title: Why is my character suddenly attacking really slowly?

text: My character is performing his (visual) attacks much slower than before. I'm pretty sure it also affects the dps. With the following equipment/skill set:   * Dagger (2att, speed: very fast)   * Chainmail (4def)   * Defensive Lesser Ring of Power (1att, 1def)   * Resourceful (extra food)   * Observant (more gold from loot)   * Touch (increase health) I'm moving about 3-5 times slower than my follower with a Hammer (speed: slow) and a Full Shield (speed: slow). I would estimate that my hero is performing an attack about every 1.5s. I also dropped everything I was wearing and went back to just the Main Gauche, with no effect. Any idea what might cause this? I know that in the beginning, I thought I had to click per blow, so I hammered the right mouse button. Then I figured out that apparently, I just have to assign a target and then the attack will repeat automatically, so I'm just 'marking' targets. Going back to repeatedly pressing that button doesn't seem to help either, though.


title: Where to find "prefs" for Beat Hazard?

text: An update for Beat Hazard was released a couple of minutes ago: http://store.steampowered.com/news/4842/ Which my Steam client has rushed out to download, and, presumably, install. The thing is, I can't figure out where they've put the features they're listing there. (I really want the "remove quit screen" one :P) When I go to the "options" page in the main menu, the only sections are "Audio & VSync", "Screen Resolution", and "languages", none of which seems relevant. Is there some bonus hidden settings page somewhere? Or maybe a config file I don't know about? Or has the patch just not been installed, whatever Steam thinks?


title: What's this castle all about?

text: I just joined a game of TF2 to find myself on some sort of castle map, with no guns allowed. What are the rules here, and what weapons are usable?


title: Is Endor still available for salvage droids?

text: Endor has not turned up among the locations available for my salvage droids to retrieve salvage from in about three weeks. Is this some really bizarre coincidence or is it really no longer available? I want some more Ewoks. :(


title: Does Ashe extra gold passive on minion kills, stacks with Twisted Fate´s gold passive?

text: Ashe's passive skill `Hawkshot` gives her extra gold per kill; similar Twisted Fate's passive grants +2 gold per kill for everyone on the team. If an Ashe is on the same team with a Twisted Fate, will these bonuses stack together?


title: How to use buildings on the battle map?

text: So when you go into a battle, there's these nice big buildings that you can send your troops into to occupy and use as cover. However in my experience, they seem to be _totally useless_ (and in fact hurt my chances at victory), so I assume I must be doing something wrong. I order my unit (in this most recent specific example, it was a garbage firelock-armed mob) to occupy a building. The troops march in, take up positions by the windows, and then when the enemies approach they smash out said windows, fire, and... then they just stand there. They don't even all fire. Most of them just stand around like they're having lunch or something, admiring the view. The ones that do shoot, don't appear to reload. Occasionally, ordering them to attack causes them to shuffle about the building, concentrating on the side nearest the enemy unit, so they can all look out the windows and wave at the army of angry Poles, while two or three of the soldiers already over there take potshots. Can anyone help? What am I doing wrong? Or is this just another unresolved bug?


title: Mixing succession laws- is there a downside to this?

text: After much diplomacy, war and diplomatic wars I've reunited France and Aquitaine. All my land is in those kingdoms. France has Primogeniture sucession. Aquitaine has Gavelkind. I personally control the Duchy of Normandy- most of my demesne holdings are there. I set Aquitaine as my primary title. This means inheritance works as follows:   * All titles in Aquitaine are divided among my heirs. In practice, this means my first child receives the Kingdom of Aquitaine. That's it because there aren't any more titles.   * All titles in France are Primogenitured to my eldest child. This appears to give me all the bonuses of Gavelkind except without dividing my lands on death- it might be too good to be true. Aside from this being a bit cheesy, is there a downside to this I'm missing?


title: Can't access Xbox LIVE in GTA IV

text: I have an xbox360 and every time I play Grand Theft Auto IV and the go to multiplayer, it says "your gamer profile does not have the correct permissions to access Xbox LIVE functionality". I have tried changing my privacy settings to adult, but it sti, as far as I'm aware. What's going on?


title: What is the native resolution for this game?

text: The game on launch gives me a number of resolution options, but it seems that none of them actually matches the in-game artwork. This leads to really ugly results. 720×576 is perhaps the closest I can get to something that isn't _too_ awful, but it's still pretty bad (look at the width of the stems of the "Edition" word.) 1152×864 is still off and 1176×664 is _almost_ tolerable. What _is_ however the perfect resolution (and multiples thereof) to play this game at and how can I set it if it isn't one of the defaults? (Is there one at all?)


title: Level 6 - Getting past the drone

text: In level 6 of Untrusted, how do I avoid the attack drone? I've tried creating a new object type that could act as a blocker, but the drone manages to get around it, and I'm convinced there has to be an easier solution that I'm just not seeing.


title: How do I get to the 13th Colossus?

text: This is somewhat embarrassing, but I'm unable to find my way to the 13th colossus. My sword leads me into a forest, but this appears to be a dead end. How do I reach the 13th Colossus from the main temple?


title: How does healing prioritize for a Templar?

text: So, I like to play the cleric/priest/healer in most games. When I got into ESO, I picked up a templar kitty and started to play. However, I noticed a glaring problem to my previous games and the way healing works: there is no targeting of allies. In most MMO's, I have to target a fellow player and then hit my heal ability. Now, with the one focused healing ability I have, it looks like it target's what's under my aiming crosshair. Or, does it? How does the healing target the player that it ends up healing?


title: Died and lost my jewel, can I get another one?

text: I had a jewel than I died and lost it now I can not find it anywhere. I need it so I can give it to the frog guy. Is there a way to get one more jewel? I have been everywhere regarding the map.


title: How can I can save player potion effects after death?

text: Is there some way that I can save player potion effects after death? I have already tried this command: **/gamerule keepInventory True** but it doesn't work. Is there any way to save player potion effects after death?


title: Minecraft starts lagging after a while

text: I have a decent PC, with an intel i3 CPU, 3 GBs of RAM and a 1 GB GDDR3 128-bits graphics card. I can run MC just fine, getting over 60 fps most of the time. I noticed that when the memory usage of MC gets close to 1 GB, it started to freeze for 2 seconds then coming back and repeating the cycle. Only solution I seemed to find was restarting the game itself. My guess is that after going through all those landscape elements, the used memory starts to build up and the game chokes (does that make any sense?).


title: How do you know if you have been killed by a headshot?

text: What are the telltale characteristics that you have been pinged in the head? Or indeed, are there any?


title: How to handle people camping your generator?

text: I've just come out of a terrible streak of terrible games where one side simply camped en-masse the other side's generators while people simply flew in, grabbed the flag and flew away. Without base defenses up classes like pathfinders don't have too much of a hard time simply going around in circles from flagpole to flagpole I imagine. Since you can pick what team to be on and everybody tried to be on that one same side, we ended up taking 17 flags in a row across four different maps before I decided to spend my time otherwise. What ended up happening is simply invisible dudes using sticky explosives around the generator. Technicians' sentries won't target them, technician's SMGs are no match for their explosion spam and even when I switched to more powerful classes such as Jaggernaut I had an extremely hard time with them camping bastards. How can I cleanse my generator out of those pesky people? or am I fighting the wrong fight? I was _assuming_ my teammates would bother with other stuff such as defending the flag or attempting to capture theirs but I guess that's not what was going on.


title: Is it possible to (globally) slow down the pace of research and culture gain, without slowing production (as much)?

text: So I love long games of Civ. Epic is my usual "pace" chosen for play. However, every time I play, regardless of my settings -- I never feel as if the world spends enough time in each given "age". A common sequence of events, is I'll discover a technology unlocking, say, a new military unit. I'll tell one of my more productive cities to begin producing them as soon as they finish their whatever-they-were-building-before, while I continue researching towards other military units, and by the time I've finished building two or so swordsman I have the tech for longswordsman and now my old troops are outdated. Later on, as my research speeds up (as it often does) I'll finally get a couple riflemen to the front lines, just in time to provide ground support for the stealth bomber I bought. Quite often I forgo the entire process and build only city- defense troops until I get into Industrial or later eras. Is there a way to modify this? As in, set research and policy acquisition to an Epic game pace while leaving production at a slightly faster (roughly Marathon?) pace, to allow more of a chance to play around with an Ancient/Classical/Medieval military?


title: Are bots useful for filling a Team Fortress 2 Server?

text: I've started my own Team Fortress server and it's been very quiet Are bots (the official Valve bots) helpful or unhelpful in this situation? Most players don't seem to like playing with bots (even if it's just until the server fills) but leaving the server empty seems like an even worse idea. Edit: For the record. My server is totally honest about using bots. The bot quota is set low so that players have something to do while the server fills and the Valve behaviour is kept - that is the server has a "bots" tag and the Bots appear with "Bot" for ping. Fake players are an immediate Blacklist for me.


title: What is the easiest way to maximise your drop rate?

text: I often find that my drop rates are really low is the best way to increase it to gain lots of humanity and stay human or is it to constantly have the Gold covetous Serpent ring equipped? is there any other items that increase your drop rate?


title: Brain replacement for a Wii?

text: My mom's Wii has gotten to where it won't read disks, and my Wii has a fan that's gotten really noisy. I have a spare Wii that I could scrounge for parts, and a tri-wing screwdriver, and I've been a long time user of iFixit, so have instructions ... but before I just steal parts from the relatively unused spare, I had two concerns:   1. Would it make more sense to try to move the effective 'brain' of one of the broken Wiis into the new system, rather than just move a single part? (with the assumption that I'll have a relatively unused machine to work from, rather than two old machines with a single new part each)   2. If so, what's the part that needs to move? (ie, where is the memory for the saved games that you can't write out to SD cards, like Super Smash Brothers?, the settings network settings, etc?). I'm thinking a straight mother board replacement, but didn't know if it was hidden elsewhere, or on something removable from the memory board?


title: How does trading affect reputation with races?

