SirNuke

I downloaded, and started seeded only to have some type of bandwidth restriction put on me Went from 80kb/s upload to less than 5. Sigh. It plays very differently then just about any other RTS I have other seen. I also don't think I've played any game that puts such a huge negative on charging. I think the demo is way too short. The battles are so short because of no base building, I think there should have been at least 3 land battles. EDIT: Move developer feed back to apporiate topic.

I will add myself as a seeder to the torrent that ghostly posted, if it is still up. Download.com worked well for me.

I'm getting really good speeds from download.com, so I will set up a torrent if no one else has. Stay tuned in about an hour.

I'm getting 180 kb/s from download.com with my download manager. Approx 1 hour until it's complete, and I'll set up a torrent if no one else has by then.

I hereby change my vote to SMF.

I say change, I am still have occasional problems.

It was mentioned on another topic switching to smf, which I would prefer, but anything else would be nice at this point.

That looks very zoomed in. I wonder if when you zoom in the large ships don't zoom in the same rate (so when you are zoomed in the scale looks more realistic, but when zoomed out you can still see all of the ships)?

I get stuff like that too. I think there is a cookie issue involving staying logged in (they are already working on this). There may also be a MySQL error, since occasionally loading a forum brings a message saying that the selected forum doesn't exist. I also get a "no post option specified" error sometimes. Perhaps too many connections on MySQL?

A download manager won't help that much. You get a max of 7 kilobytes per a second on dialup (56 kilobits divided by , meaning that with 375 mb of data (compressed 750, though I doubt it will be that well compressed) it will take a min of 15 hours to download. Reality then kicks in and rarely does the connection get above 6kb/s, plus 750mb is 750mb already compressed, so compressing it further won't help much. A better option is to find a gullible friend with broadband. I definity had a friend who I was friends with pretty much because he had broadband, since I had dialup for most of high school (actually, closer to I more or less continued to be his friend because of his connection. Guy was a total jerk). Another good option is to go out to best buy/compusa/wherever and buy yourself a wireless network card for $10 (when they have sales, unfortuantly that's usually 10 after mail-in rebates) and get yourself a free wireless connection. I don't see much of a problem with that if you only use the network for downloading large files (assuming all of your actions on the network are legal, no downloading movies or anything like that), since they aren't paying by bandwidth used. But I'll leave the morality of that up to you. For us broadband users, I expect a torrent up on Wed. Though if LucasArts hosts the demo, they might have enough bandwidth for all of us (I was able to get 700kb/s from the AoE III offical site the day the AoE III demo was released).

Wookies! That first shot is shows the deathstar actually being on the map. I wonder if to destroy it, you have to get Red Squad past the Imperial defenses to the Death Star?

To be more precise, you can't hack something that doesn't exist. It's not like the demo has the entire game, but has an internal switch saying "this is only the demo, don't let them play everything".

It's probably a MySQL (or whatever database they use) error of some sort. I don't think there is a random moderator running around killing off random threads/posts. MySQL or hungry thread monster has been unleashed. *munch munch*

And so it begins....

Aren't the devs in Las Vegas? Which really doesn't matter, since it is likely LEC's call.

It would be likely that destroying your ship would be a quick death versus vader, plus killing yourself won't make Vader want to go after your family.

Would it be overally difficult to host it on both (via mod_rewrite)?

I thought that looked like a cutscreen shot.

How many games show Tanks as being effective against infantry? In real life, infantry tend to get shredded up by them, and certainly no infantry can withstand a direct or close hit from a tank shell. I would think that an AT-AT command crew is more than capable of dealing aiming and dealing with things like the firing arc, as modern day artillery doesn't travel in a straight line. Yeah, infantry aren't the idea target for tanks, nor for AT-ATs, but you simply can't make a good game that has that type of realism (barring some type of setup where the infantry dodge and such, which is difficult to program, and would be rather awful to simply have the bullets miss most of the time). If AT-ATs tore up infantry, who would build infantry, except to capture check points? That is the sort of thing that debalances a game, removing strategy in favor of "Build as many AT-ATs as you can, and a squad of Stormtroopers to capture points". Also note that Han doesn't take any damage in that video. It is very possible that you would regularly use him while the AT-AT/AT-STs are distracted fighting other units, but the video is intended to show off Han + Chewie's abilities.

Not everyone believes the game is 'broken'. I want to play the game before commenting on such matters.

Eh, I thought both Vietnam and BF2 weren't too bad, at least the license-whore, money-is-only-priority tendencies of EA didn't come out in full force. Regardless, I have hated them since they released Generals. If you can get past the fact Generals has nothing to do with C&C, it is a fairly good game. But regardless, it doesn't deserve the C&C title, and I will never forgive EA for destroying the C&C series. I have always like the SimCity line, and I fear for the day when Maxis releases a flop, as it will most likely be the end of them too. I can't even think of an appropriate ending sentence to this rant with no profanity. Back to topic, good article. I am actually curious now to see what BfME2 gets rating wise. Not that I'm going to feed the EA monster if it gets good reviews.

Of course they were trying to be perfectly realistic, and somehow messed up... OR they acknowledged the fact that for balancing issues, AT-ATs probably are not very effective against infantry. And Heroes would be offley worthless if they couldn't take a lot of hits.

Normal for me, I can barely afford anything these days.

Eh, they need a more 'thrown together' look to them, and less of switching around cockpits.

No. If your opponent likes to build gobs of star fighters, build anti star fighter ships. Besides are X-wings able to take on major capital ships?