I'm not sure where to put this, but I want it to be kind of like a compilation of all the things you see the mercs doing in their idle times. Bullet them and bold them if you have any others please.
-Eating off a plate
-Eating a sandwich
-Eating a candy bar, and littering the wrapper
-Barbecuing something
-Smoking
-Panning for gold
-Fishing
-Applying deoderant
-Cleaning guns
-Tying shoes
-Chatting
-Sleeping
-Drinking
-Pissing
-Reading maps
-(I think) Fantasizing about shooting some one, they pull out their pistol and pretend to fire
-Sharpening their machete
Any others?
- Trying to get a cell phone signal
- Burping... ok, not a thing to do while idle, but retiredgord just saw it and I think it deserves a place on the list ;D
- Doing push ups
I think D_B mentioned he saw a couple of mercs - boxing
By the way... great post TheFishlord... we all love to see details like that on FC2 :-X
To echo JRD, excellent post, TheFishlord! That was a great idea to start a thread on merc activity, and one heck of a good list for starters. I can't personally add anything right off the top of my head.
I don't suppose blowing themselves up constitutes and activity, does it? I like the list. Great idea. After playing for so long, these mercs are like old friends (that want to kill you)
cool idea there, TheFishlord
-grabbing ammo from ammo crate
-leaning against a wall with one hand
-sitting on a beercrate drinking beer, put bottle back in
-cleaning fingernails
-reloading/repairing firearms (rifle)
-scanning area with field glasses
-repairing a plane using a blowtorch
-laying on ground admiring environment/enjoying weather
well, that's what springs to mind so far :)
btw, LOL @ applying deodorants :-X never seen that
I saw another lately. I was on my way on a mission and snuck near a G/P, can't remember where, and as I was watching their comings and goings for awhile I saw a merc LIGHT THE CAMPFIRE. I was amazed, second time and that's the first I saw that action. Maybe cuz in the first game I always did things at night and this time I'm only taking minimal rests for saves. I probably got there in time to watch this fellow start the fire so they could have Smores and Hot Dogs later
nice observation there, retiredgord, never seen that one.
I've seen this here twice now:
merc rummaging through garbage on the ground, throwing away useless stuff, until finding either a bottle or a pack of cigs that he stuffs away in his pockets
This thread just keeps getting better..all these natural things that happen in FC2. I haven't seen that type of details in any other game yet...unless I was busy getting injured or killed. Good observations Art. I'm playing this round slower just to see some of these actions. Maybe that merc is a former homeless person and just signed up through...wait for it.....MERCS A PLENTY magazine (early post as an ad)
hahaha! @ mag mercs a plenty
I thought about that too, homeless...
by the way, I already watched a merc sitting on a beer crate, drinking beer, and put the empty bottle back into the crate. New was, another merc walking up, drinking his beer, handing the empty bottle over to the guy sitting on the crate, who then put that bottle back in too. Nice... :)
Some of those mercs read good literature, drink good wisky and have an environment friendly behavior.... too bad they shoot at sight or we could get along somehow...
... oh crap, then it wouldn't be FC2 and I would have to start shooting at sight to have some fun ;D ;D ;D
heh... I think it's ok we shoot them. Someone must have killed all those big animals (no elephants, lions, giraffes etc... sure those mercs had some "fun" with them)
It sounds like the time of day plays a significant role in how the merc behavior changes, i.e., lighting fires as it becomes cold and/or dark, etc.
wouldn't surprise me. The beer drinking happened around noon, and at night they doze off in dark corners or beds. I just love the game and it amazes me still how many details there are that you miss out on even if you're on the look-out :)
Exactly, when I get back on the PC, I'm going to set the ignore_player cheat so I can wander amongst the mercs and observe what they do up close and personal.
Quote from: PZ on May 21, 2009, 08:23:15 AMobserve what they do up close and personal.
