Most computers in my school have Windows 8 logos on them. That doesnt change the fact that they are all running Windows 7. Apart from one or two mac book pros that are still running Windows xp, but they dont receive much love or care since they are given out to students on loan.
So? Tons of stuff had Vista stickers and ran different OSes. I know my school and my dad's work updated to systems with Vista stickers but kept running XP until 7 came out. (My school recently updated a lot of the machines to i5s with Win 8 stickers and they all still run 7.)
Whoa, it doesn't warrant a national holiday. I mean come on, it's not like he died. I don't mind top gear, but we don't have a national holiday because jeremy clarkson punched someone in the face.
Far cry 3 gets boring way too quick. I'm barely halfway through the game, already bored. And I did nothing but story missions. Also incredibly unpolished in some very obvious areas. Well, it's Ubisoft, I honestly don't know what I was expecting.
Apparently the cause of the plane crash in the Alps was the Co-pilot hitting the mountain on purpose. The pilot left the cockpit for some reason and the copilot locked him out. That's fucked up.
I disagree. I think both FarCry 3 and 4 were both fantastic games. While i did notice that FarCry 3 had some pretty bad textures in areas FarCry4 had none of that. I actually did most of the side stuff in FarCry 3 before i did the story missions, i basically went around and did all of the radio towers since i really enjoyed travelling around the map. FarCry 3 did also have pretty poor audio quality in some places (the styised stuff was fine such as the radio) but even the burn the weed farm mission had fairly low quality audio. But all of the above was fixed in FarCry 4. My biggest issue with the FarCry series is that the driving is dull, they really need a better vehicle system, FarCry 4 improved it quite a bit but i want more speed and a half arcade half sim kind of vehicle system. But i understand that doesnt lend itself well to shooting while driving. I really like Vaas as a character and thought he was excelent, the voice acting was also superb for him. Pagen Min was also fantastic, i just wish i got to actually see him more often in the game as opposed to just radio dialog. Strange thing is that i could never get into the second FarCry, but three and four have became some of the most memorable games i have played. FarCry 4 also looks absolutely stunning.
Prevailing theory on pilot leaving cockpit is pretty simple, toilet. Which is a perfectly fine reason for him to leave the cockpit. Aircraft should have been on autopilot and copilot is capable of flying most of the trip (in this case I think the copilot was a fully qualified pilot anyway and could have probably run it solo), no reason for pilots to not be able to visit the toilet. Can't blame him for anything. Co-pilot is a fucking evil son of a bitch. Fucked up doesnt even cut it. Overrode the altitude hold, locked pilot out of cabin? Its not like he's proved a point or bought attention to any cause or anything. Seems to me that he was a suicidal nut, just the most selfish suicidal nut in existence taking out 150 innocents with him.
I'm not blaming the pilot at all. You should be able to trust your fellow crew members. I also heard that the plane's autopilot was actually set to slowly descend from whatever current altitude they were at, and was on autopilot when it hit the mountain. You'd think that, at a certain point, the plane itself would take control and pull up if it were on autopilot and flying into the side of a mountain. Maybe it isn't that smart. idk
The plane did not collide along its preset route which did clear the mountain easily. The plane is actually completely blind to everything btw. It has no idea if there is a mountain infront. All it knows are its co-ordinates and airspeed. It can't actually see infront of it.
The latest news I heard was that the co-pilot took a break from his training in 2009 for depression, and then got back in after a small test. After the pilot left to go do something he locked the cabin door and denied the access override code. Then disabled autopilot and crashed into the mountains to commit suicide. On one hand it is horrible, but I don't see the surprising difference from a normal suicide in a way. Obviously mentally unstable so is it surprising he didn't think of the passengers?
I have yet to try FC4. Voice acting is actually one of the good things of FC3, as is animation. Characters are pretty decent. But I just hate how linear the game is. In some games I'm fine with a lack of choice (Valve games mostly), but in a game like Far Cry it's just... Dull. And it's also just doing the same thing over and over again, shooting the same enemies. I guess it's mostly that, you don't even get a different kind of bad guy to kill. Only different classes of pirate (90% are normal anyway). And mostly with the same guns too, since most enemies have assault rifles using any other kind of weapon means restocking ammo after every mission. Also, it has the least rewarding loot in any game ever.
This is the one of the classic blunders of video game design. How to give the player the power to kill, but expose him or her to their primary adversary more than once or twice. And not cut into player agency (no cutscenes). Even Arkham City, for all its glory in giving individual enemies more screen time, just couldn't do that with Hugo Strange. Didn't AF447's captain leave the cockpit to go to the bathroom? Or was it to sleep? Either way, leaving the cockpit seems like a bad idea for flight crews in this day and age.
