the top, sides and back everything from the Thor on down can quickly be rendered pretty harmless and at a much greater distance than required for an outright kill. And as you said...get in a low spot and wait for those tanks to come downhill to you...the tops are like paper.

The cutter is the one vehicle that drives me nuts. I've put 30 or 40 20mm rounds into it (Crimson, was that you yesterday?) without effect. I would't have a problem with that if all of the shots were in one place but as I wasn't sure of the internals I evenly split the rounds by quadrant (from the side)into the chassis. How was it possible that I didn't kill it?

I love the ion against Shrike-happy opponents. My exerience is that it burns up the annoying little bastards in no time. But sitting for ten minutes searing the front of a Paladin just to kill it doesn't do much for me.

Lol...I have yet to see a Hermes at a distance. I could only identify one if you showed me a picture of a gamey flag rush.

Thanks...I was trying to disrupt ajl and Chickenhawk to let you in...did it help?

Also...20mm infantry squad just over the military crest or in a dip of the ground as a last ditch. In the mix of a big firefight they get ignored and can chew up alot of tanks.

For me the issue is more about additional stealth than about firepower. We really, really, really need a crawl order. We also really need to be able to keep the rest of the squad locked in the prone position when moving the 'active' squad leader. My feeling on the 20mm infantry is that the rest of the squad is there to protect the specialist from other infantry while he goes to work on harder targets. To do so most effectively you really need to have the ability to do what I'm talking about above.

Now that I've figured out how badass infantry can be I'm curious about something...if this is the light version then what do you have planned for the heavies? Are we looking at guys with atgms and armour heavy enough to take a hit?

I have had the invisible beam problem...although not recently. You hear the sound effect and you see the puff of smoke but you don't see the beam itself. Once you realize it's a bug it is no big deal but the first time or two you think that you aren't getting hit.

I agree....I jetted my squad directly into the middle of a tank mosh at the Gulch today and suddenly there were flaming tanks everywhere. Unbelievable. The tweaks are looking very good.

Clay, Any particular reason the game should load very slowly on a reasonably new computer? And why it should drop me from the server all the time? I get disconnected in at least half the games I play.