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@Texkonc said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Physical DC at a customer site. wow, just wow. Going to bed crying now.

That's impressive....

@scottalanmiller said in The Most Needed Skills in IT:

@NattNatt said in The Most Needed Skills in IT:

The skill to handle users, interpret what they need from what thy say they need, and customer service are important in my opinion too!

Yes, but are isolated to one very specific role within IT, not a general skill across the industry.

True...

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@NattNatt said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@NattNatt said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@NattNatt said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@NattNatt said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@NattNatt said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Played some of the Dawn Of War Beta this weekend - really like the game, going back to its roots (yet to play the campaign) but the Orks were so overpowered it ruined it a tad...

Does it go back to traditional RTS roots? Or is it the silly squad based system that was in DoW2?

The squad based stuff is still there but there is no retreat so the likelihood of you losing a squad is high. Everything feels weak except elites.

What??? It wasn't squad-based? It was RTS...

He means you dont lose a single unit and its dead. He doesn't like reinforcing squads. It's def squad based.

But DoW I was the same as that...DoW II was squad based in that it was turn based rounds, like XCOM...

RTS = Real Time Strategy, which means free-play surely?

@coliver - which do you mean?

DoW II was real-time squad based combat. You had a small number of units that were designed/supposed to level up as you moved through the game. Similar to XCOM but not turn based.

It was also extremely rock paper scissors

By design. Unless you were extremely tactical minded (like Company of Heroes) you could get wrecked by bringing the wrong assortment or squad members. Which is nice for multiplayer but shitty for singleplayer and campaign. Especially since you wanted to hear all the Space Marines' stories.

It makes it extremely boring in multiplayer. You built devastators? Oh, I'm going to retreat and lose very little units then build assault marines because they counter devastators. Etc. Retreat ruined the game. The only thing that really happened was you put your opponent at a disadvantage and he retreated his forces just to come back right after. This was especially true in 1v1 where the maps could be extremely small.

Yep... again this was completely by design.

It's a terrible design

No argument there. I think most squad based games are pretty terrible by design. But I'm not the type of person they are trying to attract.

After playing the open beta I really wonder who they are actually trying to attract. No one I know personally liked it. 99% of the forums were complaint posts, not that it wasn't going to be anyway but still.

yeah, far from what anyone wanted...but a step back in the right direction...

I don't know man. I love the 40k universe and the only positive thing I can say about it is the scale of the battles feels very 40k. One of the main factors of me disliking DOW 2 (there were many) was everything felt like a small skirmish instead of a giant war. It didn't feel 40k at all.

That's what was great about the original. The Imperial Guard expansion felt like you were part of this massive war.

Completely agree

Yeah that's what I meant - it's moving back to what made DoW so great, and away from the shitty excuse that was DoW II

Which expansion was it that had the different planets you could take over to get different bonuses etc?

To be fair I really enjoyed the PvE survival expansion the DoW II had. It just wasn't enough to carry the entire game.

I don't think I even got that far...bought the base and retribution, played 30 mins and was so disheartened the disks went into the drawer and have stayed there since :') Didn't even get round to installing retribution!

The skill to handle users, interpret what they need from what thy say they need, and customer service are important in my opinion too!

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@NattNatt said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@NattNatt said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@NattNatt said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@NattNatt said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Played some of the Dawn Of War Beta this weekend - really like the game, going back to its roots (yet to play the campaign) but the Orks were so overpowered it ruined it a tad...

Does it go back to traditional RTS roots? Or is it the silly squad based system that was in DoW2?

The squad based stuff is still there but there is no retreat so the likelihood of you losing a squad is high. Everything feels weak except elites.

What??? It wasn't squad-based? It was RTS...

He means you dont lose a single unit and its dead. He doesn't like reinforcing squads. It's def squad based.

But DoW I was the same as that...DoW II was squad based in that it was turn based rounds, like XCOM...

RTS = Real Time Strategy, which means free-play surely?

