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Which is why there's been development of canister rounds and the gradual replacement of current stocks of the M-830 HEAT rounds with the M-830A1 MPAT, which has a proximity fuse giving it an airburst capability (which can also be used against helicopters in a pinch). My US Army tanker contact has relayed to me that there is some reservation in the brass to have the entire prospective M1A3 fleet use a license-built version of the German Rheinmetall L/55 (the Abrams currently uses a variation of the Rheinmetall L/44 that is equipped ba all Leopard 2s up to the -A5 model), as a longer gun means it will be harder to manuever in tight streets. Nils "Ssnake" Hinrichsen of the Steel Beasts team had this to say about the tanks becoming obsolete, though as a former tanker for the Bundeswehr and treadhead, his viewpoint might be a bit biased: Also for those interested, the second FREMM frigate for the French Navy has been commissioned. The name: "Normandie". A video of its shakedown cruise:

The Soviet concept of the tank was closer to assault gun than tank destroyer as other armies (i.e. those who would be on the other side of Soviet tanks) considered them. This is reflected by the fact that Soviet tanks in the Cold War-era carried an even proportion of anti-personnel, HEAT, and kinetic-energy penetrator rounds where their counterparts in the same period who were guarding the North German Plain, the Fulda Gap, and the Danube Line generally carried 2/3 sabot and 1/3 HEAT or multi-purpose warheads.

My dad, an Angeleno through and through and hater of all things New York (his experience with the city was not totally unlike Homer Simpson's), could not contain his giddyness.

Though China and Russia can form tactical alliances as counter-balances to the US in East Asia, they are regional adversaries in regards to Central Asia. I'd go as far as to say Russia's re-armament programs are as much about China as they are about NATO. Also if a deal with Iran is reached and sanctions lifted and if the US opts to release their own oil and gas production for export, energy may well become a buyer's market and Putin's energy strategy undone. These eventualities are not necessarily very likely, but that doesn't change the fact that it's within Obama's capabilities and Russia has the most to lose if Putin pushes his luck.

The one I had an issue with turned out to be one of those "D'oh, are you kidding me?" ones after I finally broke down and looked up a youtube video of it online. It was one of the ctOS breaches in Brandon Docks, where to access the one that was giving me trouble, you had to go to a lift that was sitting by itself diagonally from the building where the machine was you had to hack, climb into the lift and let it take you to the very top, so you could access a camera up on a roof that you couldn't access from the ground, then use that camera to hack the device. The other three devices for that breach were pretty easy. After finally completing that one, I finished off all 16 ctos breaches. Now I'm onto the convoys and fixer contracts. I loath the fixer contracts that require you to shake pursuers, largely because it seems even when you get away from one set, they start searching for you again while you're making your way to the designated "finish" point, and have to do it all over again. I also loathe how unerringly dogged and prescient those ctos scans are, as well as police's nitrous-boosted SUVs that are somehow able to keep up with me on a crotch-rocket. Being able to outrun anything on the streets should be well worth the risk of a wrong move causing Aiden being propelled 120 meters headlong over the handlebars into the pavement/traffic light pole/back of a truck/etc.

I switched between the two camera views plenty. For purposes of navigation I found the "Quarterback" view superior, but for placing large AOE spells I had to use the "top-down" view.

Aside from the "Combat Jack," my favourite bit was them spontaneously yelling at the top of their lungs.

R6 was released a year before CS, but it was'nt a fastpaced multiplayer gunning game. It was slow and methodical and had a well developed single player campaign. The similarities lie in counter terrorism and that they involve guns, and that's it. And a female Swedish Electronics expert. ...of which unfortunately her only usefulness was in two of the most infuriating missions in the whole game Do kind of miss the intrigue of the older Rainbow Six games. Before you were re-taking oil rigs from eco-terrorists, securing nuclear materials stolen by the Mafiya, and foiling a bank-heist by far-right paramilitaries. By the way, I would recommend Raven Shield 2.0 for those feeling nostalgic for the franchise. Among the best additions of this mod was improved teammate AI and trigger discipline, which means your AI teammates aren't as likely to put the kaibosh on your most well-plotted plans.