text: I noticed that selling resources on race factories and buying equipment is improving reputation with this race. How specific actions affect reputation:   1. buying finished product on factory   2. selling resource to factory*   3. buying/selling wares on trading station   4. buying weapons in equipment dock   5. selling weapons in equipment dock*   6. buying equipment in equipment dock*   7. buying ships on shipyard   8. selling ships on shipyard   9. buying/selling shares on local stock exchange * increased reputation in my game, but not every time. How exactly does this change reputation? Does it depend on the quantity or price of wares? Does every transaction count or only the first one? How much do you need to trade to earn the best possible race reputation?


title: How can I permanently show FPS?

text: I know there used to be an option to show FPS at all times in an earlier version and I know F3 still shows it now but only while you hold F3. I tried this F3 + alt + F3 technique but (at least on my macbook pro) I couldn't get that to work. Any other suggestions?


title: Is it safe to drink my contaminated water?

text: A zombie fell into my town's well and couldn't get out. It died in there. I feel sorry for the thing but there really wasn't much we could do. Anyways, apparently our town water's contaminated now, meaning that, in the game's words, "drinking it [today] would be a great way to get infected". Does this mean that if I drink the water I'll be guaranteed to get an infection, or is it based on chance? Also, we've got some water rations from today in the bank. If I take one of them out tomorrow, will it still be infected?


title: Does the 3DS have an automatic start-up mode?

text: With the original DS, you could turn on the auto start-up mode and the console would load the game cartridge without going through the menu. As I install new games/apps, the menu of my 3DS is getting slower, so I keep pressing 'A' impatiently for some valuable seconds until the game starts loading. Is there a similar configuration for the 3DS? I have seen a post claming that Nintendo wants you to have your 3DS always on, but I like turning off my 3DS completely instead of using the sleep mode - I couldn't care less about street pass and such.


title: How do I achieve "Smash TV"?

text: _Which_ eleven monitors do I have to break to obtain the **Smash TV** achievement? ![Portal 2: "Smash TV" achievement badge](http://i.stack.imgur.com/JfHs9.png) I'm assuming it's the monitors that appear throughout Chapter 8? But, having just run through Chapter 8 and trying to get this, I've just counted **14** monitors (and only managed to break 8 of them so far). Have I miscounted?   Are some irrelevant? (maybe the first 3 in the "easy" rooms?) * * * Can you please use `>!` spoiler markup if you're going to explain _how_ to break them; for now I'd just like to know _which_ to break.


title: How do you make the ender portal?

text: How do I make the ender portal? I've tried everything to make it but I can't.


title: How do I handle a late-game Singed with a lot of health?

text: What can I do once Singed has got enough HP that he can sit there taking my attacks all day? I usually play an ADC such as Tristana or Miss Fortune.


title: How to start/approach the Scorchers DLC?

text: Scorchers DLC for RAGE has just been released and I am planning to buy it and take the chance to finish the game. My last savegame was immediatly after "The Big Boss" fight. Are the new DLC mission before or after that mission? Can I use my existing savegame to play the new contents added with this DLC?


title: Which levels contain achievement pickups?

text: Some levels in Thomas Was Alone have achievement pickups - small black hollow rectangles which give you an achievement when picked up. Unfortunately the description on Steam of these achievements don't list the levels which they appear in, making it difficult to go back to find them. Which levels have these pickups?


title: How to beat the boss in level 6-3, Final Trial?

text: I get that I have to jump on the block and hit the gem, but then when he stops breathing fire and more blocks start falling I have no freaking clue. I've got on his back and fired daggers into the gem again but it doesn't seem to do anything. Maybe if I could experiment I could work it out but the pain in the ass is I've got to go through 4 minutes of by-rote battling the easy part before I get stuck!


title: Building academy on oil tile - Auto acquire oil?

text: In civ 5 brave new world, if I build an academy, and then several turns later, I research oil, does the academy automatically grant me that oil if the oil is underneath it? In one game I was playing, it appeared to be the case, because when I removed the academy to put in my oil rig, I kept the same amount of oil. But I might have been getting oil from the city-states, they were so in flux that I couldnt keep track of what I was getting from them all the time.


title: Does "Wave of light" pillar of the ancients, stack?

text: When playing a Monk, with Wave of Light, Pillar of the Ancients rune... if you drop 3 pillars at the same time, do all 3 pillars hit the enemy for stacked damage?


title: Games freeze after a while, don't know if hardware or software is involved

text: I'm currently experiencing some problems with my PC which prevent me from using my games (I'm trying with Steam games and none of them works as it should). When I play, after a while, the textures in the game begin to "flicker", some artifacts appear on the screen (like wild triangles) really really fast, the textures on the walls for example disappear and appear back very quickly, and then suddenly the game crashes, with the graphics stuck on the same frame and the audio playing the same 1/10 sec over and over. When this occurs, I hit Ctrl-Alt-Del which summons that blue screen, and just press "Cancel" which takes me back to the Desktop. The game is minimized, I maximize it and it works again. So I don't have to kill the game, but it's boring. It occurs for Portal, Portal 2 and HL² (for HL², it has never really crashed, but the textures do the same. I guess it would eventually crash if I played long enough). Sometimes I can play 20 minutes without any problem, and sometimes it occurs every 10 seconds or so. Sometimes I could see an information tip at the bottom of the screen in Windows after hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del, which mentionned a graphic bug that had been fixed. My GC is a GTX 285 with the latest drivers from nVidia website. I thought it could be a RAM problem so I performed a memtest, but after one pass no error had been found. Any idea that could help ? Thank you **edit :** Thank you for your answers so far. I would like to add that other games don't crash, so it might be because of some special call by the Source engine... which would imply an incompatibility with the driver I'm using. But this would be strange, since my video card is pretty mainstream and the driver I'm using is from the official website. SpeedFan says : GPU : 52 C and there is a little "flame" icon. Up to 64 when playing. I think it's a pretty normal temperature. I tried playing with the fan on maximum power, but it doesn't change anything. I also installed all the last drivers for my motherboard from Gigabyte website (Intel, SATA and audio). I'm opening the beast now, to clean the fans and test with one less RAM stick :/


title: Whenever Eola fights at Reachcliff cave the game crashes

text: Everything goes ok, but when Eola begins fighting, a bit after the game will crash. I was able to prevent the crash by selecting her in console and typing:               setunconscious 1      When the fight ends I type               setunconscious 0      If I do not do that, it is 100% guaranteed that the game will crash. This tip can probably be used on similar situations, despite this being the first time I've see it happen. Is there any fix for this?


title: Can Dropships be shot down?

text: In Half-life 2, there are Dropships and Gunships. Gunships fire bullets at you, and can be easily shot down with a rocket launcher. Dropships deploy Combine troops. Is it possible to use a Rocket Launcher to take down a Dropship from the air?


title: What does it mean when the Spy Callout is wrong?

text: Sometimes when I look directly at a certain class such as a demoman, and press "X-2" the command to say "[class] is a spy!" my character will say the wrong class. Example:   * _Looking at Demoman_   * _Press "X-2" (Spy Callout)"_   * _My character yells "Engineer is spy" (which is the wrong class)_ Why does the game do this? is it a bug, or something else?


title: How to unlock special demon contacts?

text: Some party members can perform unique demon contacts together after performing some specific steps to unlock them. What are all the different unlockable contacts and how do I unlock them?


title: Do the Blade Wings digital item take an equipment slot?

text: If you purchase the Heart of the Swarm Deluxe Edition from Blizzard you receive a bonus item for your Diablo 3 character called Blade Wings. Do these wings always show up on your character? Are they an item (eg shoulder equipment) and if they are do they layer over normal equipment or are they just no stat items for standing around in town?


title: What is a gold steering wheel in multi-player?

text: When playing Mario Kart Wii online there seem to be 3 controller categories displayed next to player names;   * none - normal wii controller/controller + nunchuck.   * white steering wheel - being hardcore and using the steering wheel.   * gold steering wheel - ???. **What is the gold steering wheel and what does it signify?**


title: How to get across testchamber 18?

text: I'm replaying Portal before diving into Portal 2 and I'm somewhat stuck in testchamber 18 ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hSWXP.jpg) I've tried using gravity to get across, but I fear I'm doing something wrong. Any suggestions?


title: Trophies in pre-owned Vita game

text: When I go to start a pre-owned game, I am met by this ominous warning: > ### You cannot earn trophies in this application. Do you still want to start > this application? > > Only the first player to use an application can earn trophies. To earn > trophies, you must delete all data related to this application and then > start the application. I don't have any data on my system and can't find data to delete. Does this mean I need to delete it from the original owner's Vita? Am I SOL or is there some easy way around this? ![Touch My Katamari](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Qc2m4.png)


title: Can you report cheaters on online Mario Kart Wii

text: It seems like the number of annoying cheater on online Mario Kart Wii is increasing. Yesterday I had to reconnect three times before I was put in a group with normal people. Is there any way I can report the usernames or something to Nintendo so that they can do something about it?


title: What does infestation do?

text: Does the Kharaa's infestation do anything other than change who can build there? Is there any improved regeneration, hive sight provided, or other subtle effects that I'm not noticing?


title: Should I share unit control in Starcrarft 2 2v2?

text: Some time ago I played a lot of Warcraft 3 2v2. I was even quite decent. Back then most players shared their units, as micro was way more important. People hated it when their hero died because they could not retreat with allied units blocking the way. So it was accepted that everybody shared their units after the obligatory "gl hf". I am currently low diamond 2v2 and up until now no one shared their units with me or offered it. Is there a reason for this? Should I start sharing my units?


title: Missing characters on a xbox live card

text: My dog destroyed my xbox live card and it's missing 2 characters in it. Is there any way, besides just trial and error, to correctly guess some digits/letters ? I really don't want to go through the massive trial and error process of entering all of the different possible combinations.


title: Skyrim Dawnguard DLC Gone

text: I bought the DLC over a year ago now and originally began playing it on one console and putting my saves in the cloud, I had only done about half the dawnguard quests. I later moved to a different xbox but re-installed dawnguard but all the dlc is no longer in my saves, I don't have any older saves and I really don't want to start again!


title: How are the total possible trophies awarded determined?

