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    The unofficial Dota 2 thread + complete instructions for new players! [FREE INVITES]

    The last time Linken Sphere was used in multiple games was specifically only on Naga Siren and was used at TI2 which was played under a completely different metagame where the games lasted long enough where you could afford such items. The only hero it is really built on now is Weaver in very...
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    Company of Heroes 2 beta now on Steam

    Look I hate to sound hostile, but seriously you are just showing that you are inept at the game and do not know how to force German players into bad situations. If he's MG spamming, that means he wasted a ton of MP resources into useless units that get utterly countered by Sniper/Scout Car...
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    The unofficial Dota 2 thread + complete instructions for new players! [FREE INVITES]

    Linkens is good on heroes that need to avoid a long BKB piercing disable like Beastmaster Ult/Bane Ult/etc. however still need to soak up damage for their team. That's the main reason why it was taken on someone like Naga Siren; she's meant to tank for her team with Linkens/Heart, but she still...
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    Company of Heroes 2 beta now on Steam

    You can't micro your Scoutcar/Sniper combo if you are losing it at all. If you lose it to a Panzerfaust especially after the Panzerfaust nerf of decreased range, you're just a terrible player. SU-85s beat P4s/Stugs in a 1v1 straight on head fight easy mode. You are straight lying if you are...
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    Company of Heroes 2 beta now on Steam

    In high level CoH2 Soviets win pretty much 99% of the time unless he just royally screws up. This is strictly speaking about 1v1. In heads up play, Soviet completely dominates the map with Scout Car/Sniper combo early, and can MP bleed while harassing a German player into the next oblivion...
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    560 TI NewEgg $189.99 Refurbished

    560 TI at the Egg for $189.99 with free shipping. If you've shopped at the Egg recently I think they have also emailed a promo code that gets you 15% off recertified video cards, which would bring the price down to 161 (hoping I did the math right ^_^). Pretty good deal if you are looking at a...
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    What its like to play online games as a grownup

    Single player usually shore up AI with plot, world interactivity, sound, etc. Basically... most single player games > multiplayer games in almost every department except like... that multi... player part..... Don't get me wrong, multiplayer games are fun and all, but sometimes it is...
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    My HD6950 -> HD6970 experience

    O/C and running the Memory at a totally different voltage that it isn't meant to run are two totally different things. The 6950 memory is not meant to handle the levels of the 6970, and overtime it can degrade the memory. It is better to stick to unlocking shaders, and then go from there rather...
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    My HD6950 -> HD6970 experience

    lol? Anyone that knows anything about the cards knows that the 6950 uses different memory than 6970, and thus if you don't use the modded one that only unlocks the shaders, then you can easily screw your card up. It's all well documented, on many forums. 6950 memory is not meant to run at...
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    My HD6950 -> HD6970 experience

    You realize the 6950 doesn't have the same ram as the 6970, so any OCing of the ram (which a reflash to a 6970 does) can potentially cause damage. And we all know how sensitive memory is on a video card. I would stick to unlocking shaders and that's it. You honestly have no need to up the...
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    My HD6950 -> HD6970 experience

    http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2163453#post2163453 There are bound to be hardware failures but it doesn't seem like the 6950 was designed to run as a 6970, with good reason too. It appears that unlocking the shaders is fine, but I think there are certain methods which are...
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    My HD6950 -> HD6970 experience

    Don't mean to burst your bubble, but weren't there some issues with the 6950 flash to 6970, some people having their card die within a week or so even if they reflashed back to stock bios?
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    Help me run oblivion

    Despite the graphical whore that Crysis is, it is alot more optimized than the shitty engine known as GameBryo (well, specifically when used by Bethesda, it is fine for other games like Freedom Force).
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    ** Official Star Craft 2 Multiplayer Thread **

    Against Maurader heavy comps yeah but why would you put a Colossai out when you could have put 2 Immortals out and stomped him? That's about good decision making. 3 Rax army though is pretty marine heavy, which means easy win for you if you get the first Colossai out and camp your ramp.
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    ** Official Star Craft 2 Multiplayer Thread **

    3 Rax puts you too far behind tech wise so if you don't do something effective with that huge infantry army you are screwed the second Colossai come out.
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    3D is universally reviled online, but IRL people seem to dig it...

    I think the issue has more to do with the fact that you are paying a huge premium for something that is really just a novelty more then anything. The difference between 3D and 2D isn't that big. Sure it's a cool gimmick, but it is nothing like the difference between 480 and 1080p (to me anyways).
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    Quad-core or Dual-core ? Which one do I pick ?

    Remember, depends on the game. SC2 is more of a CPU dependent game than GPU (as long as you don't need max eye candy, which is actually MORE annoying then anything).
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    i7 2600k stock cooler overheats

    You have to "burn" it in so to speak, so try and raise the CPU heat a little to get it to spread a little quicker. Intel Burn Test is pretty good at this, just run your CPU on stock at first.
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    ** Official Star Craft 2 Multiplayer Thread **

    Add a ) at the end of the link, url linking doesn't like it for some reason. Edit : NVM I fixed it. I'll do a short replay of it when I get around to it.
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    ** Official Star Craft 2 Multiplayer Thread **

    Z players will generally leave you alone because they know they cannot afford to fight you without Roach speed, which they shouldn't have till it is too late. 3 rax builds are generally very gimmicky or very all-in. You need to work on using 2 rax pressure or 2 rax FE...
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    ** Official Star Craft 2 Multiplayer Thread **

