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I love anything based on Afghanistan - but throw in caves, and I'm gonna get all giddy!!! Was so impressed with PR 1.0+ versions and the maps with under-mountain interiors! Way cool and a much needed aspect of Afghan fighting. Can't wait till it's out - I can think of some awesome missions with caves like that! !2cool
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The Steam Box - and other Console Like PC's
=VG= SemlerPDX replied to =VG= SemlerPDX's topic in Computers / Technology
Amazing find Murder - yes. very much like that. Although again, like a console, Razer will want to keep it proprietary, like when you upgrade one part, you buy the upgrade from them, not anyone, or MSI, or Corsair... Again, that is just what I was thinking but I would love it if they made it all a universal standard - like USB, or whatever. I even love how most micro-USB connections going into different brands of phones and tablets are mostly the same version. I've got so many charger cords now, and at the airports I was just bouncing around, most the people stuck and filling them like cattle from the "Arctic Vortex" were using all the power outlets, but each outlet also had USB - so I just powered mine straight from cables to USB in the wall. (which each plug into small transformers I carry like this when using power outlets: So if they can get one of them console PC's to be kindof form factor like that, but with universal swap out parts - that will explode the free market and really put variable powered PC's throughout the home, each room of each house like Laptops already abound in a family home. Seriously, any house with teens - the average is that they have a laptop at least for school and socializing. All industries make their standard, and PC Gaming will make that one when it's as fool proof for the masses as laptops are now to the "inept teenage girl". Or the teenage boy who could fry something expensive with a new heatsink fail. Razer is making a huge push - anyone else seeing this? They've bought a bunch of other companies devices and I now see them branded "Razer" -
The Steam Box - and other Console Like PC's
=VG= SemlerPDX replied to =VG= SemlerPDX's topic in Computers / Technology
I like the idea of them making PC gaming more accessible, and I do think of it like an industry awaiting it's next biggest marketing boom. When it came to consoles, even they had planned upgradability - PS2 + Hard Drive or PS2 + Network Controller (slotted that thing into the big fat bay to give it internet before it was a standard in the "thin" PS2) And like hotrods, there will always be those who build fast custom builds and a market for that. But to really hit the masses, they'd have to cater to people like consoles do on a need by need basis. So, maybe a new wave of fast motherboard with more drop-in technology may come around, where even the most inept could pull a plastic slot out of their "console PC" and hotswap out a GFX card, or CPU/heatsink/fan combo like they do with server PC hard drives? Would open up sales of those ez-sinked CPU/Fan combos already set if they can agree on a chipset. Poff said there's only so many pins and pathways before they'd be too small... gotta level out soon. -
Outlanders wrote: Gabe is showing his Steam machines. http://kotaku.com/from-alienware-to-zotac-all-the-steam-machines-with-sp-1495960379 http://media.steampowered.com/store/steammachines/SteamMachinesBroc_WEB.PDF TortiaBoy: not to much of a fan of Steam machines, the idea is good, but it's going to encourage further standardization of PC gaming, soon, what will be the point of having a GTX Titian or 690, when something playing on a 550 looks and performs exactly the same? ... and there really isn't anything wrong with Alienware...but I may be biased... Outlanders: Exactly, there's no reason to buy expensive shit from nvidia every year. Everything looks the same anyway. It depends more on how well the game is made, rather than the amount of expensive metal that you have. Murderface: so true poffadder: The Steam machines are going to be great for the PC gaming industry. Standardization is a bit indefeasible because PCs are open architecture and there are millions of different hardware/software configurations. "what will be the point of having a GTX Titian or 690, when something playing on a 550 looks and performs exactly the same?" - That really depends on the game, there are games out there now that exhibit these qualities. Software will always advance faster than hardware, there will always be software and games that push PCs to their limits. The PC is going extinct, a PC gaming revolution could breath new life into the industry: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/426222/the-personal-computer-is-dead/
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Please Support Your Local Servers! This is not a post to goad people into getting rid of their hard earned cash and Holiday bonuses, nor to debate the means by which we acquire the funds to keep this thing that is VG going, but as we move into the new year, I would like to encourage those who ARE able to give back to the community that keeps your favorite public servers online. At present, we have compacted and compiled our fees to the most sensible and fiscally responsible means, including a rather cut-and-run migration of our community website which has cost us the loss of many images, video files, downloadables hosting, and even some problems viewing the multiple pages of posts under certain forum post catagories, to where we only need to come up with a rather minimum amount of monies to make ends meet and keep alive the servers and website that is VETERANS-GAMING. We are able to offer Arma 2 and Arma 3 persistent servers and Community Event servers for both, private Minecraft Servers, a persistent Falcon BMS Korean War Campaign, as well as The Most Popular COOP Server for Battlefield 2: Project Reality Mod thanks to the =VG= PR Dev MelonMuncher, whom without his hard work, Project Reality COOP would not exist as a game mode for the masses to play anywhere. We are