JediMaster

BTW, I don't know if there any others, but I'm currently sitting at one of the only active military installations that has wild peacocks on it. They're nicer when they're beyond the areas you walk around, not in them.

How can you not know who the J Geils Band is? Their big hit was all over the airwaves. "My blood runs cold My memory has just been sold My angel is the centerfold Na na na na-na-na" Alice Cooper is "just another punk band" in the way that The Beatles were "just another pop group."

I think they mean no wing control surfaces, no flaps OR ailerons. Many planes have existed without one or the other, but those without either are very few and usually belong to the wing-warping club. If this doesn't use that either but just blown air, that's interesting but hardly practical. After all, what does it do in an engine-out situation?

I'm surprised they remembered Donovan. His music has been largely absent from even the oldies channels for like 20 years. Beasties FTW!

I was at the Biltmore in the 80s. I wonder how different it is now? Not that I remember it all that well, old vacations tend to blur together over the decades...

I would think that would be a patch/rerelease situation. "Exp 1 now has plane X made flyable with pit, patch available for current owners, so if you haven't picked it up yet, now's a great time!" Similar to how Rise of Flight did their ICE rerelease lately with the same price point but now more planes included stock. To put a pit in Exp 2 that only helps those who also bought Exp 1 just doesn't strike me as something TK would do. One thing you can say about TK, he knows how to run a niche business successfully.

Well, to be fair, no one supported ME at any time in its lifecycle.

It's very subjective and AFAIK Dave is usually the determining authority. General rule of thumb, though, is if someone makes a single skin or modifies an existing one (or some) in some way that doesn't count. If you're someone like Sundowner who's made literally dozens of great quality skins over the years, that does. Basically, just because you made a skin you're not automatically a "modder." However, even if skins is all you've done (no terrain, planes, objects, etc) you're not automatically going to be disqualified if it's agreed the contribution is significant (not necessarily in quantity, but quality). To be honest, we've fallen behind lately when it comes to awarding people "modder" status. Feel free to nominate any you see that you feel are worthy and when he gets a chance Dave will say "yea" or "nay", for he doth be the one that controlleth the appellations of the members...mostly.

I was thinking something that comes with Exp 2 would be integrated into Exp 1, such as a flyable from Exp 2 being put into the campaign for Exp 1 with appropriate skins for the different region. That's the only thing that makes economic sense to me. The Saudi Lightning makes perfect sense in that regard. Exp 2 adds a flyable Lightning for Europe, but if you have Exp 1 you'll be able to fly it in the Israel map with Saudi skins. As has been noted many times here over the years, cockpits are more labor-intensive than the rest of the airplane, which is why TK gives us more AI planes than we can fly because he doesn't want to spend on those cockpits. Don't forget his "Exp 1 didn't sell as well as we thought it would" statement...I can't imagine he'd make the money back if he put something that pricey in that would only benefit the smaller (than hoped) number of people who bought Exp1 and then Exp 2.

That looks like a DX10 effect gone overboard. It shouldn't be much work to tone that down.

Some have, some have not IIRC.

I don't like the Gannet. They wet their nests.

Keep on the driver update bandwagon, I've heard there are still a couple of titles the 460 has bugs with that will be fixed with upcoming drivers.

Numpties??!?

Yes, while walkthrus can often give hints that let you get thru a difficult section without cheat codes (although I consider such a narrow way a failure by the devs to design properly), I've also used cheat codes in the past for games with particularly ridiculous difficulty. Basically if I get killed trying to do something 5 times in a row and get no closer to success than I did the first time, I'm looking for a cheat of some kind to get past it, after which I will turn the cheat off. I used to enjoy doing things like play on max difficulty with cheats on after I beat a game for extra fun, but that no longer works because devs make games differently now. Generally speaking, increased difficulty in current games decreases your weapon effectiveness while it increases the enemies'. It doesn't make them smarter, it doesn't make more to fight (because they consider how many you fight part of the "level design" now or something), it just means they can kill you with 3 shots instead of 6 and it takes you 6 shots to kill them instead of 3. Turning on god mode on max difficulty becomes pointless, as it just means all the guys take more hits to go down, that's it. The recent Wolfenstein had a fun built-in cheat system that unlocked after winning the game. You could play again with all the weapons at max upgrades from the start of the game, have infinite money, and/or max out the supernatural powers you get thru the game. Basically you can start the game with everything maxed out the way it was when you reached the end. No god mode or unlimited ammo, though. So, if I've beaten a game I've no qualms about using cheats the next time round just to experiment, or I'll use them if the game is stupidly difficult.

Well, to be honest other than tesselation and a couple of other things, there's little DX11 has that DX9 didn't. The difference was always efficiency--things would be seen in a DX10/11 title that weren't in DX9 because it would hit the performance too much. However, the Xbox 360 runs basically on DX9, so there's no reason careful programming and choosing of effects can't render almost "DX11-like" effects with just DX9. Frankly, A-10 has been delayed enough that I'm glad they're not waiting to get DX11 in to release it. A-10 was originally announced as being 9 months after BS. The 2-yr anniversary of BS is almost here! Granted we got the unexpected FC2 in there...

You want to create more jobs over there just give Peter Jackson more films to do.

Who says we're going to do it?

The upcoming expansion pack will add a mission builder to the game so you can make them yourself, but for now you just have to choose intercept as mission type and roll the dice. I don't know what random pick is used to choose enemies in the single mission generator, but as far as I can tell it just chooses a plane at random that fits the requirements of year, terrain, and side.

I had all 4 removed at once in college by my regular dentist. They were in, but my mouth wasn't big enough for all those teeth, there was some serious crowding, so they had to go. Unfortunately for both me and him, my roots were deep and he had a hard time getting them all out. He was gripping so hard that a couple of them shattered before he could get them to budge. Never had any pain, though, aside from the initial needle stinging a bit. I had no painkillers but regular Tylenol that my mom gave me I think. Only thing that sucked was one of the clots in the upper sockets fell out that night. Grossed me out so much I almost puked, which would've been very bad with 4 open holes in my jaws!

Just where praytell is this school??

Don't forget the patch for BS to bring it inline with A-10 should back-port most of those upgrades. For DX11 right now either the Radeon 5850 or the GTX 460 are the best bets. I bought a 5850 but that was before the 460s were out. If I did it again I might have bought the cheaper-but-about-the-same-speed 460.

LOL, the Barrett is too big for that car! Actually, he reminds me more of Masi Oka from Heroes.

CA to GOG, WTF, over...

I can't imagine why not. Unlike a helo, you can likely mostly ignore the rudders and throttle in the A-10 during most flight regimes and focus on pitch and roll. As far as I can tell, A-10C is going to be a separate game, just like FC2 was, based on the same code base. The integration with BS will solely be on the MP side, allowing for joint flights. Realistically, you'd never be jumping from a Ka-50 to an A-10 or vice versa, so what's the big deal about just exiting one game and loading the other anyway... However, apparently while there will be a (mega) patch for BS to bring it up to code-compatability with A-10C, FC2 will not be getting that breaking its MP ability with BS that it currently enjoys. This will leave you with 3 choices: Upgrade BS to the A-10 level and forego FC2/BS MP (there will never be A-10C/FC2 MP) Forego patching BS to maintain the FC2/BS ability and forget joint A-10C MP Duplicate your BS install, one patched and one not, to let you get both