text: While searching for an opponent, I have noticed that the total possible trophies to be awarded fluctuates. I have seen enemies with 2 town halls greater than mine (and with xbows & flame towers) and the possible awarded trophies (if you 100%) is around 10 to 15. What is this reason that this is so low? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/kf6X3.jpg) _The most I have seen is around 35 possible trophies - when performing an attack that isn't revenge._


title: Should I start with Angry Birds or Angry Birds Seasons?

text: There are two versions of Angry Birds on the app store: The original, and an "expandalone" with a couple sets of seasonal levels (Halloween and Christmas, currently). I haven't played either one. Does the expandalone's level design assume a familiarity with the original game? Which one should I play first?


title: Problems with single target dps as fire wizard (d3)

text: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#aPNOSj!YiSe!cYYcZa That's my build, and I completely decimate rifts on t5 until I come up to a yellow elite or rift boss. My damage is seriously lacking against single targets, what skill should I change to fix that? Also, I don't have a mirrorball. If I do get one, will it help a lot against single targets? I heard mirrorball magic missile(fire) destroys single targets but not too sure how true that is. Note: I have about 120% damage to fire, so I'm not sure that a non-fire skill is worth using.


title: FIFA 14 Player Career Mode transfer offers

text: So when I have my virtual pro in career mode and I've submitted a transfer request, once I get an offer, can I get a second offer while still considering the first one? or can I only receive one transfer offer at a time? otherwise, what is the point of stalling an offer


title: What is the definition of "undetected" in Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes?

text: I am really trying to complete the "Like a Boss" Xbox One challenge: _Clear all missions (NORMAL and HARD) within the time limit **without being spotted** and with 0 kills._ ![Like a Boss Achievement](http://i.stack.imgur.com/JTA7B.jpg) In order to achieve undetection do I need to be completely unseen? That means:   * No **white-arc warning on screen** ,    * No **radio communication between guards** ("CP, this is Zulu X, I saw a suspicious figure, going in to check out."    * **Status alert remains Normal** , I keep on restarting the mission not knowing whether I have or have not compromised the challenge. Please specify what criteria I need to follow to be "undetected".


title: Persona 4 Golden Reaper Spawning

text: What is an efficient method for spawning the reaper? I've been trying to spawn him for hours in Magatsu Inaba with no luck.


title: What do you do to board a gun boat once you are too powerful?

text: Just ramming them means they sink. The swiffle cannon makes them sink too. A Scooners/Brigs will be instantly red after one ramming which is convenient. But the gunboat is too weak. I like boarding them if I can because that means I can just get diamonds easily.


title: Longest illusion in Dota2

text: I have somewhat idea that illusions from runes last for around a minute. But apart from that which heroes/items illusions live the longest?


title: How can be changed the path to save folder in FIFA10 (PC)?

text: I am running out of space on C: drive and most of the space is taken from FIFA 10 save folder located in my documents? How can I change the path to the folder so I can move it to drive D:, because if I just moved it the game didn't find it and asks to create a new profile? Thank you!


title: Faster way to remove spikes from enemies?

text: I'm on 003-A and I'm wondering if there is any way to remove spikes from enemies faster than just whacking away at them with the whip. I usually draw big shapes so that Wonder Pink is on fire (whatever that is called) and that usually makes pieces come off every 3rd or 4th time I connect, but it doesn't last very long and it takes up a ton of battery.


title: Why haven't I been to the GM's office for at least 20 games?

text: I've been playing NBA 2K14's My Career mode. I got drafted into a team, and I always used to have a meeting with the GM about every 5 games. Later, I got traded to another team, but I still had a meeting with the GM every 5 games. But now, I am not having any more meetings with the GM in over 20 games, and I really want to trade. :( How can I meet with the GM, or why am I unable to?


title: How does group difficulty work in Reaper of Souls?

text: With the new flex difficulty which is based on your level how does monster strength work? E.g. If I am level 60 and my friend is level 20 will the monsters be equivalent to my level or his?


title: How can I get a Zulu domination vic at Emperor level?

text: I have tried 2 tactics to get this vic: 1) going straight for S.Zeus and then to Civ. Service to build an Impi army (I won that way at a lower level), and 2) getting G.Library first and then S.Zeus and so on. In both cases I get outrun in tech by at least one other civ. If I destroy one of my neighbours, all the other civs gang up on me. What do you recommend in terms of policies, tech strategies and religious tenants to get to a domination vic at emperor level?


title: Where is the auction house in Diablo 3 for the PS3?

text: I have been hearing about this auction house for a while now.Where is it in Diablo 3 for PS3?


title: Where can the DNA splicers be obtained and how is it used?

text: In Pokemon X/Y, where/how can you obtain the DNA splicers and how exactly do you use them?


title: What are the sign twirlers and street performers for?

text: Is there any purpose to the sign twirling and street performing people in the city? They get their own markers on the map so the game is singling them out for some purpose. I have read something on a loading screen that starts off talking about them but I can not finish reading it to see if there is something useful about these people.


title: Is there a reason for the specific symbols and letters on the controllers?

text: Is there a meaning on the reason behind such a choice? Being X-Box `A`, `B`, `X` and `Y` ![Controller from X-Box One](http://i.stack.imgur.com/polul.jpg) Playstation `■`, `▲`, `X` and `O` ![Controller from Playstation 4](http://i.stack.imgur.com/wH3Ta.jpg)


title: Can you join a game that's further into the plot than your character?

text: Is it possible for another player(player 2) to join a nearly complete game of borderlands 2 to (for example) defeat a boss?


title: Do you have to sink the boat to complete Monkey Island 1?

text: In MI1, you can sink the boat where the three useless pirates are hanging out. I haven't seen this effect the gameplay in any way (I kept expecting to find them on the island somewhere). Then, in the end credits, I see what happened to these pirates, implying that I had to sink the boat in order to finish the game. Where would I be stuck if I hadn't sunk the boat?


title: Is there anything to do with upgrade materials when the weapon is already at level 5?

text: I'm playing the New Game Plus mode, and I keep finding upgrade materials for weapons that I have already upgraded to level 5. Is there any other use for those materials? Is there any way to dispose of them, if they have no use?


title: How to reach the area right outside BLU's final spawn point in Barnblitz as a RED spy?

text: I've had multiple times my teleport entrances sapped when I built them on BLU's final spawn point, but when _I_ play spy, there's no obvious way to get there, so I have to resort to the revolvers. While it's still effective, it's just not the same thing. How do you reach that ledge as a spy?


title: How long will it take me to find the starting weapons I don't choose?

text: Before your first mission after the opening mission, I'm given the choice of four weapons:   * Stun Gun   * Tranquilizer Rifle   * Combat Rifle   * Revolver  One factor I'm considering is how long it will take my to find the weapons I do not choose, since ideally I would like to get my hands on them all at some point. How long into the game am I able to retrieve each of these weapons?


title: Missing context replaced by question marks!

text: On Windows phone it's working fine, but in the iPad version isn't. All the texts in the boxes have being replaced by question marks ( **???** ) **System**   * iPad 4   * iOS 7   * Update: 1.3.2700


title: Quotes inside quotes in commands

text: Is it possible to put quotes inside quotes in the Source developer console? For instance, is it possible to bind               bind KP_END "give weapon_357"      to `KP_INS`?               bind KP_INS "bind KP_END "give weapon_357""      returns a syntax error.


title: Do long-distance relays delay traces more than short-distance relays?

text: If you bounce your connection between nodes that are geographically far apart instead of nodes that are close together, does that slow down active traces between them? If they do, then I should use long-distance relays always. If they don’t, then I should use short-distance relays so the map is covered with fewer messy lines. I know that you should always use the maximum number of relays. I am asking how to order those relays – whether each node should connect to a node that is far away from it on the map, or whether that doesn’t affect the time in which you are active traced.


title: Gta V and Gta V ifruit app

text: Ok so i got the ifruit app for gta v and i was wonderig for the chop training on the app to carry over to gta v do you have to be connected to the internet on your console in which you have gta v ot will it also take affect without an internet connection? Also will the car modifications work without an internet connection or do you have to have a connection to get the message from the Los Angeles Customs? Basically what im asking is will the modifications you make on your car and the training done on chop from the app take affect on offline single player on gta v without having an internet connection or gold membership?


title: Enderman Containment

text: If i make the wall three blocks thick, and make water on the ceiling, would I be able to contain many endermen in a giant end stone room? I am doing this for an adventure map so I need the answer for the final boss battle.


title: Where are save files located? (Unturned V2.2.0)

text: I want to delete my local save file for the map PEI but I cannot find the file anywhere. In earlier versions, the saves were stored in the registry but it is not the case anymore. So where are the save files located so I can delete them and start from scratch.


title: Can I make multifarms use normal dirt instead of Humus?

text: I have a multifarm. This is a picture of the boiler. ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/FH0Ad.png) In theory, it is supposed to be self-sustaining. The powered furnace turns the wood into charcoal and feeds it into the boiler. The boiler makes steam and feeds power to the tesseract and the multifarm. What annoys me is that it needs a constant supply of dirt to turn into Humus. Can I configure it so that it uses normal dirt instead of Humus?


title: In Batman: Arkham Asylum, who is the prisoner in the room where Warden Sharpe is caged?

text: In Batman: Arkham Asylum in the Cell Block room when you rescue Warden Sharpe (And receive the security hacker) there is a prisoner caged in a red straight jacket. He can't be scanned, doesn't say anything (but makes a strange breathing sound) and seems to be more detailed than other thugs. Who is this prisoner and does he represent anything?


title: How to get to save games for continued play in Bejeweled 3?

text: Like most folks, I want to see my score build in various games in Bejeweled 3. I even leave it open in my browser and don't use QUIT off the Bejw. Menu and still when I go back to individual games, it does not see me as the same user and continue my cumulative scores. So ? - is the ONLY way to be the top scorer in all the games and thus win that badge is to play until you are dead in one long sitting for hours on end? Right now the scores include my 'remembered' player name 4 times in some of the score rankings I see on my game. I surely don't want to play against my own old scores! My game seems really glitchy for $20. Others say QUEST Mode is won when all 5 artifacts are open and your score is >80%. I still cannot get mine to give me the Heros Welcome badge despite I am now at 94% with only 2 jems still needing fill in - 1 on chair and 1 on crown. Way to write the game company? I should get $ credit for a new game since mine is not ever worked right. Help!


