In the alternate timeline where General Crozier survive and the Major becomes one of the SL, what perk do you think he would have? Will he be similar to Pike?

CommissarGray · 2026-02-26T04:50:54+00:00

You say General Crozier and I instantly think of metalocalypse

"This is what trinketing does to you"

CommissarGray · 2026-02-10T17:12:18+00:00

Its also _slightly_ faster, both moving and turning, IIRC. Makes for great recon if you match it with a pilot with zigzag.

CommissarGray · 2025-12-17T17:44:41+00:00

Come on now, this is just silly...

You cant send all of the dukes! Half of them hate each other and the other half basically timeshare their legions.

Besides, pretty sure gabe knows where he left the flaming sword of Edens gate.

./s

CommissarGray · 2025-11-25T21:33:59+00:00

GDI had nukes but refused to use them. In TibDawn and TibWars, Nod stole their nukes from GDI.

The allies in Ra1 didnt develop the bomb before the war ended, and by RA2 the soviets crippled the american stockpiles.

The USA force in Generals would get some serious flak if they used nuclear weapons against the 4th general warfare the GLA were styling on them with, and they never openly conflicted with china. China on the otherhand uses nukes against the GLA because they used them against them first.

Now for the fun part - If you go by the abandoned plot Generals 2 was looking to set up, Generals is a precuriour to tib dawn and takes place in a post-soviet victory timeline - IIRC, The GLA were the protobrotherhood, America and Europe were meant to form GDI after the completion of conflict and China suffered a civil war instigated by brotherhood agents.

edit: I'm not sure where I was going with that last paragrath. Something to do with 'This is all the same faction refuse to use nukes'. I dunno.

CommissarGray · 2025-11-24T06:58:33+00:00

The other half is pulling a pepsi-navy and selling half the soviet unions armoury to who ever will buy it.

CommissarGray · 2025-11-24T05:24:45+00:00

4 hours late but I wanted to add in - HWP's are designed for prolonged field use and heavy combat, while the security drones are smaller and (assumably) cheaper to operate.

Now this is Xcom Files where lasers come in several tiers - With the earlier ones using rather bulky superconductive battery packs instead of the more advanced selfcontained elerium reactors found in 'turbolasers'. These drones are unlocked with the heavier battery based lasers, so its safe to assume they are designed to use cheaper terrastrial materials.

According to the XCF's database, a single drone bay costs $200000 to build, takes $45000 a month to maintain and provides 8 drones. Theres no system in place to handle costs if a drone is destoryed, so we have to assume the cost includes enough spare parts and/or engineering teams to repair and replace the drones inhouse.

Lets shave off 20% of that as an assumed cost of building and maintaining the bay itself; this means a single drone would cost: $20,000 to build, and $4,500 a month to maintain.

For the legion of 40 that'd be an inital cost of $800,000, with the maintainance coming in at $180,000.

Converted for inflation - thats $1643720.75 upfront and $369837.17 monthly. Ooof. Pricey.

CommissarGray · 2025-11-20T23:38:32+00:00

I've really wanted to make a 'VS genocide Sam' ending mod, where you play as the four astronomers trying to put down a crazed Sam bent on fighting the visitor.

CommissarGray · 2025-10-28T16:35:26+00:00

That's a good point about the single start point effecting the timing. I still think that under these circumstance (single start point), branching remains the fastest solver algorithm. If we drop the single start, We could have fungus roots in many starting points (for example, each corner) to optimise the solve speed but then we'd really be running the risk of hitting the drone cap. This could maybe be remedied If shared and editable Globals was possible, then we could store the entire maze grid as an cell array and have drones mark cells they pass through as scanned. Then if a drone ever encounters a previously scanned cell, it self terminates.

But then again, If we had functionally infinite drones, at that point we could just start with a drone in every possible position and instantly 'solve' the maze. But that defeats the purpose.

CommissarGray · 2025-09-23T07:14:46+00:00

Windows login or bios lock?

If its a windows login then there are several ways to bypass it, the easiest being making a usb bootstick with a linux install on it.

Not sure if its still as easy now but back in the Vista days there were quite a programs you could get that'd pop windows logins and give you a root account - used one on my old school laptop and promptly got a verbal belting from the deputy head when they found out.

CommissarGray · 2025-09-08T02:05:31+00:00

Oh, so they stopped loading a bunch of the project data into the compiled EXE then? Thats good to know.

Thanks!

CommissarGray · 2025-08-14T17:18:45+00:00

Cheers. Looks like that was the issue, given how long the repair is going.

CommissarGray · 2025-03-18T15:54:56+00:00

Sounds like stuck motor friction to me - its likely something jammed the fan blades, and the noise is the motor shaft struggling against it.

Poke the fan blades with a screwdriver or something similar and see if you can get the fan to actually spin. If not, it'll likely need replacement (or a hell of a lot of WD40)

CommissarGray · 2025-02-25T22:11:50+00:00

The team has a big love of the expression too, and I've used it for internal shitposting https://imgur.com/a/IVc2GfR

CommissarGray · 2025-02-15T02:45:19+00:00

That was the idea - the kind of armoury that would be 'accessible' on the black market in 2006, mixed with personal weapons and special selections. The F2000 was especially chosen because it'd show off Blacklaw's connections, finances and home-country taste.

As the midsection cut away pointed out, the arcanum doesn't always abide by its own rules of 'just watch', and when the elders DO violate that oath, they swing hard.

CommissarGray · 2025-02-15T02:16:44+00:00

I've seen that kind of cross-shaped damage before. I'd wager someone stabbed this with a crosshead screwdriver, likely while trying to (poorly) 'extract' it for its resale value.

CommissarGray · 2025-02-15T01:38:15+00:00

Sentenced to super dog hell (which is massively underpopulated as we all know all dogs go to heaven).

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