    Work on your macro, 2 rax expo into 5 rax / 2 fac can easily pump out 80+ food in 10 minutes. The build is designed to hit around 10ish minutes which will crush you if you try and get too cute with economy. Around 6 minutes you should have your expo up, around 10 minutes you should have an army...
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    ** Official Star Craft 2 Multiplayer Thread **

    The issue is that if you go blings and blings you need +1/1 at least to make your lings useful, and both speeds. You cannot possibly manage to get a sizable force of mutas, with upgrades on your lings/blings in time to fight a T that is knocking on your door at 8-10 minutes into the game with +1...
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    ** Official Star Craft 2 Multiplayer Thread **

    14 Hatch is necessary vs T, is unbelievably bad vs P. Pay attention to why the 14 hatch though vs T, the reason is that if you don't, you will not have enough larvae to defend against the 2 rax scv bunker push at the beginning of the game. Even if you do, you are still behind and the T is...
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    Details emerge on Bethesda's Creation Engine

    Oh don't get me wrong, I know there were things wrong with Baldurs Gate 1, Baldurs Gate 2, Fallout 2, etc. But you know it is bad when a game from the 90s is basically stomping all over the quality of a modern day game today. Mass Effect 1 is one of the few exceptions. ME 2 went in the...
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    ** Official Star Craft 2 Multiplayer Thread **

    1) 14 / 15 hatch does not work well against P, you'll auto lose most of the time if you do that against a good P player 2) Roaches are like Mutas in that they are good at picking off random stuff and denying and map controlling. They aren't as good as going into the base and harassing as Mutas...
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    Details emerge on Bethesda's Creation Engine

    Morrowind and Daggerfall both did the roleplaying aspects alot better than Oblivion did, and despite the imbalanced gameplay, both were generally fun and not boring. Oblivion once you get past the shiny graphics and all the gimmicky stuff, you'll find that it's basically the same thing, over...
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    ** Official Star Craft 2 Multiplayer Thread **

    Ask any pro to go mutas against P before 10 mins and see what their response is. The response is "Do you want to die to a +1 attack 6 gate attack?" If you open speedling = > hatch = > spire vs P, it is a guaranteed loss if the P sees your Spire. Mutas against even T are horrible as an opening...
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    Details emerge on Bethesda's Creation Engine

    That's not the case here, the older games pummel Oblivion into dirt when you compare the real substance behind the game after all the gimmicky stuff (Radiant AI, graphics, HDR, etc). Basically, an older game like Baldurs Gate 2 has comparatively a deeper, more complex, and overall better story...
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    ** Official Star Craft 2 Multiplayer Thread **

    Mutas are a horrible unit because the Roach does everything the Muta can (contain, pick units off, etc.) but more for a cheaper price in general. Decent Roach micro allows you to snipe any buildings / units / etc. at the edge of T bases easily, not to mention that Roaches are easier to mass...
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    Help me want to play Oblivion

    Not that I know of. But to the OP if you must play Oblivion please use FCOM, it makes the game much more enjoyable and more balanced overall. Though it changes certain aspects of the game, for the most part it is for the better.
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    Details emerge on Bethesda's Creation Engine

    A forum is where you voice your opinion. This isn't a forum of professional video game reviewers where we have to be careful with our language. You simply took offense to how I put things because you are too sensitive, because you obviously like the game. I never said you couldn't like the game...
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    Details emerge on Bethesda's Creation Engine

    I never forced my opinion on anyone, I just simply stated my opinions. I never said that you were wrong and I was right. However, if you would like to argue from a critical standpoint that Oblivion is just as good as Baldurs Gate 2, then by all means do so. I think you would be hard pressed to...
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    What was your #1 rated game of 2010?

    DoW 1 played much more similar to the table top game though. Though, I do find it weird that the poster that is complaining about how Space Marines are so OP in the game doesn't realize that Space Marines in the WH40k universe are indeed incredibly powerful, able to take on armies two or...
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    ** Official Star Craft 2 Multiplayer Thread **

    2.2k Master T/P player here. Mutas are pathetically horrible against both races. Too gas heavy, requires you to take 3rd too fast opening you up to 2 base pushes, and in general is very weak in straight up confrontations. TvZ wise, it's bad because T has alot of options to deal with Mutas...
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    Details emerge on Bethesda's Creation Engine

    Yeah except Oblivion could have been even better. Graphics were nice and dandy, but the AI and other complexities to the game were stripped down in order to port it to the 360. Don't forget that originally Oblivion was supposed to be even more graphically demanding then when it was released...
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    Details emerge on Bethesda's Creation Engine

    It's a big reason why Oblivion was such a huge fail, and even with huge mods like FCOM which try and do its best to fix it, it still fails. If Skyrim were a PC exclusive it would basically be what Oblivion was supposed to be. People tend to forget that Oblivion actually was looking very...
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    What was your #1 rated game of 2010?

    Starcraft 2 if the map pool and balance wasn't horrible it would win by a clear mile. It barely edges out because the SP makes up for the horrible MP release in which Terran players were dominating by a landslide in nearly every tournament.
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    2600K @ 5.5Ghz. Super PI 1M in 6.786s

    1.3 if you're lucky, but most people have to go to 1.35.
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    Msi or Asus for P67

    ASUS/MSI are both having issues, MSI more having to do with it's really crappy BIOS out of the box (but I guess that's expected; still, you'd think they would have found out that you couldn't change the voltage on the 1.5 bios). For anyone having issues with MSI just download the latest...
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    Bought I5 2500K - Couple OC Questions

    4 ghz is fine on stock voltage, as long as you have a pretty good chip. If not all you have to do is up the voltage just a little more and you'll hit 4 easy.