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[Lordred]

I am Formating my system and may be sending one of my Crucials in for an RMA, I am getting pityfull low write speeds on my main, read is still strong at over 440mb/s, but writes are lagging along at 70mb/s Second drive is pulling strong at 480mb/s read, 380mb/s write. So things...

[Lordred]

So the list with mechs with 2k RGB/SPC isnt half bad.

However

Mechs with 2k DIF RGB and SPC (these ones have the best looking body, paint, and detail work on them)

Awesome: Applejack only
Banshee: Most camos
Battlemaster Phoenix (only)
Victor: Most camos
Warhawk: Camos and Invasion


huh, didnt even need a spoiler for that one.

[Koniving]

Sgt Glory, on 18 June 2014 - 07:46 AM, said:

Just adding my 2 cents.


This Ilya's crawling out of the pit of Mordor!

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Cataphracts are known for occasionally dying in this awesome way.

This one refuses to stay down.

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This was my twin MPL, 4 MG Cataphract back when MPLs and MGs were awfully underpowered in relation to the high standards that PGI's single shot AC weapons set. Of course, yours looks much more awesome without the hud, death thingy, etc.

[Koniving]

tredmeister, on 17 June 2014 - 12:14 PM, said:

Awesome pix guys!

It's amazing how much your version of the polygon camo matches my Czech MLOK camo trousers...

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Thank you. And it just so happens those are Zhizhu's colors. Feldgrau, Black, and Turmeric.

[Lordred]

Format complete, now running Win 8.1 Pro 64, lots of stuff to download.

[Alaskan Nobody]

Formatting SUCKS.

[Lordred]

Shar Wolf, on 19 June 2014 - 10:06 PM, said:

Formatting SUCKS.

Pft, I format every year, its how I keep the system clean and fast! Also with only SSD's and a 100Mb/s connection, it doesnt take long.

JennerCrusher, on 19 June 2014 - 10:51 PM, said:

lol Applejack...

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There are two unescapable things on the internet, trolls, and ponys. (ment in jest)

Edited by Lordred, 19 June 2014 - 11:09 PM.

[Alaskan Nobody]

Lordred, on 19 June 2014 - 11:06 PM, said:

Pft, I format every year, its how I keep the system clean and fast! Also with only SSD's and a 100Mb/s connection, it doesnt take long.

I probably aught to - but my ability to back things up is limited (as in I usually have to redownload everything)
And with limited bandwidth....

[ManDaisy]

A nice action shot for the free roam dev view glitch. Damn clanners. Also my new desktop background.

Edited by ManDaisy, 21 June 2014 - 12:00 AM.

[Lordred]

Testing settings.

[Lordred]

Requesting opinions.

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[shellashock]

Really like the fourth image with the kitfox. The damage scar across that cheek sac makes it look like Two Face or something. Awesome job once again!

PS: The third picture with the Daishi and LRMs is by far my favorite. Time to change my desktop screensaver!

Edited by shellashock, 23 June 2014 - 08:12 AM.

[zudukai]

Lordred, on 22 June 2014 - 09:37 PM, said:

Requesting opinions.

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solid, calm, not a whole lot of colour though, but it's not washed with "smog" like it used to.

[xSONOHx]

Lordred, on 22 June 2014 - 09:37 PM, said:

Requesting opinions.

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*Clicks like button* That's my opinion.

[XphR]

I like when you catch them antenna to foot treads.. I think you gave me magnified mecha-foot fetish.

[Lordred]

Stock Orions, man taking Single Heatsinks out into the fray is like going in with blindfolds on.

[Koniving]

Somehow that looks like a lot more fun game to play Lordred. I miss those days.

[Koniving]

Lordred, on 22 June 2014 - 09:37 PM, said:

Requesting opinions.

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Lordred doesn't come out and say it, but when he's requesting opinions it's not as much on the images themselves (though a critique on image composition does mean a lot) but the visual quality compared to previously. He installed Windows 8.1 and since it doesn't allow driver level tweaks which he used to do (those tweaks thus pumping in more color by filtering out the wash-outs that PGI's graphics push in, sometimes better anti-aliasing than PGI's settings can do, various other things)...

Here in these images, this is purely user.cfg settings and nothing else. Anyone with a powerful enough computer can get the game to look like this without editing registry files or drivers. This is essentially PGI's vision with the best of what Crytek's engine can do with what PGI's given settings and effort will allow.

It definitely looks better than what I've got, given that Crytek's engine user.cfg settings are amplifying it beyond what PGI's poor optimization has done.

Compared to past images, the bleached desaturated look is atrocious. And that's the look PGI envisions, as that's entirely done on PGI's end to get that "gritty" atmosphere. I loved the depth of color presented in Lordred's past images with the driver tweaks. Makes all the color tints and such stand out so much better, making me feel like the money spent on paint was worth it...even though PGI's game is so washed out in color in its native settings that on most maps you can't tell the difference between Basic Green and Feldgrau and various others (you can in the mechbay, but in the field they look identical).

Anyway, things like jagged edges in anti-aliasing, better or worse? Crisp or blurry?

Color? Look of the maps? Etc.

[crossflip]

Uhh... *Diverts attention from walking lovely hunks of metal* I see a whole lot of ugly rocks.

[Wintersdark]

Sadly, I can't be a help with this. My wife's the photographer in my family, I have no artistic ability beyond "Ooooh, pretty!" So I really can't make a valuable critique of images here.