working on the website issues, albeit an e107 system that even the webmaster SolarFlame has been taxed in repairing. Know that us head admins have it all covered - but it is a bit selfish for the few people whose names the bills are in to pay them all themselves. Regardless of whether we receive donations, VG will continue to pay the website server and game server bills, but needless to say, the contributing members should not have to do so all alone. If you ARE able, and are willing, please consider donating a few bucks to your local server, and show some love. SolarFlame is a tribute to the hard work he has done for VG, in that his experience and knowledge in technical matters over the years for this community was his only reference for his new job as an IT professional with a company in London, far from his home in Scotland. Special Thanks for all he has done to help with the VG website!! Also, SavageCDN has been footing the bill for our game servers for more years than I can count - a very powerful server through which hard work and technical knowhow has been able to host not only the TeamSpeak 3 Server (100 Potential Clients at once) but also runs each and every public server we play on without conflict, lag, or any extended down time. Not bad for a single CPU server (8 cores, and tons of RAM) - he also deserves a little love before the wifey starts braining him with an iron skillet. We all contribute in different ways to help keep VG running. I, SemlerPDX, have taken up the task of keeping our Falcon BMS Online Campaign Server functioning; and a special thanks goes out to a little known VG Member, Belgriffin, who keeps that server hardware running and up to date year after year. This is my only way of donating at present, time spent each morning of each day in the week. Contact me if this has issues, and I will always drop what I am doing to keep the VG Korean Theatre of War available to all who would fly under the VG Flag. Also, know that the VETERANS-GAMING Founder BLuDKLoT is still with us, if only in spirit, as he has had difficulty lately with keeping an internet connection at his new home. Though he may not be around as often as he would like, I speak with him frequently and he is indeed still our heart and soul. Know that you can always contact me for anything you require, as I will always act with honor and respect as his right hand. "To help those in need is to honor yourself" VETERANS-GAMING Arma 2 COOP Insurgency Video Please dig deep - current members, active =VG= administrators, new community members, and all the rest. Please show your support by giving what you can, and to those who donate already via time spent administrating and to those who give back in other ways, rest easy and keep doing what you do to promote and support your local servers. We know that not everyone can donate money, but even time spent keeping VETERANS-GAMING a clean, fun place to be is a way to donate - this request for cash is not geared at you. Simply put, we need cash from those ABLE - for all the rest, just keep showing your love by doing what you do, or simply populating our TS3 and game servers and promoting the COOP TeamPlay spirit that is VG. This coming year, we plan to have a proper professional website. For now, we are still at a stage that requires direct community support, and we humbly ask those who are able to donate cash to do so now. Thank you for reading and thank you to all our supporters, either monetarily or administratorily. Long Live The VETERANS-GAMING Community!! !cheers
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"So, when do we start playing Minecraft?" -------------------------------------------------- "You ARE playing Minecraft!! This IS Minecraft!!"
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*official =VG= bump* for example, the link for youtu.be/sn_3s9wmZuQ<br />just copy the numbers and letters after the youtube / and write:<br /> [YouTube=medium]sn_3s9wmZuQ[/YouTube] Which, of course gives a nice preview like this: (please don't make me edit your posts from links into preview player windows)
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VG Falcon BMS Server Campaign is back up now...
=VG= SemlerPDX replied to =VG= SemlerPDX's topic in Falcon BMS 4
Server was down since Christmas Day - it has now been restarted and is back up now. The DPRK have pushed South of the 38th parallel in force, and Seoul is facing a massive takeover. All available pilots should scramble from Seosan in the 120th wing as soon as possible to assist ground and air forces in repelling Kim Jong-un's despicable offensive push into peaceful South Korea. Good luck, and Godspeed! !cp -
Thanks, Ciro!! @kovra: these are the steps I take whenever our server is down... perhaps they will supplement the instructions Ciro linked you to on the BMS forums: Login to the TeamViewer (or however your remote control server) --You Have to use Alt-Tab to get into Program --Close Falcon BMS (if running) -Double Click Windowed Falcon BMS on desktop -Click on COMMS -Turn off "IVC Enabled & IVC Automatic Gain Control" for realism -Click CONNECT -- Click Campaign - Click SAVED file if you have one To Start SAVED CAMPAIGN: Choose Campaign: - Select 909 at Kadena on Tanker - Change Game Name, Launch - Click on Data cartridge - -Click on Comms: Set Preset to 15 -Click on Set Tower -Click Save then Close it CLICK TAKEOFF! _____________ TO FIX MISSION IN PLAY WITH TANKER ALREADY ENROUTE: Tell it to abort in OOB then select: --Air - US - Kadena - 909th - Info - Join it - Go to ATO - Show All Packages - Support Package Tanker - 6548 - Right Click Show Flights - Abort it -Right Click on Map - Add Package - Double Check Times -0 -Set Takeoff at least 20-30 min above current time -Click New: - Aircraft KC-135 Stratotanker 1 Tanker - click OK -Click on Frag - Click on the Tanker (Should Show Server's "pilot" Name ) -Now do the Data Cartridge Thing from Above- Ready to launch - update the campaign save if you want - so never happens again. _________ To QUICK SAVE: Press \ above Enter Key **Players should fly out of seosan 120th which has no AI flights out of there.
