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hey Estuansis, you found the place. I saved your pic and your settings. Easy to find right? - just go to [edit] Riding Shotgun, and from the mouth of the tunnel hop down the river bank on your left. That's your 1800 - so later we can get a shot of your nvidia at 1920 x 1200, and then later we'll get Sam's shot. I saved your settings screen and the crowbar in the stream shot. Eventually we'll put them all next to each other for direct comparison of graphic card output. Your shot looks really nice.

Hey Sam, I found the Mile High Club. Not too bad on harden, particularly when I switched to the P90. The smg you start with has so few bullets and loads so slowly you have to do that. It took me about 5 tries. On veteran the best I did in two hours was to get to the top of the stairs a couple of times. Same as trying to get to the missile launch room - not worth trying to beat it, it gets to be really boring after a while. Again I tried to switch to P90, throw flash bangs, but only top of stairs twice in 2 hours so I'm done forever with SP on veteran. I did go back and play Death from Above - the AC-130 Spectre gunship - that is so trippy every time you play it, and the planes were definitely circling around so I believe it really is authentic. That I could play 10 times in a row and never get tired of it!!
Rich

 

Here's the kind of side by side I have in mind, guys. That's why if you get a chance to pop your EP2 on, in your nvidia rig, estuansis, just for that one river shot, then we'll have 3, then add Sam's later, that will give us 4 good comparisons. [Edit] Riding Shotgun, very beginning, in the river, picture of little island from tunnel end of river.

Here's my shot x850xtpe at 1600x1200 not all maxed, medium textures



and here's estuansis X1800XT at 1280x1024, very high textures



Sam has the best eye for detail - what do you think Sam, any difference?

Here are my settings:



and here are estuansis' settings:

 

Have you guys seen any reviews with 4870 crossfire vs GTX 280 SLI?

 

Yes, go to http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews.php?reviewid=585&pageid=5
and http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews.php?reviewid=579&pageid=7

I'm going to go back to Under the Radar very soon, and take pictures of everything pretty I come across... lol

 

Sam, everything you see that's pretty?! Wow, we're going to have some awesome screens here soon. Well just please make sure you also take THIS ONE PARTICULAR SCREEN so we can have an exact comparison. I notice that where Estuansis was standing, he caught the gap between the back hills, a little different from mine. He moved more to the right - his might be a better composition. If you like his better, shoot that one Sam and next week I'll reshoot mine.

I can't believe estuansis shot Alyx with the Hunter spear right through her back. Ouch!! That is a painful shot to look at. Estuansis, is nothing sacred to you!!!!!!!! LOL

I know, you try to make up for that blasphemy by showing her getting healed, but still . . .

I woke up last night thinking that Mile High Club, on veteran, is a shotgun map.

Several times I picked up the shotgun, and I was able to do some serious damage in the second cabin without even a flash bang. You can start the map running at full speed right past the guy coming out of the locker - duck left into the conference room - take out the shotgun guy, and then maybe you can immediately pick it up - or maybe exchange it for the pistol. He leaves it laying there halfway in the conference room. While you're reloading you can flash bang the cabin, then 6 shotgun blasts for six guys. (Then the shotgun takes about 4 or 5 painfully slow seconds to reload.) Then, 2nd cabin, 6 more blasts, and then Q quick change to the smg for the two more guys who come down the stairs. Reload the shotgun as you're walking upstairs and only 2-3 guys per cabin after that, as I recall.

Just a thought. I've never been a shotgun guy. But that might be how the aces who can do that map on veteran handle it. What do you think Sam? Hey Shaff, keep that in mind for when you go back in veteran. I might give it one more go next week, another two-hour shot. If so, I'll post what happens

 

A shotgun on an aircraft?

 

Well, shotgun or smg - bullets are flying all over the place and yes, the hull gets breached! lol

 

Hehe they are indeed, what a mission!

 

im a shotty heavy man. online, that IS my weapon, the w1200

AND THE MOFO, ZAKAYEV's SON, THE BAST*** KILLED HIMSELF

 

Haha, I was as cheesed off about that as you are!

 

OMG Shaff, you're one of those guys who comes around the corner and blows my friggin head off with your shotgun? I hate you guys! LOL Well, I do better when I'm 20 yards away, dancing around you with my P90 spraying like insane, and you're pumping and pumping trying to get me in your sights!

In that case, shaff, being a shotty guy, I think the last mission is made for you. See how the shotgun does on Harden for you. For me I love P90 like I said, but I have the strong feeling this is a shotgun map! If you get through that on veteran, we are all going to be very amazed and awestruck - am I right m8s?

 

To be honest, P90 and Shotgun are two of my favourite weapons...

 

well im on vetran, so i shall see

oh not ANOTHER P90er. well u can be spray around, but thats why i have my juggernaut, and then ill MAKE YOU EAT RPG, and ill be happy

 

See this guy welding?
http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/2043/weldingjh1.jpg
I may have knocked over a bottle of drink with the gravity gun, and he responded "hey, I was drinking that!" - priceless...

 

Shaff, how can you be on veteran, I thought that didn't unlock until after harden - am I just dense???

Oh no, not you too Sam, another shotgun dude. I hate you guys (oh I said that already.)

Yeah, shaff, a p90 - I know, I see the comments all the time - "another p90 nubie." Well, my favorite used to be the mk4 silenced, but now it's the p90 silenced. If the map is a little more long-range, the mk4 works a little better because the iron sights are easier to target through than the p90 iron sights. But for ability to take a guy out while I'm circling - the 90 just throws out more bullets! I've had guys not fall, and then out of disgust I've had to switch back to the 90. Or maybe I was just having an off-day. But the mark 4 silenced is pretty sweet all in all - my second favorite.

The shotgun - NEVER. HATE IT! It's not a dancer's weapon. You have to point it straight the first time - and if the guy I'm dueling with is dancing, damn!! TRIED IT, HATE IT, HATE YOU GUYS!! lol

 

"I was drinking that!" You're pretty clumsly with the GG, eh mate? Funny! There are all kinds of little conversation they've stuck in there that you don't unlock unless at the right moment, like when I slammed right into the boulder the other day and she half-chuckled and said "GOR...DON!" I never heard that out of her before. "Ok fine, YOU wanna drive?"

You just have to hand it to Valve, they make a complete game. "Priceless" is right! Haha!

 

Actually I picked it up with the GG and placed it on a guy's head. He then moved... lmao.

 

Yeah sometimes I like the RPG. I'm trying the third one these days because I like the sound it makes, not the Saw, that other light machine gun. I got a red dot for it, I think. Hey Shaff, Mr. RPG, is the gun stock, which replaces perk #1, worth it? Does it really steady the thing and make it more accurate?

 

Yeah, do you do that to your buds at the LAN parties?? Haha!

 

No gravity guns available unfortunately... lol