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I honestly haven't played FC2, but I LOVED FC1 and all my friends who loved FC1 and got FC2 were either pissed that they paid money for it or glad that they pirated it. I was basically turned off as soon as the games thread mentioned that no matter how many times you clear out checkpoints, the enemies all just respawn and it's like you accomplished nothing. My friend said it should have been renamed "Driving around Africa for hours and occasionally shooting at something."
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Otto Skorzeny posted:far cry 2 weekend deal for $10 inc. dlc I had a lot of fun with it, but most people hate on it for some reason. It's nothing really like any of those games you listed, though. Especially not Far Cry 1.
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Rodrigo Diaz posted:Has anyone played DCS: Black Shark? It's pretty awesome, although I've had a real hard time actually using the AT missiles without a trackIR system to help target stuff. I did spend a bit of time working on memorizing the startup sequence for the Blackshark though... my checklist that I wrote out using the training vid either 25 or 50 steps (it's been awhile since I played). So yeah, it can be really realistic, but yo can also turn on an arcade like mode if you just want to dick around.
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Otto Skorzeny posted:far cry 2 weekend deal for $10 inc. dlc Far Cry 2 is fun when you're not: A) getting sniped at by dudes despite hiding in bushes at night without having fired a shot yet or B) going back and forth between checkpoints on the road that respawn fairly quickly Thankfully there are trainers on the PC that disable the gun degeneration bullshit so that minty fresh gun you just picked up won't seize on the third shot. If you can look past those two things, it's a fairly fun game. drat pretty, too.
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AVP demo is out
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Is it still multiplayer only or is there an SP one?
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Anyone who really LOVED FC1 is dumb because it got straight up trisomy 21 when the loving Trigens showed up
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Gtab posted:Anyone who really LOVED FC1 is dumb because it got straight up trisomy 21 when the loving Trigens showed up This is a man who knows what's up.
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Gtab posted:Anyone who really LOVED FC1 is dumb because it got straight up trisomy 21 when the loving Trigens showed up Yeah, the trigens weren't the best, but I still loved it. Maybe if I went back and played it I wouldn't as much, but it was a pretty big step up as far as open worlds and graphics go. Also, luring trigens into contractor camps was great, and the ease of map editing made for some awesome multiplayer maps and game modes.
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Capn Beeb posted:Thankfully there are trainers on the PC that disable the gun degeneration bullshit so that minty fresh gun you just picked up won't seize on the third shot. Basically FC2 is very pretty and has some neat guns; but the entire "game" is the first half an hour's worth of missions played over and over again with slightly better firepower and no clear motivation or resolution.
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Pitch posted:I still don't get this. I played FC2 for a few weeks and had one gun break on me, and that thing was rusted solid when I found it laying in a shed. Gun degradation in general is dumb but I just didn't see it happening in the time scale the game takes place over. Everything about this, I agree with. Every single thing.
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Otto Skorzeny posted:far cry 2 weekend deal for $10 inc. dlc It's an absolutely gorgeous game but the gameplay is terrible. It's incredibly repetitive and has some very irritating aspecs - like guns going to crap, quickly respawning checkpoints, and having to take malaria medication every 30 minutes.
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Cyrano4747 posted:I'm an idiot. Panzer Commander was fun, but kind of 'meh.' I have both  , and yeah, PE is the better of the two; mine if the GOld Edition, which came with an entire second CD full of mods. I think I downloaded a shitload more, but I don't think I did much with them (and I'm not sure if they're on a backup disc or if they were lost in a drive crash at some point).Micromancer posted:and having a non-Megaton home without being evil or living at the Abandoned Car Fort is nice but don't expect your weapon loadout to change drastically. At best you'll gain two new guns for hot keys that only see situational usage. Think Tesla Cannon in usefulness. "Home" home, with themes and accessories, or just a safe place to stay/store poo poo? If the latter, I usually use the first house in Minefield - nice big bed, a safe and wardrobe right in the bedroom, (radiated) running water in the bathroom, and a radio downstairs (that only gets Enclave, I think). Oh, and enough space not to get trapped if your run multiple followers. More importantly, other than Arkansas, I've *never* run into wandering enemies right there - fast-travel arrivals, coming out after a long rest, whatever. Semi-centrally located, too. Greyditch is another option, but it's not as nice a neighborhood. The little ruin with the upper-floor bed/stash southwest of Tenpenny is OK, but traders/assassins/wildlife are in and out all the time. Kind of sucks to be going home for a rest and finding four Albino Radscorps loitering around. You can loot a shitload of "free money" items in Zeta, if you're willing to slog. I think I had 140+ blaster rifles, most repaired to new. (Eventually ran out of caps, though.) Can't remember if the Alien Powercells for the Firelance/pistol blaster were there, however. The Katana + Chinese Stealth Suit = obnoxious Raider-exterminating fun.