@coliver - which do you mean?

DoW II was real-time squad based combat. You had a small number of units that were designed/supposed to level up as you moved through the game. Similar to XCOM but not turn based.

It was also extremely rock paper scissors

By design. Unless you were extremely tactical minded (like Company of Heroes) you could get wrecked by bringing the wrong assortment or squad members. Which is nice for multiplayer but shitty for singleplayer and campaign. Especially since you wanted to hear all the Space Marines' stories.

It makes it extremely boring in multiplayer. You built devastators? Oh, I'm going to retreat and lose very little units then build assault marines because they counter devastators. Etc. Retreat ruined the game. The only thing that really happened was you put your opponent at a disadvantage and he retreated his forces just to come back right after. This was especially true in 1v1 where the maps could be extremely small.

Yep... again this was completely by design.

It's a terrible design

No argument there. I think most squad based games are pretty terrible by design. But I'm not the type of person they are trying to attract.

After playing the open beta I really wonder who they are actually trying to attract. No one I know personally liked it. 99% of the forums were complaint posts, not that it wasn't going to be anyway but still.

yeah, far from what anyone wanted...but a step back in the right direction...

I don't know man. I love the 40k universe and the only positive thing I can say about it is the scale of the battles feels very 40k. One of the main factors of me disliking DOW 2 (there were many) was everything felt like a small skirmish instead of a giant war. It didn't feel 40k at all.

That's what was great about the original. The Imperial Guard expansion felt like you were part of this massive war.

Completely agree

Yeah that's what I meant - it's moving back to what made DoW so great, and away from the shitty excuse that was DoW II

Which expansion was it that had the different planets you could take over to get different bonuses etc?

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@NattNatt said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@NattNatt said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@NattNatt said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Played some of the Dawn Of War Beta this weekend - really like the game, going back to its roots (yet to play the campaign) but the Orks were so overpowered it ruined it a tad...

Does it go back to traditional RTS roots? Or is it the silly squad based system that was in DoW2?

The squad based stuff is still there but there is no retreat so the likelihood of you losing a squad is high. Everything feels weak except elites.

What??? It wasn't squad-based? It was RTS...

He means you dont lose a single unit and its dead. He doesn't like reinforcing squads. It's def squad based.

But DoW I was the same as that...DoW II was squad based in that it was turn based rounds, like XCOM...

RTS = Real Time Strategy, which means free-play surely?

@coliver - which do you mean?

DoW II was real-time squad based combat. You had a small number of units that were designed/supposed to level up as you moved through the game. Similar to XCOM but not turn based.

It was also extremely rock paper scissors

By design. Unless you were extremely tactical minded (like Company of Heroes) you could get wrecked by bringing the wrong assortment or squad members. Which is nice for multiplayer but shitty for singleplayer and campaign. Especially since you wanted to hear all the Space Marines' stories.

It makes it extremely boring in multiplayer. You built devastators? Oh, I'm going to retreat and lose very little units then build assault marines because they counter devastators. Etc. Retreat ruined the game. The only thing that really happened was you put your opponent at a disadvantage and he retreated his forces just to come back right after. This was especially true in 1v1 where the maps could be extremely small.

Yep... again this was completely by design.

It's a terrible design

No argument there. I think most squad based games are pretty terrible by design. But I'm not the type of person they are trying to attract.

After playing the open beta I really wonder who they are actually trying to attract. No one I know personally liked it. 99% of the forums were complaint posts, not that it wasn't going to be anyway but still.

yeah, far from what anyone wanted...but a step back in the right direction...

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@NattNatt said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@NattNatt said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Played some of the Dawn Of War Beta this weekend - really like the game, going back to its roots (yet to play the campaign) but the Orks were so overpowered it ruined it a tad...

Does it go back to traditional RTS roots? Or is it the silly squad based system that was in DoW2?

The squad based stuff is still there but there is no retreat so the likelihood of you losing a squad is high. Everything feels weak except elites.

