Yes, when a camera sees you, there is a few seconds of delay before it reports back and raises the alarm. This is the window you have to shoot the camera and prevent the alarm from being raised.
SS2 is in my opinion the best game of it's type ever to be made. I have played a huge number and many I never bother finishing, but System Shock 2 was able to keep me rivited throughout the game and I actually completed it, which for me is a rare occurance.
The sound is definately one of the biggest highlights as metioned earlier, you can hear the monsters somewhere close, muttering and don't quite know where they will appear from. Also the distinct lack of resources means that every bullet is precious, (especailly armour piercing ones to kill the turrets) and you need to make the decision early on to use basic weapons e.g. crowbar/bar whereever instead of wasting bullets.
I agree. Where is the 84 million to block Bible Bashers with there sexually repression agendas?
More lives have been screwed up through religion than porn.
Block them.
Don't they understand that they more hoops they add for us to jump through the less the chance that we will actually buy the game.
It just make me angry enough to pirate the game instead of buy it, to deny them any $ support, while still being able to play.
Generally if a game is great, I would still buy it, but all this DRM crap makes my skin crawl, I mean, no matter how cute the chick, would you feel the same having sex with her if you knew she had an untreated STI?
I expect the flashing drive light is the DRM checking if you're pirating anything, or trying to play it in a way not considered appropriate.
You will be reported, processed and fined accordingly.
God is watching, or Allah or whoever the deity of the week is.
I have to admit it does run and look lke crap.
Who came up with the stupid idea of streaming everything down in real time, so the whole thing looks worse than the barren flight sim I remember playing nearly 20 years ago on my Amiga 500??
The concept is great however - total freedom to build, sell and profit from your designs. If the basic structure wasn't so crap and the was a point to the game (no just a huge chat room) I would probably play (to make things and profit from them).
I spend hours in my car and switch constantly from one FM station to another (poor coverage around the hills), I'd love digital radio, which we don't yet have in New Zealand.
However to get to my point - if the radio reciever could be a little more intelligent and have a "buy song" button on it, I would be supprised if I didn't send atleast $20 - $30 each week on buying music. I idea would be to load a credit onto your account and whenever you hear a song you like - press the button and it downloads to your car MP3 player. You then own the song so can put on your IPOD, PC or whatever you want.
The important thing is to allow for impulse buying - make buying easy and you will make money! There are hundreds of songs I only hear once or twice every few years, and finding them online, whithout knowing the artist or song title is very difficult - if I could buy them with the press of a button, when I hear the song, then you will get my money, and lots of it.
What wankers. Why make people criminals because that want to create a disk image of a game? e.g I don't carry around DVDs of games with my laptop, I make a disk image and run it from there. So now I'm breaking the law, to want to play a game without having my DVD drive running constantly in the background?
Exactly - these are not for use in "A galaxy far, far away", these are for use during the birth of SF, when Flash Gordon flew a silver space ship along a bouncy wire, with a firework spurting out the back and (real) giant lizards wandered below in the paper mache landscape.
Those were the times where you knew the villans because that had beards and the women all needed saving from their skimpy outfits, although we only got to kiss before marriage.
Well I like them anyway, and really bad pulp SF.
I feel the same - I see cheap PCs on sale loaded with Linux and wonder - what's the point buying it - to be able to do anything serious on it (by serious I mean play decent games) I'd have to load Windows.
Linux is the poor mans Windows.
I guess in India the nerdy cool of having Linux hasn't quite translated.
I too am disappointed each time I install a new drive and it doesn't give me the size I "expected".
As drives get larger te gap between the advertised size and the actual size grows, and with a 1TB drive the missing space is quite significant.
If I buy a 1TB drive I expect to have 1024 gig (less a tiny loss for formatting).
I don't know about your countries, but in New Zealand there are fairly heavy penalties for false or misleading advertising - this is definately misleading advertising and has been going on for long enough. Companies cannot get away with labelling food 250g when infact you only get 220g in the packet - why can these drive manufacturers get away with it?
I guess they didn't read Slashdot a little while back on how Google Earth gets the images they use. Not all are from space - they also use planes, hot air balloons - really anything that can get high and have a camera attached.
