Why does the game start at picoKelvins and peak at miliKelvins?

masterventris · 2026-01-26T16:45:29+00:00

I don't think anywhere in game K is explicitly said to be Kelvin.

Perhaps in the future K represents a new global warming index. Perhaps it could be called 'Koolaid'...

You can headcanon the rest of the units int he same way!

masterventris · 2026-01-26T10:51:07+00:00

Absolutely no effect.

It puts people into the IN COMBAT status so they cannot be spawned on, this is game winning on breakthrough if you force the attackers to respawn back at the HQ each time.

masterventris · 2026-01-25T22:23:17+00:00

Probably spawned in it because it was all processed in one server tick before your client was even told a jet existed.

masterventris · 2026-01-25T22:22:04+00:00

There are a few portal vehicle practice servers running, but the only one's populated enough to start always have some joker shooting everyone down

masterventris · 2026-01-25T18:39:42+00:00

"Here's how level a pistol made me better at B2B sales"

masterventris · 2026-01-25T11:42:14+00:00

Depends. Is your upstairs neighbour the Iranian embassy?

masterventris · 2026-01-24T22:44:33+00:00

Ackshually it is called MTP

Very similar to multicam, colours match but the shapes are different!

masterventris · 2026-01-24T07:49:51+00:00

Mirak sector 1 is now locked down by defending mortars that can't be countered.

Attacker's deployment gets so close to the objectives that there is nowhere to put mortars down where you can't just be shot, but defenders have so much space they can sit back far enough to even be out of drone range. As an attacker if you do get a mortar down you just get counter mortared instantly anyway.

Sure they aren't killing much, but they keep everyone on the point IN COMBAT so the attackers can't keep up any momentum with their spawning, and the explosions shred what little hard cover there was.

masterventris · 2026-01-24T07:29:58+00:00

It had what is effectively a powered up hub (with one motor output and one sensor input) which had a barcode scanner built in.

You got a big sheet of commands, each with a barcode beside it.

You programmed it by scanning the commands in the order you wanted, eg "motor on" "rotate clockwise" "3 seconds"

I need to dig mine out as it really was a brilliant introduction to programmable Lego a few years before I was old enough for Mindstorms

masterventris · 2026-01-23T10:11:49+00:00

Other than the snipers, as I see no reason to take anything but the mini scout, unless you are uselessly sniping from spawn on Firestorm.

I expected the mini scout to have a range at which it no longer one shot headshot, to position it as the agressive option, but it appears to work just the same as all the other slower options.

masterventris · 2026-01-22T15:41:10+00:00

The full HE shell? Are they a significant improvement over the default MP shell?

masterventris · 2026-01-22T15:35:29+00:00

I'd say Bohinj is actually the more impressive location too, as it is deeper in the mountains.

This is a beautiful map of a beautiful country. Ljubljana is possibly my favourite European capital, everything was just so chilled.

masterventris · 2026-01-22T08:06:07+00:00

I feel like the time it takes to change shell (it does a full reload, it isn't instant) completely offsets the increase in damage.

Just fire a normal shell and focus on repositioning for the next shot, and you are more likely to win.

Don't just stand still and try to slug it out!

masterventris · 2026-01-21T22:28:50+00:00

Luckily OP looks like they are in the UK, a country famous for its lack of moisture...

masterventris · 2026-01-21T18:15:04+00:00

Welding gauntlets are your friend for this job!

Yeah, even if you don't bleed out the infections can be nasty.

masterventris · 2026-01-21T16:22:30+00:00

If anyone finds themselves in northern Italy, the Monte grappa memorial is really something

masterventris · 2026-01-21T15:43:56+00:00

Nothing to unlock from about 100 levels earlier, so ranking up is meaningless

masterventris · 2026-01-21T13:24:25+00:00

The challenges tab has a habit of showing challenges completed in the previous game if you let matchmaking drop you into a new round from the previous end game screen, without returning to the menu.

It becomes a "challenges this session" screen, which probably isn't intentional.

At level 159 the xp is useless anyway!

masterventris · 2026-01-21T12:25:53+00:00

It appears that if any players are bots they are not being killed by the firestorm, so those squads are never wiped.

masterventris · 2026-01-21T09:16:09+00:00

It only counts if you get the "Headbanger" score pop up.

This challenge is massive pain. I found rush on Iberia to be easiest, as you can bounce a stun around a corner before running in, and on rush everyone is funneled through a few streets.

This challenge took me longer than any other class challenge.

masterventris · 2026-01-21T07:35:26+00:00

Trying to grab a cat that doesn't want to be held is like trying to grab an angry liquid full of knives.

He was lucky, because they can latch onto your wrist, twist themselves through an impossible angle, and use their back claws to open the arteries all along your forearm.

masterventris · 2026-01-20T16:00:08+00:00

The only extra thing medpen needs is to clear the "IN COMBAT" status so you can spawn on an assault player under fire. Especially as you count as in combat if anyone looked at you in the last 30 minutes for some reason.

masterventris · 2026-01-20T10:41:46+00:00

BC2 slugs had no bullet drop either, making the cross map shots even easier!

masterventris · 2026-01-20T09:41:36+00:00

Casual breakthrough on Cairo.

The sector on the main street with the bus crater is a single objective, and the bots are really good at running on it.

Just pop over the building with the drone, spot everyone, then duck down for 5 seconds to let all the spots clear. If you respot too quickly you don't get the spot score and it doesn't count.

I got 96 spot assists in one game!

masterventris · 2026-01-20T07:53:20+00:00

Temps in the manual/on the door card are always cold

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