... and then kill them if they start to get boring ;D ;D ;D
Or kill them if they start bugging Michele or Flora. They're our gals..until we have to kill them for some reason. (hint, hint)
You only shoot them to impress the ladies. "Ma'am, here. Don't worry, I shot them scallywags. Ya know, it's kinda dangerous here. I insist you stay at my place tonite!" (wink) ;D
I was entering Mokuba on a mission to blow up a supplydump when I saw 2 mercs playing what looked like checkers ( I couldn´t see the board but there handmotion made me think of checkers or backgammon). I also overheard one of them say jokingly " just so you know, I always assume you cheat"
lol, that's a good one I've never heard. Here's one I encountered today, although not during idle time, it is funny none the less - was driving through a GP when one of the mercs shouted: "shoot his tires out!" I don't know if any of the others took his advice, but I was driving the Uni with the self-inflatable tires... ;D
ROFL!
nice finds, the two of you :)
I overheard an interesting conversation between two mercs - they were discussing a friend that had been wounded and was recovering. One of the mercs said "I was there when the Doctor lanced it." to which the other replied "Really? What did it look like?" and the response "Hundreds of maggots - looked like spaghetti..."
PZ, are you hearing this while just being stealthy, in town, or are you using the trainer with ignore on? I'm amazed you guys hear some of this stuff.
lol, I heard that one a few times :) Like the guy with ants in his trousers (remember "barse"? the space between your bo...cks and your ar.. LOL)
I hope you don't mind me answering - my experience with lines like that - spaceboy, you can hear almost everything when you walk long enough around in the cease fire zones. No cheats needed for that, they will occasionally drop random lines, among which you'll find what is being posted here. Erm, apart from "shoot his tyres out" of course... cease fire...
there - just heard it in Port Selao:
"...it was big like a grapefruit. And?" "I was there when the doctor lanced it. Maggots, hundreds of maggots. It spilled down his knee, looked like a macaroni dinner."
LOL
There's something very cool about being a third or fourth (or more) time through where there is no hurry to do things. You can just do walk-about in the town catching all the neat stuff without having to worry about dodging bullets (unless you've already poked a HUGE stick in the horne's nest) and can concentrate on the verbalizations. Hey that's a neat phrase.
I was using the PS3 spaceboy, but I tend to hear more on the PC when using the ignoreplayer cheat simply because they're not hunting me down like a dog! ;D
I agree about play-again value - just this morning I was traveling from the southeast bus stop toward the Marina bar on the ATV and the sun was just setting. The blood red filtered sunlight was absolutely beautiful and if I have, I can't recall it ever being exactly like that at that spot. The filtered light had that hazy appearance like you'd see in life with dust particles suspended in the air; man the developers did a fantastic job with the eye candy.
That started me thinking about why I keep playing the game when I must be at least on a 12th full play through and probably the equivalent of more with all the partial plays through of my favorite areas. I ask myself "why" and the answer is in that description of the red sun above. No matter how many times I visit an area, or do the same mission, it is never exactly the same. The time of day, weather, exact positioning of the mercs, what they say and do are all different. For instance, I've been to my favorite sniper perch at Taemoco and have taken out a target for Marty firing only a single shot and then melting into the jungle without firing again. At other times, it is a fire fest with mercs coming straight at me and others flanking me mostly to the right. There was even one time where the GP mercs from the south came to hit me on the left.
The fun never ends, and you can think of dozens of different ways to approach the game, again and again, so even though ARMA2 now occupies much of my interest, I still play just as much FC2.
gotta love beauty in video games. The other nite I was testing on-line free roam in FUEL with a friend for our endurance run tomorrow night and I was waiting for him to reconnect so I got to watch a beautiful sun rise over the Grand Canyon. Very nice. I love that your FUEL character actually takes his hands off the handlebars of your bike, folds his arms, and checks out the surroundings.
I need to fire up Fuel in the PS3 again - the scenery that you guys have posted directly or indirectly looks beautiful
You may have to buy your bride some flowers to bribe her, but feel free to join us at 9 Central tomorrow night on our run from Tsunami Reef to Red Rocks. A couple hour ride through the country (and you can drink and drive :-X)
Had almost forgot about your endurance race, hope it all goes ok for you :-X
will find some Mercs to sacrifice to the Gods for your safe return..... ;)
and been thinking "Idle Mercs" mmmmmm, No such thing, if they appear to be doing nothing thats just means they are easier target practice.....
