Sentences with phrase «own piece of cover»

Most of the pieces of our cover collage needed to be assembled well before the NCAA announced its official brackets on Sunday night, so Friedman convened his own selection committee a week beforehand.

In some cultures, it's considered good luck for babies to born inside the caul, or with a piece of it covering their face.

I like the classic pieces of Covered Perfectly.

The game takes an isometric style view, and the stages are laid out in a grid format, with various pieces of cover to hide behind that deter ranged attacks.

As a result, we can feel the recoil of the automatic rifles and the impact of bullets, and appreciate why the nearest piece of cover becomes the most important thing in the world when someone is shooting at you.

The lack of a crouch button is a curious decision but thankfully the cover system more than makes up for this; with a tap of the X button you'll stick to the nearest piece of cover in your line of sight.

It's sticky and unresponsive, and while you can turn around corners in cover, you can't hop from one piece of cover to another as in, say, Gears of War or Mass Effect.

In addition to the Bloodbath Arena DLC, the Dead Island Special Edition will sport an exclusive piece of cover art and the blueprint for a special weapon, called the «Ripper»: A destructive combination of a baseball bat and a buzz saw that leaves attacking zombies battered and bleeding to death.

Dave, I think you pointed out the problem with Kevin's (and others who feel this way) thinking that the self or co publishing company is doing nothing but formatting the writers work, whipping up some quick piece of cover art, and maybe putting it up on a site for you — all the while taking your hard earned money.

I ran a contest on 99Designs.com, and whilst I am well aware that this decision is somewhat frowned upon in the design community, I ended up with a stunning piece of cover art, and a designer that I am more than happy to work with on many projects to come.

She picked up a piece of the cover photo: a pair of intense eyes, darkened almost into a Zorro mask.

It fell on a corner and a piece of the cover chipped off and flew away somewhere, but the case saved the actual device.

Whilst hiding behind an object like the wuss you are, simply look at another piece of cover using the right stick and a marker will appear there, after which you just hold down A and your guy will automatically charge forth from whatever object you've taken refuge behind to the new hidey - hole.

On the other hand, though, the cover system certainly isn't particularly great in comparison to many others out there (coughGearsofWarcough) A simple tap of the A button on the Xbox controller will slam your cell - shaded avatar into whatever wall or chest - high piece of cover happens to be in the immediate vicinity, while another tap of A while pushing the analogue stick in any direction will disengage you from cover — Simples.

When you do, instead of moving quickly everything goes into a slow motion, bullet time where you can shoot a lot of shots off at enemies as you slide across the gap between pieces of cover.

New weapons, close - cover combat moves and combat - knife executions turn each piece of cover into an offensive opportunity.

In addition, small pieces of cover and trees were indestructible.

Cover locking, where crouching securely attaches the character to a piece of cover, is gone, replaced by a more free - form of movement behind various pieces of cover, which takes some getting used to.

Alternatively, go in gun blazing and play it like a VR light gun game, albeit being able to pick your own pieces of cover.

It's up to you to lean out of cover, line up the sights and gun down the hired goons and gangsters, and taking pot shots at the enemy as you break from one piece of cover to the next and intermittently planting C4 feels simply awesome.

There's no peeking around corners or above walls to shoot, no dashing between pieces of cover, etc..

The cover system includes a mechanic where you can aim at another piece of cover and hold down a button to have your character sprint toward, which helps keep the pace high.

Indeed, death at the hands of the Germans, even on the hardest setting, usually only comes due to large amounts of focused fire and a poorly chosen piece of cover for yourself.

You'll spend the entirety of the game glued to a selection of barriers placed around the levels, with no ability to walk or even move away from them save a jetpack... which you can only use to fly to another piece of cover in what's essentially a short rail shooting section.

Though Hybrid offers a number of 3v3 multiplayer gametypes set in the context of a epic battle for Earth, the entire thing boils down to huddling in cover, shooting over cover and choosing, well, which piece of cover to crouch behind.

If you are behind a low piece of cover and you target an enemy your character will pop up just enough so that his gun fires over the obstacle and into your enemy.

This doesn't work very well because it's difficult to know what will trigger the automatic cover, and it felt I was running away a lot because the game didn't recognise a certain rock as a piece of cover.

To top it off, sometimes your own piece of cover does the exact opposite and you still get shot even when you are clearly fully in cover.

The X button will let you take cover, and you can move between pieces of cover by aiming the left analog stick towards the cover you want to move to, then pressing the X button again.

This has been tweaked to a happy medium to where the enemies still take some time to defeat, but the player won't be behind the same piece of cover emptying clip after clip into enemies.

The lack of a crouch button is a curious decision but thankfully the cover system more than makes up for this; with a tap of the X button you'll stick to the nearest piece of cover in your line of sight.

Redefined Cover Gameplay: New close - cover combat moves and combat - knife executions turn each piece of cover into an offensive opportunity.

You merely press the slide button to attach to the closest piece of cover.

From standard grenades and flash bangs to META armor (additional armor that can be activated), venom (bullets deal continuous damage over time), teleport (teleport to any piece of cover that you can reach instantaneously) and more, abilities greatly assist players and have the potential to turn the tides of battle in their favor.

Sometimes they'll flank you around a single piece of cover, Halo Elite style; other times they'll stand cluelessly next to a wall, waiting for a bullet to the cerebral cortex.

More often than not, Sebastian would accidentally stumble into view of an enemy while trying to swap to another piece of cover, putting me right into the midst of another encounter I was trying to avoid.

Whenever you're around a piece of cover, your character will automatically crouch and start using it.

Instead, when you want to move, you aim at a new piece of cover and jump toward it through zero gravity.

If you find yourself using the same piece of cover as an enemy, you can blindfire over the top to take him out.

You can move from side to side in the air, fire at your enemies, and use a speed boost to get to your next piece of cover.

CoD soldiers are now able to mantle over walls, cars and other obstacles without losing speed; on top of that a new contextual lean system lets you look around objects by depressing a single button, while the knee slide facilitates the speedy drop into a prone position or behind a piece of cover.

Not that the information on those extra pages is necessarily useless, but it's something that can be worked into pieces of a cover letter or discussed at an interview.

If you listen and pay heed to every piece of cover letter advice that you have been given in the past, nothing can stop you from writing an absolutely perfect cover letter — one that is a dream come true for a prospective employer.

This is part of the package when writing your resume, the final piece of the cover letter - resume - thank you letter trifecta.

One does get wary of the various pieces of cover letter writing advice that one gets on the web.

Not exact matches

Turning a corner into a room whose walls were covered in whiteboard markings, we came across a man fiddling with the bits and pieces of a video - conferencing setup.

The design, which made its debut in September, includes a few pieces of rubber wedged between the laminated wood, metal, and fiberglass that make up the body of the ski, as well as a 1 mm - thick layer that covers the entire surface.

I've covered one or two before, such as WayUp founder Liz Wessel's dictum that young people should always default to «yes,» but if you're in the market for this sort of bite - sized but actionable advice, a recent Psychology Today piece from UConn professor and author Gina Barreca is the real mother lode.

The cereal is called Tiny Toast, which the company describes as «tiny pieces of crunchy toast covered with even tinier pieces of delicious fruit.»

(A Fortune magazine piece last year covered how GoDaddy worked to change the tone of its racy, sometimes sexist, ads in order to better appeal to women, who represent a large swath of the country's small business owners.)