Posts by (IOC){Dark_Angel}

  • Best PC Specs Contest

    Gateway GT5228
    AMD Athalon X2 4200+ @ 2.21GHz
    2GB 533MHz RAM
    224GB HDD @ 7200rpm
    ATI Radeon HD 3850
    500W Antec PSU
    17" LCD Monitor @1280x1024


    Our old computers specs...


    Dell soemthing or other
    Pentium III Coppermine @ 700MHz
    512MB RAM
    40GB HDD @ 5400 RPM
    64MB AGP Graphics card
    17" CRT Monitor @ 30lbs.



    I win. :D

  • Audio Easter Egg.

    I was flying around in single player the other day in CF 1.7, when I found this line in the radio chatter over Coalition HQ. The line is from Mel Brooks "History of The World: Part 1."


    < Note>
    The original line reads, "Don't be saucy with me, Bernaise" but the voice said "get" instead. Oh, and it's not OP saying that line, either. I asked. :D
    < / Note >



    < Disclaimer>
    I have no idea why there are links to videos of women kissing when my video finishes playing. I don't know if the actual videos are still there, but I don't know why they would be on a website for gaming videos in the first place. I posted it from this site because the quality is better than YouTube and MetaCafe.
    < / Disclaimer >



    <center><embed src="http://www.gamerstube.com/videoplayer.swf" FlashVars="config=http://www.gamerstube.com/flvplayerembed.php?viewkey=2aaa26558b309fa044e0" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="450" height="315" name="flvplayer" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" allowFullScreen="true"/></center>


    < side note>
    The voice that says "I didn't know" at the very end of the clip sounds very much like O'Neil from Crysis Warhead, and I believe it is one of his dialogue recordings.
    < / side note >



    What Easter Eggs have you found in Vanilla Freelancer, or other mods of Freelancer? Share them here!

  • CF Balance

    There is no gravity in space, so the term "weight" usually only refers to when a ship is in an environment that does have gravity, or when it is accelerating, decelerating, or changing directions due to the artificial gravitational forces imposed upon the ship through [centrifugal] force.


    The Mass of the ship in turn will determine how much the ship "weighs" during a turn or any maneuver. The less Mass, the less weight the engine will have to deal with when accelerating or decelerating. This is why the Patriot does not turn as quickly as the Shroud, even though it has less armor. It has much more mass (physically larger/more surface area), which means that more force than the engine can provide (or whatever actually makes the ship turn...I don't know) would have to be applied to the ship for it to have the same turn radius of the Shroud. So the reason the Lagg turns so damn quickly is because it has very little armor, and very little mass. Is this realaistic? Somewhat, yes. Is it balanced? If it were impossible to kill a Lag with any other fighter in the game with two players of the same skill duking it out, then it would be imbalanced.


    Am I even close, or am I just talking out of my ass here?



    And in regards to the missiles, yes, I do believe that they should have a much lower limit than 50, say 5 or even 7. I use missiles a lot in PvP, but that is because my aim isn't good enough to finish someone off primarily with guns (2 or 3 missile salvos thrown in) before I get a Sunslayer shoved down my throat.


    I admit it is a crutch, but I would love to have my crutch limited (I'm positive it's the same for a lot of other players) so that I may improve with my guns (a lot of that is the fact that I haven't found the right sensitivity for me yet).



    **Cue Burro's response**