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http://forum.1cpubli...ead.php?t=15109
Release date supposedly Q4 2011 at least according to Gamespot. I hope so.
http://www.gamespot....ies3/index.html
From 1C:
1C announces the development of a new chapter in the thrilling story about the invisible war behind enemy lines - Death to Spies 3. Once again players will meet Captain Strogov from the 4th department of the Soviet counterintelligence service named SMERSH.World War II finished over 20 years ago but counterintelligence services have no time to rest. The Cold War took espionage to a completely new level, more secretive and complex.
The new missions will be even more intense and dangerous, but this time Captain Strogov is not alone. Two new playable characters – Strogov’s comrades: Viktor Kovalev and Olga Godunova-Lopes, each with unique skills and abilities, will help him defeat the enemy. The storyline brings players to different cities in North America, Cuba and Europe.
Key features:
• Brand new engine with support for the latest graphic technologies
• The first game of the series to be featured on PC and Xbox 360
• New time setting - Cold War
• Travel across the globe including North America, Cuba and Europe
• Three playable characters with different skills and abilities
• Manually switch between characters at any time
• New special abilities to eliminate enemies
• New high-tech gadgets
• Spy sense – a special game mode to aid in making tactical decisions
• Different mini-games such as lock-picking, poisoning beverages, etc
http://forum.1cpubli...splay.php?f=178
Main thread
http://forum.1cpubli...ead.php?t=16101
Previews
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uIA8bXJObo
YES!
For those uninitiated to the series you can get both previous game together on Steam for about $25. Well worth it IMO.
Think a really nice Hitman clone set during WW2 with its own set of wrinkles and unique features with an evil masochists's level of difficulty in on the easiest settings, at least for me.
Part 3 will take place during the height of the Cold War and spy era of the 60s with the same character used in part 2 Moment of Truth.
I can't wait to get it.
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www.hitman.com
http://www.vg247.com...man-absolution/
Q&A with the developers.
^^ Watch this gameplay footage. This is a generous and lengthy video.
I think they're headed on the right track so far. I see some shades of Splinter Cell Conviction which is an underrated and overlooked gem IMO and I also see a little dash of Deus Ex: Human Revolution in addition to the obvious Batman like radar capability which I hope doesn't make the game too easy.
Overall, I still see things that definitely reassure me that this is a Hitman game.
I'm not happy about composer Jesper Kyd not returning but apparently that was due to a scheduling conflict as Jesper is committed to the Assassin's Creed series, another favorite series of mine. Revelations is out in November btw!
I love the Hitman games. I've replayed them all a sinful amount of times.
I saw this reaction from someone after they'd watched that video and so far I'd have to concur:
So, basically... they took Hitman, added a layer of Arkham Asylum, and then added more Leon/The Professional to round out the experience?My wallet is dry-humping the screen where my Steam icon is like a cat in heat.
He's referring to the PC version which is what I'll get but regardless of platform if that billing really holds and the promise I see in that video holds I think a lot of people including myself will feel that way.
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They've updated this again in a big time way.
I'm going through this game right now and I just marvel how much depth and texture and complexity there is in this game to this day and how well its aged thanks to the mod work and tender loving care from the creators themselves on this project.
http://uqm-mods.sourceforge.net/
There's a few side mods that go with this that I'm really happy about not the least of which are time dilation mods that hold back the Kor-Ah Borg like March some 200 years so you actually have time to enjoy the damned game. That always my one biggest complaint with this game.
http://forum.uqm.stack.nl/index.php?topic=4861.45
HD mod in progress. That's astonishing work. I can't wait to see if it ever gets finished and done same for this mod based sequel he's working on: http://code.google.com/p/project6014/
http://forum.uqm.stack.nl/index.php?topic=3121.0
Wanna cheat a little bit?
Handy game save editor. It's mighty damned satisfying I must say to start the game off and actually be worth a damn. Anyways, I just had to plug this and by all means fill out the petition for Activision to make a real sequel.
It's amazing how much this game still stands out to this day. It's incredible.
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I can't wait for this. I love Bad Company 2, I enjoyed the Beta of this and I know I'll enjoy the final game even more. PC all the way.
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Lack of W4S components at his house already? Things always sound better when your invested in them I find.
LOL, you probably have something there.
The sound was not very good. Little dynamics, not very engaging, very little texture to instruments, difficult localization of soundstage particulars. Could all be the speakers I guess. The only room that I heard that I was less impressed with was the Red Wine Audio room.
I've been seeing and hearing complaints like this in my lurking and reading up on RMAF.
I've seen a mentions made about speaker setups, room treatments, and the like being less than ideal to say the least and people coming away less impressed in certain situations than one would have thought..
