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As posted here. 71.6MB >> 50MB methinks... Edit: Can some1 with a fast connection (or the hosts themselves) plz verify that Chaoswolf's Nemesis vid (found here) is actually a good archive? I've never had probs with any TGA hosted file before, but this one I've downloaded 3 times and it always comes out as a bad zip file. Thx.

Ha! I always knew you could stunt with fruit. Kinda hard to visualize though, so maybe a vid or some stills? BTW IPB eh? Oh well, board looks nice anyway. When you gonna skin em?

No, but I think I can talk them into setting up a Pong server. Will that do it for ya?

Then, as stated before, that means you don't like 70% of all grind stunts in ppl's videos. But since by "jump on a rail" you probably mean ending on one right after some other kind of stunt (otherwise it'd fall into the "started from the ground" category), have it that way man. It's your right to prefer flukes after all. Have fun now.

^ Yeah, but that introduces a paradox . Anyway, although I'd like to think this change to the "new aiming system" was for the best, I've yet to see that in reality. All it did was send everyone back to school learning from scratch and (re)trying a good deal of wacky aiming methods; I believe everyone will attest to that. Although it IS kinda fun and played a funky number with the food chain as we came to know it right before .3, I don't think you'll easily come across anyone that'll say "thx, this aiming system works better". A bit harsh, I know, but as the song goes "sad, but true". As a 56ker, whenever I manage to get a decent break (~300ms ping as per MTA scoreboard), which doesn't happen all that often anymore, I always play as a pi... eeerm as a cop. Right. So that means 40 (or so?) chrome shotgun shells to work with unless you take a cherry poppin trip. Now in .2.2, you knew that aiming ahead would yield some results depending on how accustomed to the game you were; surely it'd take a couple o' dozens of shots when playing with good opponents being the lagging bastard that I am, but overall it worked ok till the end for me. OF course we didn't have the "knocked-down-ppl-walking" illusions then either, but yeah, anyway. Now I'm not really sure about aiming ahead anymore. I have discovered something else though: sometimes when you keep shooting some dude and he's doing the same thing, but no one gets hurt, it helps if you stop for a bit, move around and try again, instead of continuing to fire and wait for your "packets to take priority" or whatever is actually going on. Also, changing to another weap ( the 9mm for example), firing a shot with that and back to the previous one can help as well, since sometimes your packets' weap ID info gets fuxed and others see you throwing fists or whatever. All in all, it's a kind of "give it some time to clear up" experience for me now. That, along with the new aiming system, the walking anim bugs and the laggier overall experience ever since the latest release, has got me playing SP more (stuntin) and MTA less than ever before . But I guess that's good news for you all, isn't it?

Not to mention that spelt is a type of wheat with lax spikes and spikelets containing two light red kernels ... Erm, what were we talking about? Oh yeah, the VCPD officers' union officially requests the placing of 2-3 armour pickups in evenly distant locations all over Vice.

I'm under the impression that if a player "responsible" for a vehicle disconnects, the vehicle will reset itself. Is that right?

Dunno, just sounds weird as a statement, since doing a grind usually involves moving parallel to the target, pulling back and turning in its direction. If he has a problem with this method, then he probably won't like most grinds. Only other kind I can think of is getting in grind position from previous motion/stunting or whatever, something which usually is more a matter of luck than skill (for one of the best examples IMO, see LBtrw's v.4 3:30-3:35).

I'm guessing he's replacing a female model skin with this one? There's gonna be alot of ugly black chix in you VC tonight methinks ...

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^ agreed. Didn't know there was a difference between trick n' stunt (don't really think there is either, IMO the words are interchangeable). And 1st-timer: chill pill dude. Seriously. All I did was get a bit technical as the post itself said. Dunno wtf you mean by "perfect person". If you're saying I'm a perfectionist, then yeah, that I kinda am. Don't see how that's related with anything here though. Wouldn't mind getting that weird rank either . However since you read the post, but obviously understood "blah, blah, blah, backflips suck ... blah, blah, blah... you suck ... blah, blah..." lemme say it again: YOU'RE DEAD WHEN THE BACKFLIP STARTS HAPPENING [...] THEY'RE FUN TO WATCH [...] I DON'T THINK PPL CAN BE BOTHERED TO DIE EVERY TIME THEY WANT TO TRY ONE [...]. Now plz get off my case and stop fuxing this "dumbass perfect person"'s name (you're even doing it with your own, but anyway).

