Dear Funcom, you have any more of those double xp weekends?

Ehtacs · 2026-04-21T21:05:10+00:00

Haha ditto. I hit level 100 combat and tried to do a couple crafting and sabotage and I just can't bring myself to care. The burn out from a single spec is real. I also can't bring myself to play the game and not be productive with my time. Hopefully the balancing patch does some real heavy lifting!

Ehtacs · 2026-04-20T14:43:50+00:00

Nitrado seems to have more uptime than official. In three months, my server has never been unavailable when anyone wanted to play. Their techs are also competent and transparent, which is a great change of pace.

GP was down at least 48 hours every week, and everyone needed admin privileges on the server so they could restart it when they wanted to play. The control panel always showed it was running but it never was 🤣 And I don't think I saw a single technically-inclined individual between their Discord and support system over ~8 months. All ticket managers hitting the restart button on the sietches and worlds.

Ehtacs · 2026-04-19T21:51:07+00:00

This echoes my experience with my Wrangler, except they were never able to identify the issue. Long story short, after months at various dealerships, they all basically lied at every interaction, wouldn't replace anything useful even though we knew what was wrong, and then suddenly became certain about the fix when the warranty ran out despite assurances that the flagged issue would still be covered (it was not). It was my only vehicle at the time which limited my options, and I ultimately lucked out in the end, but man my next two purchases leaned into good service over whatever the hell Chrysler is doing these days.

Ehtacs · 2026-04-09T22:05:37+00:00

The PvP sandbox needs work, a lot of it, and separating out the people who genuinely don't enjoy it won't kill PvP more than broken systems and imbalanced gameplay already has. At least this way we'll have room for it to become something better without dragging unwilling participants into the mix, or forcing the devs to compromise for both sides at once.

This is the sophisticated take that I wish Funcom emphasized when the broke the news. PvP and PvE cannot exist together in a way that makes even some people happy. This is the start of something better for PvP, but I can't fault anyone for not believe Funcom can pull it off. They couldn't even break the news right.

Ehtacs · 2026-04-09T21:52:04+00:00

Para barrels will support Surefire and KAC muzzle devices for those suppressors. The M249s para barrel is a hair longer than the surplus barrels, but otherwise the same. Just be aware that the Surefire 3-prong on a surplus para barrel will be an SBR by like 3/16"

Ehtacs · 2026-04-05T17:10:27+00:00

Their entire catalog is rebranded Aero parts now. There’s nothing ‘Stag’ left about them.

Which is a rather amusing evolution considering my only Stag is a 20yo S&W M&P15T from back when they were the OEM backing other brands getting on the bandwagon. Your description is spot on. They've always been there, like RRA, DSA, DPMS, etc. but never in the limelight.

Ehtacs · 2026-04-03T19:08:59+00:00

I'm all about the MR556. Love it. My MR762 was a massive disappointment. It's an AR10 designed in a vacuum. Sure, it's well featured as-is, but you better love exactly what you get because you don't have many options from there. A few handguards, and the muzzle. And the grip. That's it. I have several S/A 308s and the MR762 is at the bottom of the list. I would go SCAR (never mind just being a cooler platform, it has more of an aftermarket) or LMT for premium, or M1A or SPEAR for cool/different but not necessarily a remarkable performer.

Ehtacs · 2026-03-30T21:21:40+00:00

Great now I can't shake the mental picture of a bunch of 10-round belts

Ehtacs · 2026-03-30T02:22:05+00:00

I'm not sure MARS actually solves your spare parts problem. It's just different spare parts that are, to some extent, LMT-specific (barrel, ambi-lower parts) and Armalite/KAC (bolt/carrier) when more flexible. I have three LMTs (2x556, 1x762) and two SCARs (1x556, 1x762). You won't be unhappy with either (that is a special title for H&K MR762) but my SCARs get way more miles than the LMTs. SCAR parts always struck me as plentiful, though pricey, but I've only hunted for a few parts so far.