Thanks dke! Yeah it's funny to hear these things the mercs do and say because I'm bad at stealth and I get too ansy in town to listen - I either go about my business or shoot them for getting cheeky with me...
Here's a short video you might enjoy - mercs talking in the Cock Fight Arena - i was using the ignorePlayer cheat. Some of the things mercs talk about when doing nothing is quite amusing. Among the banter you'll hear are the story about elephant dung, "barse", problems with defective ammunition, plastic compounds, and "I wanna be a safari ranger"
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Nice intro PZ.... very professional ;D
Here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvEj_s1stDM) is what happens when Major Oliver Tambossa and Prosper Kouassi (or is it Leon Gakumba?) bumps into each other while shopping for guns... it's a processor ad, but quite funny indeed ;)
That was an excellent animation - we need whoever did that to create an FC2 world for ARMA2. Who knows, we could probably create our own FC3 in the form of ARMA2 addons and mods. ;)
Quote from: PZ on August 06, 2009, 10:06:45 AM
we could probably create our own FC3 in the form of ARMA2 addons and mods. ;)
<evil laugh> muahuahuahuahuahua......... who needs UBI when you have a powerful tool like A2? mhuahuahuahua 8)
Another funny conversation is the one guy trying to convince the other guy to be in a porno he's making. Never did catch the whole thing though.
Well, I'm nearly on my way out the door to where I can get better internet access to download the ARMA1 maps gvse mentioned - the desert maps are particularly intriguing to me.
The maps download is huge - 2gb, but will add another dimension to the simulation. :-X
Quote from: Dweller_Benthos on August 06, 2009, 10:14:48 AM
Another funny conversation is the one guy trying to convince the other guy to be in a porno he's making. Never did catch the whole thing though.
I nearly captured that one with the others, but my clumsy fingers botched the capture - yeah, that is a great one.
I remember that conversation, one merc asks another merc if he had thought about the internet thing, he tries to convince him to put a webcam into his bedroom.
Yeah, I think that's the one DB is referring to, and the one I missed this morning.
Good vid PZ. Without the ignore I don't get to hear anything but a few words before "What have we got here" or "Here's a Live One" just before they try to give me a new lead jacket.
Thanks Gord,
It is fun to wander about the areas to see what the mercs do, and what they say. You can see somewhat of the same in the cease-fire zones, but they seem to do more in the outer areas.
I noticed that sometimes they talk a lot, sometimes not, or simply cease talking, hehe. Good thing is, on a PC you can simply save and reload in a cease-fire zone, and usually get the chatter going again. Sometimes so much you hear two or three conversations going on at the same time, hard to understand any of them if they interfere so much :)
Good video PZ. :-X Barse was hilarious. ;D
Thanks Hacko - barse is definitely my favorite, especially the way the merc says "Awww... for Christ's sake..." [dripping with disgust] ;D
Reminds me of a time LOOOONG ago when a fellow told me about taint.
"Taint?", I asked with a virgin type of questionable air.
He replied (and you have to fill in the blanks) Yeah, taint arse and it taint vag--a. Could've knocked me over with a feather.
OMG GORD!
lol, nice one... taint so bad ya know ;)
I saw two mercs running from a fire I didn't start. It was late evening, so i think a fire they lit got out of control. Not positive though.
You are right most probably... I once saw one of them burn to death from a fire they lit while the other watched.... (I sliced the other for being such an @ss with his flaming comrade ;D ;D ;D )
That might have been what I once witnessed near a locked safehouse at the border to a desert. The area was on fire (lol) and one merc had run so far it took ages to find him (like damn, that safehouse is still locked, there's got to be one more merc)
It seems to me that that area is on fire many if not all the time's I've visited. In fact, there is another safe house on the eastern side (don't recall if it is Leboa or Bowa) that also has a fire associated with it.
It seems like every time I enter Sefapane for the first time (after killing Kouassi/Gakumba), the area between the GP and Sefapane, on the north side of the road, is ablaze and 3-4 mercs are running for their lives. You can set your watch to it!
