That's precisely what they want to know. Giving a different answer on every web form lowers your learned-helplessness score to almost zero. They won't want your business. You might not blindly pay charges you don't understand for services you didn't know you needed.
Interestingly enough, that's the exact same reasoning why neither prosecuting or defending attorneys want a juror that even hints at the phrase of jury nullification. The prosecutors don't want you because it's harder to get a conviction. The defense doesn't want you because you just demonstrated intelligence and won't be easily swayed by weak arguments.
The idle heat would be sufficient, no? I don't see why you would need to open some windows just to ramp up the temperature unless you're using this thing to few heat for a sauna.
I doubt it will and they're beginning to show their ineptitude. Their plans I've seen so far for cold weather has been humorously misguided. The one example that comes straight to mind is asking for cots to get people off the cold ground. They have devices to connect to the Internet and they can't even get info on the types of preparation they need for cold weather. They're just children, even if they are 18 years of age, who have no idea about the world around them.
Already have done. Ever counted up the percentage of functioning democracies in the UN General Assembly as opposed to the number of Juntas, Tin-Pot Dictatorships, Communist Dictatorships, Banana Republics, and Psychopathic Theocracies?
I'm glad you represented the US within that collection of types of governments.
I did a full system upgrade for BF3. The only thing that stayed constant between my last build and this build was using DDR3. I upgraded from SATA 3.0Gb/s to SATA 6.0Gb/s on the motherboard. My previous machine was still handling games just fine with a 8800 GTS. I nabbed a 570 this time around because they were offering a free copy of Arkham City with it. I'm not a graphics junkie. I get a good card and if something is a couple percent lesser than another option I go with whatever gives me the best perceived value. I keep going with nVidia because every card of theirs I've gotten came with a coupon or copy for a game that I wanted to play. That right there knocks $40-$60 off the price of the card for the purpose of comparing the price to other cards.
#1 - It's still near launch so ranks aren't a good judgment. It's easy enough for someone to be a low rank but be a BF veteran and know how the game works. #2 - I've seen something called the Nemesis exploit which features a group of 4 players, 2 per team the shoot and revive each other over and over. One YouTube video of this that I've seen showed them with over 8,000,000 points in a single match. It means that anyone I see at a high rank (I would say anything over Rank 27 is suspect) I wouldn't trust. I think the median rank is probably around 15 or so.
Battlefield is a team-oriented game. As such, one of the best ways for a less skilled player to play is to support a more skilled player. For example, say you're in my squad. I love tanks and I'm incredible with them but I often get screwed over by idiots in my gunner seat or being repair starved (I never play engineer). The gunner spot in tanks is optimized for an engineer. Spawn as an engineer get in the gunner seat. You provide anti-infantry support for the tanker and when it gets damaged you can hop out and repair the tank. On the plus side, you get points whenever I get a kill and vice versa. IFVs are in a similar light. Helicopters, strangely enough, are awesome with engineers as well. The transport helicopters typically have 6 seats with a pilot, 2 gunners, and 3 free positions. A pilot + 2 engineers in the gunner positions allows players to use the transport as a mobile spawn point that lets them parachute down into the action. Additionally the engineers can pop from gunner to a free spot and repair the helicopter midflight (so I've been told). This also can happen with the little bird helicopters. They are pilot + 2 free positions. The pilot gets the guns on that chopper.
Another way to be effective is to go Assault and tag along behind point men. Keep them fed with health and revive them when they die (once you unlock defibs). Flanking is king in this game so doing something simple yet boring like guarding the flanks of your allies is something that is uncommon and also potent. A lot of flankers move around and aren't looking for rear guards or flank guards and are much easier to pick off than the guys up where the fighting is thickest.
Battlefield, unlike John Rambo FPS games, rewards intellect. If you approach the battlefield tactically and think in those terms, you can make up for lack of skill in other areas.
A sniper does not need to use a bipod. It just helps a lot. Holding shift holds your breath and steadies your aim for a second or two. This is effective for a crouching sniper. I'm not certain of all the underbarrel attachments. Bipod may be best because it provides the stability as long as its deployed. That makes it much better for narrow pathways where you have maybe 1.5 seconds to respond to and shoot a target running from cover to cover. Laser sights are idiotic in my opinion. Flashlights not so much. It obscures your position from people looking at you but they know you're there. They can fire in the direction of your light and hope to hit you or know where you are to flank you if they can do so. I think thermal optic scopes negate flashlights, but I don't have any unlocked to test that.