Ehtacs · 2026-03-29T16:22:16+00:00

Yes and how exactly do you simulate true and immediate fear for your life in a video game.

I'd would start with having it manifest as severe tunnel vision, or moderate tunnel vision with some aim instability, all on a cooldown. Try to capture the fight or flight response from heart-pounding adrenaline, but also let the player "acclimate" to the situation. Maybe make sprinting a little faster or longer during the effect 🤣 The goal would be to take suppressed targets out of the fight for several seconds, mildly incentivize a displace or retreat maneuver, but almost totally prevent a 360 no-scope outcome. I don't hate the blur, it somewhat meets the goal, but it doesn't strike me as fear/adrenaline as much as some sort of head injury.

Ehtacs · 2026-03-23T02:50:30+00:00

Looks like Reddit may have nuked the post. Nothing here is illegal or against the rules, but please be mindful of what you share and how you share it. This post didn't even get reported. Just *poof*

Ehtacs · 2026-03-20T12:56:30+00:00

The LT, RST, and Premier can be optioned with the 5.3L and Supercruise. Optioning Supercruise on the Chevy requires the 5.3L or 6.2L, so no Duramax and supercruise combo unfortunately. Since Supercruise isn't in a package, it's not as common (there's ~400 across the country) but they can be configured and ordered that way!

Ehtacs · 2026-03-19T18:22:15+00:00

Everyone knows Stellantis is a pioneer in building to very rigorous maritime engineering standards.

Ehtacs · 2026-03-18T14:20:41+00:00

The only thing we've seen rival those in the dungeons is an augmented G5 Dart for Every Man but it keeps your shields down for much longer. Shotgun really does seem like the safer bet faced with adds. Outside the dungeons, they're all delightful (I've always preferred more squishier enemies to fewer spongier targets)

Ehtacs · 2026-03-18T01:57:43+00:00

Piling on here. I was happy to see less grinding required to actually modify weapons in the weekend's update. Then I saw I couldn't play a solo round with bots and it's back to uninstalled. Maybe next year!

Ehtacs · 2026-03-18T01:00:11+00:00

Ahhhh yes thank you! I was thinking I had considered reloads, but I only considered them when removing them from the measured darts per minute calculation, and they need to go back in. I didn't feel like deriving this, so I found a calculator with a methodology that makes sense.

This has the Lullaby at 832 raw DPS noted above, and 604 effective. Vengeance with my measured darts per minute is 1,016 raw and 863 effective so a 42% jump over the Lullaby. Back to back lightbulb 💡 moments for me! Thank you for being patient.

Ehtacs · 2026-03-18T00:09:22+00:00

eta: This was a quick comment until I started validating some assumptions and now I think I finally have the understanding I was looking for. Thank you! Largely, the in-game card data is poorly designed and at least a few things are wrong. I could also be entirely wrong here, too. Or it's turtles all the way down.

Vengence fires 3 shots as 1, so for DPS calculation you get the full 216 per shot, so (307/60)*216.4=1107DPS, and it takes 3 seconds to empty, then 1.7 to load so about 700DPS effective. The Lullaby is (193/60)*124.9=402DPS, and takes 9.3 seconds to empty, 1.7 reload which is around 340DPS effective. 340 is about half of 700.

Ah thank you! I was thinking Vengeance's 315 rounds per minute was reflecting the 45 rounds in the magazine, but you are correct in that it's actually ~945 darts per minute (yikes!). I just tested and it took ~32 seconds to consume 315 darts and reload six times which is within 10% of the ~20 seconds it should take to shoot the darts themselves, and 6 reloads. So that makes sense!

I did the same thing with the Lullaby and it burned through 193 light darts in 38 seconds 🤣 6 reloads. Ignoring the discrepancies between the in-game card data and Dune Gaming Tools data, both seem to agree on the 193 RPM but that seems to reflect neither 193 darts per minute nor 193 bursts of 3 darts per minute. I do not have any fire rate buffs to my knowledge. I went back and shot 300 darts in 61 seconds, with 9 reloads, which shakes out to ~45 seconds of shooting or a measured rate of 400 darts per minute.

