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SAN FRANCISCO POLICE DEPARTMENT VISION PROCESS OVERVIEW AND SOURCE SUMMARY PROJECT BACKGROUND The purpose of the San Francisco Police Department Organizational Assessment is to determine how the department can best meet the city's current and future public safety needs. The assessment is designed to capture where the department is now and to determine where it needs to go over the next decade to become a world-class police department—reducing crime, promoting community involvement in policing, ensuring a healthy diversity in the department, and developing the next generation of leaders who will continue the SFPD's new vision. The City of San Francisco's Office of the Controller has contracted with the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) to conduct the Organizational Assessment. The core "project team" includes members of the Controller's Office, SFPD and PERF. The project is overseen by a Steering Committee composed of the Chief of Police and representatives of the Police Commission, Board of Supervisors, Mayor's Office and Controller's Office. The SFPD Organizational Assessment has two phases. During the first phase, critical departmental issues will be reviewed and recommendations for improvement will be developed. The second phase involves the implementation of the recommendations generated in the first phase. An integral part of phase one is creating a strategic vision for the department. This document offers a process overview and source summary of how the Vision Statement submitted to the city was created. THE STRATEGIC VISION Developing a vision statement for a major city police department requires an understanding of the views of two groups of people: the people who are served by the department, and the department's employees. The people who are served by the department must be asked what kind of a police department they want, and how that compares to the type of department they think they currently have. And the members of the police department, who have the critically important inside perspective on how the department functions and how it can be improved, must be given a chance to offer their candid observations and guidance on how to shape a long-term future for the department. Accordingly, PERF began its work on crafting a vision statement for the San Francisco Police Department by arranging for a variety of focus groups and individual interviews to be conducted with members of the San Francisco community and the police department, as well as with community leaders and local officials. Community members and police also were invited to post comments about the future of the police department on a website created for this project. Working with our local partners on the San Francisco project, Pendergrass Smith Consulting and Barbary Coast Consulting, we asked questions about the strengths and weakness of the police department, the challenges it is facing, the crime problems in the city, and what kind of a police department people would like to see in the future. 1 PERF's process of soliciting the views of San Francisco community members, members of the police force, and community leaders regarding the future of the SFPD included the following: COMMUNITY INPUT Strategic Review Committee The Strategic Review Committee is made up of approximately 20 community representatives from a broad range of groups, including faith-based groups, senior and disability organizations, immigrant groups, "watchdog" groups, violence prevention groups, and labor and business organizations. The Committee will offer valuable input and recommendations throughout the two-year Organizational Assessment of the San Francisco Police Department. Additionally, its members will provide the study with a consistent level of citizen input to ensure that the study meets its stated goals. The first Strategic Review Committee meeting was held in January 2008, and committee members provided input on their vision for the SFPD. Committee members were selected by the project's Steering Committee and were invited to participate in the Organizational Assessment process by San Francisco Police Commission President Theresa Sparks and Police Chief Heather Fong. External Stakeholder Interviews Barbary Coast Consulting conducted interviews of key individuals identified by the project team and Steering Committee as having a special interest in the Organizational Assessment and/or representing key SFPD constituencies. These individuals included heads of city departments and agencies, leaders of local nonprofits, as well as elected and appointed city officials and other community members from key constituent groups. Barbary Coast conducted 44 interviews between October 2007 and February 2008, with three more conducted by PERF staff. The information gathered through these interviews was intended to complement the public feedback gathered through other means, such as the project website, focus groups, and the Strategic Review Committee. The External Stakeholder questions are located at the end of this document in Attachment II. Focus Groups Under the leadership of Pendergrass Smith Consulting, five focus groups were conducted in midOctober and one focus group was conducted in November to gather input across different categories. These focus groups were held in different areas of the city, and participants came from a mix of neighborhoods. Session members ranged from professionals to working class residents to homeless persons. Over 100 community members contributed to the sessions and were able to provide direct input to our team. Details of the focus groups are below. • • • Session 1 was held in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood and had 18 participants. Session 2 was held downtown at the Shinnyo-en Foundation and had 13 participants. Session 3 was held in Chinatown and had six participants. 