MH6~SPARTA~

I like the 05 music as well. Also, the 1080p versions look fantastic.

I think we should take the 0.5MB hit and go with 1080p personally.

You have Hunter to thank for that. It was initially only for squad XML but I decided to use it for the access permissions so we have everything in one place. Also makes it easier on us because members can add themselves. So everyone make sure you setup your profile!

Within the next couple of days, the Sparta access list will be going into effect. What this list does exactly, is prohibit people that are not registered on our forums and active on teamspeak from operating the more powerful vehicles such as artillery and combat aircraft. Now, if you are reading this, you are most likely a forum member. So all you will need to do is add your ArmA 3 Profile ID to your Sparta forum profile. You can do this by clicking your name in the top-right of the screen, clicking My Profile, and then click Edit Profile. You need to fill out your ArmA 3 in-game name and your ArmA 3 profile id in the bottom of your forum profile, and click Save. To find your Arma 3 profile id, launch ArmA 3, click Options, click Profile, click Edit, and copy (highlight the text and press left control + c) the ~17 character long ID from the profile field and paste it into your forum profile. Once this is done, you will automatically be given vehicle permissions once the access list goes live. If you do not do so, you may find yourself unable to enter anything other than light ground transport vehicles. So keep that in mind. This server-side addon will also allow anyone registered on the forums to run any mod they desire without having to get us to add it to the server first: another reason to add your profile ID to the forums if you are one of the countless people enjoying their myriad of client-side mods. A third benefit is that should you accidentally teamkill someone (or someones, or 30 someones if you are flying), you will not be automatically kicked. This system will be put in place to help keep some of the more sinister public players in check and thus will give members a free pass--though should members intentionally TK, they will be dealt with by an admin. Also, if you are a Spartiate or above, doing this will add you to the Squad XML file so that you can get the Sparta tag/emblem in-game. So, just a heads up. Be sure to save your ArmA profile information in the forum so you will be ready when the access list goes live..

Much better in my opinion

Looks fantastic man, great work. One critique: We may want to turn the volume down just a bit. Might scare some peeps when they join with full volume and get blasted by the first few seconds of audio.

Yes, I know. Next campaign. I want to actually finish a campaign, unlike you bastards who have started like 20 campaigns so far.

Finally conquered the Arabian peninsula. Had to break some ties with nations I've been at peace with for a long time to do it too. I will leave Qirdi alone in Jerusalem though, as he is allied to me. Now it is time for my army to sail to Iberia, and then I will push northward into France.

Did you get Rome 2 Durka? After about 180 turns, the end turn cycle takes foreeeeever.

Added campaign timeline to map along with short description of events.

What's funny is that almost all of that was from yesterday. Tuesday night I only had Sicily, Knossos, Salamis, Side, and Sparta. Once I started down the African coastline, I started picking up speed, conquering Garamantia and Egypt. Then I hit Antioch and the Seleucid War began. During that war, city after city fell to Spartan rule with alarming speed. Because of the close proximity of cities, I was able to push north and east very quickly. I will be posting a timeline with major battles/wars and the general path of my expansion soon. 'Cause I'm bored.

