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I can't believe you'd say that Ken. This is proper form for body motion they should have been modeling. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjTQV6CjAPE

or not*, but it is still a helluva lot of fun! Victory I mean, I agree JonS has nailed it - sig material there except that Emrys sold us all out and altered that historical document that was his sig.

DasMorbo, love the idea. There is one thing to note though, Modular buildings versus independent ones. They have differing damage models and personally I think the independents add lots more visual effect. I do not know what the damage depiction does for effect on buildings. I believe Sgt Schultz had mentioned that setting damage increments weakens the structure. I don't know if that is across the board or just removing floors or what. Also if you set the increment low for depiction while setting the structural effect to a minimum you could have some unforeseen consequences. For example infantry fire opening up holes in the side of an independent structure exposing the units hiding within while actually having little effect on the structure. You could even end up with hollow 3 story buildings that stay 3 stories despite having no walls on any side... Just some thoughts but as to the original statement, yeah I like a battered looking town when I am fighting for it. If BF was willing to consider it one option might be to add several damage level increments and then just assign the same model to several. The modders could then fill in the additional levels if desired. BF gets the benefit of providing us with the option while hopefully minimizing the additional work/maintenance on their part.

I would not consider that to be gamey. Your unit would know, you just might not with all the activity going on. Trying to understand what your units perspective is is not gamey, it IS the game. Now hunting for fences etc that disappeared, yeah that is a bit gamey. Sometimes unavoidable, but still if your guys don't know it you are taking advantage of a lack of FOW in terrain. As to your original suggestion and some of what Phil said. Here is an example. There is an enemy MG team and it opens fire on a unit it of yours it sees. Meanwhile you have several units behind it further back and that burst takes out say 3 guys in two different teams. You now have potentially how many messages? 3 teams say minimum that have just been fired upon, two with casualties. Do you now get 5 messages from a single MG burst? Now assume that all three of those teams see that MG, do you get 3 more alerts? Assume one of your teams was a bazooka team and the asst is the guy hit, you now get an ammo shortage message as well? Broadsword and I are now fighting out a scenario in our newest campaign. It is huge. So much so I can't track everything that is going on even in WeGo. We are emailing each other about events we have both missed and I find myself going back to turns to find out what the heck just happened (for example a PSW I had given orders to and inadvertently put it's destination AS on the wrong side of a hedgerow. It is now a burning wreck and I completely missed that it had even been hit) It isn't that your idea for some kind of alerting is bad, it just needs to take into account what all is being asked for and as ASL Veteran said, perhaps have the scope of the suggestion fine tuned. The potential to get so flooded with data is there just as much as it is already in the game - hence my sticking with Wego. I can process the info at my own lazy pace and still miss stuff.

pre-order of what? I am looking at Gustav pre order right now and it is still available.

No way are you putting a link in your sig to a thread about your sig. Ha you think we are total suckers?

I'm with Wodin on this. You want it absolutely clean so that when MG comes out you don't end up with even more odd behavior. time to load game 20 minutes * time to load 1.1 patch 5 minutes * time to upgrade to 2.0 10 minutes * having the game function corrrectly - priceless. (* estimate only, timing can be directly influenced by quantity of alcohol consumed)

If you are referring to this one I would be hesitant to draw any conclusions at all as to what is depicted, state of the building etc. For all we know the entire structure behind the shooter may be gone. They show one guy with a shreck run into a building and then two separate shots at buildings with a shreck and in the middle one guy with a shreck about to fire. Whether that is actually the shot depicted later is anyone's guess. The film jumps at the 20 second mark, a splice for something then immediately jumps to a shot INSIDE the room of the target. In fact from the first 8 seconds if it were live combat footage I'd have to assume the Russians filmed it as the angle of view is actually from the empty shed that the team is about to blow up. Dramatic, and I'd have to say staged and hardly evidence that will sway BF. JK himself admits to being unable to validate it's authenticity or what it actually depicts.

bookmark this, it is pretty much the handbook for posting. Lots of good suggestions about not just how to get the image linked, but how to clean up the image for presentation. http://www.battlefront.com/community/showthread.php?t=97288