2 • • • • Session 4 was held in the Southeast sector of the city at the Global Exchange and had 16 participants. Session 5 was held in the Western Addition neighborhood of the city and had 28 participants. Session 6 was held in the Richmond District and had 17 participants. Separate smaller sessions were held with 15 more members of the community. Citywide Outreach Barbary Coast and PERF developed a number of opportunities to solicit input from the general public through several broad outreach campaigns. In collaboration with project team and Steering Committee members, we developed a contact database of 870 interested individuals serving community-based organizations with whom we hope to communicate on an occasional basis regarding the Organizational Assessment's findings. Approximately 350 of those individuals were notified of the project via a mass e-newsletter. Through the newsletter and other communications, the team also provided opportunities for interested parties to provide online feedback via the project website, and by telephone through the project hotline. The San Francisco Police Effectiveness Review website, www.sfpolicereview.org, allowed interested stakeholders to respond to the same battery of questions that were utilized during the focus groups and stakeholder interviews. This feedback mechanism was also available in Chinese, Spanish, and Russian, allowing a broader audience to provide input to the study. We also encouraged selected individuals who were unable to participate in the interviews and focus groups to provide online feedback. INTERNAL INPUT SFPD Interviews The PERF team met with representatives from the San Francisco Police Commission, including the Office of Citizen Complaints, as well as members of the police department. In addition to the Office of the Chief, command staff and civilian directors from all four bureaus of the department were interviewed. SFPD officers in charge of bureau subdivisions and units were also included in the interview process. Internal Stakeholder questions are available at the end of this document in Attachment II. Internal Focus Groups In the interest of engaging a diverse cross-section of police department personnel – diverse in terms of both objective circumstances (gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, time in the department, position in the department, etc.) and ideas and perspectives – PERF conducted four 3 focus groups with San Francisco Police Department personnel. These focus groups are outlined below: • Group 1 participants included 12 civilian, line-level employees representing all bureaus. Members were from several different divisions and units including Report Management, Property Control, Staff Services, Planning, Technology, and Fiscal. Group 2 participants included 10 sworn, first-line supervisors. Each patrol watch was represented, as were investigations, the airport and specialized support units. Group 3 participants included sworn mid-managers. Four lieutenants and one sergeant serving in an acting lieutenant capacity participated in the session. Group 4 participants consisted of 12 line-level participants, ten sworn and two non-sworn representing Field Operations and Investigations Bureaus and members of specialized support units. • • • SFPD Online Feedback In an effort to maximize opportunities for involvement, police department members not contacted as part of the internal focus groups or interviews were able to provide input into the visioning process online. This instrument, which was comprised of the same questions as those used in the internal focus groups, was hosted on an independent website to allow personnel to provide input when and where it was most convenient. SFPD personnel were alerted to the opportunity through notification in the department's A-Bulletin, postings on the department's Intranet, command staff and roll call briefings, and PERF staff, who were on-site during the week of November 26. SUMMARY Significant effort was dedicated to obtaining input from a broad and diverse cross-section of San Francisco. Many themes emerged during this process and those topics are reflected in the Strategic Vision provided to the city by the PERF team. It is clear that with commitment and enthusiasm from the community, the police department and government officials, the standards described in the vision are within reach. Attachment I presents a comprehensive list of all individuals who participated in crafting the SFPD vision statement through our internal and external interview and focus group process. Attachment II includes the questions asked during the External and Internal Stakeholder Interviews. 4 Attachment I 5 The following table presents the 161 participants in the "External Stakeholder" interviews and focus groups. Name Alvin Williams Ann Shord Anni Chung Anthony Franklin Audrey Ward Ben Lee Bevan Dufty Brice Robinson Calvin Jones Carl Brown Carlos Garcia Carmen Chu Chris Lette Cindy Brandon Cui Yan Xie Curtis Campbell Cynthia Williams Dale Jacobs Dan Semelsberger Daniel Hurtado Daniel Mancia David Campos David Ebarle David Gutierrez David Hirtz Diane Thomas Diane Yip Donald Bachner Donald Henderson Earl Moore Emily Moto Murase Father Paul Frances Hsieh Francisco Andrade Galen Gee Garth Collins Gavin Newsom George Jones Gerardo Sandoval Gilda Serrano Gillian Gillett Gina Fromer Organization Community Member Community Member Self-Help for the Elderly Community Member Community Member Community Member Board of Supervisors Community Member Community Member