Beketov

If you’ve picked up AW and didn’t have intentions of playing the campaign, you may want to change your mind. I usually enjoy the CoD campaigns but find them kinda repetitive and short: AW however is not disappointing. I haven’t finished it yet but so far the story is good, things are fresh, gadgets are fun and I don’t feel like I’m doing it just to get the trophies. I don’t think I’ve enjoyed a CoD campaign this much since CoD 4.

It sucks but it happens. I get why you're upset but nothing can be done. We aren't going to go back and re-do two full sims for both leagues (they are connected, if one goes the other does) just because 1 specific VHLM player had an issue. I'm not even sure we could if we wanted to. As for getting traded without warning, that's not even a league issue. That's between you and your GM (or former I guess) so bring it up with him.

Beketov and I'll be bringing the Scotch

Only had about 1.5 hours to play AW but first impressions are good. The new movement mechanics feel natural and the maps are decent. I can't say for any other game mode (only played Hardpoint) but from my experience, don't expect to come in and wreck even if you did before. Maybe it's not knowing the maps yet but the death counts are rather high for most players. You don't die as fast as ghosts but still pretty quick, plus the added elevation and a lot of flanking routes leads to quite a few deaths. most people I've seen are hovering around a 1.0 k/d right now. I'll get a bit more in depth tonight when I have a bit more time with it. Gonna do the campaign tomorrow night once double XP is worn off.

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Gonna pick my PS4 copy up in 2 hours when EB opens. I got on the hype train hard this year so I'm really hoping it doesn't disappoint.

Not sure if mad works but annoyed definitely does. My work / downloads drive has decided to crap out which means I had to pay $240 (fuck HDD manufacturers and their hatred of Firewire) to replace it. PLUS I have to run the drives 11+ hours in order to transfer the 1.5TB of data over before my old drive goes to shit. Added bonus: It’s probably just a partition problem which means it just needs to be reformatted but I had nothing large enough to put everything on.

This losing and not getting any points (personally) thing is getting really old really fast.

CnC?

Definitely need more security if a man can just walk in with a rifle. That is not proper procedure. Reports now are saying possible shots fired in the Rideau Centre which, for those unfamiliar, is a mall. Majorly concerning if this is in fact what's happening. Edit: Ottawa Police have apparently confirmed shots at the Rideau Centre.

I've done this test before and gotten a perfect score. Obviously don't have a screenshot or any proof but I remember doing it.

Reports aren't completely clear right now but a soldier was shot at the war memorial in Ottawa and then at least one shooter went into the parliament building. 1 confirmed dead in parliament but shots were fired after that point so at least 2 shooters are likely (although unconfirmed) involved with semi-automatic rifles. I don't remember if we have any members based out of Ottawa but if we do hopefully you are all staying safe. I know Moncton went through a similar situation a few months ago and it was rough on the nerves so I'm hoping everyone is staying safe.

Effort: 2/2 - Yeah, I can see some effort put forth here. Look: 2.25/3 - The BG is alright and the text fits better than I believe it should. Unfortunately that’s about where the positives end here. The lighting is washing it out / is all over the place, it’s very contrasted and the effects are a little bit all over the place. Creativity: 1/1 - Sure Total: 5.25/6

Effort: 2/2 - Is that the Roman coliseum in the BG? Nice touch. Also, good effort. Look: 2.5/3 - Not a lot of blending going on, not a lot of lighting going on, text is alright but not great. With that said, none of those things are MAJORLY messed up. It doesn’t hurt the sig basically. This sig just feels a little bit unfinished to me. It has enough to be great though and I like where you’re going with it. Creativity: 1/1 - Yup Total: 5.5/6

Effort: 2/2 - I can 100% see the effort here. Look: 3/3 - Beautiful piece. Great colours, great effects, beautiful background, nice focus with the blurring. The text is the biggest thing I would complain about and it’s not nearly bad enough to dock for. Creativity: 1/1 - Yup Total: 6/6 Final: 6/6

Effort: 2/2 - Yup, the effort is definitely here in this. Look: 2.5/3 - I really enjoy the washed out classic look from around the render but the edges of the sig are WAY too contrasted, especially compared to the centre. The effects are okay and the text style is good but gets hurt by the aforementioned contrast. Creativity: 1/1 - Yup Total: 5.5/6

Effort: 2/2 - Manips can take some work, I can see the effort here. Look: 2.25/3 - Bushito is definitely not blind, he’s spot on with this. The blue is way too strong and the contrast needs to be majorly toned down. Text is good positioning wise but the font choice definitely needs some work. The effect work is okay but does need to be toned down a bit. Creativity: 1/1 - Yup Total: 5.25/6 Final: 5/6

Agreed. I skinned IF for years and know it left right and center but coding this is really weird for some reason.

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I think this skin definitely needs some work (suggestions below) but people also need to understand that there’s no magic button that will turn Boubabi’s photoshop mockup into a skin. It takes quite a bit of work and even that thing does need some tweaks IMO. As for this one, I think the main problem is trying to keep the board as a light skin (likely because it always has been) while working with a dark palette. There’s no good way to make a Black and Gold colour scheme work with a white board, it just won’t happen. With that said, I could be just bitching early and that’s coming. Definitely more work is needed though, especially on larger (read: proper) resolutions.

I haven't looked at the skin on my iMac yet but if it looks like that shitty version at 1080 than someone really fucked up. Skins should always be built for larger resolutions since things will always scale down fine AND should never use set pixel amounts (use percentages) so that it scales properly. The answer can't be to tell the people with better monitors to just zoom in.

Fucking TOR G and his steroids.

This was one of the options when we switched to this board. It wasn't a great idea then and it certainly won't be now. I get that history would be retained and everything and shakeups are always fun but what happens after that first insanely deep draft? I lived through how shallow some of the early drafts were and that was with the VHL being a fresh face. If we were to need a pile of drafts now with only first gens I don't think we could do it. At the end of the day the idea sounds fun but it creates more problems then it fixes. Hell, I'm not sure exactly what problems it does fix. Having a season 1 super draft is always fun but having it after 40 seasons isn't logical.