It was definitely the lowest priced gear I listened to so maybe I was biased by the megabuck systems I spent the rest of the show listening to.
Fair enough.
EDIT: They just said on their FB page they'll start production in December on the new hardware.
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I did not find the room impressive at all.
What was wrong with it?
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Wyred 4 Sound posted these images from RMAF on their Facebook page:
https://fbcdn-sphoto...087249450_n.jpg
^^ Full view
https://fbcdn-sphoto...366084972_n.jpg
^^ Closer
https://fbcdn-sphoto...137464876_n.jpg
^^ Closest.
I like the looks of the server for the most part. $2000 MSRP. I don't know about that but then again I really don't know a whole heck of a lot about this entire music server scene. Supposedly at least some of that new gear will be out before the end of the year.
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back on topic the mINT looks interesting but I'm sure the headphone out will suck.
May not be an outright given with these guys.
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https://audiofest.net/2011/downloads/Special/WyredR.pdf
Wyred 4 Sound Product Rollout
Room 1021
We are excited to see you at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest!
October 14th-16th 2011
When you walk into the W4S room there will be a couple new products rolling out! This will be the first public viewing and listen session so don’t miss it. Our class leading products such as the STP-‐SE, DAC-‐2, DAC-‐1, MC amp and monoblocks will be on-‐site for viewing and a listen through the Clearwave 72R speakers.
All new products
1. m-‐INT (mini-‐Integrated)
The m-‐INT is an affordable all in one unit that will set a new standard for price, performance and function. The power generation is made possible from dual mono Ice Power modules. Feeding the power amplifier, you will find discrete class-‐A line-‐stages and resistor ladder volume control. As an added bonus, we have implemented out award willing DAC technology to the front end for your digital sources! Even more features as listed below:
• Remote control
• 100Wpc into 8 ohms
• Two analog inputs
• ESS technology digital conversion!
• 24/96 async USB, 24/192 Coax and Toslink
• Selectable HT bypass
• Head phone output
• Trigger in/out
• Variable output
• Selectable Fixed output or main in feature (similar to the loop out feature on the current STI)
• External Mains switch (120v/230v)
• New chassis design!
2. Wyred 4 Sound Music Server-‐
The limitations that can come with wireless streaming are no longer an issue. The design starts with a ultra reliable, maintenance free OS based on Linux and a customized output board that feeds S/PDIF to your existing DAC or direct I²S into the W4S DAC-‐2 via HDMI. The server can be configured with up to 3TB of hard-‐drive storage. The server is accessible/controllable using Logitech Squeezebox, Sonos and many other common controlling software.
You can control the server with: Apple devices such as iTouch, iPhone and iPad as well as Android devices and phones. This is convenient for wireless control and the direct digital connection meaning that files can be streamed up to 24/192 with ease and no wireless compression! Internet and a wireless network is required.
The server has been simplified to avoid the need for customizations and to eliminate the learning curve that comes with traditional computer streaming. As a result of this direct approach and digital output there are no concerns about properly setting up DSP’s or output modes such as kernel streaming or integer playback. The most difficult decision will be what CD to rip next!
• Easy one time set-‐up!
• Compatible with ANY DAC
• Coax, Toslink, and I²S Digital outputs
• USB or Network file uploading
• On-‐board Tag editor
• Auto-‐rips CDs with internal drive!
• Compatible with Logitech and Sonos* software
• Ethernet connection to allow for wireless control, internet radio and tag editing
• Internet radio and 3rd party apps* such as Pandora, Rhapsody, Spotify, and more!
• Optional high performance power supply to be released at a later date
• New Chassis Design
*planned to be ready for product release but currently under development
3. µSeries (Three versions!)
The µSeries includes a µDAC, µDAC-‐HD and a µLINK. A prototype of the µDAC will be at RMAF and we expect the other prototypes to be ready shortly after. All three products are constructed in the same chassis which is a 3.5”x3.5”x1” aluminum case powder coated black. Depending on your needs all three may be of interest! In spite of the small size these units perform very well!
µDAC
• Three digital inputs including 24/96 async USB, 24/192 Coaxial and 24/192 Toslink
• RCA Analog output
• Power selectable between USB or 9V DC power supply
• Signal lock indicator
µDAC-HD
• 24/192 async USB
• RCA Analog output
• Headphone output
• Power selectable between USB or 9V DC power supply
• Signal lock indicator
µLINK (USB to S/PDIF converter)
• 24/192 async USB
• Coax, Toslink, BNC digital outputs
• Power selectable between USB or 9V DC power supply
• Signal lock indicator
Don’t hesitate to call or email with any questions that you may have. Orders can be placed over the
phone or online at our website. www.wyred4sound.com PH: (805) 466 9973
Some nifty products there but that Music Server in particular has my attention. I love my DAC-2.