Community Member San Francisco Unified School District Board of Supervisors Community Member San Francisco SAFE - "SRC Member" Community Member Community Member Community Member Community Member Community Member Community Member Community Member Police Commissioner Department of Emergency Management Support Services Manager Community Member Community Member Community Member Neighborhood Watch Group - Ingleside Community Member Community Member Community Member San Francisco Department on the Status of Women Community Member Office of Senator Carole Migden Community Member Community Member Community Member Mayor Community Member Board of Supervisors Community Member San Jose/Guerrero Coalition to Save our Streets Community Member 6 Gina Nibbi Gracia Wiarda Helynna Brooke Herb Alston I. Fabular Jackie Wright Jacqualin Laurent Jakada Imani Jake McGoldrick James Ellis Jamie Woo Jean Field Jeanne Woodford Jed Lane Jeff Adachi Jermain Collins Jerry Taylor Jesus Estrada Jodi Schwartz Joe Alioto Veronese John Scott John Serrano John Torres Johnican George Joseph Watkins Joyce Hicks Juan Luis Loza Julio Escobar Justin Surber Karen Wong Kari Lee Kay Tsenin Keith Wilson Ken Stein Kenneth Mayes Kevin Ryan Kim Humphrey Kimberly Wicoff Kinny Li Kitty Ha LaShawn Boston Laura Phillips Lawson Snipes Jr. Leela Gill Leigh Ann Baughman Linda Ng Pacific Union Real Estate Community Member Community Member Community Member Gartner Consulting Community Member Community Member Ella Baker Center for Human Rights Board of Supervisors Community Member Community Member Office of Citizen Complaints Adult Probation Department Community Member Office of the Public Defender Community Member Community Member Community Member Lyric Police Commission Community Member Community Member Department of Children, Youth, and Families Community Member Community Member Office of Citizen Complaints Community Member Comunidad San Dimas - "SRC Member" Community Member Chinatown Resident Chinatown YMCA San Francisco Superior Court Community Member Community Member Community Member Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice Community Member Communities of Opportunity Community Member Community Member Community Member Department of Emergency Management Executive Director Community Member North of Panhandle Neighborhood Association Community Member Community Member 7 Lisa Hoffmann Lisa Shell Liz Thornton Lonnie Holmes Lydia Vincent M. Hennessey Mai Ho Margaret Chiu Marianne Hampton Mark Adams Mark Sanchez Mark Schlossberg Marlene Tran Mary Harris Maya Dillard Smith Mesha Monge-Irizarry Michael Barrett Michael Jawitz Michael Messina Michael Minix Michael Peters Michela Alioto-Pier Niam Harrison Nikki Calma Pat Knapp Paul Stewart Petra DeJesus Po Yee Ung Quintin Mecke Quijuan Maloof R. Guintini Rachel Redondiez Raymond Ng Rebecca Rolfe Reed Fromer Rev. James McCray Richard Rendon Richard Smart Robert Montgomery Robert Yu Roger Grant Ron Well Rose Chung Ross Mirkarimi Sandra Fewer Sean Elsbernd Department of Emergency Management Deputy Director PG&E Community Member Community Member Community Member Sheriff's Department Asian Perinatal Advocates San Francisco Unified School District - "SRC Member" Community Member Community Member School Board ACLU of Northern California Community Member Ocean View-Merced Heights-Ingleside Neighbors in Action - "SRC Member" MOCJ Violence Prevention Director Community Member Community Member Community Member Community Member Community Member Community Member Board of Supervisors Community Member SF Pride Board/Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center - "SRC Member" Community Member Community Member Police Commission Asian Pacific American Community Center (APACC) Safety Network Partnership Community Member District Attorney's Office Office of Supervisor Chris Daly Community Member SF LGBT Center Community Member Community Member Community Member Community Member Community Member Bay Area Immigrants Rights Coaltion Community Member Community Member Office of Supervisor Aaron Peskin Board of Supervisors Community Member Board of Supervisors 8 Sharen Hewitt Shawn Brown Shirley Moore Shirley Smart Sonyja Blanson Sophie Maxwell Stephen La Plante Steve Falk Steven Cornell Terry Levern Thomas P. Mazzucco Tina D'Elia Tom Ammiano Tom Knapp Tomiquia Moss Tommie Hannah Tony Kelly Troy Dangerfield Walter Simmons Walter Turner Wendy Dawson William Sifferman Willie B. Bender, Jr. Willie B. Kennedy Yvonne Y. Lee Zoee Astrachan Zoon Nguyen Community Member Community Member Community Member Community Member Community Member Board of Supervisors Community Member San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Brownies Hardware Community Member Police Commission Communities United Against Violence - "SRC Member" Board of Supervisors Community Member Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation - "SRC Member" Community Member Community Member Community Member Community Member Community Member Community Member Juvenile Probation Department Community Member Community Member Police Commission Interstice Architects Office of the Assessor-Recorder The Internal Stakeholder interview participants were members of the San Francisco Police Department and are listed below. They totaled 90. (SFPD focus group participants were allowed to remain anonymous in order to encourage openness and candor in their discussion and are not included in the following list). A. Brown A. Casillas A. Fotinos A. Pardini A. Sevilla A. Villagomez B. Chin B. Fong B. Magee B. Topp C. Casciato C. Orkes C.J. Keohane C. Holt D. Collins D. Lazar D. Mahoney D. McDonagh D. O'Leary D. Schmitt D. Shinn E. Cota E. Ferrando G. Corrales G. Delagnes G. Jimenez G. Pohley G. Yee H. Fong H. Garcia I. Sequeira J. Ballentine J. Chisholm J. Dudley J. Ehrlich J. Feeney J. Garrity J. Goldberg J. Grady J. Hennessey J. Lindberg J. Lynch J. Lynch J. McFadden J. Murphy J. Reilly J. Schlotz J. Tidwell J. Williams K. Brown K. Bukowski K. Cashman K. Sanford L. Espinda L. Millitello L. Ramian M. Chacon M. Connelly M. Dunnigan M. Gamble M. Gonzales M. Moore M. Pengel M. Stasko 9 M. Sullivan M. Tabak N. Gittens N. Greely N. Martinez P. Chignell P. Jackson P. Johnson P. Rames R. Corriea R. Kilshaw R. Roth S. Craig S. Dehaven S. Dillon S. Harper S. Ferrigno S. Silverman S. Tacchini S. Titel S. Tong T. Hettrich T. McCoy T. O'Neill T. Wearing V. Rothenberg 10 Attachment II 11 External Stakeholders were asked the following questions during interviews and focus groups. 