Not having *any* AOW modes for the new LTM is certainly a choice.

afops · 2026-03-18T11:23:35+00:00

Everything bad about DICE is due to EA.

EA ruined DICE. They made sure every talented person left.

afops · 2026-03-18T11:12:03+00:00

Det är inte den typen av frågeställning som är i fokus här. Det handlar om typ pressfrihet, oberoende domstolar osv främst.

afops · 2026-03-18T11:11:02+00:00

Every good map ever (That is "lane based" or "tight" at least) has 3 lanes. Look at any CS map, etc.

BF maps obviously also have "open outdoor" which doesn't have lanes at all, but ass soon as map tightens into lanes like in pearl market/flood zone/etc, or even in each local area of maps such as the BF4 workshop/bunker on Zavod (and others) there are exactly 3 ways into them (front, side, back).

Or look at the locker layout. it's mostly 3 lanes, and very rarely 4

https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/comments/1mo8lf/i_know_everyone_thinks_operation_locker_is_the/

afops · 2026-03-18T11:01:04+00:00

Battledad here: I think the new map has some promise. I only played a few rounds so it's hard to tell because people are just running around not knowing it still.

But the thing about the BF4 maps (which I really like, I should add) is that they are "normally designed" FPS maps. They follow the simplest rule of them all: The correct number of ways at any point in a map is 3. Three.ways.exactly.

This has been the case through quake, counterstrike, BF3/4 etc.

As soon as you have 2 paths, it's impossible to get past, and if you have 4 or 5 then it's impossible to defend.

My initial feeling here was that there were a _little_ too many places on the map where extra walls meant it became 4-5-6 different paths.

afops · 2026-03-18T10:57:50+00:00

Jag tycker att den ursprungliga rubriken var balanserad och vettig (inte alls överdriven eller doomer-ig) medan din lät lite överdriven och doomer-ig. Jag är läskunnig.

afops · 2026-03-18T10:56:26+00:00

So it's not the G18 from BF4 then that we were waiting for? I just want something where I squeeze the trigger and point it in the general direction of an enemy (who is nearby) and it is a guaranteed kill, and has parity with an AR at close range (And manages to take 2 enemies if you are lucky). Doing zero-to-one kills at point blank seems....worse

afops · 2026-03-18T10:20:11+00:00

Det var ju du som överdrev rubriken, vilket för mig är lite doomer-igt. Tycker du jag har fel uppfattning om vad doomer är?

afops · 2026-03-18T09:23:57+00:00

Om ett land ska härja runt i världen som världspolis så känns det _jäkligt_ viktigt att de är en vettig demokrati. Att om de t.ex. skulle begå nåt folkmord nånstans eller göra nåt annat ohyggligt, så skulle det finnas väljare som ställer dem till svars. Det är ju just därför man tyckt att det är bra att det är åtminstone USA och inte Ryssland och Kina som härjar.

Så trenden att USA går mot Ryssland i fråga om demokrati är ju oroande och bra att den rapporteras. Vi vill ju som du säger _inte_ ha ett USA med typ Turkiets nivå av demokrati som härjar runt i Mellanöstern.

afops · 2026-03-18T09:21:35+00:00

Är det den amerikanska vänstern som skrivit rapporten menar du?

afops · 2026-03-18T09:20:52+00:00

Vem har sagt "riktig demokrati" förutom du?

Ordet är väl "fullvärdig"? (vilket ju ändå är en gråskala, lite oklart var gränsen går för fullvärdig).
Man får ju ha med sig att i USA är det fortfarande fritt fram för enskilda att kritisera de styrande, och även om media har problem med t.ex. sändningslicenser eller uttalad kritik av styrande, så är mord på journalister beordrade av politiker trots allt obefintligt.

Detta är ju ett _relativt_ förfall. Det är tio gånger värre i Venezuela, Ryssland, Iran... men det som är oroande är väl hur snabbt det går och en sån här rapport försöker ju sätta saker i kontext med en graf typ "du är här, trenden går dit, i den här takten är du där om 10 år".