Lol @ not knowing what morbid means. Open up a dictionary man... Back on topic, I'd probably do what I usually do, nothing different.

It's standard DivX encoding; seems weird you should have a prob with it. Do the rest of your DivX encoded vids work right? If not, do you have the latest divx codec and player? Even if you do, if you have doubts about how well it was installed, you could try un- and reinstalling it. Also have you tried opening it with any other programs? Finally, you could try fiddling with the DivX decoder properties and see if there was something wrong there (although I seriously doubt that any setting of those attributes could render a vid unplayable, but anyways...). Hope that helped.

Erm, you actually don't pull the backflip, since technically you're dead when it starts happenin; that's why the actor stays attached to the bike for a complete rotation. I guess they're fun to watch, but I don't think ppl can really be that bothered to die every time they want to try one. Of course I could be wrong with some of you obsessive lunatics, but hey . BTW nice vid. Woulda been even better if you could tell where the line between fact & fiction was...

El bumpo. Any news from the missing vids front? Can anyone who has some of those vids and a good connection send them to Bloody?

I wouldn't say that doom9 would be the place to look for a codec pack, but generally yeah, IJ is right; doom9 can get really professional with the things it deals with. What's pissin me off with codecs lately is that I'm stuck with a relatively old one (about 1 yr old, but it's ok and worx fine for now) but every time I try getting the latest k-lite one or the nimo one by means of p2p, they're always planted with a worm or another, so watch out ppl and always AV check such popular files. A friendly advice by yours truly .

On a more realistic note, are there any mods than disable traffic generation (constant spawn locations for vehicles not included)? If not, would it be easy to cook one up, as I'm sure clearing up space for live players must have been one of your first pursuits in the whole MTA creation process. It'd really come in handy with stunting if ya know what I mean. Lol @ training bots though. I mean, damn...

Lol @ quote me if I'm wrong. Well, there you go: Also current season mainly depends on the hemisphere you're talking about .

More jam than y0 breakfast table! http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/video/guitar.php

Thx for the info. Guess that means Sin Act1, the SM Stunt Reel and Nemesis are 3 links you gotta fix Andy . Plz post when you do so I can edit the 1st post. Also 2faggio2furious isn't what I'm talking about, as I believe that was just a ~4.2meg teaser for the ~73.7meg vid that was made by AMPT. Or is Faggio Stunt Video Preview!=2Faggio2Furrious? Anyways gj. Still more vids to be recovered like v3 though, so get crankin ppl .

And for those of us that don't know, what exactly does it let you do with the cam? Also an idea for removing progs you can't get rid of easily (after the usual regedit and by-date-of-creation file searches) is to just try reinstalling them even if they're already installed with all parameters the same (install dir, shorts, min/max/custom install, etc) and have a monitoring program like InCtrl5 record the process. Then the black box mystery is solved and you know what to delete/remove after you uninstall it again. Just a thought...

Just thought I'd list 'em all here and maybe let their creators and any other people who may have em know (if they don't already), so they may resend them for upload or something. Here goes: Stunt Mania v.3 - LBtrw Stunt'd - Grim (I think) Faggio - :AMPT: Last Breath - Blah VCSC Stunt Reel - Thargore & VCSC "Stupid" Stunts - Jeve Live And Die Hard - DJ GTA SLASH! - SM Slash! VC Highlight #2 - [-TrUnX-] eXtReMe sTuNtS - RandysWay Camonte's Premier Video - Camonte SIN: Act 1 - :AMPT: (Hosted here) Unforgiven - Blah (Hosted here) SM Stunt Reel - SMSC (Hosted here) Smacktard's 2nd vid (Hosted here) Never Did That! - OLD_NICK (Hosted here) VOODOO People - OLD_NICK (Hosted here) Also, Blah's Way Away can only be found at fileshare and downloading it of course requires registering there, something many of us may not desire to do. Think it could join the collective ? Now some of those may be better or worse than others and so may get a different priority, but I still think there should be an effort to get them all back for the sake of historical reference, if not anything else. Pro Edit: As of TGA's site reform, hosted vids' addresses aren't to be right-clicked, but to be taken as links.

Lol, you should see some other forums I post at. GG's last night . Also, I added my MSN to my profile, so if you want, go ahead and add me. NOW REMOVE MTA ENTRIES!!1111

The fun (and spam ) stuff aside, I'd like to poke at the rules for a minute. Talking about them in real time while playing MTA was kinda working, but with the rest of the chatting going on along with it, it eventually just gets hard to understand what the hell we're trying to say, so I just thought I'd take some time and write it out in a clean, long post . Ok, so here's a few thoughts: - You already saw the first one in my prev post . I posted that just to "burn that card" and let ppl know about it, although I really don't think it can be considered a "bug" like getting fused in a wall and then violently released or whatever; more like a built-in negligence or something. Anyway... - As I was telling Bloody and Sam, there's another vehicle that could possibly reach the same kind of heights that a PCJ can; that is the taxi. In case any of you didn't know, after a 100 dropoffs you get a booster (hydraulics? not sure) with which you can do some pretty cool stuff if you time your jumps and angles right. Just as an example, my personal record is 130ft high at the fountain (probly gonna put that in my vid for kicks). Right, anyway we were talking about this and from what I understand their opinions are against considering taxi jumps valid entries for the competition. Although I understand where that's coming from and see the logic behind it (doesn't require as much skill, precision or experience to lauch off anything with cars), I still think that ruling against them just promotes a kind of unwritten-law-type thinking of "PCJ's only". Now I know most stunts are done with PCJ's and in the end, to be able to pull those off means that someone has gained enough experience to be a recognized stunter or something close to that at least; hell, I've found out first hand busting my balls in the last month to get PCJ's to do what I wanted them to. Still, I believe that if people can get a legit record with another vehicle, they should be allowed to, since not only does that promote varied n' out-of-the-box thinking and stunting, it also allows for alternate entertainment for the rest of us seeing the results. I mean I don't know about you, but personally I get another kind of kick when I see some weird Blista stunt or something in a vid, or anything other than PCJ's in general. So with that in mind, I think if someone is so good and can nail a record with a taxi (it's still really fokn hard), they should get the recognition for it. I'd like to hear what you think about this. - MTA stunts: IMO the whole point of this competition is getting out there and look for the perfect place to do the perfect stunt. Although not as big as Liberty, VC is still pretty big and still has alot of undiscovered places good enough to stunt at. So for example if coming up with the kind of stunt Chaos did is what it takes to break a record, that's the kind of mentality we should be aiming for. The way I see it, stunt mode needed the ramps not because VC didn't have enough places, but because they wanted to reduce the time between stunts for the people playing there AND help people not that good at stunting by giving them a break with something easier to launch off from. Of course that's all good and understandable, but I still think those ramps are something artificial, or unnatural, or whatever you want to call them. They give ppl opportunties that weren't really there before, that weren't part of Vice. Plus this whole issue of being able to get cars, or many vehicles in general in places you normally couldn't (like the G-Spotlight mission office building) is somewhat shady IMO, as you can easily lay another PCJ for example next to the window and run to it going for a nice rotation result, or use any other car for that, etc. Anyways, I guess what I'm saying is records attained in MTA IMO aren't as "pure" and original as those done at SP VC - they still take skill n precision to pull off no doubt, but in the end they're more "bastards" than kosher. Just a thought... That's all for now .

Didn't think my first post was gonna be about this, but whatever... Ok, first of all *bump* as this thread should be at the top (maybe stickied?) and second, Bloody said I get the record if you can't guess how this happened (no mods, no cheats, no edits, etc, etc) . (Nah not really, but just thought I'd show this one to you ppl ) Edit: Vid's coming soon.