I'll give you some pointers from my experience. Right now I heavily play Recon and Assault. I don't touch Engineer or Support right now.
As assault I use the first Assault weapon unlocked from MP Co-op. As Recon I used the Recon weapon unlocked from MP Co-op. This has actually gotten me accused of being a hacker because I was Rank 3 at a time I was using them and the idiot thought I was using weapons too advanced for my rank. One other thing to note is that as more and more players on a team start to operate by methods of warfare the efficacy of their action collectively increases.
With assault, I always weapon an optic scope and have a suppressor equipped. On rush my style is one where I will find a nest that is at a low to medium elevation (compared to the surrounding terrain) usually a decent distance ahead of the M-COM stations. I go prone, watch one of the common pathways, and wait. I shoot people as they pass by me. Last time I did this I went 8 kills before I was found out. So basically, I utilize the surrounding terrain in order to minimize my visual profile. There's a lot of stuff going on and picking out unmoving targets can be very difficult. It is, in essence, a version of Patton's idiom "Grab 'em by the nose and kick 'em in the pants." The M-COMs have the attackers attention (grabbed by the nose) and I'm kicking them in the pants (flanking action). The nice thing is that battlefield objectives tend to grab players by the nose, so flanking is a lot easier to pull off without coordination. On the other hand, guarding against flanking is almost non-existent. I have on numerous occasions been killed to flanks while trying to deny pathways to the defenders. In fact, that's one of the biggest things I do when playing recon is watching the flanks. I find that most objective areas are heavily crowded which reduces the number of sniping positions you can take to defend them. Flanks aren't as crowded and really open up the opportunities while more often than not denying enemy snipers the ability to target you without moving along the same flanks you're defending. I have many times held off multiple attackers trying to flank my team as a single recon. If I don't, they end up spotted so that teammate's are aware of them. All I can say is learn the classes and leverage the advantages within your kit and how your outfitted yourself. Flashlights are both a boon and a bust. They give away position but they also mask your position as well. It's difficult to frag someone with a flashlight that is on when they're facing you because you can't make them out. Laser sites are worse though. I laugh at snipers that use laser sights.
I hate some of the urban environments because of how painful taking certain objectives can be. Here's a slight overview of some maps I dislike.
Market/Bazaar: The alley control point on conquest is a bloody nightmare for an attacking force. Three players can effectively control that point and the only way to dislodge them is to use grenade to get them to flush out of their holes long enough that you can gain ground. This is partially offset by the fact that the other two control points are much easier to swap hands.
Metro: Metro is a nightmare. Each section of the map, except the first and last, on Rush is a nightmare to take over. Most times I see the attacks fail Rush at the 2nd set of M-COMs. Conquest is worse. It can be summed up as "US rushes to B and hopes they get it and establish a bridgehead." Every time I've played that map except once the PLC got B and the US lost. In such instances I end up sitting as medic and revive people for points as the get killed over and over trying to get B. I often end such matchs with something like 2 kills, 1 death, and around 4000-5000 points.
My biggest issues with BF3 are the same as with any other BF game. Idiots. Idiots make the game experience worse. Let me list the ways of idiots. Here's a hint, most of these deal with people looking out for themselves rather than the team.
Origin is annoying mostly because I hate the fact that it's there just for BF3 and will never be touched again. Battlelog is annoying in some rights but once I've gotten used to it I found I prefer having it over how I dealt with BF2 and BFBC2 for some things that I considered valuable. Battlelog contains significant amount of stat information that I love to see. I used to have to rely on 3rd party websites to see a lot of this information. Upcoming unlocks, what's needed to acquire them, etc. There's some things about how information that is presented that I don't like (the social network facebooky stuff is pointless) and there something that I would have liked to see in clarity rather than obfuscated through other means. A good example would be the 7 weapon unlocks that you gain from multiplayer coop. A display through the coop page that shows the unlocks specifically for that mode rather than showing only the next unlock in the coop display or forcing you to look through the next unlocks in the weapon's page would have been an improvement.
My complaints about Battlelog are mostly 'first impression' complaints. A lot of this is just due to the interface not being initially intuitive and odd behaviors. Launching out of it can sometimes be problematic My friends and I have had it launch to black screens before or crash from launching. I don't know if that's the game or the Battlelog client causing it. That said, since Battlelog is a web-interface it is remarkably easy to update without having to touch the game itself.
To address some of the complaints I've seen other than Battlelog.
