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21  Guests Area / General Discussion / Re: Tribes: Ascend on: Thu 01.12.2011 23:06:07
Got the same mail, need to try it out Smiley.
Is it any good?

What maps are being used?
22  Guests Area / General Discussion / Re: Tribes: Ascend on: Sun 27.11.2011 02:18:53
Still got 2 keys, PM me if you want one(if I like you tongue).
23  Unreal Tournament 3 / Clan Matches / Re: Dark n00b on: Thu 17.11.2011 22:57:50
I feel an 8vs8 coming up tongue.
24  Unreal Tournament 3 / Clan Matches / Re: Dark n00b on: Wed 16.11.2011 23:10:59
I prefer Necropolis, Sandstorm, Kargo!
fock dat costum spamshiat!

Words to live by.
25  Guests Area / General Discussion / Re: Tribes: Ascend on: Mon 14.11.2011 00:26:22
That's a quite extensive review :)

Just don't forget it's a BETA. It has its rough edges and it already crashed on me once.

Go play Battlefield 3, crashes happen very often on there tongue.

Tribes hasn't crashed on me yet, I'm just hoping that the negative points I mentioned are just for the beta and will be gone for the full game. I hate using a quick match option instead of a server browser.

Don't get me wrong, I'm loving the game. You'll always have downsides, they don't bother me not that much as you might think Smiley.
26  Guests Area / General Discussion / Re: Tribes: Ascend on: Sun 13.11.2011 22:51:23
I'll just post here what I posed on PtE forum tongue.
The spoiler contains the downsides to the game and how the game works, since you won't really find an explanation in-game.

Would say there is 3 downsides to this game:
- no serverbrowser(you just select which region like EU and gametype to only press quick match)
- will take a lot of playing in order to unlock classes
- Tutorial is limited to explaining and showing how to skii and use jetpack(there are several other factors in the game that need explaining)

You start out with 2 classes unlocked(soldier and ranger). Each class has their own weapons and stats:



You've got your light armored and fast moving classes, medium armored and medium moving classes and heavily armored and slow moving classes.

Like in COD and BF you level up by playing, by leveling up you unlock XP points that are tied to the class you were playing with.
With these xp points you upgrade skills(have more energy, ...).



Next to skills you also have something called perks, you can only select 2 perks at a time.
These perks give you a little extra like +10 maximum enery, reducing costs of buying stuff in-game, reduce damage done to yourself, ...
I have no idea how to unlock perks because only 2 are unlocked at the start.



Movement in-game is all about skiing, if you check out the vids I posted in the main post you'll see what skiing is Tongue.
How fast you can go depends on your class, so it's not recommended to go after the flag while you are a class that is heavily armored but is slow.
Next to skiing you have your jetpack to reach places but also to launch yourself off hills to keep your speed up.
If you need to gain some speed fast you can always launch yourself by shooting the ground behind you with an explosive, this will take way about 50-60% of your HP.
You regain your HP after not getting hit for a while, you can always pick up ammo from people you have killed.



Skiing and jetpacking isn't your only mode of transportation, you also have the ability to buy vehicles.
Vehicles don't spawn is several places like in UT3, you buy a vehicle of your choice at a station.
You earn money by doing stuff in-game(killing people, assists, capturing flags, picking up flags, returning flags, ...), when you have enough money you can buy a vehicle.



A grav cycle is a motorcycle where 2 people can sit on(the passenger can be carrying a flag), it's a fast moving vehicle that can shoot grenades but requires a reloading time after shooting one.



A shrike is a vehicle that can fly and fire plasma bolts, after firing 4 bolts it needs to reload. It can seat 2 people(have no idea what the passenger can do).



Last vehicle is called Beowulf and is a tank. One downside to this is that they changed the sensitivity when you are in the tank so your mouse can move as slow as the tank does(not like in UT3 where you can aim at whatever you want but it still has to rotate to where you are aiming). Again it can seat 2 people where the second player takes control of the turret(no influence on the sensitivity).




Surrounding the base you have turrets that defend the base from intruders, these things are sort of hard to dodge because you need to wait till they fire in order to dodge their shots(def don't come too close, cause you can't evade them that way). Turrets can be shot down but they have a lot of HP, it's much easier to infiltrate the base and look for the generator, when you destroy the generator the turrets and inventory station(where you can get ammo) are offline. With your money you can upgrade the generator and turrets.

