JediMaster

Oh, I wish he'd just ported the SF1 MP code to SF2. It would've worked well enough for a good while. Not so sure with 64-bit Windows maybe, but until we switched we could've had a few more years with it.

What? Poor Poland...

Does your list of games in Xfire say "Il-2 Sturmovik Collection"? That covers pretty much every version of the game other than CloD. If it doesn't, you won't be able to do a thing. You need to get Xfire to recognize the game.

Do not use rockets, or give them to any AI units! Ditto cluster weapons!

The point is I'm thousands of times more likely to lose a family member, or myself, to a drunk driver, cancer, heart disease, criminal, or multiple other things than a terrorist attack. What civil liberties are infringed upon to prevent heart disease? To prevent cancer? Why don't ALL cars have breathalyzers on them to prevent people from driving drunk instead of just those who've been convicted of doing it already? It's not even a right (driving), it's just a privilege. Around 34,000 people were killed in motor vehicle accidents last year. That's 10x the 9/11 deaths, and that is one of the lowest numbers on record, a drop of 10,000 since 2007. In other words, since 9/11 we've lost less than 4000 people to terrorist attacks, but we've lost half a MILLION in cars. Why aren't there stricter controls on driving?? Because the people won't allow it, that's why. You can't mess with their cars! We're told we basically cannot make any attempt to disarm the criminals because that won't work...yet we're supposed to believe we can stop the terrorists? We can't prevent a teenager from killing dozens in a school, but we can stop a well-organized group of suicidal fanatics from killing that many as long as they come from outside the US? That is contradictory. Either we can't stop the terrorists, or we can stop the criminals. It can't be both ways. I'm saying we can't stop the terrorists, and in an effort to prevent it we've given up too much of what it means to be an American living in America. When the choices are "police/nanny state" (the only difference is in your outlook, the end results are the same) or "freedom but vulnerable to those who hate us", I choose the latter because we're STILL vulnerable anyway. How can PRISM be ok, but a nat'l gun registry NOT be? It's the same thing, just the data collected is different...but the data can be misused in the same way, as Jonathan pointed out. If you think any attempt to track the guns, the things that KILL people, is wrong, how can you possibly believe tracking just about EVERYTHING else is ok? It's 100% contradictory. BTW--did it ever occur to you that they don't NEED a gun registry if they can track your phone calls, emails, online purchases, receipts, and other things to see who actually has what guns ANYWAY? PRISM will create a de facto gun registry by its very nature.

If only Tony Scott...

I do get the feeling he's fed up with requests for this or that feature or plane or terrain or whatever. He does what he wants/thinks will sell best. Now if the majority of issues with this latest patch are to mods, whether planes or terrains, I can easily see him saying "I don't really care" and ignoring people talking about it. He will care about the stock game and terrains above all. While it's true the success (as it is) of SF1 and 2 so far were built on the backs of mods, honestly other than a still small selection of terrains overall I think it fair to say that the complete SF2 collection of titles, expansions, and DLCs would give users more than enough now. I do have a couple TC mods like OTC and NF5, and I have one modded install that has pretty much EVERY plane I've DL'd, but I find I spend plenty of time flying the stock installs as well now because he has filled out the world pretty well. These new AI packs fill out the early years when you fly the P-51 quite well (take a look DCS, we need more than a D-9 for a P-51 to fight!), and early jets are always welcome to me.

Wow. It only took him HOW many years to do this? As soon as he started the DLC thing I thought he should've been doing this. For people like us, we can easily make them flyable and sub a cockpit in. For those who don't care to, it gives them lots more variety to fly with and against. Win win! I know some people here are really into them, and that's fine, but personally I never cared too much about skins. As long as I've got the basics (ie natural metal, naval, camo, etc) I've never really cared if this skin fits that era or is base-appropriate. I'm not a rivet counter I guess. So all those DLC skin packs were a waste to me, and I didn't buy any. I bought a lot of the early flyable DLCs, but the later ones I've passed on like the upgraded Skyhawks and such too. Once I back up my mods and update to this latest patch, I'll finally have some DLCs to get again. I wonder if the notional 3rd one to come (based on SFA plane count) will be the last for now?

The A-10A's cockpit I think is higher res than the 25T's, so it could be a case of more polys lowering your performance. Unfortunately, a laptop is never the best solution for gaming because when things like this happen (as they always do), you can't upgrade your CPU and/or GPU to fix it. Your only choice is to lower your detail settings to compensate. Personally, I've found the latest 1.2.4 versions to run faster than before. They've got a bit of optimizing done. FPS are also dependent on number of units in a mission, of course.