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I thought I would resurrect this old thread since my 95 arrived yesterday. While at work, I formatted a 2TB drive to FAT32 and loaded a bunch of FLAC, about 300GB. When I got home I set up the 95 and connected the external usb drive. I figured I would run into all sorts of issues. To my surprise, it recognized the drive, has a very easy to use interface, displayed the album art when available and played music that really sounds great. I got nervous when I realized I didn't have a preamp when I was setting it up. Volume control was the one thing I had not considered when I bought the 95. I took a look at the manual and sure enough, it has volume control for analog outputs. I picked up the 2d season of Breaking Bad in BR and it worked like a charm. The picture quality was HD quality, So far, I'm pretty happy with this all in one solution.
This is definitely a loaded player.
Question: When you're running that music of that hard drive and doing whatever it is you want to do with it I take it you have to have a TV or monitor on the entire time to see what you're doing otherwise from what I gather in the manual it's fairly user friendly, easy, and convenient? If I got either this or at least the 93 that's a feature I would definitely use.
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http://hdguru.com/the-best-labor-day-hdtv-deals/5387/
Some compelling HDTV deals for Labor Day through Amazon. He's an Amazon affiliate so if you click on the links via his site you know how that's going to roll.
No, it's not me and I'm not affiliated with that site.
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I reinstalled and started playing as a warrior, even though I have been meaning to try conjurer. So far just as fun as I remember, at the orc village now.
The Eastern Europe dev houses produce some really unique stuff, but it's always bugged to hell (Stalker, Gothic, etc). I want to give Gothic 3 a go with the fan made patches, IMO the combat in this series is so much better than the awkward combat in the Elder Scrolls games.
The fan patches basically save the game. Well worth your time. Check Risen out as well if you haven't already.
Recently finished Deus Ex: Human Revolution and I'm itching to go through again. I got through the first time using a mix of stealth and straight up firefighting, but I'm thinking of doing a full stealth run. It's quite a fun game
Same here. Certainly not perfect (nothing is) but I think the game is fantastic and thus far my personal GOTY. They got "Deus Ex" right. Full stealth at max difficulty through the entire game and no lethals is going to be quite a challenge. You get a special achievement for no killing throughout the entire game and you rack up XPs and bonuses if you make it through without setting off alarms and such.
Easier said than done. I'm very eager to see where things go next with this series.
Other games I pretty much never stop playing as of late are Fallout 3 and especially Fallout: New Vegas. I play a lot of these games on the PC so the amount of mods that come out for those games and Oblivion pretty much assures that I'll never stop playing them entirely, at least until their sequels come out.
Skyrim will own me this winter.
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Thanks guys and gals, I love my new job.
The site looks great and like everyone else has said, that review is weep-from-laughing-so-hard great.
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I keep seeing ads for their products in the British high-fi magazines (...Choice and ...News), and for some reason thought they were exclusively a that-side-of-the-pond thing. Didn't realize I had access to them, have been intrigued, may give them a try. But I think most of us are computer based at this point, meaning we use whatever computer is available to us, so all's we needs is/are DACses. And possibly the routing things whatever they're called...Squeezebox, Transporter, etc.
Best I can determine: Solid company, nice products. This doesn't seem to have a digital audio out to send to an external DAC so that would reduce my interest in it considerably.
I'm still mostly disc based but I do have some music on the computer and it all goes to my Wyred 4 Sound DAC-2 which I'm still really thrilled with.
It's a shame those Olive products are so expensive because something like that would be ideal for me. If the 3HD had a digital out I'd probably consider buying it. The 4 and 6 are just simply too expensive for me to justify.
So that's where something like this suddenly caught my eye. Ah well. I'll figure this out eventually.
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I did a search for Brennan here and both hits were well into necro territory so here goes:
I'd never heard of them before (which doesn't mean much, as usual) but saw an ad for them in the WSJ today that got my attention.
http://www.brennan.co.uk/itemlist.php/clasrefr/units
They sell through Amazon and it's a Fulfiment by Amazon setup which is nice.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=bl_sr_electronics?_encoding=UTF8&node=172282&field-brandtextbin=Brennan
What do you all think? What's the story on these folks? Anyone try out any of their products?
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It was even scarier when Ric posted it yesterday.
D'oh. Sorry. It just blew me away enough that I wasn't really looking too carefully.
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http://gizmodo.com/#!5781566/this-is-the-scariest-first+persog-video-of-the-japan-tsunami-yet
This is quite unsettling to watch and listen to, to say the least.
