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If it's on the floor and you find it, it's yours to keep right?

@Papillon I'll try to be on for around 7:30 - 8PM UK time

@Papillon I'll try and get on Tuesday or Wednesday as I haven't played in a while.

@Druidix we would be happy to support a FH0.7 / FHSW / BF1918 campaign, but this would be something that you or someone else interested in running a campaign would need to set up, get HQ's and officers involved, arrange maps and the rest.

If he didn't get permission to land, he will get a criminal rating when landing and his ship will despawn if he lands or gets too close to the landing pads.

Great find @Hawk! 8 player co-op, so well worth getting for a few evenings of play

Happy Birthday @Airshark79!

I'm thinking that they need to be unlocked by the ship owner / pilot as they have worked in the past but I can't remember if I had to unlock things first (same with doors and so on). Will have to test. It could be a bug of course, but I used them myself in 3.0 I haven't ever seen my Freelancer or other Freelancers spawn with a missing wing, but there are reports and screenshots showing people's Freelancers with heavy damage for some players, but not everyone.

Looks really nice Yehiel!

Several of us are Freelancer pilots @DanielNL

Not really @DanielNL, because what you have shown in the video is very specific. Yes it's a collision issue, but this isn't a 'go near a landing pad in EVA and you get stuck and die', you wedged yourself between a railing and a wall and it caused a collision issue. People need to be able to replicate the exact issue and see if it also glitches for them. It needs testing before saying they can replicate it, it's what a good QA tester does.

That's not how it works Daniel. You only click on 'Able To Reproduce' if you can reproduce it. Don't encourage others to file false reports if they cannot or have not tried to reproduce it.

Welcome back, everyone! Today, after successful first campaign "Martyrs of the Sun", we're bringing a new Arma III Campaign - Vlad's Wolves. Vlad's Wolves Background The year is 2014. After winning the 2012 Russian Presidential election on promises of making Russia relevant again on the world stage, President Piotr Kalugin started strengthening the Russian Federation Military in a show of force to the west and in early 2013 started seizing ex-USSR territories. NATO proved slow to react and took weeks to mobilize their troops. The Russian Federation (RF) and NATO forces clashed in the region know as Chernarus. Chernarus is quite a poor country but had great significance during the USSR years as a major Naval supply and maintenance base for the USSR Navy (Chemnogorsk, Elektrozavodsk, Berezino). During the USSR years, a great many Russian people migrated by choice/forcibly to region. According to census, Russians/people of Russian origin make up 42% of the population. This was part of the excuse that the RF used to occupy Chernaruss and establish Pro-Russian puppet government (Republic of the Red Star), stating they were protecting these Russians. The fighting lasted for almost 2 years and resulted in the decimation of the entire region. Entire towns were wiped out and a lot of the country's infrastructure was destroyed in the fighting. Eventually the RF forces pushed the NATO forces almost completely out of the region and the current front line is around the towns of Krasnostav, Kamenka and Pavlovo. However both sides have been severely weakened due to the extended fighting. There is currently a cease fire agreement between opposing sides, however both sides are using it as an excuse to reinforce before going on the offense. Current NATO intelligence reports have estimated that the RF forces will be ready to attack months before NATO are ready. Because of this NATO are looking into other other ideas to slow and hinder the RF war machine, so they will be ready before they are. The current plan is work with and supply insurgent forces within the region to disrupt supply lines and cause as many issues for the RF and ChDKZ (Chernarussian Movement of the Red Star) forces as possible. Insurgent forces Although there are many small factions/cells within the Chernarus, there are 2 major factions. Chernarus Militia (CM) The Peoples Chernarus Liberation Force(PCLF) Chernarus Militia (CM) The Chernarus Militia is made up of members of the former Chernarus Military and government. They fought bravely along side the NATO forces since the beginning of the conflict. However like NATO, their forces have been severely depleted to the point that they are no longer an effective fighting force. After the RF pushed the NATO forces to the borders of the country, the remnants of the Chernarus Military reformed under Colonel Gottwald and created the “Chernarus Militia”. Their main goal is to push out the RF forces and re-instate the previous elected government. Although equipped with modern equipment, their forces/manpower has been depleted. Many are either dead or being held in POW camp both in Russia and within the Region. NATO have made contact with Colonel and offered to work with/supply them in starting an insurgency campaign against the RF forces. However the Colonel realises that the Chernarus Militia cannot do this alone. To rectify this, they have sent out messages to the PCLF and many smaller factions asking to put aside their differences and form a single force to throw out the RF. The Peoples Chernarus Liberation Force(PCLF) The PCLF is made up with idealised pro-communists people who are looking to return Chernarus back to the “golden days” of the USSR. “Hey, there may have been secret police on every corner, but the Trains ran on time”. The leader of the faction is a man called Yuri Romanov, who was the political oppositions to the previous government. The PCLF despise the capitalist west(NATO) and the previous government. However they also equally despise the RF for invading the country and only being a shell of the former glory of the USSR. The decimation of the Chernarus region by both NATO and RF has not helped their popularity with the common people. This has resulted in a great many people buying into the ideas being told to them by the PCLF and their numbers have swelled. However they have next to no resources and are badly armed. No outside countries will work with them or supply them, so they work with what they find or steal from RF forces. They are willing to side with the CM to throw out the RF and get access to their resources, but they are not looking at reinstating the previous “corrupt and decant” government. Allies while it is convenient to them. The PC Squad – Vlad's Wolves The PCs(Player Characters) make up the members of a small insurgent group from the Northern region(Gorka, Altar hill). They are mostly from rural backgrounds and occupations such as Farmers, Trappers/Hunters and Lumber workers. This gives a narrative reason for the players to have access to older rifles and equipment. The Group was lead by a man called Vladimir Simunek who lead the group during 2013 to the present in insurgency work in the northern regions of Chernarus. They have a fearsome reputation among the RF forces to the point the being sent to the northern region are referred to “being thrown to the wolves”. Unfortunately a recent attack on a RF supply convoy, resulted in the death of their leader Vladimir along with many other members. They have been invited to join Colonel Gottwald's insurgency campaign and the start point for PCs. Best Regards, 517TH PRCT, A Company, 1SG.Tutvys You can find more information here: Fast Repository link: http://arma.cmp-gaming.com/public/.a3s/autoconfig Training / Missions will currently be played every Friday (Saturdays after beginning of new FH2 campaign) starting at 19 UTC (winter time) Meet up in Teamspeak!

