Hellb0und

buzz-br, eu escrevi o LOL porque este forum não é para pedir ajuda com jogos piratas. Estou até surpreso ainda não o terem banido deste forum. LOL

LOL

Some people here know me from these and other forums although i have not been very active in any of those forums due to work. Now sit back because this is problably going to be long... About Starforce First thing i want to say is: I WILL NOT BUY Aftershock until an official patch is released to disable STARFORCE, and to enable us to play the game without the fear of getting our PC all messed up (Software AND Hardware). This goes for any other games that even mentions Starforce. I have too many legal software and hardware installed on my machine that i use for my work, to even consider the possibility of some damage. Damage i have witnessed on others. Even if it only caused me to install windows again, it's a pain in the ass spending almost 2 days installing all the drivers for my hardware and installing all the software i need again. I don't own any game with Starforce v.3xx, i do have some with Starforce v.2. But my neighbour recently bought Splinter Cell 3: Chaos Theory (it uses Starforce version 3.4.71.19), installed it and played it for a few hours... all good... until the next reboot. His DVD burner was F*****, and it was now only recording and reading CD's at really slow speeds, EVEN after a total HDD format and installing XP again (with my borrowed DVD-RW drive) his drive still didn't work properly. I was able to "save" his DVD-RW drive only by searching the net for a possible solution... had to download the firmware of his DVD-RW drive, and flash the bios of his DVD-RW drive with the downloaded firmware. After all this... guess what, he tried the Aftermath demo because i said it was good. Same thing all over again! I guess Starforce doesn't like his DVD drive... WRONG!My friend's PC(very similar to mine) runs everything fine. Doom3, Far Cry or HL2 on max details at 1280x1024 (LCD) average 90 FPS means anything to you? I run anti-spyware programs, anti-virus and system registry cleaners(and backup registry) at least once a week. I will not have software i don't want on my PC thanks. So unless i am sure that Starforce will not F*** up my system(software and hardware) i will NOT buy any Starforce game... sorry. Really... READ THIS: The War on Game Pirates and this Joystiq This is a quote from one of these links.. can't remember wich one... I've read so much about this these past few weeks that i'm going insane. I own UT, UT2003 and UT2004. And i was a happy puppy when i could finally play UT2004 not needing to have the DVD on the drive with a official patch. My UT2004 DVD is now inside it's case on a shelf WHERE IT BELONGS! Not getting ruined from the constant switching of media from the drive each time i want to play a game. I LOVE EPIC Games! I've seen people on other forums compare Steam from Valve (HL2) with Starforce. Nothing could be further from the thruth. HL2 CLEARLY states you need an internet connection to unlock/validate the game(only once) even if you buy it on a store. EDIT: I forgot to add, you HAVE to install Steam and have an account to even begin installing HL2 or any other Steam game. I paid for a Silver Package(i don't need all the extra crap that comes with the Gold package) through Steam with my credit card, one month before HL2 was released. I had the entire game downloaded to my HD weeks before the game was unlocked to play. The final version of HL2 was only pirated weeks after the game was out, NOT before. I do not need any CD or DVD on my drive, and Steam includes a BACKUP feature so i can burn it on CD's or DVD's. Starforce and other so-called copy protection software prevents this on the games that is "protecting". Remember those crappy audio CD's that wouldn't play on a PC drive? I'm having flashbacks... As long as i don't forget my Steam username and password, i'm safe. I can even install HL2 on several PC's, but only one can be logged on Steam at a time. I get at least 1 update / bug fix or whatever a week, new maps for HL2 DM, CS: Source, DOD: Source and new levels for HL2 like The Lost Coast 2 weeks ago. All this without the need to look for a website to download a patch or a map, and most require you to subsbcribe... screw that! I have also recently bought the game Rag Doll Kung Fu through Steam, couldn't be happier. It is patched when needed and more features will be added soon... all through Steam. Remember a cool FPS called SiN? SiN Episodes is going to be released through Steam. I will buy it. Steam is the way to go. I LOVE Valve! It is MY RIGHT to make backups of my legal audio/video/games CD's or DVD's. (At least in most of the EU) We already pay a tax for each recordable media we buy (CD-R/RW or DVD-R/RW), FOR WHAT? For me, ANY software that prevents itself or any other software from running on a perfectly legal copy of Windows and with a perfectly legal copy of the software in question, and has even the slightest possibillity to disable/damage Hardware (even if only on a software/bios level) should be ILLEGAL. This is a crime, just like if someone came into my home, robbed my legal CD's or DVD's or destroyed my Hardware. Same difference. =============================================================================== To finish my post (or rant if you will) read this quote from a post of the user Soulcommander on the UBISOFT forums: Oh, and if you run into a problem you think is caused by Starforce, don't bother to post on the Starforce forums because your thread will be locked and/or your post will be erased a few minutes later.[/b] Ok, i think i let it all out of my chest... now flame me if you want, i know i'm right.