There's a safe house in the extreme NE of Bowa where there's a large log next to the fire. Every time I go there at night, the log is on fire as well. Might be the one PZ referred to. It's in a desert locale, so the fire never spreads, but the log's burning every time I go there. Odd.
On another subject, I got into a staring contest with a merc I bumped into in Port Selao. After a minute he said sarcastically, "Looks like I've got an admirer"
Interesting observation Foghorn - I've never seen it because when going to Sefapane after killing Kouassi/Gakumba, I turn left at the armory, head to the bus stop, and take the foot path shortcut to Sefapane. I'll have to go your way next time to see what you described :-X
You're correct Roaven, that's not the one I was referring to, but I remember now seeing the one you mentioned. That's a great line you experienced - never heard that one before :-X
On topic:
I just watched a merc picking something off a plant of sorts, looking at it, rubbing it tenderly and stuff it in his vest/waistcoat pocket. I think it was either a blossom or a bug.
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awesome find Art! this game never ceases to amaze me...after all this time to still find new stuff. incredible.
thanks, and my thoughts exactly :)
Quote from: Art Blade on December 03, 2009, 02:24:21 PM
On topic:
I just watched a merc picking something off a plant of sorts, looking at it, rubbing it tenderly and stuff it in his vest/waistcoat pocket. I think it was either a blossom or a bug.
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hmmm.... looks like some sort of narcotic botanical to me
Maybe. Hehe, that didn't occur to me. Must be paradise for the animals there that live on it ;D
hehe, look how fit our mercs are... gymnastics.
Instead of posting four images, I made a patchwork.
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I like it when they are doing that, gives plenty of time to aim with a sniper rifle at where their head is going to be.
I haven't seen that before -- maybe I killed them before they even started ;D
Seen them do a few little A.I. induced tasks like that when on a long stake-out through my trusty Dragunov SVD sight.
today I've watched something I haven't seen either so far:
merc near a fireplace kicks stuff back into the fire
(like, brushing the floor with his feet to tidy the place up a bit, perhaps kick glowing parts back in)
A while ago saw the two mercs to the west of Petro-Sahel talking, then one lit the fire whildt the other was stood on it. Oh how I laughed.
Hey everyone! Haven't visited in a while. Good to see my thread has taken off like this.
I have another to add to the list - at the explosive outpost east of Petro Sahal, I saw a merc picking berries (to eat) or leaves (to smoke) off a bush. I tried to screen him but my computer was going through the bluescreen blues at the time and it crashed. :D
Let me think...anything else? An interesting chat, goes along the lines of "Hey, feel like going for a drink tonight?" "Where?" "How about that new place, that new bar called Mike's?" "Sorry mate, that place's for expats only. It was part of the ceasefire arrangements. We can't go there." I believe I also saw another making a Molotov with an empty beer bottle, but I'm not sure. I'll get back to yall when I come up with something interestin ;)
Hey Fishlord!
Nice to see you are back and posting :)
The blueberry stuff, see this (http://openworldgames.org/owg/forums/index.php?topic=448.msg18387#msg18387) post again (pic) because it sounds like the same thing I watched there.
The chat line sounds familiar :) I understood "independants" instead of "expats" but that is a small detail.
Molotovs? lol, I still haven't seen the deodorant applying merc, and you come and post yet another cool idle animation hehehe :-X
Cool.... good to see you, TheFishLord :-X
Quote from: deadman on June 26, 2009, 01:05:13 PM
I was entering Mokuba on a mission to blow up a supplydump when I saw 2 mercs playing what looked like checkers ( I couldn´t see the board but there handmotion made me think of checkers or backgammon). I also overheard one of them say jokingly " just so you know, I always assume you cheat"
I heard one merc ask a buddy, "wanna play a game?" The way they moved their hands and the way they "thought about moves" reminded me of chess, but who knows. Anyway, finally saw it:
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Looking at your post Art, the picture of the two mercs engaged in play and I had the word mancala flash through from my memory.
I had to Google it but mancala is a game played in many parts of Asia and through out Africa. While there are specific boards carved or made with 2 rows of six holes and possibly a larger catch bowl at each end to hold extra playing pieces or captured pieces to play one of the mancala variants.
