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  1. I just found this out the hard way, apparently if you have to much gear, which weights a person down, and you go in the water, not to the point of swimming just a little bit in from land edge, a player will lose all their gear. A player can get the most of the stuff back, you would have to go prone in the water and try to find most of it. Which sucks for me, I lost my bag and all its wonderful gear which I was only 50m away from putting it in my tent. Shit, I should of stopped at tent first and drank last.

     

    Also Berenzino has a evac tent area now. I came across it last night. Its on the southwest side on the soccer field. That was a nice addon they put in mod. Every time I passed that soccer field I always thought it would be cool to see a evac area with tents.

  2. I like the mod, there is zombie killing and pvp, and also alliances. Each time getting in a game a player doesn't know what he or she will encounter. Its a different style of playing, not run in there and shoot the zombies or whatever. There is a high learning curve, but once you find out what works, its a treat to play. It keeps my heart pounding all the time!

     

    Sometimes linking up with people is good, but also going solo is beneficial. A player takes in account that day or moment agenda. Everyone has their own way to survive. I tend to keep moving, I don't like to stay in one place to long. I like to get in and out of a building as soon as I can and head back in the woods.

     

    I personally like the game the way it is and hope they don't change much to it, but fix the bugs and keep improving on the gameplay.

  3. You might also want to check this mod out for it,

    http://www.moddb.com/mods/revamp-mod

     

    I downloaded all the part and it has a launcher to use to select which one you should use. And it wont overwrite your vanilla game. You can use this with the DLC stuff.

     

    I use:

    Mod Support Minimod v7

    Revamp Expansion Mod V1.05

    Revamp Expansion Mod 1.05 patch

    Revamp Map Pack v1.1

    No Decal Mod

    Revamp Balance Mod

     

    Most of the time I don't use the balance mod. The balance mod makes the shields stronger and the experimentals harder to build, but when you build one they can be hard to take out.

     

    No Decal mod fixes glitches in the texture maps, without it, there will be some black triangle textures left on map after a battle.

  4. Last night I thought I was at Berenzino and on the east coast, the while time I was on the south coast around Kamenka. The air strip I came across was Balota. A person can get turned around at night.

     

    Finally made it to the airfield northeast, it was long journey!

  5. My girlfriend friend sent here this picture of her dog, she showed me while I was driving on highway and I had to pull over because I was laughing so hard.

     

    photo.jpg

  6. I was playing against easy Chinese on highway map, can't remember the name of map, 2v2, and I had a hard time with them. An earlier game with chinese proved to be good, but this one was different. Some how they had a lot of mobilized armor early on and I couldn't stop them. I can't really say this early on if it was a balance issue. I think I could of counter it with more AT stuff. We'll see how it goes, but I am not really feeling the mod to much. I like the WWII to stuff with Company of Heroes, the two seem to go hand-in-hand.

     

    Another thing, first game I played after I installed mod, it crashed on me in middle of game. Also the second level building wasn't available to me after I unlocked it. Some kind of bug. So be warned playing this mod, you might be in risk of crashing in middle of game. I don't know if that messes up a players rank.

  7. I'm guessing you don't have a Steam version of IL-2. I do not have a conf.ini in that location you specified, only in my Steam/steamapps/common/IL 2 Sturmovik 1946 folder.

     

    Anyway, definitely makes a difference. Thanks for the info.

     

     

    - JHunter

     

    No, I have a hard copy of the game. If the conf.ini in the steam folder changes it, then you should be good. I guess a way to test to see if it works is change the resolution. I know with hard copies of game there will be two conf.ini one hidden in the doc and other in game folder. The one in game folder won't work if you change something.

     

    Yeah it makes a different.

  8. Some of you may know this and some of you may not, but in the config file for IL2 there are some things a user can change to get slightly better graphics from game. There are two locations of the conf.ini file, there is one in the main IL2 directory and another in (on my Windows 7 PC) your username/AppData/Local/VirtualStore/ProgramFiles(x86)/Ubisoft/IL-2 Sturmovik1946, this is the one that needs to be edited.

     

    In this cong.ini resolution can be changed, if you do that make sure SaveAspect=0

     

    This game only can run right when using Opengl32.dll, so when you edit stuff you will go to bottom and edit below [Rend_OpenGL]

     

    This is what mine looks like edited:

     

    [Render_OpenGL]

    TexQual=3

    TexMipFilter=2

    TexCompress=0

    TexFlags.UseDither=1

    TexFlags.UseAlpha=0

    TexFlags.UseIndex=0

    TexFlags.PolygonStipple=1

    TexFlags.UseClampedSprites=0

    TexFlags.DrawLandByTriangles=1

    TexFlags.UseVertexArrays=1

    TexFlags.DisableAPIExtensions=0

    TexFlags.ARBMultitextureExt=1

    TexFlags.TexEnvCombineExt=1

    TexFlags.SecondaryColorExt=1

    TexFlags.VertexArrayExt=1

    TexFlags.ClipHintExt=0

    TexFlags.UsePaletteExt=0

    TexFlags.TexAnisotropicExt=1

    TexFlags.TexCompressARBExt=1

     