One little thing to add, they released a patch a couple of days ago that removed the speed cap on skiing. So that is one stat gone tongue.
27  Guests Area / General Discussion / Re: Unreal Tournament 4? :-O on: Sun 13.11.2011 02:51:38
Seeing there is some love for the new Tribes game.
I pre-ordered the game and got access to the closed beta.

I got some closed beta keys, if people are interested PM me Smiley.
If you want to pre-order as well, I got a 30% off coupon(only one though, but if someone else pre-orders they get the same stuff I did).

Beta contains 2 gametypes(CTF and Bunny somethin tongue) and 3 maps.
Vehicles are hardly used and actually are a disadvantage(I know some people on here will love this).

Download is about 1.5 - 2GB, runs on UE3.
28  Unreal Tournament 3 / Clan Matches / Re: Dark n00b on: Sat 12.11.2011 02:20:27
Need another Belgian? tongue
29  Guests Area / Other Games / Re: Rage on: Sat 08.10.2011 01:13:43
Awesome game, too bad it comes with some awful glitches Embarrassed.
I just bought it today and the game was looking dreadful...

Alot of texture pop-ins by just turning around, my fps was around 10 and the textures looked ugly as fuck.

But there are fixes for most of these graphical glitches made up by the community.
1. Download the latest drivers for your graphics card(def if you use an AMD card like I do, be sure you got the Rage drivers from AMD site). This will fix the low FPS problem(game was playing really smooth with new drivers) and will solve a little bit of the texture pop-ins
2a. To fix awful looking textures and texture pop-ins you can add a text file to Steam/steamapps/common/rage/base named "Rageconfig.cfg"(be sure the extension is not .txt but .cfg)
2b. There are different settings you can to this file, but it depends on your graphics card(how much VRAM you have). This works for me and I have 1 GB worth of VRAM, if you got less then 1GB I wouldn't recommend these high settings.
Add the following lines:

vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly2 8192
vt_pageimagesizeuniquediffuseonly 8192
vt_pageimagesizeunique 8192
vt_pageimagesizevmtr 8192
vt_restart
vt_maxaniso 4
image_anisotropy 4

Difference:

Original



Changed settings



Maybe you can change "image_anisotropy 4" to like 8 or 16 and see if that improves graphics if you are still dissatisfied.


Another problem I had was crashes during loading screens, you might not notice them in the beginning. But if your loading takes longer than 3 min or so then you can just open process manager and close the game. These crashes seem to be fixed by doing the following(works only in Windows 7 as far as I know):

1. Go to "C:\Users\*your name*\AppData\Local" and add a map named "id software", in there add a map named "rage"
2. After this add the following to your launch options(either through steam or to a shortcut you have, make sure you boot the game with this shortcut then though):
+fs_cachepath "C:\Users\*your name*\AppData\Local\id software\rage" +cvaradd g_fov 20 +set com_skipIntroVideo 1 +set com_allowConsole 1 +fc_maxcachememoryMB 1024 +ik_enablesmoothing 0 +image_usecompression 0 +jobs_numthreads 4 +mem_phymemblocksizem 512 m_smooth 0

BTW, make sure there is enough room on your C for this. For me this folder takes up 1GB, I'm guessing you can change where your cache is stored by creating the map structure somewhere else and changing the commandline.

In these launch options there is a command that skips the intro videos, I'm sure most of you will like that  tongue
30  Unreal Tournament 3 / Dark Clan & Unreal Tournament 3 / Re: Unreal Tournament 4? :-O on: Thu 22.09.2011 13:45:46
Unreal Engine 4 first, then they'll work on UT4.
Since they said that they are focusing on PC again and probably are getting close to releasing Unreal Engine 4 it won't take long after that.

I'm sure Microsoft will come with a new Xbox next year and will ask Epic Games to have UE4 ready to showcase the power of said console.
31  Guests Area / Other Games / Borderlands 2 on: Wed 03.08.2011 15:32:43
Borderlands 2 just got announced and is being developed by Gearbox Software.
Release date is set to 2012 and will feature all new characters, areas, enemies, equipment and weapons.

More info can be found at Gamescom and Pax Prime this year where the game will be shown, Game Informer also has the exclusive article where more info has been shared about the game.



http://www.borderlands2.com
32  Unreal Tournament 3 / Clan Matches / Re: Arrange clan wars against Dark! on: Sat 11.06.2011 21:12:19
@video: I don't get it.

