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The Return of Heavy Gear and MekTek

May20th
2013 1 Comment Written by Phyadmin

If you’ve ever been into been into the MechWarrior scene, it’s highly probable you’ve heard of MekTek. They’re the ones who took MechWarrior 4, tore it apart and built tools to add additional mechs and other goodies to the original game. Their mekpaks extended the life of MW4 by several years, and indeed they ended up being allowed by Microsoft to release the original MW4 game free of charge. They even provided master servers when MS turned theirs off.

If you were into the MW scene, it’s also possible you’ve heard of Heavy Gear. Like BattleTech, this was a mech-centric universe which had its roots in a tabletop game. Two PC games were released, around the time of MW3/4, although they were not very successful. I can actually remember playing the Heavy Gear 2 demo :) In fact I think I’ve still got the game disc around somewhere….

MekTek have teamed up with Dream Pod 9, the creators of the Heavy Gear universe, and have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise an additional $800,000 to fund a new Heavy Gear game built using the Unreal 4 engine. This is a huge amount, but unlike many other companies which run KS campaigns, MekTek have a long, successful history of producing quality mods, content and original games. One look through the details of their team show you the depth of talent they’ve pulled together.

Please take a moment to visit their Kickstarter campaign page here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stompybot/heavy-gear-assault-0, and if you’ve ever thought of supporting a mech-based KS project, please consider this one.

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Heavy Gear, MekTek

Natural Selection 2 Devs Clarify Monetisation Policy

May20th
2013 1 Comment Written by Phyadmin

Can You Monetise It? Yes You Can!

UWE (the developers of Natural Selection 2, amongst other things) just sent out a tweet with details of their YouTube and Twitch monetisation policy. In short, unless you’re an a-hole, you can monetise them with full permission from UWE. This is markedly different to some other companies who forbid users from monetising content OR take the revenue for themselves. This isn’t only large companies either….over the weekend I played on an ARMA 3 server with the Domination 2 mod on it – and right at the start a message flashed up, “No monetising YouTube videos, and no live streaming.”

The original tweet is here: https://twitter.com/UWEDev/status/336358659271569408

The policy page is here: http://unknownworlds.com/video-policy/

The actual policy is reproduced below:

You are free to create videos using recordings of Unknown Worlds games. This includes, and is not limited to ’Lets Play’ and ‘Shoutcast’ style videos. You can post these videos wherever you want.

You may monetize those videos through YouTube, Twitch.tv and similar partner programs. This webpage serves as permission to monetize your video, and you do not need to seek any further approval from us.

Unknown Worlds does not seek and will not take a share of any revenue you earn by such monetizing of videos featuring recordings of our games.

There are a few small but important rules on using Unknown Worlds’ games in videos:

- You may not charge for access to the video
- The video must not be rascist, sexist, obscene, homophobic, or otherwise substantially offensive
- You may not attribute the work of Unknown Worlds to you or anyone else but us
- Do not use the Unknown Worlds logo without first asking our permission
- You may not license video content containing recordings of Unknown Worlds games, except in the case of YouTube, Twitch and similar partner programs, or unless you ask our permission first.
- If you have created great video content featuring our games, be sure to tweet it to us @UWEDev – We would love to watch and share it!

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ARMA3, Natural Selection 2

Useful ARMA 3 Game Tweaks

May19th
2013 6 Comments Written by Phyadmin

Bought ARMA 3 a few days ago, and have just started trying it this weekend.

Stumbled on this list of very useful tweaks to increase FPS. The original list is over at Armaholic: http://www.armaholic.com/forums.php?m=posts&q=21465

Arma 3 CPU Optimization

1. Go to Steam Library
2. Go to “Arma 3″ Right Click then select “Properties”
3. Select “Set Launch Options”
4. Copy and paste the correct launch command line below to what your system is setup for and click “OK”.

For AMD CPU users:
AMD Dual Core with 4GB System Ram:
“-noSplash -cpuCount=2 -high”
AMD Quad Core with 4GB Ram:
“-noSplash -cpuCount=4 -high”
AMD Six Core with 4GB Ram:
“-noSplash -cpuCount=6 -high”
AMD Eight Core with 4GB Ram:
“-noSplash -cpuCount=8 -high”
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If your running more than 8GB Ram then apply this to the end of the launch line:
“-maxMem=8192″
This will allow your game to utilize 8GB system Ram instead of 4GB.
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Intel CPU:
For Hyperthreaded CPU’s such as a Quad Core you will apply this:
-cpuCount=8
This will enable your Hyperthreads on your CPU so your CPU will act as an eight core when running Arma 3.
If you are running a Hyperthreaded Six Core then:
-cpuCount=12
If you are running a Hyperthreaded Eight Core or Eight Core Xeon then apply this:
-cpuCount=16
If you are running just a non Hyperthreaded CPU such as a Quad Core then select “4″ instead of “8″ same for a Dual Core you will select “2″ instead of “4″.
All AMD CPU’s are NOT Hyperthreaded so Hyperthreaded options is highly not recommended as this can cause system failure or damage.
I will not be responible for system failure and damage if you choose to select more cores then you have on your command line!

-high:
makes your operating system prioritize services and processes to run your game better but this can cause system failure and instability if you dont have a good running system. If you Overclock this can cause system instability.
-noSplash:
disables startup videos and advertisements.
-cpuCount=#:
enables extra CPU cores and Hyperthreads.
-maxMem=#:
when set to “6144″ (6GB) and up lets your game use more system Ram then 4GB.
Do not set to higher than 4GB if you dont have at least 8GB. You can set to “8192″ (8GB) if you have 12GB+ Ram.

Compliments to Badoosh!

another excellent parameter is
-exThreads=#
set to 5 if dual core
set to 7 if quadcore or greater

it lets the game run additional rendering threads to help compliment the cpuCount parameter

oh, and you can set a custom memory allocator. it had a decent impact on frames in Arma 2, but i haven’t tested it much in Arma 3.
-malloc=tbb4malloc_bi

not sure if BI released any newer allocators, but so far TBB4 has been their best performing for both Intel and AMD processors.

reference from http://www.battleguns.net/forum/m/7737561/viewthread/6153624-arma-3-cpu-optimization

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ARMA Series, ARMA3

MechWarrior Online Gameplay + Commentary

May16th
2013 1 Comment Written by Phyadmin

This is a series of 4 games, all recorded one after the other on the same night, with several minutes of commentary at the start.

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Commentary, Gameplay, MechWarrior Online

Testing out mah new mech

May9th
2013 Leave a Comment Written by Phyadmin

MechWarrior Online brought out a new hero mech a few days ago called Misery, so I decided to spend some of the in-game money I’ve had since last year to buy one. For those of you who play, the Misery is a custom Stalker mech. This is one of the first games I tried it in (it even has some teamplay ;) ). Video is 1920*1200 with all settings maxed out.

Gameplay, MechWarrior Online
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