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Ablative posted:If I didn't know better I'd say you picked Friday for updates because this would happen. Happy accidents
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There's other mods for SPT that try to make it more like an actual single player game rather than just disabling other players or adjusting health amounts. It's still within what was made as a multiplayer game so it doesn't work for everything but there are some people out there that really want to play EFT by themselves. One of the more recent ones combines a bunch of mods which change a bunch of things more suited to multiplayer and also turns EFT quasi open world with the map exits linked to the spawns on other maps (so the Road to Customs extract will take you to Customs) and smaller hideouts between the maps, different from the main hideout. Traders are also only accessed from certain extractions. It's all kind of janky and ambitious.
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Kibayasu posted:There's other mods for SPT that try to make it more like an actual single player game rather than just disabling other players or adjusting health amounts. It's still within what was made as a multiplayer game so it doesn't work for everything but there are some people out there that really want to play EFT by themselves. One of the more recent ones combines a bunch of mods which change a bunch of things more suited to multiplayer and also turns EFT quasi open world with the map exits linked to the spawns on other maps (so the Road to Customs extract will take you to Customs) and smaller hideouts between the maps, different from the main hideout. Traders are also only accessed from certain extractions. It's all kind of janky and ambitious. From what I understand, some of that stuff like linked extractions and in-raid traders are features that BSG has said they are planning to put into the main game. So modders are trying to get ahead of them, which is kinda crazy considering the game isn't built to accommodate it yet. I forgot to mention that the only reason I even started looking at modding Tarkov in the first place was so I could set the time and weather conditions of an offline raid. What a rabbit hole that was.
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 05 - ONI Alpha Site The Covenant really wants this building (and its secrets), but we aren't going to let them have it.
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It's safe to assume that Brute Hammers are part of the list of "Things ODST cannot arbitrarily interact with, but Master Chief can", right?
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Apr 8, 2022 20:33
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Stanforth wasn't reassigned by Cortana, that was Ackerson. And that is indeed Marcus Stacker's voice actor... Pete Stacker.
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AradoBalanga posted:It's safe to assume that Brute Hammers are part of the list of "Things ODST cannot arbitrarily interact with, but Master Chief can", right? It's safe to assume, sure. Ablative posted:Stanforth wasn't reassigned by Cortana, that was Ackerson. Ah poo poo, you're right, that's embarrassing. Then which one is Stanforth?
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Apr 9, 2022 15:43
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Stanforth was the Admiral in charge of the Spartan-II project. One of them anyway. He was the one who led the reinforcement fleet for Keyes after the Keyes Loop, promoted him after. He was part of ONI and presumably died during Reach.
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Yeah, he was the head of Section III until partway through the war, when he went over to FLEETCOM to command the defence of the Inner Colonies. He led the naval defence at Reach and died as a result.
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Apr 10, 2022 16:35
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Nice to see a big setpiece battle where you aren't expected to win, but have to repeatedly retreat.
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Oh hey, apparently Rookie has an actual name now! it's Jonathan Doherty. Jon Doh, if you will.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Nice to see a big setpiece battle where you aren't expected to win, but have to repeatedly retreat. Kind of lost its oomph once you're inside though, those fights have to actually be beatable.
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The sniper rifle weighs 20 kilos and Rookie caught it with one hand. He then managed to bend the barrel a bit. Good god.
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Apr 15, 2022 20:23
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Ablative posted:The sniper rifle weighs 20 kilos and Rookie caught it with one hand. He then managed to bend the barrel a bit. Good god. he also punches brutes to death, so,
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I thought that 20kg is an absurd weight for a sniper rifle but since I know very little about firearms I went on a wikipedia journey and found out that while the Barrett is about 10kg, there are heavier rifles in use today, like the Polish WKW Wilk at 16kg.
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Ablative posted:The sniper rifle weighs 20 kilos and Rookie caught it with one hand. He then managed to bend the barrel a bit. Good god. biosterous posted:he also punches brutes to death, so, ODSTs never skip arm day Ablative posted:
poo poo, my first thought was "wow, he looks young". And then I had to have the realization that that picture was taken like 15 years ago. My second thought was that it's nice to see someone involved with Halo holding a rifle properly. I've been watching the Halo TV show and actually enjoying it, but the first episode had so much shooting and basically no character either knew how, or was unable to hold a rifle correctly due to their costume. Drove me a little crazy. edit: After a quick re-watch of that scene it's not as bad as I was remembering. But the Spartans look awkward as hell holding rifles still. edit2:  FrenzyTheKillbot fucked around with this message at 16:00 on Apr 16, 2022 |
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I just want to say that the sign on the building saying "Jotun", not "Scrotum"was a huge disappointment.
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Apr 16, 2022 15:49
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FrenzyTheKillbot posted:edit: After a quick re-watch of that scene it's not as bad as I was remembering. But the Spartans look awkward as hell holding rifles still. Good trigger discipline, at least.
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FrenzyTheKillbot posted:My second thought was that it's nice to see someone involved with Halo holding a rifle properly. I've been watching the Halo TV show and actually enjoying it, but the first episode had so much shooting and basically no character either knew how, or was unable to hold a rifle correctly due to their costume. Drove me a little crazy.
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That clip was from the first few minutes of the first episode. I'm prepared to give the show a lot of leeway for what was probably the pilot they used to get the show off the ground. It did look janky as hell and I almost laughed when I saw the lovely cgi gun, though.
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The greatest sin of the Halo TV show thus far is giving the Master Chief facial hair and I will die on this hill
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If we're talking about breaking immersion, they really have to stop showing the Spartan's feet and their massive lifts.  It's like Elon Musk every time I see them.
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 I mean, they look about as high as the ones from H2A to me?