GL Released? What's he that wishes so? My cousin heyhellowhatsnew? No, my fair cousin; If we are mark'd to F5, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of bandwidth. God's will! I pray thee, wish not one gamer more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if men my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires. But if it be a sin to covet another module, I am the most offending soul alive. No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from some FPS shooter game. God's peace! I would not lose so much bandwidth As one man more methinks would share from me For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more downloader! Rather proclaim it, heyhellowhatsnew, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this refresh party, Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse; We would not F5 in that man's company That fears his fellowship to wait impatiently with us. This day is call'd Monday. He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe on Tuesday, And rouse him at the name of Battlefront. He that shall live this day, and see old age (Emrys), Will weekly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say 'To-morrow is Monday. Then will he strip his sleeve and show bruised fingers, And say 'These wounds I had last Monday' Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember, with advantages, how many times he pressed F5 that day. Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words- c3k, GaJ and Bil, Womble and that new guy, Slysniper and Vanir- Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red. This story shall the good man teach his son; And Monday shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we bunch of impatient losers; For he to-day that presses F5 with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition or make him a nervous wreck; And gamers now-a-bed Shall think themselves lucky they were not here, And hold their manhoods (wait, what?!) That checked the battlefront website on Monday.

Coordinator: Crucifixion? Prisoner: Yes. Coordinator: Good. Out of the door, line on the left, one cross each. [Next prisoner] Coordinator: Crucifixion? Mr. Cheeky: Er, no, freedom actually. Coordinator: What? Mr. Cheeky: Yeah, they said I hadn't done anything and I could go and live on an island somewhere. Coordinator: Oh I say, that's very nice. Well, off you go then. Mr. Cheeky: No, I'm just pulling your leg, it's crucifixion really. Coordinator: [laughing] Oh yes, very good. Well... Mr. Cheeky: Yes I know, out of the door, one cross each, line on the left.

LOS and LOF are two very different things. Whether they both use the same rules regarding trees is beyond my pay grade. As I am not getting paid I think you can extrapolate the degree of my knowledge.

Faith- I think no one could say BF skimps on the modules. I am pretty certain you will be very very happy.

Nah Phil is just a bot that Charles created so he doesn't have to come out here and see the rabble that buys his game. *ducks* ouch Phil, just kidding.

LOL okay okay, what's that in Spinty's sig - "Schoolgirls on speed. Shaking, hot, sweaty schoolgirls with torn clothes, long range scopes and a mind to kill"

Fair enough, but how is anyone to know that? We've got our share of all kinds here.

Hehe heh and how anyone would NOT buy a module staggers my imagination. C'mon now CW is $35. Good lord people you'd think BF was stealing your retirement nest egg or something. I figure it this way, if it isn't worth $35 to ya then don't hop on the forum lamenting you don't have x unit available. If it wasn't worth it to buy it then it shouldn't be worth complaining you didn't get it.

What you think this is the Calvin and Hobbes treehouse? Personally I think that would probably be a good thing. Then maybe the few female players wouldn't have to hide their gender to avoid A**holes. And before you suggest there aren't any, perhaps you should reflect on above statement and wonder how you will ever know. If Phil and Normal Dude aren't offended then I don't think any of the rest of us have any right to object.

woohoo! I still remember taking her with me on a trip to Shanghai a few years back during a CS release. There were tons of CS manuals on sale at the bookstores, but they actually "sold" very little product in China.

My wife might be distressed to hear that, she works the beta forum for Adobe Japan on photoshop.

Actually it is all my fault. The original press release said 46 weeks. I accidentally edited it to 4-6 weeks. ND and others have been working like mad to meet that date regardless and all the while eyeing me with pitchforks and sharp knives. You can thank me for it's ultimately super early release, but I expect I will "disappear" soon after once folks have a little time on their hands to decide on where to dispose of the body. Look for my gravestone to appear in some future release as an inside joke amongst the staff.

Yes but of course that is the only time we players would ever use them...

rotflmao, would love to see that one

agusto I have to say I laughed long and hard after checking the link in your signature, thanks.

My first PBEM with 2 different opponents was on Bois de Baugin and is still one of my favorites. Won one, lost one, enjoyed the hell out of both. I'd be curious as to how it would play now with some of the changes since CMBN version 2.0 came out.