That story is putting a biased spin on the actual reason. When the whole Assange/Wikileaks thing broke, and news agencies started publishing details, those were likewise blocked where possible while all were told not to view them. It was for the same reason: CMI. The wide publishing of classified info due to a leak or other accidental/deliberate occurrence does NOT mean that info has been declassified. It's stupid, yes, because if the info is now EVERYWHERE there are no controls on it and to maintain that perspective flies in the face of logic...but the rules regarding classified info quite often are illogical and no one has seen fit to alter them. So as far as the gov't is concerned, even if it's on CNN.com's front page, it's still classified and no NIPR system should be viewing them, that's what the SIPR is for. Of course, the normal procedure for contaminated NIPR systems wouldn't apply, because those are meant to scrub that stuff off the system and prevent its spread. When it's on CNN, you can hardly prevent the spread any further, so it's a futile exercise...but it remains the SOP. It's got nothing to do with "censoring" what the military rank and file are seeing, it has to do with keeping classified information limited to those who "need to know"...and the entire US military obviously doesn't need to know the details of this program. As mentioned, this story pretty much equates to "remember what you thought the gov't has been doing since 9/11? We have proof now and a name for the system." This isn't really news, it's a confirmation. Personally, I do object because I think too many liberties have been given over in the name of "security." Frankly, not enough citizens are dying from terrorist attacks to warrant this. Obviously it's hard to prove a negative, as the gov't likes to do, saying the existence of these programs has prevented hundreds or more deaths over the last 10 years. We can't know that for certain, since they classify those results. However, unless we're having annual death counts in the range of 9/11 due to terrorist attacks, I think it would cost us LESS to quit this. The TSA is a massive money hole, and it seems to waste even more time and money than it ever does anything worthwhile. When 10,000 Americans die a year from terrorism, then we can talk about these measures. When the number is under 1000, though, I accept that as "the price of freedom" that so many others seem to believe in. To expect only the military to pay it is silly, we are "of the people".

I think that applies to a large majority of wars.

Killing for food is at least justifiable. If you're killing something you have no intention of eating, then it's not predation. No one eats foxes.

TK never worked for ED that I had heard. He worked for Origin/EA and later Microprose. Remember that despite delays, SF1 came out just about 4 years after EAW, the last big title I remember him working on. If he did anything post-EAW but before SF1, I don't remember.

Come on, the suspense is killing us!!!

Extra tissue boxes just $5 each, great deal.

I've never noticed. It certainly seems like there are a lot out there, though. I can see footage of kills that weren't supposed to happen (against planes or across borders where combat was not supposed to occur, such as China) being locked up, but there was a lot of combat that was "above board".

Now if you want to suggest that perhaps the RN has (or used to have) a place capable of repairing ships, perhaps mobile, perhaps a foreign military base, that was never publicly acknowledged (perhaps because it was in the naval base of a country that didn't want to appear to be helping them vs Argentina), that is an entirely different matter. I can easily see some nation saying "you can do some repairs here, but you cannot say you did it, and we will deny it if asked" if travel times don't seem to jive with known locations. That is a far different matter than pretending a ship wasn't hit and seriously damaged.

Nice models.

I wouldn't mind it still flying either.

Battlefield reports are notoriously unreliable. The adrenaline, the smoke, the quick actions, all lead to people often thinking they're seeing things they really aren't, or missing things they should've noticed. That's one reason why gun cameras and post-strike BDAs were implemented, because film can't remember wrong. In this instance, you have something one pilot remembers vs the entire crew of a naval vessel. Can a pilot be wrong about whether the target he hit was one or another? Sure. Can an entire crew NOT know, NOT remember, or decide to keep secret their ship was hit? Hardly. Occam's Razor.

I don't start or shut down my PC often enough that the time it takes is an issue. Pretty much one per day.

How would all of the crew on the ship NEVER talk about the fact that a ship was hit? What possible reason would there be to stay silent as to whether or not a missile hit when it didn't sink the ship? It's one thing to deny enemy action sunk a ship and it was an accident or something, it's another to have a ship fight in a war victoriously and say it wasn't hit when it was when the hit did so little.

The F-35 isn't supposed to compete with the F-15 or Su-27 in AA. The F-22 was, and it does. It also doesn't need to carry that many weapons when it has to be stealthy. The IDEA is for it to carry a few "silver bullets" during the opening of a campaign when it's important, then load up on the bombs when the radar threat has been eliminated or at least sharply reduced. The F-117 carried two bombs, only, ever. It couldn't carry more. It never needed to. It would hit two targets or one target twice then RTB to rearm! Yet apparently that's not good enough for a single-engined F-35 fighter that apparently is supposed to have the bomb load of a medium bomber, and hit at least 6 targets per sortie? And the fact is that even with external stores the F-35 will STILL be stealthier than any F-16 or Hornet...so if the environment is permissive enough for THEM to not be swatted out of the sky in seconds, it's certainly still even more survivable for an F-35! You can't upgrade the previous generation to be as stealthy as the F-35. Just not possible. So if an upgraded one of them is good enough, the F-35 is BETTER. So damn many armchair generals confidently proclaiming the combat efficacy of a plane whose abilities are still highly classified based on the opinions of OTHER armchair generals who don't really know any more. The repetition of claims by uninformed or underinformed parties does not lend credence to their opinions. Everyone used to "know" the Earth was flat, too, but the passing along of that claim from person to person did nothing to alter the reality.

Yeah, I agree that maybe FE2 should be simply considered "done" and let modders do what they can do. Besides, after multiple patches in the months after NA's release, it's been almost a year since the last one for SF2 anyway. To think he'll go back and spend time on FE2, which is far older, when he's not even addressing things in SF2 is the height of unrealistic expectations.

Maybe she was unaware if he was still alive or not.