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Gtab posted:Anyone who really LOVED FC1 is dumb because it got straight up trisomy 21 when the loving Trigens showed up Thought the same, but then I went back to it at a later date. And because it was the only thing I had to play, and because I love a challenge, I played through it on the hardest difficulty. The horror, the horror. Lot of fun though. Far Cry 1 on it's hardest setting had less bullshit deaths in it than Modern Warfare 2 on second hardest difficulty, go figure.
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Gtab posted:Anyone who really LOVED FC1 is dumb because it got straight up trisomy 21 when the loving Trigens showed up You are the epitome of Games, shine on you crazy diamond who is a Little Bitch at shooters <3
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Gtab posted:Anyone who really LOVED FC1 is dumb because it got straight up trisomy 21 when the loving Trigens showed up There were Trigens? I thought the game ended when you got to them  FC2 is worth $10 just for setting a field on fire at sun down.
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JEEVES420 posted:There were Trigens? I thought the game ended when you got to them The world and the fire ( oh God fire ) in Far Cry 2 is amazing. If there were some way of combining that fire with Red Faction Guerrilla's building killing fun, best game ever. The whole game could suck, the AI would be terrible, and I'd still pay 50 dollars just to light buildings on fire and blow flaming rubble and bad guys in every direction.
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:The world and the fire ( oh God fire ) in Far Cry 2 is amazing. If there were some way of combining that fire with Red Faction Guerrilla's building killing fun, best game ever. The whole game could suck, the AI would be terrible, and I'd still pay 50 dollars just to light buildings on fire and blow flaming rubble and bad guys in every direction. Or even better (and more plausible) Far Cry 2's fire and Crysis physics and jungles. I don't even need any AI, just buildings jungles and lots of pyrotechnics.
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Setting up ambushes was so bad rear end in Far Cry 2. Throw an IED on the side of the road and pick up an RPG. Hide behind some rocks. Rock the first car in the convoy with the IED, toss a molotov in the middle, then rock the other two trucks with the RPG. loving heavenly.
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The Automator posted:Setting up ambushes was so bad rear end in Far Cry 2. Throw an IED on the side of the road and pick up an RPG. Hide behind some rocks. Rock the first car in the convoy with the IED, toss a molotov in the middle, then rock the other two trucks with the RPG. loving heavenly. I remember one mission where I tried to do this after having completed another mission. My equipment was a little banged up ( I actually used my guns!  ), but I was too lazy to walk into the garage to get new gear before the convoy run. I plop down an IED on the road, pick up my recoiless rifle ( or whatever it was ) and wait. Convoy comes, IED blows up, I stand up out of a bush and launch a rocket from the hill. Perfect, right?The rocket goes up into the air, zig-zags back and fourth then comes back and hits me in the face. The only thing missing was a road runner.
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The Automator posted:Setting up ambushes was so bad rear end in Far Cry 2. Throw an IED on the side of the road and pick up an RPG. Hide behind some rocks. Rock the first car in the convoy with the IED, toss a molotov in the middle, then rock the other two trucks with the RPG. loving heavenly. Sounds kind of like OFP, except with a squad in OFP/ARMA this could be done with awesome precision. Then of course there were times in towns where your crew got wiped out and you were just running around with a pack of Anti-tank rockets while T-80s drove through brick walls trying to murder you and it was simultaneously awesome and horrifying. After playing OFP virtually nonstop over a long weekend, hearing construciton equipment in the middle of campus put me on edge, because it sounded just like the tanks/BMPs from OFP. I am a nerd.
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Pyruvate posted:Maybe it's just my relatively low Big Guns skill, but the Rock-It Launcher, while silly fun, doesn't seem to do much damage. It's still sort of fun shooting pool balls at people, until they shoot you with bullets and you have to quit fiddling around. Heavier things do more damage in the Rock-It Launcher. Pool balls are some of the worst ammo available. Books are barely better. If you really want to do damage with a Rock-It Launcher, you need to be launching poo poo like wood chippers and irons at people.
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Cyrano4747 posted:From what you're saying it could either be Red Baron (the first one) by the same team who did Their Finest Hour and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, or the slightly more obscure (although really damned fun) Knights of the Sky. Yes, it was Knights Of The Sky! I was thinking about it sometime after I wrote that post, and I was sure 'Knights' was part of the title, but for some reason the rest of it wouldn't come to me. Thank you. I also had Red Baron at some point, but I don't recall too much of it. Knights was really awesome, though. Are there any current WWI flight combat sims out there?
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Odd question for those playing the Bad Company 2 demo on 360(if there are any): Has voice-chat not been implemented yet? I havent heard any chatter and people dont seem to be able to hear me either. Far Cry 2 has made it so I have the urge to blow up any Jeep product I see on the road. Having my first sniper rifle blow up in my hands was a joyous moment as well. I didnt think that they would actually Kb once they totally degraded. I run around with enemy guns just for the added challenge of MAYBE having my gun blow up in my hands.
