I had an emblem on my character but I realized it was way too light to be seen in action. I amped up the contrast and now it should be plain for everyone to see... even in the crosshairs of the TOW camera!

I guess I can see base raping as dirty along with destroying all their vehicles, but if I am rolling into take over a base or grab the flag I dont see anything wrong with preemptively taking out the defenses as long as you dont just hang out there and continually do it. Just seems like good strategy to me and in most cases an outright destroyed vehicle will respawn pretty quickly.

This is true. I've seen a blasted parked warhawk respawn within a couple of seconds

Also, the first thing you need to do when you respawn is equip the blade. If youre getting base-raped, walk, don't drive to the closest base and try to capture it. Never run in the middle of the road, stay close to walls and/or cliffsides.

This.

I would also add that leaving vehicles right on the verge of destroyed is dirty, and so is going into the other team's base to steal their vehicles.

However, if the other team drives a vehicle over to take your flag and leaves it, it's perfectly acceptable to not finish it off or repair it for your own purposes. In fact, I encourage it!

Last night, I was playing with my logo (ended up keeping the same one) and my Warhawk paint jobs.

I launched the default map (Island Outpost) to see how the hawk looked and ended up flying around and blowing stuff up for about an hour. It was a good time and good practice. I'd recommend some solo flight training for several of you who are interested in getting better. It's terrific for learning how to hug the landscape and target with the various weapons.

I know they abandoned single-player mode, but you'd think they'd at least have some kind of practice mode outside of the training.

I'm surprised we haven't been forced into a Part 2 thread yet.

I don't think anybody outside this thread even knows we exist.

Shhhhh...somebody might notice!

It's ironic, really, in that the game was largely overlooked as well. Still, it's amusing to see a 2+ year old PS3 game consistently on the first page!

Truth is, i don't think we're using a ton of bandwidth here. We don't post a ton of pictures or videos. But I'll start a new thread if anybody asks.

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We should do this someday:

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Any game specific requests for tomorrow night?

I played a good map the last couple of nights on Vaporfield Glacier which was Olsavik Village. There are no vehicles and it is a good CTF map, although I played with 20 people...dont know how 8 people would do on it. IT was nice though as it was a straight up team based assault.

Since I'm done by 10CST every Tuesday, I've used my expansion packs one time, one map.

I'd love to see 1 or 2 scheduled with an estimated 9:00 start time.

Looks like fun, although I think we need to go Mad Max and throw a gunner in each jeep and maybe go with a map like Island Outpost which has a more obvious circular pattern

Who still gets booted with the expansions?

Ofermod and Z?

Do you guys have an ETA for tomorrow night?

Z claimed on 08/05 that he would be getting the expansions "this week", so that's one down.

chess: you might want to edit the first post if jdpatri/Flip is going to be hosting.

Nah...everything still works. Folks can still get to the game through me, and I suspect that I'll still be hosting sometimes. Flip's pretty reliable, but not 100%.

This would be cool, provided that you could only shoot forward. But whoever is in front would still get all of the repair gears, which would break the game.

You also wouldn't be able to get a new jeep fast enough to get back in the mix.

I used the dome from the Omega Dawn pack as the lobby two or three times, and I think we started with a Tau Crater map once....but point taken. I probably spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about new folks, when very few show up in reality. I just don't want to eliminate new people, since they were the point of the game in the first place.

I did invite somebody new (CeeFour) this week though, and I think eroc79 might be back from his trip.

Well I missed last week and I will miss tomorrow night again.

But look for the return of TLWizard next week!

I love Northern Bridge...really love that map...but it's gotten ugly for the past 2-3 weeks. Might want to skip it this week.

It's also been a while since we had a regular non-K&N lobby. Badlands - South City was always a hit. Then again K&N is Chew's game...gotta keep Chew happy!

Just suggestions...

Hopefully Steve will man your turrets for you.

I will try and hang back in CTF matches this week. Turrets I'm good at, but I need more warhawk and tank practise.