RavenX

Can't wait to give it a shot. DL'ing the update now. If I feel up to snuff I'll try to let you know what I think. :)

IMO the ending was complete garbage and what they did with "Robin" was a crime. I did enjoy many of the nods to other Batman lore though and aside from the ending I liked the movie a lot. They used Bane for his main purpose, which is to break the bat. Him not having nor even mentioning his "venom" was a bit of a let-down, but, it gave him a more grounded feeling not to have it. Still, I just think the ending blows. They should of left him dead. I've heard from a reliable source I

The new 5.0 patch coming out looks SICK! IMO though Magic and Bow kill cams should have been there from the start. Still, it's a pretty decently sized update and content patch. I'm almost surprised this is part of a free patch and not attached to a DLC they'd want money for.

[quote who="LightofAbraxas" reply="28" id="3109000"] Which one? Because I'd actually be really happy if they went with turn & initiative based combat.[/quote] Turn and Initiative are both taken into account and used in the 2.5 edition rule set they used in Baldurs Gate. If they're really just updating the original game (and to me that's what they're advertising that they're doing), they'll stick with the original's rule set. I know the origina

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="23" id="3108982"]Why would they update it to an outdated system? That being said, I wish they would update it to 3rd edition...yes I just said it was outdated, but I liked that system...[/quote] 2.5 Edition Rules were the best D&D rules ever used. That's not an opinion, that's a widely known fact. :P [quote who="Malsqueek" reply="24" id="3108987"]Just so long as they stay the heck away from 4e ruleset. Don't need to see them t

WHOA!!!! Dude GREAT looking out on this. 2 days before my birthday too!!! The Wing Commander series was the first truly great space fighter sim. The fact that YOU actually changed the story with your actions and it was represented in the missions and how the war played out was amazing for it's time. Man I can't wait. Time to go buy a new flight stick.

[quote who="AragornV" reply="6" id="3108612"]"streamlining" "accessibility" "appealing to wider audience and new players"[/quote] Aka a corporate friendly way to say "We dumbed down the original to save money and because we know you're all stupid.". In reality though, they're making both BG 1&2 and the expansions as "Enhanced Editions" and supposedly many members of the team who made the original are adding new content. As long as they actually stay TRUE to th

[quote who="Jafo" reply="42" id="3103770"]Quoting RavenX, reply 33The first time a person cracked a whip the sound barrier broke. The whip cracking is actually the tip of the whip breaking the sound barrier. No kidding, Einstein. You just yet again shoot Yeager's 'accomplishment' in the foot. Think of me as your auntie... I know how to suck eggs.....[/quote] lol, I'll refrain from being a smart ass just this once but only because you left yo

[quote who="seanw3" reply="32" id="3103661"]As far as I knew, the laser defense system was accomplished on the ground and then put in the air. Is this not the case? I would bet that in 20 or so years they will have a laser small enough to fit on a fighter jet. Scrapping the behemoth model is probably a good idea.[/quote] Honestly I'm not %100 sure which one came first, Sean. I know when they tested knocking a dummy missile out of the sky with the

[quote who="Jafo" reply="31" id="3103656"]Quoting RavenX, reply 30Before Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947 most upstanding scientists said that man would Never brake the sound barrier. Then we did. I had a 1912 Lee Enfield 303 rifle..... the reason a rifle goes 'craaak' and a pistol goes 'bang' is the bullet in the rifle breaks the sound barrier....just around 2/3rds of the way down the barrel....there's two noises....detonation and sonic.

The main thing that I'm really stoked about with the Railgun isn't the fact that it's a weapon, but, it's where the technology behind it will lead us. Allow me to explain. Every Single Time man has shot something, be it a rock with a catapult, a arrow with a bow, or a bullet from a gun, EVENTUALLY man has figured out how to travel as fast as the projectile they can shoot. Proof? No problem. I'm doing this by memory without looking stuff up so cut me a li

[quote who="Philly0381" reply="25" id="3103595"]Well Raven, here is one weapon you won't be playing with, 'US Mothballs Airborne Laser Missile Defense Weapon'. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/us-mothballs-airborne-laser-missile-defense-weapon-15823642[/quote] Well that's just sad. I can see why they scrapped it though now that they have a land based laser capable of doing what that one did. I find it odd though that the article there seems to be f

