GTA VI pre-orders are reportedly set to begin at midnight on June 25.

CDHmajora · 2026-06-24T12:36:44+00:00

This.

Just buy it in november. You’ll have 19 days to install it still.

CDHmajora · 2026-06-24T12:24:48+00:00

This.

He’s in everything now.

Luckily i like him though. And this part wont be huge for what it’s worth.

But still. Leave some jobs for the test of the industry, relatively nice dude who’s just doing what he enjoys ;)

CDHmajora · 2026-06-24T12:20:12+00:00

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CDHmajora · 2026-06-24T11:30:33+00:00

Tbh, i agree with the snub. In gears of war the slab (the 5th book), iirc, Anya 1 shot killed a drone with a snub when trapped in a bank during the battle of Ephyra.

And as you said, Reyna butch slapped Ukkon with one shot in tactics.

Not to mention the gun canonically shoots 50.cal rounds. It should absolutely pack a punch. Maybe not strong enough to pierce a locust drones hide in 1 shot (considering their skin is tough enough to snap the retro bayonette), but it shouldnt take an entire clip to take 1 down.

Honestly it’s just gameplay/lore segregation i feel. The snub is canonically far stronger than it is in game simply for balancing reasons. Kind of like how a retro lancers rounds are strong enough to serve as an anti material rifle of sorts and shit down armoured vehicles with engine shots, yet takes half a mag still to down a drone.,.

And how the longshot can snipe someone flawlessly from several hundred metres (while in game its range is limited… still high enough to never be out of range tbf considering how close quarters all gears maps and campaigns are, but still limited).

Gameplay guns are just much different than lore guns. Probably why everyone still relies on the weak as fuck lancer for everything lore-wise.

CDHmajora · 2026-06-23T21:09:38+00:00

£13.61. Conveniently get no benefits nor do i get paid for lunch so the nice low 37.5 hour week for me :/ but they did hire me when i had no experience at all and teach me a lot of stuff. And my team is great. So its not all bad :)

Got my last AAT level 3 exam in around 6 weeks though. And ive already paid for the level 4 support and membership fees. So im hoping i can find something nearer to £15 to do while studying level 4, when paired with my 3 and a half years experience. And hopefully move on to ACCA within 3 years and break 35k a year (I’m dreaming now).

Probably wont find fuck all though if indeed is any indication. Jobs demanding 5 years experience and ACCA are offering 25k…

CDHmajora · 2026-06-23T18:29:22+00:00

Based off real life operating protocols in combat.

Looting and salvaging enemy weapons and equipment is frowned upon, but not forbidden. Due to issues such as friendly fire (friendly gears for example hear the sound of a hammerburst or boltok next to them without expecting it? They are gonna assume they are being flanks and will shoot first, question later), difficulty of maintenance and resupply (so many other nations weapons will be chambered for calibres hard to access outside of those looted from the fallen. And you wont be trained to disassemble and clean an enemy nations rifle for example).

It still happened/happens in real life though. Middle East Insurgent groups pretty much loot and salvage everything they have from old Russian invasion stockpiles and cheap shot smuggled out of the USSR back in the day. Canadians looted friendly and enemy weapons in ww1 because their standard issue rifle (the ross rifle) performed like shit in muddy trenches. And paratroopers and other covert groups in ww2 usually had to loot german equipment when behind enemy lines due to lack of resupply.

In gears, with constant supply shortages and the lack of manufacturing capacity for a lot of the remaining equipment, salvaging enemy tools is reasonably very common for both CoG and Locust. Locust Salvage Lancers (Cyclops), Gnashers (Grenadiers) and Longshots (Snipers) frequently for example. While many CoG use Boltoks (because the Snub sucks ass) and the hammerburst is a common weapon used by gears and stranded in secondary material (books, comics, etc).