title: Modern Warfare 2 doesn't have cheats for the single player campaign?

text: In the original Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, when you collected enemy intelligence (laptops scattered throughout the single player campaign), you unlocked cheats that could be activated while playing the single player game. The sequel, Modern Warfare 2, doesn't seem to have such a mechanism. I've collected all 45 enemy intel laptops, but I don't appear to have gained anything, other than the achievement **Leave No Stone Unturned**. Is this true? The only reward for collecting the laptops is an achievement?


title: Is there a point in collecting all the flags in Assassin's Creed?

text: There are many collectable flags throughout the game of Assassin's Creed and every time one is collected, you get a progress indicator (e.g., 33 of 100). Is there any reason to collect these, other than bragging rights? I recall getting all available flags in one particular town and never saw any special reward or secret revealed.


title: Minecraft - Trees not growing. All requirements met

text: I can't figure out why these trees aren't growing. They have been planted for a VERY long time. There is sufficient light. They have enough space around and above them. I've dumped a whole stack of bonemeal and they still don't grow. Any ideas? ![Tree1](http://i.stack.imgur.com/zNyVy.png) ![Tree2](http://i.stack.imgur.com/pgimJ.jpg)


title: Far Cry 3 Online Multiplayer Never Finds Other Players

text: I bought Far Cry 3, off Steam, when it came out with the intention of playing online with my friends. At the time my computer was running Windows 8, and I was only ever able to get a single game to play online before it stopped working. Assuming it was related to the game not officially supporting Windows 8, I shelved the game until I could come back to it later. I recently came back to it, my computer now running Windows 8.1 with the same issues. My computer has gone through a build and has also seen a new motherboard (unrelated). The router between the computer and the internet has also been replaced. I don't really know what else to try, but I'd like to be able to play the game I bought. Ubisoft forums have been less than helpful.


title: What is the impact of a good support in a Ranked Solo Queue game?

text: People keep telling me never to support in Solo Queue, but others tell me that if you're amazing at it, you can carry just as hard. Which one is it?


title: How many GB do Black Ops 2 and MW3 take up?

text: How much space does it take for Black Ops 2 on PS3? and How much does Modern Warfare 3 take up? i do not own any of these games.


title: What's required to save Captain Kirrahe on Virmire?

text: I was reading the ME3 entry in the Mass Effect Wiki when I read that Captain Kirrahe would return in some fashion if he survived the assault on Saren's base on Virmire. Now maybe I missed something the first two times around, but I know for certain that I didn't save him the third time I played the game. I'm aware that without disabling some stuff before reaching the base, Kirrahe will almost certainly die, however, I'd like to know if there's a time component, or other specific actions that will effect this outcome. Of special interest is whether choosing to aid the team at the AA guns or return to the bomb site has any effect.


title: What happens if you fail a quest?

text: I was skimming through the Stats screen in _Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning_ when I came across this puzzling bit of information: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/L5Gnl.png) Personally, I wasn't even aware of the fact that failing a quest was even _possible_. Now, being a completionist, this concept has me worried. I know in this article, they mentioned being unable to lock yourself out of content. However, I'm worried that failing a quest would conflict with that concept. **What are the consequences for failing quests?**


title: Do my Pokemon lose levels they gained if they faint in the same battle?

text: If I am in a battle against a trainer with multiple Pokemon, and I beat one of them, and my Pokemon gains a level or two, but against the next Pokemon, it faints, will I lose the levels that my Pokemon gained?


title: Could the 5:4 aspect ratio of my monitor affect videogames performance?

text: For starters I would like to mention my PC's specs:   * OS: Windows 7 64 bit   * CPU: AMD FX 6350 3.9GHz   * RAM: Dual Channel 6GB 1333MHz   * HDD: 500GB SATA III   * MOBO: ASUS M5A97 R2.0   * GPU: Radeon HD 6750 I have always had to play modern games in the lowest/low settings to get a moderate (not high) performance. What modern games? Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm, ArmA 2, Natural Selection 2 and most recently Payday 2. My Monitor is a Viewsonic VG930m. Commonly running at 1280x1024, however, when I want to play games I usually have to lower my resolution to 1024x768 and graphics to lowest settings (this is the case with Payday 2 and I feel like going 800x600 because it still kinda slows). I asked my friend how his laptop performs with Payday 2 and he says it performs just fine with the default settings. His laptop has Intel HD Graphics and I'm really wondering how my PC is performing lower even having a dedicated GPU and much better CPU. And so I was thinking that perhaps modern games are coded and optimized for today's standard aspect ratio 16:9 and perform worse when having to adjust to my monitors' aspect ratio. Could this be the case? Am I missing something else here? Any information is appreciated. Thanks for reading and looking forward to your answers.


title: Can you install backgrounds in the mod folder instead of replacing the default skybox?

text: In Space Engineers, it is possible to download a lot of various backgrounds for the game, such as skyboxes from the famous eve-online. I know that you can just replace the default background texture, but there is also a folder "mods" inside of               %appdata/SpaceEngineers      What directory structure must I create to make a background work from there without overwriting any files from my installation?


title: How do I protect against Take Down?

text: I am fighting in the second Gym, against Herdier, who keeps using Take Down against my Pokemon. It tends to kill or almost kill my Pokemon. I would really like to beat this Gym - is there anything that I can do to keep from dying?


title: Should I keep Alien Containment?

text: 1. Is there a point in keeping Alient Containment after all interrogations are complete?    2. Is there a point in capturing live aliens that were already interrogated besides intact weapon?


title: How can I check a team's match history?

text: As the title states, is there any way of checking the history of a team, rather than an individual?


title: Do runes unlock at the same level for all classes in diablo 3?

text: Do runes unlock at the same pre-determined level for all classes? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/SKczu.jpg)


title: Can I change the default click-to-move behavior?

text: In Diablo 3, holding the shift key prevents movement, and causes you to use your abilities in place instead of moving to where the mouse cursor is. Is there any way to make this the default behavior? That is to say, so that clicking will not move you _unless_ you depress a button?


title: What happens if I buy a game I own on Uplay, on Steam?

text: **If I own a game, which requires Uplay, on Uplay, and buy the same game later on Steam, what will happen?** Here are a few of my thoughts of possible outcomes.   * Will I get a key from Steam, which I cannot use, or need to register a new Uplay account to use it?   * Will I be able to launch the game both ways? If so, will they be separate entries on Uplay?   * Will Steam override the Uplay purchase so I can only use it from Steam? **To emphasize my actual question** : I already know that if I own a Uplay title on Steam, I can only launch it through Steam, and vice-versa. What I'm interested in is what happens if I (accidentally) buy a Uplay title on Steam when I already own it on Uplay.


title: What is a good strategy against the praetorian at Horizon on mass effect 2 insanity difficulty?

text: My character is a soldier and doesn't have a good regenerative shield like the one used by krypton321 in the YouTube video. I am able to get around 50% of the armor down and then both my squad mates die. I had no med gel to start with, so that is another problem. Once the squad mates die, it gets harder to take the barrier down as well. What I have done so far is to run around the platform and then take a few shots. A good shield would have been helpful. I think the soldier option was not very smart. Without a good shield, collector ship is going to be a problem as well. Edit: I finished Horizon. Same strategy. Needed to run around the platform. Cannot expect much from the squad. I had Garrus and Mordin as squad mates. Mordin was useful to bring the armor down with incineration as long he was alive. Around 75% armor both of them died. I used rifle and heavy reave until the armor was close to 25% and then used the collector particle beam to take out the rest. Died way too many times. Key is to run from cover to cover and never get caught on the inside. Don't wait for the praetorian to get too close or you will take heavy damage if you don't have a good shield. Edit 2: On the collector ship now. Completed 4 loyalty missions without any problem (Miranda, Jacob, Mordin and Grunt in that order). The ambush part doesn't look good at all. Died a few times already. May be I will try next weekend. Edit 3: After 2 hours of trying I gave up on the collector ship as soldier. I also kept seeing the message "Sentinels are nearly indestructible. Tech armor gives additional layer of protection...". So I started a sentinel career on insanity difficulty. So far it has been good. I completed the horizon fairly easily as well because I could restore my shields often. Hopefully that will help on collector ship. Edit 4: I have completed the collector ship with Miranda and Jack. Grunt kept dying. Tech armor helped a lot. Edit 5: I have completed the game on insanity. Completing all loyalty missions helped with the upgrades necessary for the final battle. It wasn't hard with all that heavy damages. Took grunt and legion along at collector base because they have shields. Too many harbingers while fighting the reaper though. Used legions combat drones to distract the harbinger. Had armor piercing ammo (tungsten rounds) as the power. Again, thanks to the tech armor.


title: How to fix a broken screen on Ms. Pacman (Midway) arcade

text: On my Midway Ms. Pacman arcade machine, when I turn it on, the very left part of the screen is near the center and then every other part of the screen is compressed into one pixel. The part that is not compressed into the one pixel is perfectly fine. The controls, sound, and game work fine.


title: Where do I find custom made maps / campaigns for Elemental: War of Magic?

text: Been a few weeks now since Elemental: War of Magic released, are there any singleplayer maps / campaigns out there already? Google doesn't turn up anything useful.


title: Total war series with a dual monitor setup

text: In the total war series, specifically Rome and Shogun Total war 2, you can scroll/rotate the map by moving the mouse cursor to the edge of the screen. This works fine on a single monitor, but I have two monitors setup. When I move the mouse to the edge of the screen the game does not seem to detect this and as a consequence the map does not scroll/rotate. Is there a way to remedy this, short of unplugging the second monitor?


title: Can anyone identify what the name of this outfit this is?

text: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/WsbUM.png) I've searched through all of the outfits available from Solomon's General Store via the wikia, but I have had no luck. It may be pieces of more than one outfit, but they seem too similar to not be a part of a complete outfit. More specifically, I'm trying to find what the hat/top/bottoms are, and the gloves as well if possible.


