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PM Potion#9. He was also doing crap like that when he was my roommate.
Warning: PM Potion#9 about coding or hacking at your own risk. He’ll expect you to be familiar with Linux.
No one has access to it. Liam had to rebuild the entire permissions system a few days ago and there was bound to be things that fell through the cracks.
Also, you can set the background music by changing:
MekTek\Mechwarrior Mercenaries – Mektek Mekpak\Content\MercsShellScripts\Files\nextmove_music.wav
Just copy any music you want (must be wave format) and rename it to that name. I used to have it set to the Team America theme
rainefardreamer said:
what is with purple mechs and *edited* takes FOREVER to die, oh well, i’ll get more used to it
There are over 40 “skins” to pick from and you can install or make customs if you want. When you’re customizing your mech in the mechlab the camouflage option is right under the mech selection bar.
If it takes too long to kill then use better guns. On the first campaign I don’t think it took more than 2 or 3 full volleys to kill anything. In fact, throughout the entire game it shouldn’t take more than 3-4 volleys to kill anything unless you’re seriously out-tonned.
I played on dialup for a year or so before I got broadband. I also had to use dialup my freshmen year at WCU due to packet filtering. It uses DirectX 8 netcode so even with a low ping you have to lead-shoot but theres very little difference in leading and shot registry between a 50ms ping and a 600ms ping due to the size of the object you’re shooting at.
On dialup you’ll get around 300-450ms to most servers which is fine for most multiplayer engagements. Only trouble you’ll have is hitting the fast, little mechs at long range but if you stay with the group you usually don’t have any problems with getting picked off by little buggers.
Those are loud, and by loud I mean put it in a closet, close the door, walk down the hall, and you can still hear it.
If it’s JUST for storage, you could get a regular ATX case that holds 8 HDs and get a mini-ITX Intel Atom/Nvidia ION motherboard similar to the one I put in my media center. Runs on almost no power and if you’re ok with buying a PCIe x8 SATA card then you can add as many HDs as you need. Give it 8GB ram and Windows 2008 and you’ll be off to the races.
Found a feature list:
- 111 different mechs ranging from 20 to 100 tons.
- 9 Battle Armor
- 6 Infantry
- 32 Beam Weapons
- 43 Ballistic Weapons
- 44 Missile Weapons
- 7 Electronic Components
- 3 different types of armor
- Clan and IS Mech Pack mechs available in campaign
- Mektek mechs and weapons added to campaigns
- Zonematch has been replaced with MekMatch in all visible text and is the one and only mech-matching service
- 5 new MekMatch servers to host and play on! You can change servers whenever you like. Each server has a dedicated community to cater to (League Server, New Players, Australia, Europe, North America)
- “Connect” and “Host” default to the last server chosen
- New features for dedicated servers like the ability to add a fixed number of bots to a dedicated server upon launch chosen in setup! Bot Levels can also be set. Default game length has been changed to 30 minutes instead of original 10.
- Game loads much quicker and no longer requires a CD
- Original mechs, Clan and IS Mech Pack, and Mektek mechs arranged alphabetically in Mechlab list (no longer have special symbols in front of the mech name except for Battle Armors and Infantry).
- New Screenshot Folder for in-game screenshots (instead of the main Mercs installation folder where it was difficult to locate them).
- LTRI (Long Tom Range Indicator) added when a weapon with trajectory is installed on a mech! Torso pitch angle in degrees is also shown! Even height of mech has been calculated and accounted for in range.
- Mission and Computer Clock added as part of the UI. Mission Clock is a semi-transparent pie chart indicating how much time is left on a multiplayer map!
- Additional Chat state. Besides the in-game chat box’s normal and large size you have the option of completely turning off chat (disappears). Pressing the “y” or “u” key (general chat and team chat) causes the chat box to reappear!
WD Green drives are NOT meant for RAID, just a warning. No low-power drives are. My NCSU boss learned that the hard way when their SAN kept dropping drives.
How much hard drive space are you wanting and how much are you willing to spend?
Mech2 doesn’t work on Vista/7 and Mech3 takes some serious tweaks. The Mech3 expansion absolutely will not work on Vista/7, which sucks because it’s better than Mech3.
Duendes said:
nnnnnnnnnnnnnoooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooo!!!!!
YOU HAVE BEEN…
DEFEATED!!!
Does that mean I have to actually set an avatar for myself?
I have yet to actually put my own on here, every one I’ve had is Kip related and was put by someone else lol
Should read: Do not hesitate to kill them BEFORE they turn. It’s always easier to get a headshot when they aren’t trying to eat you.
It’s not about what it can and can’t import. SPSS can import data from other programs but it requires that you import data in a certain way, with the data formatted in a specific way, and even then it requires all of Jupiter’s moons to be in alignment with the prayer mound in Obama’s secret underground lair.
TLDR: It can but it’s extremely retarded.
The first hit on that discusses importing the data.
If you can’t find anything, talk to the professor. You can’t be the first student to want to convert data from the most popular spreadsheet program ever created to SPSS.
Nickname said:
MW2 has been down in the $40 range for the 360 for awhile now; actually just under 40 on amazon right now. not sure why its cheaper for 360 than the ps3 or pc, but probably cause everyone that wanted it for 360 already bought it lol
I mean the primary reason I haven’t bought MW2 is because the PC version is not worth $60. There’s no getting around that fact.
Nickname said:
MasterP said:
Interesting fact: Games for Windows LIVE! is very similar to XBL and was originally an identical port. While signed in to Windows LIVE! you can interact with XBL players as though you were connected to XBL.
Interesting fact: you did not approve my XBL friend request
Followup fact: Yes I did.
You’ll never get the seamless precision from a controller that you do from a keyboard/mouse. If Microsoft thought it possible for XBOX players to compete equally with PC players they wouldn’t have isolated them on XBL.
Interesting fact: Halo2 PC was designed specifically to play with Halo2 XBOX on XBL. Right before release it was switched to a PC-only XBL server due to complaints from XBOX players.
Interesting fact: Games for Windows LIVE! is very similar to XBL and was originally an identical port. While signed in to Windows LIVE! you can interact with XBL players as though you were connected to XBL.
Nickname said:
in that article they are really trying to justify the money… not sure it came across very convincing either.
IMO they sounded like fanboys trying to sell it. IGN has a really bad habit of doing that.
Blizzard is the only company that actually cares about gaming on a Mac. Everyone else is just doing it for the quick profit.
Btw, you know as well as I do how blind some mactards are when it comes to stuff like this.
Capitalist Cakes (Majr) said:
good to know
Steam does not work on Power-PC Macs
When they said Steam works on “Macs”, they meant Macs that have all the parts of a PC and are capable of running Windows.
They’ll never make Steam or its games compatible with a true, Apple-built Mac. They won’t be compatible with Macs in a few years either but Steam was thinking more along the lines on short-term, rip-off sales as opposed to long-term customer satisfaction.
NCSU’s gaming club does launch parties for the high expectancy games like this. No prizes, minimal food/drink but they’re a whole lot of fun. Even got me playing Halo at one last year.
This is something we should consider trying. We can get a room in the UC fairly easily in mid-September.
IGN has a proven track record of selling their positive reviews and has on more than one occassion docked excellent games simply because of the console they were on.
Until they actually give you the free games I wouldn’t count on actually getting them.
