Stahlbrand

Scooped up Div 2 and Breakpoint for about the cost of a month of UP+, so I'm pretty pleased.

My brother gave me the gift of re-upping my lapsed premium membership for X-mas.

However, I'm having difficulty redeeming it.

I tick the box for gift code, copy'n'paste the code from the email, but get errors in all the blank fields. Do I need to provide my CC info in order to redeem a gifted membership? This doesn't seem correct to me.

Can somebody please clarify the process for me?

The game runs pretty well on my machine, but the cut scenes suffer from terrible A/V sync.

I thought it was just bad lip sync at first, but it became apparent that all sound was either lagging or racing (the Speaker banging his podium was a stone cold giveaway).

I'm here for the tactical battles against aliens, but it would be nice if they smoothed that out with a patch or something.

After seeing Farbelowagerage's Austin on twitter, I did some of the crew as well.

And friend of the site

Specialist Zodiak MF has been pretty clutch in a few missions so far, Ranger Scanlon took a bad hit and has been on the DL for a while.

I did worse, I hopped onto the helicopter to use the minigun to lay down some fire, and the goddamn chopper took off with just me and the limper, the other kids were laid down right next to the helo, I couldn't believe it as it was happening, like "NO, don't take off Pequod!". Guess I'll be playing it again soon, can't let that stand, I was so close to getting them all out.

I didn't have much luck with an underbarrel grenade launcher and a rocket launcher, so I led them away (unspotted, but they shuffle your way anyways) dog legged around them, got in the truck (with them behind, so no line of site, and drove it a good distance away. Call a chopper, fulton the truck, bam.

Thanks for the head's up, I'm just about to take that mission. I guess I'll try not to die or restart.

@syce300: It's farmable/repeatable content. Often, not always, in different areas. Good if you want a quick insertion with a familiar goal.

I've been really happy with "Paint it Black" by the Stones -- hearing that song as my heli comes in reminds me of Tour of Duty and other Vietnam War media.

Yeah, always carry smoke, it can be very useful. I was in a tunnel and three guards were just around the bend in a huddle, and I was trying to figure out how to incapacitate them without blowing stealth when I knocked over a gas can and they all heard it.

I startled but backed off a few feet and whipped smoke at the wall so it would rebound toward them - a second later the trio were coughing and had 'blue-green' markers, so I zipped around the corner, headshot two of them with tranq and grappled the third.

I wonder what happens if you try to stop a jeep with smoke? I'll have to see if that works.