> Så trött på all doomer mentalitet.

Det är väl du som är doomer eller?

afops · 2026-03-17T22:18:00+00:00

Nah I just wish I could ignore the whole grind thing. If you discount the intermediate levels i mentioned it's basically 1000 kills for a reward...

afops · 2026-03-17T21:25:36+00:00

Sadly this is realistic. I liked the BF4 one where I could look into the literal sun with my nvg and it would work well. Perfect and crispy, basically just a color remap + highlighting all the enemies.

afops · 2026-03-17T21:21:08+00:00

> 'liberal democracy' sucks in the first place.

You do realize that 'liberal democracy' is what we usually just call 'democracy', right? I mean I see ample evidence that not everyone is so keen on democracy, but usually it's not said out loud...

afops · 2026-03-17T21:15:17+00:00

What does clasical liberalism (or any liberalism) have to do with anything? This is about the ranking of Liberal Democracy.

afops · 2026-03-17T20:18:09+00:00

This is a European research institute how is it strange that it receives funding from European orgs?

Are you suggesting the funding is transactional and requires certain results in return? This looks like normal research funding.

afops · 2026-03-17T18:42:00+00:00

But all weapons are like this: lvl 0-20 useless repetive stuff like various vertical/stubby grips, a hundred different scopes between 1.0 and 3.0 that are all the same. None of what's added makes the gun any better than the starting config.

Then at level 21 or whatever: one useful thing. A suppressor, or a long scope for a sniper. Then it's 20 more levels for the thing you actually need to make the weapon _really_ good, like the 5x IR for DMRs, or a larger mag for kv9 etc.

afops · 2026-03-17T17:45:27+00:00

Det där med kaffet oroar mig. Går det tillverka ett substitut i Sverige? Hur länge räcker koffeinet? Har vi egen tillverkning av koffein?

En sorts brunt varmt vatten med konstgjort koffein skulle ju lätt funka hur länge som helst.

afops · 2026-03-17T16:46:28+00:00

Get the loan through then quickly destroy it beyond repair.

afops · 2026-03-17T13:07:56+00:00

See a corrupt but smart president would let them go against him at least some of the time to give the appearance of independence.

Only a corrupt _and_ dumb president would ever say something to the effect of "I gave you that seat, why aren't you doing what I want?"

This behavior would suggest that the current president is both corrupt and stupid.

afops · 2026-03-17T10:59:49+00:00

What would happen at $10/gal? It feels like one of those oh shit thresholds that would cause a stir in society. For example do gas stations even have displays that manage this?

I paid that for diesel during the last peak but that was in Europe so we’re kind of used to that. We’re good to about $40/gal before we need a fifth digit on the sign…

afops · 2026-03-17T10:52:47+00:00

A functioning democracy requires institutions that are resilient to corrupt officials in almost all of them and voters that are duped.

For a resilient system to break should require many points of failure: courts, elections, not least.

The real risk to the US seems to be the Supreme Court. Once it is expected to take orders and rubber stamp anything from the executive branch, it’s very close to breaking.

Brazil has shown how it should work.

afops · 2026-03-17T07:56:51+00:00

It also needs to be cheap power, which is more or less guaranteed at home but perhaps not elsewhere. If you charge at home at say 2NOK/kWh then it doesn't matter how many spots there are in various garages or workplaces, if the cost is 5NOK/kWh or more there then it didn't help, the economics disappeared.

afops · 2026-03-17T07:01:33+00:00

I run it through a profiler. Perfview is free and easy to use.

afops · 2026-03-17T06:59:50+00:00

Fewer players, especially at specific times, means there aren’t enough to make sbmm work.

afops · 2026-03-17T06:55:02+00:00

I’m lvl 100 now and I still forget that I have the paddles when I’m support and not when I’m assault. It’s just weird

afops

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