What??? It wasn't squad-based? It was RTS...

He means you dont lose a single unit and its dead. He doesn't like reinforcing squads. It's def squad based.

But DoW I was the same as that...DoW II was squad based in that it was turn based rounds, like XCOM...

RTS = Real Time Strategy, which means free-play surely?

@coliver - which do you mean?

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@NattNatt said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Played some of the Dawn Of War Beta this weekend - really like the game, going back to its roots (yet to play the campaign) but the Orks were so overpowered it ruined it a tad...

Does it go back to traditional RTS roots? Or is it the silly squad based system that was in DoW2?

The squad based stuff is still there but there is no retreat so the likelihood of you losing a squad is high. Everything feels weak except elites.

What??? It wasn't squad-based? It was RTS...

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@NattNatt said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Played some of the Dawn Of War Beta this weekend - really like the game, going back to its roots (yet to play the campaign) but the Orks were so overpowered it ruined it a tad...

Does it go back to traditional RTS roots? Or is it the silly squad based system that was in DoW2?

Back to original DoW roots, base building, RTS, but the maps were small, no AI//campaign and orks were too OP'd so I didn't get a chance to fully try Eldar (master race)

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@NattNatt I could not disagree more. I absolutely hated the open beta. The game is just way too simplistic and the races are extremely similar in too many ways. Huge fan on the 40k universe and I wanted to love it but just can't.

It's not as complex as the first one, in that tech tree's aren't complex and the maps were small//no tactics if VS orks, agreed...but it went back to the roots of DoW and away from the direction DoW II went that put a lot of people off...Hopefully the tech tree's etc will be more complex when released (and ork's be less OP...

@coliver said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

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@hobbit666 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

You must be on Pinterest because I just saw that same thing.

That's a nightmare.

Pinterest or the zip ties?

Both?

Seconded.

Velcro strips are so much better, been cut far too many times by badly snipped zip ties while doing cable runs...

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@NattNatt said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

The Ben Folds Five has no one named Ben Folds. John Patitucci is the name of the trio.

Ben Folds is the lead pianist of the BFF (but there's only 3)

and yes, he is the guy in the picture playing the Cello

Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong D list band.

Hah yeah, there's a lot that don't, but Ben Folds definitely is - I've seen him live and they came on to do a few songs with him, that's why I know :')

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

The Ben Folds Five has no one named Ben Folds. John Patitucci is the name of the trio.

Ben Folds is the lead pianist of the BFF (but there's only 3)

and yes, he is the guy in the picture playing the Cello

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@NattNatt said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

It also is called quartet but is a trio.

Yeah, 3 electric guitars and one drummer, so both could be right, 4 people, 3 guitars...

But it's only two guitars.

Are you forgetting about John Patitucci himself?

Played some of the Dawn Of War Beta this weekend - really like the game, going back to its roots (yet to play the campaign) but the Orks were so overpowered it ruined it a tad...

@DustinB3403 Whats the adam sandler one from...?

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

It also is called quartet but is a trio.

Yeah, 3 electric guitars and one drummer, so both could be right, 4 people, 3 guitars...

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@NattNatt said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Board games and stuff this weekend. Mysterium is very good if anyone has an interest in co-operative games.

Co-operative board games?

That doesn't computer.

I play board games to win and crush everyone else's hopes and dreams.

Ha, it's not a computer you're right.

idk what you mean.....

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Board games and stuff this weekend. Mysterium is very good if anyone has an interest in co-operative games.

Co-operative board games?

That doesn't compute.

I play board games to win and crush everyone else's hopes and dreams.

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@NattNatt said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@dafyre said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

GOG has Saints Row 2 for free for the next 30 hours or so...
https://www.gog.com/

It's a good game, too.

Yeah, the best of the series imo...3 was good...but then 4+ went stupid.

You liked 2 better than 3? I'm still on 2 so have no idea but have heard that 3 was great.

I loved 3...but I liked the customis-ability and story of 2 better