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No 12.7mm is capable of penetrating the rear turret armor of the Panzer IV (not even WoT), and the 25mm lacks enough explosive filler that it'd likely result in crew casualties but is unlikely to knockout the PzIV until crew in the turret are replaced. 4 shots of 25mm is nothing. I could see that completely screwing over the turret crew and damaging the engine and gun, but since there is a radioman and sub 85mm explosive filler is universally low, you'd need to wait 8 seconds or maneuver to get better shots, side shots are actually the best because knocking out the engine isn't fatal and it acts as ablative armor. The IS-1/2 is actually best at this. That has nothing to do with the armor model, has everything to due to how hardcore the wehraboos whined such that internal component health got a serious buff. There was quite a bitching storm on the forums because Tigers would light up really easy on first shot and well that's just unacceptable. Man it sure sucks you have to deal with a design flaw and work around it.

With what? 4 shots of 25mm isn't going to put a PzIV under, and although it's been awhile using 45mm armed tanks I don't ever remember having issues knockintg them out, the reverse was usually true since the Panzer IV has atrocious ammo placement. Sponsons, everything must have ammo filled sponsons, christ.

Specifically talking about the difference between premium and researchable, I may have been unclear. I basically don't see the point in the seemingly arbitrary division between what is researchable, and what is not, and the infuriating forums brimming with idiots who think only their snowflakes should be researchable or count. Also, what other prototypes, in what other trees? Researchable, not premium. I count 2-3 American tanks, 1 American plane, 2 Russian tanks and 2 Russian planes. Compare to 6 German tanks and 10 German planes.

Yet they are basically throwing the Germans a shitton of protos. The Kugelblitz, the Coelian, the Tiger B mit 105, the Panther "II", the Maus. For aircraft it's even worse. In comparison, the US tree has almost nothing that qualifies as experimental - T32, T95 and uh, maybe the M6A1; aircraft is even worse, the only thing that modestly qualifies as experimental is the F-86F-2, and that's because it's a holdover from timeline restrictions when they could easily replace it with an F-86H. The Russians have even less. Germany gets preferred treatment as far as vehicles goes, and every fucking wehraboo salivates over X or Y experimental monstrosity because something shot at it and that means it's fair to have ingame, yet when the same logic is applied to other nations they shit on the idea. "It never saw combat, therefore" makes no sense when both examples are functional machines, one just happens to be used by desperate fucksticks because they're bad at war. In many cases the Germans made fewer of a model than other nations made of prototypes. The Jagdtiger is a fantastic example - more T23s were made than Jagdtigers, yet they'd definitely get mad at the T23 existing on the tech tree. More T82s existed than Kugelblitzes, more T32s or T29s than Maus.

How so? You're implying the trees lack tanks with this statement, the German and Russian ones seem mostly complete, only missing a few, while the US tree has gaping holes mostly due to the reality of ocean going logistics. Ordnance and USGF didn't want 4 types of tank that do the exact same shit that have no parts commonality so the trees have no filler, things like the T72, T21, T23, T67, T50, T53, T82, T78, etc aren't serialized because the M18, M36 and M4 did all those tanks jobs without making a mess of engineering and logistics. I do kinda want the T82, at least in T82E1 form because it'd be hilarious to have a blatantly superior Wirbelwind in the game and has as much right to exist as the current Kugelblitz. Oh, and the XP-72 from planes, because holy shit why do the Germans get the special snowflake Ta152? Also, denying the French a place, because of the infinite forum sadness of "but muh immersion", "no prototypes!", "no paper tanks!". Always from wehraboos. "Hi yes, this is the dumbfuck residence, who's calling?" "This is the Panther II, just calling to let you know your shares in hypocrisy are doing fine."