title: What do the numbers by "Global Unlock" mean?

text: In my "Career" menu, I have some confusing numbers. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/nGpVY.png) What's the "166"? I thought that was my experience, but my experience is -414, as denoted by the sad face. Is it all the experience I've gained, ignoring the experience I've lost? Or is it something else? What's that number? Curiously, after another game, my experience went up, and that 166 went _down_.


title: Does killing bots count toward my stats?

text: If I follow the instructions here to play on my own with a bunch of bots, will this affect my stats? Will kills, deaths, headshots, etc, be added to my numbers like normal?


title: If I download Steam on Ubuntu, does that mean I can play any game I get on Steam ON Ubuntu?

text: This question may or may not be very stupid, as I am kind of ignorant when it comes to computers. My friend has convinced me to switch to Linux, and I'm trying to figure out how I can game on it.


title: How do I go about heading down the Independent Road?

text: I want to do an independent ending of New Vegas but I can't figure out how to do it. Last time I found myself on the NCR ending without even realizing it. How do I start the Independent road?


title: How do I map my gamepad to Half-Life?

text: So I tried mapping my Xbox 360 controller to the original Half-Life, and no good. Must I use a third party software to map the keys?


title: What are the best Guild Wars 2 servers for a UK player?

text: I've read forums saying that Gandara and Desolation are the unofficial UK servers but those posts were written shortly after launch. What are currently the best server choices for a UK player looking to start out?


title: How is MVP calculated in Mario Superstar Baseball?

text: Sometimes I don't agree with the game's choice for MVP at the end of a match. What makes the game choose the MVP? Why is it always the pitcher?


title: How do you give weapons elemental damage? (Fire, Lightning, Dark)

text: Ive been playing Dark souls 2 for some time now and I was wondering how to add elemental damage to my weapon. Does anyone know how?


title: If someone steals my car and sells it can i call the insurance company to replace it?

text: Was finishing a long GTA Online session with several crew members and we all stole a car to sell to LSC before logging off. One of the guys jumped in my personal car and drove off before i asked him not to sell it. If he sold it, would that mean i lose the car or can i just call up the insurance company to replace it? If not, does he get more money if i add mods to my car?


title: Are villagers the only mobs you can interact with?

text: Are there any mobs in Minecraft, other than villagers, who exist for a reason other than to be slain by the player?


title: Are there really small secret methods of raising one's chance of encountering a shiny?

text: So recently a friend of mine told me that you could boost your chance of getting a shiny by giving a high tip when going to the restaurant or by taking pictures everywhere you can. Is this actually true? And if yes, by just how much does it increase the chance? I know about the _Chaining_ and _Breeding_ methods that were discussed in multiple questions on _Arqade_ , but are there some other secret methods?


title: How do I destroy Nekker nests?

text: In "The Nekker Contract" quest, I need to destroy all of the Nekker nests. I found my first Nekker nest, but when I try to destroy it, Geralt just says, "I've got to blow up this nest," and doesn't do anything. So I assume that I need something to blow it up—what would that be? Screenshot of a Nekker nest with the left-click "destroy nest" option: ![a Nekker nest with the left-click "destroy nest" option](http://i.stack.imgur.com/6bhpg.jpg)


title: Scavenging the town

text: So the town died in the attack last night. Unfortunate, but I saw it coming. I hightailed it away and camped out in the wilderness, trusting luck rather than my fellow residents. I am now the only person alive. I've been lucky scavenging. I've found plywood to reinforce my hole-in-the-ground shelter and a decaying lump of festering flesh to cover my scent, but what I really need is water. Without it, I'll surely die in less than 3 days, and I just drank my last water ration. I'm cut off from the devastated town by a few zombies. With luck I can push past them, get back to the town, and hopefully access the precious well. I have never been back to a ravaged town, so I do not know what I will see when I get there. Can I re-enter an overrun town? Are the buildings still intact? Can I access the well or the bank or citizen's houses?


title: Why do mobs have my gear?

text: I searched the wiki but there doesn't seem to be any mention of my particular topic. I somewhat un-commonly find zombies and skeletons with my EXACT gearset equipped. They have the same armor, and weapon that I do. I have confirmed this many times as I find mobs with jetpacks equipped, swords with knockback, and mismatched armor exactly the same as mine. I havent died, these mobs are SPAWNING with my gear equipped. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/nOkf7.png) I'm currently running a hybrid pack of both Unhinged and Unleashed. I have every mod in Unhinged installed and these mods as well from Unleashed:   * Adv Power Management   * Adv Solar Panels   * Biblio Craft Mods (all three)   * Binnies Mods   * Computer Craft   * Damage Indicators   * Equivalent Exchange 3   * Extra Utilities   * GraviSuite   * Magic Bees   * Misc Periphreals   * ObsidiPlates   * Plugins for Forestry   * Soul Shards   * ThaumCraft I also installed:   * Logistics Pipes   * Infernal Mobs   * Adv Machines


title: How to make dwarfs use barrels in a balanced manner?

text: The barrels I produce are used to store food and seeds and other stuff and there are never enough barrels for alcohol. Right now I have something like 2000 food and 0 alcohol. How do I balance the usage of barrels or forbid them to use it for anything but alcohol?


title: Are all Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days DLC Characters level 1 unlocks

text: I was reading on the Wiki that with Pram in Dark Hero Days you have to fight her while with Pleinair you don't have to fight her i am wondering if all the DLC characters are unlocked at the very beginning (meaning you can recruit them) and/or if you have to fight them before they are recruited into your party at that level


title: What is the equation for damage in Warframe?

text: Taking into account a weapon's base damage, and any modifiers from modules to include regular damage, armor-piercing damage, elemental damage, and the mitigation from an enemy's shield and armor, what is the equation for how damage is calculated in Warframe?


title: What is a great inventory crusher for Minecraft?

text: What is the best way to compress my inventory after a long mining trip? I have 459 iron ore 69 gold, 120 coal and thousands of rocks. Any advice?


title: How to zoom out in Angry Birds Seasons Chrome Edition

text: How do I zoom out in Angry Birds Seasons, Google Chrome edition? Some instructions require this for seeing the special Chrome logos situated outside the normal game-play area.


title: How to find Astaia?

text: Can't pass quest "The Sister's Pendant" because can't find those sister (Astaia). Where should I look for her? Quest arrow show that i'm somewhere close... but I can't find her... what is a trick? Thanks!


title: What color of gem is best to use in an amplifier?

text: Same color as the gem amplified, that's for sure, but is pure better than triple color? Maybe double?


title: Can you move around a Shaco clone when silenced?

text: Shaco can move around his clone be **recasting** his ult. So does this mean that you can not move you clone when you are silenced? Since you cannot cast or **recast** while. silenced And does the same go for a like ults(Annie comes to mind)?


title: Why is my redstone energy cell losing power?

text: Just started playing tekkit again after a recent nostalgic lust for galacticraft. So this is the newest build that the technic launcher will load of tekkit. So I build one of the new redstone cells. it has a gold-ish (electrum-ish) color now. Anyhow, I figured out the configuring of each face on the cell... but after figuring it all out, and getting it set up properly. The cell was powering everything fine. I had it set to 10 flux units, or what ever the thermal expansion energy units are. 10 flux output per tick. had my quarry humming along at quite a nice clip. but then it stopped after I tried bumping the power output up one notch to see what that would do for the quarry speed. but it froze, the quarry is just not moving. (the mining arm is still down in the NON finished quarry hole. I have also cleared any obstructions (there wasn't any, no lava yet (not deep enough) I even drained the water.) ) so I disconnected the conduit (redstone) from the quarry. then reconnected. then it worked for a beat or two, then stopped again. tried disconnect then reconnect. still nothing. then I noticed that my cell is losing power all of a sudden. I check each machine that gets power from it. all full up. quarry froze, still power is draining. so I disconnect each machine one by one. and it was still draining so here is the weird part, I connect ONE redstone energy conduit. and it starts draining. I thought they were loseless... and they were when I only had it connected to machines and not a quarry. please, I need some uber tekkit (or maybe ftb has this issue as well (I never had it) ) super minecrafter help. the quarry freezing up is sort of neither here nor there, im sure it will work fine after I break and replace it. but the cell thing bugs me. Is it that it is only lossless under a certain amount of power? as I only tried bumping up the juice after I switched the power source over to magma dynamos... I dunno. EDIT: I might be able to do a screen shot in the nearish future. but it is a quite simplistic build with one redstone cell with one red conduit in and one out the one in is fed by three magma dynamos. and the one out, feeds everything else, two branches. first feeds the machines. second feeds the planter and harvester. then it branches from the planter/harvester to my quarry.


title: Does Absorbing have any powers in Lego Marvel?

text: I mean, the question might answer itself but I was wondering if you got Absorbing Man and bought him, does he have any powers? Like can he fly or do as his name says?


title: Are Party Members skills missable?

text: Minor spoiler warning for those of you haven't played Persona 3. At various points in the game, the party members will upgrade their Personas. The new Persona will have better stats and give them access to stronger moves. For example, Ken's initial persona, Nemesis, learns its final skill, Recarm, at level 42. However, Ken's Ultimate persona, Kala-Nemi learns an additional 8 moves, starting with Mediarama at level 51. What happens if you level your party members up too much? Like, you level Ken up to 52 before he upgrades his Persona. Would he never get Mediarama? Or would they just learn any such moves all at once?


title: Starcraft 2 Global Achievements Statistics

text: Is there a way to see Global Achievements info? i.e. "% of all players" for each achievement? Similiar to the way you can see in Steam. It's kinda interesting for achievement collectors to see how rare their achievements are.


title: Why is there a tower of glass in my lake?

text: While exploring I've found a tower of glass blocks coming out of a lake in Minecraft. ![tower of glass blocks out from a lake](http://i.stack.imgur.com/itn5A.png) As far as I can tell they go up to the top limit of the world. It also goes down in to the ground, as you can see by this quick test dig on the lake bed: ![they also seem to go down in to the water bed](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Z2Hey.png) Why is it there?   Bug or feature?   Does it mean anything specific?   etc * * * _For Info:_ I'm using Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3, and have only ever used 1.9pre3 (I'm a very new MC player, and thought I'd start with the "latest" version), so this can't be an artifact from map generated by the old version, for example. Also I have no mods, tweaks, etc in place - the game is completely stock.


