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Originally Posted by James

Yeah, I guess. But even now the majority of games do not parallel-scale well. More to the point I'm thinking about Skyrim, with it's "LAA" bug/patch/fix/break/fix situation. The game only ran properly with LAA enabled. Games are getting bigger, they need more RAM. There has to be a reason for people to spend $90 on 16GB of RAM these days. :p

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Skyrim is a poor example though because they stuck with older tech like DX9. From the ground up that game was made to be lightweight. The graphics are absolutely stunning for the tech and the amount of graphical power you need to run it (hardly any.)

The big games that are being released right now have been in development for several years and the engine they run on are even older. I think in 2012-2013 we will start to see real multi-threaded games.

I know UE3 became natively multithreaded in 2009. UE4 will be built from the ground up to support multiple cores, so that should be a large turning point.

Supposedly ARMA III is going to have a minimum CPU requirement of an i5. That's the steepest requirement I've heard on anything be worked on with next year release.

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Originally Posted by Astros Fan

Supposedly ARMA III is going to have a minimum CPU requirement of an i5. That's the steepest requirement I've heard on anything be worked on with next year release.

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ARMA is about the most cpu intensive game ever though. I'm pretty sure they should have just listed ARMA2 as requiring an i5.

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Originally Posted by Vindir

ARMA is about the most cpu intensive game ever though. I'm pretty sure they should have just listed ARMA2 as requiring an i5.

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I agree, my I7 cranks on ARMA II. It's just on a couple of cores, but the game pegs them.

Nuclear Dawn free weekend...cool. I've been wanting to try this game out. One person plays commander and does the RTS, and the other 30 people run around FPS style blasting each other.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpWQWj7Vxc8

Anyone wanna do 4-pack buy in for Nuclear Dawn?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/17710/?snr=1_4_4__40

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Originally Posted by proxops-pete

Anyone wanna do 4-pack buy in for Nuclear Dawn?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/17710/?snr=1_4_4__40

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I want to try the game out first, but if I like it count me in. Maybe put a Sunday evening deadline on it or something? Unless you fill up the 4 pack by then. I really like the free weekends, you can get a good feel for a game in that time period. Like with Brink...glad I didn't waste any money on that! Free weekend saved me.

Yeah, I'm going to give it a try during the free weekend.

Just heard about this. Going to try it out first to see if I like it.

today only it is $7.50 at gamersgate. you can use the code in steam. That's cheaper than the 4 pack, but deal will die today.
http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-NDAWN/nuclear-dawn

played a round..game is awesome. Hopefully it wasn't just a fluke. Commander was VOIPing to everyone where to go and stuff. Has a flowy counterstrike feel to it with the movement. Probably b/c source engine. Same menu options, layout, etc. Just try it out.

*BTW count me out of the 4 pack. I bought it at gamersgate for $7.50 and just used the code and activated it on steam. That's $1.50 savings from the 4 pack and $4.49 savings off current single copy sale at steam. Never bought anything from gamersgate before...but this worked. Game also reminds me of BF2142. There are squads, objective points, and a commander. I think the community is very very small, though so risky, but had good ping on the servers with people in them. As long as there are a couple of servers, I'll be happy. I still play Day of Defeat:Source, and that has only 100-300 people a night on LOL.

Nice! Thanks Astros Fan! :D

I wanna be the commander! That was my favorite part of BF2... :D

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Originally Posted by Kamakazie

I wanna be the commander! That was my favorite part of BF2... :D

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Go for it! I know you like RTS, and that's exactly what it is. You build stuff, capture resources and you even get to sit inside a little bunker at a computer :) Build turrets, supply stations, spawn areas for the grunts like me to use.

you'll like this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT6oL...ayer_embedded#!

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Originally Posted by Astros Fan

Go for it! I know you like RTS, and that's exactly what it is. You build stuff, capture resources and you even get to sit inside a little bunker at a computer :) Build turrets, supply stations, spawn areas for the grunts like me to use.

you'll like this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT6oL...ayer_embedded#!

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omfg, that looks even better than BF2's commander mode. Downloading now.

oh, just figured out these guys made the insurgency mod, which was pretty BA for a source mod. Then CoD4 came out LOL. totally bad timing.

This game is kinda awesome. Bought.

The commander role fulfills my needs wonderfully, I only wish there could be more visibility for players that are calling for help.

Played for about 3 to4 hours. Fun game although I've noticed issues with character animations. The weapon balance needs major tweaking IMHO. Picked it up at gamer gate.

Is this still being supported by the devs?

EDIT: Saw it just released in Sept of this year so it should still be getting support.

A patch was just released yesterday, they're definitely still supporting the game.

Yeah they are pretty active with their support and have steam forum responses to threads and stuff. Reminds me of tripwire and killing floor's support.

I enjoyed it and had a couple of good games after you got off Kama. Some corner battles for position and at resource points are pretty hairy. Reminds me of company of heroes resource battles, but in first person.

All in all good purchase. Funny though that they released an update last night that only a couple servers had. So you had 5 full servers and 100 completely empty. Server list should be GTG today though.

I am going to be the best commander the game has ever seen! And I'll be a decent soldier too, I guess.

I[]ll be in the next hour or so if people want to party up.

New Steam holiday sale is live. From now to Jan 1st.

It begins!

Holy crap...a chance to win every game on steam. Man I wonder how much that is.