Red Storm Rising was actually pretty believable. Most of the fiction in that story was grounded in reality, save for that weird experimental fighter that that one guy was flying that one time. The other thing was that there a female F-15 pilot who shot down a satellite. I guess it could be possible.
Red Storm Rising was actually pretty believable. Most of the fiction in that story was grounded in reality, save for that weird experimental fighter that that one guy was flying that one time. The other thing was that there a female F-15 pilot who shot down a satellite. I guess it could be possible.
so do any of you guys seem to have difficulties getting your whole party into one game growing exponentially as you add players to your party?
Yes, merc TDM is quick and I haven't seen host migration fail. 6 v 6 is ok, a few problems with dropping party members or long lobby waits. Ground war is frustrating as hell.
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Maybe I'm magical or something, but whenever I'm searching for a game solo or with a group, at the top right it always says "looking for game with 50MS ping". If it can't find a game, then it jumps up to 100ms.
People always harp on and on about the legions of xbox live morons and I always thought they were just being a little silly, maybe exagerrating for dramatic effect, I don't know. I had never really encountered anyone who was so vitriolic and irrationally hateful as people described.
Until last night. Last night, I wound up in a game with a couple of New Zealanders who were nice enough (I've never met an unpleasant New Zealander; take that for what it's worth) but then...of course...some genius starts spouting off all this hate speech about the "faggy british pussy wimp bitch n-word" etc. etc. which was espescially ridiculous because when the kiwi politely told him that he didn't live anywhere near England and had, in fact, never even been to Europe the guy just launched on an unrelated tyrade about American cars.
It was pretty unbelievable. I filed a complaint and then team killed him every chance I got.
If you are reading this, xlawlesssomethingorother420x, then please kill yourself. Thanks.
Dear The Rest of the World,
I am sorry my countrymen are such cunts. It's not my fault. Please don't hold all of us responsible for the actions of the vocal minority, when really most of us are pretty nice, thoughtful people.
Regretfully Yours,
hatedinamerica
This falls back into: "If they could just make bots more advanced I'd never need other people ever again." My gf and I were playing last night with some really nice guys, similar to yours. We're all laughing and having a great time, we get paired on the same time a few times and start to get to know each other. I'm doing pretty well, actually, in part because a couple players on the other team are huge campers, and not good ones. I always know exactly where to look for them, and I usually know what direction they'll be facing when I get there. Of course, I don't hear them talking, because they're on the other team.
So we come out of one game and one of the guys just flips the hell out on me, calling me a lag-abuser, cheater, etc. (We're on the 360 here. I doubt that it's even possible to abuse lag on there.) Then he goes into a tirade of the most ear-reddening language you've heard since the last time you left your mic on in Xbox Live. Holy Crap. The nice guys jump to my defense, but then they realize muting is the right option. I go ahead and avoid the guy and file an official complaint against him, because I'm feeling a bit steamed.
I didn't get to mute him, though, because the game split us into teams immediately after, which makes it so you can't scroll over and quick mute people. I start having fun again, until we pop out of the game again and he starts back in. I understand that this is how the internet, especially Live, works. I still sometimes wonder if I shouldn't just take up a different hobby just because I never, in any way, want to share something in common with some of these animals.
Red Storm Rising was actually pretty believable. Most of the fiction in that story was grounded in reality, save for that weird experimental fighter that that one guy was flying that one time. The other thing was that there a female F-15 pilot who shot down a satellite. I guess it could be possible.
I'd like to add to this, it is quite frankly Tom Clancys best book. I would love to see Red Storm Rising made into a tv mini-series, but with the same kind of funding as a film. Get multiple tv networks involved like say HBO, the BBC etc all putting money into the pot for its development.
Although I do have some minor niggles like I do with all books, like the parachuting Royal Marines.. which to me seemed really odd and wrong, I mean.. why would Royal Marines parachute when seaborne based incursion is their specialty. (I think in the book they ignored some advice about parachuting into an area in Iceland and broke their ankles or legs... been a while since I last read it, should probably dig it out)
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
So, is it cool for me to barge in here after not looking at the forums for over a year and ask if anyone is up for some Special Ops on PS3?
I think it's the best part of the game but I rarely have any friends online to play with. If any of you have a headset, a PS3, and an obsessive compulsive disorder that won't let you sleep until you get all those stars, please send me your PSN ID. I promise I'm not a creepy mouth breather.
Xbox Live seems to have devolved to the point that users no longer require human speech. In a match yesterday, the opposing team ended it with 10 year old screaming. Literally it was nothing but "AHHHHHHHH, AHHHHHHHH, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
So basically they've moved beyond trash talking and have reverted to gorilla mating calls.
So, is it confirmed that EMP can cancel out a Tac Nuke?
And although I still won a match in FFA after having a Nuke called in me, it could be that that applies to FFA only. In other playlists, does calling in a Nuke equal automatic victory even if your team is losing?