Vehicles Vehicles have always been a part of the Battlefield series. They have always sought to make the game a battlefield. Vehicles have been present in every conflict and they have always been decisive elements. They've made killing vehicles easier than the last game (Battlefield Bad Company 2) with the introduction of vehicle disabling. As you take damage the vehicle becomes progressively harder to control. Planes start losing rudder and elevator control. Tanks and other armored ground vehicles can't move any faster than a crawl. It was trivially easy in Bad Company 2 to snipe with a tank and when you take some hits back up behind cover, repair the vehicle, and then start firing again. Now if you get disabled you won't be able to get into cover easily so you either abandon the tank or sit and make a last stand attempting to take as many of the fuckers as possible with you.
Helicopter/Plane Controls In my opinion, this is a problem with the type of controls you use. Helicopter and plane are remarkable using a joystick, mediocre with a keyboard only controls, and downright horrible when using a mouse+keyboard. Maybe I haven't adjusted my mouse for aerial flight but it's overly sensitive and remarkably easy to crash. I have to switch to keyboard only using the arrow keys + WASD for flight. It works pretty good and I'm a competent pilot in a helicopter. I don't crash. I can do decent evasive maneuvers with this method and I provide a relatively stable firing platform for gunners with me. It doesn't work for me in a plane but that may just be lack of exposure to the environment.
The performance difference between a 560 and 570 must be huge. I don't have any display issues running 1920x1080 on ultra settings except one issue with green flashes. However I think this is probably related to drivers more than anything. They don't impact the smoothness of the graphics at all.
Damn. Microsoft programmers also double as their legal staff? Here I thought they would have a staff lawyers hired specifically to handle their legal needs, such as issuing DMCA notices and suing other companies. The fact that their programmers are doing this is troubling.
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That's precisely what they want to know. Giving a different answer on every web form lowers your learned-helplessness score to almost zero. They won't want your business. You might not blindly pay charges you don't understand for services you didn't know you needed.
Interestingly enough, that's the exact same reasoning why neither prosecuting or defending attorneys want a juror that even hints at the phrase of jury nullification. The prosecutors don't want you because it's harder to get a conviction. The defense doesn't want you because you just demonstrated intelligence and won't be easily swayed by weak arguments.
It's currency in the sense that pinto beans are a currency.
The idle heat would be sufficient, no? I don't see why you would need to open some windows just to ramp up the temperature unless you're using this thing to few heat for a sauna.
Tis obvious. There must be one one time pad to rule them all.
Banning births for 5 years would lead to at best around a 4.5% reduction in world wide population through the annual die off.
No. We just recently broke the Enigma code.
I doubt it will and they're beginning to show their ineptitude. Their plans I've seen so far for cold weather has been humorously misguided. The one example that comes straight to mind is asking for cots to get people off the cold ground. They have devices to connect to the Internet and they can't even get info on the types of preparation they need for cold weather. They're just children, even if they are 18 years of age, who have no idea about the world around them.
It's a HumancentiPad.
Already have done. Ever counted up the percentage of functioning democracies in the UN General Assembly as opposed to the number of Juntas, Tin-Pot Dictatorships, Communist Dictatorships, Banana Republics, and Psychopathic Theocracies?
I'm glad you represented the US within that collection of types of governments.
Putting crap in would be an improvement over Seagate.
It's not. It's usually squad rush/conquest where it's 4v4.
I did a full system upgrade for BF3. The only thing that stayed constant between my last build and this build was using DDR3. I upgraded from SATA 3.0Gb/s to SATA 6.0Gb/s on the motherboard. My previous machine was still handling games just fine with a 8800 GTS. I nabbed a 570 this time around because they were offering a free copy of Arkham City with it. I'm not a graphics junkie. I get a good card and if something is a couple percent lesser than another option I go with whatever gives me the best perceived value. I keep going with nVidia because every card of theirs I've gotten came with a coupon or copy for a game that I wanted to play. That right there knocks $40-$60 off the price of the card for the purpose of comparing the price to other cards.
I don't trust Rank as a judge of skill.
#1 - It's still near launch so ranks aren't a good judgment. It's easy enough for someone to be a low rank but be a BF veteran and know how the game works.
#2 - I've seen something called the Nemesis exploit which features a group of 4 players, 2 per team the shoot and revive each other over and over. One YouTube video of this that I've seen showed them with over 8,000,000 points in a single match. It means that anyone I see at a high rank (I would say anything over Rank 27 is suspect) I wouldn't trust. I think the median rank is probably around 15 or so.
