If that's true, there must be an exception to that rule itself, and thus your statement is wrong. 

ParaDOX!!! 

Visit inertia in NYC!!!! 

.. Israeli mappers in this place ?
I have to go to Tel Aviv by end of January... 

:) you should come to Lisbon :) more safe...

and I buy you some beers ;) 

The day there will be an event in Portugal for which my company ask would me to go for, then you'll be the first to know ;) 

gosh, exchange of nerdisms.

*Tactical shield* 

two new reviews by tronyn are up at http://www.quaddicted.com/category/tronyn-reviews/ 

http://willbarnesonline.com/wordpress/2010/11/29/hi-res-camera-catches-couple-in-the-act/ 

A hi-res version of Obtex texture set? I'm guessing not, but I thought it was worth asking :S 

Just doing some code diving and found an interesting quirk, never noticed this before:

If you have the pentagram and some armor, it seems the pentagram will not prevent your armor from being depleted when you take damage. So i guess a player typically go all gung-ho and lose all their armor while fighting with the pent.

Anyone else know about that? Is it a desirable feature for some reason? 

i first noticed it when kell and i were implementing the cross of deflection.
i'm not really sure if it's a bug or not. in a way, it makes sense as the pentagram is making your body invulnerable, but not the mundane armour you're wearing. in that case, it's working as intended. 

I've known that for 12 years or so!!

I'd say it's intentional. It makes the pent more of a temporary / tactical powerup. 

metlslime you are very distracted guy :) 

this is how the pent works. I thought it was logical. I knew it forever. 

 

I knew that pretty early on...

I can't see any gameplay advantage from it - bug. 

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i'm voting for no bug.. always seemed logical to me; both for the reason necros stated & also as it acts as a kind of tradeoff against using it when the player has a choice; as in, they can go bezerk with a close-up rocketlauncher for 30 seconds without risk of death, but will be weakened by the end of it.

you probably noticed godmode does the same... 

What necros said. 

my tendency is, not a bug. Magical protection for you, not necessarily your gear. Then again, I doubt that was the intention.

whatever works best. 

so now i have two choices, to wait and get another innovision gtx 470 card or get zotac gtx 470, that is cheeper to 50bucks and has 5 years warranty as opposite to inno3d (only) one year warranty, i've read some opinions about zotac vs inno3d, and it's seems that inno3d was(is) the wrong choice.

any suggestions, guys 

but q2's penta protects either HP and armor 

I think the same, is not a bug and in some places is much better then a 100 ht and a Ra 

Because of the way the code is written - it just seems like more of an oversight. Could be the left in intentionally though, like rocket jumping. 

Yeah, it doesn't look like it was intentional.