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it doesn't really matter all that much, the decision was going to be made to scrap the reactors anyway (that was the case as soon as they started pumping sea water in). coolant attempts will be maintained, and the containment vessels are unlikely to be breached as long as nothing really unlucky happens. the containment vessels are massively strong and very heat resistant. that's the point of them. in hindsight, they should have started drastic coolant efforts quicker. i wish the media would get their heads screwed on straight: a melt down doesn't mean that the plants are going to explode, it just means that fuel rods were undercooled for a while and literally melt. they are still going to be contained.
the reactors are toast, but they needed to be toast anyway, because they were old (Japan has the same problem the US does, with retards preventing modern reactors from being built and old reactors from being scrapped). of course, that's not what will happen (see said retards). if anything, the take away from this is that it's really fucking hard to have an environmentally damaging nuclear accident. of course, that won't be the takeaway. hopefully we all die in 2012 and the octopi who rise from the sea and take over the surface of the earth in 500 million years do a better job of not being dipshits than we have.
*nods* Spot on!
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Really scary and downright hard to believe. I don't think it's cliche in this case to start whipping out phrases like "epic and Biblical proportions" and so forth especially when you have 3 nuke plants on the fritz and they're talking about how this was really a 9.0 quake that moved the entire continent of Japan 8 feet and screwed up the Earth's axis by 10 inches. Those numbers are a big deal in a geographic context.
My heart just goes out to the people and I've been praying and...damn, I wish I could do something...
EDIT: Yup, it's official. Japanese officials are saying that they think that the nuclear rods are in the process of melting down at these plants.
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Shipped! Should have it by Friday. That can mean only one thing: crystal meth, a stack of blu-ray pornos, and hour by hour burn-in updates for a full 7 days.
get pumped head-case!!
Looking forward to the breakdown and pics!
Oh ok, yeah you may as well throw in a few pics of the player while you're at it.
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It's back up but the next allotment won't ship until the first week of March. I won't be surprised to see that gone by the end of the weekend thereabouts unless that's the beginning of the full fledged release.
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And it's now already out of stock. Incredible. That wasn't even a full day.
Obviously a lot of people are right there with you postjack.
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order'd.
I'm still having the same fence sitting argument with myself about how nothing's wrong with my 83, etc. blah blah blah but I am thinking about it. I take it you had one of those emails, too?
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This showed up in my email. They're getting ready to get this 95 unit out:
Thank you for signing up to receive information about our upcoming OPPO BDP-95 Blu-ray Disc Player. We appreciate your support and would like to offer you the opportunity to purchase an OPPO BDP-95 before its wide release. Initial availability is limited to units in stock and orders will be fulfilled on a first-come-first-served basis. Orders received after the initial stock is sold out will be fulfilled in early March when the general shipment arrives.
Based and expanded upon the BDP-93 Blu-ray player, the BDP-95 is redesigned from the ground up for the audiophile. In addition to all of the features shared with the BDP-93, the BDP-95 adds a Toroidal power transformer, two ESS SABRE32 Reference ES9018 Audio DAC chips, dedicated Stereo and Balanced XLR Output.
Since the BDP-95 shares the same software as the BDP-93 (released in December, 2010), you will not have to worry about the BDP-95's stability. All firmware enhancements will be installed on your BDP-95 prior to it shipping.
The retail price for the BDP-95 is $999. The following is a special link for you to place your order for the BDP-95, while supplies last. We only have a very limited quantity available, so please do not share this unique link with anyone else.
Additional Terms & Conditions:
* Warranty and Return Period - Per our standard warranty and return policies, the warranty and return periods begin on the day your player is shipped to you.
* Limit 1 per customer.
* Orders will be fulfilled beginning February 1 through February 4.
* Restricted to U.S. addresses only.
* All orders subject to verification and available inventory.
Sincerely,
Customer Service
OPPO Digital, Inc
2629 Terminal Blvd. Suite B
Mountain View, CA 94043
Tel: 650-961-1118
Fax: 650-961-1119
www.oppodigital.com
Handy game save editor. It's mighty damned satisfying I must say to start the game off and actually be worth a damn. 
Hitman Absolution 2012
in Games
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You've expressed some of the concerns I had watching that video. I like what I see but in the back of my mind I was thinking things like: "Gosh, I wonder how much choice and how many different ways I can handle that scenario?"
The Hitman vision, like the Batman one, is something that the user can avoid using although I find that's easier said than done. I used it far too much in Arkham Asylum and it was almost like having an outright cheat.
I'm not sure how far into the future this game is from release but I'm hoping that these devs are true to their word like in that QA session. Make sure Hitman is actually Hitman!