Official EaW website updated!

[Popcorn2008]

The official EaW site was updated once more today, with new videos and info.

 

Here's a link:

http://www.lucasarts.com/games/swempireatwar/indexFlash.html#Home

[Ghostly_Substance]

thanks for the info but this goes in the previews and screenshots

[Popcorn2008]

Woops... I should know that... lol Ill move it right away

[Nevets]

Cool new information is always nice.

 

Jabiim looks nice, Byss doesn't look like I imagined it, but still shows promise.

[Guest JediIgor]

Thanks for the link. Very interesting. Bothands and Stormtroopers stand still in an open area with no cover and exchange potshots at each other. Apparently the movies/books have all lied and its possible to take over 3 shots to the torso without falling over in pain.

 

Also, AT-STs must have some really good armor because it takes a squadron of 6 PLX-carrying rebel soldiers over 4 salvos to destroy one? A TIE tank shoots at several rebel soldiers while they stand still and they somehow don't manage to die. Ships appear to take some damage, then they blow up, but there is no visual indicator they are about to blow up. There aren't even shield effects as far as I can tell.

 

I have only one question.. what the @#@% is going on? Where is the Star Wars we've been promised? This looks more and more like a regular RTS with arcade gameplay and Star Wars graphics slapped on top of it. If you are from Petroglyph and are reading this, please, please, please say something and tell us you're still working on the game and this ridiculousness will be fixed!

[Ghostly_Substance]

all very nice and watch it Kyle Katarn looks like hes going to be an annoying character

[Nevets]

 

I have only one question.. what the @#@% is going on? Where is the Star Wars we've been promised? This looks more and more like a regular RTS with arcade gameplay and Star Wars graphics slapped on top of it. If you are from Petroglyph and are reading this, please, please, please say something and tell us you're still working on the game and this ridiculousness will be fixed!

 

I think we have already pretty much discovered that is going to be a very arcadish RTS, but it will be a very good looking one. I'm just hoping it will have more depth then I think it will.

[Guest JediIgor]

 

I have only one question.. what the @#@% is going on? Where is the Star Wars we've been promised? This looks more and more like a regular RTS with arcade gameplay and Star Wars graphics slapped on top of it. If you are from Petroglyph and are reading this, please, please, please say something and tell us you're still working on the game and this ridiculousness will be fixed!

 

I think we have already pretty much discovered that is going to be a very arcadish RTS, but it will be a very good looking one. I'm just hoping it will have more depth then I think it will.

 

It's not very good looking either, it looks like something that could've passed for good looking 3 years ago. It's average in graphic terms. The only thing they have going for them at this point is the Star Wars license, until someone can confirm that the gameplay will actually be good. I'm not going to bring up independent Star Wars modelers as examples, but considering that something is wrong when independent mods can produce higher quality textures and models than an AAA development company.

 

However, as I already said, all will be forgiven if the game plays well. If it doesn't, then graphics will be one of the first of many things of why it's not worthwhile.

[Popcorn2008]

Although the game speed seems very fast in their previews I dont think it's that bad. As soon as you actually play the game with the User Interface and all that jazz I think it will begin to feel like an RTS. It will always seem different when we see if from a movie point of view.

 

Dont forget the graphics will look bad on the website because the quality is down graded for dial up users.

[VaderisGreater]

JediIgor, why do you only complain? All you ever do is complain how bad the graphics look, and how your *sniffle* favorite *sniffle* ships aren't in the game, and how this isn't the game we were promised.

 

No offense but no one promised that this game would be the end-all for starwars RTS's. Also, how can you criticize a game so much with out actually playing it? If you're so unhappy, and this game is such a dissapointment, why have you posted 247 times on this forum?

This goes for all the rest of the people who sit around and complain all the time, if you hate it so much and are sooo dissapointed, go somewhere else, don't bother playing it.

 

Yeah, i guess i am flaming, but he is flaming a game that stands to be the best Starwars game to come out yet. i mean why should any of us be happy anyways, a starwars game that actually looks fun is coming out.

[plokoon9619]

I support Igor hes got a point. It's unrealistic with 24 plex missles fired at 1 atst and it didnt die along with the number of shots it takes to kill a plex soldier.

