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that is very, very good advertising. edit: oh hes streaming random crap for 10 minutes at a time. well whatever.

ttlg would be a better bet considering the last unofficial patch released.

Hall leaving is probably a disaster. I say this as an avid mod player since the beginning. There is so much stuff that the core mod never incorporated, and standalone goals shoot far beyond them. I dont think the team is technically inept, but the whole dayz thing was rockets vision, and that vision is far from complete. I think similar to TDM, the work will never be done. There will always, always be more room for cool things, fixes to things that seem broke, tweaks, rebalances, new assets, new maps, etc etc. Without Rocket, I'm afraid the overall direction of the mod may lose its way after a time, even if continual 'progress' toward new 'things' is made at a steady pace. Kind of the way you would worry about a kid and his development into an adult if his loving and nurturing parents died when the kid is age 13. Progress has been made, but theres still a loooong way to go, and a lot of grey area in between. If hall leaves at any point inside the next year, DayZ will not be anywhere close to its final form.

oh man, so excited about hunting. my gameplay in dayz mod has always revolved around running through the woods, setting up storage caches of items in pine trees and writing down their gps locations, and occasionally popping up at a treeline outside a town to see whats going on near 'civilization'. hunting will bring a lot of my desired gameplay style back to the game. I never have problems with food/drink even in the mod as it stands now, but it'll be much closer to how I want to play.

So, unbelievably, I've never purchased a dedicated gaming keyboard or mouse, or furthermore any keyboard/mouse that costs above $10 each. The ones i have now i've been using since i dunno 2010, 2009? feet grips rubbed off, when I play any game, every 5 minutes i need to slide the keyboard back to the edge of the tray every 5 minutes or so, and its not backlit, so i end up fumbling a lot with the less-used keys while playing in the dark. and playing in the dark is what we do. cuz its dark mod. Also no extra function keys on the mouse, its m1, m2, m3+wheel. and the wheel button is completely jackshit worthless, I always end up scrolling forward or back once or twice trying to press it. I don't have a terrible lot of money, so i was thinking i dunno, maybe a $50 mouse right now, and then 2 weeks later maybe a $50 keyboard, and I was getting all prepped for the specs to research, and the pricepoints to expect, and I browsed through the entire Razer product line as a starting point, just to see what ridiculously overpriced stuff looks like. And then this happened: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823129030 I mean, I'm used to giving my mouse a few technical taps when it doesn't move properly, and having a coefficient of friction problem where I have to put a bit much force just to get the thing going, and by then its far too late for small precision movements, I usually end up using the momentum I've built up to run in little circular movements to get pinpoint accuracy. So, basically, even really mediocre starter gear is going to be a huge improvement for me. $30 combo with back lighting, and adjustable DPI mouse with extra function keys. I can't even... how is this beatable? Is there really a point to shopping any more?

I think its more like leaving for vacation for a week, and pre-emptively mailing back a treat to your pet for not crapping on the carpet while you were gone.

well the leaked livestreams have released a complete whirlwhind maelstrom of negative energy. It's no wonder they've been trying to keep 'real' gameplay footage and reviews under wraps until release when preorders can't be cancelled. Speaking of which, I hope those of you who have pre-ordered this game feel dirty and ashamed for supporting the pre-order cash-grab production model based on brand loyalty. But I guess not everyone feels as strongly as I do on that subject.

don't forget to take the time to enjoy the AI's brief teleport rotation to align himself cleanly for the takedown animation. The AI are quite helpful in that respect. edit: thinking on it, I'm quite surprised that theres just so much stuff to be dissapointed and upset about that we all forgot to make 20 page threads devoted to hating on takedown animations.

http://www.ttlg.com/...l=1#post2236359 a fairly in-depth report from someone who watched the streams from start to finish. pretty daunting stuff. some highlights: For myself, I've noticed in several spots in the stream where if you walk on some glass near an AI it causes an instantaneous chain reaction of every AI in 100m radius to instantly bumrush you, and some other stuff that was just abysmal. Also, blue fucking fog. not even the grates you climb through to hide level loading. there is legit freakin blue fog in this game. a lot of it. Also you can apparently complete the game without picking up a single piece of loot and still be rewarded with money at the end of a level to buy your leet upgrades.

not all that great with c++ but i've been poking around. Working under the assumption that traversing components with GlobalSelectionSystem.foreachSelectedComponent(SelectionVisitor visitor) is the only way to get this done. I can't find anything undocumented here that might help. I think it's gotta be coded. heres my findings: class SelectionVisitorWrapper : public SelectionSystem::Visitor, public boost::python::wrapper<SelectionSystem::Visitor> { public: void visit(const scene::INodePtr& node) const { // Wrap this method to python this->get_override("visit")(ScriptSceneNode(node)); } }; nspace["SelectionVisitor"] = boost::python::class_<SelectionVisitorWrapper, boost::noncopyable>("SelectionVisitor") .def("visit", boost::python::pure_virtual(&SelectionSystem::Visitor::visit)); as far as I can tell, with patch verts selected, this just gives access to the patch node itself inside the visit function. If a PatchControl object for each component could be passed during each visit along with the node, problem is solved. i'm not good enough at coding to do this though.