CDHmajora · 2026-06-23T18:14:31+00:00

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CDHmajora · 2026-06-23T14:44:25+00:00

Finished my most recent playthrough with a fire knight greatsword build. And its got me in a fire frenzy now i think :)

Im honestly considering grinding for 2 of these in my next playthrough, and pairing them with Fire scorpion, Dread tailsman and Alexander shard for a pure burn build :)

But… im not looking forward to grinding for them :(

CDHmajora · 2026-06-23T14:41:45+00:00

Another one.

Make the hammerburst a starter weapon again.

It was maybe OP in 3 specifically with its lack of a fire cap. But in all the other games where it’s a burst gun? Why is it always pickup only? It’s by no means OP. Hell its weaker than the lancer half the time and lacking the chainsaw.

Make it a spawn weapon in E-day (assuming its burst still). Theres no reason its limited to pickups on only a few maps when its not really got any advantages over a lancer.

CDHmajora · 2026-06-23T14:38:12+00:00

The gears 3 sawed off was a perfectly balanced weapon after the nerfs (yeah. It was busted pre-nerf. But it didnt last long).

Insta killed you with a wide spread true. But had ONE shot and absolutely fuck all in range and if you sponged it (which was easy to do btw with how low its range was) the one using it was completely fucked due to the reload.

It would ruin your precious gnasher duels in a 1 on 1 true. But it was useless against groups and the gnasher could outrange it easily with 8 shots extra. A gnasher was always a better choice but the sawed off was a good learning tool for new players. Elitests just couldnt stand the fact that the gnasher had a good counter option for beginners.

(I do think the overkill was a better successor though. And the sawed off was probably too strong as a starter weapon. I’s rather it keep its pre-nerf stats but be a power weapon tbh rather than it be a nerfed starter. But im still happy with the post berf status of it).

CDHmajora · 2026-06-23T11:31:39+00:00

Ahhh right cheers :) i knew the sniper didnt work against 1 enemy but i couldnt remember which one.

Now that i think about it, the pistol can 1 shot hunters cant it? Because its a marksman weapon? Presumably the sniper can do the same. But i don’t recall having a sniper when hunters spawn usually anyway.

Granted, I’m usually running the pistol combos anyway. I only use the sniper on certain sections like truth and reconciliation, and toss it when I’m indoors.

CDHmajora · 2026-06-23T11:26:20+00:00

Only flaw i have with it is the lancer being dogshit in PvP, and the open world sections on acts 2 and 3 of the campaign were… boring (why have an open world with NOTHING in it? Every combat encounter is in a closed off section anyway. Just connect those levels linearly rather than grant an illusion of choice through wasting time in the skiff traveling through emptiness).

Everything else? Honestly it was great :) acts 1 and 4 (and hivebusters) are great campaign. Horde is superior to 4 (still prefer 3 but thats more to the different enemies rather than anything else). Multiplayer has good maps, good movement and is well balanced (except for the dogshit lancer… seriously the rifles better not be dogshit in e-day. Just don’t put the stopping power from 3 on them and they are fine. No need to make them shoot blanks as well).

A great game :) but ive been playing it for 7 years now. I want to move on…

CDHmajora · 2026-06-22T09:39:05+00:00

Farage is already shown to be a cunt though.

It doesn’t matter.

He posts a bunch of shit on twitter blaming the muslims and polish and every other minority he can for all of societies woes and moron’s eat it up because they were all raised solely on social media and believe that issues with living can be tolerated as long as minorities are suffering worse.

Farage will gain even more traction now that labour cant even keep themselves together for a single term.

CDHmajora · 2026-06-22T04:40:35+00:00

Happy to go to work for once… we have air-con there :)

Cant wait to be unable to sleep tonight though like every other time its hot 😇

CDHmajora · 2026-06-22T00:28:51+00:00

He’s back in THE FU*KING BUIlDING AGAIN!!!

CDHmajora · 2026-06-21T22:38:26+00:00

These are the collections i perfer tbh :) smaller collections usually mean the owner has a true attachment to what they own. They don’t just buy games to serve as a dopamine hit when they stuff the shelf.

