Morning Discussion
by Alice O'Connor, Oct 26, 2009 5:30am PDTOver forty hours into The Witcher, I finally reached the Epilogue last night. This figure surprised me as I have barely felt it drag yet, which usually happens in longer games. I'm digging how my neutrality has affected the game, and doubtless will continue to.
I played a little Torchlight too and sense it will demand far more of my time than The Witcher has. That's fine by me--what I played was absolutely splendid. It arrives for $20 tomorrow and anyone who ever enjoyed an action RPG should buy it. A demo is due at some time or another. And yes, Matt Uelmen's soundtrack is amazing.
FileShack: Unity of Command, Skyjacker
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
Demon's Souls servers extended again
Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection coming in June
Sony patent would interrupt gameplay to display ad
Weekend Confirmed 114 - Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Lost Planet 3
New Zone of the Enders project underway
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/02/bigdog-at-ft-be/
Are now making a two legged version... wow.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/video-armys-robot-man-walks-like-the-real-thing/
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Who has one? How is shackdroid? How is the android app scene? Is there an NFL app and a generic fantasy football app?
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Here's a few tweaks I've come across and found that might help people with 'deconsolizing' Borderlands. I'm going to assume you all know where the location of these INI files are (Usually in USER NAME\Documents\My Games\Borderlands\WillowGame\Config in Vista).
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It probably doesn't help that the premise for the whole show isn't very good.
I'm betting it gets one more season, or they cancel it at the end of this one. I read the list of episodes, and at the end they have an enemy from the milky way comes aboard and tkaes everyone hostage!. That's just fucking dumb. I don't even want to watch that.
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Ok, so no AA and FOV sucks but I did some digging:
VSYNC: Documents/My Games/Borderlands/WillowGame/Config/WillowEngine.ini -> UseVsync = False (change to true)
FOV ISSUE:
In your WillowInput.ini file Under [Engine.PlayerInput] Add these...
Bindings=(Name="F9",Command="FOV 85",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False)
Bindings=(Name="F10",Command="FOV xxx",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False)
For 16:9: 101.409630521
For 16:10: 95.4370607151
(or for 16:10 you can use 100 or 108)
Toggle between default FOV and adjusted FOV with F9 and F10
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Put your names in here. Go.
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Problem is, I don't remember the way either girl looks or what their names are. How do I find out her name without asking?
Already tried reverse lookup. Jesus.
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http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0770HDS0010124626&catid=
vs.
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0770HDS0010121833&catid=
That's the Panasonic G15 42" plamsa versus a LG 240hz LCD. Both are the same same price.
As this is for my parents, the primary purpose will be for watching TV and movies. They might get a Wii, but that would be about it for gaming.
Thoughts?
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I go to start BL on Steam, and get the following error:
WTF?!?
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Worth it? I have no idea about this game at all. None. Imagine I've been in a deep dark hole. Should I make this game a priority to play?
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From the Source Forums:
"The gore system in Left 4 Dead 2 has been completely revamped to be much more visceral. In Left 4 Dead, you can destroy or dismember a complete arm, leg, or head. Body shots resulted in a bloody spot. In Left 4 Dead 2, location damage is much more complex. You can blast away just a part of the head, punch holes to reveal bowels, or hit more…vital locations. Some shots can blow away significant portions of the chest.
While much of this is superficial, it subtly changes gameplay. Unlike before, shearing a limb off may not kill a zombie immediately. It will die soon, but it may have enough time to attack you a few times before it collapses. Chet called this "gibbing" and had this to say: "You can shoot off a chunk of his stomach, you can shoot off an arm—you can have a guy with both arms shot off still running at you. He’s going to die soon, but he’s got a little momentum.""
http://www.zombicidal.com/img/pre-l4d2/SUP_cranialshot.gif
http://www.zombicidal.com/img/pre-l4d2/SUP_gore_seethrough.jpg
http://www.zombicidal.com/img/pre-l4d2/SUP_gore_neck.jpg
http://www.zombicidal.com/img/pre-l4d2/SUP_gore_crotch.jpg
And here's how they ragdoll/ fly apart: http://www.zombicidal.com/img/pre-l4d2/SUP_pipebomb_high.gif
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"Physicists and engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a nanoscale crystal that traps both light and sound. The interaction of light quanta (photons) and sound quanta (phomons) are so strong that they produce significant mechanical vibrations."
O_o
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Bring back WWII... I'm so sick of Zombies.
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Okay, don't get me wrong, I've been PUMPED about this game for a while, but there are some things that just shouldn't happen especially after a 6 day "optimization" delay.