I have also seen scenes of village elders in Africa squatting or sitting playing a game of mancala with simple holes scooped in the soil, so no actual board is required to play just the marker stones to track moves and count up captures at games end.
I would really like to see two mercs playing to verify chess or checkers hand movements because the merc on the right side has the posture of an aggressive mancala player nailed.
Chess or checkers would be a pinch-move forward-place hand motion while mancala is a cup handed scoop and drop into 2 or 3 places in a sideways motion.
Very cool find giving me something else to watch for in the game.
Nice, mandru. I watched them "play" and the movements were more like chess or perhaps nine men's morris. They were decisive, single, sharp, straight movements from the right player.
I didn't even know mancala. I checked both German and English Wiki, see links:
hehe, starting with this:
"In the USA, however, "mancala" is often used as a synonym for the game Kalah."
"When someone in the United States refers to "Mancala," they are probably referring to this game" (Kalah):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalah
mancala:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancala
and take a look at the table of the German Wiki, the table lists traditional names (and regions of prevalence)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancala#Namen_und_Varianten
OK, chess or checkers it is. ;D
Funny, I was so shocked that a name for a game I'd never played jumped into my head like that. I mentioned it to my wife who had at one point been quite a backgammon player. She didn't even blink and said "Oh, Oware. I used to have that game." and there on the the table of the German Wiki (and what a table it is) it shows Oware as being from Ghana.
It was the posture of the guy on the right and the intensity of their play that fooled me and probably also let you sneak up so close to them there in Sepoko.
Also just wondering, how many of their buddies had you already cleared out without these two sharp eyed professionally trained and diligent guards spotting you?
If you don't tell anybody, I used an "ignore player cheat" ;)
I used to play backgammon for years, because it's faster than chess and more fun (for me). The thing about backgammon is to win despite of the odds of throwing crap with a pair of dice. But usually I'm lucky, anyway ;D
Regarding mancala, I spent some time on youtube to get an idea of how it's commonly being played, looks like a fun game. The vids I found were mostly crap, though. Nevertheless, thanks to you I now know mancala and who knows, I might happen upon it :)
For anyone on PC wanting to see a docile FC2 world, the ignore player cheat is just the ticket. I know it's been said before, but it is simply fascinating to see how much detail the developers have programmed into what few people actually get to witness.
It is well worth the effort to load an old save using the cheat just to see how different the experience of wandering through a peaceful FC2 world can be - the antics of the mercs in the guard posts and other typically hostile areas are priceless.
I second that. It is really a great experience to drive through entire maps, from Bowa back to Leboa, completely unmolested, and park next to an otherwise hostile GP to be able to observe and listen to the mercs. Maybe lay down waste, if it's too peaceful... :)
I believe I would not be half as involved in the game if I hadn't got the ignore player cheat at hand :)
I've been to Sepoko again, about the same spot where I took that screenshot with those two players, and used ignore player cheat. So I waited, not long, and again two mercs started to play. This time I knew what I had to look for, and they were playing a good long time. This time I almost bumped my nose on them, so close that I could really see every detail.
It definitely is mancala :-X
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Just by the way:
I've noticed some of the more unusual idle animations appear to be bound to certain locations. It ocurred to me when I returned to watch those mancala players, then we have those gold washers near Sefapane (there are some at the Heart of Darkness, too), the bug collector near Goka Falls, at the GP near the safehouse where the gold trimmed Jeep waits after the "kill the king" mission etc.
So I believe chances are good if you want to see some of those animations yourself, if you go to the locations where they had been observed. :)
The TaeMoCo diamond mine at the open South West end of the mine by the explosives cache I've often seen mercs panning for diamonds as part of their downtime activities.