1. Tell us how long you have been a resident of San Francisco and how crime impacts your life. 2. What are your expectations of the San Francisco Police Department? 3. Are those expectations being met? 4. What do you think are the strengths of the San Francisco Police Department? What is that based on? 5. What are the weaknesses of the San Francisco Police Department? What is that based on? 6. What would the ideal San Francisco Police officer be like? Can you provide an example? 7. As a resident, do you want to be involved in policing in San Francisco? If you want to be involved, explain how. 8. Please sum up your vision for the ideal SFPD in one word or phrase. Internal Stakeholders were asked the following questions during interviews and focus groups. 1. What are the most significant crime issues facing San Francisco? 2. How do you think the police department could be more effective in addressing crime issues? 3. Can you identify specific areas where the department performs exceptionally well? 4. Can you identify specific areas the department could improve upon? 5. What do you feel are the most important qualities for a San Francisco Police officer to have? 6. Can you identify the specific steps that the department could take that would enhance career development for officers? 7. If you had your way, 5 years from now what would the SFPD be like? 8. Please sum up your vision for the SFPD in a word or one sentence. 12
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Episode PremiereMarch 24, 2006
GenreDrama, Family, Comedy, Music
Show Period2006 - 2011
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Tommy Milner, the Corvette factory driver who races worldwide and lives in Leesburg, just won the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the second time in his career.
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Just hope the building coming down is not scripted like the one they showed on the BF3 trailers, which ended up being a building falling down due to an earthquake on the SP campaign.
To be honest I wished much more building destruction on BF3, if what they showed us here is real time during MP maps, that will do for awesome ever changing MP matches.
Too bad knowing EA though, they'll probably do the same Standard vs Premium edition they did on BF3 and that's already pissing me a little off.
mark, you are a douchebag. they will have more falling buildings in other maps. don't cry just because you only seen one falling building in one map.
thts fantastic and g00d.
This game reeks of playing it safe. Also not looking forward to playing 90$ to get all the stuff. I got BF3 on PC without the premium dlc packs and its almost impossible to find good active servers for just the core game. Which basically means the game was kind of a waste of money unless I upgrade which I think is kind of bullshit. Also, get rid of battlelog and give us a functional server browser please. Not a huge fan of grinding for 100s of hours to unlock stuff anyways.
I think the addition of the spectating tool is fantastic. I would love to see some increased saturation.
wat a rip off! so it's a slighly better version of bf 3. it's like upgrading Windows Vita to Win 7. should hav just release it as an expansion pack. definitely not getting until DICE make a new Bad Company game
Less Awesome, more shocking.
I'm honestly preoccupied by the last statement in this video and how there's not going to be as much destruction as in BC2. To me that was a drawback in BF3 because being able to fight in an ever changing environment really sets BC2 apart from other multiplayers. Just Crossing my fingers
Why are people so on about "game play"? Since it is built by visual quality plus sound AFX that will give you good "game play" without these two, I don't think you will have a good time playing it. Besides, DICE is trying their best to change things around and create more different game styles. Big shout-out for DICE
I don't understand why this is one of the best games at E3. Is it the hate for COD and trying to take it over? Or is it just the overall popularity of shooters and still hopefully the COD killer while not becoming COD at the same time?
Like COD the game doesn't have to totally change each year for it to be a good game. Its a series so it's going to be simular to the last one. I am looking forward to BF4 and COD ghosts because they both look like a lot of fun.
Graphicly good, gameplay wise it's the same dull nonsense we've had for years. Nothing new, just upgraded graphics and destruction and i care much more about gameplay than shiny particals and better texture qualety
Graphics look a little bit better than BF3 but that wasn't the point here. Destruction played the bigger role. And pulling down a skyscraper to change to field was just great :)
I'm digging these big sprawling city maps. Tired of fighting in barren deserts and forests and shit with just a few military outposts scattered around.
