Posts by will2k

  • What have you purchased recently?

    After being an "Intel guy" for the past 20+ years since the "Intel 486DX" in the mid 90s, I finally made the switch to "Team Red" and got myself an AMD Ryzen CPU.

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    I wanted to build a new system earlier this year to upgrade from my aging PC (core i7/ 6GB RAM DDR3 / GTX 660Ti 2GB) but kept postponing due to other urgent life issues.

    I'm glad that I waited til now otherwise I would have been stuck with an overpriced Kaby Lake CPU (had my eye on the 7740X ) with an even more overpriced X299 motherboard.

    The AMD Zen architecture just came out at the right time 3 months ago to offer comparable performance at half the price.

    In my opinion, Intel has been slacking lately while prices were going up without actual competition to limit the price inflation.

    AMD is giving them now a run for their money (and outperforming them in many areas) and that's a really good thing for gamers and system builders for the money/value ratio.

    I was never tempted by AMD in the past 20+ years and always stuck with Intel CPUs (486DX, DX2, Pentium II, P4, Dual core, core 2 quad, core i7), but this Ryzen CPU is some serious shit :D

    I researched this issue for over a week before making the jump.

    I ended up building this:

    Ryzen 5 1600 3.2/3.6GHz CPU (6 cores, 12 threads, 65W, unlocked for overclocking) with an ASUS Prime B350 Plus board, 16 GB DDR4 2400MHz RAM, 240GB NVMe M.2 SSD (ridiculously fast), 2TB HDD (I even slapped my old 500GB HDD as a third HDD for extra storage), and a GTX1060 6GB to round things up nicely. I kept my 750W power supply and case from the old PC.

    System is smooth as butter and cool as ice (on stock cooling) :)

  • Games W.I.P Thread

    Quote from Castle

    10 hours ago, Castle said: At this rate I might as well have my own thread...

    Quote from [HP]

    6 hours ago, [HP] said: Always wondered why you didn't. This is some dope shot man, you should document it all in a thread for sure! :D

    We could always rename this thread to "Castle's WIP thread"

  • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

    Quote from Squad

    On 7/12/2017 at 9:46 AM, Squad said: I execute a cfg file to check out maps. It puts the roundtime at 60 minutes and gives unlimited ammo + a bunch of different grenades to try/check out grenade throws.

    // Key bindings developer 0 mp_solid_teammates 1 bot_kick mp_roundtime_defuse 60 mp_roundtime 60 mp_roundtime_hostage 60 mp_freezetime 0 ammo_grenade_limit_total 6 mp_ct_default_grenades "weapon_flashbang weapon_hegrenade weapon_smokegrenade weapon_incgrenade weapon_flashbang weapon_decoy"; mp_t_default_grenades "weapon_flashbang weapon_hegrenade weapon_smokegrenade weapon_incgrenade weapon_flashbang weapon_decoy"; sv_infinite_ammo 2 mp_restartgame 1 mp_warmup_end mp_buy_anywhere 1 mp_buytime 3600 mp_startmoney 16000

    Thanks :)

    I would maybe add sv_cheats 1 to this list so you could easily test commands that need cheats enabled (portals, occlusion, leafvis, wireframe...)

  • Games W.I.P Thread

    Quote from Castle

    9 hours ago, Castle said: I want to submit this project for a possible grant. This project started off with fairly casual intentions but is now my main focus as it is something I have always wanted to do.

    Any advice on how I might be able to promote / fund the project is very welcome.

    Over the last couple of years I have worked on various different Unreal Engine 4 Blueprint based projects. This is the first time I have got this far within this dev environment and I fully believe I can go the full distance this time around.

    Congratulations Castle, that's a big milestone today :)

    I see you are no longer associated with Digital Extremes and you chose the indie/solo path, dedicating all your time to this project (and maybe future ones); bold move and best of luck.

    As for funding, you have the obvious kickstarter or gofundme (not sure if applicable to creative arts).

    You could also check out the successor to steam greenlight (now defunct) called "steam direct" where you can probably publish the game, get some attention and hopefully ultimately land a publishing deal.

    In any case, you just accomplished a huge feat with this game from the grounds up; hats off :)

    I wish you again the best of luck.

  • What have you watched recently?

    13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

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  • de_scepter

    +1, Valve add this please

    Write +rep on my profile and I write back

    Click here for free code of 2000$ skin

    I'm pretty sure I missed something up there :)

    Congratulations on this release, and as everyone has said before, map is looking visually awesome and clean; well done.


    Manipulation and massive bot down-votes are sadly not surprising; the workshop, and by extension Valve, is a lost cause and a shining example of incompetence, and lack of accountability/responsibility. And they get away with this because of them being a monopoly without a decent competitor that forces them to improve for fear of losing market share and customer goodwill.

    Anyway, congrats again on finishing this big project and here's to more ambitious ones in the future :)

  • What movie is this?

    Quote from Sprony

    On 7/9/2017 at 1:02 PM, Sprony said: You are not supposed to check the links!

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    [Blocked Image: https://memecrunch.com/meme/ALB19/i-do-what-i-want-goat/image.png?w=400&c=1]


    But seriously, it would be better to have "unmarked" images like from imgur where the photo is something like 12xb6t.jpg (or upload thru mapcore with modified name jpg)

    Having a screenshot with a link like url/moviename.jpg takes away all the fun of this thread :D

    About the new image, is it Cleopatra? long shot but still :P

  • What movie is this?

    Quote from Sprony

    1 hour ago, Sprony said: Ok, I'll give you guys a easy one:

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    Rick Grimes, the pre-Walking Dead years

    That's Kevin Costner, somewhere in the 80s, right? can't think of any movie now though

    EDIT: Sprony, you gave the movie away in the screenshot link - Field of Dreams

  • How to build CUBEMAPS for CS:GO in 2017 [HELP]

    Quote from JorisCeoen

    10 hours ago, JorisCeoen said: what do we do first, packing or building cubemaps? Please, someone take me out of my misery.

    Send a support ticket to Valve and you should get the answer and solution within minutes.


    Well, it should be simple, straightforward process.

    You compile the map, build cubemaps (after each compile), then pack custom assets/radar/kv... and save bsp. That's it :)

    Manual deletion of texture files inside the bsp then building cubemaps with specular off was a workaround for steampipe tiles (CSS, HL2DM, DODS...); CSGO never needed this.

    Quote from Vaya

    26 minutes ago, Vaya said: Pakrat is some 90s bullshit.

    How dare you, sir

    Pakrat works perfectly fine; I still use it without a problem.

  • The Steam Sale Thread

    I haven't bought anything on Steam for over a year now (skipped summer sale 2016 and winter sale 2016), opting for "trying" to play and finish my steam backlog of games; so far it's working :)

    This sale I decided to get only 2 DLCs

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    Substance Designer will have to wait, maybe for further drop in price