title: How do I keep my ranged units from dying?

text: I'm just playing through the tutorial, and having a surprisingly difficult time keeping my ranged units alive. The AI clearly targets them, and I only have two stacks of melee units so I can't form an effective wall around my squishy units. What should I be doing differently?


title: Naruto Shippūden Ultimate Ninja Storm 2: Tilting

text: I've read in various places that it is possible to perform a 'tilt' move with the characters in the Naruto Shippūden Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 game. I have two questions on this, as I can't find my information on it:   1. What exactly _is_ tilting?   2. How do you actually perform a tilt in the game?


title: Is there a way to get an NPC's RefID in game?

text: When using the console to affect NPC characters you always need their RefID. I always get this on one of the two Skyrim wikis because the following help command returns only their BaseID:               help <npc name> 4      Is there a way to get their RefID through the in game help search?


title: Can I prearrange my troops before battle?

text: The default arrangement of my troops at the start of battle is...suboptimal. For example, I'd prefer to start with my ranged units directly behind my melee units, but instead they tend to start off to one side. Is there any way to arrange my troops before battle?


title: How does "auto-resolve" work in battles?

text: Oftentimes I'm not quite in the mood to enter a whole battle sequence, and my army significantly outnumbers that of the enemy, so I'll just use auto-resolve to get it over with (it's that button in the middle of the interface right before a battle). However, I'm always uncertain if I should use it for the less one-sided battles (that I still sometimes don't feel like doing), so I was wondering: how does auto-resolve work? I realize that there's some element of randomness involved, but what factors does the game consider when auto-resolving? Is it possible (this is one of my main concerns) that an auto-resolved battle, even if won, will result in me losing my general? Basically, what should I consider when thinking about the risk of using auto-resolve? I'm pretty sure it's more complicated than that little green/red bar in the middle.


title: Are the quests/storyline optional?

text: I do not really like quests. In SWTOR how much of the storylines/quests do I need to do? I understand from the beta I had to do a long quest line to unlock the space ship and first companion. EDIT: I feel I should comment here to explain the reason for the question, because it seems apparent to me that if you ask three people why they play the game, you will get 3 different answers, and I can't understand why people are fighting over which one is correct - THEY ALL ARE. I play to socialise and to raid. I find it difficult to relate to the storylines of the quests and I do not like the railroading associated with storylines. Thank you all for information and answers. I have accepted the one I felt was best because that is the way the site works, but I think all the answers are valid and each one taught me something.


title: If I change my Xbox gamertag, can someone take the old name?

text: After paying the $10 to rename your account, does the old gamertag point to the new gamertag, or is the old name released back into the pool for anyone to claim? (Looking for something definitive—Yahoo Answers hasn't been much help here.)


title: Characters/Avatars near my bonfire

text: Occasionally when I'm close to a bonfire, a character/avatar will appear. The character looks like an NPC, but I pass through it and am unable to interact with it. I suspect they are actually other players, but their appearance is much more vivid than the usual ghostly animations seen about the world. Can anyone confirm what these characters are? Is there any significance to them?


title: Is there any reason not to bring about eternal darkness?

text: I am a god and I can control the sun and the moon. During the day everything is nice and pretty, but during the night I can find buried treasure thanks to the shining rays of light showing me their location. Because of this I tend to keep the land in perpetual night, except when it needs to be daytime for a quest. Am I missing anything by doing this? Is there anything that is only available during the day, like the light shafts are only visible at night? Animals, people, enemies, collectibles - everything seems to be available at night as well.


title: Crime lords not pitching up at table

text: I have done the tasks on the global map to get the 3 crime lords, but it doesn't show in the task list that it is completed. Also, the crime lords don't come to the island. What must I do? And also, Nikita Leonov doesn't come to the island either for capturing. I need help getting further with this game. This problem is the 2de task of the game.


title: "Your most recent save data could not be loaded at this time" error message

text: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/qu8a0.jpg) This is what happens when I open GTA Online. A message displays saying: > Alert > > Your most recent save data could not be loaded at this time. Please return > to Grand Theft Auto V and try again later. What I think happened is that it was saving and as it was saving, my internet crashed, so I got disconnected from Online. Now that screen shows up when trying to enter online. Please help because I don't think I can use online anymore :(


title: Why is the Team button on Dota 2 unclickable?

text: I have a team but the Team button on the profile seems grayed out and cannot be clicked but when I checked my teammate's profile I can click the Team button and I can see myself there.


title: Does my aircraft fully repair itself?

text: As far as I understand, your aircraft repairs itself when you don't fire. Does this really reset your health to maximum though? It seems to me that I can take a huge amount of damage at the beginning of a flight, but the longer I play the easier I reach critical HP levels. Is there some remaining damage that does not get repaired and reduce your health further and further the more often you get hit? Or do you simply take more damage the longer you play?


title: What are all the win conditions?

text: I was recently attacked and my attacker only used 14 archers, doing only 8% damage to my town, however, it is listed as a defeat. My town hall was destroyed, does losing your town hall count as a defeat?


title: Where is Stiletto?

text: I have found information from years ago, but I am not confident it is up-to- date. eq2.zam.com   eq2.wikia.com


title: What runes do you get for Kennen?

text: Which Tier 3 Runes work best for each of Kennens possible roles in the current meta?


title: Multi-kills in Dota2

text: There appear to be some names for in-game multi kills. "Double Kill" and "Triple Kill" are self explanatory. Can somebody explain what are the numbers behind others, namely: "Ultra Kill" and "Rampage"? Also, I'm not really sure but there appear to be also names for killstreaks. In particular, "Godlike" is supposedly a name for a killstreak (again, I'm not sure how many kills you need to get this) rather than just another multi-kill name. Can somebody provide a comprehensive list here or at least pointer to such one?


title: Should I install steam/origin on SSD and map some games to HDD or other way around?

text: Well the topic explains it all. I just reinstalled my PC. Now that I have a larger SSD I want to have some games on my SSD and some other the games on my HDD. Now I wonder, should I install steam and origin on the SSD, and move some of the games to my HDD. Or can I also install Steam/origin on the HDD, and move some of the games to the SSD? Is there a performance penalty?


title: What are Nidhogg's actual controls?

text: Nidhogg's control assignment screen and "how to play" menu option are rather... uninformative. Sure, I can move and jump and attack, but the controls clearly do far more than is immediately apparent; for instance, holding up and pressing attack will throw your sword. There also seems to be some condition under which you can disarm your opponent (or be disarmed yourself), but I have no idea when that happens. So what are Nidhogg's **actual** controls? What sorts of moves can I do under which circumstances by entering in a series of inputs?


title: Is there any strategy against adaptoids?

text: I'm having problem with adaptoids, they're annoying and not always easy to deal with. Even if i manage to kill them fast they still manage to do a lot of damage to my armor and weapons. And sometimes they just jump at me at surprise and kill me. Is there any strategy to dealing with them, any preemptive i can take against them? Is there any way i could make them show themself from safe distance without destroying the object i might suspect is adaptoid? Can sensor detect adaptoids in the room?


title: Is X the best there is?

text: I'm on my second play-through of Mass Effect. Since I decided to do this with the same character I had from the first play-through, I started off pretty high-level (I think around 50). In the beginning, it seemed level X equipment was rare-ish but still available. I'm now a good bit through the main mission, but still a bit away from the end. I've picked up Liara, and done Feros plus every side-quest I could get my hands on. I'm now on Noveria. However, I've yet to find any equipment above level X - and that's becoming fairly common. By now, my primary shore party members (Shepard, Liara, Garrus) all have level X equipment in every slot and for every mod. So, I'm beginning to wonder: Is this as good as it gets? Is there no level XI?


title: Is there a reliable source for Spectre equipment?

text: It looks to me like Spectre equipment is (as it should be) the best of the best. However, I've only so far been able to find enough to fully equip Shepard and one other squad member. Is there a store that reliably stocks Spectre equipment? If so, how often does it get re-stocked?


title: What are the differences between difficulties in Megaman 2 for the iOS?

text: In Megaman 2 for iOS, there are two difficulty levels: classic and new. What are the differences between these two modes. I think Classic seems to have less forgivable controls, although I can't confirm this.


title: Why are my Imperial assignment rewards not appearing?

text: I have been having an issue with Imperial assignments:   1. After finishing an Imperial assignment, the assignment is auto-replaced with a new one, but the reward doesn't appear?   2. I have been stockpiling unneeded imperial resources ahead of time, but they seem to disappear from my inventory randomly? Has anyone else experienced this, and if so, do they know why this is happening, and/or how to fix it?


title: How can I transfer system data to a new 3DS without using System Transfer?

text: I recently punched my 3DS while playing Mario Kart and cracked the screen. I've bought a new 3DS console, but can't do a System Transfer because the broken 3DS can't connect to the internet. Is there any way I can use the old SD card with all of my saved data in my new 3DS? I tried to transfer the data, from the old card to the new card, but the data will not appear in the new console. I don't want to lose my Ambassador Certificate and NES & Gameboy games!


title: How do I access the extra/special video settings'?

text: The tutorial for _Caster_ specifically mentions editing a certain game file (settings.ini) in order to access video settings that aren't available from the in-game menu, like shadows, anti aliasing, etc. However, when I change all of the values of '0' for these things in the file to '1', the game simply resets them all to 0, and nothing is changed. How can I edit this file without the game overwriting it? Is this only a problem with the Steam version of the game (which I am playing)? In addition, what are the values I need to use to activate the effects?


title: I can't move to the next round!

text: I'm playing Need For Speed: Most Wanted, I need to press `Enter` to move to the next round. It doesn't seem to be working even though it works fine on other games and programs. Why is this happening, and how can I fix it?


title: What are the Key Gameplay Differences between Valve's DOTA 2 vs League of Legends?

