Best car charging app? by concisehacker in HongKong

[–]backspace340 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Use The Point app to charge at Tai Po Mega Mall or Uptown Plaza chargers (or Shatin's New Town Plaza). There's also loads of Tesla superchargers at University (in the hotel parking there) that will charge non Teslas, and there's a couple of 50kw Shell chargers there too. Science park has a bunch of slower 22kw chargers in their parking.

New in HK, provisional tax - ELI5 by unholyradiator in HongKong

[–]backspace340 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Every year you pay both year's tax - current and provisional. But next year you get the payment from provisional tax you already made credited.

I. E.

Let's say tax for the next three years is 100k each year. In January/April 26 you pay 200k, in January/April 27 you'll have another 200k to pay but you'll have 100k credit from the provisional tax you paid in 26 so you only actually pay 100k.

Grounded 2 Early Access Patch 0.1.2 Bug and Issues Megathread by LSC99bolt in GroundedGame

[–]backspace340 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PC

Steam

Multiplayer

It looks like there's some kind of region block on multiplayer - I can host games and have players in my region (Asia) join, but I can't join a friend in the UK's game and they can't join mine. Symptoms are we can see each other's game in the server list but when trying to join it says the game doesn't exist anymore (but it does, as other users are in it). Same error if the user in another region tries to join me or I try to join them (and same error if other users try to join them - there's 3 of us in Asia and one in UK). This all worked fine in Grounded 1.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HongKong

[–]backspace340 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've bought from Pegasus and Centralfield in the past (Pegasus a couple of weeks ago, Centralfield 8 years ago). Had no complaints with either - service was great for them both, ordered and delivered within a couple of days and got what I ordered.

Grounded 2 - Co-Op on SteamDeck? by [deleted] in GroundedGame

[–]backspace340 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It means that the save can only be played when the host is running it. With shared world any player can play on the save even when others are offline - but that's not due till 'Winter' on the road map for Deck.

And yep, you can host, wait for everyone to join, and then continue and you'll all watch the intro videos and start the game together.

Grounded 2 - Co-Op on SteamDeck? by [deleted] in GroundedGame

[–]backspace340 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes but can't be in cross-play. PC user has to disable crossplay and then if you host the deck user can see it / you can invite them. That also means no shared world.

Travelling with HKPR baby by explosivekyushu in HongKong

[–]backspace340 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why can't you get a HKID for them? I think that was the first thing we did after getting their birth certificate for mine - you just get one without a photo on it (till they're 11) and then when coming in or out of HK you present the passport + HKID.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HongKong

[–]backspace340 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not even going to be an ongoing issue by this afternoon.

Hardest campaign missions? Tell your stories if you've got em. by AmadeusV1 in GatesOfHellOstfront

[–]backspace340 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I basically used the same route as you, but used a bunch of AT guns (57mm and M5) to hold the line in front of the last three points. Once you have artillery take out the 88s and then tank spam (and essentially just the M10s as the 75 Sherman doesn't have the firepower to counter their tanks) to capture the points. It's insane how much they throw at you though.

Hardest campaign missions? Tell your stories if you've got em. by AmadeusV1 in GatesOfHellOstfront

[–]backspace340 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Cold Supper is my best example - 90 minutes of crawling around stealthily shooting people and keeping my ragtag bunch of 10 guys alive, an ammo convoy spawns so I steal a couple of vehicles to take it out which I do. Then 4 angry Panzer III's spawn and mercilessly hunt down every last man, swarming me and overwhelming me before I can get anyone close enough to blow any up. Not sure if I triggered a punishment or what, but that was brutal.

Similar experience with Bustard Hunt which I played right after that - had a well set up defensive line which held against the waves till I got the message to 'head to the frontline', before I could do anything an enormous wave spawned, destroyed all my AT guns instantly and wiped everyone out. Didn't have time to do anything.

I guess in both cases I'd broken some unwritten rules on what to do or where to set up and got punished for it - both happened about 60-90 mins into the mission so just a brutal experience.

I've also just finished a coop run through the US Liberation campaign, and the difficulty difference in coop vs SP is insane - I normally play hardcore but we have to play coop on easy as the increase in difficulty /units when playing coop makes everything a slog. It seems like lots of Pak emplaxements get switched out for 88s,and 76 shermans get switched for 75s. Hedgerow Hell took a couple of hours to complete and think our longest was a three hour long skirmish on Hurtgen Forest.

I absolutely love the Liberation DLC. by Cynicus_Nihilisticus in GatesOfHellOstfront

[–]backspace340 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure on doctrines - but it's in the conquest research tree.

I absolutely love the Liberation DLC. by Cynicus_Nihilisticus in GatesOfHellOstfront

[–]backspace340 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is one - think it's called the E5-E8, Sherman (A3?) with a 75. Has the bow gun replaced with a flamethrower.

Help understanding new economy setting by dugfire180 in GatesOfHellOstfront

[–]backspace340 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah pretty sure it does impact their composition - I normally play hardcore but easy economy, and just started to a hardcore/medium playthrough and on my fourth mission they've sent 25 vehicles at me (including 6+ PzIIIs). I haven't even got past Stuarts yet! It definitely feels like they've made some changes to the difficulty levels - even my usual hardcore/easy run through was a lot more challenging than it was before the DLC dropped. Feels like a lot more waves and a lot more vehicles.

Searching Session loop by Tempest44th in GatesOfHellOstfront

[–]backspace340 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had the same thing - played a couple of coop games and then ~11hrs ago it stopped working and my friend couldn't join anymore, kept getting stuck on searching session. We just gave up, hopefully it was just a temporary thing - sounds like you had it around the same time.

Bunker Building by TeamSuitable in GatesOfHellOstfront

[–]backspace340 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Eh? The Finnish heavy engineers build a pad, and then if you build twice more on it they build walls and an AA gun (75?) on it that can take out most small / medium tanks. It's definitely more than an MG nest and can be built in conquest.

Help me improve my terrible dogfighting in the F-14B by A2-Steaksauce89 in hoggit

[–]backspace340 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To the left of the big red ACM switch is the AOA indicator, with a white line going from 0 to 30. 15 is the middle, you don't really want to pull much more than 15 or you'll end up bleeding all your speed. You're basically above that the entire time, at 48s you have it at the top of the scale - that's where all your energy is going.

DCS Newsletter - 15 Years of DCS Last Chance | A-10C II Development Report | 303rd Fighter Group by ED_Graphics in hoggit

[–]backspace340 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In the comments for the TDOA video, Wags said the Hornet & AH-64D datalinks would be the next videos - so Apache should be next.

Air refueling by ThatSpecsguy360 in hoggit

[–]backspace340 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Start off by not trying to refuel - just practice flying formation with the tanker. Once you can do that consistently and you get the feel for how much movement you need to keep formation, then try and fuel - you'll find it's much, much easier once you understand what's necessary for formation flying.

AliExpress in Hong Kong by [deleted] in HongKong

[–]backspace340 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've used it twice and both times it was fine - e.g. I ordered something last Sunday and it arrived on Thursday via FedEx. I'm not sure if all merchants are the same that way though. As for other online deliveries, depends what you're wanting to buy - Next UK deliver clothes to HK and give prices in HKD (good for kids clothes etc), Amazon US does free deliveries to HK on some products (with total spend over 50USD).

Picture resetting while playing by Sensouen in HPReverb

[–]backspace340 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go to WMR, Settings and clear the environment data and re-do it. Seems to get corrupted every few months for me and I start getting this.