So I realized I've been here on GUN, made some posts, made some friends, and shared my thoughts, but never shared my introduction! So as the saying goes, "better late than never!"

Not sure what all to say so I'll just be me. To introduce myself, here I am Desert_Gunner, elsewhere I go as SteelCore or ViolentNomad, and to my fellow peasants on the Xbox I'm gamertag SilentRival...I have been extremely absent from the modding community since at least when Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind was still considered a "new game" After spending the last decade or so of my life in the United States Marine Corps, I decided to get out and start my family. I live here in sunny Arizona and work as a private defense contractor and part-time gunsmith. I could probably talk your ear clean off about anything firearm, military, or beer related (Somehow all these fit together well).

As I mentioned, I've only recently come back to the modding community, or PC gaming at all for that matter, and games that interest me fall along the lines of the Fallout and Elder Scrolls series, Anything post-apocalyptic, Stalker and Metro style. Big fan of FPS games and military simulation, such as Arma and recently AussieShepherd talked me into playing SQUAD, been having a great time with that (Whoever their sound guy is must have spent time as a grunt - the weapons are the closest I've ever heard to the real thing in a video game, especially that SAW) I enjoy mindless sandbox building games like Minecraft or more recently Space Engineers. The Halo series (Mostly those by Bungie and not 343) will always have a place in my heart as well. Fallout 4 seems to hold most of my time, and I ascribe to one of those type of people that kinda goes way overboard on mods (Something like 470 active and 255 plugins....the struggle for plugin space is real) and I'm always switching it up. I'm also one of those folks where their fallout game looks like the Brotherhood of Steel found more than a few perfectly preserved armories from before the war haha

Coming back into it and enjoying Fallout 4, I found this site and its community, of which I am very happy to be a part of. I haven't messed around with the construction kit since Morrowind, and I know very little of porting weapons, outfits, or models in general (Seriously though, porting weapons even when I have the models and attachments is the biggest headache), but I have the hunger to learn these things, and helpful folks here have been kind enough to point me down the path so that maybe eventually I can share with you all my own ports and things that I find of value in these games and for their help in this matter I am extremely thankful!

So as I said, I've been here some time and as a late introduction this is also more of my thank you to this community for being so welcoming and for being the great community that you are! So thank you and I look forward to talking with you all in the forums!

Desert_Gunner

Nice to meet you! And welcome to the community!

Hey man welcome to the community and hope you're enjoying your time here. Firearms, military, and beer do have some magical way of coming together.

@Desert_Gunner Hey hey hey there man, welcome to GUN! Nice to meet you, man great intro and you got a lot of interests that people here share. Enjoy yourself here.

Hey Desert_Gunner! I too am a big fan of post apocalyptic games, but not so much on military sims. Still though, I do hope to see your works in the future. Maybe you could even do that slanted fedora thing you suggested a while back!

Hello there and welcome officially to our beloved community. Hope you keep enjoying your stay and it's like you said better late than never!

Welcome to the GUNetwork @Desert_Gunner ! I hope you'll like our little community. Have fun here mate

Welcome to the GUNetwork mate, Hope you enjoy your stay here.
Glad to see a fellow Squad fan on here. I too, Was hooked by the awesome audio. It's hands down the most realistic sound design I've ever come across in a game. And oh don't even get me started on the particle effects!

See you round, GUNner.

<-Came here Expecting Nazi Material

<-Sees a Fellow Gunner iNstead


...aIGHT I can live with that , welcome aboard ladey peps are nice here we go whiskey too enjoy !

I'll be honest I skimmed a little bit It is nice to meet you though brother. I'm glad I'm not the only one who liked playing as The Nerevarine. Anyways here's an official welcome sir. Welcome to GUN.

Thanks all for the very kind welcome! I am indeed looking forward to staying with this modding community!

@"Y0ungRe13el" Once I get a handle on the tools, absolutely!

@"Tactical DropBear" You should see the IED they are looking to implement in the next big update...its almost too real.

@"alexmercer984" Haha I can see the confusion, but Ves Heill is Old Norse. Literally translates to "Be Healthy" but it is used as a greeting or toast much in the way some people say "Cheers!" Okay, done being an infomercial haha

@"Crash244" It was kinda more 'Wall of Text' than I'd prefer now that I look at it

hey bro and better late then never right haha welcome to the campfire known as GUN.

Glad to see you are enjoying yourself here. I give my belated welcome and hope you keep enjoying the site.

Desert_Gunner wrote:

@Tactical DropBear You should see the IED they are looking to implement in the next big update...its almost too real.

Ooh that sounds exciting! You mind linking me to a place I can see it?