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!rofl That's funny as hell, man! Sweet find!

Awesome story, man! It's that kind of teamwork that makes playing here so much fun! Way to go, guys!
!2cool

Sounds interesting. Gonna have to check this one out...

As I never served, I cannot say from first hand what you will go through, but I do have a personal experience of the pre-joining preparation, as that is as far as I got, and I think it may help to share it here.

I was pushing myself hard physically when I was of a mind to join the US Army in 2001. I very much wanted to become a Special Operations Weapons Sergeant, and knew the mental and physical challenges as a family friend had described them. I ran twice a day, and did quite a bit of shooting, too. After years of martial arts training as a youth, I thought it would be wise to step up to some MMA instruction.

Unfortunately, it was there that I suffered a serious injury to my shoulder and neck, barring me from service.

I guess what I'm saying is, you can push yourself physically as hard as you can, but watch that fine line. I hear many prepare by running miles a day, only to find that amount doubled when they get in.

I don't think any of the vets here would disagree that building up your stamina, and body mass as well, is a good practice. Also, get your mind set - you will need to push through physical pain like it don't exist, like a mental disconnnection. There you also have to know your own personal limit, so as not to actually break a bone or whatever when fully fatigued and numb from cold. Finally, taking care of your feet will become as important as eating and drinking; you can trust that they'll teach you all you need, and you will certainly learn your limitations and how to push them when you get in, but you can start hardening yourself off now.

We will be with you in spirit, bro! I am personally envious - it's gonna be a hell of an experience!!
!cheers

The mouse I use now I bought in order to play COD: MW2 - needed high DPI to spin around super fast. Still, I will try MW3 soon. I can get down with a little fast paced competition every now and again. Also, the single player mode is like a shot of adrenaline non-stop. I will love to check out the new storylines.

Yes. But don't worry about it. You will soon get a ping similar to your ping to Chicago on the VG PR Server as well as every other server we run, and you can take your pic from the list that BLuDKLoT just posted above.

The old server was in Gloucester, United Kingdom (England) and this new server is in Chicago, Illinois.

Savage, we'll get on the same page with it's administration as soon as everything is complete.

Thanks to all who participated in our Server Location Ping Test poll this past week. We will always, when possible, come straight to our members and players for input because they always come first here.
!2cool

We've been online playing while this is happening to you - your ISP or whatever you wanna call it is messing with you. As "utility" companies, ISP's are just outside the realm of monopolies in that we are all stuck really with the choices we have in the US based on what neighborhood we move into. Personally, I wanna live a lot closer to the Cascade Mountains, like we talked about once "how screwed would you be in a city if disaster struck?"

No way I could move out there until the internet is as good in rural areas as it is in major cities. I also will unplug if/when they actually force numerous bills on me, but not before. This is the next frontier, right before our eyes. I also have been here since the beginning, a generation almost a decade behind yours, witnessing this evolution. You are right to boycott bad software companies, this is a proven method in a capitalist industry. Tons of negative reviews will eventually kill or transform a company and get it out of the mainstream where true core values still exist. This is why I personally am behind Bohemia Interactive all the way. Along with many companies still out there, they are true to their medium, push their hardware limitations and ours, and put the opinions of their customers directly into their work.

I don't view the internet as one single thing, and so to me, this is a battle to be fought on many fronts. Dedication and perserverance are required weapons. Hope is the suit of armor that must never be shed. The flow and direction of the industry could go down that slippery slope, or we as the internet community could get off our butts, and then sit down again of course, and organize our voice like we did with the SOPA Protest. That mattered - the world heard, and so did big government! What we need is a consumer protection policy to stop companies from making these ridiculously demanding Terms of Use agreements that are starting to plague the software and hardware industries.

In the end, apathy of good men and women would kill the internet freedoms before big companies.

Really, you should be mailing your post to your internet service provider, and tell them to go screw. At the very least, you should send them a flaming bag of dog crap - let them do a little packet sniffing if they want to... !spite

A toast that used to hang in the house of my dear departed Irish Grandpa read:
!goodluck
"I've drunk to your health in taverns.
I've drunk to your health in my home.
I've drunk to your health so damn many times,
I've almost ruined my own!"