They've also done a huge UI update, and almost made deflections realistic (although x4 for catastrophic failure is still too high and fucking lol even with x2 for TD as is real it would only matter in edges cases, in most scenarios if TD is double plate thickness the penetration of the shell is high enough to not matter if there was no TD affect). 10% bounce rate is still dumb, and bullshit because a bounced shot is easily death. I think the worst part that's gnawing at me is what they're choosing for premiums in ground units. I mean, functional experimental vehicles is dumb, seriously, the T-34/100 should sit in the main tree along with a T-44/100, and there is no reason the Super Hellcat shouldn't be on the tank destroyer line. IMHO, the US gets screwed out of a lot of vehicles because they had to be shipped over and unlike the Russians and Germans especially, couldn't and wouldn't just throw entirely experimental shit into the fray because they weren't desperate. I think I had that discussion with Colli once, and the conclusion is that if the US shared a border with Germany WW2 would have ended with the US occupying the smoking crater of Berlin with M29 and M46 tanks, with at least one German tank division nuked to fucking hell. In reality, the Atlantic is what saved Germany from a horrifying case of the disease known as "Fucking Dead".

I'd personally rewrite Interstaller and I think a very compelling space opera could be done within the context of very hard scifi. First, we can straight up abandon earth as a setting. Fuck it, move this forward in the future, put humanity on the generation ship at the end as some kind of desperation bid as the starting setting. Make it quite plain - earth is dead and gone, and we fucked up, fucked up so hard that humanity is lucky to have the cold steel cylinder protecting them from the vast animosity of the universe. Man has no choice but to plumb the depths of space forever. Instead of wormholes, instead focus on the long journey. Have two groups fight over the future of humanity - gravitywellers and travellers, who fight over whether the rest of humanity is colonists or if their home has already been found. Have the focus be on a resource expedition team to acquire what the generation ship needs, some of which is in desperate need to keep things running. Have the original exploration teams, instead of focusing on finding earthlike planets, tasked with finding the necessary resources - our protagonists are playing trucker to the others guys miners and prospectors. Have things go terribly, maybe remake Dr.Mann into a traveller turned gravityweller, maybe have his expedition fail so hard he's convinced that a planet is the only longterm solution, convinced that mans greatest construct/endeavor will fail, that it's unsustainable. Maybe he did the math - attrition from expeditions is too costly, a single loss of a vessel is crippling, timing is everything, etc - but make his predictions extremely cynical and pessimistic. Dr.Mann then becomes more tragic than an asshole, his fears have real justification and are based less in selfishness and more in PTSD from everything going to hell. Make him fearless in the face of death or isolation because he sees his own sacrifice as necessary. Make him try to keep supplies away from the generation ship in the hopes of forcing it to abandon the ship to a planet, maybe lead them in using the protagonists communication device. If that sounds like the movies Dr.Mann than they did an exceptionally bad job at portraying it. He just sounded like someone who couldn't accept the reality of the task and it's risks, and in his own selfish need, puts his survival over others and just chants to himself about a greater cause so he can justify those actions. Also, his deathscene is really dumb even if it sets up what is arguably the best scene in the movie. In any case, make the focus then about humanity spirit, endurance and in the end show that humanity can overcome it's own petty differences and rise about what challenges it faces. Make Dr.Manns extremism force the gravitywellers and travellers together to fight to save the generation ship, make humanity disprove every last fear Dr.Mann has, and end on the note that humanity not only accepts the challenge of deep space but intends to prosper with a fade out of a second, half complete generation ship with implications of fleet building. There is probably an under-appreciated author who wrote a book on this already.

My 290X is hitting 92c on full load, and I can't set a fan profile. I could RMA, but I could also watercool. Because I like my shiny LEDs and Corsair uses dumb blower fans, was thinking of getting a Kraken, a HS for the VRMs and going nuts on blue LEDs for the Kraken and radiator.

New rig is assembled and everyting, but Windows 8 scores the 4590 a tenth less than the FX8350. laffo?