1) Unskippable intro videos. Fine the first time. Then you have to disable your firewall and watch em again. Then you have to create a gamespy account cuz the ingame thing is borked and you watch them again. And again every time you start the game.. No big deal, just annoying.
2) The intro videos are seriously low-res, the game starts in like 640x480 or 800x600 or some shit, and even after you bump it up, a lot of stuff just looks shitty--videos especially.
3) Gamespy account??? Really??? Why do I have a steam friend's list? And gamespy is so full of spam/bot accounts anyway that all of my first choices for account names are taken.
4) Holy fucking mouse sensitivity, Batman.
5) Very unintuitive hotkeys. V to melee?
6) Sprinting--you press shift to do it, but when you let go of shit, you still sprint. It's not toggle, pressing it again doesn't do anything. You have to release W and then press it again to start running normal.
7) The menus are terribly hard to navigate--and when increasing your resolution, theres only ONE direction you can change it in. Up. And they listed every fucking possible resolution. SO when you're scrolling through 50 resolutions to get to 1920x1200, and you accidentally click once too many cuz you were clicking quickly, you have to go ALL the way back through again.
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Sorry to start bitching right away, but I really feel that these are some damn easy fixes and they're very annoying..
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http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=21243180#itemanchor_21243180
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gg scaredy pants girl! globetrotters ftw
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I am installing my Core i5 cpu on my motherboard... I bought this cpu box :
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115215&cm_re=core_i5-_-19-115-215-_-Product
Which comes with a cpu and a fan. The motherboard guide indicates that I need to apply thermal paste. The cpu box guide doesn't indicate anything about that... Is the cpu pre-pasted or something?
Thanks!
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Holy shit, this thing is big.
http://www.shackpics.com/files/DSC_1858_zxvbbz58190uuumrgqx2.jpg
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Anyone get it working yet? We've tried both LAN games over Hamachi as well as internet games to no avail.
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7777 (TCP/UDP)
28900 (TCP)
27900 (UDP)
28910 (TCP)
to host multiplayer if you're behind a router. I haven't had to do this before, is there an easy guide somewhere?
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I wonder if you can make them read only without it blowing up. Probably only so long as you don't change anything else in the configuration menus.
But yeah, it stripped out the field of view fixes and it reset the stupid intro movies (so this time i just renamed the three files).
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I have a serious question to pose on the shack.....
Are any of you interested in working in the health industry? Even part-time to make additional income to what you are already doing?
My company (believe it or not!) is going through a growth period and we are moving into some interesting times. You don't have to be local where I have my business either. You can do it right were you live and training would be provided by me and my company.
If you have a friendly personality (let's face it, not all gamers have that "people person" trait) and are interested in Health and Wellness. PM me and I can give you more info..
MUST be a self starter -
MUST be a people person -
MUST have an interest in better health and fitness -
MUST BE TEACHABLE.
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Ok, so let's pretend I have a Nano mostly full of music. This includes two COIL albums.
Explain to me why, if I try to play either of these albums on the Nano the device locks up forcing me to reset it. However, if I plug the Nano into my laptop and open up iTunes I can play the albums without any problem whatsoever?
The tracks show up as 192 in the info, if means anything. No, I can't convert them to AAC right now. I don't use this laptop to maintain the Nano so it won't let me copy it to the library for a conversion.
Oh, look a view from the "hotel" that I'm at right now.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2257359&id=720997817
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What does it mean when I feel like I have to break something when I get super pissed? I've never wanted to hit other people, just break inanimate objects.
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4 shackers on piranesi so far
Weekend summary thread. Last week's games:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI4Q3q6BOa4 - 2gate versus 4gate [partial game, yellow = Pusan, Purple = KT.MGW)Protoss]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGGOP4aD0C4#t=5m37s - In Which Each Player Has A Shortage Of Drones. (Unfortunately the last 15 minutes of this are insanely boring.) [partial game]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLNt52642K8#t=3m8s - Ultralisks in a ZvZ.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPouPk2l-Q4 - Beautiful micro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZbFyXZFOco - Worth watching just for the overlord maelstrom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPsdtDLbf4w - MAD Magazine presents: Shuttle vs. Shuttle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5_pb2tPm7k - Ouch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTn-zJ5307c - Hard-fought.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFvmewYzKXw - go.go pretends to be BoxeR, LOL ensues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWf6qLjjS1Y - Can't say I've ever seen this opener.
As always, all previously posted games are available at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AlQ6USbMU5XqdFZFVFVXVDlYc0ZWdUlFQmhFSmo0NGc&hl=en .
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