It looks like even graphics cards aren't immune to the Spectre bug. Expect patches for most hardware over the next few weeks and months: http://www.techradar.com/news/spectre-bug-doesnt-just-affect-cpus-nvidia-has-patched-its-graphics-cards

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Just have a read of this and be patient for updates coming in March:

@DanielNL in an alpha they won't be focused so much on getting the optimisation in there as much as they will be wanting to get the game mechanics in place first. Case in point being the big ships like the Starfarer and Caterpillar. They now realise that getting these ships into the game is a big performance hit, so if they had spent lots of time optimising the game before adding in the Starfarer and Caterpillar it would have been wasted because a whole load of issues have shown up with larger ships, planet tech and cargo now added into the mix. Are they looking into it? Sure. Read a good explanation from Chris Roberts himself at https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/1/thread/star-citizen-alpha-3-0-performance-tidbits/ The biggest reason for the FPS hits is due to the servers and game sending a lot of data to each PC on what every ships component, piece of cargo and other items are doing in-game. That's a lot of data! Which is why CPU's and RAM are being hit the hardest at the moment (I'm seeing up to 18Gb of RAM being used in a session). The plan is to simplify this data (object culling) so that only a basic ID and status for each object is sent to the client PC and they'll only load in the actual object when there is a chance the player will get near to it. Are they going to fix this anytime soon? No. They are pushing for quarterly updates, so don't expect anything until at least March except minor bug fixes (courier missions and so on). Switching to an SSD will make a difference, as will making sure you have a healthy sized Page File set up if your RAM gets completely used up. Uninstall some games if you don't play them all. Star Citizen is only around 40Gb.

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We have a number of campaigns and events planned for the new year, with more happening in the coming months. Highlights include: Arma III Campaign: "Vlad's Wolves" - Starting 5th January Answer the call and join the rebel group of "Vlad's Wolves" fighting a guerilla style war against the Russian and Pro-Russian occupation of Chernarus. You can sign up for the Arma III campaign at https://cmp-gaming.com/gc/cat/26-arma-iii/ Forgotten Hope 2 Campaign #3 - Coming In March The next campaign will take place in the "Continuation War" between Finland and Russia. Expect a mixture of public and custom made maps focusing on this area of Europe during 1941 - 1944 Look out for more information in the FH2 Announcements thread at https://cmp-gaming.com/forum/95-fh2-announcements/ Star Citizen: Antarus Corporation Interested in Star Citizen or already own the game and looking to join an Organisation? Come and join the Antarus Corporation at https://robertsspaceindustries.com/orgs/ANTCORP With the release of Alpha PU 3.0, CMP's Star Citizen group will be frequently conducting events ranging from cargo runs to combat missions, exploration of areas of interest (such as wrecks) to simply driving around the moons of Crusader. Check out the Star Citizen area to chat more about the game and info on events at https://cmp-gaming.com/forum/123-general-chat/

I'm sure they will add in a loading screen for the Universe soon enough, probably just in a rush to get 3.0 out and didn't have one set up or it's bugged. This is the issue already posted and you just need to contribute to this, rather than making your own - https://robertsspaceindustries.com/community/issue-council/star-citizen-alpha-3/STARC-46193-Long_black_screen_loading_after_selecting_Crusader The loading times, well, you need to get this game on an SSD to load in with some decent speed. Even on my SSD it will still take 20 - 30 seconds to load in and you will see some stuttering in game.

Happy Birthday @Ephiriel

@Papillon you missed out on PUBG Bros. with @Pr0z4c and @Grabfunzel last night

Happy Birthday @FOX!