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That can change once we have the source. No need to convert Dark Mod to Prey, just implement the best features of Prey in the Doom 3 engine.

Anno furis is correct - "from the year of the thief".

I like such uses of the mouse to control position, there were several in Rainbow Six where you carefully open doors or lean by using the mouse wheel in conjunction with some modifier key.

You may be pleasantly surprised by what you can get away with in the Doom 3 engine -- this is not crappy TDS with its ultra-low performance and instability. BSP holes are a thing of the past, and with judicious use of normal-maps you can simulate a lot of high-poly detail that would otherwise be impossible.

Frontier Elite 2 was the most playable game ever. You had absolute freedom to travel around wherever you wanted, making money by trading, piracy, mining, carrying out quests for people or whatever.

The Bonehoard remains one of my favourite ever Thief levels. It may lack the evil genius of RTC (both incarnations) but there's something I loved about those labyrinthine passages and stone walkways.

It could be a health and safety thing of some kind, perhaps it would be too dangerous to allow hordes of drunken louts to descend on a swimming pool. Are you sure they "forced" rather than "recommended"? I'm pretty sure that FIFA has no such authority in the UK, although things may be different in Germany.

You're going to need to pay a hell of a lot more than £850 in that case.

It depends how important the "extreme" factor is. My X850XT/P4-3.4GHz/1024MB machine will play Doom 3 and Quake 4 perfectly well, but might struggle with Crytex or Unreal 3 (never tried them).

That just about covers it. In my company we are constantly told about minimising costs etc, or that they don't have enough budget to give inflation-linked raises to anyone outside of the small group of top performers, but the CEO still manages to take home millions in bonuses. The exact same thing happened when we were outsourced from the public sector to a private organisation - half the support team were transferred to doing worthless process crap which helps nobody, while the rest of the team ended up with twice the work and a quarter of the time in which to do it (new SLAs as part of the contract). Guess whose fault it was when the targets weren't met?

Yeah I did that as well actually - the shotgun is cool but it has such an unrealistic spread-factor which makes it almost useless at distances of more than 10 feet. I changed the spread from 22 to 2 to get a much more accurate and usable weapon.

You really don't want to be using your swapfile - if this is the case, buy more RAM. With 1.3 GB you won't have a problem though, as Gildoran said this is a bug in the editor which may be fixed with the latest patch.

I think it is a bug actually - "only" 80% memory left. I seem to remember it being discussed on D3W but I can't remember if there was a solution.

If you import a prefab with name "object_1" and you already have an "object_1" in your map, then the imported object becomes "object_2". I tested this by importing a prefab with a single model several times, and each time the number was incremented. I don't think any target translation happens, as this is just a key/val on the entity which will be imported as-is (just like color or classname).

Not homosexuality specifically, there is a strong human instinct against anything unusual or different. This is where most forms of prejudice come from, whether it's homophobia, racism, fear of people with "strange" disabilities or whatever. It is certainly not "normal", as far as statistics is concerned, but that doesn't make it unnatural. Similarly, a dislike of homosexuality is natural in the same way that human aggression is natural, although this obviously cannot be used to justify acceptance of it in a modern society.

In an office environment it probably wouldn't happen anyway, because people tend to just laugh things off. It is always a problem with remote collaboration based on written communications that people get more riled up than in real life, because arguments in text form come across as more formal and uncompromising.

Integrating third party software is unlikely to be a possibility until the Doom 3 code is open-sourced, except perhaps in limited situations (I think the physics engine is fairly modular for instance).

unbind "F5"

Either that or Sir Ian McKellen.

If your 7600GT is having difficulty playing HL2 at 800x600 you have some serious configuration/driver issues.

I think the idea is that since such a feature would be very desirable from a realism and gameplay perspective, the fact that it has not been implemented in any major game suggests that the effort required to implement it is prohibitively high. It's more a question of development time than competence.

Not exactly. Unless the core functionality has been overridden, the "climbable" property is set in the material definition for the texture applied to the ladder object. Enabling this option would require duplicate materials to be created, confusing the author and cluttering the texture selection tools.

Wow, Kingers gets around a bit doesn't he?

There is not much that can. Their case is based on superstition which is not supported by any rational argument I was not suggesting that there is some evolutionary advantage to homosexuality. I am fairly sure it is little more than random chance, as you say, but concern for evolution is not what inspires the invective. In fact, the sort of person who rants about the evils of homosexuality is usually the same sort of person that believes the world was created in six days.

I used to have one, I'll gladly reopen it if people want to send me free money...