Battlefield is a team-oriented game. As such, one of the best ways for a less skilled player to play is to support a more skilled player. For example, say you're in my squad. I love tanks and I'm incredible with them but I often get screwed over by idiots in my gunner seat or being repair starved (I never play engineer). The gunner spot in tanks is optimized for an engineer. Spawn as an engineer get in the gunner seat. You provide anti-infantry support for the tanker and when it gets damaged you can hop out and repair the tank. On the plus side, you get points whenever I get a kill and vice versa. IFVs are in a similar light. Helicopters, strangely enough, are awesome with engineers as well. The transport helicopters typically have 6 seats with a pilot, 2 gunners, and 3 free positions. A pilot + 2 engineers in the gunner positions allows players to use the transport as a mobile spawn point that lets them parachute down into the action. Additionally the engineers can pop from gunner to a free spot and repair the helicopter midflight (so I've been told). This also can happen with the little bird helicopters. They are pilot + 2 free positions. The pilot gets the guns on that chopper.
Another way to be effective is to go Assault and tag along behind point men. Keep them fed with health and revive them when they die (once you unlock defibs). Flanking is king in this game so doing something simple yet boring like guarding the flanks of your allies is something that is uncommon and also potent. A lot of flankers move around and aren't looking for rear guards or flank guards and are much easier to pick off than the guys up where the fighting is thickest.
Battlefield, unlike John Rambo FPS games, rewards intellect. If you approach the battlefield tactically and think in those terms, you can make up for lack of skill in other areas.
A sniper does not need to use a bipod. It just helps a lot. Holding shift holds your breath and steadies your aim for a second or two. This is effective for a crouching sniper. I'm not certain of all the underbarrel attachments. Bipod may be best because it provides the stability as long as its deployed. That makes it much better for narrow pathways where you have maybe 1.5 seconds to respond to and shoot a target running from cover to cover. Laser sights are idiotic in my opinion. Flashlights not so much. It obscures your position from people looking at you but they know you're there. They can fire in the direction of your light and hope to hit you or know where you are to flank you if they can do so. I think thermal optic scopes negate flashlights, but I don't have any unlocked to test that.
On the other hand, as the US I will go assault and rack up the points reviving my idiot teammates who cluster on the steps.
I'll give you some pointers from my experience. Right now I heavily play Recon and Assault. I don't touch Engineer or Support right now.
As assault I use the first Assault weapon unlocked from MP Co-op. As Recon I used the Recon weapon unlocked from MP Co-op. This has actually gotten me accused of being a hacker because I was Rank 3 at a time I was using them and the idiot thought I was using weapons too advanced for my rank. One other thing to note is that as more and more players on a team start to operate by methods of warfare the efficacy of their action collectively increases.
With assault, I always weapon an optic scope and have a suppressor equipped. On rush my style is one where I will find a nest that is at a low to medium elevation (compared to the surrounding terrain) usually a decent distance ahead of the M-COM stations. I go prone, watch one of the common pathways, and wait. I shoot people as they pass by me. Last time I did this I went 8 kills before I was found out. So basically, I utilize the surrounding terrain in order to minimize my visual profile. There's a lot of stuff going on and picking out unmoving targets can be very difficult. It is, in essence, a version of Patton's idiom "Grab 'em by the nose and kick 'em in the pants." The M-COMs have the attackers attention (grabbed by the nose) and I'm kicking them in the pants (flanking action). The nice thing is that battlefield objectives tend to grab players by the nose, so flanking is a lot easier to pull off without coordination. On the other hand, guarding against flanking is almost non-existent. I have on numerous occasions been killed to flanks while trying to deny pathways to the defenders. In fact, that's one of the biggest things I do when playing recon is watching the flanks. I find that most objective areas are heavily crowded which reduces the number of sniping positions you can take to defend them. Flanks aren't as crowded and really open up the opportunities while more often than not denying enemy snipers the ability to target you without moving along the same flanks you're defending. I have many times held off multiple attackers trying to flank my team as a single recon. If I don't, they end up spotted so that teammate's are aware of them. All I can say is learn the classes and leverage the advantages within your kit and how your outfitted yourself. Flashlights are both a boon and a bust. They give away position but they also mask your position as well. It's difficult to frag someone with a flashlight that is on when they're facing you because you can't make them out. Laser sites are worse though. I laugh at snipers that use laser sights.
I hate some of the urban environments because of how painful taking certain objectives can be. Here's a slight overview of some maps I dislike.
