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I preferred 3 over 4... And if you want tanks, get the Armoured Shield map; it's all about the vehicles.
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Gaming Noob Advice Please
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TacMaster
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Last time I played BF3 (sometime last year before I sold my PS3) there was pretty much no one populating the hardcore servers or the servers running expansion packs like Armoured Warfare. Just a word of warning there. I know it was PS3 and we're talking about XBLive here, but it's something to bear in mind- you won't find a great deal of players on most older online games.
That being said, I used to have Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 on my PS3 (came out in 2008, 3 years before Battlefield 3) and there were a lot of people still playing- although it was a really good game, one of the best in the tactical FPS genre IMO. You could customise your character's kit entirely, with a metric fuckton of camos, gear and apparel to choose from. A decent selection of weapons to choose from as well, just not a lot of customisation options- and the cover system! My god, it was absolutely brilliant! Here's a screenshot if anyone doesn't know what I'm on about:
You could blind fire, flip around corners and open up on the enemy, change stance while stacked onto a corner, reload, switch weapons, attach suppressors while in-game, shuffle along the cover and all sorts!
Here's a look at the customisation system too:
It was absolutely mega! You could choose shoulder, chest and leg armour, helmets, caps, bandannas, sunglasses, balaclavas, respirators etc for your head as well as a plethora of combat uniforms (no official names but some look very similar to real life clothing) and in so many patterns- it really puts a lot of modern shooters to shame, even now.
BF4 is close to it in customisation, but not quite close enough as every faction's character model in it has to wear sufficiently different clothing in their own countries patterns to differ from the other teams.
That being said, I used to have Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 on my PS3 (came out in 2008, 3 years before Battlefield 3) and there were a lot of people still playing- although it was a really good game, one of the best in the tactical FPS genre IMO. You could customise your character's kit entirely, with a metric fuckton of camos, gear and apparel to choose from. A decent selection of weapons to choose from as well, just not a lot of customisation options- and the cover system! My god, it was absolutely brilliant! Here's a screenshot if anyone doesn't know what I'm on about:
You could blind fire, flip around corners and open up on the enemy, change stance while stacked onto a corner, reload, switch weapons, attach suppressors while in-game, shuffle along the cover and all sorts!
Here's a look at the customisation system too:
It was absolutely mega! You could choose shoulder, chest and leg armour, helmets, caps, bandannas, sunglasses, balaclavas, respirators etc for your head as well as a plethora of combat uniforms (no official names but some look very similar to real life clothing) and in so many patterns- it really puts a lot of modern shooters to shame, even now.
BF4 is close to it in customisation, but not quite close enough as every faction's character model in it has to wear sufficiently different clothing in their own countries patterns to differ from the other teams.
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Don't upgrade your laptop, don't do it. Laptops aren't meant to be upgraded; you buy them and dispose of them when their life is up.
If you upgrade the processor, you'll just generate more heat that the laptop wasn't designed to handle, plus CPU power isn't the main thing for gaming, it's your graphics although I doubt you'll have a dedicated graphics card in it, only some sub par intel "HD" jimmies.
Console Pros:
It does sound like you wanna take it easy, so go buy yourself a console and a huge bean bag and relax like this dude: http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0185/7502/files/huge-bean-bag-chair.jpg?87
If you upgrade the processor, you'll just generate more heat that the laptop wasn't designed to handle, plus CPU power isn't the main thing for gaming, it's your graphics although I doubt you'll have a dedicated graphics card in it, only some sub par intel "HD" jimmies.
Console Pros:
- Easier on the hands
- More comfortable because arms closer together
- Easy to set up and go
- Less variety in games
- Movements aren't as precise
- More precise movements
- More variety in games
- Games are INFINITEY cheaper... All hail Gaben...
- Better frames
- A little more expensive
- Less comfortable position wise than console because arms further apart
- A little more complicated to set up for optimal performance
It does sound like you wanna take it easy, so go buy yourself a console and a huge bean bag and relax like this dude: http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0185/7502/files/huge-bean-bag-chair.jpg?87
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^^I'm going to upgrade my lappie processor in advance of Windows 10 because:
Bear in mind that support for Windows 7 has already ceased and Windows 8 is basically the same thing but optimised for tablets - HP Pavilion G6 lappies were designed to utilise 3 processors faster than the one which came in mine and I plan to install the fastest, an i7, so any additional heat is within the design parameters - i expect my fan will be on more often, but hey ho... that is the price of buying an E&L AKS-74M, upgrading her internals, and buying a gaming console plus games, all within a few months...
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The assasins Creed series are good Ian. Really enjoyed Black flag, and I'm playing Unity aswell. Have to be strategic most of the time, unless you want a massive sword fight with 12 guards or something 
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Support for Windows 7 hasn't totally ceased, just to the extent where you can't email them if your a muppet. The online resources/downloads will still be there for ages, they only totally stopped supporting XP a year ago. I certainly wont be touching windows 10 until perhaps 6months/a year after release, might actually work properly by then! The rule of windows releases state it should be good tho (they release good then shit windows every time, xp good, vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, 10 good i hope)
A quick glance suggests there's dif motherboards across the G6 series depending on spec, something to double-check before you buy a new processor. I would say new processor will gain you another year or so of use out of the laptop. Whether it's worth it is up to you. Just make sure you give the laptop a darn good cleanup/refurb when you swap it
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^^Yeah, apparently it's all about the CPU socket re: the motherboard design - mine is a G2 which is what the i7 needs so i just need to make sure the BIOS is fully up to date - i have the destructions link saved somewhere so should be good to go. For £50-ish posted it's well worth it, rather than a new lappie which would cost about £550 for what i'd need to replace what i have and keep pace with software design, if my g/f's research is anything to go by. I may end up getting a new one in January, if i see something too good to miss in the sales - in which case my current one upgraded should be worth at least a one-er a few months later.