Asus MG279Q, like, the second best gaming IPS monitor on the market. I mean seriously, what the fuck Asus. The best part is the bottom of the stand has wear, indicating a refurbished part. I'm still waiting on an RMA, and if they intend to force me to pay for it then I'll simply go for a refund because that noise can go fuck itself. I'll pick up an ACER panel, and defo 27" 1440p because the side the monitor that wasn't fucked was beautiful. I also chipped my tooth on the same day and may lose it, so Tuesdays can officially go get fucked.

So my 600$ Asus monitor turns out to be broken, fucking yay. Half the screen is covered in vertical lines. Boy I sure hope this doesn't turn into the third "return same item multiple times" adventure, that'd be too much fun!

The only thing that'll replace 5.56 is lasers or magnetic acceleration.

I haven't gotten my parts yet, but I have completed my sisters build and uh, wow, I didn't think an MSI GTX285 2GB would run Skyrim or in fact any game from 2012 on high/ultra. I've also got the processor running 3.0ghz and the DDR2 is sitting @ 1200, this might having something to do with it. I wonder if it can play 2014 games on medium?

Fuck it fuck it, fuck it. Got the new parts. Getting them on Wednesday. All the frames, all the time. Anyone want an AMD rig?

Hahaha, well damn the 290X will crush the 760. I need that in my life. Not to sure about the 4590 all of a sudden , that doesn't seem to be much of a performance gain. The only reason I'm considering it is because of issues in games like DayZ, and Arma 3. It might be less an issue at higher resolutions, so IDFK. Also, I effectively have two computers at that point, and no idea who'd want to buy an AMD rig.

I might be getting an upgrade to this soon H97M Pro4 Asrock MicroATX XFX 290X 4GB I5 4590 The question is, is it worth it? I have an FX8350, soo...

Sand Bridge is likely going to get surpassed with Bristol Ridge, Carrizo/Godavari already show near Sandy Bridge performance, although clocks still aren't comparable. I guess it'd been too much to ask of AMD to give one last hurrah for FX on 6th gen construction cores, as a Godavari vs Vishera isn't even a contest on strict CPU side. I dunno, just want an excuse to not completely trash what I have now.

Actually it doesn't, AMD tried to do that and it's crippled the company. CPU competition usually isn't a value proposition, price isn't as huge a concern when talking server farms that need constant, good performance. AMD is too hot for mobile, at least until Godavari/Carizzo and the coming Bristol Ridge, so AMD is left underpeforming per dollar in desktop. This is why Intel, and even Nvidia have long histories of near to illegal anticompetitive activities because it is expensive as hell to compete in the CPU market for server and workstation use. Mobile is a bit less strenuous, not only is the market huge but buyers tend to be less picky.

"Enemy rebels within range sir!" "Fire the port turbolaser batteries. Release the TIE fighters." *Chinese Su-27s explode, the rest scattered by F-18s.*

Actually, initial spec for Zen is that APUs and CPUs will share the same architecture, just that Zen will replace the iGPU with more cores. Up in the air of this replaces the HBM as well, but bets are that Zen will max out at 24 cores since it'd be too much design effort to remove the HBM. Leaked slide Due to shape, this might be a server APU, so desktop will likely cut this down 8, maybe 12 cores. I really have no clue who in the hell will be able to make use of a desktop CPU with 12 cores and hyperthreading.

Two "new" things to share First is my sisters build The issue currently is how to maneuver the PSU into the case, as it really doesn't want to fit. I'm trying to reuse an old PSU I had after hers popped. Tempted to remove the HDD cage. Don't be deceived by the weird lighting, it's got 3 red LED 120mm fans, a copper tower with red LED, all PCB is red, and an all black glossy case with clear side panel. It's not a great computer, but she doesn't play anything heavy or very modern, like Insurgency at most I think? As I was going through my parts though, I happened upon this Guess what it is

Would you really consider an Avon 26 engine to be "modern"?

AMD is making the claim that Fury X will not only OC well, but beats the Titan X in performance for 980ti price. WTB if true.

I think you're confused, Gavins fly

I keep thinking about this and the surface area server sized CPUs have would allow some pretty impressive IGP performance.