Yah the games WOW factor in graphic sense was in 2011 and so. Now it's almost in here. So graphics won't WOW you [But BF4 did wow me]. So major concerns, as always is the gameplay. I see more promise. I want to buy it.
If AAA games could learn anything from Minecraft, its that graphic don't matter when you have great gameplay. They merely attract players, gameplay keeps them coming back again and again.
I understand what he means. It doesn't seem as fresh but at the same time I'm glad the graphics haven't been upgraded too much so I can run this comfortably. I'm more interested in seeing what gameplay tweaks they've made.
same graphics as bf3. they look washed, too dark or too bright and depressing. dice should go with graphics like bf2, more clear and natural.
"It doesn't look as amazing, but that still looks great"... is he fu**ing kidding? sorry but I've been following the E3 since yesterday and the only games with better graphics are Watch dogs and maybe The Witcher 3... maybe.
Gamespot, is that guy on weed?
I'm fine with the visual, it's already superior to many games :)
The majority of the consensus in Battlefield 3's earlier poll even stated that most of the players anticipated the multiplayer gameplay / footage, not the new visual vista.
Because we definetely don't want another Crysis 3
curious to know if the destruction of the building is an event, or if its the result of physics.
I think this game looks stunning. I thought they were going to complain the game was all graphics and no gameplay, not the other way around.
counter-knife attack???!!!
This would seems weird of me to ask for anyone on a gaming site to please sign a petition, but I see it as a must. Please sign this petition because an airsoft field in San Jose, California is recently shut down for no good apparent reason.
I'm a gamer and also an airsofter. After playing all the fun games like Witcher 2, Battlefied 3, Shogun 2:Total, I get bored and must do something else new which happens to be playing airsoft.
People that care more about graphics than gameplay... sometimes I wonder if you guys are real gamers and not some critic from fashion magazines.
Your an idiot there's a huge difference of what they upgraded in battlefield 4 compared to battlefield 3. They're. Running 60 GPS 1080p compared to battlefield 3's 60 fps and 720p resolution. There's now a vast amount of camos for not only your guns, knifes and pistols, but also your vehicles now. You can now customize your pistol by adding 3 core attachments to it. You now have a wide variety of knifes to chose from affecting how fast and how lethal your knife kills are. There's going to be a shot ton more guns to choose from and all are guns being used right now today by all different military groups all over the world. Your primary weapon can now be customized with four attachments instead of 3 or 2. Your weapons can now be equipped with different grips, a wider variety of scopes and sites and multiple lasers, suppressors and barrels. Your gun can have different types of lasers and different colors, there are now for grips , angled grips, round grips and others all effecting how your gun plays out on the battlefield, there's multiple barrels and muzzle breaks too effecting how your gun shoots, and now they have finally brought in the red dot site we've all wanted and not only just the reflex and holographic. Snipers now have less glare when hiding making them harder to see and more realistic, they've also decreased the overly affective suppression which was a big problem in bf3. They now have a wider range of weapon types, they have dmr's , sniper rifles, assault rifles, sub machine guns, pdw's, lmg's , hmg's, carbines. Medics can now throw down not only a stationary med kit, but can also carry a mobile one that the can throw on to a teammate or themselves , same with a stationary ammo kit and mobile one. There's now counter knifing, instead of just being able to carry a frag grenade you can choose from flash, concussion, smoke and even burst your enemy on fire with incindiary grenades. Vehicles now have a wider range of weapons, perks attachments and abilities. All vehicles have a passenger seat now and both are deep with customization. Squads are now made up of six and instead of 32 man games the game can now support 64 players on new gen consoles. Squads now have teamwork kill steaks that are linked to the commander, graphics will be jaw dropping for the new gen consoles and will play incredibly smooth. 360 players will notice a tremendous difference in graphics, movement and playability . As for PCM, not a huge difference. You can now play as 3 factions and soldiers are customizable. Bf 4 has now implemented battle packs in which each individual player will get a secret battle pack depending on their performance. Battle packs will contain attachments, camos an dog tags, and each one will be different for each player. Some players will get a common battle pack in which a lot on players will be seen with the same camos or attachments, but others who perform greatly in matches will receiver rare battle packs with rare camos and dog tags. I can go on but those are just some of the changes ha.
@wongph In short, you just want Bad Company so freakin bad, that's all. I personally disliked the Bad Company series since it's kinda CoD storytelling wannabe.
