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  1. Ok, I have a mayhem tank, it can load 10 missiles, but not fire them. (although the appendix says it can't load any, So I assume its a bug) And while I can track objects with both the main turret and the minigun, I can only fire from the minigun. Also some units have more than 2 turrets. Is it possible to track and fire with those additional guns as well? But even if I could, I can personally only use one at a time right? So is there anyway to get a marine (or the onboard computer) to use a turret so that multi turreted vehicles are used to thier full potential? Another thing is that I read somewhere that marines will follow you into a vehicle if they are assigned to escort you, but they don't seem to be doing that. Do they need a certain AI level or was this option replaced with a command I missed somewhere along the line? Am I missing something? or is this portion of the game just unfinished and/or bugged? anyway, thanks for your time!
  2. well the members can't unofficially give you help if we don't know the problem can we?
  3. Yeah, if it's finished I don't see why not. Just Release it. Maybe use it as a tool and make it a budget title or something to get more people interested in talon elite. As a huge fan of the "roam" mode of the previous titles, I'm a bit skeptical (to put it lightly...) on this new direction your takeing the series. So a discounted preview would be excellent to silence those worries.
  4. that would be nice. but if I recall once the battle was over with, the marines didn't leave and no one bothered to recover them. So they just sat there in space. and marines always seemed to run out of ammo way too fast and never did anything about it once they were out as well. heh, I remember one time parking my CC in a cloud of them. I hopped out and attatched myself to my CC and started picking them off as I walked to the aft of the ship.
  5. Starforce causes my explorer.exe to randomly lock up. I have not had single problem with SC's securom cd checker however. (well, besides the slightly increased time from double click to game menu...)
  6. well except that they have a simular poly count of a starbase model... Speaking of which, I was going to ask you, which buildings are there purely for scenery? (well besides the civilian buildings) I'm haveing FPS issues whenever I'm running around a base. I would like to just strip out the buildings that are there purely for looks useing the editer provided. (Radeon 9700 pro just doesn't have the kick it used to... )
  7. Yeah, I went to 4 stores today (gamestop, EBgames, walmart, compusa) and finally found a copy at compusa. everyone was sold out, and the copy I found was the last one. but anyway the packaging is superb. It's really the best one out of any game I have. The best part is the raised spindle in the hardened case, I can put all the other games of the battle cruiser series and a patch/utilities CD in the same case with room to spare. Game installed fine, but I'm just waiting for the patch to download at the moment before I try it.
  8. http://www.3000ad.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=23000075 Yeah, pretty noobish stuff in there
  9. yeah, probably all mine, lol seriously if I'm too carefull I'll start knowing all the employees names...
  10. well there not released yet by me. (USA, IL) I checked walmart and gamestop yesterday. but you can go to amazon: http://www.amazon.com/3000-AD-Universal-Co...3393&sr=8-7
  11. well I was more concerned about the whole limited install and online activation crap. Does UCCE have any of that?
  12. Yeah after the whole Bioshock DRM scam I'm a bit scared to even ask... But I also would like to express my sadness for this being the last of the battlecruiser series.
  13. One thing that I like to do is mine the crap out of a planet. The most important thing to remember is that your ship is never full till every inch of space on/in the OC, shuttle, TP room, mining drone, and even fighter craft is full of minerals. don't forget to disarm your oc's and fighters though. the missiles take up space in the vehicles "generic" storage space. but the CC has a cargo hold just for weapons and spare parts that you can't use to fill full of minerals. and don't forget your mining drones themselfs, they carry a good amount as well but you can't manually fill them up like you can the other crafts, you have to send them down to mine one last time before leaveing. I normally do this when I want to leave the system and try somewhere else. also mining is much easier with shuttle mk1's with thier 5000 units of space. just manually fly and land next your drones. then extract the first, unload the cargo and let it go again. do this with all of your drones untill you either run out of full drones or the shuttle is full. and don't forget the drones take up space themselfs, so use cargo pods to store access cargo untill you let the drone go again. oh yeah, most importantly, mind what minerals you put in the same storage area. With this many minerals on board, your likely not going to get a chance to make that same mistake twice. And for gods sake take those matches away from Resnig just in case!
  14. heh, first of all jah calm down. they are just words. it's not like he's kicking the crap out of you or something. second have you watched with an external camera at what happens when you deploy a drone? they just appear a short distance behind you, and then fall (ok, "snap" )to the surface. so if you did this while the back of your shuttle was right on or past the "crease" of where a hill begins/ends then the drone appears a small distance behind the shuttle as normal. except that it appears under the terrain because that is where the back of the shuttle is. long story short... don't deploy any ground vehicles or drones where they will appear inside of another object. go ahead and take a look with an external view before you deploy. of coarse the AI does not do this so it is best to deploy drones yourself when dealing with hilly terain. the safest place to deploy is in a city because they useually have perfectly flat ground. the AI will love you for it...
  15. quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Then don't mine on Midae. What do you want me to do? Conduct a geological survey of the planet for you and post "Don't frigging mine here!!" billboards? lol, that's why I love it here.
  16. nice shots, I like the detail on the marines.
  17. quote:Originally posted by SunofVich: Intel 82845G graphics controller and does it work with this UC? Gah, running an E-machine are we? intel graphics anything is slow as snails in winter. the game might start but the FPS will be so low... I have a intel extreme graphics thing on the computer at work, and it's painfully slow running most screensavers, let alone games. I had them put in a radeon 7200 card so I didn't have to go on a coffe break while it updated the screen in photoshop. (yes radeon 7200 is almost twice as fast even if it's twice as old...) also your going to want to register your system profile before you get banned.