[Ghostly_Substance]

Keep in mind thats a flippin trailer damn.

[Junker]

Small Update, but better than nothing.

[SirNuke]

Stay cool vaderis. While I agree that people tend to complain too much on this forum but you aren't going to convince anyone like that.

 

Regardless, I want to bring up a few points.

1) You can set the speed of the game in just about every RTS game.

2) I don't know why I didn't think of this before, but they knew they wouldn't have much time to show off EaW, so it is likely the a) speed the game up a lot, and b) made the units weaker as to make the game progress faster.

3) Don't judge game balance from the Lucas Arts videos, I believe Delphi mentioned that they weren't good examples. Game balance is just about the last thing you finalize in an RTS. I think it is very likely the balance will change quite a bit even between the demo and the final release.

4) Graphics are sill really good, the compressed videos we have seen aren't going to do it justice. After you have played that game we judge whether or not the graphics are good (also keep in mind that a lof the LA movies are very zoomed in, which tends to make stuff look a lot worse [and also you can't judge the texure quality until you actual play/see the game on a computer monitor, as that is one of the first things to go when the movies are compressed])

5) However cool it would be to make units use the terren for cover, I suspect it is way too CPU intensive to have the troops do stuff like that. Imagine playing a FPS with a couple hundred bots (plus the fact that you can't scale that type of setting, unlike eyecandy where you can simply draw less on slower computers).

[Gen.Vader]

i think igor and a few other people have been away when we talked about this earlier.

 

most of the trailers with imperials is very anti-imperials and pro rebels

 

why?

 

because rebels are the "good" side and the "good" side sells in marketing, and its just a trailer, they still have control of the units hit points, strength, accuracy, and all other performance factors and can tweak them to show the units/ battles the best way/best way peoople want to see

[Naja]

Even if unit balance still is loopy after the game is released for whatever reason, it is probably the single easiest value to mod.

 

Graphics look decent online, I'm sure they'll look pants-crappingly good when they're on my high-res system.

[The Relentless]

Everything looks real nice and promising up to this point.

 

JediIgor, it's a frickin' RTS, no RTS ever had realistic unit endurance. Just think about it, do you really want battles that last for two minutes maximum just because of realistic endurance. The game is about massive galactic battles, but the battles seem even more massive when they last a bit longer. Stop crying or stop posting.

[ralphman]

excuse me... but i can´t find any updates where are they? the sites looks as usual for me!

thanks

[Mandalor219]

i cant see any update,looks like after the start of the new page....

[El Mariachi]

Thanks for the link. Very interesting. Bothands and Stormtroopers stand still in an open area with no cover and exchange potshots at each other. Apparently the movies/books have all lied and its possible to take over 3 shots to the torso without falling over in pain.

 

Also, AT-STs must have some really good armor because it takes a squadron of 6 PLX-carrying rebel soldiers over 4 salvos to destroy one? A TIE tank shoots at several rebel soldiers while they stand still and they somehow don't manage to die. Ships appear to take some damage, then they blow up, but there is no visual indicator they are about to blow up. There aren't even shield effects as far as I can tell.

 

I have only one question.. what the @#@% is going on? Where is the Star Wars we've been promised? This looks more and more like a regular RTS with arcade gameplay and Star Wars graphics slapped on top of it. If you are from Petroglyph and are reading this, please, please, please say something and tell us you're still working on the game and this ridiculousness will be fixed!

 

Gotta agree with you, but I already posed this question here. I think these videos are only from a crummy alpha phase. Perhaps real game wont be like that. I'm also an AoE-like-RTS-o-phobic.

[Sigma]

I just don't like how they stand maybe a ft. from each other and shoot, maybe a mod will fix this.

[Popcorn2008]

Mandalor219 and ralphman first go here:

 

www.empireatwar.com

 

and then try pressing the refresh button on your browser. The updates are mostly in the planets section, fleet, and troops I believe.

[Foshjedi2004]

No help there. Still can't see it

[Popcorn2008]

No help there. Still can't see it

Do you have the latest version of Macromedia flash player?

 

You can download for free here:

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

 

It's required to view the EaW site.

[Grand Admiral Thrawn 889]

yeah that sometimes doesnt work though Popcorn and i have to download it again every few days so does anyone have a permanent download link?