flux, relax. the game is not out yet, and i'm sure a lot of people still don't know about those forums, i didn't. It will fill up in time

Sounds really cool, but unfortunately i can only look at the screenshots

This is much better now, great work

Looking good

hmmm, i don't think Alliance was going to be 100% FPS, weren't we supposed to be able to give orders to our team-mates? I can't remember... my memory is not what it once was...

I think this forum is great the way it is now. If you guys think this forum is too big and messy, take a look at this one http://www.ner-clan.net/global/ It's something like 10+ forums merged into 1. Trust me, i'm an admin on that forum and i have some more sub-forums than the "normal" ones you can see there. But it's not messy, not for me at least, i have all sub-forums collapsed by default. Everything is in it's right place, and i only go to the ones that interest me. Or i just click the "New Posts" link at the top. On the top you have a menu, on the right click the "NER Clans" option, here you have direct links to each country division. Each with it's own colour. Maybe something like this can be done here?

Well, if someone can contact the guy that makes those comics Pete could even add a feature on this site, something like "Comic of the Week/Month" with it's own topic

Ohhhh baby... Geoscapes always makes me drool

hmmm, so this is what they have been up to these last few months... Hope NAMCO payed the Gollops what geniuses like them deserve.

So many it's going to be difficult to make a top 5... Top 5 with no particular order: - X-Com (all 3 for various reasons) - Half-Life - Fallout (1 & 2) - Master Of Orion - System Shock (both) and would love to see System Shock 3 on the Source Engine Some more i couldn't fail to mention: - Jagged Alliance - Star Control II - Syndicate - Homeworld - Sam & Max - Day of the Tentacle - Grim Fandango - R-Type (for the Spectrum) ...

I voted "other". I LOVE turn-based games, but i think the best approach so far is the system used in Laser Squad: Nemesis, where each opponet plans 10 sec of movements ( force-fire/op. fire/hide... ) for all your units, and then you watch the results. ...and no, i don't play LSN for almost 6 months now.

I installed and payed for HL2 Silver Package in Steam a few months before the game was released. So i downloaded everything from Valve through Steam (including all HL2 files), never had a problem. Once the game came out, i just had to activate/decrypt the HL2 files i already had on my HDD and download a few more MB, it took me about 10 minutes. Done, no problems. This was done on release day, 8:00 AM here in Portugal. I got to play 20 min before leaving to work. 1 - Steam is intrusive and adds an overhead to HL2 in general and load times in particular Never noticed anything, i think Steam is the best thing Valve has done since the first HL. Never again i need to search and download updates for any of Valve's games. And from other companies that pay Valve to use Steam. 2 - Steam always loads at system start-up and slows down system performance Not true at all, it does use some system RAM, but not that much. I only load Steam when i want to. 3 - After successfully registering the game, Steam still requires the player to go online each time he wants to fire-up the game Not true at all, you register once, then you don't need to be online ever again. It has a Off-line mode you know? This is only true if you want to play online... duh! 4 - Steam bogs down the player with successive encrypt/decrypt sequences, large updates and a healthy dose of general banter/advertising Again, wrong! It just downloads updates for the games you choose to keep updated. I do get a pop-up once a week or something when i log-in to Steam, but only with news of what Valve is up to, or news about mods coming out. Like new maps for CS: Source and such. I don't call that advertising, i call that information. I only complain about the "Friends" part of Steam never seemed to work correctly.