Getting BF4 for sure
You're definitely wrong, and obviously not very smart. Bf3 came out two years ago, maybe more. This has an updated frostbite engine and a lot of changes for the better. Like playing commander from a tablet or player driven skyscrapers falling. it's people like you who make gamers look bad. Do you even know how many expansions packs were released for bf3?? A lot. This is so far from an expansion pack your comment makes you look like an idiot. How about you get a fucking clue.
Windows 7 is actually much better than Vista ^^ not the bes comparation. (But yeah, it is clear that Windows 7 is what Vista should have been).
BC2 had pretty clunky movement. Like the no strafe while sprinting. Also I did hate when the defending team would just clear the environment of everything in a few minutes on Rush, making it near impossible to advance for the Attackers.
@lucas_2020 Destructive environments are what set BC2 apart from COD, Halo, etc. If anything, DICE should be adding more destruction, more ability to dismantle a building brick by brick (rather than the currently invisible health bar) more bullet penetration based on ammo type and material the bullet is striking, bla bla bla.
After BF3, I'm not pre-ordering BF4 until I see some reviews/play a demo. DICE will only learn if we vote with our money
@lucas_2020 Dude i agree with you ,, i still play bad company 2 and i still enjoy it more than battlefield 3
@tightwad34 BF is just better than COD. Its a simple as that
BF is just better than CoD. But they made it another milk-cow just like CoD. BF4 is just a glorified BF3 expansion that adds features that BF3 should have had and that BF2 already had (like squads and commander mode) (or building demolition as BF:BC2 had).
The new additions definatelly look good, and i'll probably get it with the money i saved by ignoring BF3's premium shit... but i REALLY hope they don't release a new battlefield on the same engine every 2 years adding a few new features that could have been perfectly bundled into a single game (or 1game + 1 decent expansion).
If they do this again, they can go fish for customers in the CoD playerbase because i'll definatelly be out.
@NightmareP3 You sound easily pleased.
@JDFS I can confirm that I'm certainly not on weed.
@DevilD2005 In the interview with Bach yesterday, he claimed that the destruction is not a scripted event. It is actually the result of destroying the building's support columns :)
@gruoch1 It feels a lot better to play, I think--a lot punchier, movement feels better, and the general 'feel' of it is much nicer. It's one of my E3 highlights, for sure. I'm certainly not complaining about the graphics, just that my feel of it wasn't the same kind of "holy smokes wow o wow" of when I first saw Battlefield 3 running for the first time.
@RoachRush Wbat's the problem with asking for better graphics and good gameplay altogether? Why demand less while everyone is making these companies richer? Seriously then why would people think of buying ps4s or xbox ones which promise better quality?
@RoachRush Unfortunately everyone is trying to get in on the suddenly discovered cash cow industry of gaming, and as a result, the focus is being put on graphics because they don't understand that game play is and always will be what truly matters.
Learn from the games that have taken years to get boring to play because of GAMEPLAY: Halo 3, WoW, Super Smash Bros Melee, Star Craft, etc.
Its been a while since a game has come out that I really wanted to just go play for HOURS because it was just that fun.
BF3 was great to look at, but IMO got burnt out fast.
@RoachRush yeah, they didn't really provide a lot of info.
@djpetitte couldn't agree more mate
@djpetitte Amen!!
@Pre_ordered_PS4 I don't like either, but I totally agree with that. That's still not saying much, though.
By the way, its the same engine but and updated version. Have you ever heard of software updates?
Do you even know how many expansions bf3 had? it was a lot and introduced a lot of things that will be optimized in bf4. I cant believe how dumb you people are. you act like you know better than dice what to do with the bf series even though they have been specializing in online warfare games since 2002. The only thing you are right about is BF being better than cod otherwise you should study up on your bf before you post such idiot comments.
@nicolasetespqr @tightwad34 Totally agree! I love BF3 but the biggest immersion breaking aspect of it is that only certain buildings can be destroyed. Other things are either totally immune from damage (sometimes corrugated iron structures with paper thin walls) or can only be damaged in certain ways. This is inexcusable given BF:BC2 had exceptional environmental destructibility.
What I would love would be a BF game with Red Faction Guerrilla level of building destructibility. End of every game the whole map would be flattened. Kind of like World In Conflict.
@JmaN123654 i dunno i thought bf3 was great, still play it
@JmaN123654 Ill add to your list....Team fortress 2, 7 years late, More than 300,000 people still play it daily on PC. More people playing a 7 year old game than all the COD players combined on PC. One major reason? Mods, and still great support of the game from valve. It doesnt have realistic graphics but fun addictive gameplay.
@krev23 @nicolasetespqr @tightwad34
They cant do that, they still need cover. did you listen to him at all. he addressed that.
@nicolasetespqr @krev23 @tightwad34
welcome to 2005? wow.. you didn't play bf2 at all did you? Put them side by side and you would realize how dumb the comment you made is.