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chairface posted:Heavier things do more damage in the Rock-It Launcher. Pool balls are some of the worst ammo available. Books are barely better. If you really want to do damage with a Rock-It Launcher, you need to be launching poo poo like wood chippers and irons at people. Thanks for the tip, I thought, "getting shot by a pool ball would really, really hurt, I'll use those." quote:Bad Company 2 A game without a PC demo; a shameful game. Pyruvate fucked around with this message at Feb 5, 2010 around 22:34 |
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Pyruvate posted:Thanks for the tip, I thought, "getting shot by a pool ball would really, really hurt, I'll use those." Yeah, Fallout 3 bases Rock-It Launcher damage solely on the weight of the projectile you shoot. Any "hardness" or "It sure would hurt to get shot with a pool ball" goes right out the window in favor of the item's mass and mass alone. I don't remember specifically if pool balls have mass at all, but if they do, it's only 1 lb per, which isn't very good if they even have that much.
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Inspector_71 posted:How many of you are playing Bad Company 2? I just pre-ordered and installed it tonight. I'm playing bc2 beta on pc. hit up daskro on steam if you want to play, got a bunch of dudes.
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Detective Thompson posted:Yes, it was Knights Of The Sky! I was thinking about it sometime after I wrote that post, and I was sure 'Knights' was part of the title, but for some reason the rest of it wouldn't come to me. Thank you. I also had Red Baron at some point, but I don't recall too much of it. Knights was really awesome, though. Are there any current WWI flight combat sims out there? Not really. It's a goddamned dinosaur at this point, but really the best bet is Red Baron II (AKA Red Baron 3D) modded out the rear end. That said, cram some of the better mod packs on it and it starts looking shockingly good for a 10 year old game. All of the stuff that made it suck so very, very hard when it first came out was fixed by the community. No, I don't ahve a list of mods right now, it's been about 3 years since I installed it. I imagine there must be a fan site or something that lists the "must haves"
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daskrolator posted:got a bunch of dudes.
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i head butted the krogan on their homeworld.
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Oh man, I finally unlocked the ranger and now akimbo on estate or rundown it is just a rapefest. I remember CapnBeeb saying something about being able to detonate C4 midair and I was all excited but it wasn't working for me. Any tips?
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Yeah, play games from 2010. 
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Viehfutter posted:Aside from regional naming differences, that's the same thing as Iron Warriors. Haha holy gently caress so it is. Didn't look at Iron Warriors beforehand. Sorry. Mr. Despair posted:It's pretty awesome, although I've had a real hard time actually using the AT missiles without a trackIR system to help target stuff. Thanks.  Nothing I enjoy more than seeing NATO vehicles engulfed in flames
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Rodrigo Diaz posted:Haha holy gently caress so it is. Didn't look at Iron Warriors beforehand. Sorry. No worries. I do like the game, so at least I agree with the suggestion. So I finally arrived late to the Mass Effect 2 party, and judging by the way Shepard sprints now, he's gone full retard. I was under the impression that you never do that. 
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Capn Beeb posted:Is it still multiplayer only or is there an SP one? MP only I'm not sure if it's just deathmatch. It's ok I guess, the marine walks a bit slow.
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Pyruvate posted:Thanks for the tip, I thought, "getting shot by a pool ball would really, really hurt, I'll use those." The concept of the launcher is great, and the ability to shoot bitches with teddy bears (why are you (not you you, a general population you) doing this sell them for 30 caps each dummy) is amusing and all but its wholly inefficient at actually killing things. Griefing is a whole nother ball game though. For some reason I see people saying hurrr use pre-war money its weightless you have unlimited ammo for it but if damage is based on weight then what you WANT is to get overloaded as gently caress carrying nothing but vacuums and crazy 15 pound trash. Sure, it takes an hour to walk to something worth shooting. You ever thrown a vacuum through a bitch's skull? Makes every white knuckling step worth it. Also, once you do this you can jam the launcher in a locker and never need to pick it up again. A quote that smells it's own obscurity; an awesome quote.
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mlmp08 posted:I remember CapnBeeb saying something about being able to detonate C4 midair and I was all excited but it wasn't working for me. Any tips? Double tap reload after you throw it. Combine with scavenger and danger close  E: One fun part of Far Cry 2 was hammering the ranger station with the AS50 and mortars. poo poo blew up good 
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Capn Beeb posted:Double tap reload after you throw it. Combine with scavenger and danger close Does not work for me. I wonder why. edit: well, loving around with all my keys, reload is "R" and that doesn't work but double-tapping "F" works, so yay. mlmp08 fucked around with this message at Feb 6, 2010 around 18:54 |
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The Bad Company 2 demo on 360 is really fun. Pretty sure I can trade in mw2 now because once this comes out I'll never play mw2 again. I still haven't had a chance to try out the ROV yet though 
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priznat posted:The Bad Company 2 demo on 360 is really fun. Pretty sure I can trade in mw2 now because once this comes out I'll never play mw2 again. I'm in the PC beta and I find it laaaame. The controls are very, very sluggish. The guns don't feel like they have any....oomph. The gameplay itself feels kinda 'disconnected.' It's hard to explain. Overall, I just can't get into the game.
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