He said it doesn't have *ANY* real world weaponry, not that some of the weaponry isn't real world.
Oh, and gauss rifles can be made <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I think you guys know what to do. Here are the addresses: extendedplay@pcgamer.com letters@pcgamer.com <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-Vo0do0-MoNk3h+Jun 21 2004, 02:30 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Vo0do0-MoNk3h @ Jun 21 2004, 02:30 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Oh, and gauss rifles can be made <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Not in the capacity of Half-Life.
The Gauss Gun is the backpack thing that shoots blue. You may be thinking of the Tau Cannon.
Anyway, the Gauss Gun (I assume) magneticaly ripped apart enemies. This is based on the realization that the Gauss is a unit for measuring magnetic force.
<!--QuoteBegin-Mantrid+Jun 21 2004, 10:49 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mantrid @ Jun 21 2004, 10:49 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Anyway, the Gauss Gun (I assume) magneticaly ripped apart enemies. This is based on the realization that the Gauss is a unit for measuring magnetic force. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> I have no idea what a Guass Gun is in the context of the game, but I also had no idea that a Gauss is a unit of measurement for magnetic force. Game developers can just take any cool name and stick it in their game, and most gamers won't really care what the word means.
IMO the most unrealistic aspect of NS's guns is the lack of recoil. Terrible if you want to go back to CS...not that I ever would of course <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-Vo0do0-MoNk3h+Jun 21 2004, 04:30 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Vo0do0-MoNk3h @ Jun 21 2004, 04:30 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> He said it doesn't have *ANY* real world weaponry, not that some of the weaponry isn't real world.
Oh, and gauss rifles can be made <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Yes, but a real gauss gun doesn't shoot a beam of light that will go through a wall and propel you 500 feet in the air at the same time. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-Mantrid+Jun 21 2004, 09:49 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mantrid @ Jun 21 2004, 09:49 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Vo0do0-MoNk3h+Jun 21 2004, 02:30 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Vo0do0-MoNk3h @ Jun 21 2004, 02:30 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Oh, and gauss rifles can be made <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Not in the capacity of Half-Life.
The Gauss Gun is the backpack thing that shoots blue. You may be thinking of the Tau Cannon.
Anyway, the Gauss Gun (I assume) magneticaly ripped apart enemies. This is based on the realization that the Gauss is a unit for measuring magnetic force. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> No, the gauss gun, or the Tau cannon is the beam weapon. You're thinking of the egon.
Yeah but it looks like that got settled away. Ruled out as just another overpaid hack writer churning out mindless reviews. Wish I had a job that easy.
Gauss is pronounced "gaouz" and sounds a little bit like "cows," you say it short, just one syllable. I think. Man you gotta love english. :x I'm not at all sure about this.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->QUOTE (Vo0do0-MoNk3h @ Jun 21 2004, 04:30 PM) He said it doesn't have *ANY* real world weaponry, not that some of the weaponry isn't real world.
Oh, and gauss rifles can be made
Yes, but a real gauss gun doesn't shoot a beam of light that will go through a wall and propel you 500 feet in the air at the same time. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
A real life gauss gun isn't too far removed from a rail gun. So, yeah, it would go through walls. And I don't think it's so much a beam of light as a huge metal slug moving so fast it looks like a beam. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-Swift Idiot+Jun 22 2004, 11:06 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Swift Idiot @ Jun 22 2004, 11:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Gauss is pronounced "gaouz" and sounds a little bit like "cows," you say it short, just one syllable. I think. Man you gotta love english. :x I'm not at all sure about this.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> It's not English, it's <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss' target='_blank'>German</a> So that's why it sounds like that <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif' /><!--endemo-->
What the hell. Hyper-realistic combat? When did the game even become close to realistic? This guy most be working for the Soviet's because he's one hell of a propogandists.
<!--QuoteBegin-Vo0do0-MoNk3h+Jun 21 2004, 05:30 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Vo0do0-MoNk3h @ Jun 21 2004, 05:30 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> He said it doesn't have *ANY* real world weaponry, not that some of the weaponry isn't real world. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> i'de love to see that pistol IRL... or even beter yet... that shotgun (AFL)
MDL (blue guys) have more real-world weaponry, where as AFL, has gone for the more high-tech look...
if you *only* play MDL, i'm sure you could say what you just said and be right... but chance over to AFL, and almost nothing looks like real-world weaponry seen today.
yes, theoreticaly, the *can* be made... but they aren't...i've never seen a cybernetic leg enhancement that works IRL (even though we are getting there)... but armour regeneration, and health regeneration? not possible anywhere in real life.
tommy gun, ok, you got me there, that one is 100% real life... but if you can find me a top-drum drop grip (front) that's made in a production scale (ships at least to another continent)... you win a cookie, because i've seriously never seen one.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->i've never seen a cybernetic leg enhancement that works IRL <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
As I said, you claimed: "S&I doesn't have *any* real world weaponry". I was simply providing a few examples that it does have SOME. Granted, there are many other weapons, implants, gadgets and such that are totally made up.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Even thought they may not have models that match their real world versions.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You missed that from your quote of me. So the models are unrealistic, they're still based on existing guns. You take the desert eagle model in CS and replace it with a frying pan, it's still a desert eagle even if it doesn't look like one. Maybe we just don't have many professional modellers, or maybe the unrealistic models are preferred by some, I don't really know.
But back to the ORIGINAL point of this thread, you are right, S&I certainly isn't a realistic combat mod. If it were, I wouldn't play it.