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="15" id="3103553"]I'd say "It's impressive.", except that it'll be used to kill people (it'll probably kill some birds going through the air, as well). Not only that, noiselessly and without greenhouse gasses. Great. I noticed one thing, RavenX - those of us who have served in the armed forces and fought in a war aren't enthused about it. That could be because we're older, though. [/quote] Indeed my friend, you're v

[quote who="Philly0381" reply="10" id="3103526"]I take exception to the 'peacemongering hippies' label as I'm 63 and 30 of those years were spent in the Military and DoD, most of that time I could have indeed been a hippie but choose a different fork in the road. I think my thoughts or opinions are based upon a whole lot of experience, most of which I can't pass on to folks because I would have to............well you know. [/q

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="32" id="3103407"]I think the alien head is the default avatar for those who don't ...um...have an avatar? [/quote] I was kinda thinking that too but then I see some forum regulars with it too. That's probably it though you're right.

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="2" id="3103491"]Wish they'd put those efforts into a slug of health, decency, human caring, peace, humanity and dignity to be fired to an altitude where it would spread out all over the globe...[/quote] [quote who="Philly0381" reply="5" id="3103497"]Quoting DrJBHL, reply 2Wish they'd put those efforts into a slug of health, decency, human caring, peace, humanity and dignity to be fired to an altitude where it would spread out all over the globe...<br

Here's another video on YouTube. This one actually already set a WORLD RECORD. Electromagnetic Railgun World Record Shot on December 10, 2010 [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWHMIz-wTa4&feature=related[/video] BAE Systems, along with partners IAP Research and SAIC, participated in a record-setting shot measuring 33-megajoules (MJ) of muzzle energy set by the Office of Naval Research's (ONR) experimental Electromagnetic Railgun launcher on Decemb

If this isn't cool I don't know what is. I've known about this for a while and if you've watched certain shows on Discovery or the History Channel or even the Military Channel then you've probably known about it too. There's also one in Tranformers 2 the movie but of course that's just a sci-fi envisioning of the real thing, which is actually coming to a battleship near you real soon. I found this article in TheWeek.com. <a href="http://theweek.com/article/

[quote who="alaknebs" reply="18" id="3103000"]i read the article text... not sure why they refer to sniper, heavy, assault... just names.. or are troops categorised as such?[/quote] As far as I know, in the new one as soldiers gain exp and level up you'll be able to train them as certain roles for on the battlefield. Some times you'll probably need a specialized training to use certain types of weapons. This is actually pretty true to military standards. Not everyone knows how

[quote who="LNQ" reply="20" id="3103149"]I like everything except the "glam cam". That's some horrific shit that I hope can be turned off. I don't want to look through the barrel of the sniper at some mediocre 3D graphics every time I make a crit. One little thing that I really like a lot is that the nationality of the soldiers seems to be emphasized. Makes them become much more alive.[/quote] Same here on both. As far as the cam's going, basically it zooms in o

[quote who="onomastikon" reply="17" id="3102974"] Can you actually have different types of playthroughs depending on what kind of "base" you build (in other words: are there real choices to be made?), or is it more like just some random stuff you have to micro around for some quasi-RPG? If there is replayability in this, and it is SP instead of MP, and i can play it on my lame machine, then it sounds good.[/quote] It does actually matter how you build your bases in mos

Oh yeah, not to get off topic but what's with a whole bunch of people using the alien head as a forums avatar? Am I missing something I should be aware of?

Just to differentiate from one another and to be fair to the other schools of Magic, each school should have it's own, but equal, low level damage spell. I would suggest something that does 1-3 damage and only cost 1 or 2 mana. It was something that was somewhat lacking in Elemental as well. I often found that trying to take a sov into battle early on without an army backing him up would be suicide. Unfortunately though it's practically what you have to do for the first 10 or 20 turns

[quote who="shadowtongue" reply="7" id="3102388"]I hear ya Raven. I think this kind of game is my favorite, even over the slew of classic TBS out there. I think the greatest game possible for me would be to take the best systems out of XCom and JA and set them in a fantasy setting. ToEE is kinda a game that does that, and I love me some ToEE, but it's lacking the base building/research/production side of things. I'm not as on board with buying it just

[quote who="Krazikarl" reply="3" id="3101972"]I dont know how I feel about the UI being based on consoles. It seems like it would be really annoying in a game like this. I really hope that they don't do the classic move of making the UI for consoles and then doing a crappy job of porting it to the PC.[/quote] [quote who="shadowtongue" reply="4" id="3102247"]I've got really mixed feelings about this one. Though my info is 3rd hand, it appears they have dumbed