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by Maarten Goldstein, Sep 29, 2004 6:08am PDTThe Silver Steam option for Half-Life 2 is looking pretty good, provided it doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Digital distribution is highly preferred over 6 CDs for me. I know compared to stuff like golf and NFL there aren't too many NBA game owning people around these parts, but I'm sure a few of you are picking up ESPN NBA 2K5 or NBA Live 2005 for the Xbox. I'm interested in seeing the amount of people picking one game or the other, so I will know what to get when I want to play against other Shackers. I do know I'll be picking up NBA Live 2005 for the PC when it comes out late October, as I pretty much still play NBA Live 2004 daily against friends and I'm sure that will continue. Also on FileShack
- ONS-Sun Tzu ECE - custom Onslaught map, uses content from the Editor's Choice Edition pack.
- Colin McRae Rally 1.1 patch - first update for the Codemaster racing game.
The Secret World delayed until July 3
Daily Filter: Sleeping Dogs, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
Kingdoms of Amalur needed 3 million sales 'to break even,' RI governor says
Former Modern Warfare devs wanted to give Call of Duty series a 'rest'
Konami accused of bank loan fraud over Def Jam Rapstar
Turn on or turn off?
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan endorsed therapeutic cloning on Thursday, adding his weight to the UN member countries opposing the US-led campaign to ban all human cloning...
...Bush has restricted the allocation of federal funds to embryonic stem cell batches that existed as of August 2001, but these batches are not appropriate for human therapeutic cloning for several reasons. For the most part they are quite old and so their quality has declined. Some also contain mouse cells as well as human cells.
This layand is yerrrrr layaaand...
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I just completely stomped a big force. I sailed an army down the shore and took a Gaul town before reinforcements could arrive to it. I wanted to establish a foothold on the Gaul's territorial flank and split the war with them to two fronts. Their reinforcements arrived and now had to siege my beachhead town.
They had two rams, my arrow towers lit one on fire and the crew abandoned it. I sallied out 1 general's unit and slammed the crew of the other ram and then immediately pulled them back into the fort. The enemy never had time to attack them.
The crew took up the ram again and avoided the gate and instead tried to take down a wall. I reordered my troops so the eventual hole would be surrounded with several units of histati and one unit of velites. The wall came down and about 1000 men charged into the breech. I had all my histati on guard and fire at will. javelins perforated the crowd.
Once the enemy was truly clusterfucked I ran my 2 generals out of the gates with my backup infantry. The Generals swung around back of the enemy and plugged the hole they made in the wall from behind and the backup troops charged the flank. Gaaaang bang.
1400+ kills, 40 casualties. I had about 800 units. All you wussies playing on Normal skill need to step up to the plate :)
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i blame IE
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http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1
This release should hopefully increase compatibility even more and add some more speed especially with dynamic core.
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I had 2 assassins in the middle of the map near the gaul capital which i had just stormed and taken.. the britons were launching steady attacks from the north, and the assassins were killing generals and captains every single round... these motherfuckers were like jet li ninja fuckin assassins. Down comes a 5 star family member and they have an 80% chance of success to kill him...a fresh recruit assassin was only 3% chance!... it was mind boggling. They snuck into towns, they infiltrated armies, they killed the fuck out of every captain that was promoted on the very night they were assigned their new position! These 2 assassins killed more than 30 generals and captains, 4 family members of the briton faction, two heir's and the leader of the faction!
Observations now that i've got perhaps 40 hours of play in:
Pathfinding can get tricky sometimes, especially at gates. If you try and send an entire army through a fuckin gate at once, they will get clusterfuckized and never get out. Must pause between units at least a second or 2.
ONAGERS ARE FUCKING INSANE, as are large groups of archers. Any army attacking a city neeeeeds archers and onagers... there's something quite satisfying about nailing an enemy general by complete fluke with an onager :D
AI backup is flaky sometimes. I had a battle last night, 1500 enemy men versus 2 armies of mine with just over 1100... i got destroyed. Why? The army the fckin game made me play as was my missile army, it consisted mostly of onagers, archers... and the computer controlled army of SHIT TONS of praetorian cavalry, dogs of war, auxilia, urban cohorts... NEVER MOVED. The fucking time ran out with all of my units fucked up, general of that army killed....
and an entire army on the horizon jacking off :(
Other than those 2 issues the game is extremely polished to my eye. I only had issues with AI backup once (at the end of the night last night) and you can work around the pathfinding issues if careful.
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my mouse cursor constantly moves to the bottom-right corner in all the menus, but works fine in game. is there a fix? i'm all patched up, but not the latest vid drivers...that shouldnt cause the problem, should it?
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help hampton with his statistics project
it would really be super-rad if you guys could help me with my stats project. the idea here is that i need to take a sample survey of some type of quantitative data, any topic. well, being the dork that i am, i chose video game scores. if you want to help, and i would be totally
grateful if you guys could help out. here's the plan:
1)goto: http://www18.big.or.jp/~hikoza/Prod/dlcount.cgi?product=wf and download v1.04 of warning forever (its safe, many shackers already know this game) main page: http://www18.big.or.jp/~hikoza/Prod/
2)play 1 or 2 warm up games and then play the 3rd game and record your score. if you have never played the game before, familiarize yourself with the controlls and do your best.
3)post your score in this thread. please be honest with your score. this isnt a contest. it really doesnt matter what your score is, i just need a certain amount of scores for the sample survey.
you guys have been really cool about this. if you any havent played yet and are interested please post your score!
latest scores in reply:
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I am now $25 richer.
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playing TFC: Source would really rock out again for me. So many good memories of :-
Pyro rockets into the bell tower of that map and seeing snipers running around in flames.
Also running around stabbing people in the back as spies and spooking everyone in the opposing team.
Or running around infecting people as a medic.
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http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/
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http://www.iesb.net/tv/tvt92804.htm
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I'm at a crossroads.. In the arena, did you kill Whisper, or no? I am like, 50/50 and am not sure which way i wanna go.
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Dammit.
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Check this out: http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/552/552449p1.html
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Hey, do any Shackers have the National Geographic mapping software? I'm thinking of buying a topo map software set.
I'm just curious if anyone has tried anything like this. It'd sure be nice to be able to print out whatever map i'd need.
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http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news&id=324
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http://www.gamers-depot.com/games/action/hl2/release/shot1.htm
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There must be. I see the pr0n guys with these pics all the time.
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does anyone have shadow hearts 2? it looks pretty sweet but im now worried if the first one had a lot of comparisons to FFX.
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