It seems I missed some Free-to-Play titles lately.  Might & Magic Duel of Champions, Endwar Online, The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot, Ghost Recon Phantom, Silent Hunter Online and Panzer General Online are to be dicontinued by Ubisoft.

Actually, I've never heard of those. Lack of advertising? Lack of quality? Silent Hunter Online and Panzer General Online are both titles I regret not to have seen. Panzer General accompanied me through the 90's and even being totally arcade, a Silent Hunter online game could have had some potential. Well then...

Does anyone play this game?
It is 15$ at steam.
Looks very funny.



OBEY is a game where you play a bunny trying to earn 10.000 cent before anybody else does. This takes place in a 3d environment, domininated by a large sentry gun. Both controlling the sentry and ordering the other bunnys as well as obeying the sentry controllers orders gets you money. Which path would you choose?

OBEY - Official Game Trailer

OBEY - How to create a Bunny Dictatorship

How was your day?
Did you know, today is System Administrator day?

http://sysadminday.com

Accordingly, thanks for keeping the site up and running. It is much appreciated.

How hard is it to solve all the mischief we're causing?

Anyone?

This is a no-go:



The design used on this town sign is from the postwar period.
The historical german wartime town sign got black letters on a white background. Below the town name, you'll find information about both district and county. The pilar is made of wood, square-cut and got a rotating red strap.

Actually this is a very difficult subject at all, due to several postwar local government reforms. Nowadays Germeter isn't an independent village but part of the city Huertgenwald. It might have been an independent village in times of World War II, but the sign is still plain wrong. After having seen this, I had expected an Leopard tank behind the next corner.

I'm currently really unsure about Lybia. Gaddafi appeared to be very well established in Lybia. I doubt that a few protesters will wipe away Gaddafi that easily. The more confusing reports are, that some high military leaders support the protesters and that parts of the common police refuses to take actions against the protesters but join them. Bengasi was reported to be under control of the Lybian opposition. It has been also stated that Gaddafi recruited foreign mercenaries to shoot at the protesters. Any thoughts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VERs2pERiMA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWbyMgcbcU

I've noticed that such thread is missing. I'd like to open it with a playful test.

Question #1:
You've been surprisingly become squadleader of your squad while sitting in a static gun/airplane at base, what do you do first?

A: I do not care and keep manning my gun.
B: I transfer the lead to a squadmate by leaving and rejoining the squad.


Question #2:
As a squadleader, what are your first meassurements?

A: I shout 'Attack, Attack!' and run at the enemy.
B: I check where the majority of my squadmates are and try to join/reach their position.


Question #3:
At mapstart you find yourself surrounded by your squadmates, eagerly looking at you. What do you do?

A: I shout 'Attack, Attack!' and run ahead, leading them into combat.
B: I give an order to move/attack and follow my men at last.


Question #4:
While moving at the enemy position all of your men have been killed in an ambush. What do you do?

A: I shout 'Attack, Attack!' and revenge my dead men with a direct assault moving over their dead bodies on the enemy position.
B: I fall back into a covered position and wait for my squadmates to respawn.


Question #5:
You find yourself attacked by an enemy squad on a flag. Your men are scattered all over the map. What do you do?

A: I shout 'Attack, Attack!' and deal with the squad all alone.
B: I hide in the next house, and order my men to spawn on me in order to repel the attack.


Question #6:
After an successive assault on a heavily fortified position, what do you do next?

A: I shout 'Attack, Attack!' and run at the next enemy flag, for my men to follow.
B: I order men men to hold the position for a moment while I spy out enemy positions and close in to the next flag.

In almost all cases B will be the smarter choice. As a squadleader your strength is to gather your men by letting them spawn on you. Thus you should not die right away. Of course your men will only spawn on you, when you offer a good position close to the enemy or the flag/objective. A squadleader sitting in base or far away from flags is no use at all. The trick is to find spots where you can provide a safe spawn for your men, that are nevertheless only a few steps away from combat. A position is good, when it is closer to the flag than the enemy spawns are. That will grant your men a time bonus over the enemy each respawn.

There are some features that have been once mentioned or have already been included in FH0.7 that seems to be forgotten.

First I'd like to ask whether we will see tanks camouflaged with brushwood(?) again like we had on the Stugs in 0.7. Would be great to have a tank with some camo again. Cp:




And then I stumbled upon an delevoper interview when googling FH2 lately dated 2006. google entry #3. Cp: here

http://www.bf-games.net/readnews/4575/fh2_interview_bf_center_de.html

Short as it is, it mentions some interesting features: recon airplanes, smoke screens and air strikes as commander assets. Well, I think we don't really have any of these yet. We got recon planes, but no commander controlled ones.
We got smoke barrages, but those are rather small like an artillerystrike. What I got in mind when talking about smoke barrages is a long stretched wall of smoke. Like releasing 10 smoke rounds with a PIII on aberdeen while driving full speed horizontally to the front line. Would give both sides on africa maps great chances for assaults.
And finally we had those neat player controlled remote bombers in FH0.7. What about a remote airstrike for the commander? Lets say, a very heavy airstrike, like 3 Stukas approaching a position, but therefor they would approach from off-map and could been seen early.

However, I think some of these features have been scrapped or forgotten, so I'd like to commemorate these once again.

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