By the time he gets back home his family will have aged 20 years. It actually may be the closest we get to time travel as well (want to see the future? just hybernate for 100 years).
You need to collect PDAs and read the emails and audio logs to get clues on what to do. You need to listen to your radio to get your orders
if you dont read the logs and dont follow orders, does the "storyline" change?
after the first few objectives, when i noticed it started getting repetitive, i had a flashback of James Cameron's Aliens, where one of the marines flatly says "it's a bug hunt".
i'm not too far into the game, due to only having solved a recurring lockup problem at alpha labs, but it seems to me that the game would be much better if, instead of having mostly just a single pathway from A to B, there had been multiple pathways to choose from, each with different enemies or strategies for going across it. For example, if you are low on ammo, go through the vents, or if you're loaded to the gills with grenades, go through the spider infested area...
if you couple that with a few triggers that make it impossible to go back once you've crossed a certain point, then it adds replay value by having you try different routes each time you play.
the few hours I played last night were smooth... I didn't benchmark it, but from the looks of it it wasn't choppy and there wasnt any lag... I'll up the quality this evening and see what happens.
The main concern for me was eliminating the lockups.
I haven't seen much complaints in here so far, but it seems like a lot of people with Radeons (me included) complain about intermittent graphic lockups and freezes...
I started having those problems after the first few objectives, starting in Alpha Labs.
After trying all the obvious solutions (updating drivers for various hardware, trying the different sound settings in dxdiag, etc.), I found that turning AGP completely off makes the game stop freezing.
Hope this helps any of you, because I was just about to throw the Doom3 CDs out the window when I found the solution.
I feel I have to make a somewhat geek retort to this...
A while ago, scientists doing genetic research for the Israeli Government (IG) found hard proof that Jews and Arabs are basically the same people at the genetic level. The IG suppressed the findings, which were some time later published in Europe.
So, uh, who's out killing "Jews/Arabs" again? Bet you could draw parallels between the current situation in the Middle East and the Dead Kennedys song "Kill the Poor".
speaking of which, if any Russian officials are reading this, I'm available to fake any lunar circumnavigation for publicity purposes, for a fair amount of money and fame.
This past winter, I bought a store demo 21" NEC monitor at Futureshop.
Two weeks later, a problem developped with it, something with the red beam or whatever, which caused the monitor to saturate the picture in blue.
I bring it back to the store, and they say no exchange because it's our last one, and we'll call you when it's repaired.
A couple of weeks later they call back and I go pick it up.
The guy gets my receipt and goes to the back. 20 minutes later he comes back with a 14" Panasonic LCD monitor.
WTF dude?! It's supposed to be a 21" CRT. "Oh yea, uh, I'll be right back".
20 minutes later, he comes back with a cardboard box that could've held two 21" CRTs. I look inside and there's my CRT sitting without any packing material whatsoever at the bottom of the box.
I sign the papers, and since the box obviously wont fit in the car, I take the monitor out.
I immediately notice the base is dangling, so I put it on the counter on the side.
All the hook tabs of the base were broken, and two bolts or screws had been drilled through it and into the monitor's underside.
And a huge dent was evident on one of the lower edges of the monitor.
So I look at the guy and said "is this how you repair your products?!"
I asked for a refund, and he was denying responsibility until I demanded to see the manager... 30 minutes of argument, and then he agreed to a refund.
Maybe I should've taken off with the Panasonic LCD...
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At least he didnt mispell "Harry Fuecks".
that's exactly what i suspected... changing my mobo is a pain in the arse tho, so it's pretty low on the totem pole at the mo.
there might still be some jobs working with legacy systems... ;)
By the time he gets back home his family will have aged 20 years. It actually may be the closest we get to time travel as well (want to see the future? just hybernate for 100 years).
I don't think hibernation prevents aging...
besides my radeon 9800 pro 128, I have a Via KT400 mobo with an Athlon XP2800+ processor.
there's tons of possible hardware combinations out there, you know
You need to collect PDAs and read the emails and audio logs to get clues on what to do. You need to listen to your radio to get your orders
if you dont read the logs and dont follow orders, does the "storyline" change?
after the first few objectives, when i noticed it started getting repetitive, i had a flashback of James Cameron's Aliens, where one of the marines flatly says "it's a bug hunt".
i'm not too far into the game, due to only having solved a recurring lockup problem at alpha labs, but it seems to me that the game would be much better if, instead of having mostly just a single pathway from A to B, there had been multiple pathways to choose from, each with different enemies or strategies for going across it. For example, if you are low on ammo, go through the vents, or if you're loaded to the gills with grenades, go through the spider infested area...
if you couple that with a few triggers that make it impossible to go back once you've crossed a certain point, then it adds replay value by having you try different routes each time you play.
the few hours I played last night were smooth... I didn't benchmark it, but from the looks of it it wasn't choppy and there wasnt any lag... I'll up the quality this evening and see what happens.