Happy Saint Patricks Day!! !cheers

Chicago is best. I've done some digging and they have a very good national speed for what we want. In the tests I was doing, Atlanta came up kinda iffy, and inconsistant. Why not go with a major hub like Chicago if people have good numbers?

In an effort to make our servers more accessible to a larger audience, we have been looking for a more centralized location for our international game servers. Currently, our game servers are not consolidated in location or hardware. By combining our services, we would be able to offer faster services on a more central network to us all, and on more modern hardware.

Here are the specs on one of the servers we're looking at, and HDD/RAM can be upgraded as needs dictate:



VETERANS-GAMING will always be dedicated to our gamers first and foremost, and the concern of location must be addressed. As we have gamers from Australia to Russia, we would like to get a good cross section of all our pings to the potential servers available, as well as our current servers. We need to find out your ping to New York, New York - go to speedtest.net and then answer the poll above.

If you can, we'd also appreciate your results to each potential server location. Please use Internet Speed Test to get your data and post the image below in a post. Feel free to tell us what you think about our proposed change.

At http://www.speedtest.net/, get your results and click Share This Result - click COPY on the URL share link, and here in the forums, type it like this to get an embedded image like the ones below:


Please post your results to Gloucester, England and New York, New York. We would also appreciate additional data, if you are able, to Dallas, Texas and Chicago, Illinois. Thank you so much for you assistance!


My Ping to Gloucester, England:




My ping to New York, New York:



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My ping to Chicago, Illinois:




My ping to Dallas, Texas:

I've contacted Recycler1993 to ask him if we can host this awesome download here. Amazing find, man!
!2cool

Rumors abound about this topic. The truth of the matter is that Ubisoft had Microsoft pull the add from the store immediately.
This leads us to believe that either Ubisoft doesn't want Microsoft "tipping the hand" on a possible suprise or simply that it was initially erroneous.

WOW! I'm impressed! That is looking VERY good! The social plug-in's along the bottom look great, too! "FaceReader" sounds interesting!
!2cool

Yea, though not hardcore, or player vs. player, our Project Reality server is a true team-play paradise. It's the mechanics of the AAS, Attack and Secure, as well as so many other elements, that allow Project Reality such longivity while doing without all the newest graphics engines.

If I had BF3, I'd join you in a hardcore match, but I'd certainly not go without a cross-section of players from the PR server including Poffadder, Robotfungus, melonmuncher, and others.

Take some screenshots if you get the chance, PanamanianDevil - it would be cool to see a window into hardcore BF3 PvP matches!
!fans

I got into Wings of Prey when I first bought my TrackIR5. I liked how you could play it like a simulation, or dumb down the controls a bit and have some killer arcade-style action with those beautiful damage models.

It was before I had Steam, and I downloaded it from YuPlay or some place - gotta find out how to redownload the title if I'm gonna play it again, but COOP sounds like a lot of fun! I know at least 3 other people here with the game...

Oh hell yea! That's great to hear!
!cheers

Welcome to the site! I gots my wings, but I haven't flown since Falcon 4 about a year ago - so dang busy with Arma and my crappy flight stick likes to yaw (bad news in a sim).

You'll find plenty of flyers here, best bet is to just log into one of the Flight channels in TS3, and if no one is in there, either wait a bit as someone may join you, or even post up a chat in the chatbox here at VETERANS-GAMING to get a flight goin.

See you around! !cp

I love it, Eclipse! !cmdo

I'd take the medics - largest chance for survival of the most teammates at the end. That is always most important to me, more than the win.

I don't want people to have to download a 4 GB mission, but we could test it and see. If we kept updates to once every several months and found a way to change addons back to included scripts, I guess anything is possible.

Just, how long do you want someone with slow internet to wait before the mission DL's to their pc?

um...Jager? that's just a link to some music video....

The sooner they get us some full Virtual Reality suits like a holodeck, the sooner we'll all be building muscle memory as well as mental training. I'm loving the direction the industry is going with biometrics and motion control!

Good luck with that solo campaign - I found the bots too frustrating to control. Would be cool if it were COOP online campaign, but....

And BTW, Savage, lol - I can't believe you made a new forum sig out of my facepalm "script" joke! !haha
(upon review, the ( should be before the "getPos", not after. just needs to move to the left a bit...and the 0.003 is so "he" hit's his forehead, not his nose)

Not for the faint hearted....

Gentlemen, start your screensavers!