Also cool find on being able to identify the game they are playing. :-X
I notice this second set of mercs playing are not quite as friendly towards each other as the first couple. This time the one on the right is keeping his handgun ready to keep the other honest. :P
You were the one who came up with mancala, and I needed to put it right :)
They were actually playing like an entire match. So many different movements from both players, and the one to the right did not always keep his pistol in his hands. The one to the left was pushing marbles around and taking the ones collected in one hand and then he put them into his mancala. Was fun to watch :)
Ah what the heck. Someone can have a theory but it's usually the person that proves it that gets the credit. ;D
I'm more than happy to share the kudos. :-X
:) cheers :-X
(Psst... He's the one who's been right all the time ;))
Wow, I had no idea a lot of these things were in-game; I never remember seeing them before.
I will have to look for these the next time I play through... :)
now FC2 got you! ;D It is a really cool game, considering those gazillions of details the devs put into it, and a great deal of those are not exactly obvious. But if you spend time looking around, and I mean really looking around, you'll find many a gem in FC2.
Have fun :)
I couldn't agree more - of all the games I've encountered, FC2 stands in a category all it's own - there has never been anything like it in my opinion.
Art I have found bit more info related to the Sepoko mancala players or to be more accurate there are also a pair of mercs in Weelegol Village on the opposite diagonal corner of the Southern game half maps that are at times also involved in a game.
I noticed this while on a faction mission getting ready to kill the DJ and destroy the radio tower.
Sneaking up to Weelegol I'd perched up on one of the rocks to the right overlooking the village just before the drop off to the lake bottom. I was waiting for a group of five or six mercs to form in one of the village open areas so I that could tag as many of them as possible with my secondary grenade launcher to start my assault.
I had a good group of mercs assemble in front of the building that has the explosives cache and hesitated firing on them because I'd hoped to get in there ahead of the fire that invariably starts and reload my grenades. So I waited a bit longer and then I saw two of the mercs break off from the others and just to the left of that building's front door they squatted down and started to play the game.
Now I'm wondering if there are others, possibly even up North, that are playing but I've just overlooked it.
The original finder, deadman, named Mokuba :)
Quote from: deadman on June 26, 2009, 01:05:13 PM
I was entering Mokuba on a mission to blow up a supplydump when I saw 2 mercs playing what looked like checkers ( I couldn´t see the board but there handmotion made me think of checkers or backgammon). I also overheard one of them say jokingly " just so you know, I always assume you cheat"
Cool. :-X
Thanks Art. :)
And thanks, deadman :)
It amazes me, the things that Art remembers, and is able to find among more than 20,000 posts :-X
That's what one would expect a computer to do, right? ::)
ARTificial Brain Leading Automated DEvice
A nice machine though... seems quite real actually!
*Beep* "Error" ;D
Would someody please reboot Art? We might need him for forum maintinense ;) ;D
Hahahaha ;D ;D ;D
No need to, if you booted a human (like me) you'd get a response you really wouldn't like ;)
;D
still, funny comments, guys ;D :-X
Quote from: Art Blade on January 28, 2010, 12:32:28 PM
Hahahaha ;D ;D ;D
No need to, if you booted a human (like me) you'd get a response you really wouldn't like ;)
You'd get a flat line followed by a big fuss, people running and shouting
"Clear" - "BZZZZZZT"
"Clear" - "BZZZZZZT"
"Clear" - "BZZZZZZT"
"Clear" - "BZZZZZZT"
"Bip", "Bip","Bip", "Bip","Bip", "Bip"
Oh... it reminds me...
House is on!!! ;D ;D
LOL
I had a quick look through this entire thread, and I don't think anyone's mentioned this bit of merc behaviour before:
Merc trying to start generator with a cord-pull (like a lawn mower's)
I saw this at the GP in NE Bowa, south of the Crash Site (the one with the sniper and the RPG guy). Couldn't see the actual cord as I was watching from a bit of a distance, but he was clearly going through the proper motions with it.
yeah, I've seen some merc doing it over at Sepoko, but indeed, we didn't mention it here if I remember correctly. Nice catch, matey :) :-X
Yeah, all those merc actions are scripted and done at random. It's even funnier when they do them in the wrong sequence or in a place that's not appropriate. I think I remember seeing one do the cord pull to start a generator while standing next to a truck. Need an awfully strong arm to cord start one of those....
