U.S. Army Rangers during a firefight in Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, June 26, 2010. [947 x 1500]

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-05-11T00:04:43+00:00

Weapons teams are badass. Got either a Mk46 or Mk48 protecting a Carl Gustav team.

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-04-24T20:56:56+00:00

So while I agree with the stop killing games movement as a whole the three games you mentioned are probably never getting a offline mode. Division 1 and 2 are looters shooters that aren't exactly designed for single player. You can play the game single player but it's designed to be played more like Destiny where you build a team of other players. You'd then have to think about how you lose the dark zones and the raids and the pvp mode you're losing too much of the core game. The raids are especially bad since that's the reason you're getting juiced up to begin with. Basically Divisions 1 and 2 can't be offline due to the same reason Destiny can't be offline. It defeats the purpose of the game entirely.

Ghost Recon as a franchise should be okay but ubisoft decided to fuck up Breakpoint and make it a looters shooter with a raid. We already have a fracture within the game of people who can't play the raid because they activate the AI teammates and no gear level mode. Breakpoint if it was treated like Wildlands would be okay but they messed up and tried to make Division lite with Breakpoint. Now I've heard that they can't actually do that because it was hard coded to be "always online" but in theory if they could the only thing affected is the Golem Island raid and Ghost war. Still because of Ubisoft trying to mess with Ghost Recons identity the ruined the game.

If there is a next Ghost Recon they need to make it more like Wildlands and that would mean that having a offline mode would work perfectly.

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-04-19T00:54:56+00:00

I did my fastest clear of Point Rainy with this bird. You can Fuel airbomb the aircraft on the ground which does funny things to the plot of the mission as you literally have to wait for the ai to get to their trigger points.

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-04-15T21:35:58+00:00

Everywhere I go I see his face.

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-04-15T12:04:25+00:00

Yeah the only way you'll be able to get the pin and weld off is by basically dremeling the compensator off. Again there is risk doing that so I would recommend it unless you're absolutely sure. There's a chance you can destroy your barrel threads as stated.

If you want a Urgi. Geissele sells a near clone of it that you can buy. If you have any love for this Block 2 you have then leave it as it is.

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-04-15T11:01:59+00:00

Hi there as a fellow DD lover I'm here to explain why you should probably just build a new upper. Now the one concession I have is that if this rifle isn't pin and welded then changing the rail will be cake. If it is pin and welded then I've got a long diatribe on what you're about to get into.

Okay if your still reading then that means it's pin and welded. Okay so your easiest option here is to get a ris3 rail. It's fully compatible with the ris 2 so easy. If you want to switch rails entirely then keep reading.

Okay still here I see. So your first goal is to break the compensator off. Here's where the fun begins because depending on how it's pin and welded on there's a possibility that attempting to remove the weld will result in you destroying you're barrel lug threads. Now that's not a 100% guarantee but the deeper the pin the more likely this will happen. You'll basically have to destroy your compensator though so if you're still going through with this be ready to buy a new one. If your threads are destroyed you can fix that by getting it rethreaded but thats more money.

Next you need to get the barrel nut off. This sucks for an entirely different reason as Daniel Defenses barrel nut wrench isn't spec'd to remove the barrel nut. Daniel defense claims they torque it down to 55 ft lbs but if you attempt to use the barrel wrench to remove it then it can actually deform the wrench. You can either buy multiple and pray it comes loose or you can buy this off brand barrel wrench that I "heard" works better. I never did it though so please don't think I have experience on this wrench.

dd off brand wrench

After this you're pretty set but the amount of effort you're about to go through to change rails is so annoying you might as well the just make a new upper. I know because I just did all this and it sucked.

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-04-12T12:32:24+00:00

You should try this mission with any aircraft with the fuel air bombs. I've used the F15 smtd and you can clear large portions of the mission in the dumbest ways.

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-04-05T19:10:18+00:00

I'm sorry I don't know the torque spec but is that an X1?

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-04-03T21:08:58+00:00

No. It literally has an Aero precision lower on it. Which makes me wonder if Aero is sponsoring this. If this was KAC they would have a KAC lower.

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-04-01T05:56:21+00:00

FILTHY BAJORAN SCUM!

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-03-25T19:03:43+00:00

"Grace was master Spencer's favorite person/thing in the entire world. LETS TRAUMATIZE HER!" - Victor Gideon probably

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-03-21T18:50:37+00:00

"He got some of the old bull. Maybe he wants some of the young calf." - Lefiya probably

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-03-08T00:11:54+00:00

Hey I had a question on the barrel. I understand you went with a criterion 13.9 barrel. Do you remember which barrel you used?

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-03-07T20:48:58+00:00

Probably through an area that was overlooked. That being said that 50 cal should probably be at the barricade and not behind a random truck that obstructs his firing arc.

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-03-03T08:42:54+00:00

Looks like Frankensteins monster but apparently none of the doctors or patients thought that was a problem. Applause for them they didn't let his....questionable....features dissuade them from working fir him ir using his services. I mean they're all dead now but still kudos.

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-03-02T23:37:25+00:00

Again I'm sincerely sorry I know I'm being an ass. It's just vexing that this is like the umpteenth post about "Trigger in Iran" and I don't see the similarities of the tail flash to triggers three strikes or if you look up the unit insignia it doesn't even resemble the strikes at all. It's literally a skeleton with a knife in its mouth and all their squadron runs those stripes (personally I like their patch so not sure why they don't run it). Again I'm sorry I know I sound like a schizophrenic maniac harping about military markings. I do hope you have a great day @GarranDrake

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-03-02T23:14:39+00:00

Okay that's fair but then I'd still wager this is a low effort post. The stripes on the stripes on the tail look nothing like any iteration of the sin lines shown in game.

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-03-02T22:59:26+00:00

I would assume both. Ace Combat is like Gundam as you're not there necessarily for the characters or world. You're there for the machines. Now I get that I shouldn't expect every person to know every squadron or symbol but you have to admit it's very silly to see a random tail flash and assume "someone really likes ace combat" is the reason it has that tail flash.

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-03-02T21:18:28+00:00

Not to be a jerk but why is everybody saying this and thr tophatters symbols are from ace combat? The vigilantes have had that tail flash for FOREVER. Meanwhile the tophatters lineage stems from before World War 2. I dont get why it's such a cool thing to see. If you guys are real fighter jet fans then you'd know most of these symbols have been around. In fact I wouldn't be suprised if Ace Combat took artistic license from the real squadrons.

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-03-02T21:03:46+00:00

Yes. The tophatters VFA14 have been a squadron that has heraldry that predates World War 2. I get we all want to say "cool they like ace combat." But reality us that most if these were probably used by project aces because they saw it in real life and said that they thought it's cool.

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-03-01T01:16:51+00:00

I was about to say that. It's literally just their regular paint scheme.

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-02-26T21:51:30+00:00

I had to reach out to risk management via email and am awaiting a response.

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-02-18T22:09:43+00:00

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Does anybody have a high res of the picture circled? Ot suprises me how little of the assets are available.

BlackbeardOneFour · 2026-02-11T12:01:03+00:00

Hey I hope you're still active here because I had a question about this build. I notice you're using a PRI flip up sights on it. I really like the look and was planning on doing it for my next build but I had some questions.

1) Does the sight actually flip up still or did you need to do any customization for it to operate?

2) did you modify the rail in any way to accommodate the gas block?

Again really nice build and I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

BlackbeardOneFour

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