@krev23 @nicolasetespqr @tightwad34
I am happy enough with the current destruction system (BF:BC2 felt overall better in this aspect for some reason), i just can't stand these vulture company policies of striping new games of really old mechanics and then using those old mechanics as selling points for future games (look! commander mode! look! Fishes with AI!)... but specially i can't stand how most people here seem to fall for it like flies...
Welcome to 2005, buddies.


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Scientists have used an X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to get the first glimpse of the transition state where two atoms begin to form a weak bond on the way to becoming a molecule.
This illustration shows atoms forming a tentative bond, a moment captured for the first time in experiments with an X-ray laser at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The reactants are a carbon monoxide molecule, left, made of a carbon atom (black) and an oxygen atom (red), and a single atom of oxygen, just to the right of it. They are attached to the surface of a ruthenium catalyst, which holds them close to each other so they can react more easily. When hit with an optical laser pulse, the reactants vibrate and bump into each other, and the carbon atom forms a transitional bond with the lone oxygen, center. The resulting carbon dioxide molecule detaches and floats away, upper right. The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray laser probed the reaction as it proceeded and allowed the movie to be created. (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
This fundamental advance, reported Feb. 12 in Science Express and long thought impossible, will have a profound impact on the understanding of how chemical reactions take place and on efforts to design reactions that generate energy, create new products and fertilize crops more efficiently.
"This is the very core of all chemistry. It's what we consider a Holy Grail, because it controls chemical reactivity," said Anders Nilsson, a professor at the SLAC/Stanford SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis and at Stockholm University who led the research. "But because so few molecules inhabit this transition state at any given moment, no one thought we'd ever be able to see it."
Anders Nilsson, a professor at SLAC and at Stockholm University, explains how scientists used an X-ray laser to watch atoms form a tentative bond, and why that's important.
The experiments took place at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. Its brilliant, strobe-like X-ray laser pulses are short enough to illuminate atoms and molecules and fast enough to watch chemical reactions unfold in a way never possible before.
Researchers used LCLS to study the same reaction that neutralizes carbon monoxide (CO) from car exhaust in a catalytic converter. The reaction takes place on the surface of a catalyst, which grabs CO and oxygen atoms and holds them next to each other so they pair up more easily to form carbon dioxide.
In the SLAC experiments, researchers attached CO and oxygen atoms to the surface of a ruthenium catalyst and got reactions going with a pulse from an optical laser. The pulse heated the catalyst to 2,000 kelvins – more than 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit – and set the attached chemicals vibrating, greatly increasing the chance that they would knock into each other and connect.
The team was able to observe this process with X-ray laser pulses from LCLS, which detected changes in the arrangement of the atoms' electrons – subtle signs of bond formation – that occurred in mere femtoseconds, or quadrillionths of a second.
"First the oxygen atoms get activated, and a little later the carbon monoxide gets activated," Nilsson said. "They start to vibrate, move around a little bit. Then, after about a trillionth of a second, they start to collide and form these transition states."
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The researchers were surprised to see so many of the reactants enter the transition state – and equally surprised to discover that only a small fraction of them go on to form stable carbon dioxide. The rest break apart again.
"It's as if you are rolling marbles up a hill, and most of the marbles that make it to the top roll back down again," Nilsson said. "What we are seeing is that many attempts are made, but very few reactions continue to the final product. We have a lot to do to understand in detail what we have seen here."
Theory played a key role in the experiments, allowing the team to predict what would happen and get a good idea of what to look for. "This is a super-interesting avenue for theoretical chemists. It's going to open up a completely new field," said report co-author Frank Abild-Pedersen of SLAC and SUNCAT.
A team led by Associate Professor Henrik Öström at Stockholm University did initial studies of how to trigger the reactions with the optical laser. Theoretical spectra were computed under the leadership of Stockholm Professor Lars G.M. Pettersson, a longtime collaborator with Nilsson.
Preliminary experiments at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), another DOE Office of Science User Facility, also proved crucial. Led by SSRL's Hirohito Ogasawara and SUNCAT's Jerry LaRue, they measured the characteristics of the chemical reactants with an intense X-ray beam so researchers would be sure to identify everything correctly at the LCLS, where beam time is much more scarce. "Without SSRL this would not have worked," Nilsson said.
The team is already starting to measure transition states in other catalytic reactions that generate chemicals important to industry.
"This is extremely important, as it provides insight into the scientific basis for rules that allow us to design new catalysts," said SUNCAT Director and co-author Jens Nørskov.