Same here, seems to have a purpose to piss certain people off.
33  Unreal Tournament 3 / Clan Matches - unofficial / Re: Fick Fun War on: Sun 08.05.2011 22:00:16
Banned on Jolt as well, he is an aimbotter Smiley.
34  Guests Area / Other Games / Re: Portal 2 on: Tue 03.05.2011 09:01:01
I am not sure, they seem to have a great reputation, but I have played two games of them now (Left 4 Dead and Portal2) and I think while these games are good, they are pretty overrated.

Left 4 Dead is so simple that as a UT3 gamer, I feel like I can play this game with one hand easily.
Portal 2...I dunno, the game is fun, but is this really a "game of the year"? There seems to be only one solution for most riddles, the levels look very sterile (I know that's the style of the game but if you are running through similar, empty levels all the time, it gets tiresome)and while I enjoy much of the humour, sometimes the voices are just plain annoying...

Just my 2 cents.

Not Half-Life?
I think the Half-Life games are their best, I'm not a fan of Left 4 Dead.

I liked Portal 2 very much: screwing around with portals and the humor you have coming from Glados.
Still have to finish co-op, hoping it's good.
BTW Valve announced DLC due for release in the summer, it's gonna be free for every platform and will add new maps for SP and MP, Challenge mode and more.
35  Guests Area / Hobbies / Re: The web designing topic on: Sun 01.05.2011 22:17:13
Graphical web editors mostly just create tables depending on what 'boxes' you draw with the mouse. It is far better to build a layout based on css.



That's what I do, code the content in the HTML files and the layout in a separate css file. Takes some experimenting but I'm learning from it Smiley.

People don't have to expect some pro photo stuff or Flash on the site. Cause I've never worked with Flash and photo editing is not my thing either tongue. Used to play around with Paintshop Pro when I was 12 years old or so, never worked with Photoshop.
36  Guests Area / Hobbies / Re: The web designing topic on: Sun 01.05.2011 13:05:11
Do you use a program with a graphical interface to create your websites or do you purely code them?

I'm creating a website now for my student's job and doing it in pure code, using Dreamweaver to easily enter the tags and directly get a visual aid of how it looks.
37  Guests Area / Videos / Re: The ULTIMATE european VCTF ClaN WaR on: Sat 16.04.2011 00:15:59
Seems like someone was a bit touchy today.
And lol @ Bloody, you've been using my words blablabla.gif.

And I agree with Vegaskill, it's not the editing that just turns this vid down. It's the reason why this vid was made.

It's cool of you to experiment and see how it turns out. I quite liked it, but it was very clear that this vid was made to rub Terrorists face in it and that ruined it for me. Just don't become like that, 1 guy is enough. Your previous vids were proof that you know how to make vids, use that skill to make some nice movies. Don't waste it Smiley.
38  Guests Area / Videos / Re: PtE and Terrorists on: Sat 16.04.2011 00:11:19
Sorry, but there is no interest what so ever to make a vid about this match.
You can still make yours if you want to, call it practice and experience.
39  Guests Area / Other Games / Re: Portal 2 on: Sat 16.04.2011 00:09:42
Yea on Steam, already downloaded. Just waiting for the release date so it gets unlocked Smiley.

Now, the timer ended and most people thought this would unlock the game.
But it's a bit different. It's still possible for an early release but a lot of work needs to be done.

The games in that Potato Pack needs to be played a lot by everyone so that the bars fill up. It's not known what increases the bar, according to some it has to do with playing the Portal levels and such included in those games and collecting potatoes.

http://www.aperturescience.com/glados@home/

http://hasportal2launchedyet.com/

So for the moment, the main bar is 10% done and at this rate we'll have the game about 14 hours sooner than the original release date. In the beginning it was only 9 hours, so it's rising quickly.
40  Guests Area / Other Games / Re: Portal 2 on: Fri 15.04.2011 15:04:35
I don't know if people here are following events that have happened around Portal 2 or check out the store on Steam.

But recently, a game pack came on there named "The Potato Sack". This included 13 indie games(including Super Meat Boy and The Ball(One of those test games made by with UDK on UE3)) and within these games you had levels in the same style of Portal or the Portal Gun or something else. Now there were several clues hidden in these games, with it numbers that seemed to be coordinates in the Netherlands. Someone that lived near decided to go and take a look unknowing that someone from Valve was there filming him:



You can see in the vid what he found: a potato sack and some other clues.
This lead to a counter which will end in about 2 hours. The clues lead to an early release but it could be something else as well. Maybe a new announcement.

http://www.aperturescience.com/a/b/c/d/g/h/abcdgh/

Now tell me, how awesome is Valve? Smiley
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