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I was running Expeditionary with the STG for ages, switched for a bit to the BAR, now mainly using the Type 100. Haven't got the MP40 yet unfortunately! I did experiment running a sniper and a shotgun and it's worked out pretty well. I've always avoided both in previous games, but really enjoying using them in this one, feels fresh as! Anyone know when any new maps will drop? Surely it'll be around Christmas?

Enjoying this game, especially the War game type. Not enjoying the sniper overkill though, feels like at half half of all players just snipe!

Ditto. Granted, I've only played about an hour or so of the beta, but I couldn't believe they'd taken out the emails from scouts. Who's got the time to sort through loads of reports to find the one you want? That, along with what I feel is a more cluttered and less user friendly UI, makes the beta a chore to play (for me, at least), hence why I've only played an hour or so. I've gone back to a save on FM2017, hopefully they implement a lot of changes for the full release.

Ranieri interview on Football Focus coming up...

that brooks for united looks a good player, seen him a few times now and always been impressed. edit: what frankie said ^

'mon the Foxes! Sky commentators are so biased towards Durham, Leicestershire an afterthought it seems!

gew on then! had a few quid e/w on tisbutadream too. happy days!

Ditto. It just shows that depression / mental health issues affects everyone, regardless of creed, colour, income etc.

I got £120 for it I think. It was the 500GB version. I part-ex'd against a pre-owned PS4 Pro too, which was slightly cheaper. My PS4 had started to develop an issue with the PSU. Sometimes it'd just turn on, flash the blue light, then turn off straight away - then you had to fiddle around with the PSU, plug it and unplug it etc. It always worked eventually and I'm sure there is a quick fix, I just wanted rid though. Glad I did it, the Pro is a great machine and have noticed improvements already. Can't wait for this game to test it out fully!

Totally understand that, and I've done the same with a few lately (held off on No Mans Sky - never ended up picking it up, luckily). Early reviews of this seem very, very good though.

I had to pay about £75. The PS4 Pro was pre-owned and came with a free game too. I got £255 all in what I traded in - 8 games with my PS4 (500GB) too. Didn't think it was too bad really.

I part-exchanged my PS4 last week against a PS4 Pro and pre-ordered this at the same time. The bloke in GAME said it'd be the first game which would make proper use of the Pro's capabilities. Now he might've been spouting rascal advice but hopefully not! It looks incredible.

I asked the same question myself a page or two back. I found reaching out to someone really hard and very, very scary. Which is natural I guess, as you're jumping into the unknown in a sense. I'm a very analytical person in all aspects of life, but the last few weeks have been the first time I've actually taken time to think about whether the behavior I'd become accustomed to and normalised, was actually normal or whether it might have it's roots in something deeper. Accepting that there might be a problem was tough - ultimately though, it's healthy as if you accept there might be something you need to deal with, then you can actually take positive steps in dealing with it. I guess that ties into your denial question, because if you ignore and don't confront things, then that is denial and ignoring things and pushing it all to the side isn't healthy and won't get you to a better place. Like you though, and particularly so after actually speaking to someone last week, I'm pretty sure I don't suffer from depression or anything more serious than the occasional up/down days, which I've always had and which I now accept that can last for just a day or two, or a more prolonged period of time. The big thing I'm trying to do is change my lifestyle, which I think will help alleviate my problems and improve my overall happiness. So, things like getting back into the gym (of course exercise is scientifically proven to improve your mood due to the release of endorphin's), doing more stuff socially etc. I've already noticed a change in myself since I made the jump of actually reaching out to someone, and I've begun getting my teeth into the lifestyle stuff and I feel a lot better so far.

Checking in again. Thanks for everyone's comments after I posted last week. I had my counselling session on Friday, and to be honest immediately after I didn't feel like I got anything from it. Not that I expected to get something from it, that is. I just felt it was way too vague. The trouble is, I'm a very analytical person, so I want to know specifics, numbers, data - which is a problem with this sort of stuff, as there isn't a right or wrong answer and we're complex beasts! However, since Friday - and actually since I posted here having scheduled that first session, I've felt happier. Maybe I've just naturally stumbled out of feeling low, as I normally do. Or maybe actually facing up to the fact that I might have issues and arranging to speak to someone has helped - or maybe it's because I just rambled at said someone for half an hour, or maybe all three! I do think it's been cathartic and just basically ranting at someone has helped me, though I'm not sure aside from giving me a release, it'll help me actually figure things out. I know exactly what everyone means when they say they feel numb - not happy, not sad - just numb or ambivalent towards everything. I, too, have been guilty of sleeping lots and just staying in bed. I'm going to try to remember this quote by Ingmar Bergman though - "Demons don't like fresh air - they prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet".

Just this morning I’ve booked an introductory counselling session for this Friday. I must admit, I'm pretty scared. I've always had lows, but over the last few months I don't think I've ever felt as consistently low as I have done. Normally I'm down for a day or two, before 'snapping out of it'. I’m guessing most, if not everyone here, has gone through an initial phase of denial? I’m struggling to accept that I might actually be depressed. Maybe I’ve just been naive, or perhaps (sub)consciously I’ve avoided thinking about it, but I’ve never really analysed how I’ve been feeling that much, which is probably why it’s never dawned on me that the feelings I’ve been experiencing for so long might not actually be ‘normal’. It's tough to describe, but I'm sure some of you understand. Good luck everyone, and it's great to see a thread dedicated to this.