play through the singleplayer versions of either ut or quake3. if you can get through all of those levels without cheating, you've got all of the skillz that you need to defend yourself.
my online play improved quite a bit when i picked up the nostromo n50 (which i just replaced with the new n52). not to sound like a shill or anything, but this thing is amazing - and i've gone on to buy one for most of my friends over the past year.
it's essentially a small usb keyboard that has a d-pad by your thumb. the d-pad is super useful for some of the weird buttons that you have to mash at all of the worst times (jump, crouch, reload, etc). usually, you wind up moving your fingers off of the home keys when hitting those, which makes it a bit hard to move. by moving these to your thumb, you can crouch behind a wall, popup for a shot, crouch, move left, then pop up in a different place - which should help you keep your head on your shoulders.
the newer one is a big improvement - it's heavier, has more keys, and fits better with my hand.
also - one other thing (totally unrelated). when setting up your 'puter, pay close attention to the sound settings. i've found that i've had more crash issues because of weird sound issues than anything else. once i got 'em all happy and squared away, my fps went up a bit and my overall experience wasn't marred with system lockups. ugh.
oh yeah... to answer your question, i'm all over bf1942 - and desert combat. it's a bit slower than the tourney games out there (which just feel like twitch-fests) and really relies on good teamwork over playing tasty-taste from 'fear of a black hat' (just spray the area!). i'm all over it.
to be honest, though, poor acting defines the starwars flicks, right? i mean, come on... check out mark, er, luke's 'acting' in the first three. whew...
it'll be harder to detect for his hardware, though, if he's using old apple logic boards, cpus, etc. basically, it'll just look like an old g4, i'd think.
since i could easily run a pretty decent server off of an old g4/450 and x, i can see where a bunch of these could come in handy. he's certainly filling a void.... here's hoping that the project actually comes out and doesn't get bogged down in rl or, more likely, foxed.
i've found that you can go into/Utilities/Directory Access and configure the SMB entry, but, for whatever reason, the macs on my domain elect themselves the domain controller and cannot see any machines on the domain. it's pretty annoying.
doing an smb://machinename/ works just fine (thank goodness 10.2 keeps us from having to announce the share on that line anymore), but it's lame that i can't browse the network.
that said, 10.2 works just fine on my simple workgroup based network at home.
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oh yeah... another tip:
play through the singleplayer versions of either ut or quake3. if you can get through all of those levels without cheating, you've got all of the skillz that you need to defend yourself.
t
my online play improved quite a bit when i picked up the nostromo n50 (which i just replaced with the new n52). not to sound like a shill or anything, but this thing is amazing - and i've gone on to buy one for most of my friends over the past year.
it's essentially a small usb keyboard that has a d-pad by your thumb. the d-pad is super useful for some of the weird buttons that you have to mash at all of the worst times (jump, crouch, reload, etc). usually, you wind up moving your fingers off of the home keys when hitting those, which makes it a bit hard to move. by moving these to your thumb, you can crouch behind a wall, popup for a shot, crouch, move left, then pop up in a different place - which should help you keep your head on your shoulders.
the newer one is a big improvement - it's heavier, has more keys, and fits better with my hand.
also - one other thing (totally unrelated). when setting up your 'puter, pay close attention to the sound settings. i've found that i've had more crash issues because of weird sound issues than anything else. once i got 'em all happy and squared away, my fps went up a bit and my overall experience wasn't marred with system lockups. ugh.
oh yeah... to answer your question, i'm all over bf1942 - and desert combat. it's a bit slower than the tourney games out there (which just feel like twitch-fests) and really relies on good teamwork over playing tasty-taste from 'fear of a black hat' (just spray the area!). i'm all over it.
enjoy!
now he'll have to put up /another/ page talking about the 'power of slashdot'. let's all point at sco or something instead.
:)
oh wait... all of those windows boxes already did
t
to be honest, though, poor acting defines the starwars flicks, right? i mean, come on... check out mark, er, luke's 'acting' in the first three. whew...
...compusa meant that it was 99% silver - the /color/.
thank you, thank you. i'll be here all night. tip your wait staff.
i needed an excuse to learn how to write code in actionscript2, so here goes:
word scramble in flash7
such fun!
enjoy.
bset,
t
it'll be harder to detect for his hardware, though, if he's using old apple logic boards, cpus, etc. basically, it'll just look like an old g4, i'd think.
since i could easily run a pretty decent server off of an old g4/450 and x, i can see where a bunch of these could come in handy. he's certainly filling a void.... here's hoping that the project actually comes out and doesn't get bogged down in rl or, more likely, foxed.
fingers are crossed.
...you wear the vapor (after standing in line to get it).
sorry... i couldn't resist...
t
...and it sounds better than itunes to boot. ogg files work just fine in audion out of the box and visualizations actually work.
couple that with the fact that you can create a playlist with folders and you've got yourself an itunes killer.
www.panic.com/audion
i've found that you can go into /Utilities/Directory Access and configure the SMB entry, but, for whatever reason, the macs on my domain elect themselves the domain controller and cannot see any machines on the domain. it's pretty annoying.
doing an smb://machinename/ works just fine (thank goodness 10.2 keeps us from having to announce the share on that line anymore), but it's lame that i can't browse the network.
that said, 10.2 works just fine on my simple workgroup based network at home.
Otherwise, that was funny.... t