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I'm sure if I was still running ESF on my 466 CeleronA, 384MB PC100 ram and ATA66 HD I'd be crying too.

Pride is right, I have people contact me all the time wondering why their P4 is slow, and they finally get around to telling me that they have it on PC133 RAM. Of course ESF will run like crap on decade old ram.
 
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haha, i used to have an 800mhz p3 with 384mb pc133. esf ran fine for me. tweaks maybe? i dont know, or maybe its just my brainiac friend i use when my computer needs fixing.

now i have a 600mhz p3 with 384mb pc133. i can still play esf fine. a little slow at times but its still good
 
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Again, though. If you take care of the computer, and it exceeds the maximum requirements for Half-Life...then complaining about the development of the game is irrelevent. If it works good for one person, it has the capacity to work that well for ANY person, given the right circumstances. I mean...look at Wolfenstein3D, the original one. Now by today's standards, that's a craptacular graphical engine, right? But if I put it on the right computer, it doesn't suddenly look like Quake III or UT2k4--so why's this guy have to say "the mod team sucks, they don't have a clue" when he KNOWS that people are out there playing and enjoying it, and he's no doubt downloaded vids of the devs tests and seen them moving around and such just fine? I mean, seriously.

The worst is people who write back and tell about how they have these beefed up rigs and it still doesn't work. The answer's almost always the same: You have an 8x AGP card in a 2x AGP port, or your onboard stuff is conflicting.

Computers don't lie; if they don't work right, something somewhere is screwed up. You either try to fix it, or you get a new one. There's no other options, really.

All I know is the damn game runs smoother than just about any game I run except the original UT (200fps, I think, at one point...go me! hehe). I edited my config a little, but nothing major...the ATI fix and the Framerate max...but it still ran gorgeously by default. I mean, I'm going to go out on a limb and say, next to the Specialists and CS, it's one of the most bug-free versions of a mod I've ever played. Considering how damned different this is from what Half-Life originally was...I think that deserves praise, not complaints.

But I am older. I forget how it was when I was young and couldn't afford even a cheap 40 dollar game. it just pisses me off that brats nowadays grow up using Kazaa and subsequently think they have rights to free stuff, and start demanding it. That's pretty weak; I hope they grow out of it.
 

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the only problem i have had at all is that sometimes RARELY i will join a server and some half-life error thing will pop-up it doesnt freeze it just shuts down my game but i strongly believe it is specific servers cause i tested going into same server few times and it did it over and over then i went to diffrent server and it worked fine. Also it is very hard not to flame people that say crap about 1.2, its so much better then 1.1 i used to use beams a lot in 1.1 but now i hardly ever use beams it all melee for me. also once you learn how it works and get into it you can start to learn the Special combos :laff: there very awesome its like there special moves and i think they have like 2 or 3 specials each.

P.S ESF team i highly appreciate all the hard work and long hours you have put in to give us all a great game "Thank you".
 
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Yea!! Pride is my Hero.. Rock On Dude.. dont listen to sonic.. he's well.. you know.. for him the wind steers abit to the left
Hello random flame :)


I'll bet 90% of the people hating 1.2 are the ones who haven't realized whoever swoops the longest starts melee first in a head on. As soon as everyone figures this out the complaining will die down.
 
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Actually there's just a .15s delay I believe to avoid LSM issues. Head to head should always result in struggle or knock then 12 prepunches.

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Well for instance, the new melee is retarded. Sure, its "fun" for some people, but how difficult is it to tap the forward key 2 times and just move towards someone? At least you used to have to AIM, and when your defending, the only way to defend is to simply attempt to attack back, or hit all the stupid arrows.
Just play a few hours of King of Fighters or Street Fighter Zero and you'll realise that doing combos can be pretty easy compared to the Iori super 4 hit Deadly Flower Pause Combo.
 
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Well for instance, the new melee is retarded. Sure, its "fun" for some people, but how difficult is it to tap the forward key 2 times and just move towards someone? At least you used to have to AIM, and when your defending, the only way to defend is to simply attempt to attack back, or hit all the stupid arrows.
Ok, before the patch all you had to do is click the mouse and just move towards someone holding the mouse, then you smack him across the map and melee is over... sounds very hard, and complicated.

Second, there are so many bugs its insane, this game needs another 2 months of in-house testing. Im not sure if the music is SUPPOSED to be playing or not, but since I installed "mp3's" I assume it is, it dosent work, at all, also my sound crashes at random. Another problem is crashing, the game crashes more then Breed, which is pretty bad. Just about anything seems to crash this game, joining a game, picking a team, picking a character, teleporting, a plethora of things. The WORST though, is the lag, why does it lag so bad? My ping is insane no matter what server I join, it says I have a 50-60 ping, I join and my ping spikes to several hundred for a few seconds every... couple of seconds. I loved the last release, but I doubt anybody still plays it on steam, some of you apparently enjoy this, but I doubt its fun your getting from it.
As everyone else has said, most people are having a great time playing it without any bugs or just a few which are minor. I get loads of fun from it, I can play it for hours as a matter of fact. If you don't like it... then load up 1.1 and have fun with the other 2 players still playing it. Most people just come into the servers and demand to know how to play:
Esfn00b:"OMFG HOW DO I SWOPP, SND HOW DO I MELLE!?"

Phat:"Go read the manual, it explains everything."

Esfn00b:"OMFG TELL ME U NUB!"
*Phatslugga has killed EsfN00b with melee*
*Phatslugga has killed Esfn00b with melee*
*Phatslugga has killed Esfn00b with melee*
*Esfn00b has left the game*

It get's really annoying at times, I'm there to play not to teach :/. Well, anyway, just take the time to get used to the game, it's a lot of fun if you learn it.
 
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It's actually a .35 second day... Also with the server crashing, it's so weird... Maybe it's corrupt installers? I've never gotten that error, while on the other hand add has. The weirder thing is when he redownloaded the game ( newer installer ), it worked perfectly.
 
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"The crashing doesnt seem to be ESF related but something specific on certain people's computers."

Umm... Well lets see I bought a dell computer a month ago, and I only use it for e-mail, msn, and work... And so I download this game and it always Causes crashing for me... Your hypothesis buddy is definitly wrong :no:
 
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Try redownloading the mod from
- <a href=http://www.edgefiles.com/files/13938.html>hlgaming.com</a><br>- <a href=http://files.filefront.com/2957806>Filefront</a><br>- <a href=http://www.gamershell.com/news_BEarthSpecialForcesBv1.2.shtml>Gamershell</a><br>
 
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Just because the computer is a month old doesn't mean it doesn't have issues with a game.
 

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