Garbageben

I actually think I'm going to wait for Silent Hunter 4 that's slated for release late this year. I haven't been on the forums much as I have been working hard on a project and overall have been swamped in college work. I hope it relents for next month at least so I can play a little EaW now and then. ;D

Well I haven't found out how to do so in the demo (don't know if you can), but I found out something great in the game data files. In the game data files there are several text documents labeled as capital ships (ie Star Destroyer etc.). In these files are a list of ship names. So you can just write all your names in there and not worry about having to rename them during the game. Some of you probably knew this, but I thought I'd post it anyways. PS if anyone does know how (other than editting the name files) could you please post it thanks!

Well now after playing the demo, it feels better than I thought it would. I'm still gonna say it'll be top 5 RTS game of the year. Probably top 3, but I can't be sure because I haven't played Supreme Commander of Company of Heroes yet.

Here's some more pictures... http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f313/Garbageben/EaW6.jpg http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f313/Garbageben/EaW7.jpg http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f313/Garbageben/EaW8.jpg http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f313/Garbageben/EaW9.jpg http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f313/Garbageben/EaW10.jpg

Nice screens Ghostly! I'll post some of mine tomorrow after I get done with my morning classes at the college. Ok my pictures are uploading now and should be posted soon. These screenshots were taken of my battle when I only used X-Wings and Y-Wings (all that I have done so far too). 1.) Taken during my tutorial http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f313/Garbageben/EaW1.jpg 2.) My fleet of starfighters as they jumped into the system. http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f313/Garbageben/EaW2.jpg 3.) The dying Victory Class Star Destroyer (I ate it for lunch hehe). http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f313/Garbageben/EaW3.jpg 4.) The gutted Acclamator (made for a good second course). http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f313/Garbageben/EaW4.jpg 5.) The dying station (dessert of course. no meal is complete without dessert.). http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f313/Garbageben/EaW5.jpg

Well I have only played a little bit so far, but I'll post feedback anyway. I love the game. It looks great and plays great. You cannot just mass units and try to charge into a ground base with its shield. I tried to do this on easy mode just to test it and got slaughtered by the Imperials. A good job done there by Petroglyph. One thing I did notice on easy though is that in space all the Rebel player has to do is get a lot of xwings and ywings and no capital ships and has a fairly good chance of winning even with no capital ship support. Since the ships I was actually facing were not the Tartan or Broadside I'll actually reserve judgement on this for later. Overall I felt the demo was too short, but fun. (yes I'm a greedy star wars fan ) If this demo is close to what the actual game plays like then I will be well satisfied with this game (I had huge expectations too). Thanks to Petroglyph for creating what I had thought before was a dream RTS and this demo confirmed it for me. (Check out the demo media gallery for screenies from me on the highest settings)

I have to admit I was floored when I saw that topic this morning. I know there are a lot of admins on LFN so it's possible that that particular one did not usually patrol the EaW section and didn't know that PFF was actually more EaW forums. It still irks me though....

Now I'd be the first to admit that I'd like to try out some of the excellent mods being made for this game. However from what I've heard about making heroes die when they're supposed to, there could be a large problem resulting from one scenario that could cripple the game. So I know that LoW is going to have the DS2 (correct me if I am wrong). This goes for either DS really. We now know that Red Squadron (a hero) is the only counter currently to the DS. In the mod (especially with the DS2) when Red Squadron dies then there would be no way that the DS could ever be destroyed! In the case of DS2 it could destroy whole Rebel fleets with impunity. I trust that you all have thought on this and I hope that you can somehow allow for a balancing. I'm not trying to insinuate that you have all forgotten about this. Just voicing some concerns. Finally thank you for devoting your time to making mods to enhance the great experience that will be Empire at War.

Yeah I agree with you Ghostly. I was really excited to get to rename my capital ships. However since units do not gain experience I will feel no real attachment to any of my units because they will just be regular and not performing better than those of the same class. I'll probably name a few though.

I have a feeling that if the "release date" for the demo tomorrow is later than two weeks from tomorrow (ie it's more than two weeks away) then this place is going to go nuts again. Please everyone just be calm if the release date isn't as soon as we'd like it to be.

I voted the pff one because don't we want to support all games by petroglyph and not just SW: EaW. Not that it matters. When's the big move to the new site Cain?

The Age of Empires 3 Collector's Edition was also, what, $70?

Well the videos are to show off the unit and what it can do. You wouldn't want the Han and Chewie movie to be like this: Han runs out and points a device at the AT-AT and AT-ST. However he gets shot before he can press the button. End of Video. That wouldn't make you want to use Han and Chewie now would it?

Well with the announcement that the demo will in fact be SP only we'll have to postpone until February 16th at least. Since that means we are all back to our busy lives post certain times you will be available to play and we'll try to make a time and day to play the game.

I'm definitely banking for the Collector's Edition. Who could say no to a new screensaver, maps and concept art?

I voted SP as well. Demos just usually are, especially for RTS games.

I think that you can since in the hypervelocity gun video the "what if" thing was about the Rebels parking a space station in orbit or something.

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I guess that answers your question. As far as SP skirmish we don't have an idea, but I'd imagine it to be the same as for MP skirmish. no... my question is, how do you get this building? do have to build it or is it unique building on some planets and u have to capture this planets? You have to capture it of course. I think that all ground maps may have a cantina on it somewhere. Can't see this happening on Hoth though. Hopefully Delphi can come give us a little nudge on this one.

I guess that answers your question. As far as SP skirmish we don't have an idea, but I'd imagine it to be the same as for MP skirmish.

I don't think it is buildable. In the multiplayer skirmish he's saying that you must first capture the building to use it to buy stuff from.

Ghostly and I played a sandbox game that was a ton of fun. We would have posted screens if we could, but I believe that as beta testers we are not allowed to post them (part of the agreement I think). Anyways the game can be pretty fun.

So are we supposed to take this as you can buy things during battles as well? Also we know that there are other ways to heal than bacta tanks. (Twi'lek dancers woohoooo )

I searched this forum section and to my surprise there was no thread about this game. Anyway as Ghostly and I were checking it out last night I thought that this game is probably great competition for this year's best RTS. The graphics look really good, but gameplay matters more to me (no I've never played Total Annihilation). What do you lot think of it?

In that one video with Darth Vader getting pelted with the rebel artillery he doesn't die in one shot like he should either. Anyway it would be hard to do the whole missing thing, because you'd have to make it a close miss, so the shot would be slightly deviated from where it originally wanted it to land (on the unit). Anyways I've just accepted that every shot hits and heroes are going to have a fairly high hitpoint total. Chances are that you'll run into them only a few times early on, but then you might see them often after that. It's going to be hard to finish off an opponent if there is no limit on how many heroes they can bring into a battle at once or the "last battle" might take forever.