text: Valve's new game DotA 2 is a sequel to the popular Warcraft 3 map of the same name which is nearing release. The game follows the same paradigm of a similar game, League of Legends which was inspired from the original DotA map. Both games follow the same idea of leveling of a character, gaining items and hunting down non-player controlled monsters and player-controlled heroes with the ultimate goal of destroying the opponent's base. Outside of these core genre-specific concepts, what would a veteran League of Legends player find to be new gameplay concepts when transitioning into DotA 2 (excluding differences in Heros, Terrain and Items)?


title: Does giving Miranda Alliance resources change anything?

text: _minor spoilers ahead_ After some time into the game... > Miranda wants to talk to you in the apartments in the Citadel. When you meet > her, she asks for Alliance resources for some task that she can't specify. > You have the option to decline (renegade) or accept (paragon). Does this > choice have any repercussions?


title: Is there any time limit on Assists?

text: I've noticed that after I die in a round, when I'm revived I'll get the assists I earned while I was dead. Sometimes I get several. Is there any time limit after which I lose "assist" status, or if I deal 50 XP's worth of damage to a target, will I ALWAYS get that XP once the target dies?


title: What's the purpose of offering hearts to the goddess?

text: In Kid Icarus: Uprising there is the option to offer hearts to the goddess via the vault menu. The description for this option is just: > There's no reward for an offer, but it will bring the goddess closer in > spirit! To say this least, this is a terrible uninformative sentence. What affect does offering hearts to the Goddess have? Exactly what does bring the goddess closer entail?


title: What is the difference between a kill and assist in ME3 multiplayer

text: During my multiplayer games I've been getting ether an 'assist' or a 'kill' when a target I was hurting died, and a number next to it. I'm guessing that the numbers represent the amount of xp I got for that kill. What I don't understand is when a kill is a 'kill' and when just an 'assist'. It happened to me that I've got a kill on the same enemy type that I got an assist for, but with less xp. How is a kill/assist determined?


title: Does Healing Trees Benefit Me in Any Way?

text: If you shoot the petrified trees around the area, they'll burst forth with new life and the leaves will turn a vibrant green. But aside from the mission(s) where your goal is to heal trees, does healing trees give you anything useful (aside from pretty scenery)? ![The tree, it is dead.](http://i.stack.imgur.com/8fsYh.jpg)


title: How to cook a Major Health Potion?

text: The book only gives limited information. For how many seconds do I have to mix the first 100 candies?


title: Shady Business plot: choices, consequences and rewards

text: During the Shady Business plot, I need to choose which corporation to seek funding from for Ho t`Sht's (Inspired name as always) matter/antimatter thingamajig project. Ho t'Sht isn't being particularly informative about the consequences of this decision. What happens if I choose to use one of the three corporations? Do I get different rewards? Are any of these rewards unobtainable by other means? Will the other corporations take it personally? Will there be any other meaningful choices down the road?


title: How do I destroy the Blueprint Brain Tank?

text: I'm a few hours in to Psychonauts and I'm getting mauled by a huge tank powered by > Dogan's brain. How the heck do I beat this thing? ![Blueprint Brain Tank](http://i.stack.imgur.com/YHkg2.jpg)


title: Does the Wii U use HDCP copy protection on on games via its HDMI output?

text: I'd like to record gaming videos via HDMI on the Wii U, so I wonder if its HDMI output is protected by HDCP, which would mean I'd need to use another output method to record. I've googled a bit and found extremely conflicting reports of whether the Wii U has HDCP or not, and none of the people stating yes/no seem to have actually tried to record with it. Is there any confirmation either way? Better yet, a video showing it is possible (if it is)?


title: Final Fantasy 8 on Windows 8

text: So I bought a copy of Final Fantasy 8 today, and it won't install. The startup program works just fine, but when I click to install, the setup program won't run. Any help would be appreciated. I'm running Windows 8, by the way. Thanks!


title: How to change overlay map from toggle to hold?

text: When you press "Tab" the overlay map will show up on your screen. Is there a way to have this be a "hold" feature instead of a "toggle" feature?


title: Why does Starcraft 2 custom maps have no imported 3d models?

text: In Warcraft 3, map editors were able to import any custom 3d model objects into their maps. I have yet to see a single Starcraft 2 custom games have an imported custom model. Why is this? Does Galaxy Editor have no such feature? Or is it because of the difficulty? Edit: Alright, so at least I know that import feature is available, but that still doesn't answer my main question. In WC3, many custom maps were literally flooded with custom models that users could create with ease, which resulted in many, amazingly looking custom maps. After searching through 50 custom games on the top ranked list in NA server, I've found zero map that had imported custom models. I eventually ended up finding ONE map in Korea server that had some imported custom models but the said map only had maybe 2-3 models (I only played it for an hour, so maybe I missed some). So why are the editors so hesistant in using the custom models in general? Sheer difficulty on creating/importing? Map size limitation? Or restrictions imposed by Blizzard on what type of models you can use (Because the maps have to be kept in the Battle.net Server)? Surely, there has to be some kind of explanation for this.


title: Battlefield 3 installer problem

text: I just bought BF3 for my PC. I just upgraded it to a gaming PC, using win7. Trying to install the game I keep getting this message and can't go any further: > "The game installation directory is invalid. Please select a different > directory." I Read your answer. Opened the file that's shown:               <Setting key="DownloadInPlaceDir" type="10" value="C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games"/>       Not sure what to change it to though.


title: Why can't I get the 'sporty/outdoor watch' for the fragment 'Innocence's Sacred Sphere'?

text: The sporty watch is, according to all the guides I've looked at, located at this canyon in Yaschas Massif 100AF. I've been there many times and tried everything: time reversal, blindly throwing Mog in, but the treasure box just isn't there! Its really annoying me coz if I get this one fragment from Yaschas Massif 10AF I can get 2 more fragment skills. I have finished the main story and a few paradox endings. **Why isn't the treasure box there?**


title: How can I get that extra Praxis case?

text: Early on in the game I spotted a Praxis case in the cargo area of the ship. See this image link: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/mLZdd.jpg) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/uZ41i.jpg) The best I've done is what's in pic 2. Any ideas if this is possible to get?


title: Is there a (preferrably computer readable) Database of Ingress portals?

text: For a little project of mine I would need a database of Ingress portals (Name, Picture-URL and Location). I know i could extract it from the Intel map, but i assume someone else had made the effort before. It does not have to be "live" data, but a snapshot from the last month or so. Do you know any such database? Or do you know a other way to gather global Ingress Portal information?


title: Okay, I've got a welder now. What can I do with it?

text: I thought that maybe welders were needed to do things like build structures and capture resource nodes, but it seems that I'm at least 50% wrong on that. What is the welder used for?


title: Are loot drops shared in party, or does everyone gets his own drops?

text: When you're in a party with other players, is loot shared or does everyone gets his own drops? If it's shared, is it free-to-take for everyone, or only for person that landed a killing blow, or perhaps the person who attacked the monsters first.


title: What is the most effective raiding strategy/loadout to earn resources?

text: I've been playing the game a while, and as you get to higher levels there is a significant need to stockpile large quantities of resources before you can start the higher level upgrades (Town Hall level 9, Clan Castle Level 4, Barracks Dragons upgrade, etc). In order to accomplish this without racking up a huge credit card bill, it seems that you have to raid frequently and win big jackpots each time you do so. I have found this to be very challenging because:   * I can usually only string together 2-3 attacks feasibly, due to the time it takes to train units.   * Related to the previous point, I often spend almost my entire stock of units during a raid, in order to win.   * Also related, I have the tough choice of training strong units which take **_forever_** to train and are very expensive, or weak ones which train quick and cheap but get wiped out rapidly.   * I often find it hard to even **_find_** opponents with big stockpiles, and when I do I often can't beat them. I see other folks climbing the ranks and getting the big upgrades, so I know there must be a better way. So what's the most effective unit loadout and/or strategy to get big resource payouts (sufficient to get the high level upgrades)?


title: In Terraria, what range do the different tiers of tools have?

text: I just started a new character, and I noticed that the Copper Pickaxe seems to have a shorter range than the Molten Pickaxe. Never really noticed that when going _up_ in pickaxe tiers. So, what range does each pickaxe have? Do the hammers, axes, and hammer-axes have a specific reach too?


title: Is there a way to install the original Command and Conquer on Windows 7?

text: Is there any way to install C&C on Windows 7 without the XP VM?   * I tried using the XP virtual mode but I guess my laptop is not compatible with it.   * I tried changing the compatibility in the properties as stated to Win 95 and I tried all the others too, but I still get the error: > The version is not compatible with the version of windows. Check the systems > info to see whether you need a 32 bit or 64 bit version of the program and > then contact the software provider." Is there any way I can get it to install and work?


title: What makes Shen so hard to hit, and how can I counter it?

text: It's really hard to hit him sometimes, even when I'm beefed up with AD and Attack Speed. Why is this, and how can I counter it?


title: Is it realistic to completely avoid PvP in EVE Online?

text: Lately, I've been thinking about starting to play EVE Online, but looking at various sources, it seems like PvP is a pretty big part of the game. That's a problem for me, because I _hate_ PvP. If I get into combat, I want it to be because I've made an active decision to allow it - that means entering known, hostile territory, or turning on a flag. If I absolutely have to enter such an area, I want there to be a way for me to quickly get out. I understand that I can't turn off PvP entirely, and I realize I won't be able to see _everything_ without venturing into those areas - indeed, I've read that the best money making potential is in nullsec, so clearly there's an incentive to accept that risk. However, I don't want to be left horribly behind simply because I choose to avoid that content. It's okay that things go a little slower, but there is a limit - e.g., if I can earn some amount in 1 hour in PvP areas, I don't want it to take 3 days when sticking to a PvE approach. Alternatively, I can accept having to go into those areas if it's realistic that I can get in there, do what I need to do, and get back out, all while avoiding PvP - I don't want to spend forever finding a sufficiently safe area, and if I do see trouble approaching, I want to be able to get out before it's too late. Is it even possible to pull this off? Do I need to do anything special to make it feasible? Is the game still enjoyable when played in such a way? EDIT: Just to clarify: I'm not asking for 100% security. If the game is as PvP-heavy as my impression suggests, I am perfectly willing to accept that there will always be _some_ degree of risk. However, I will want to keep that risk minimal - if the risk for some given task is low, or I can reasonably expect to be able to flee before it's too late, then that's okay.