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Zen VulgarityWhat a lovely day for teaSecret British ThreadRegistered Userregular
Is there a PC group? If so can you please invite me on steam (fraglerock is my handle)
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All you need to read from Rainbow Six to get maximum satisfaction is the Prologue. The rest of the book couldn't hold a candle to that one chapter. The book sets this awesome expectation with this amazing Prologue, and then you just get bored to tears once you pass it.
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Zen VulgarityWhat a lovely day for teaSecret British ThreadRegistered Userregular
edited November 2009
I read Rainbow Six when it came out in 1998 when I was 12.
People always harp on and on about the legions of xbox live morons and I always thought they were just being a little silly, maybe exagerrating for dramatic effect, I don't know. I had never really encountered anyone who was so vitriolic and irrationally hateful as people described.
Until last night. Last night, I wound up in a game with a couple of New Zealanders who were nice enough (I've never met an unpleasant New Zealander; take that for what it's worth) but then...of course...some genius starts spouting off all this hate speech about the "faggy british pussy wimp bitch n-word" etc. etc. which was espescially ridiculous because when the kiwi politely told him that he didn't live anywhere near England and had, in fact, never even been to Europe the guy just launched on an unrelated tyrade about American cars.
It was pretty unbelievable. I filed a complaint and then team killed him every chance I got.
If you are reading this, xlawlesssomethingorother420x, then please kill yourself. Thanks.
Dear The Rest of the World,
I am sorry my countrymen are such cunts. It's not my fault. Please don't hold all of us responsible for the actions of the vocal minority, when really most of us are pretty nice, thoughtful people.
Regretfully Yours,
hatedinamerica
This falls back into: "If they could just make bots more advanced I'd never need other people ever again." My gf and I were playing last night with some really nice guys, similar to yours. We're all laughing and having a great time, we get paired on the same time a few times and start to get to know each other. I'm doing pretty well, actually, in part because a couple players on the other team are huge campers, and not good ones. I always know exactly where to look for them, and I usually know what direction they'll be facing when I get there. Of course, I don't hear them talking, because they're on the other team.
So we come out of one game and one of the guys just flips the hell out on me, calling me a lag-abuser, cheater, etc. (We're on the 360 here. I doubt that it's even possible to abuse lag on there.) Then he goes into a tirade of the most ear-reddening language you've heard since the last time you left your mic on in Xbox Live. Holy Crap. The nice guys jump to my defense, but then they realize muting is the right option. I go ahead and avoid the guy and file an official complaint against him, because I'm feeling a bit steamed.
I didn't get to mute him, though, because the game split us into teams immediately after, which makes it so you can't scroll over and quick mute people. I start having fun again, until we pop out of the game again and he starts back in. I understand that this is how the internet, especially Live, works. I still sometimes wonder if I shouldn't just take up a different hobby just because I never, in any way, want to share something in common with some of these animals.
Once I was playing an American dude who was being a cunt because my squad was Canadian.
He kept going and going and finally my buddy asked, "Hey, at least we have free health care, what do you have?" sever seconds go by and he replies, in a very serious tone, "FREEDOM"
You're right Mr.Sir, you've certainly bested the world on that front.
I've noticed that if I'm in a party with friends and we decide to hop out of a game back to the lobby we often end up getting separated and have to reinvite all over again to join up before the next round of games. The same group of people often bemoaned Halo 3's matchmaking because it took too long to find a game, but this problem seems much more annoying to me.
Is it really that hard to have everyone return to the same lobby we started out in?
There should be an option to have everyone muted by default except for friends and people you manually unmute.
There is. It's in the Xbox system tab. I don't know if you can manually unmute though. I think you set it for friends/party only and that's that.
We shouldn't have to fucking go through that though. It would be far less work for IW to just re-enable party chat.
There should be an option on the PS3 to have everyone muted by default except for friends and people you manually unmute.
So, yeah, I hate about 20% of the people I play with on XBL, and 60% of people I have no opinion of because they never say anything into their mic. Having said that, automatically muting 99% of the population because I don't care to talk with 80% of the people who play would deprive me of the other 20% of people who are actually kind of nice folks.
Plus -- why would you EVER unmute someone who wasn't your friend? "Hmm, this xxSchocker6969xx character in the ghillie suit...true, I've never met him before, but there's something about the way he's jumping about with the sniper rifle...I like the cut of his jib." *UNMUTED*
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edited November 2009
I think it would be better just to auto mute anyone with more than one x in their name.
I wish you could majority-vote people out of games. I'm pretty sure way back on the 'ole PS2: SOCOM and SOCOM 2 had this. But somehow much more modern games don't have it.
Just mute people that are obnoxious. I do it all the time. It's not that tough. And if someone starts screaming after the lobby divides you into teams? Turn your mic down, or unplug it until the match starts. It's not that difficult.
