Recent content by SleetAndHaze

Thank you very much for your swift answers. And yes, it is x16 PCI Express (not just PCI, sorry for that ommission) and fit a single 8800GTS that needed PCI-e x16 just fine (never played with SLI). I have gone back and edited the initial post to correct the PCI/PCI-e issue. It has just...

After a couple years of serving me well, my EVGA 8800GTS 640mb has finally given out. I'm now going to be upgrading and looking toward either a GTX 260 or 275 (leaning toward the 275, possibly this one or this one, the preformance for cost strikes me well). My motherboard though is an ASUS...

It looks like the absurd dominated their list, mostly. Ecco the Dolphin had an awesome cover, I've always thought. http://www.zonesega.com/covers/megadrive/Ecco%20the%20Dolphin%20%5BUSA%5D.jpg And it was a cool game too.

The final UEF mission is tough. I wound up setting up a dead-line about halfway through the map and literally nuking that same area to catch the Experimentals before they got to my more valuable assets. It was pretty desperate, but I loaded up on nukes earlier in the mission, so made...

I don't hypothetically mind in game advertisements, particularly if they help allow for more free content. What drove me crazy recently was Battlefield 2142 (as if that hasn't been discussed enough, I know). I was just very frustrated, not by the presence of the ads, but rather that the game...

Man, Ravenholm. One of my most memorable gaming moments happened there. A part there, when some of the hyper zombies that can climb walls showed up. Heard them coming, ran for the nearest door, went inside, and closed it. Backed away from the door with the shotgun ready to dispatch with them...

Luthien (Luthien Tunieval) is the name of the elven princess in the story Aragorn tells (or rather sings) to the Hobbits on their way to Rivendell. The name comes up a couple times in the books because in the story, Luthien eventually wedded Beren, a mortal, after he embarked on a great task to...

To be fair, the Clark RDX isn't all that good. It basically is a modified Clark for Support that has a clip of four explosive rounds. They fire at a pretty heavy arc (you have to aim pretty high to hit people at moderate distances), they also kind of spread a bit. After they hit something...

The Northern Strike upgrades should be available through Field Upgrades. I don't find too many of them all that useful, except for the Squad Leader one and the Clark RDX (which isn't all that great, but it's something for the Clark). The thing that I really do like about the patch is the...

Blakestr, I agree about that, that in the future developers may have just libraries of objects to pool from, or contract out specialist companies to do just that, while the developers focus on the game. Similar to what they do in Hollywood, with prop companies. Ten years ago that would sound...

The Cybran's tactical missles do about 6,000 damage a hit, and the MonkeyLord Spiderbot has 60,000 hit points. By those numbers it should take 10 hits from the tactical missiles, however the Spiderbots appear to have a very small, but constant, regeneration rate (less than 10 hit points a...

J-Mag, no, I didn't try to use tactical missiles against the Spiderbots. I've only used them against stationary targets (random pieces of infrastructure, stationary ships, etc.). They do a ton of damage though from what I have used them on. Are tactical missiles effective at hitting moving...

When Uncanny Valley is applied to video games, it usually just means the point at which things look real enough to be creepy, but not real enough to be able to actually fool you into thinking it's real (or real enough). Gamespot had an interesting article on it a few months back, here...

What bugs me more than the prices is the size. Basically all technology progresses by getting smaller and faster. You don't see the processors enveloping motherboards these days, but the GPU's just seem to be getting bigger, I'm really right now hoping it stops, if only so that a year and a...

That's a really organized base, CodeX. My bases are like they are in most strategy games in Supreme Commander--sprawling, with an almost random layout (I only really take care in placing my factories and defenses, otherwise I put things where there is room). On the map in the demo, my base...