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Supersoldiers need superlift, nothin' weird about that.
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I'm more curious as to why a police department has a friggin' troop transport jet typically used for military applications.
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Samovar posted:I'm more curious as to why a police department has a friggin' troop transport jet typically used for military applications.
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Samovar posted:I'm more curious as to why a police department has a friggin' troop transport jet typically used for military applications. They apparently use them for prisoner transport and search-and-rescue, on top of New Mombasa being a tether city and thus kind of justifiably high-priority. Sylphosaurus posted:USpolicefunding.txt It's probably this though.
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The UNSC are the bad guys, repressing dissent is their thing. Hardly surprising the police have a bunch of military hardware for their crackdowns.
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Deformed Church posted:The UNSC are the bad guys, repressing dissent is their thing. Hardly surprising the police have a bunch of military hardware for their crackdowns.
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Sylphosaurus posted:Yeah, never forget that the Spartan program was supposed to be a way to put down rebel activity in human colonies, which was also basically run by space Mengele. I'm not going to claim that the Halo show is amazing, but one of the complaints I've regularly been seeing about it is how much it leans into the UNSC as space fascists and I'm like "...that's probably the part that's most lore accurate."
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Honestly surprised there wasn't a sniper section before crossing the crane. That's exactly the kind of location there's always something like that.Ablative posted:The sniper rifle weighs 20 kilos and Rookie caught it with one hand. He then managed to bend the barrel a bit. Good god. Its probably easier to bend metal once its already been bent like that.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:If we're talking about breaking immersion, they really have to stop showing the Spartan's feet and their massive lifts. I mean, those definitely are lifts, but it never stood out to me as being odd. Spartans got big ol' stompers. Samovar posted:I'm more curious as to why a police department has a friggin' troop transport jet typically used for military applications. I always figured it was wartime mass production. They're probably producing Pelicans by the tens of thousands for the war effort. Might as well tack a few hundred more on for domestic use. Sylphosaurus posted:Yeah, never forget that the Spartan program was supposed to be a way to put down rebel activity in human colonies, which was also basically run by space Mengele. malkav11 posted:I'm not going to claim that the Halo show is amazing, but one of the complaints I've regularly been seeing about it is how much it leans into the UNSC as space fascists and I'm like "...that's probably the part that's most lore accurate." Yeah, I actually think the show does a good job at showing the dark side of the UNSC. But my complaint is that I think they're going overboard with their portrayal of Halsey as being outright "evil". She's a complicated character and I tend to see her as less malicious and more naïve, but also too smart to recognize her own blind spots. She came up with the Spartan program when she was in her late teens or early twenties and totally thought she had the world figured out. What's breaking a few six year old eggs if it means preserving peace in the galaxy? Later on after a whole lot of war with the Covenant she does express regret for some of the things she's done, but also can't stop crediting herself and the Spartan program for saving humanity. She's definitely not "good", but I think reducing her to a generic mad scientist misses some of the nuance. Kibayasu posted:Its probably easier to bend metal once its already been bent like that. It's actually the opposite. Bending it the first time damages the molecular structure of the metal, and it becomes harder to bend again and more likely to break. I had a professor in university who brought in a metal bar and bent it in front of us, and then got big dudes in the class to try and bend it back and they couldn't. The next class he brought it back (after annealing it) and straightened it out and called the guys wussies, before explaining how it all worked. Guess it was an effective demonstration since I still remember it.
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Yeah some metals work harden (increase in hardness when subjected to plastic deformation), some more and faster than others. Like Titanium, which is infamously annoying to machine/cut since it very, very quickly work hardens and ruins bits. Bending a regular gun barrel though, let alone a 20kg, 50 cal firing monster, thats some superhuman feat.
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The real question is, what was he trying to accomplish? If he'd managed it, that thing probably would have gone up like Kentucky Ballistics the second he pulled the trigger, the barrel's crimped.
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He was checking to see how much force would have been required to do such a thing. As a kid I did that a lot when I found bent metal for exactly that reason.
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Ablative posted:The real question is, what was he trying to accomplish? If he'd managed it, that thing probably would have gone up like Kentucky Ballistics the second he pulled the trigger, the barrel's crimped.
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Pickled Tink posted:He was checking to see how much force would have been required to do such a thing. As a kid I did that a lot when I found bent metal for exactly that reason. "How the gently caress did they manage to gently caress this thing up this loving badly?"
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FrenzyTheKillbot posted:Yeah, I actually think the show does a good job at showing the dark side of the UNSC. But my complaint is that I think they're going overboard with their portrayal of Halsey as being outright "evil". She's a complicated character and I tend to see her as less malicious and more naïve, but also too smart to recognize her own blind spots. She came up with the Spartan program when she was in her late teens or early twenties and totally thought she had the world figured out. What's breaking a few six year old eggs if it means preserving peace in the galaxy? Later on after a whole lot of war with the Covenant she does express regret for some of the things she's done, but also can't stop crediting herself and the Spartan program for saving humanity. She's definitely not "good", but I think reducing her to a generic mad scientist misses some of the nuance. Yeah, the whole situation is much more complicated that just 'Halsey Evil'. The UEG were very much in the wrong, but the Insurrectionists weren't exactly angels. Halsey didn't do what she did out of curiosity or malice, but because she thought it was right. Despite what she did to them, she still considered the Spartans to basically be 'her' children. And while it doesn't absolve her of personal responsibility, it wasn't like she did everything on her own, ONI and the UNSC were both involved in the project. If you think what was done to the Spartan-IIs was bad, wait until you hear about the S-IIIs. Writing wise, Eric Nylund definitely wrote her in too favourable a light, but people who followed after went way too far in the opposite direction. Glasslands basically had people do a total flip on their attitudes while in the middle of the story.
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