And a side note, it's MCL and AFD ;>
And yeah, to the guy saying gauss is the blue beam weapon with a pack on the back, you are thinking of the gluon or egon or whatever you want to call it. The Gauss is the same as the Tau Cannon.
Seeing that the 'initial point of the thread' seems to have moved to S&I, I'm going to <span style='color:white'>***move***</span> it <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
"The exoskeleton could eventually be used by army medics to carry injured soldiers off a battlefield, firefighters to haul their gear up dozens of flights of stairs to put out a high-rise blaze, or rescue workers to bring in food and first-aid supplies to areas where vehicles cannot enter. "
Now thats the technology I wanna see! Exoskeletons!
Wow... how can you possibly make a worse review...
S&I used to be very cool , but no one plays it nowadays... it was popular about 2 years ago... advertising a dead mod isn't going to bring many players back to HL.
I can't believe he said NS was "hyper-realistic" , it's not even close to Action HL's realism level (and the mod was <i>not</i> supposed to be realistic) , nowhere did he mention the Kharaa either. They're no random monster though , they're a family of brand new player classes that shaped NS's unique gameplay.
This reviewer deserves to be flammed for half an eternity at least.
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Not in the capacity of Half-Life.
The Gauss Gun is the backpack thing that shoots blue. You may be thinking of the Tau Cannon.
Anyway, the Gauss Gun (I assume) magneticaly ripped apart enemies. This is based on the realization that the Gauss is a unit for measuring magnetic force.
I have no idea what a Guass Gun is in the context of the game, but I also had no idea that a Gauss is a unit of measurement for magnetic force. Game developers can just take any cool name and stick it in their game, and most gamers won't really care what the word means.
IMO the most unrealistic aspect of NS's guns is the lack of recoil. Terrible if you want to go back to CS...not that I ever would of course <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Oh, and gauss rifles can be made <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes, but a real gauss gun doesn't shoot a beam of light that will go through a wall and propel you 500 feet in the air at the same time. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Not in the capacity of Half-Life.
The Gauss Gun is the backpack thing that shoots blue. You may be thinking of the Tau Cannon.
Anyway, the Gauss Gun (I assume) magneticaly ripped apart enemies. This is based on the realization that the Gauss is a unit for measuring magnetic force. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
No, the gauss gun, or the Tau cannon is the beam weapon. You're thinking of the egon.
Gauss is pronounced "gaouz" and sounds a little bit like "cows," you say it short, just one syllable. I think. Man you gotta love english. :x I'm not at all sure about this.
He said it doesn't have *ANY* real world weaponry, not that some of the weaponry isn't real world.
Oh, and gauss rifles can be made
Yes, but a real gauss gun doesn't shoot a beam of light that will go through a wall and propel you 500 feet in the air at the same time. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
A real life gauss gun isn't too far removed from a rail gun. So, yeah, it would go through walls. And I don't think it's so much a beam of light as a huge metal slug moving so fast it looks like a beam. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Anyway, he probably ment either Firearms or HI
It's not English, it's <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss' target='_blank'>German</a>
So that's why it sounds like that <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif' /><!--endemo-->
i'de love to see that pistol IRL...
or even beter yet... that shotgun (AFL)
MDL (blue guys) have more real-world weaponry, where as AFL, has gone for the more high-tech look...
if you *only* play MDL, i'm sure you could say what you just said and be right... but chance over to AFL, and almost nothing looks like real-world weaponry seen today.
yes, theoreticaly, the *can* be made... but they aren't...i've never seen a cybernetic leg enhancement that works IRL (even though we are getting there)... but armour regeneration, and health regeneration? not possible anywhere in real life.
tommy gun, ok, you got me there, that one is 100% real life... but if you can find me a top-drum drop grip (front) that's made in a production scale (ships at least to another continent)... you win a cookie, because i've seriously never seen one.
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I was simply providing a few examples that it does have SOME. Granted, there are many other weapons, implants, gadgets and such that are totally made up.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Even thought they may not have models that match their real world versions.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You missed that from your quote of me. So the models are unrealistic, they're still based on existing guns. You take the desert eagle model in CS and replace it with a frying pan, it's still a desert eagle even if it doesn't look like one. Maybe we just don't have many professional modellers, or maybe the unrealistic models are preferred by some, I don't really know.
But back to the ORIGINAL point of this thread, you are right, S&I certainly isn't a realistic combat mod. If it were, I wouldn't play it.
And a side note, it's MCL and AFD ;>
And yeah, to the guy saying gauss is the blue beam weapon with a pack on the back, you are thinking of the gluon or egon or whatever you want to call it. The Gauss is the same as the Tau Cannon.
Ooo00oooOOoooh! Cool.
"The exoskeleton could eventually be used by army medics to carry injured soldiers off a battlefield, firefighters to haul their gear up dozens of flights of stairs to put out a high-rise blaze, or rescue workers to bring in food and first-aid supplies to areas where vehicles cannot enter. "
Now thats the technology I wanna see! Exoskeletons!
S&I used to be very cool , but no one plays it nowadays... it was popular about 2 years ago... advertising a dead mod isn't going to bring many players back to HL.
I can't believe he said NS was "hyper-realistic" , it's not even close to Action HL's realism level (and the mod was <i>not</i> supposed to be realistic) , nowhere did he mention the Kharaa either. They're no random monster though , they're a family of brand new player classes that shaped NS's unique gameplay.
This reviewer deserves to be flammed for half an eternity at least.