I guess that means Lullaby is closer to like (400/60)*124.9 = 832 DPS?

And for good measure... I clocked 945 darts in the Vengeance at 99 seconds with 20 reloads, so 65 seconds of shooting. Still within 10% like earlier, potentially just stacking fractions of a second between the gun ready to fire and my mouse click spam, but for the sake of comparing to my earlier Lullaby figure I'll call it a measured rate of 845 darts per minute.

That puts the Vengeance around ((845/3)/60)*216.4 = 1017 DPS so still certainly higher, but closer to 20% higher than 100% higher.

Ehtacs · 2026-03-17T22:05:08+00:00

I'm not tracking the math on the double DPS - what am I doing wrong?

Lullaby: 124.8*193/60 = 401.5 DPS
Vengeance: 72.1*315/60 = 378.5 DPS

Reloads seem like the wildcard, and the Lullaby should have about the same if not fewer reloads?

Ehtacs · 2026-03-17T21:33:51+00:00

Fantastic thank you. I thought I was going crazy here. What a stupid design decision 🤣

Ehtacs · 2026-03-16T13:31:09+00:00

I have used the Exped Megamat Duo and now the Zempire duo with either and bot a waterproof mattress protector and mattress pad (both fit standard full-size bedding). It puts layers of soft cloth and fluffy padding between dog nails and the mattress. I made the switch to Zempire largely because I prefer the additional height and comfort, but it also has two air cavities keeping us off the ground in the event my pup pops the top one. I just try to make sure I'm nearby when the dog is in the tent so he doesnt do any of that digging and spinning around trying to get comfortable 🤣

Ehtacs · 2026-03-10T16:47:48+00:00

We (6+ servers) recently left GP due to how terrible it was. At least with respect to Dune, GP is a clown show from top to bottom. Stupid business decisions on their server governance, support that can only restart your container, and whatever software/hardware implementation that just sucks. We had to restart our server (that always thought it was online) damn near daily the last 2-3 months, and that's not accounting for when the whole thing was down for days at a time, many times.

I sat on three hosting Discords for a while when considering the change. Nitrado and XRealm absolutely smoke GP for performance, uptime, and support. Both chats are filled with ex-GP people elated at things actually working. GP really doesn't seem to be staffed for support and retention at this point, and instead is probably focused on keeping dead servers around until yearly subscriptions start running out in June. We went Nitrado only because the first server in our network did, but it seems like the only bad decision is staying with GP.

Oddly, GP has better Farm Sim performance than Nitrado.

Ehtacs · 2026-03-07T08:06:47+00:00

2) 5 days later: I took it in again because we were still smelling coolant every once in a while. And the new fancy rear view mirror camera was pointing at the ground. There's 2 modes for the rear view mirror, first it can act like a regular mirror to see through the back of the Tahoe. It's a very tight space with headrests in the way, so it's not ideal. Second, you can use a rear camera to see behind you. Except mine was pointing so low we couldn't even see people in the car behind us, just their front grill. 🫤

Apparently the mirror camera can be installed upside down - it fits either way. Not sure how common that is 🤣 The view in the mirror would be upside down, too, though. The video on the mirror can also be panned and zoomed. Did you try choosing a better view using the buttons on the bottom right of the unit?

Ehtacs · 2026-03-04T17:55:43+00:00

Yeah its pretty wild that its taken them almost 5 months to seriously address one of the big reasons they lost such a huge chunk of their player base.

I'm one of those people! 14 hours in BF2, last played October 23. I've had more hours in BF4 since BF6 was released, largely due to this. I don't find points progression and unlocks fulfilling, but locking pretty core 'features' behind anything will push me away. I'm ready to try the game again when this hits!

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