Sammy

They werent direct hits or unobstructed. If a tube was really close it will always kill in hardcore. Note that tubes do not have the same damage range as frags. Also, flak jackets do not decrease their protection like body armor. The trade off being that flak jackets are never %100 protection. So truth be told there is some very good tube protection available for those that want it.

Many times the majority is wrong. Assuming its a democracy in the first place.

Daffy is just telling it like it is. Of course one of the major problems is that the maps are too small when the server is full. Making explosives have that much more influence. People want faster paced with increased speed and constant action. And on this server not very open. That means the maps also have to be small to lessen travel time. So any discussion about nades being over powered... even tho they are the original strength... must include the environment in which they are used. Same argument about 'sniper maps'. Many of which can hardly be called sniper maps in the traditional sense. Just bigger and relatively open. Occasional threads about the same topic are fine. They reinforce the discussions on why things are the way they are. Good or bad. So long as people keep from turning personal about it.

I will just say again that flak jackets reduces all explosive damage to %35 of whatever it was. This is in addition to whatever damage reduction there was due to game geometry and such. So -%65. A nade right next to you is going to kill you in a hardcore game. But it doesnt have to be very far away to be reduced to damage only. So choices are available. Even tho I know everyone loves getting something for nothing.

Seriously? Then I would have to increase tubes in order to be fair. Also more claymores or betties. Increase the 3X grenade perk (2 perk explosives) to 4X or 5X.

Full server and small maps should never go together. Yea remove the ability to act like Mexican jumping beans on a hot skillet and people go bonkers.

Flak Jacket maybe? Works quite well against all explosives.

Well I hate everything about it. Equal opportunity hater. So there.

If it were you, she would have used the golf club on your head.

I need to do all the security updates and fixes but like before, even on a totally fresh install, wu is taking 25% cpu, downloading nothing, and as far as I can tell not doing a damn thing. Except eating up processing time. Processing what, I dont have a clue. Not when it lasts hours. Normally I would just shut it off. But on a new install I need all the updates. Its really aggravating and until relatively recently I dont recall it being like this. And until I get all those new updates I am stuck and cant do much. I am still calling shenanigans on ms.

All the basics are assembled and it didnt go 'fffst!' when I turned it on. Took longer than expected because for me the water cooler was a bitch to install. If did it their way it would have covered up some important connections but looked around and found other ways people did it with this case. All the while worried that I would break the damn thing and spill coolant all over the place. But it seems to be working and the processor is 36c (I think) so I assume its not burning up. And whatdayaknow, the 960 actually posts. So something went bad on the other board or processor even tho various diagnostics I could find around didnt spot anything wrong. So dunno. Speaking of which, seems nvidia just pulled the latest drivers. Or I saw some popup about that. So something for everyone to check out. Now onto doing a fresh install of windows, the drivers, and all that other tedious stuff.

GoofLoop helped me out so now I understand what I am doing and there should be no worries.

Got off chat and telephone with MS and both assured me that there will be zero problems, with a fully new system, for reactivation. Or worst case, call them and they will take care of it. I always worry something is going to screw with me.

It was recommended I let the new power supply run on its own, outside the case, for a couple hours to break it in. Also to watch for anything that goes 'poof'. So seeing how it goes.

600? No thanks.

My 960 gtx was very nice.... until it stopped working.

If you throw more than one their defrosting will add together. Once the flare is out it no longer defrosts.

Well updates are actually downloading. So I am assuming they get overloaded on wed/thurs and those of us with win7 are little better than dirt. We get to wait.

Been asked and answered many times before. I assume MW2. Beyond clan members, it is the total time played on that server.

When I do the rebuild I will start with the SSD only. Its not 'new' in the sense of it being unused. But it was purchased only a few months ago and for the most part only used for the OS and non-gaming programs. Why do I need a MS account?

I ran a WU diagnostic. There is a problem that it couldnt fix. DIdnt it twice. Dunno why. I will try safe mode next. There were others three others that it said it did fix. Also twice, So certainly looks like something it wrong somewhere. edit: Anyways, did all I could. Or at least all I could without getting into registry hacks and such. Made sure about services. So currently on 'checking'. But since the checks or records for currently installed updates was wiped it probably has to start over and see whats installed. Also, this is Thursday afternoon and MS could be overloaded due to all the Win10 people downloading with us mere mortals with Win7 having to wait.

Fucking windows update. A common reported problem is that it is stuck at 0% even if you leave it running all night. Network activity is zero. Yes I did all the usual like checking for malware. There were a couple MS fixes that were supposed to take care of it. But they dont. On top of that, unless the WU process is manually disabled it takes 1/4 of CPU activity and wont stop. As it is currently. MS had a list of other things to try that included manual WU installs and changes as well as registry hacks. But if that is the fix something is very wrong. In the short term, for the moment, I dont need WU so I am just disabling the service. Also, if no network access (no cable) it wont start either. However I fear once the new system is built its going to do this with all the post install updates needed and I am screwed. I didnt know this, and thought they fixed it the last time it happened with some update. I had it set as notify but dont install. So when I saw it today I saw the potential problem. Has anyone else installed Windows 7 in the last month and experienced this? I dont know what else to check and am not going to start putting it all together until I know I wont be fucked over by them. Part of me still thinks they are secretly doing this on purpose to get people to upgrade to win10. But it seems some people having this problem have win10 as well.

I am sure you jest when you say hours. At worst, if 9 rounds sudden death, 1 hour. Besides, snipers should have their fair share of maps that benefit them as well as cq does right?

I didnt notice that either until I had to reinstall an older catalyst package to get my amd card working again. The last package they made, since the 5770 is now considered legacy, was buggy somehow and failed on installing the display driver. No idea what it was for. Just that I didnt want it so got rid of it.