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(try this if this is your kind of math. Poff and Terremer, I'm thinkin you'd be able to get this, and would be surprised if you worked through it without checking the answer) ;) For all the rest of us, and the overworked math nuts who don't want to be bothered with more math at Christmas, just click this link for the surprise answer: http://i.imgur.com/pxk6zuJ.jpg *(credit goes to Srinivasan Varadarajan, friend of VG on Facebook. Thanks for the neat share!)
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@murder - just start downloading now, maybe it will finish a few minutes before game day. Hobbit-net must suck... !lol j/k I'll have to sit this one out - I'll be home from xmas vacation on Jan 7th. Looks good, Cold! !fans
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And to you, too! My little family is all together finally - last kid just got in from Wisconsin, and my daughter is so happy to see her brother! And of course their mother is super happy, too! Great to be with family for the holidays! See you all in January! !fans
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That is very cool of you. More people who know VG but don't know that you put up a server for this game may have an easier time finding it and increasing your player base if the name of this server reflected our clan name... might I suggest VETERANS-GAMING 7D2D COOP !cheers
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Please help, i need more kinds of Catastrophes
=VG= SemlerPDX replied to Boreg1977's topic in Everything Else
Bee's die off = all plant life on earth begins to die off. (this one is real and scarry - no one knows why the bees are going so far down in numbers, but it is really happening right now. Nowhere near a real problem yet, but each year in Oregon, I see less and less bees on our berry bushes and in the yard in general. spooky! if they die, all of them, the earth will be a ball of sand, rock, and dirt in a matter of decades.) -
This thread was started half a year ago - was bumped. I am not sure if Reality Gamers are international, but I can tell you that they are English speaking for the majority. Though this thread was a heads up to us about these "brothers in arms", I'm not sure if we've ever organized an actual Joint Op - but it is still on the table, possible, and if anyone wants to take the initiative and contact some reps at RG to create a Joint Op Gaming Event in some game(s) that both our communities play, you should feel free. Just make sure you get a decent set of RSVP from your event signups as it is the holiday season, and regardless, I've seen well planned events go off with an insultingly low number of attendants (whether or not they RSVP'd). Basic rule: If you don't get enough signups for an event, don't get upset; just play with the group you have and re-post the event for later date as an Operation Redux. !cheers
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VG Falcon BMS Server Campaign is back up now...
=VG= SemlerPDX replied to =VG= SemlerPDX's topic in Falcon BMS 4
http://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=19046&d=1384100827 or if doesn't work: http://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?16681-Falcon-BMS-4-32-Update-7 *you may need to create an account if you don't have one at benchmarksims in order to view that link. !pilot -
Our VETERANS-GAMING BMS Server has been updated - be sure you have the BMS Update 7 installed. If you have any trouble connecting to the server in the next several days or weeks, please post up here and we will try to help you connect. !pilot
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Please help, i need more kinds of Catastrophes
=VG= SemlerPDX replied to Boreg1977's topic in Everything Else
the molten iron core of the earth could stop spinning ala "The Core" IMDB The Core But you'll need a black guy to sacrifice himself to save the crew as far as I can tell by watching the film... ;P -
=VG= TortiaBoy wrote ... something I took during the Arma 3 event Your pic rocks - it needs to go up here for posterity... !lol Great action shot - as the sniper is firing, dust rises from the ground.
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I like that squad management GUI - I'd totally be into TvT but PvP always seems a little "deathmatchy" to me. And with ALiVE? WOW - that would be cool - you'd never know exactly if the enemy squad was humans. It would just be a huge war zone with real threats everywhere... as opposed to PvP which always favors the dude with the better scope and position, and/or who see's who first. I'll note that single shot accuracy in A3 is crap compared to A2, so maybe it wouldn't be so bad. May have a chance to react to an incoming shot....
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That was fun - in the end, tho, I couldn't get respawned in my team, I'd click "enter" and appear at base. No message. I have also clicked enter on a friendly inside enemy territory, it gives message, "Too close to enemy units" or something, and instead of letting you wait, it spawns you back at base. Anyway, was very fun to take part in a live war like that. very cool. !fans
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I'll be there.
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please check your post and edit as needed - something may have fouled up. Perhaps your file was added as an attachement that is not of the allowed file type - if it is a picture file, might I suggest Imagur or others, and then simply adding the file link in the post? I love scope charts and can't wait to see this one! I eagerly await it! !hi
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It's not just you - we are having some technical difficulties with the site, and the forums. We are working to fix them, but we have also found that certain content has been lost. I guess we better start a new PR Screenshot thread - some awesome pics come out of that game. Thanks for the heads up! !hi
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Is this for real?! OMG! That is a very commendable effort! I just watched that video like 3 times in a row. Feel free to keep us updated, and if you would like us to do some private testing, we have plenty of room on both of those game servers - I should ask, does it matter that our Falcon Server is in the US and our Arma 3 server is in Germany? (they don't have to be running on the same physical server for this to work, do they?) !2cool SUPER AMAZING WORK!!!!