  18. the thing you have to realize and respect is that this is dericks game. he has turned this game into a legacy that is known all over the internet. some hate it and some like it. Reguardless derick knows what he is doing, and he knows it. he knows what he wants in the game and adds it when he can afford to do so. as such many sudgestions get thrown out the window. this causes the people that sudgest them to get mad and then reply in anger. that's probably how 50% of the people here get banned. the other 50% is because people don't read the rules or refuse to as you put it "conform to your forum". niether reason is hard to prevent on your personal behalf and should mean a long membership to this community. as for asking why certain people are banned... why do you want to know anyway? the rules are posted for all to see, the person obviously broke one of the rules there. if you feel that you shouldn't need to walk on egg shells then simply... don't...
  19. 1. yep text document, very usefull for beginners 2. you probably are trying to planetfall on a hostile planet. IE. either hostile as in bad guys, or hostile environment. for instance jupiter will kill you. 3.not sure what you mean 4.you have to have a certain rank to board certain vehicles. except for ones that come with your ship. some vehicles require certain types of crew to operate as well. (see the reference files) 5. you must be in the campain to use this feature. I know it sucks to hear this but you really need to read every help/reference file that comes with the game. even the current VCF (bug report) ones. but when it all comes together you will see this game is very, very good. it lets you do almost anything you would want too. or at least what makes sense to do. for instance deploying vehicles in space would not be all that exciting.
  20. honestly I wouldn't trust either of them with a rock. bush would throw it and kerry would drop it. but I do know that everyone I knew had a job before bush got in and started screwing with the world. and I find the fact that bush gets a great deal of money from oil very suspicious in his actions. both in attacking iraq, and in not doing anythin about the gas prices. the subject has been on everyones minds except bush's I find that hugly suspicious. I'll vote kerry though eventually were bound to find someone that knows what they are doing, even if it's several elections from now. http://www.house.gov/georgemiller/middlecl...ddleclass2.html strait from a government website. heh, but since when do we trust "them"
  21. I'm glad your enjoying UC but SC is going to jump all over you if you don't put that pic in a link. and yes I get those too after playing for a long time. (over night mining usually) also I think there is a rule against makeing thread titles all caps.
  22. yes it's fairly strait forward now, you just hop in and go on huge killing sprees! *snicker* ok, this game is a lot like bcmg. however thier is much more that you can do in UC. it's also more rewarding in my opinion for one. the ground combat is so much nicer with all the little vehicles now available. and the ground it's self looks 100X better. it's also got a functioning multiplayer set up now too. and by now the price has to of went down in stores as well. (if they have any left) I would say yes it's worth it. if your the x2 type... maybe not. you will have to learn some seemingly pointless controlls at first. but once you play the game for a couple days you will understand what each setting does and use it to your advantage. and I promiss once you pull a victory out of certain death situation you will be hooked for life. oh, the damaged systems, the explodeing cargo bays, the rageing ground battles, space that suddenly turns out to be not so full of space in an instant, and the mentally ill resnig, it's Battlecruiser at it's best.
  23. well what caste/race were you? and what race was the raider base?
  24. Questar is my ship of choice, for some reason I always get killed in a firestorm. Shadowstar forgot a few features the questar... it is a small target to hit. and it has 20 marines and 4 ground vehicles for it's size. it's also got 10 turrets and 4 main guns. it has fewer systems to repair, fewer people to feed/treat. it also has quite a bit of fuel storage. But... cargo space sucks, and the shield sucks. one missile hit drops the shields to 50. and I often have to transfer cargo to my transporter room so I can replace Shuttles. I wouldn't trade my Questar for any carrier. the only thing I trade it in for every once in awhile is an MRT-15 with a explorer or paramedic caste.
  25. OK, I have gotten the hang of UC in space so I decided to move on to ground ops. I take all 20 marines from my questar and set them down in Space Base 01 on earth. I then tell all of them to escort me. they all come running next to me and then they look all around to see if the coast is clear. Ok, cool I thought, but I heard these guys learn from what you do, so lets have a little fun so I crouched... and everyone crouched, then I jumped... and everyone jumped. so I thought, "hmm... you guys think your so smart do you?","simon says, jump!", "very good", "jump!", "oh, simon didn't say... your out marine #13,12,4,6,7,3,..." after screwing with them, via running away or jet packing on top of something. or sending them on pointless "running missions", I got a little bored... so I ran in the middle of thier protective circle formation. and started jumping and crouching again to see if any of there behaviors changed after all of my activities with them. so I crouched... and everyone crouched, then I jumped... and everyone jumped. then I shot into the air... and I died. you see when you fire, everyone else does too. except they seem to just do it in what ever direction they are faceing. and they were all looking at me, in a closely packed group. Remember, I took ALL marines, so those guys with rocket launchers... not one of my proudest moments, I managed to get shot to death on friendly territory not to mention a few marines probably got killed too. another time (after the unfortunate incident above) I took only a few marines this time and I just ordered them all to escort me. then I jumped on top of my questar and I was watching the marines standing there trying to find a way to get up to me, When I noticed someone was missing... Marine #5 was gone. I switched to tacops and found him running. he didn't have a target according to the VID view. he was just running accross the landscape for no apparent reason, like he's Forest Gump or something. maybe he saw a shiny object or a fuzzy animal, I don't know. So I decided to go after him I used my jet pack to get to him. meanwhile back at my CC, the other marines seemingly amazed by my godlike ability to levitate, started running around in small circles under my questar. upon herding all of my marines back to the SC I had a scary thought... "If I get boarded by an enemy, these guys are supposed to save me" *shudders* while thinking, "the horror"
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