Posted: 7/6/2010 3:14:40 AM EDT
 What a time to play Xbox!!! (The caption read that they were conducting a Future Force Warrior demo while wearing Multicam). |
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Future_Force_Warrior_2007.jpg/800px-Future_Force_Warrior_2007.jpg What a time to play Xbox!!! (The caption read that they were conducting a Future Force Warrior demo while wearing Multicam). The guy on the right could at least deploy his sights... |
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Probably controlling the AC130 after a good killstreak Nah, chopper gunner is way more effective in that game. AC130 gets no love 
What!?!?! My 105 shell can't penetrate a tin roofed building? He's still alive in there?  Explosions are modeled in a sphere from impact with two damage radii. The smaller radius is a 100% damage area which will kill anything inside it. It's relatively small, dependent upon the weapon. The larger radius is a partial damage area, which deals damage based upon intensity and distance. All explosions are line-of-sight, so if you're prone, a curb or rock could save you. Explosions cannot penetrate any physical object. All bullets have barrier penetration. They may or may not refract, at random, and penetration is similar to the first game based upon weapon class, applicable perks and the construction of the barrier material. Note that there are only a handful of types of barriers, regardless of what the surface texture shows. Yes, interrior sheetrock walls are more difficult to penetrate than exterrior stone half-wall fences. That's just the way it's programmed. You will not know which walls can or cannot be penetrated based upon their visual appearance - you must play each map and learn what can be shot through and what can't. The chopper gunner is "better" than the AC130 not because of barrier penetration but because it continues to add to your killstreak. The AC130 does not add to your killstreak. If you want a nuke, you need the chopper gunner. The game is played-out and disinteresting for these and other reasons. |
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Quoted: Ninja actually blocks the heartbeat sensor... not cold-blooded. Wow, I'm disappointed I know that... The root cause of all my problems with that game is that I think realistically and can't accept/get past the fact that the game is everything but realistic.... Ha! I have a worse issue with trying to shoot for the head instead of center mass now. |
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They shouldn't group up like that. One guy with a noob tube and it's game over. Unless they have Cold-Blooded, of course, in which case I won't be able to pick them up in my heartbeat sensor. Yep-you need to scatter when you spawn, otherwise you get frag spammed. 
ETA: Fucking dot chasers. 
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Quoted: Quoted: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Future_Force_Warrior_2007.jpg/800px-Future_Force_Warrior_2007.jpg What a time to play Xbox!!! (The caption read that they were conducting a Future Force Warrior demo while wearing Multicam). The guy on the right could at least deploy his sights... Hes just a noob who sprays from the hip while bunnyhopping, anyways... |
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Quoted: It was a good idea to use that controller for these kinds of things in many respects. The young guys in the military (and some of the older ones too) will often be familiar with such gamepads, and they are USB connected, which is used by many things. Yes. Brilliant idea! |
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I spent the holiday week-end working on a research paper on robotic manufacturing. One of the articles I found was a fantastic piece in Popular Mechanics. Will find and post it for you.
The Xbox controller can be used to control the Talon family of robots. It has a variety of uses as a generic controller in the military. ETA got it: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/robots/4252643 Excerpt from article: Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) have already flooded the battlefield. There are at least 6000 robots in use by the Army and Marine Corps in Iraq and Afghanistan. For years these small, remote-control vehicles have allowed troops to peek around corners and investigate suspected bombs. And while unmanned aerial vehicles have been loaded with missiles since 2001, the arming of ground robots is relatively uncharted territory.
Last June the Army deployed the first-ever armed UGVs. Three SWORDS (Special Weapons Observation Remote Direct-Action System) robots landed in Iraq, each equipped with an M249 light machine gun. These UGVs are essentially guns on tracks, a variant of the remote-control Talon bots routinely blown up while investigating improvised explosive devices. When the trio was approved for combat duty, the potential for historic robot-versus-human carnage lit up the blogosphere. Never mind the dozens of air-to-ground Hellfire missiles that have already been launched by a squadron of armed Predator drones over the past seven years––this was a robot soldier, packing the same machine gun used by ground troops... |
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Rifle tips are covered in yellow plastic. I'm guessing a bomb robot, but I do wonder where the cables are. Blank fire adaptor for the M4. Red is for the M16. Its a BFA and its made of steel. It allows the gun to cycle with the low pressure of the blank rounds. They're playing war games. |
