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Nice info in the posts btw. Id love to drive either of those cars, always has a soft spot for the evo, the guys on here that play the racing games know that i would say the evo is better no matter what the car :D

Evo > sti.

http://joinsquad.com Official Steam community: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/JoinSquad Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/joinsquad/Squad Squad is an online multiplayer first-person shooter that aims to capture combat realism through communication and teamplay. ORGANIC AND EMERGENT GAMEPLAY The battlefield of Squad is built around organized teams using both the environment and the assets available within the game to wage a tactical battle against an opposing team. From role organization to base building to vehicle mechanics, teamwork amplifies the effectiveness of the tools at your disposal. Supported by intuitive positional VOIP and navigation systems players will be able to maintain situational awareness and seamlessly interact with others. Dedicated chain of command channels and localised voice will be an effective tool for communication and organization. Squad seeks to establish a culture of camaraderie that is unparalleled in competitive multiplayer shooters. This is a game where you can work together and coordinate with your team: players from around the world, often that you just met. MASSIVE ONLINE 50 ON 50 SQUAD-BASED COMBINED ARMS WARFARE Squad will support up to 100 players in competitive multiplayer. This broad scope serves to immerse the player into a rich battle environment filled with challenges and opportunities. With teams of sufficient size, some players can perform supporting roles while leaving enough front-line combatants to provide fun and challenging gameplay across the full expanse of the battlefield. A wide variety of support vehicles and aircraft will be included. Tanks and close support helicopters will spearhead a team’s assault into enemy lines while transport helicopters and APCs will provide much needed logistics and transportation support. A NEW EXPERIENCE EVERY TIME At the heart of Squad is our desire to let the player drive gameplay and define the objectives. Commanders and squad leaders will be given the ability to shape the battlefield through construction of defensive and offensive fortifications as well as control of battlefield planning and supplemental combined arms assets. Coupled with this, spawn dynamics will be affected by occupation of territories and level of supply each objective is receiving. Organized control of the battlefield will ensure a properly supported supply structure and pave the way for a strategic victory. It’s all about teamwork. FAQ: What is Squad? Squad is an in-development tactical first person shooter built around teamwork and cooperation. It seeks to bridge the rather large gap between arcade shooter and military sim, and is based in large part on the ideas introduced by our predecessor, the Project Reality modification for Battlefield 2 . When will I be able to play Squad? We are aiming to release our first early alpha builds in the spring of this year, namely sometime around March or April of 2015. What is Squad's relationship with the Project Reality modification for BF2? Officially, we have no formal connection. There is an effort at a non-commercial PR game called PR2 which we hold no affiliation with. Generally speaking though, nearly all of our developers are retired members of the core Project Reality: BF2 development team, and we are seeking to make Squad the spiritual successor to PR in everything but name. If you would like to learn more about Project Reality, we encourage you to visit it's website at www.realitymod.com

now it seems this works on laptops with a driver, but not on desktops. interesting stuff. http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/198603-leaked-nvidia-driver-offers-taste-of-mobile-g-sync http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Mobile-G-Sync-Confirmed-and-Tested-Leaked-Alpha-Driver nV are getting battered at the moment about this and issues with their newer cards it seems. AMD should get their cards out asap, or maybe wait longer and get it right!

You would use this alongside avg.

awesome, pity i cant view them full screen

i think ppl are moving on already regarding the gsync issues that that guy brought up. i don't think anyone else can make it work for a start, but who knows http://www.overclock.net/t/1538208/nvidia-g-sync-free-on-dp-1-2-monitors/10#post_23466190

Think we all were. Take out the wall glitch deaths and the magic arty and there probably wasnt that many time we actually got shot. Feel the need to watch saving private ryan or band of brothers as soon as i woke up today haha.

well that was pretty tough, 2 hours+ i think in the end. Slain pretty much took the last town on his own

we've had a crack at some excellent 1944 missions - highly recommended, need some more players to have a go at the beach landing if anyone is interested

Happy #$@*£€& birthday you %#@£ Dont drink too much this wkend ahhaha

did u try swearing at it m8?

very nice m8

cools, i'm sure there is more smaller, faster things on the way :]

have a good one MH

needed to sort out about 700 randomly named files one of those jobs that you put off and it gets worse every week haha. I looked into XMBC doing this for me but it really struggled (few of years back, maybe it's changed?). MCM just went through the list, renamed em all, chucked them in folders - preferred format for some media players i think?, grabbed all the meta data from IMDB and other sites. now have fully organised tv series, hd films, sd films. for sorting out a big bile of junk, MCM just did a great job, the free version does all you want, i paid because i was impressed. i don;t use newsgroups but i think you have a better setup for sure, much most automatic and advanced your setup would be handy for a few guys round here. neat and tidy in each folder: cover art, xbmc back drops, meta data list of meta data files you can choose to add, quite a few players supported

have a good one dood

updated OP with i/o panel pic i think benefits of the NUC would be that it is a lot smaller and has no moving parts, barely no heat, all good stuff. beats me why even mini ITX requires full sized DIMM slots, could save some space on the boards with SODIMMS. looked into a Gigabyte Brix at all? they seem to get good reviews. been using a great prog for sorting out digital media collection btw: http://www.mediacentermaster.com/ one of the best apps i've ever bought. looking for something similar for music but not found the right thing yet.

really liking the 1944 mod so far pew pew Tiger just chillin' on the Sherman Rizz finding new ways of driving planes 'cause the regular way is too boring

