Posts by blackdog

More stuff is coming out:

I have always wanted to make/see CS/DoD maps where civilians would make an appearance and like take cover before action begins to liven up the map a bit

Is not the .ro the problem, more suspicious is "girlshare"... also the screen wasn't linked properly.

Also there is this thing called the Valve developer network where you find lots of guides: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Leak there are loads of videos on youtube.

We learned this ourselves, when there weren't really good guides so, as you have seen, you have managed yourself. You should be happy instead of sour.

Also this is a topic for the 3D forum I believe @FMPONE @[HP]

ComicCon is ongoing so trailers for everything are dropping. Season 9 trailer is here and is extremely long, feels like there could be material from the whole season, and generally that with all this faction confrontation the pacing could be faster than last 2 seasons:

I don't understand why there's not an official AMC trailer out...

Anyway most people are now critical towards the show, I have my complaints as well, but also too curious to see what happens so will watch this once again. Also there have been rumours of Lincoln/Rick and Cohen/Maggie are leaving the show halfway through/will be present only in a third of the episodes this season, and regarding Lincoln has been confirmed by Kirkman, so I can at least get to the end of S9 and consider it a wrap for me eventually.

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Also a trailer for second half of Fear the Walking Dead was released. episodes coming early August:

I'm waiting for the whole season to become available on Prime Video and catch up. S1 was a bit bland, S2 all over the place (imo) but S3 was made more consistent. I'm just wondering if they can make all these characters work in S4, there's lots of new characters and feels like they are propping FTWD to compensate for TWD, and maybe just dipping their feet to see what people like the most and eventually revolutionise around a new group of characters... I mean they got some bigger names/very known TV faces for S4.

Quote from Squad

3 hours ago, Squad said: I thought that's the color for interior areas?

As reported here, no.

Quote from FMPONE

16 hours ago, FMPONE said: I think that's probably just a consequence of it being a somewhat new idea, and consistency while nice doesn't have to be that rigid.

I wonder if it is based on actual "Hammer elevation", using the vertical midplane as a reference point. Anyway,despite not fully convinced, I haven't had any problems playing since the update so at least is not detrimental.

There are some rumours of Valve at Gamescom, but it is not

I know this is the Cinderella brand of superheroes right now, but they keep pushing out stuff. The new Titans show might be worth...

The problematic thing is that DC is launching a streaming service* of their own and this serie should headline there. So I wonder if they will still have agreements with Netflix/Amazon/NowTV.

*(for once they would be ahead of Marvel/Disney as it seems Disney will have an in-house streaming service of all their brands)

Quote from FMPONE

On 7/18/2018 at 12:06 AM, FMPONE said: Last but not least, the Panorama radar. Really think these illustrate the differences between maps in a great way, think they're extremely cool. In a game like Counter-Strike, where elevation makes a huge difference, it's really important that we can now make that clearer to players before they play the level.

Well first of all grats for keeping improving the map. I haven't played it on servers, but do look cleaner now and I think for the better, it was nice the feeling of throwback to 1.6 in terms of grungy looks, but I think you are still capturing it, improving the visuals. I will most certainly have a run around the updated version because is not very clear to me what you have explained in terms of layout, by that I mean that it feels like if T decide to attack A, they have to commit a lot to it, or that there's too many ways in. (I'm sure is not that way tho ;))

I'm quoting this bit because I do like the new radar in terms of aesthetics, but I'm still not sold completely on the whole thing. What I highlighted: that is true, but honestly I don't think the overview map gives a great idea. It just tells me in a certain area two level overlap... I think is pretty much like 3kilks was saying in his video, you still have to rely on your in-game experience to understand what it means for those areas to be stacked.

The other reason I'm not completely sold is the colour coding; I do like the heightmap idea, but I find the presentation inconsistent between maps: one overview like Inferno/Cache feel much darker of say Dust2; is like if somehow the colour coding is absolute, I'm talking like "this is the ideal sea level and this map is X height in our world, this other is higher/lower". How is Library grey in Inferno when it feels it is only 3 steps (32 units or so) higher than basic floor level.

Just a heads up that Green Man Gaming has started their summer sale if you want to check it out, they have different deals every day apparently

https://www.greenmangaming.com/summer-sale/

Cheers

also

Another success for Simon, as another novel is going to be adapted into a TV show by Amazon! Considering they have produced some pretty high quality TV shows it is something to look forward positively

https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/a…oop-1202875431/

Quote from Squad

12 hours ago, Squad said: The reason the core of SK/MiBR moved to NA in the first place is practice opportunities. There are not enough tier 1 teams in Brasil (if any? I guess Luminosity is NA based as well?).

I get that, but then, can you call it Brazilian team? If they had to qualify for a Major, would they compete against NA or SA teams?

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Speaking of the game more in general tho, Panorama UI... what you guys think of the new radar style? I'm not sure I'm convinced, maybe is just getting used. Inferno is very dark for example. I'm not sure to understand the logic behind switching the decoy behaviour.

Sounds like there was more diving at this competition than a swimming contest. It's the comment I've read the most!

If you can't beat them, join them?

Tarik leaves C9 to join Stewie in MIBR. It's quite funny that you spend so much money to build a nation-specific brand, to toss all of it in the trash and replace players. It also gives me the chuckles that what is supposed to be a Brazilian team lives and practices in the US. Now that there are also American players, how is that not an NA team? Shouldn't this be taken into account in the scheme of things when granting spots for Major, deciding which brackets the team play in Minors? Or maybe I just don't have the specifics down right?

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On 7/12/2018 at 2:16 PM, Pivac said: Who would've thought we would make it to the finals, incredible. People were going crazy here last night

There’s a “reverse-zoom” meme going on for the final

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Italians deffo supporting Croatia, they mostly have beef with France lol.

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just saw on google that England lost 2-0 to Belgium. They didn’t care anymore or just great game by the Belgians?

It’s a but weird something so noticeable is not spotted while being pushed, so it can come across as damage control, but if I’m the end is not there, that’s what counts.

Sounds like the game is losing its identity. I can see the criticism if this journalist and I would agree with him, the spotting system sounds terrible... I understand it can be super frustrating to spot people in such a realistic environment, but I mean, that's the game you are creating. Sounds like they are changing it to be more COD as possible

On a different note: the snow omg, is the most realistic I've ever seen in a game

New trailer

Says it’s good

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/07/castle…ing-1201982940/

waiting to find out who’s gonna Air it in UK, 11/22/63 was on Amazon if I remember correctly, and that was Hulu as well