Market/Bazaar: The alley control point on conquest is a bloody nightmare for an attacking force. Three players can effectively control that point and the only way to dislodge them is to use grenade to get them to flush out of their holes long enough that you can gain ground. This is partially offset by the fact that the other two control points are much easier to swap hands.
Metro: Metro is a nightmare. Each section of the map, except the first and last, on Rush is a nightmare to take over. Most times I see the attacks fail Rush at the 2nd set of M-COMs. Conquest is worse. It can be summed up as "US rushes to B and hopes they get it and establish a bridgehead." Every time I've played that map except once the PLC got B and the US lost. In such instances I end up sitting as medic and revive people for points as the get killed over and over trying to get B. I often end such matchs with something like 2 kills, 1 death, and around 4000-5000 points.
My biggest issues with BF3 are the same as with any other BF game. Idiots. Idiots make the game experience worse. Let me list the ways of idiots. Here's a hint, most of these deal with people looking out for themselves rather than the team.
1. John Rambos. These are the players t
Origin is annoying mostly because I hate the fact that it's there just for BF3 and will never be touched again. Battlelog is annoying in some rights but once I've gotten used to it I found I prefer having it over how I dealt with BF2 and BFBC2 for some things that I considered valuable. Battlelog contains significant amount of stat information that I love to see. I used to have to rely on 3rd party websites to see a lot of this information. Upcoming unlocks, what's needed to acquire them, etc. There's some things about how information that is presented that I don't like (the social network facebooky stuff is pointless) and there something that I would have liked to see in clarity rather than obfuscated through other means. A good example would be the 7 weapon unlocks that you gain from multiplayer coop. A display through the coop page that shows the unlocks specifically for that mode rather than showing only the next unlock in the coop display or forcing you to look through the next unlocks in the weapon's page would have been an improvement.
My complaints about Battlelog are mostly 'first impression' complaints. A lot of this is just due to the interface not being initially intuitive and odd behaviors. Launching out of it can sometimes be problematic My friends and I have had it launch to black screens before or crash from launching. I don't know if that's the game or the Battlelog client causing it. That said, since Battlelog is a web-interface it is remarkably easy to update without having to touch the game itself.
To address some of the complaints I've seen other than Battlelog.
Vehicles
Vehicles have always been a part of the Battlefield series. They have always sought to make the game a battlefield. Vehicles have been present in every conflict and they have always been decisive elements. They've made killing vehicles easier than the last game (Battlefield Bad Company 2) with the introduction of vehicle disabling. As you take damage the vehicle becomes progressively harder to control. Planes start losing rudder and elevator control. Tanks and other armored ground vehicles can't move any faster than a crawl. It was trivially easy in Bad Company 2 to snipe with a tank and when you take some hits back up behind cover, repair the vehicle, and then start firing again. Now if you get disabled you won't be able to get into cover easily so you either abandon the tank or sit and make a last stand attempting to take as many of the fuckers as possible with you.
Helicopter/Plane Controls
In my opinion, this is a problem with the type of controls you use. Helicopter and plane are remarkable using a joystick, mediocre with a keyboard only controls, and downright horrible when using a mouse+keyboard. Maybe I haven't adjusted my mouse for aerial flight but it's overly sensitive and remarkably easy to crash. I have to switch to keyboard only using the arrow keys + WASD for flight. It works pretty good and I'm a competent pilot in a helicopter. I don't crash. I can do decent evasive maneuvers with this method and I provide a relatively stable firing platform for gunners with me. It doesn't work for me in a plane but that may just be lack of exposure to the environment.
The performance difference between a 560 and 570 must be huge. I don't have any display issues running 1920x1080 on ultra settings except one issue with green flashes. However I think this is probably related to drivers more than anything. They don't impact the smoothness of the graphics at all.
Damn. Microsoft programmers also double as their legal staff? Here I thought they would have a staff lawyers hired specifically to handle their legal needs, such as issuing DMCA notices and suing other companies. The fact that their programmers are doing this is troubling.
So all the coins have the impression of the current living monarch. What's the policy for outdated coins when the good queen dies?
Is this method displayed on YouTube?
Do not underestimate the power of morons who see something they say is "Damn that is cool." especially if it involves danger. They will replicate it.
The n00b tube was a reference to the M2 Carl Gustav from Battlefield Bad Company 2. That thing was such a n00b tube that they ended up nerfing it.
Amazon's idea seems novel only in that it is applied to people you ostensibly like, rather than children or paupers...
As long as I can restrict the card to only allow purchases of AO oriented material from Amazon then I'm agreement with it.
I see you are attempted to create a holographic environment. Would you like some help?