Faction: Sparta Difficulty: Hard Year: 94 BC Treasury: 54,000 Income (Highest Tax): 25,000 Income (Average): 10,000 Allies: 3 Enemies: 4 Trading Partners: 20 Campaign Timeline: 250 BC Island Hopping Knossos becomes City-State Salamis and Side conquered Sicily invaded 230 BC African Campaign Battle of Carthage Achieved next rank of Imperium. 6 armies max allowed. 210 BC Athenai Rebellion Athens loses control of its main capital, Athenai. I take this oppurtunity to capture it, securing a booming trade port and allowing me to trade with more than just Athens Trade routes explode. Initially land locked and only able to trade with Athens, once Athenai was secured nations began offering trade agreements left and right. Trade routes swelled past 10 in just a few short turns. With the additional trade income, Spartan war machine gears up for an invasion. Egypt most likely target. 190 BC Egyptian War Battle of Cyrene Battle of Alexandria 185 BC Fall of Egypt Achieved next rank of Imperium. 9 armies max allowed. 180 BC Island of Rhodes taken Knossos city-state pact broken. Knossos taken. Reemergence of Carthage and Spartan expansion into Mauritania (and subsequent destroying of Carthage) 130 BC The First Seleucid War Taking of Tarsus (First battle in Seleucid War). Lightly defended. Battle of Antioch Simultaneously, allies (at Sparta's request) move on Trapezous, the northern most Seleucid settlement Battle of Seleucia Seleucid joins the Empire as a City-State Retains its own satraphies War is over. 120 BC The Second Seleucid War Macedon declares war with Seleucid satraphy. Sparta sides with Macedon, Seleucid declares war on Sparta. Sparta is now at war with 6 nations: Seleucia and its satraphies Province of Media Magna is conquered Province of Parthia is conquered Siege of Seleucia 1400 men Garrison successfully repels enemy force of 3000 men. Reinforcements arrive and cut down all remaining enemy forces in area Armies move east to conquer enemy territories. 105 BC Egpytian Emergence Egypt once again emerges as a nation in Aethiopia. They send a small army to attack Myos Homos, but it is repelled by a hastily hired mercenary fleet I positioned in the harbor. They repeat the attack three times, and are repelled at every turn. They finally relent and their only city rebels. 100 BC Fall of Seleucia and its Allies Hunt down and kill the last few remaining Seleucid units, which were trying to escape on the Caspian Sea. Seleucid Empire is no more Cleaning up its satraphies, main one being Aria Only a few former satraphies remain, and Sparta is closing in... 98 BC Planned: Naval invasion of southern Arabian Peninsula Acheived next rank of Imperium. Allows 12 armies max. Started 10th army at Spartan capital. 95 BC CIVIL WAR! New nation: Spartan Gerousia emerges Three full stacks of military units appear at Spartan capital. Only a small army and garrison present. Nearest army is near Syria. Sparta may lose its capital city, and possibly even Athenai. The damage this would do to the Spartan treasury is immense. Spartan fleets, filled with troops, begin their voyage towards the homeland...

My GTX 580 was struggling just a little bit at the start of the level. Will probably have to upgrade as well for the full game.

I only get to see three out of my six ships? Boooo.

That is some amazing scenery. Must be nice to see that on a ride. Looks like it was a perfect day for riding too.

A 4-pin Molex and a 3-pin fan connector are two vastly different things. Just find a free Molex connector on your PSU and daisychain your fans on it. You can have quite a few fans on Molex, I think I had 3 on one at one point.

New info concerning the next update has been released. http://steamcommunity.com/app/218620/discussions/0/864976837888976089/ Summary: Filters added to Crime.net (choose your difficulty!) ECM Jammers can now open ATMs and block pagers. ECM Feedback buffed, which is good because it is currently worthless. Armor piercing rounds to buff rifle users. Trading currently in the works. Some other (yet to be announced) changes that will blow our minds apparently. I can't wait. Ghost will be even more amazing now.

My PC was out of commission yesterday because I was draining the water cooling loop and doing some maintenance. That said... I'll be playing the hell out of this (at least until Sept. 17 where I have to split my time between this and GTA V). Hopefully some of us can get together and play online co-op. In both Rome and GTA.

Yeah I know the game was heavily influenced by Heat. Just funny to continually find references. Such as the drill or the above skill. You can reset points in-game for a 50% refund in cash. So it's easier on your wallet to plan what you want to do beforehand.

This is my planned build. It gives me some good skills for stealth and quite a few amazing combat skills. http://www.pd2skills.info/profile/mastermind-enforcer-13/ You can use the skill calculator by going here: http://www.pd2skills.info/ You can also set your current level/cash in the top right if you want to mess with your current build. Just want to get an idea of what everyone will be running. Might make grouping easier in the future. P.S.- Anyone else notice that there is a Mastermind skill named after Val Kilmer from the movie Heat? Second row, last column in Mastermind tree. Here's the scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b60-sEXUPBY

If you had played more during beta you would know all that. P.S.- Never shoot a camera. Even with a silenced weapon. It is bugged. Always melee it.