Are we talking about real sexual connections in second Life, or some typed Cyber Rape?
Are these rapists running some scrips that hijacks the victims character and takes control of them, e.g. bending them over and allowing the removal of clothing, and subsequent sexual connection?
In Second Life, it was my understanding the avatars started off without sexual organs, so the rapist would have to make the $ investment to have working sexualy organs added to their avatar, than they would need to purchase tha scripts which allow sexual interaction with another avatar. (to have sex with a prostitue ingame these need to be purchased.
The victim would also have to have purchased apporpriate sexual organs, and ALSO purchased the appropriate scripts to allow sexual relations.
Then a hi-jack of the victims character would be needed so the unwilling victim could be raped.
Otherwise what stops the victim from just blocking the rapist and walking off??
It really sounds more like griefing or harrassment, which in most games is a bannable offence.
It should be fairly easy for the DEVs to check if 3rd party scrpits have been used and ban the "rapist", hopefully they've spent lots of real-world cash oh the biggest penis that could find, and any additions to their character get flushed down the toilet.
But no, virtual rape is not "rape", it's bannable though and is pretty low life.
This reminds me of the summer my flatmate William spent making a "Wellington Hall", Doom map of our church.
It was complete with twisted plants either side of the stage from where and a guy fired rocket at you, a good place to hide was to crouch behind the organ, or duck into one of the Sunday School rooms out the back.
Downstails a long hallway led to rooms filled with twisted Sunday School children.
Slashdot Mirror
Word on the street - these vests are easy defeated by the new nanotube bullets.
Yes, 5 years in prison is not nearly enough.
I say a fine of $725 per spam would be more apporpriate.
What's that? Hmm, 1000 billion trillion spam emails sent per month x $725.00 that'd teach them, we really need to send out a message.
BTW I don't own a copy of The Internet myself, but my wife is a guru, she sends email and everything.
Yes, when a camera sees you, there is a few seconds of delay before it reports back and raises the alarm. This is the window you have to shoot the camera and prevent the alarm from being raised. SS2 is in my opinion the best game of it's type ever to be made. I have played a huge number and many I never bother finishing, but System Shock 2 was able to keep me rivited throughout the game and I actually completed it, which for me is a rare occurance. The sound is definately one of the biggest highlights as metioned earlier, you can hear the monsters somewhere close, muttering and don't quite know where they will appear from. Also the distinct lack of resources means that every bullet is precious, (especailly armour piercing ones to kill the turrets) and you need to make the decision early on to use basic weapons e.g. crowbar/bar whereever instead of wasting bullets.
Like a dirty only man that hides behind my sofa wanting to tickle my private bits, DRM lurks in Vista. Vista ya filty pervert, stop it, oooer.
Finally, something that will run Everquest 2 in extreme quality (with shadows turned on).
I agree. Where is the 84 million to block Bible Bashers with there sexually repression agendas? More lives have been screwed up through religion than porn. Block them.
Don't they understand that they more hoops they add for us to jump through the less the chance that we will actually buy the game. It just make me angry enough to pirate the game instead of buy it, to deny them any $ support, while still being able to play. Generally if a game is great, I would still buy it, but all this DRM crap makes my skin crawl, I mean, no matter how cute the chick, would you feel the same having sex with her if you knew she had an untreated STI?
I blame Metallica for the demise of Napster. Burn in Hell Lars. BTW I sold all your albums to the secondhand store and then downloaded them :P
I expect the flashing drive light is the DRM checking if you're pirating anything, or trying to play it in a way not considered appropriate. You will be reported, processed and fined accordingly. God is watching, or Allah or whoever the deity of the week is.
I have to admit it does run and look lke crap. Who came up with the stupid idea of streaming everything down in real time, so the whole thing looks worse than the barren flight sim I remember playing nearly 20 years ago on my Amiga 500?? The concept is great however - total freedom to build, sell and profit from your designs. If the basic structure wasn't so crap and the was a point to the game (no just a huge chat room) I would probably play (to make things and profit from them).
I spend hours in my car and switch constantly from one FM station to another (poor coverage around the hills), I'd love digital radio, which we don't yet have in New Zealand.
