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Someone up for an event next week?

I won't be able to, I can't get it to connect to 99.99% of the servers in the list. But if you pop into chat on the time I'm sure there will be a few able to play, they've been playing on and off the past few days.

You suck at sarcasm. Didn't this happen yesterday too? Put like a on the end or something. If it's an issue you should change the graphic settings.

BTW if any PXOD guys are up for coming down and want to make more of an event out of it: http://www.eurogamer.net/expo/press/enthusiast

But that's how piracy works, isn't it? Also, are we doing the Steam Crysis 2 MP Beta event tonight? I may of used crappy wording(actually in looking I'm missed out a "did not" before "magically". My point being that the act of people pirating the leaked build isn't what put the leaked build onto the torrents. And Crytek need to come out and put their hands up on the matter instead of their current smoke n mirrors act.

Well mentioned it to my two housemates. Ben was out at the time but I mentioned it to Tom and...well spent the next hour looking at trains n hotels n stuff. He's well up for it. Ben took a bit of convincing, primarily cos he doesn't have the cash for it all now, but didn't seem to realise he probably will in the future, and even the tickets we can loan him the cash for that. (he already owes me £80 anyway, £24/36 isn't much more on top of that) So now he's up for it too. It works out £8 for regular ticket (per day) or £12 for early access (gets you in at 10am instead of 11am) We looked about n found a Travelodge for £35pn near Regents park. So we're all priced up, and I think maybe buying the tickets tonight. So we're at this stage 80% going.

Well as curator of the News Feed you may be able to figure out my stance on the issue when that's the article I choose for the DA2 DLC. As for the PA comic and if it's exaggerating, it is not at all. You arrive in camp, so it's not like a guy you meet on the road once, and he's in your camp every single time with a ! above his head. I ended up buying it a few months down the line. Gonna buy the rest later. Hopefully in a sale cos atm buying Awakenings and the DLC is going to cost me more than buying Dragon Age Ultimate edition :/ Which I guess is where DLC gets an extra sting. It's also one of the reason I'm holding off on DA2, I can just get the Game of the Year edition later on down the line for less than the game new now with the never-price-dropping DLC. I've not long woken up but I'll weigh in my opinion more in-depth later on.

So he'd still be right. They're low cost, so adding QA on wouldn't be massively increasing a budget. His main point, and that's not all of the thread, was mostly focusing on the graphics side of things. The other guys point been that to make better graphics you'd have to sell games for $150. When the better engines generally make things much easier. There was a time not so long ago when graphics were put in via mathematical equations, these days it's a grpahics tablet and Zbrush. Which yes if you were to make the same model you make in Zbrush over in Maya or Max then you're going to be spending many man hours on it. But that's the point, 7th gen folks moved onto to zbrush and million poly models became a breeze. Anyway that Noelviga guy definitely needs a couple of slaps around the head. edit: I just noticed that Unreal Engine article got 200,000 hits. How the fuck? Why? Why is trash mistruthful writing like that able to get that much. It was a fucking screenshot gallery. ARGH.

But that's not "Am I the only one", just said it feels that way.

Looking at it you've done it right so... Errm. Dunno. edit: Moving it from centrally aligned seems to have done the trick.

It's Warhammer 40k. Tabletop war games thing. That's my Tua ..Shu'va iirc. (Or Crisis Suit X88 in English) It's a command unit, act's as your head guy. In some matches if he dies you lose the game. The Tau generally use long range weaponry and have a motto of "For the Greater good". They're the youngest of the races. They also have "Kroot" who are a race they brought into their empire, but I never had any of those. Had an Etheral though, hardly used him. It's an old picture so my naming may be wrong. Also the paint job isn't too great. It spun off into Dawn of War series on PC which is a very good RTS. Very fun. Oh and they're very expensive, so I don't collect em anymore

May cause motion sickness.

I just noticed, you're commenting on your own article.

Don't tempt him. My longest I'm unsure but I've pulled many all-nighters. Way too many. (Used to work nights too, pretty enjoyable)

Problem - Largest market for modern war simulators? The US closely (astonishingly close for our size) followed by the UK. So they're the markets to appeal to. It'd be interesting, but I don't think we'll see it. US n UK do have some of the larger forces out in the middle-east too. Most nations are pretty opposed to it all.

So, something Nerdy/Geeky you do. Then the next person tries to escalate or at least go on par. Or if your'e a failure in life just the nerdiest thing you've done/do. My opening shot:

Overly long but this is kinda cool too:

http://www.vg247.com/2011/03/02/gdc-in-crysis-cryteks-zala-on-leaks-and-love-for-pc/ Interview with Crytek and shiz. My god VG247's font is horrible. Sorry if I've being direct folks their way win the News Feed. This explains so much. (on why it is shit.) If you're making a sequel, go look on the older games. Don't look at CoD n see how you can best emulate that like everyone else just with the suit. The old game had great MP, and very different to the current stuff. As it stands there's not much making Crysis 2 stand out. They're still not up for admitting the leak was on their end. And still no media outlet asking taking them to task on that. Just accepting that the pirates downloading it magically osmosed it onto the internet through sheer of will of being pirates.

You could probably put all of kotaku writers technical knowledge into a thimble, and still have space left over. (Their SEO knowledge would more than likely take a good few jerry cans)

I really liked it. It's feeling like I'm the only one.

Oh god that headline. It's Unreal Enginge 3, which is a 7th gen engine. They've stated multiple times the reason Unreal 3 is holding out this long is because they're waiting for Unreal 4 next gen. The main improvement is they're adding Dx11 support(which kotaku don't mention). This isn't next gen, it's PC current gen. But Kotaku post that mistruth and that's what the commenters gobble up as fact. I bet most of the guys at kotaku don't know That the Source Enging in Portal 2 is different to the one Half Life 2 came out with.

No that was jsut me rattling off potential dudes. Upto now no one is down.

That's what I've been saying the past few weeks! Don't forget I've had the Crysis 2 leak for a while. Was just reading all your stuff and nodding to myself