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The hardline perk is a perk that reduce by 1 kill the number of kill necessary to reach a killstreak reward in CoD MW2. This perk is mostly usefull in hardcore. In normal mode it prevent you from using the stopping power perk. To compensate this effect you may want to use the scavenger or one man army perk with it. While the can be usefull to call an air strike I don’t believe you need this perk as you become good at the game. It may be usefull to those who want to call nukes.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Lightweight Review (Podcast). This perk is fairly simple, it speed you up by 7% and in the pro version allow you to raise your gun faster when stopping your run. This feature make it interesting for player that run a lot and can give the edge in a face to face. Lightweight perk is good when combine with Marathon since together they make the player very mobile. You can also use it with ninja perk to make your running arround silenced. Or you may want to use commando to knife people around like a zerg.

Nexus the Jupiter Incident Star trek-Universe at war

With the release of a few games base of sci-fi series like Star Trek Online and Stargate Resistance. I remembered Nexus the Jupiter Incident, a game very few people seem to knows unlike Homeworld series or Sins of a Solar Empire. Nexus the Jupiter Incident never reached it’s full potential as it was suppose to when named Imperium Galactica III. But still have some really impressive capacities and a few mod maker took advantage of this by making amazingly good looking mods. Star trek Universe at war mod is probably one of them.

This video feature a mission I created myself in less then 10 min, thanks to the Skirmisher mod and the very easy mission editor that the game provide. I put the game in cinematic mod so the AI controls the ship and camera with a good looking result. I hope you will enjoy even is space games don’t attract as many people as other type of games…
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Hearts of Iron III is a game i played a lot lately and many people asked me by chat what it was and wanted to see some video of it. Since that game really isn’t much of a graphical game and more a mind game. This video will has commentaries that you can lisen to where i explain what I’m doing.

The gameplay video is set to 3 time the speed i played it so that you guys don’t fall asleep. I also invaded Italy because it would not take too long…

The Perk Marathon allows to run none stop for a longer distance. This perk allows to move arround faster in the environnements and take advantage on the enemy by flanking him. In the context where you need to pull back for tactical reason, this perk can make the difference between life and death.
This perk is easly addaptable to all difficulty level. It is espetially usefull when the player adopt an offensive strategy and want to engage the enemies faster. The pro version of this perk allow to climb ladders and cover faster. This speed reduce the time you are expose without your gun while climbing.
It also combine very well with the ninja perk. Since running make a lot of noise, the ninja perk make it silent. You can also use the lightweight to increase your running speed and to be able to raise your gun much faster when you stop running helping to be ready in a face to face. If you like to run around, you may also like to jump around, so you can complete the set with commando perk that allows you to fall without damage. And since running make you get close to your enemies faster, the commando perk may help you kill the enemies faster with the knife. While marathon perk is mostly a moving perk, it may also be usefull for player that enjoy camping since it allows to redeploy to a better spot faster or allows to flee from your enemies to a better and safer spot.

One Man Army is a perk that allows you to switch you class at anytime during the game by replacing your secondary weapon. It allows you to replace your class without having to die, meaning that you can simply switch to the same class for an easy ammo refill. This ammo refill capacity is what make One Man Army a useful perk. You can hide in a safe place and use it to gain back all your initial ammo without dying.

This is practical for many style of gameplay. With Claymore and C4 you can deploy them, switch to the same class and put more explosive.
You can also put 2 claymore switch to a class with C4 and put some around. That’s very useful for creating a defensive system. You can also use one man army to switch to a class with the sit rep perk while advancing into potential mine field. And switch back to your regular class once you know where your going. It’s also very usefull for snipers that don’t like exposing themselves to get ammo. The only downside being, that you cannot quickly switch to your secondary weapon, you will need to switch to an other class. In the case where you actually anticipate close combat you will be in good condition to face your enemy with the class you switched to. The down side for snipers is that this perk put a yellow bag on your back that may not help your stealth as a sniper. One man army is also usefull for people using light machine gun, switching to the same kit is actually faster then reloading most light machine gun. You can also use this perk to switch to a class better equip to face enemy air support such as having cold blooded or a light machine gun to shoot down plane and cobra. If you start using One Man Army, you will likely end up setting up many custom class that use this perk to be able to switch to each one, anytime you want.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Bling Perk strategy Review is more a podcast then an animated video. Since I like to share my strategies and my subscriber like some visual stimulation, I figured I might as well upload that as a podcast so that the maximum people can take advantage of what i may say about it. I hope this will help player that may not have understand the potential of the perks I’m talking about. As for experienced player this may confirm what you know and I highly encourage you to comment to complete the information I say.

Many people appear to have terrible performence in the beta version of Battlefield Bad Company 2. The first reflex for most people is to actually think their computer is bad. Well the good news is that it’s likely not the case. This guide will explain you how to turn a very laggy experience into a good experience smooth gameplay.

if you actually have the requirement for the game
OS: Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad or higher
Memory: 2GB
Graphics: 256 MB Video Card (GeForce 7800 GT / ATI X1900) (or better)

The game support Directx 9 10 and 11 and is configured to choose the highest directx your GPU can use.

While that choice allow you to get the best visual quality it may tax your system way to much, in my case for exemple I ended up having arround 24 fps meaning nearly unplayable because my GPU support directx 10.1. But while it support it, my ATI 3870 doesn’t seem to be able to answer the higher demand of that directx and this is the case for many people. The solution is fairly simple.

You go in “My Documents” folder then “BFBC2Beta”. Open the file “settings.ini” with the notepad.

Go to the like DxVersion=auto and change it to DxVersion=9. Save the file and launch the game.
This should allow you to play in the less demanding directx the game support and increase significally you fps. In my case it went from 24 to 49 or more.

Also you may want to disable Bloom by changing Bloom=true to Bloom=false. The bloom in the game appear to be too intense for the eyes of many people. it can be blinding… So having bloom disable may increase performence and make it easier for you to spot people.

By default HSAO is set to false, but if it is set to true you may want to put it on false to increase performence.

Finally if your still lagging after all that, you may want to try to turn everything that is on High or Medium to low.

If you still lagging after all that… well you may need to buy a new GPU after all or new computer and I recommend you to check out my Hardware Guide.