I thought the jets were great in BF2. I was able to do well in them on your average public server, but top pilots would still smash me in dogfights. The fact that there were 3 tiers (crap pilots, average pilots like myself and then good pilots) was enough for me. It's when you've only got 2 tiers, crap and good, that there is a problem, as you should be able to become better than the good/average pilots if you sink more time into it. I played right to the end of BF2 so my last memories of them were when they were at their most "balanced". The J10 was slightly more powerful than the others and it would have been good to bring that back in line with the other jets slightly, but overall I thought the power offered overall was great. They should be the most powerful asset if used well, and its unfortunate they felt the need to nerf them to try and balance the game out.

It is a shame the path they have taken, the series had such great potential to be a truly great game, and I hope one day they stop making game decisions based on "accessability" and simply based on what is going to make the best game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB3LFY1sp8Q

so does this mean that those of us with two screens will effectively be able to do the same thing without a tablet?

Your input devices (keyboard/mouse) are locked into the game while its running in full-screen, so you'd have to alt-tab out of the game anyway (which means you could do the same thing with just 1 screen).

The bright green and blue name tags above your teammates seem to do a good job of killing the immersion, were they there in BF3?

Watching some MP gameplay footage, at any given time your screen is covered in green and blue icons everywhere :/

EVERYONE ignores: \\\$\ DONE.

This is only of use if you are an administrator of the computer you are connecting to. If I'm connecting to my flatmate John's PC, unless I have administrator access to his PC, the $ share's aren't of any use.

They haven't even announced the features of the new game and they're announcing DLC? Nice.

I'm still struggling with


WHY THE FUCK DOES IT NEED HDMI IN??

To connect a TV Box (i.e. Cable TV), as TV can be displayed within the Xbox, rather than needing to switch inputs on your TV screen. Its a great idea, particularly if it allows recording etc.

Pretty sure I just lined up behind 5loth at the supermarket checkout. But havn't seen him in ages so wasn't sure. Gave the 'sup bro' head flick though.
Do you still lurk here 5loth?

I came here to post the same thing, didn't recognise you with the facial hair, but had a feeling it may have been you.

I don't think PC gaming is a requirement at all. I grew up playing consoles from the age of 5, played arcade games for many years (Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Killer Instinct etc.) and only ever got into PC gaming at around 12 years old (1997).
Even then a large portion of my gaming remained on consoles, because of the types of games I played (sports and fighting games).

In my 20's PC gaming was it for me, however I only really played BF2 and CSS, so I almost fit into the category of the WoW gamer, who doesn't actually play lots of different games.

These days I don't really play games at all, I played BF3 for a few weeks when it was released, but other than that have not played a PC game in years. I have however always enjoyed skateboarding games on console,  and still have an Xbox 360 so I can play EA Skate when I feel like it (often for an hour or so once a fortnight as I lay in bed).

Games just don't do it for me these days and I prefer to exercise/do sport, I know what kind of games I would enjoy playing, but the progression of games is moving away from what I would be interested in.

But when I click on messages, there is no new message.

Is there a message I cannot see, or is it incorrectly reporting a new message?

Cats and Dogs are impractical to farm, because they're carnivorous, you'd have to farm other animals just to feed them in order to eat them, which is a bit pointless.

Pigs don't need to eat meat, so they are more efficent to farm.

Plus the taste super good.

If I start farming dogs in NZ so I can eat them, regardless of the practicality, I'm sure New Zealanders will be be perfectly OK with that and won't start foaming at the mouth at all. Afterwards they'll wank on about how amazing bacon is.

This is a thread about dolphins.

Why are you discussing cage farming?

If this is a thread about solely dolphins, why did BH mention "imagine a person who spent every waking hour of the day making sure you were constantly standing on food, and you had no disease, no predators, big wide open spaces to wander and eat through".

Does that apply to dolphins? You're not really adding anything here, and I'm obviously not talking to you anyhow.

Of course it is. Being alive is better then being extinct.

Lot's of animals are killed for food by other animals, that is how nature works. However the share number of humans on this planet requires us to be reasonable with our sources of food, i.e Farming, least we run out.

If all humans were tied up from birth and tortured constantly, would that still be better than extinction?

Yes that is how nature works, are you saying how we farm animals is "how nature works"?