Researchers from LCLS, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for Materials and Energy, University of Hamburg, Center for Free Electron Laser Science, University of Potsdam, Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, DESY and University of Liverpool also contributed to the research. The research was funded by the DOE Office of Science, the Swedish National Research Council, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the Volkswagen Foundation and the German Research Foundation (DFG) Center for Ultrafast Imaging.
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April 23rd, 2010 #690
Aaaawww, that's adorable!
One crit on the penguins... I'm noticing that the blackness of the penguins (and also the rope ladder, to a lesser degree) is much much darker than these other areas that are in the same plane, and in great shadow. This inconsistency is leaping off the image at me.
That bird in the foreground seems misplaced to me, too... He looks joined to the anchor, and doesn't fit the composition... maybe put him elsewhere in the image?
Hide this ad by registering as a memberApril 23rd, 2010 #691
oh man, that penguin piece is really adorable, and looks great! i agree with Will on the black and i add that the red of the bricks is trying to pierce my retina, also agree on the weird tangent going on with the bird/anchor- but overall, one of those pieces that made me "wow-hehe" out loud.
The spell thing looks really interesting too, would be cool to see more on that! it would really look cool as a neatly llustrated schematic!
always cool to stop by!Will you be going in Berlin for the MADE btw? would be cool to meet up there!
April 23rd, 2010 #692
Loving the penguin piece so much! Air Pirate penguins are more awesome than i imagined!
Just echoin Will really - it feels like that same darkness of the penguins should overflow into all those saturated purple shadows around the ship - even if its just the parts around the penguin.
Keep it up man, always a pleasure seeing your work.
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April 23rd, 2010 #693
O man everythings just so inspiring cant really crit on anything cause your way better then me haha
some encouragining words will have to do
have a good one and keep having fun
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May 4th, 2010 #694
William b. Hand, the Gnoll: Thanks for the feedback! Yeh the penguins were supposed to stand out a little, but I guess it doesn't really work well. The bird is just a little awkward I admit I might go back in and change those details. I'm still trying to get to grips with the more cartoon-style painting I got going there. It's fun though
And no, unfortunately I won't be able to make it to Berlin in June I think. Would be fun to hang out with a bunch of friends but it's slightly above budget and bad timing I'm afraid.
PHATandy: Thanks! Yeh I might work some more on the pirate piece -or start a new and better one altogether...
OmertA: Trying to crit someone you think is way better than you can still be helpful! Thanks anyway
So yeh, ArtOrder has a new challenge up: A Dungeons & Dragons Pin-up! There's a whole bunch of races to chose from, most of which I have no clue what they look like in the first place. After some research I found something about the Minotaur race, and well...I just had to get this sketch out of my brain.
I couldn't help it...
Going to do a more serious try tomorrow I think
May 4th, 2010 #695
lol so much creativity
May 4th, 2010 #696
Lol that Minotaur is pure awsome.
i love the variety of styles in here and the awsome rendering really great stuff man keep rocking on!!
May 4th, 2010 #697
Great lines in that dragon slayer and the minotaur pictures!
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Great stuff man. I've been following your great tutorial lately, it has some great perspective "shortcuts". I've also been thinking about buying the Eissen en Steur sketching book, does it have any additional tips as in your tutorial and would it be helpful in drawing objects from life correctly?
May 6th, 2010 #699
Been a while Yoitisi. Awesome works! You have improved a lot since the I've seen your eow works from a couple of years back. Keep pushing it dude.
May 6th, 2010 #700
everything is totally gnarly
May 6th, 2010 #701
what I love about this sketchbook is that every post seems to be imaginative! This is something I love to see (and that I struggle with myself). Very impressed with that triceratops literally of the top of your head a few pages back, and the secret santa piece before that is very cool. Would love to see some more pencil work in these later pages, but the PS stuff is looking really nice too!
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May 13th, 2010 #702
Krato, DK Sketch, Surus: Thanks!
D.C.: Hey, thanks! Well, there used to be a little booklet around from Koos Eissen that dealt with more tutorial kind of things and had a lot of tips and tricks in it (it's from 15 years or something ago though). The Sketching book was more focused on inspiring people and to show what ID drawing is all about rather than having a lot of tutorials and/or tricks in it. It has a great variety of examples from professional design companies in it though, and you can still learn a lot from just looking at the images.
Beelow: Yea those EOW's are already from waaay back...I should try one again these days I think
matty mcmullen: Uhm thanks?
ThomasM: Yeah I should do more pencil and pen work I guess. I do that for work a lot though, so I tend to grab other tools whenever I can.
Here's a more serious approach to the pin-up challenge. I found out the D&D Drow (dark elves) have a deity that's called the Thing That Lurks -it's a darp purple blob with tentacles!- so I was sold. Tentacles it is!
Probably going with the left one, but I thought I'd include all the sketches that came out okay.
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