They're bugged. They're working on it.

BETA UPDATE #2 (It will hit within a couple of hours) Hi guys! Alright Heisters, time for BETA UPDATE 2 (YES it will reset you - this is needed as truck loads of anti cheats and balancing is coming in) First off - huge thanks to the community and the thousands of players contributing to these fixes. We have had the full team on this and it has been real usefull. Not only taking your feedback but also checking statistics and behaviors. What we have here is a real good update and much thanks to you. Oh... Electric Center is now Infamous for real We have done a lot of tweaks to the balancing of the game. Made it more sane on single and two player levels while bumping up the tempo on 3-4 player sessions. Players with Laptops and old ATI cards will be happy to know your mouselag is mainly due to overheating and mismatch between GPU and CPU loads - we have added a controller in the advanced video options for that. Also we have previously posted about setting your AMD catalyst drivers correctly as well. Also notable is that we added a Steam Gamehub short cut in the main menu and a direct link from us by the way of scrolling notes to all who are not on forums in the down left corner of the main menu. Thanks to you guys the game is now MORE awesome >) - rest assured though we keep working to perfect it, as always. Bo Here are the update notes for Beta update #2: Fixed issues with bus doors on Rats being closed on some drop in players Added windshield breakage to cars Made the invite system less prone to drop invites in the boot up of the game Added a Updates news ticker to the bottom left corner of the main menu. Uses announcements from PAYDAY 2 gamehub (5 latest) Moved menu item help texts to the upper right corner Changed name of menu option to go to crimenet from lobby (Choose new contract instead of Crime.net). This when you already have a lobby up. Small rearrange of menu options in lobby menu to match main menu, also added dividers for spacing Depth of Field help text in start menu bug fix. Fixed that occasionally the mask pattern icon will be on top of all of the message texts when entering the inventory Reduced the chance of infamous drops (yepp ) Network fix for host dropping "connection_established" message if it arrives before it has finished loading Solved the conflict when multiple users interact with the alarm pager simultaneously Fixed a rare crash on clicling the contract box in CrimeNet Added a Back button in options Added Images of all Mods, Weapons, Masks and items in the "you got a new X" prompt. Much sexier. the Skill icon is now always showing in wallet (when you got skillpoints) The Blackborders after changing the resolution is now gone and fixed Resolution menu now shows which is the current resolution CrimeNet is now showing the state of the host to let you know if it a game is in session or waiting for joins RISK LEVEL is now correctly represented by YELLOW SKULLS - and they are added to the Black Screen to psych you up before the heist >) Sound updates to the intro and attract videos FEATURE: You can now Terminate a ongoing contract from the menu if the server wants. This will allow the PARTY not to split up after a failed heist and try something else. The AK rifle is now unlocked at level 1 to give starting gangs a variety of choice and make more sense with how the weapon mods now drop. Fix for some animations that freeze when not in peripheral view Improved the look of the body armor Police now better at turning around when alerted Fixed glitch in how many police that could be intimidated at once. Fix for ecm overdrive travelling too far and through statics Menu dialogs to show save game loaded from other user and loaded wrong version (instead of corrupt) Fix for player landing sound using wrong material Fix for slow-mo sound effect getting stuck if restarting a level during slow mo Fix crash when being detected by a cop and automatically put on mask while in slow motion Added more fixes for dynamic deployables such as ammo bags and health bags. RATS - Chemicals should no longer be able to pickup from the outside of the house RATS - Bain will play the wrong dialogue when player completes the heist. RATS - Player is no longer able to throw meth on top of a tree making it inaccessible. RATS - Fixed Unresponsive AI gang member. RATS - Fixed gun sounds when the cooks get shot BANK - Officers in police car should now dissapear on drop in BANK - Cuffing the survailence guard now disables the cameras ( only death before ) JEWELERY -Fixed animation link for enemies in back alley JEWELERY - Fixed invisible safe (NO it was not a secret.. Ilija was just very tired.... ) SAFE HOUSE - Player cannot get the money bag stuck and prevent progression SAFE HOUSE - Money bundle in the tall safe is now easier to pickup and doesnt require crouch FOUR STORES - Windows in 'The Pear Store' now connect with the wall FOUR STORES -Fixed stores window for Smoother jump troughs AI tactics tweak to make them storm you a bit less when you are weak and hold of when you are strong (remember to tie those civs down ppl - it will slow down the Assault) Drank a couple of Red Bulls... Thanks all! and at last if you crash: If you get a crash please send us your crashdump .mpdp file from your Steamapps/common/PAYDAY 2 Beta folder. We can read where the crash happened and kill it that way. Send it to almir@overkillsoftware.com and he will get back to you in due time. If you cannot get your BETA to start then follow these instuctions (this works in 95% of the cases so try it even if you think you did right the first time): Try verifying the integrity of the game cache: 1a) Go open up your Steam client program and go to the "LIBRARY" section 1b) Right-click Payday in the list of games to the left - a drop-down menu will appear 1c) Click the menu option "Properties" at the very bottom of the drop-down menu - a dialog box will appear 1d) Click the "LOCAL FILES" tab in the upper part of the dialog box 1e) Click the third button that reads "VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME CACHE..." Make sure you don't have an anti virus program that runs in sleep mode and has Payday on its "malicious software" list - it might be blocking the exe when it's trying to run. If none of that works, uninstall, redownload and reinstall the game. 3a) When you uninstall, please be sure to manually delete all the files that are left in your PAYDAY 2 Beta folder. Steam doesn't automatically delete these files and they can sometimes cause problems. These files are usually located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\PAYDAY 2 Beta If that doesn't work, get back to Almir at almir@overkillsoftware.com and we will look into it further. Please note that the 3rd step needs to be done properly! Steam can fool you that the game has installed by showing a shortcut on your desktop before the game has finished installing. If you start the game before the installation or download is complete the process will stop and the install will be corrupt! If the installation doesn't work, it has to do with Steam. There's nothing wrong with the game itself that makes it unable to start. The game can crash for numerous reasons - PhysX can be out of date, wrong GFX drivers, corrupt install - but the game itself is OK. We will continue investigating all crashes that are reported. Please continue your hard work and have fun! OVERKILL

