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05-12-2010 , 03:34 PM

#226

99killed

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preordered thru amazon. free $20 is pretty sick if u ever are gonna order thru amazon again. plus golden guns lol!

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05-12-2010 , 03:43 PM

#227

EvilSteve

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Ridiculously nitty, but I can't help but notice in every screenshot where he's firing a pistol that the end of the barrel is a pentagon, not a circle.

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05-12-2010 , 03:45 PM

#228

Majour

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that is just ridiculously nitty.

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05-12-2010 , 03:49 PM

#229

ItalianFX

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Originally Posted by EvilSteve

Ridiculously nitty, but I can't help but notice in every screenshot where he's firing a pistol that the end of the barrel is a pentagon, not a circle.

Looks like the frame is a pentagon, but the barrel is a circle.

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05-12-2010 , 03:52 PM

#230

EvilSteve

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Originally Posted by ItalianFX

Looks like the frame is a pentagon, but the barrel is a circle.

Right. I wonder why that is. But then I don't know much about guns, for all I know the outside of the barrel of this particular handgun actually was pentagonal (or similar handguns of the era were).

Edit: After looking at still frames from the weapons trailer, sometimes the barrels are hexagons, octagons, etc. So just different levels of precision approximating a circle when the images are rendered I guess.

Last edited by EvilSteve; 05-12-2010 at 04:06 PM.

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05-12-2010 , 04:19 PM

#231

ItalianFX

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Probably back in the day they experimented with different barrel types. They obviously knew that the inside needed to be circular because of the bullet. Who knows? and who knows if the developers really researched that or if I'm making it up?

Probably won't even notice it in the game.

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05-12-2010 , 04:55 PM

#232

ThaSaltCracka

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Originally Posted by EvilSteve

History of radio:

Well maybe there was an AM station broadcasting in the southwest by 1911. Even so, I'm not sure how portable the radios of the time would have been. Hiring a mariachi band to follow you everywhere you go could be the more practical option.

lol dude are you serious? I wasn't.

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05-12-2010 , 05:12 PM

#233

99killed

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so no horse-mounted radios OR SWIMMING?!? JFC

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05-12-2010 , 05:33 PM

#234

EvilSteve

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Originally Posted by ThaSaltCracka

lol dude are you serious? I wasn't.

Well you wouldn't hire the mariachi band early in the game. I meant once you had enough money to afford it. Otherwise if Marston wants music when he's out on the trail, he could whistle.

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05-12-2010 , 05:40 PM

#235

ThaSaltCracka

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can I change the whistling station? One time?

Seriously though if we are riding around a ton it will get boring w/o something! Right?

LMAO at a Mariachi band following you around. You are trying to sneak up on some bandits and there are these clownshoe band members playing the trumpets.

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05-12-2010 , 05:51 PM

#236

EvilSteve

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Originally Posted by ThaSaltCracka

can I change the whistling station? One time?

I can think of three stations: whistling, harmonica, and yodeling.

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LMAO at a Mariachi band following you around. You are trying to sneak up on some bandits and there are these clownshoe band members playing the trumpets.

"I'm trying to sneak up on these guys. Play quieter."

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05-12-2010 , 06:03 PM

#237

YouR_DooM

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How about hearing music in your head à la homer simpson

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05-12-2010 , 06:08 PM

#238

ThaSaltCracka

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I am sort of serious about the music though

That is what made driving from San Andreas to whatever San Francisco was called a bearable task.

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05-12-2010 , 06:12 PM

#239

YouR_DooM

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I guess only time will tell...

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05-12-2010 , 06:13 PM

#240

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Originally Posted by ThaSaltCracka

I am sort of serious about the music though

That is what made driving from San Andreas to whatever San Francisco was called a bearable task.

They've recently invented these things called soundtracks that don't require a in-game radio to play music.

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05-12-2010 , 06:14 PM

#241

dawade

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Hail a stagecoach cab, IMO

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05-12-2010 , 06:14 PM

#242

TheCroShow

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k soooo is there swimming or not? if there's no swimming **** that i ain't buyin it

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05-12-2010 , 06:16 PM

#243

ThaSaltCracka

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Originally Posted by DonkeyKongSr

They've recently invented these things called soundtracks that don't require a in-game radio to play music.

Playing music from outside the game adversely affects the game imo, unless its sports games.

Oh well, we'll see how boring/non-boring it is without the beats.

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05-12-2010 , 06:28 PM

#244

EvilSteve

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Originally Posted by ThaSaltCracka

Playing music from outside the game adversely affects the game imo, unless its sports games.

Oh well, we'll see how boring/non-boring it is without the beats.

You could pretend that an alien intelligence has taken over the entire insect population and fashioned it into a vast distributed music-playing network, for the purpose of providing John Marston with a stirring western-themed soundtrack everywhere he goes. Which raises some intriguing issues.

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05-12-2010 , 06:30 PM

#245

YouR_DooM

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Originally Posted by EvilSteve

And while he was moving towards the big red sun going down on the horizion, a western tune was heard:

99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Hielt man fuer UFOs aus dem All
Darum schickte ein General
Eine Fliegerstaffel hinterher
Alarm zu geben, wenn es so war
Dabei war da am Horizont
Nur 99 Luftballons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9whehyybLqU

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05-12-2010 , 07:21 PM

#246

cables

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Originally Posted by EvilSteve

http://www.nzaaawgtn.org.nz/images/a09/it09_076.jpg

http://www.gabma.us/britbike/BurgEltz%20gun24small.jpg

Some old-timey guns did have hexagonal barrels. I'm only guessing, but I think hexagonal barrels where either stronger or easier to reliably manufacture than round barrels.

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05-12-2010 , 08:28 PM

#247

EvilSteve

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I miscounted the number of sides on the pistol's barrel earlier in the thread, it's a hexagon not a pentagon. But I didn't realize before that they actually manufactured guns with hexagonal barrels. Video games are very educational.

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05-13-2010 , 01:09 AM

#248

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Originally Posted by cables

http://www.nzaaawgtn.org.nz/images/a09/it09_076.jpg

710: Revolver. .450cal Tranter Model 1878 6 Shot Double Action Revolver. 6” hexagon barrel. Bore good. Metal work has very little finish remaining. Stamped ‘N80Z’ on L/H side of frame, Birmingham inspection marks on butt and frame “Crown over BR over 17”. Good chequered wooden grips. Refer to “Handguns and Police in NZ” by John Osborne

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05-13-2010 , 09:35 AM

#249

Royston Vasey

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Re. preordering on amazon. I'm not sure if having gold plated guns is the look I want for my guy. I was hoping for a more hard as nails type with little time for looking flash.

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05-13-2010 , 12:41 PM

#250

pokurz

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Originally Posted by Royston Vasey

Re. preordering on amazon. I'm not sure if having gold plated guns is the look I want for my guy. I was hoping for a more hard as nails type with little time for looking flash.

True, i was hoping for the trench coat with a shotgun. But hopefully that just comes with the game.

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