As whenever I play party-based cRPGs my first toon is almost always a mage, the lack of the zoom out camera was among the very first things I noticed.

I think you can already see small chunks of it in one of the demos, probably IGN's in fact. Very little, but it looks like it's running on a xbone. For it the be available on the XBone and not on the PC which lends itself far better to "strategic view" battle management would seem real backasswards to me.

Though this was informed from the last time Bioware had an in-depth demo of Inquisition, I was massively disappointed when they took the Mass Effect direction of making magic powers only affect enemies once a "shield" layer was stripped from them. Sure magic may have been a game-breaker in previous iterations, but it strikes me as an incredibly lazy way of re-balancing it.

Well who would have guessed that would be a possible party member in Dragon Age: Origins? Dare to dream, my friend.

Snazzy (if somewhat simplified) CGI demo of LockMart's Missile and Fire Control Systems: Though the change in music was... abrupt.

A feat accomplished by an acquaintance of mine on the Task Force 1776 Domination server for ArmA 2: http://youtu.be/MO-wHkLLN0Q?t=2m26s

Unless you are so morally opposed to such a thing as using game guides, I believe on the Mass Effect wiki there was a (frighteningly) exhaustive guide to getting specific combinations of people killed on ME2.

I wouldn't necessarily say Google and Apple bat a thousand with their products, but there's no denying how powerful their marketing approach is.

'till somebody shows up with an M2 Bradley :D

And this is why 7 year old me quit Karate. I wanted to learn self-defence, not a glorified dance routine. "In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes." -Bruce Lee

"Hey guys. I think we should go back to our old pin and spoon grenades. Vigilante black hats hacking into our new networked grenades and prematurely sending us into the company of forty virgins was not a problem we had with the old grenades."

LOL, one single measly dime. Can I send it to them in the mail? As I said the problem is that most pirates haven't got any money to give, ie. they are under someone else care or broke. Sure. And if you're so worried about it being traced back to you, send a pre-paid debit card in an envelope with no return address. Believe it or not, those pirates can live without the luxury of playing games, insomuch that I can live without the luxury of dining on lobster and prime rib every day. And hundreds of millions of people around the world manage to live fufilling lives without playing video games too. Hell, if they wait they can even get it at prices far easier on their wallets.

Pirated game =/= lost sales! Lost sale or no, one is still sending a message to the developers for playing their full game without paying for it without their express permission: "The hard work you guys put into making this game is not worth one single measley dime from me."

^ Don't know if you guys have noticed, but for a whole lot of the developers you know and love the livelihoods of the designers, artists, and engineers hang on a thread. Sure the lay-offs that happen once a AAA game is released is the result of poor and abusive business practices on the part of publishers*, but at least resolve to not add to the problem. *I have always held that the industry should not be so hasty to push the development of new tech (which is one of the biggest multipliers on the cost of development, before marketing, obv) until the costs of game development corresponds to a state in which the studios are nearly guaranteed to remain in financial good standing (if said studio had competent people in it).

Constructive criticism Hassat, but I think I would have preferred it on the Droid Planet that you simply used the generic, non-intelligible *beep*boop*beep*s for all the droid characters (or make new ones if even more variety is needed). I can't say that your voice actors have awful acting skills or that they're voices are grating, but the gain levels for the audio files and unimpressive direction sort of takes me out of it. I will say that the splicing of the existing voice acting is at least tolerable.

Could not help but notice that TrueNeutra's post count isn't all that high for the time he's been here... Guess it proves the adage "The less you speak, the more you hear."

On the Second World War, the Battle of Midway is happening on World War II on Twitter as we speak: https://mobile.twitter.com/RealTimeWWII