title: I'm starving to death

text: I am on my way to the final boss of the entire game. (faceless) I took the boat, of which there is no return. But now I'm starving to death! I cannot rest, as I've no food; I cannot cure anything as I'm feeble minded. And I cannot travel back to any inn for more food... What do I do? It's a very long time since I did a proper save as opposed to auto/quick save. Without my mage, I cannot defend my team or heal. And my people are 70% weaker. I can still hit a lot on the boss, but I have to get 4 fragments, and once someone dies, it's over. I have the resurrection in my party, which I have used, but she's on cool down.   I have killed my mage off to resurrect, to get rid of feeble mind, then dispel all magic. But without food, they become weak the next move... So I'm still weakened with no way to rest between any encounter. It would be fun to do the final boss, but I cannot in my weakened form, for all my trying. Does anyone know how to acquire food? Trainer/cheat/in-game? Or any other combos I can do to fix it?


title: How does Spectral Blade affect Hydra?

text: Spectral Blade combined with Flame Blades gives a buff that increases Fire Damage for 1% on each Stack. Does Hydra get the buff while it is active or if I cast it at say 25 stacks and it drops to 20 stacks, does the hydra still have the same damage as with 25 stacks? How does this **exactly** work?


title: Are all points of interest and vistas in Lion's Arch accessible at the moment?

text: I can't reach last Vista and last point of interest in Lion's Arch city. The Vista is located to the east from Bloodcoast Ward and the point is a bit to the north from Eastern Ward. I'm starting to suspect they are inaccessible at the moment. I tried to ask using in-game chat and after a positive answer, that yes - they are accessible, there was a comment, that they were before "fixing the bugs". Could someone please shed some light on this and give pointers how to get there, if it's possible.


title: Food/production for Domestic trade routes

text: In Civilization 5, how is the amount of **food** or **production** received from _domestic trade routes_ calculated?


title: Does Soul Memory Affect Co-op or Only Invasions?

text: If I'm understanding correctly, Soul Memory, the collective accumulation of all souls ever obtained, ensures that the players that you meet in multiplayer are of a similar experience level compared to you. In Dark Souls, connectability was determined purely through character Soul Level. Does Soul Level still come into play or is it only determined by Soul Memory? I read that invasion is affected by Soul Memory, but I figured it would be silly if co-op was also affected by it and was hoping to find out if co-op was actually based on soul level.


title: How the hell am I supposed to survive in the underworld?

text: The minute I reach the border of the underworld, fire imps start popping up everywhere, nuking me with fireballs from every conceivable angle. In addition, 3 huge skeleton worms show up ramming into me relentlessly. The end result is that I'm hit by something at least a couple of times per second, knocking me around. Mining is impossible as I'm knocked into the lava if I even get close, and building some sort of fortress won't help seeing as all the monsters down here ignore walls completely. I have 300 hp, 200 mana, full shadow armor and a nightmare pickaxe. **How the hell do people survive down here?**


title: What causes a "Community Event Buff"?

text: I just logged in to play, and was greeted with a Community Event Buff (Your Experience gain is increased by 50%): ![Screenshot showing Community Event Buff tooltip](http://i.stack.imgur.com/10qj2.jpg) What causes this? I'm only part of one community, which I created and promptly forgot existed. What are "Community Events"? How do they work?


title: Storing (console) video games - sitting out or inside a container?

text: I've been gaming for quite a long time, and have never had a game go bad on me, since I've always taken good care of my games. However, one thing I've done differently over the years is the storage of my games. I've gone from storing the games with the system in a Rubbermaid container, to sitting them on a shelf, to storing them in boxes, and back to storing them on shelves. Now I'm debating whether to go back to containers (separate, since my consoles no longer need to be put away). The ability to move the games around easily is the strongest selling point for me, but of all the setups I've seen I've never really seen anyone using any sort of container to store their games. Well, unless they're in college and their games are still in boxes. Is there a reason, other than it looking cool, that most gamers seem to store their games on shelves of some sort? Is there any reason to, or not to, store video games inside closed containers? By video games I mean disc based systems specifically, although cartridge games to some extent, if there's a difference. You can also assume that all games are included in either their original packaging, or packaging similar to what they were released in.


title: Is it possible to dismiss antlions in Half-Life 2?

text: I'm replaying _Half-Life 2_ , and I got the antlion pheremones/"bugbait" a little while ago. Now I've moved on to a smaller area where my antlion followers are getting in my way more than they're helping me. What's worse, every time one dies, a new one spawns offscreen and rushes in to "help." Is there a way to dismiss them? If so, what is it?


How do you beat the final boss in Zelda Wind Waker for Gamecube?


title: Can't open Great Lift Gate from Inside

text: Okay, so I got to Alfthand and made my way through the glacial ruins to Alfthand Cathedral. There's a lift inside the Cathedral itself which takes you back up to the surface of Alfthand. I did this, but I can't get the gate to open - there's no action on the gate at all to allow me to do this. I know you're supposed to be able to do this because I've done it on previous playthroughs. ![Alfthand Lift](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Ci8si.jpg) I thought there may be a bug with this particular gate, so I went back down to the Cathedral then made my way into the Blackreach and over to the Great Lift at Alfthand, and here it's the same - no action on the gate, so I cannot open it in order to come back down later on. I don't fancy trekking through Alfthand every time I want to get to the Blackreach from now on.


title: What causes thorns to grow in FrontierVille?

text: Sometimes I'm trying to discourage thorns, and sometimes I'm trying to get them to grow for quests. Any idea what causes thorns to grow?


title: Flashing black screen after explosions in Modern Warfare 2 - Graphics card malfunction in Bootcamp

text: I'm running Modern Warfare 2 on bootcamp, 2gb ram and an nVidia 9400m. Every now and then, an explosion messes up my display and it starts flashing black. and I can see through walls (honest to god, I'm not hacking). Exiting the current round usually solves the problem temporarily, but I'd like it not to happen at all. Does anyone else have this problem? Why does it happen? And what can I do to solve it? PS it used to cause a bsod, but then I updated the drivers. PPS For those of you who are curious, apart from this one problem, Modern Warfare 2 is otherwise very playable on bootcamp and it only happens every once in a while. Edit: Just adding to the answer: The solution seems to be a program called lubbofancontrol.


title: Inaccessible Ledge in DOOM 2

text: I’m playing _DOOM 2_ and my OCD is forcing me to get 100% kills, items, and secrets, but have run into a problem. I know there are bugs in several maps that make some items and secrets impossible to get, so I am wondering if this is one of them. On level 20 (“Gotcha!”), there is a tower behind the player’s starting position which contains a ledge that has some items on it, but seems to be impossible to get to. I checked numerous FAQs, guides, and walkthroughs but none of them mention this ledge. I even opened the level in an editor and found that it has no trigger ID associated with the sector, so it does not seem that it can be lowered, nor does it have a transport destination on it. I cannot figure out _any_ way to get up there (I considered rocket-jumping, but that is not really possible in this instance, and I doubt that was the intent anyway). **Figure 1** : The ledge in first-person—mode ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/e1B1t.jpg) **Figure 2** : The ledge in map-mode ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Hh3kv.jpg) **Figure 3** : The items on the ledge ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/1NKuZ.png)


title: Are there any features Auctioneer has that TradeSkillMaster (TSM) does not?

text: I have been using Auctioneer (addon) for a long time. I heard that TSM was better, and was wondering if TSM has all the features Auctioneer has.. I don't want to switch to TSM if it's missing an important feature I use. So my question is: **Does TSM lack any features that Auctioneer has?**


title: Playing oldgame in Dosbox, is sound blaster or Roland better?

text: I'm playing an old game in Dosbox. The game asks me whether my sound card is Sound Blaster or Roland. What should I choose for best sound? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/p4CkZ.png) Game happens to be http://www.gamecrafters.com/gamecrafters/maddog/index.html if you're curious.


title: Is there a post-credits scene?

text: The epic conclusion to an space opera trilogy like Mass Effect 3 deserves an epic post-credits scene (also known as a "stinger"). Does this game follow the pattern of games like Halo, Metroid Prime, System Shock 2, and EarthBound and reward you for waiting through the ending credits with a short clip? Obviously, this scene wouldn't suggest a sequel, but I could imagine some sort of big reveal or the answer to a driving question. **Is there a post-credits scene in Mass Effect 3? If so, what does it show?**


title: What is the best way to level Co-Op Score in Battlefield 3?

text: Personally, I am what they call an _Achievement-whore_ or [Formally] a completionist... But Battlefield 3 has taken that to a whole new level. I think Battlefield 3 has about 367 total available dog tags to obtain. I know some of them are not possible to get anymore (Dr. Pepper promo, etc) - but there are some that via **math** , I have determined will take a very long time to obtain. There are co-op service star dog tags at 1, 5, 10, 20, and 50. From what I have found:   * You'll need 22,000,000 co-op points for service star 50   * Debatable The best level for grinding co-op points is Hit & Run, which can be done for ~10k points in 7min   * You'll have to play that level 2,200 times and spend about 260hr doing it.[Source] **Is there a better way to grind out the co-op?** Seeing as they only have a few missions, at 260hrs... I don't think I will have that kind of endurance to obtain those dog tags... Here is a crazy big picture of all available dog tags to reference what I am talking about.


title: Does Mass Effect 3 use background balancing?

text: Some games allow balance adjustments to be made without issuing a title update or patch. Monday Night Combat is one example of this (Source). This is especially desirable on Xbox 360, because the certification process for title updates can take months and cost developers a large sum of money. This thread on BSN lists the balance changes that are slated for Mass Effect 3 multiplayer. **Will these balance changes take place behind the scenes (immediately), or will they only occur after a title update or patch is issued?** It seems to me like the easiest way to know for sure would be for an Xbox 360 player with a Quarian Infiltrator to test whether the Sabotage changes have taken place already. I would test this myself but I haven't unlocked that race yet.