However to get to my point - if the radio reciever could be a little more intelligent and have a "buy song" button on it, I would be supprised if I didn't send atleast $20 - $30 each week on buying music. I idea would be to load a credit onto your account and whenever you hear a song you like - press the button and it downloads to your car MP3 player. You then own the song so can put on your IPOD, PC or whatever you want.
The important thing is to allow for impulse buying - make buying easy and you will make money! There are hundreds of songs I only hear once or twice every few years, and finding them online, whithout knowing the artist or song title is very difficult - if I could buy them with the press of a button, when I hear the song, then you will get my money, and lots of it.
What wankers. Why make people criminals because that want to create a disk image of a game? e.g I don't carry around DVDs of games with my laptop, I make a disk image and run it from there. So now I'm breaking the law, to want to play a game without having my DVD drive running constantly in the background?
God I want to kill people some days.
Exactly - these are not for use in "A galaxy far, far away", these are for use during the birth of SF, when Flash Gordon flew a silver space ship along a bouncy wire, with a firework spurting out the back and (real) giant lizards wandered below in the paper mache landscape. Those were the times where you knew the villans because that had beards and the women all needed saving from their skimpy outfits, although we only got to kiss before marriage. Well I like them anyway, and really bad pulp SF.
"Booooks? What are booooks?" - Weena
H.G. Wells, The Time machine.
(Well ok the Original Motion Picture)
I feel the same - I see cheap PCs on sale loaded with Linux and wonder - what's the point buying it - to be able to do anything serious on it (by serious I mean play decent games) I'd have to load Windows.
Linux is the poor mans Windows.
I guess in India the nerdy cool of having Linux hasn't quite translated.
It's free! It's good! It works? But does it run Everquest 2? Because if it doesn't it's useless to me.
I too am disappointed each time I install a new drive and it doesn't give me the size I "expected".
As drives get larger te gap between the advertised size and the actual size grows, and with a 1TB drive the missing space is quite significant.
If I buy a 1TB drive I expect to have 1024 gig (less a tiny loss for formatting).
I don't know about your countries, but in New Zealand there are fairly heavy penalties for false or misleading advertising - this is definately misleading advertising and has been going on for long enough. Companies cannot get away with labelling food 250g when infact you only get 220g in the packet - why can these drive manufacturers get away with it?
Bet I can solo it on my Conjuror.
I guess they didn't read Slashdot a little while back on how Google Earth gets the images they use. Not all are from space - they also use planes, hot air balloons - really anything that can get high and have a camera attached.
Because in WOW you can't buy a penis.
Are we talking about real sexual connections in second Life, or some typed Cyber Rape? Are these rapists running some scrips that hijacks the victims character and takes control of them, e.g. bending them over and allowing the removal of clothing, and subsequent sexual connection? In Second Life, it was my understanding the avatars started off without sexual organs, so the rapist would have to make the $ investment to have working sexualy organs added to their avatar, than they would need to purchase tha scripts which allow sexual interaction with another avatar. (to have sex with a prostitue ingame these need to be purchased. The victim would also have to have purchased apporpriate sexual organs, and ALSO purchased the appropriate scripts to allow sexual relations. Then a hi-jack of the victims character would be needed so the unwilling victim could be raped. Otherwise what stops the victim from just blocking the rapist and walking off?? It really sounds more like griefing or harrassment, which in most games is a bannable offence. It should be fairly easy for the DEVs to check if 3rd party scrpits have been used and ban the "rapist", hopefully they've spent lots of real-world cash oh the biggest penis that could find, and any additions to their character get flushed down the toilet. But no, virtual rape is not "rape", it's bannable though and is pretty low life.
I begin to wonder how long it will be before someone drives a truck full of explosives up to the RIAA HQ and kills the lot of them.
This reminds me of the summer my flatmate William spent making a "Wellington Hall", Doom map of our church. It was complete with twisted plants either side of the stage from where and a guy fired rocket at you, a good place to hide was to crouch behind the organ, or duck into one of the Sunday School rooms out the back. Downstails a long hallway led to rooms filled with twisted Sunday School children.