Had some interest on TS for my new little build, sry if this is a long post but i added some pictures let me know any questions. Wanted to update my core2 intel hd4000 gfx based ITX HTPC for a while, the old HD4000 just creaks occasionally with some bluray rips. other than that, the hdd access noise just drives me nuts, it seems to be amplified by the case 100x, and it was running vista which i wanted to move from also. also upgraded from wireless to ethernet after getting annoyed and smashing my expensive keyboard due to wifi issues (still can't find one of the batteries). The initial plan was to move off windows completely and use http://openelec.tv/instead, which is effectively a standalone version of KODI (formally XBMC) free, fast, only needed the PC as a fancy HTPC really. With a NAS in place all I really needed was something that could process high bitrate films tbh, even a WD streamer would probably be ok. Then Steam go and introduce Home Streaming which changes things a little. So now I'm thinking this could be pretty good as long as I'm not building another expensive powerful PC. So what kind of minimum spec can I get away with? - can I just say here that the spec and price could be lower but i'm a sucker for things like ssd, cases and some extra ram doesn't hurt either :] I was very close to getting an Intel NUC http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-comparison.html but i think it might have been a little more money and i'd read good and bad accounts of their performance for steam streaming. So i went for the self build route instead which is more fun. Regarding the OS, I ended up with Win7 because I have an unused key, I almost gave SteamOS a shot but I know it would take some effort to get KODI on there as well, and this is predominantly a HTPC at the end of the day. Parts list: MOBO: ASUS AM1i-A ~£28 there is a REALLY limited number of ITX boards that can take an AM1 cpu but they are all less than £30, never paid so little for a mobo. no complaints really, only thing that would be useful would be Bluetooth but that can be solved for £1.10 delivered . this would mean i could add a cheap bt mic for TS in the future maybe. no probs using current kit in the mean time. click for massive pic: CPU: AMD Athlon 5350 (socket AM1) ~£45 To cut the cost and hearing good things about their APUs I went with AMD. Using an AM1 Kabini cpu was the gamble of the setup because i'm relying on a relatively slow and cheap CPU to run the pc and also process the gfx. alternatively i was looking at the AMD A10 (or an Intel i3) as a decent step up from the AM1 kabini chips but then the price had hit £100 and would need a more expensive FM2 socket mobo, so for the first time ever, i've backed up and gone with the lower spec. iirc i think the 5350 was the cheapest quad core AM1, well worth the few extra quid over the dual core version. stock cooler will be fine. GFX: not required because of the APU process choice just for info, my old gfx card ATi 7850 can fit on the board and in the case. just because the mobo has a 4x pcie slot, doesnt mean you cant fit in a full size card :] in the interest of being low power and not wanting to over heat the whole system, this pc will not be getting my old gfx card :] RAM: Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4) ~£65 suppose i could have gone with 4GB to save £10, but hardly worth it. SDD: Samsung 120GB 840 EVO ~£60 decent, cheap, fast, silent. alternative could be 500GB hard drive to save £25 but i'd have an ssd anyday, instant boot, no noise or heat which is a potential issue for an ITX case. Case inc. PSU: Silverstone Sugo SG05 (USB3 version) with 300W psu ~£65 Probably could have saved a lot on the case then bought a suitable psu but would have ended up with the same price. it has a mini psu which helps with space but can take a full size atx psu. no issues with space, can add a laptop/slim bluray drive or a second hard drive. 300w is way more than I need for this but that's what you get in the box. the 120mm fan at the front is a nice feature, there is little heat being generated and this quiet 120 mike mike will keep things chill. you could even stick in a bright blue one in there to annoy yourself and everyone in the room when watching a film or something. arrrrgg best i can do with the wires :/ i/o panel random objects for size comparison If i was on a budget then i'd stick with 4gb ram, and reused old hard drive, case and power supply which would make the build about £120 with little performance difference i would imagine. SO DOES IT STREAM?! but first... WTF IS STEAM HOME STREAMING?! Official infos: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3629-RIAV-1617 Basically you can run your games from a powerful pc and stream it to a potentially much lower spec machine elsewhere on your network. so in my case i could run any game from my steam library on my tv in the lounge using a small, quiet, relatively cheap machine. Install the steam client on another PC, log in and go to your library, instead of the Play button you get something like below (pic from google images but same as i had): The game then starts running on your main pc and feeds the display back to your other pc. there is really very minimal control lag, i played with screens side by side and tbh there is probably more display lag caused by image processing in your TV than control lag going through your network, have game mode on your TV? then use it. You can configure the bandwidth if you need to (higher = better quality picture), and make a few other adjustments like resolution (why render at 1440p when the slave machine is outputting 1080p for example), and force the host to do hardware processing and a few other bits and bobs. I don't think i'll be playing any fps any time soon with this but any games i can use my xbox controller with should be pretty good. All in all i'm happy with the build, nice new htpc with the bonus of some gaming possibly. i'm not really inclined to install any games in the pc, although it might be interesting but possibly disappointing to to see the performance.

have a good one guys

have a good one dood

sweeet

oh yes they did http://store.steampowered.com/app/340460/

season pass means you are buying some of or all upcomming DLCs in advance (generally the price is cheaper than buying the DLCs individually at a later date). very few games are £40 when released though so it might drop a little before release, but you are not even getting some pre order bonus for that money either.