Xbox One arrived this morning, but so far I just can't summon the energy to dismantle my system and integrate it. I'm concerned that I don't have a Toslink fibreoptic long enough too, but i paid for 1st Class postage for a 1m one in the wee wee hours of this morning* so it should be here 2moz, which will make the whole enterprise seem a lot more appealing since it will deffo end in success. And now i'm in danger of Ducking this post up, so i'll leave it here...
*the time at which those of us of advancing years wake up to urinate.
Xbox One arrived this morning, but so far I just can't summon the energy to dismantle my system and integrate it. I'm concerned that I don't have a Toslink fibreoptic long enough too, but i paid for 1st Class postage for a 1m one in the wee wee hours of this morning* so it should be here 2moz, which will make the whole enterprise seem a lot more appealing since it will deffo end in success. And now i'm in danger of Ducking this post up, so i'll leave it here...
*the time at which those of us of advancing years wake up to urinate.
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Yeah i'd have to agree 50 squid aint bad to keep a laptop afloat! The gf's right there too, 5-600 is what you need minimum for a laptop destined for more than ms office and surfing the web, 400 does the trick if thats all you need.
GL with the xbox, told it's a pain to setup initially, but can't be worse than my PS3, every time i turn it on there's half-hour of updates either for the console or the game i want to play! I hadn't played Gran turismo 6 in about a year so brushed the dust off and tried to have a go. was 17 updates and total of 10gb, even worse i had to do it a few updates at a time or it froze when trying to apply them. After a week of half-attention every eve i finally got it playable online!
GL with the xbox, told it's a pain to setup initially, but can't be worse than my PS3, every time i turn it on there's half-hour of updates either for the console or the game i want to play! I hadn't played Gran turismo 6 in about a year so brushed the dust off and tried to have a go. was 17 updates and total of 10gb, even worse i had to do it a few updates at a time or it froze when trying to apply them. After a week of half-attention every eve i finally got it playable online!
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My Xbox set up experience was rather straight foward and easy, just plugged in two leads in two different holes lol. I'd say the hardest part Ian is going to be creating yourself an Xbox live acount, typing is really a pain in the arse without one of the little keyboards that clip into the controller. Had one for my 360, made things a lot smoother!
As well as gaming they're good for Netflix and watching DVD's.
Be warned though, you have to install games before you play them,its not too bad though, once they get to like 12 percent or something you can usually start playing and it'll download while you play. Seemed like an eternity to me though when I wanted to play Assasins creed and had no games installed
As well as gaming they're good for Netflix and watching DVD's.
Be warned though, you have to install games before you play them,its not too bad though, once they get to like 12 percent or something you can usually start playing and it'll download while you play. Seemed like an eternity to me though when I wanted to play Assasins creed and had no games installed
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Set up wasn't too bad, only about 10mins of updates to d/l and swapping a few light pipes and cables around, but it turns out that plugging my TiVo into the Xbox to play through reduces the bit depth of colour of the TV signal - it looks ok on HD content but it's not something i'm prepared to put up with on most stuff (i only record stuff in HD which i would prefer to have on DVD but don't yet - being stuck at home so much due to health means i prefer to have the hundreds of hours of content recording at lo-res provides) so i've had to order an HDMI splitter so i can still attach my lappie to my telly occasionally - here's hoping the splitter lives up to the seller's blurb re: resolution...
Played about 4hrs of Ori to get used to using the controller - it's going to be a while before i'm thumb-fit to face the genpop on Live :lol:
Oh yeah and i think i will get one of those keyboard attachments!
Played about 4hrs of Ori to get used to using the controller - it's going to be a while before i'm thumb-fit to face the genpop on Live :lol:
Oh yeah and i think i will get one of those keyboard attachments!
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Dont know what head the Z -tacticals use Ian but this might be of some use : http://www.rakuten.co.uk/shop/bossdeals/product/885370669985/?sku=885370669985&scid=stylight%26_%24ja%3Dtsid%3A71108|kw%3Apc_ebay_uk|cgn%3Apc_ebay_uk&sclid=a_pla_uk
On a side note, you could invent the adaptor and make a fortune from all the "keyboard Warriors" looking to get tactical in the living room lol
On a side note, you could invent the adaptor and make a fortune from all the "keyboard Warriors" looking to get tactical in the living room lol
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^^The problem is the Nexus connector - it's by no means cheap to get anything to do with them because they're used on helicopters so, even though they are made in the same way, using the same materials, as 1/4" TRS jacks and sockets (but they're TRRS) ie standard stereo headphone gear, somehow they're magically more valuable :lol: Unfortunately the official Microsoft headset adapter wouldn't work because it is designed for stereo headphones with a mono mic - in theory it wouldn't be difficult to make, but the problem with anything bodged is how durable would it be once attached to a controller? I've only played a few hours and i already realise that sooner or later i'm going to break the thumb sticks and, no doubt, the involuntary movements i make with my body while holding it will one day damage the standard headset fitting...
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