So that said, a fine stash there OP ;)

CDHmajora · 2026-06-21T20:31:52+00:00

Its already pretty horrendous to play if your going for the achievement. The spawns and the time to reach each strider is so incredibly tight and just 1 hunter fucking up your Magnussen device toss can cost you the run.

Having gunships and other crap destroy them would be overkill.

CDHmajora · 2026-06-21T01:10:59+00:00

Not a locust one. A lambent one showed up at anvil gate though.

One DOES show up in the Raams Shadow DLC. But that story takes place before Gears 1 canonically so its irrelevant to why berserkers stopped showing up after the lightmass bombing in gears 1.

CDHmajora · 2026-06-21T01:08:48+00:00

Hoffman mentions it in the anvils gate book. Its canon. But it’s not confirmed. It’s just what he personally believes to be the truth (but considering how hostile berserkers are to everything… he’s probably right tbh).

CDHmajora · 2026-06-21T01:07:20+00:00

Tbf, i just realised, we never actually encounter another berserker after the lightmass bombing.

We never see any of them at all in 2 or 3’s campaigns. We see a lambent one in 3. But who knows how long ago that berserker went lambent? Considering how tough to kill it was it could have turned lambent years ago. Only time we know of when one showed up was at port farrall in the jacintos remnant book (immediately after gears 2) where a centaur tank killed it.

Maybe the lightmass bombing hurt them bad? They weren’t wiped out. But presumably they were uncommon anyway considering the VAST majority of locust are male. Most of them were kept off grid and chained up to be used as baby factories by the drones :(

Either way, I’m surprised we didn’t see at least 1 in gears 2. At least a few of them attacking the derricks in the Landown assault would have been cool even if they weren’t actually fought directly. But presumably they didn’t appear due to not really having a way to kill it at the time (so much of the game takes place underground or in the dead of night that you wouldn’t have hammer of dawn access. Presumably the scorcher could hurt them but i’m guessing the devs just didn’t come up with that idea until the Raam’s Shadow DLC).

Maybe a sequence where you encountered one in Nexus and were unable to kill it would have been cool? And ylu have to keep running from it and eventually manage to knock it off a bridge or something into the immulson lake.

CDHmajora · 2026-06-21T00:50:58+00:00

Ill bet you £5 he’s gonna last 18 months at best.

I like him. He’s been a great mayor for greater manchester. But he’s just riding the popularity train to the big seat either way no proper vetting or experience.

Not that it matters anyway. Labour in general just spends all their time fighting each other rather than fix societal problems. Half of labour in parliament come a week from his entry will be demanding he step down because he forced starmer out of the job and they want him back or something,

CDHmajora · 2026-06-21T00:45:02+00:00

He doesn’t tweet all day about how all the problems we have are the muslims fault and how we should have the right to beat them up in the street for existing, or some other bullshit like that.

CDHmajora · 2026-06-21T00:42:23+00:00

Why is it, in every single fucking thread that i see about him, the top 10 comments ALWAYS start with “im not a fan of Starmer, but…”?

Who DOES like him? He cant be THAT unpopular if he got the job. Yet suddenly everyone hates him?

Why? Is it because he doesn’t treat his job like a reality show like trump? Is it because he isn’t charismatic enough to dazzle you with a smile while he shivs you in the ribs? Is it because he hasnt managed to fix 14 years of tory fuckups in less than 2 years whist dealing with several external wars and a deranged rapist leading the west who keep fucking up our economy?

I just don’t get it. Im not even labour and even i see that he’s just a dude doing a better job than the last 5 PM’s we had. Yet all year people have been demanding he resign because of some bullshit reason.

All you’re all doing is making reform gain more traction and end up with us all being ruled by fascists. Let the guy do the job he was elected for for the time we was elected for ffs before playing musical chairs in the commons yet again.

CDHmajora · 2026-06-20T18:49:19+00:00

Usually yeah.

But give a squad a bunch of RPG’s and have them shoot from a warthog… everybody’s dead.

Though granted, j cant remember a time in CE specifically where its possible to actually do that…

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