The actual generator was probably nearby, but from my angle of view, it looked kinda funny.... Just waiting to see one fishing while standing in the desert.....
lol ;D
I know this exchange has been mentioned before, but when I was at the police station and shot a particularly slow merc, a couple of his friends had this interchange:
"$hi!... he got the new guy"
"TJ"
"What?"
"TJ.. his name was TJ..."
There was actual sorrow in the voice of the merc that knew the name of the hapless victim - I felt bad for the poor chap.
Quote from: PZ on January 17, 2011, 06:59:45 PM
(...) I felt bad for the poor chap.
No you didn`t... >:D
Funny to read all those old FC2 posts now that you resurrected them, PZ... I might fire FC2 again just because I want to hear the soundtrack again and see that great light effect!! 8) :-X
Quote from: JRD on January 18, 2011, 09:27:35 AM
No you didn`t... >:D
Funny to read all those old FC2 posts now that you resurrected them, PZ... I might fire FC2 again just because I want to hear the soundtrack again and see that great light effect!! 8) :-X
^+-+ Maybe you're correct - I probably just had a weak moment :-()
It took me the longest time to start up FC2 again after my extended hiatus away from the game, and deleting all of my saved games was just the trigger I needed - it almost felt like a new game because I was forced to go through from scratch again. Once in the game, I realized that although I had quite a few recollections, I'd also forgotten much of the ambiance in the game. I'm glad that I returned to FC2 to experience Africa once again.
The funny thing is I now have a similar sense of excitement to get back into the game as I once did, and even fired up FC2 on the PC to do some recordings, even though I didn't delete those saves :-()
I don't know if this clip had been posted already
FarCry2 excercise (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLFni6CiXz0#)
Merc doing situps
not to my knowledge, only a few pics showing mercs exercising. Nice find :)
Nice one nexor :-X
Heh, I was expecting the merc to get shot in the back when he got up >:D
Quote from: fragger on March 01, 2011, 04:40:36 AM
eh, I was expecting the merc to get shot in the back when he got up >:D
^+-+
Indeed - good one, nexor - makes me wonder if there are other things that have escaped us so far. ????
FC2 Merc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PdJTgvDXTE#)
Often I've seen dead mercs lying in the streets of Pala and wondered about them, this is one reason :-D
^+-+ Good one nexor :-X
"You know what I like about this cease-fire? It doesn't stop me killing with my bad breath!"
^+-+ :-X
"Just minding my own business (and let you die right in front of me)" ^+-+ :-X
Interesting discussion I heard in Mosate Selao this morning. Two mercs were discussing a wheelbarrow full of money that was worth only $5 US. I don't personally recall hearing this one before.
I can't count how many times I heard it. Sorry :-()
Saw one merc in Pala chewing at a nail quite causual like. I don't think I would have seen that if it hadn't been in a cease-fire zone.
That's not why I resurrected this thread though...
I didn't believe the following when I saw it, but on the north approach to the airfield, at night and lined up with the shacks surrounding the flammables; I lined up so I could see into one of them to get as many together as I could. What I saw stopped me for a good few minutes - I'm fairly sure I saw one merc busy making that porno mentioned earlier ;)
I mean, I can't be certain, it was dark and I was a fair old distance away while scoping the situation carefully when I saw what most definitely were arms and legs in the right number as well as posture, for a bit of 'missionary play.' Or it could just be my perverted mind... :)
Or maybe there were just two guys placing manacala...
hehe, as much as I wish it was true, I doubt they really do the old in-out thingy. At least I have never seen that and I kept using that ignore player cheat a lot which gave me truckloads of opportunities to observe whatever strange things they might have been up to ^-^
:) thought as much - that kind of thing gets discovered in games ten seconds after it starts selling in the shops...
:-()
Mind you, on occasion when wandering around in one of the cease-fire areas I've heard a distinctly effeminate "Hellooo" from one of the mercs. My instinct is to immediate sidle out of town with my bum to the walls... :-\\
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That's almost as funny as the "Hey, hey! Hey!" you get from a merc because he's being hit with friendly fire from an over zealous buddy after you've strolled into a town and stirred up the hornets nest. :-D
I like the line where one merc tells another to check it out, and the second merc tells HIM to go out :laugh: