Re: Air Mercs and Merc Posers ("nice one, mate")

[Art Blade]

Sometimes, but only sometimes, you see mercs in the air. If you are lucky and fast enough to hit the screenshot key, you may actually get something that slaps a smile on your face every time you look at it...

If you have any screenies, please, post away :)

I'll start with a sniper that can't get off his balcony in that private property. Unless... unless you send a hand grenade up. :) When he came sailing by, I thought, "nice one, mate"  ;D

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edit: changed subject of the topic

[PZ]

Nice one!  I need to use the GL a bit more.

[Art Blade]

simple hand grenades, mate, simple hand grenades :) You will always have a couple to share with our fellow mercs  ;D

[Art Blade]

Although the merc who drove that jeep has already landed, the Jeep made the biggest jump I've ever seen so far. Imagine, that thing is already on its way down! Down left of the Jeep you can see the black mark on the road where the hand grenade hit.

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[fragger]

Two more classic examples of "Art-w@&k" - great screenies, mate :-X :-X The merc flying off the balcony is a ripper!

I've seen a number of airborne mercs/vehicles over time, I just need to practice hitting the capture key quicker.

[Art Blade]

Thank you, fragger  :)

I use a Logitech G15 programmable keyboard, and I simply mapped the PRNTSCR key to the programmable G6 key which is left of my left CTRL key. Like that, I can hit it almost immediately with my left little finger (not necessarily the tip, more like the left side of my hand and finger)

Still, I don't always manage to do that in time ;) The good thing is, once you hit the screenshot key, the game freezes for a moment, enough time to hit the key again a few times, giving you kind of a sequence. That balcony "jump" picture is one out of three I managed to capture  ;D

[Art Blade]

Found a screenshot I had posted earlier, but it fits even better into this topic. The pic was taken in Sefapane... Nice jump :)

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[Art Blade]

And another old one, pic taken at the fort, showing HM the King.

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"Did you say 'getting airborne?'"
"No, I said, 'get an heir born!'"

[fragger]

Cool! :-X :-X

The first one looks a bit like the merc is hanging on to the tree during a hurricane ;D

And geez, Art, isn't it enough that you pinched the king's ring? Did you really have to go and mess up his paperwork as well? ;D

[Art Blade]

Cheers :)

The King, he literally went ballistic when I messed up his paperwork  ;D

[mandru]

OK, His Flying Highness made me laugh out loud.  ;D

Was his name King Neri?  He Neri hit the roof because of your interference.  ::)

[Art Blade]

I'm afraid I need help with "Neri" -- doesn't ring a bell :(

[Art Blade]

Actually, I'm going to expand this topic's subject a little so we get more room for merc screenshots.

I never really used the following pic (a very small version used to be my forum avatar and a thumbnail version of this pic decorates my album folder "Art's stuff") so I think this guy (chief of police) deserves a place on the forum, and maybe a "Merc Poser" title de luxe -- He certainly feels the beat... NICE ONE, MATE  ;D


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[mandru]

I'm afraid I need help with "Neri" -- doesn't ring a bell :(

if you listen to Dr. Gakumba as you approach for the "kill a king mission" (probably not the real mission name) I believe he either mentions the king's name as being Neri (something like that) or maybe it's during the mission briefing it comes up.

But then weird names run in the king's family, after all he named his son the prince Eduward.


Oh, by the way.  I love your screen cap of the top cop bustin-a-move and notice what a nice guy he is! I think he's trying to tell you that up on the roof and over the way he's pointing there's a diamond case. What a swell guy.  8)

[fragger]

Boogie boogie boogie! Get down! ;D :-X

[mmosu]

Kind of looks like a drunk guy staggering out of a taxi to me ...

[Art Blade]

Thanks for the info, mandru  :-X

hahaha, you guys  ;D ;D ;D

I always took the chief for a great dancer, almost reminds me of Pulp Fiction with John Travolta and Uma Thurman doing those funny moves ;D

[Art Blade]

Got another sniper, from the nice Fort in Leboa. I had been out of his sight, but he was in range of my hand grenade... a hearty throw of my pineapple upstairs, and he was all fed up with it.  ;D The thing to his right is his Uzi.

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[mmosu]

Nice toss!! I'm always afraid to attempt those for fear that I'll bounce it off the wall up high and it will come back down on me  :-[

[Art Blade]

Cheers, and yes, so am I. But the reward if they don't... too tempting  ;D plus, I'm on a PC and can afford it, savegame's always at hand...

[mmosu]

Ah yes, the things I would attempt if not for fear of having to hump it back from the last save point . . .

[Art Blade]

GOTCHA! This one made me laugh out loud, it's the sniper at Northern Railyard. I tossed up a hand grenade to his roof position to the right, and he came flying down in a very nice arc from top right to bottom left (screenshot taken before he hit the ground quite a bit to the left). All the way down he went "Ah-HAAAAAaaaaaargh!" LOL, nice one, mate!!!  ;D

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[mandru]

 :-X

Nice capture Art.

[Art Blade]

Thank you, mandru :)

Some situations (merc on a roof) call for a screenshot setup. I saved my game there and only the third attempt actually sent him flying, the other two let him drop dead somewhere on the roof, out of sight. Ah no, there was one more attempt, which kind of flung him down at me (screenies didn't pass my QA)  ;D

Some situations come unexpected, for example the last merc of a guard post kept running around and I couldn't get him, so out of frustration I tossed a hand grenade at a parked Jeep Wrangler. It blew up, went high into the air in a twisted arc, and when it was about to land, I saw that merc running right below that Jeep. He got crushed and set on fire at the same time, because the Jeep also blew up a yellow barrel. Needless to say, I laughed a lot at that, but it could never have been captured in a single shot.

[fragger]

Hehehe, nice one, mate ;D :-X