The main concern for me was eliminating the lockups.
I haven't seen much complaints in here so far, but it seems like a lot of people with Radeons (me included) complain about intermittent graphic lockups and freezes...
I started having those problems after the first few objectives, starting in Alpha Labs.
After trying all the obvious solutions (updating drivers for various hardware, trying the different sound settings in dxdiag, etc.), I found that turning AGP completely off makes the game stop freezing.
Hope this helps any of you, because I was just about to throw the Doom3 CDs out the window when I found the solution.
I work in a Faraday Cage, you insensitive cl... err... you insightful... uh...
I feel I have to make a somewhat geek retort to this...
A while ago, scientists doing genetic research for the Israeli Government (IG) found hard proof that Jews and Arabs are basically the same people at the genetic level. The IG suppressed the findings, which were some time later published in Europe.
So, uh, who's out killing "Jews/Arabs" again? Bet you could draw parallels between the current situation in the Middle East and the Dead Kennedys song "Kill the Poor".
You sound like the Apollo-fakers...
speaking of which, if any Russian officials are reading this, I'm available to fake any lunar circumnavigation for publicity purposes, for a fair amount of money and fame.
thank you.
I'll never understand why science writers always clutter up their articles with crap like that turtle in the story.
;)
that's because the magazine is Popular Science, and not Hardcore, Adless, Emotionless & Subject-Verb-Object-Only-Sentences Science.
how many RGB LED clusters would we need to make a giant screen like that?
circa 1995
I still play Subspace, which you can download among other places at www.subspacechaos.com
There's still plenty of people who play in the various zones, but I'm sure the current population wouldnt mind getting a noob or two thousand.
Sysadmins are Internet plumbers!
oh dear god, please never let me see any sysadmin's buttcrack.
I'm getting one for sure!
Then I'll be heading to Lake Tahoe to discover whether or not the legends are true...
when I was in highschool, there was another kid that had such a valve...
when people who didn't know him started asking about the ticking noise, he said it was his watch.
the joke was, being a geek, he wore a digital calculator watch.
Now when you cut a major artery, you'll die much more quickly
Just like in those cheesy martial arts movies!
Reality is finally catching up with fiction...
I thought legal death was when the brain ceases to have any activity...
I think audiobooks are going to go mainstream before ebooks. They already have a better market share, with large sections in bookstores.
Sure they're not the same medium, but it's the story that counts, right?
They're also convenient to have in places/activities where reading a book is not possible...
Next time I take a long flight, I'm loading up on audiobooks, so I can put on my earphones, close my eyes and ignore the rest of the plane cabin.
selling that movie to hollywood...
it could even help Rob Schneider get his career back in high gear...
but then again, maybe not.
Looks like Slashdot put the smack down on linuxdevices.com
Any mirrors?
so a judge should order Creative to actually produce a FPS game? that'd be good for a laugh I'm sure.
This past winter, I bought a store demo 21" NEC monitor at Futureshop.
Two weeks later, a problem developped with it, something with the red beam or whatever, which caused the monitor to saturate the picture in blue.
I bring it back to the store, and they say no exchange because it's our last one, and we'll call you when it's repaired.
A couple of weeks later they call back and I go pick it up.
The guy gets my receipt and goes to the back. 20 minutes later he comes back with a 14" Panasonic LCD monitor.
WTF dude?! It's supposed to be a 21" CRT. "Oh yea, uh, I'll be right back".
20 minutes later, he comes back with a cardboard box that could've held two 21" CRTs. I look inside and there's my CRT sitting without any packing material whatsoever at the bottom of the box.
I sign the papers, and since the box obviously wont fit in the car, I take the monitor out.
I immediately notice the base is dangling, so I put it on the counter on the side.
All the hook tabs of the base were broken, and two bolts or screws had been drilled through it and into the monitor's underside.
And a huge dent was evident on one of the lower edges of the monitor.
So I look at the guy and said "is this how you repair your products?!"
I asked for a refund, and he was denying responsibility until I demanded to see the manager... 30 minutes of argument, and then he agreed to a refund.
Maybe I should've taken off with the Panasonic LCD...
you mean the Nazis?
Ein Volk
Ein Reich
Ein Fuhrer