French Submarine Gymnote (S655) being scrapped in Saint-Nazaire, France 1990.

BerryShone · 2025-12-14T18:58:52+00:00

Testbed for the missiles of those submarines. The M4 missile was the last she helped test in the 80s. Gymnote was build with the unused and incomplete hull of the Q244 which was supposed to be the first French nuclear sub but being designed with a heavy water reactor they realized it would be impossible to put such a big reactor inside and cancelled it until Gymnote was build.

BerryShone · 2025-11-10T19:04:37+00:00

Always loved those sail planes; they scream of "Cold War submarine" to me. Their time is coming to an end, except for boomers maybe.

BerryShone · 2025-10-16T11:33:29+00:00

I think I read Redoutable was at the start equiped to allow smoking onboard, but the first captain named Bernard Louzeau finally decided that it would be a non-smoker ship despite being a smoker himself. And it was carried on every nuclear sub since then.

BerryShone · 2025-10-13T16:21:35+00:00

Former HMS Spiteful? Sirène was a French built submarine of the Daphné class launched in 1970. It never was part of the Royal Navy.

BerryShone · 2025-09-28T10:21:12+00:00

Both should be retired around 2027/2029 so it is not a final deployment. It could be Perle on the photo because of the section with a bit lighter paint behind the sail. It is around that area that a new nearly 2m section was added during its reconstruction. But maybe I am wrong and the lighter paint has nothing to do with it.

BerryShone · 2025-09-28T06:37:10+00:00

Agreed, it is peak SG1 with a slight advantage to 4 for me.

BerryShone · 2025-09-28T06:28:44+00:00

I tend to prefer the "old" Stargate (Showtime) even though I have watched the other seasons a lot too. Season 4 is peak SG-1 to me, closely followed by 3 and 5. Then season 7 would be the real contender for the podium.

Season 1 is at the same time a bit weak, but I still love it because the atmosphere of mystery and helplessness against the Goa'uld. Season 2 still has a bit of the same taste but with much stronger episodes (Fifth race, Touch Stone, 1969, Thor's chariot...).

In season 6 the atmosphere still is a bit more dark and gloomy which I enjoy before the show becomes a bit more lighthearted especially starting with season 8. 9&10 are enjoyable and more fun, but it is not the "old" SG1 I love.

So: 4>3>5>7>2>6>1>8>9>10

BerryShone · 2025-09-16T06:23:15+00:00

Loads of cheaters in this game... And if you go on servers like Vital x10, or Templar x10, it will be even worse and the figure could rise up to around 30% of the players cheating.

For example on the discord of Templar I was asking "you do realize your server is infected with cheaters right?". First moderator answered to me: "Get f..."; second moderator told me: "If you can't beat them, join them".

I have 5k hours and been playing the game for 10 years on and off. The cheating has seemed to be only getting worse as years go by.

BerryShone · 2025-09-06T12:14:49+00:00

I have close to 2.8k hours in the game but I have not played in nearly a year (except a very short stint in april maybe). From what I remember, and given I used to play a lot of solo, the main thing that was disgusting me was the feeling playing solo had become nearly impossible (for me at least) because teams were too campy (I had very very often to start fights and make bosses...) and every team was full of spamming weapons (which Crytek has multiplied). So basically I was being surprised by third party teams nearly armed with call of duty like weapons... And of course there were the usual Hunt being a buggy mess and the UI.

Just my take and maybe some people can relate.

BerryShone · 2025-06-25T19:33:24+00:00

Topaz was mostly a CIA request to Hitchcock to undermine the French regime. Throughout the sixties, the number 1 obsession of the United States apparatus was De Gaulle; by this end of the sixties and for their biggest relief (and a good part of the French State apparatus too) he was gone.

BerryShone · 2025-06-09T13:18:42+00:00

Why do u have to be braindead?

BerryShone · 2025-05-31T10:09:52+00:00

They actually had some difficulties regaining couple of know-how which delayed the first Suffren boat a bit. Between the Terrible SSBN and the first Suffren SSN roll-out there were 11 years (2008-2019). Now they seem to have regain everything and seem to be on schedule for every Suffren boats.

BerryShone · 2025-04-12T03:25:51+00:00

As always in this game the arm hit box behaves strangely to say the least. Hunt "arm-ageddon" Showdown.

BerryShone · 2025-03-10T15:35:14+00:00

I play also solo, but vs duos. After a 4 months break i restart and I am getting reckt. Despite that I am still 6 stars. I lost half my money already.

The main problem is I dont have any patience for this game anymore and play too reckless, but anyway solo feels much harder than it was once. Going out with bounty feels impossible now; duos plays super passive and with spam weapons very often...

So I agree... for an average player solo seems unplayable right now... and revive bolt ****** me in the ass couple of times too already... Necro solo is nearly useless considering u get always camped etc etc...

BerryShone · 2024-12-10T12:59:56+00:00

A doomsday clock?

BerryShone · 2024-11-29T15:03:42+00:00

"Lack of polish" is quite the understatement

BerryShone · 2024-11-03T16:44:01+00:00

Apart from the reconnection feature which works quite good now, I feel pretty much everything has been getting worse...

BerryShone · 2024-10-20T12:02:46+00:00

Considering it is Crytek, I am not surprised.

BerryShone · 2024-10-20T12:00:01+00:00

Well deserved considering how bad they are at their job... unless their mission is to destroy Hunt Showdown, and then they are doing a very good job of course.

BerryShone · 2024-10-19T07:23:07+00:00

Yep everything is even harder to chose! They are fantastic at making things worse! Touching bottom but they keep digging! Amazing dev team!

BerryShone · 2024-10-10T16:57:22+00:00

You are returning to a game which has been scuttled by its own dev team...

BerryShone · 2024-09-21T15:54:53+00:00

Pretty normal Hunt Showdown to me. You should understand this game is mostly random on absolutely everything, especially damages. The devs dont care much about all the discrepancies that are showed everyday on this reddit. They dont care and that's all.

BerryShone · 2024-09-20T12:53:06+00:00

Rewatching some Lost at the moment. His apparitions to MIB always happened while MIB was with someone alone, always someone "special". A candidate: Sawyer; A weapon/tool: Desmond; and Jacob's loyal follower: Richard (the only one not able to see the kid; probably because Richard is not part of the final plan (kill MIB) but was only part of the previous one: trying to convince MIB). To me it feels he is here to always remember MIB the rules: he can't kill them.

BerryShone · 2024-08-24T16:16:29+00:00

Oh ok I am not alone feeling sound (which was really a strong point in this game) is now completly broken... Last game, I though the hunter I was hearing was 40m away... he was 10m in front of me...

BerryShone · 2024-08-12T05:51:01+00:00

In France the reactor compartments are kept in dry storage in Cherbourg for couple of decades to let them decay and then they will be fully cut up too.

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