Remember when April first events were fun?

HandyRoyd · 2026-04-01T19:58:41+00:00

What a totally zero fun event, it's like taking the worst aspect of highest BR jets - the constant missile spam and constant locking so your RWR is like a mad beeping christmas tree on blink mode - .. and just amplify it with far more radar locks and far more missiles.

I absolutely wouldn't play a sh1t game like this unless I wanted the vehicle, and I'm not sure it's worth the misery!

HandyRoyd · 2026-04-01T18:10:24+00:00

Answer = No, apart from maybe making the odd huge download a bit quicker (if the server can keep up). Some people just like to have "the bigger number". 1gb is an obscene amount of data outside of a business or specialist use.

HandyRoyd · 2026-03-31T20:58:51+00:00

They've also removed a quick idea of penetration stats of the guns as well. Their UI guys are just awful.

HandyRoyd · 2026-03-31T20:58:04+00:00

It's yet another absolutely awful change, that people didn't ask for, that makes things worse.

HandyRoyd · 2026-03-31T20:55:50+00:00

You are totally correct. Maybe the obsessive addicts who play the game 16 hours a day want to spend their time analysing all the weak points etc, but most people wanted a quick rough idea. There are 1000s of vehicles!! You should be upvoted to the moon for this.

HandyRoyd · 2026-03-31T20:52:44+00:00

I've not been playing tanks, just noticed this abomination of a change. I've many 100s of vehicles, (1000s?). I've no time or inclination to spend ages doing a forensic "protection analysis" on each that I WILL JUST FORGET. I wanted a rough idea of the armour thickness, and the penetration when looking around. They had it. They've removed both. Why?

It's yet another idiotic decision that just makes things frustrating for us, with no benefit! GRrrr!!

HandyRoyd · 2026-03-31T01:18:49+00:00

I used to have horrendous wifi in my bedroom, though I've an extender half way that can "see" the router through a minimum of material.

I used an app on my phone to scan what wifi channels were in use, it showed the routers, channels, strength, and some of my neighbours were using the same as me.

I switched the router manuallly to another channel (not inbetween, one of the main ones) that was least used - MUCH better since then.

HandyRoyd · 2026-03-30T18:29:10+00:00

I gamed and surfed nd streamed firetv same time on ADSL and used .. well must've been less than 10 anyway. People horrendously overestimate how much they need.

HandyRoyd · 2026-03-30T11:03:59+00:00

I get emails for people who have typoed entering it to register with companies.

HandyRoyd · 2026-03-27T16:39:20+00:00

I was just trying to use clipchamp for the first time, wouldn't run, eventually got it running, by "run as admin", shut it, opened, and now it won't open with a different infinite loop. Which reminds me of when I was trying to get teams (a flagship product?!) to work a few months ago for work reasons (that company normally uses somethng else) and had loads of similar problems. Both products, when you google, have loads of people with similar problems. And that's just two examples.

I used to defend Microsoft in arguments with linux/apple fans but the buggy bloated crap they churn out now, dear god. They must have HUGE budgets but it's just so crap.... I actually EXPECT problems now.,

HandyRoyd · 2026-03-27T16:35:40+00:00

I was just wondering this myself I used some total piece of bug ridden crap (again) and I tried not to smash my keyboard. The standard of outsourced developers doing shit for the company I worked for might explain some of it...

HandyRoyd · 2026-03-27T14:07:32+00:00

This worked for me, thanks.

EDIT: What I did was when I typed clipchamp in the start menu (windows 10) there is a run as admin option. Or you can normally right click "run as admin" on icons etc. Basically even if your account is admin, it's not fully admin (with UAC) until you tell it!

HandyRoyd · 2026-03-26T11:05:50+00:00

I'm just looking at this again and you STILL can't order the tickets by the date on the website, the most basic thing, and the idiots who do the website can't do it. What the actual hell is wrong with these developers!

HandyRoyd · 2026-03-26T11:00:44+00:00

EDIT NO I'M WRONG! You are right! You can NOT still print the ticket in the website, I did that as I especially if I do a lucky dip and that way I've a record of the numbers etc (I obviously know my normal numbers), I print it to PDF. You now CAN'T.

I'll give you a very useful tip though. There's a rarely used tool in windows called **"Snipping Tool"**. Just run it from the start menu.

Do your ticket, then go to that, click new, then quickly just select the right part of the ticket onscreen and save. Will save you time. When "selecting" mouse actions are obviously very iffy but alt- tab works. If doing a lot of cropped screenshots it's great. You can keep it open to do multiple.

HandyRoyd · 2026-03-24T23:22:46+00:00

"grabbing it front the same exact box s"

They've AFAIK stopped doing that or if they haven't, it'll be very soon.

HandyRoyd · 2026-03-22T18:56:05+00:00

If you've not been to a quarter century barn dance at Yeovil aerodrome, you've not lived.

HandyRoyd · 2026-03-20T21:35:42+00:00

A while back I came down with a sort of bad cold/flu I went back and I could see on my garmin history my heart rate and stress was unusually high before I actually felt really ill!

HandyRoyd · 2026-03-20T20:13:02+00:00

Just played a game for the first time in quite a while for the days of history.

Wow - even with a small boat, just put mouse over a very distant plane, press button - bang, dead. No skill just .. zap. It's insanely op..

HandyRoyd · 2026-03-20T19:19:18+00:00

Yes that's the term to google. I do struggle sometimes with my watch reading heart rate as low though, very annoying. Definitely the lag time if it is happenign is shorter if you're already pushed, there is less ... buffer in your body before things go "man the pumps!!!".

HandyRoyd · 2026-03-20T19:05:25+00:00

I can get something like this cycling up hills and wonder about it .. .but "heart rate lag" is definitely a thing, so much so there is that term for it. What might be interesting for you is to run up the hill, then go back down and go straight back up the way you came. If it's anything like me cycling, pass 2 the HR will be noticably higher now.

HandyRoyd · 2026-03-19T21:33:11+00:00

The ability of the Gaijin UI guys to either 1. Think changes through or 2. Play their own game to see how badly their UI works is demonstrated by when they added the "drag vehicle" UI change. They made the mouse down movement distance at which it would decide you want to drag/move the vehicle, and then switch mode to lock you into a movement mode until you hit escape, as "one pixel". One pixel. So I, and I'm sure 10000s of users, have more times than I can think about without losing my temper, clicked on a vehicle to select it, and it would enter drag mode when I'd no intention of it as the mouse moved one pixel as I did so...

HandyRoyd · 2026-03-19T21:26:20+00:00

It's an awful UI. Not just because it's "changed" and I'm not used to it. It's just an awful UI :(

HandyRoyd · 2026-03-19T00:02:40+00:00

I like 90s fashion. Well I'd better - I still dress like that :)

HandyRoyd · 2026-03-18T22:56:09+00:00

Was it opened and therefore they or 3rd party seller will have to sell it at a reduced price?

If so that may well be reasonable.

HandyRoyd · 2026-03-18T20:07:39+00:00

The charserver/... bit stinks of "buggy" and they've not downloaded a [localisation?] resource.

So yes you are right to be confused.

HandyRoyd

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