UPDATED LEVEL LIST (ALL LEVELS IN GAME): Framing Frame Day 1 Framing Frame Day 2 Framing Frame Day 3 SPOILER Day 1 SPOILER Day 2 SPOILER Day 3 Rats Day 1 Rats Day 2 Rats Day 3 Watchdogs Day 1 Watchdogs Day 2 Firestarter Day 1 Firestarter Day 2 Firestarter Day 3 Welcome to the Jungle Day 1 Welcome to the Jungle Day 2 Ukrainian Job Four Stores Jewelry Store Mallcrasher Nightclub Big Oil Day 1 Big Oil Day 2 Bank Heist: Cash Bank Heist: Gold Bank Heist: Deposit First World Bank Score: Airport Score: Crackhouse Score: Yacht Score: Docks Score: Crossing Heist: Casino Snitch Snatch Day 1 Snitch Snatch Day 2 Drought Day 1 Drought Day 2 Drought Day 3 Drought Day 4 Drought Day 5 Bring Me The Head Of Armando Garcia Day 1 Bring Me The Head Of Armando Garcia Day 2 Bring Me The Head Of Armando Garcia Day 3 Dead Drop Day 1 Dead Drop Day 2 War Is Fantastic Day 1 War Is Fantastic Day 2 War Is Fantastic Day 3 Cinderella Day 1 Cinderella Day 2 Cinderella Day 3 Cinderella Day 4 Cinderella Day 5 Turf War Day 1 Turf War Day 2 Turf War Day 3 On Display Day 1 On Display Day 2 Escape: Cafe Escape: Park Escape: Street Escape: Overpass Escape: Overpass Night Escape: Garage

Other Heists (confirmed): Ukranian Job Mallcrasher Job Firestarter Job (at least 2 days) Big Oil Job (at least 2 days) Framing Frame Job (at least 3 days) Here is a list of XBOX achievements that list the above information: http://www.exophase.com/game/payday-2-xbox/achievements/