i dunno about tdm, but he is captainspandex or something on ttlg

biker did you read the legal mumbo jumbo about how TDM team members, family of, and affiliates cannot win the contest? could have changed though. with all this adding and removing garbage thats been going on, its possible that it was only a clause when the team was supposed to be part of the judging.

thanks for this. list comprehensions were introduced as a sort of post-script of this newbie python challenge i'm doing as part of a possible sort solution, but i'm still having problems wrapping my head around them, and the utility they can provide in different situations. Also, about this: ordered = wordlist[2:] + wordlist[:2] the whole [2:] thing with the colon. what is that thing even even called. Sometimes I understand how its being used and other times I don't. I know it can be used for precision and other stuff, but I really need to look it up and just read on it. Lastly, about flip sort flip code. There was explained after the challenge about ways to do this sort of thing without writing independent functions, or maybe i understood it wrong. something about sorting with like lambda keys, like stuff.sort(key = lambda, a: doStuff(a)) or something like that. Completely lost on that. no idea how this works, and the sort() documentation in the standard library on the subject is greek to me.

trying to do more python stuff. hard to google this because i don't even know the technical term for what i'm looking for. basically, i want to sort a list of strings. but I don't want to sort it starting at the first character. i want to sort it based on a substring starting after the 2nd whitespace character. i have no idea how to implement something like this. Example list: 5935345 N Butt St 32 S Butt St 1232 W Widget Way even better would be an additional way to remove the direction of the street from the equation entirely, like if everything between 1st/2nd whitespace delimiter is only 1 character, ignore and sort starting after the next whitespace, otherwise sort it as is. Basically I'm not sure how to work with relative char positions in strings, or how to sort based on char position edit: i think i found the way to obtain the key i want to sort by for each string target = myString.rpartition(' ')[0] should return the 2nd to last segment of characters as a string so now, the thing is, how the crap do i sort a list of dictionaries by the key 'address' where the value of that key in each dictionary is some random string in address format, but the value i want to sort by is the substring of that string as derived above? I can't figure out how to use sort() to do this. Do i need to write my own sort function, or am i missing something?

watched some of the stream. i actually witnessed the guy escape a chase when he got busted by running to a bluefog-esque loading screen to another zone. *sigh*. also the super-cool contextual audio we were supposed to be treated to is garbage. its some background ambient, and when you get busted, queue up the dubstep. thats it. it doesn't even transition well at all.

oh god, those quotes...

"Cock Rings and Whores...A+" - Broken Glass Studios, 2014

STiFU is team darkmod. he would probably know. and if that is the case, i could give fuck-all about the contest. just looks like "TDM is hardcore, and they support Thi4f, so you should buy it". garbage.

if TDM gains access to thief IP and stays free of SE/EM control, i'm happy as a pig in shit.

looks awesome. prolly want to stick an AI in there to verify the scale though. gonna want a new shadowmesh too.

having some issues with the python workflow i've set up. i'm using notepad++ for editing and running python programs with a command i saved as a shortcut, which is pythonw "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)" i'm having problems with this now for creating files with open("mystuff.abc", "wb"). I've tried running my .py file in notepad++ with that command while it was located on desktop, and c:\stuff, and i always get this error: IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied if i just run the interpreter by itself and do the same thing, it works fine and writes the file to d:\python27 which is my python install directory. i'd like to be able to run my shit from whatever working directory my .py file is at from notepad++. any hints on whats going on with the permissions here? edit: found this on stackoverflow: does that mean its trying to write the file at C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++ ???? and is that even illegal? re-edit: os.getcwd() yields C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++, still don't understand why its illegal to write a file here. also, would like to get back to a relative path to the .py file to write to. not sure how to do this re-re-edit: nevermind the whole damn thing, figured it out. open(os.path.dirname(__file__) + os.sep + 'mystuff.abc', 'wb')

use skybox instead.

http://rt.com/news/germany-counter-espionage-allies-316/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26210053 looks like US citizens aren't the only ones concerned about their privacy

I'm going as far as to say that it was an email stealing scam from the get-go. check the contest site. full name + email address for FREE VIDEO GAEMZ. Contest site is not a subdomain of EM/SE websites, and not even a peep from anyone on TDM team about this, or EM/SE. just a couple gaming news sites regurgitating some stuff they read somewhere.