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sturner wrote:

RO is discounted now at 19.99. We are waiting for the next version with UT3 engine: Heroes of Stalingrad.

Darkest Hour is a standalone mod for RO, free if you own RO. Can't play it without installed.

You've already forgotten I posted topic[s] on both?! Oh, right. Allowance made for age.

Anyway, whenever it comes to pass .

Just remember when your armor consists of only a thin woolen or cotton tunic, and your avatar is restricted to real-time physics, your experience is totally different. Like with AA rev3, bunny hopping isn't condoned, and you tire out quickly.

You tend to confoozle physics with endurance, but... yes, I remember the package. Plus the heat haze, suppressive fire aspects/ effects on your aiming and all.

Pz IV ausf G or H armor isn't proof against a russian 76mm.

Or vice versa (you forgot the IV F2, where the change to the 7.5cm L/43 KwK occurred, but perhaps you're not a specialiste. ). I haven't forgotten the Unplugged armor thread, either, less timely tho it is now. It'll be time consuming to do justice to... and altho I had to sell a couple of references last summer, I still have most. Some refer to things you apparently never learned, based on new research published in the '90s. (I do still need to get my Hunnicut 'Pershing' book back from my bookseller friend). Many of them have sources direct from the archives of, say, Wa Pruf 6- penetration vs. range vs. ammo type, first round hit probability etc. Does RO or DH have things like the Russian 85mm APCR round, crew fatigue factors (Russian seats were sometimes bare metal), of course lack of radios? Muzzle blast target obscuration, the 6 month exemption granted PaK/KwK 38 AP40 by Speer? Myself, I know how long a 360 traverse took in a goodly number of them (and at what rpm, where hydraulic). I was still shaking my head at the shibboleths repeated in some new books ca. '96. Want to know what really defined a Panther D/A/G/F, and the development history? I can tell you, and it had nothing to do with, say, 'letterboxes' in the glacis.

True specialistes know these things. And I think you'[s]d[/s]ll be happy with the lesser abilities of ODSTs vs. certain cyborgs- you're already getting the effects when hit you might be hoping for in Unreal Engine 3, blurred vision and all.

And I say, yet again- I don't bunny hop.

But you'll find out. Good luck with SP3.

(Since that last part was Fail... you kan haz 4 minutes of low-res Flash trailer, cheesey voiceover and all, but with a few important lines near the end [ca. 3:15] and other goodies missing from the other; or the ending, inexplicably beginning a few seconds too late. I recommend both, then the full movie- flawed, but still classic. Shall we sojourn to the Kuban, ca. '43?)

("Capt. sturner, you... are the rest of my platoon.")

trailer

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Pz IV ausf G or H armor isn't proof against a russian 76mm.

Or vice versa (you forgot the IV F2, where the change to the 7.5cm L/43 KwK occurred, but perhaps you're not a specialiste. ).

<snip> Does RO or DH have things like the Russian 85mm APCR round, crew fatigue factors (Russian seats were sometimes bare metal), of course lack of radios? Muzzle blast target obscuration, the 6 month exemption granted PaK/KwK 38 AP40 by Speer? Myself, I know how long a 360 traverse took in a goodly number of them (and at what rpm, where hydraulic).

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For the most part these are modeled. There are various types of rounds, though Darkest Hour has more ammo types. The new version of RO should include more ammo types and possibly better penetration models. The current version is rather primitive.

And the turret rotation is taken into effect. The Tiger has a very slow rotation. The early war Russian tanks also have slow rotation.

Loading the 122mm round in the IS2 is maddeningly slow. Dueling with a Panther is problematic, if you aren't at a proper range for that tank.

Bren wrote:

Aren't there Mac versions of Unreal? The whole point is to be able to do stuff I can't do in OS X.

There was never a mac version of Return to Na Pali (though it could be hacked to work with hardcore dedication) or Unreal 2.  In any case, the Total Unreal pack includes the whole series for $10.  If its still around.

Metacell wrote:

Bren wrote:

Aren't there Mac versions of Unreal? The whole point is to be able to do stuff I can't do in OS X.

There was never a mac version of Return to Na Pali (though it could be hacked to work with hardcore dedication) or Unreal 2.  In any case, the Total Unreal pack includes the whole series for $10.  If its still around.

I managed to get the Na Pali pack running on my Boot Camp XP, but it will only run in a window.

Hegemonia works great.

(What? I liked that game.)

Next up: Homeworld.

(I was probably the only person who liked that game too, huh?)

Booksley wrote:

dv wrote:

Hegemonia works great.

(What? I liked that game.)

Next up: Homeworld.

(I was probably the only person who liked that game too, huh?)

You can add me to that list. But I liked Homeworld 2 better.

Never quite slogged my way through 2.

I really ought to. I have the DVD on my shelf, I hear it mocking me at night...

Hey bren, you could always play Sims2. If you consider that a game anyways.

My daughter loves that game and has just about all the add-on packs for it.

Runs great on a Mac mini 1.8 Core 2 Duo so it should do fine on your Mac as well.