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Get a 10-kill streak without any killstreaks equipped.
Ok, so I'm never getting that one then...
damn
Multi-stage anti-sat missile carried by the F-15
Yes, merc TDM is quick and I haven't seen host migration fail. 6 v 6 is ok, a few problems with dropping party members or long lobby waits. Ground war is frustrating as hell.
This falls back into: "If they could just make bots more advanced I'd never need other people ever again." My gf and I were playing last night with some really nice guys, similar to yours. We're all laughing and having a great time, we get paired on the same time a few times and start to get to know each other. I'm doing pretty well, actually, in part because a couple players on the other team are huge campers, and not good ones. I always know exactly where to look for them, and I usually know what direction they'll be facing when I get there. Of course, I don't hear them talking, because they're on the other team.
So we come out of one game and one of the guys just flips the hell out on me, calling me a lag-abuser, cheater, etc. (We're on the 360 here. I doubt that it's even possible to abuse lag on there.) Then he goes into a tirade of the most ear-reddening language you've heard since the last time you left your mic on in Xbox Live. Holy Crap. The nice guys jump to my defense, but then they realize muting is the right option. I go ahead and avoid the guy and file an official complaint against him, because I'm feeling a bit steamed.
I didn't get to mute him, though, because the game split us into teams immediately after, which makes it so you can't scroll over and quick mute people. I start having fun again, until we pop out of the game again and he starts back in. I understand that this is how the internet, especially Live, works. I still sometimes wonder if I shouldn't just take up a different hobby just because I never, in any way, want to share something in common with some of these animals.
I'd like to add to this, it is quite frankly Tom Clancys best book. I would love to see Red Storm Rising made into a tv mini-series, but with the same kind of funding as a film. Get multiple tv networks involved like say HBO, the BBC etc all putting money into the pot for its development.
Although I do have some minor niggles like I do with all books, like the parachuting Royal Marines.. which to me seemed really odd and wrong, I mean.. why would Royal Marines parachute when seaborne based incursion is their specialty. (I think in the book they ignored some advice about parachuting into an area in Iceland and broke their ankles or legs... been a while since I last read it, should probably dig it out)
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
I think it's the best part of the game but I rarely have any friends online to play with. If any of you have a headset, a PS3, and an obsessive compulsive disorder that won't let you sleep until you get all those stars, please send me your PSN ID. I promise I'm not a creepy mouth breather.
So basically they've moved beyond trash talking and have reverted to gorilla mating calls.
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The only Clancy book I've ever attempted to read was Rainbow 6 ( R6 was a book, right?)
I think that was the one. Whatever it was, i found the writing to be boring, and couldn't finish it.
Up to a certain point Tom Clancy books became incredibly formulaic. His early work often like a lot of musicians is his best work.
Essentially, don't read anything of his post 1990.
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And although I still won a match in FFA after having a Nuke called in me, it could be that that applies to FFA only. In other playlists, does calling in a Nuke equal automatic victory even if your team is losing?
Nuke is an automatic win.
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It is quite a read at 12.
Once I was playing an American dude who was being a cunt because my squad was Canadian.
He kept going and going and finally my buddy asked, "Hey, at least we have free health care, what do you have?" sever seconds go by and he replies, in a very serious tone, "FREEDOM"
You're right Mr.Sir, you've certainly bested the world on that front.
Is it really that hard to have everyone return to the same lobby we started out in?
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There is. It's in the Xbox system tab. I don't know if you can manually unmute though. I think you set it for friends/party only and that's that.
We shouldn't have to fucking go through that though. It would be far less work for IW to just re-enable party chat.
There should be an option on the PS3 to have everyone muted by default except for friends and people you manually unmute.
So, yeah, I hate about 20% of the people I play with on XBL, and 60% of people I have no opinion of because they never say anything into their mic. Having said that, automatically muting 99% of the population because I don't care to talk with 80% of the people who play would deprive me of the other 20% of people who are actually kind of nice folks.
Plus -- why would you EVER unmute someone who wasn't your friend? "Hmm, this xxSchocker6969xx character in the ghillie suit...true, I've never met him before, but there's something about the way he's jumping about with the sniper rifle...I like the cut of his jib." *UNMUTED*
That's right... fuck you, Xerxes Johnson of Andover Lane in Lansing, Michigan. You stupid cunt.
Consecutive X's?
Lord Xxyrog of the Quoring Nebula is a cunt too
Well, no, to be perfectly fair I actually know Xerxes and he really is quite an asshole. You're not missing anything.
Pronounced.... ecks-zyr-rog I believe.
She's to be seen not heard.
There's also the Quagaars.
/Obscure'y.
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
Just mute people that are obnoxious. I do it all the time. It's not that tough. And if someone starts screaming after the lobby divides you into teams? Turn your mic down, or unplug it until the match starts. It's not that difficult.