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Right Ace, I do think that they have made it possible for larger size maps with th erelease of episode 2, I dont know anything technical about source coding, Im just making an educated guess.

As for load times, that can all depend on the computer, example: When I play Oblivion on my laptop it takes 3+ minutes to load a game, when I play on my desktop it takes mere seconds, so really I say that load times cannot be judged as long or short except on a specific system setup

I think I'd better warn you all that I've been playing around with a birthday-provided Bluetooth GPS whatsit thingy - a combination of , a vaguely modern mobile phone (SE K750i), some hacked-together Ordnance Survey and Google maps and has had some .

(No, the continental side of the Channel Tunnel doesn't end there - I took a few minutes to remember to switch the GPS thingy on again. I've also missed out the ridiculously slow stuff from Waterloo - I have a corrupted GPX file I need to mangle back into shape...)

So ... erm ... Something vaguely like the openness metastasis_2, except perhaps with more than one objective, and a radar to stop absolutely everyone from getting lost?

So you're/were back in Blighty, and have had a birthday as well!

Let us all belatedly wish you a happy birthday and many happy hours with your eclectic collection of gadgetry!

... and fervently hope that not too many more of these happy events pass by before we are all blissfully lost in the snowy urbs of Out of Time.

How about an in-game GPS instead of a radar, (if there'd be any meaningful distinction) and a paper map that we could select and hold in our hands and which would blow inside out in the wind, and have Minerva increasingly irate as we resolutely refuse to ask directions from the locals?

Tomorrow, there will be !

I'm older than I was last week, anyway.

Tonight's gaming edict: go play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - it's great.

Glitchy, a bit buggy and unpolished, but it's basically a humungous amount of radioactive Ukrainian architecture and terrain that's in there because, rather than for any truly specific gameplay purposes. It's MINERVA's vague architecture-first mantra taken to a ridiculous, glorious extreme.

Chernobyl FTW!