The Simple Trainer GTA V mod by sjaak327 has given birth to a new ruler of the game, and its name is the Omega Ramp. All bow before Omega Ramp and its minions. Such are the demonic spawn of nefarious YouTuber BlackSmoke Billy: melded vehicles of mass destruction. It’s so insane it made reddit’s front page.
Yes, good ol’ Billy uses a trailer attached to the front of a MTL Packer cab to form a ramp that can shoot cars into the air like they’re being spit out of skeet trap. The commute from the boonies turned into a highway to the danger zone for a bunch of unfortunate NPCs.
The entire multiwheeled cast of Maximum Overdrive wishes it had half the destructive power of the first ramp, made of a simple trailer. And Optimus Prime can eat his servos out. But it gets worse — and that means it gets funnier. So much funnier.
BlackSmoke Billy didn’t stop there, he went bigger, and bigger still. This is GTA V, after all. His ramp to automobile heaven grew by degrees. Finally, he ends with something that looks like the side of a canal on the front of his truck. Its swath of destruction covers the entirety of a six-lane highway.
The final massive wall-ramp’s menace is reminiscent of Duel, Spielberg’s first movie. Joy Ride, with its soft newness can’t imagine the sinister looming horror that is the Omega Ramp truck. Good thing this wasn’t online mode. Watch the video, imagine this bearing down on you as you play online, and feel the inevitability of death. And the final, somehow logical touch in an illogical world; Trevor is the driver. He’d make a perfect Rusty Nail.
Stand in awe of the Omega Ramp, and pay it homage. Cue the comment puns; Billy deserves it. His rampage is the kind of thing that makes people want to play GTA V again, or at least makes people hurt themselves laughing. He reached out on YouTube to thank everyone for the compliments, saying he’ll post another crazy video soon. One viewer request we’d like to second: let’s pit this Omega Ramp truck against a train. That would really ramp it up.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
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Google Play is borrowing one of the Nintendo Switch’s most useful little tricks. A new Sidekick tool called Playbacks captures a short clip after something interesting has already happened, sparing players from running a screen recorder throughout an entire game.
Playbacks is part of Google Play Store v53.8 and keeps saved clips on the phone. Google first announced it earlier this month, but the new Play Store update marks its arrival for players. Anyone who has watched a perfect win vanish because the record button came too late already understands the appeal.