    TexFlags.TexEnvCombine4NV=1

    TexFlags.TexEnvCombineDot3=1

    TexFlags.DepthClampNV=1

    TexFlags.SeparateSpecular=1

    TexFlags.TextureShaderNV=1

     

    HardwareShaders=1

     

    Shadows=2

    Specular=2

    SpecularLight=2

    DiffuseLight=2

    DynamicalLights=1

    MeshDetail=2

    VisibilityDistance=3

     

    Sky=2

    Forest=3

    LandShading=3

    LandDetails=2

     

    LandGeom=2

    TexLarge=1

    TexLandQual=3

    TexLandLarge=1

     

    VideoSetupId=3

    Water=2

    Effects=1

    ForceShaders1x=0

    PolygonOffsetFactor=-0.15

    PolygonOffsetUnits=-3.0

     

     

    Edit these entries:

     

    HardwareShaders=1

     

    Forest=3 (This adds 3D trees around landscape, its different that the large patches of trees. These are single patches of trees. This makes the landscape look more sparse and real.)

     

    Water=2 (This is better than older water and runs better than =3. Some peoples PC maybe able to use =3 water. I use =2 it looks good and there isn't much drop in FPS.)

     

    Other ones can be adjusted but they don't do anything noticeable. I think I tried to adjust LandGeom=3, I think adds more geometry to landscape and takes some of the flatness out. I didn't notice anything when I turned it =3, maybe a noticeable drop in FPS.

     

    Anyways those are the main 3 that I change and makes the game look prettier. Hope you guys try it out and see you soon in the air!

  9. What version of IL2 do I need to play with you guys. I am going to install it and update it to 4.101 and install Ultra Pack 3.0. I will make a separate install for what ever version you guys are using. Also are you guys using any version of Ultra Pack? I have version 2 saved on my hard drive, for version IL2 4.09m.

  10. Here is some keyboard commands that are not set in game already and you have to bind them. There are blank, so there is no worry of taking up another key. I find the ones I came up with work pretty good.

     

    Nav Lights - N

    Landing Lights - L

    Wings Fold - O

    Arrester Hook - H

    Chocks - J

    Canopy - K

    Lock Tail Wheel - D

    Raise Gear Manually - Q

    Lower Gear Manually - E

    Air Brake - \

     

    These ones are more for bombers, but they still come in handy:

     

    Open Close Bomb Bay Doors - Caps lock

    Toggle Level Auto Pilot - Shift + A

    Level Stabilizer - Space

  11. Can we get the regular Arma II server back up. It went down last night, they tried to restart it but it never came back on. Sorry I'm not on TS right now or I would ask someone.

     

    Thanks!

  12. What do I need to play in the ACE server besides ACE 1.1? Can I just download ACE 1.1 to jump in the ACE server or will I need or mods?

     

    Glad to be back! Miss killing cheating AI with you guys.

  13. When ever I create a deck or browse for cards on trading bots, I make sure I only see the standard cards. You can do that up top were it says "All Cards (Online)" and make it show "Standard".

    This way it is not so overwhelming when building decks and buying cards. The interface up top is very useful, so use it a lot.

  14. Here are the free card bots. On the search engine in the trade area, type these names to bring them up:

     

    MTGOTradersfreebot - (They offer 64 free common cards every 30 days and they have tons of new cards).

     

    Guild - (free one time 64 cards, they are older cards, but you can sell them on other places later on and get a few newer ones).

     

    Type Free and you should see one more down the list - (Free one time older 64 cards).

     

     

    Here is a list of good deal bots:

     

    Abukay sells - 10 rares / 40 uncommons / 200 commons for 1 Tix

     

    Z0 or Z1 or Z2 sells - 8 rares / 20 uncommons / 100 commons for 1 Tix

     

    Gecard (there are two bots) sells - 10 rare / 32 uncommon / 100 commons 1 Tix

  15. What I am really missing in the game is that you can´t build your own decks. You have to take the custom decks and can just replace them with some of these gold cards. The beauty of that game is to build your own deck with different color combinations.

     

    BTW my nick is: lex_luger

     

    I haven´t figuared out yet how to play online.

     

    Are you playing Magic the Gathering Online or the steam version: Magic the Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalker? They are two different things.

     

    Here is link to the site: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Digital/MagicOnline.aspx?x=mtg/digital/magiconline/howdoi

     

    And yes you can build and buy cards. The deck editor tab is on bottom of window screen.

     

    The steam version of the game or Xbox version of Magic does allow a person to play online with other players, but they are only allowed to use the decks they win and aren't really editable.

     

    The Magic the Gathering Online is like the real thing but in the digital world. When you create an account you get over 500 cards that are put in a virtual binder and can be sorted. The cards can be traded, sold and used to make a deck.

     

    I hope you get the right one and get it sorted out, I would love to play some of you guys over there.

  16. Yeah the interface of MTGO is kind of hard to get use to. They give you regular cards and then they give you the Planeswalker gold cards. You can trade or play against any other cards but Planeswalker. I guess they are cards they imported over from the XBox and PC game of the same name. They are more for beginners getting use to the game.

     

    If you buy some of those Event Tickets for $1 you can go on the trade place and find bots sometimes selling 200 or 100 commons for one Event Ticket. Its a great way to build decks.

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