sagboy

"We've been busy working on the new patch for EAW, which will be coming down the pipe soon. It's amazing how much feedback we have received, and it's very much appreciated. Many of us try to keep up with the feedback in the forums as often as possible, but it's sometimes hard to stay up to date with so much activity here." Thats awsome that you come on the forums and let us know a patch is comming, but could you post what things are going to be fixed in this upcoming patch? Thanks much

Cant dl, the link brings me to a page in some foriegn language

So are you releasing this?

Granted but I havent seen a petrograph guy come in that forum and talk about the issues as of late. Seeing as I have one right here that started a new thread as of today, seems like the best opportunity.

They are great agaisnt mass units, or I find they are awsome used agiasnt large capital ships and space stations.

Like the fact that you are trying a new map test but how about you fix the crappy multiplayer. Its a toss up whether or not you can actually get more than 2 people to play a game. Its like 50/50 if everyone can connect, and sometimes I cant connect to people that I have played with about a billion times in the past. Or fix the ingame MP featers so that you can properly kick, or unaccpet yourself to change emprie to rebel or vice versa. Or fix the times when the game lags like a powerpoint slide show, not do to the graphics on the screen but do to the crappy netcode that is plauging the game. Or the fact that some guys you can find by name or some guys you cant join because it says 48/8 players. Or how about the quick game function, when you have it set to 1vs1 space battle and somehow you connect to a 2vs2 land battle? Seriously there are a lot of issues just with MP, seems like you guys just found a quick answer (Gamespy) and tacked it on. I think first and formost you guys need to fix the MP, at least have a direct connect option. It shouldnt be that hard, just copy bnet. Or those mod tools, as Im sure this game will be awsome when we have those mod tools, as so many people have such great looking mods to implement but cant. If we had a rough release date for the tools that would be awsome. Or how about fixing the game so that we can choose which ships we bring in, instead of the computer choosing to bring in a set amount of ships. I dont know about you but I would liek to bring in my cruisers and frigates first, lighten up the defenses then bring in my mon cals. Too many times all my y wings are brought in and just destroyed right away because you get rushed by anti fighter cruisers. YOu fix this and you will be my hero. Dont mean to sound so negitive but there are soooo many issues that plauge an awsome game that if they were fixed it would make this game phenominal. Or those mod tools, as Im sure this game will be awsome when we have those mod tools, as so many people have such great looking mods to implement but cant. If we had a rough release date for the tools that would be awsome.

Okay well a litle more explanation on it would probably help most people that keep fsking up games. If you have a router, turn off you windows firewall. Also if you have a software firewall make an exception for EaW. After that is done log into your router, typically 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1 else go to start, run, cmd then type ipconfig /all and your default gateway is your router. Anyways login and go to your port forwarding, should be in advanced or under applications and games section, really depedons on the router you have. Then pick a port that isnt being used by anything else, so like anything from 2000 on up should be fine. Then enter in the last octet of your lan IP address; should be anywhere from .2 -254 (example. 192.168.1.101) Then go into your game and turn everything off under network settings except for use NAT and enter in the port that you used for your router. Dont use the default port that EAW uses, as we dont know what that is nor does it matter, your just using a differnt port. The game is coming back with an error about NAT connections because your local network or the other players local network is not resovling its local IP through your router and out your cable/dsl IP. What your router is doing is forwarding and all incoming traffic for EAW through that port that you setup so that you can play. with another person. Thats a quick explanation, if you have more questions, do a google first, and if you still cant figure it out then post. Please people dont host or join a game if you cant get this setup.

Or you could just open a port on your router and have that forwarded to you internal pc. Wish they would give the ports they used though......

Drive wouldnt effect it, having a sneaky suspicsion that somthing is lingering in the registery that it isnt liking.

Yeah disks are fine, installed it on another system ran fine.... sigh oh well

still no go.... sigh even ran a registry mechanic to clean things up a bit

Eh I tried both my drives and neither work

One, they arent piracy programs, and two Im a computer science major so I think I should know if I have a program installed or not and what I am running on my box. I find it a little ridiculous for a copmany to release a software with such shitty software protection when a cunsomer buys a copy and cant even play it. Other than the required services being run by windows there is nothing running, I have even tried this on a fresh install of windows....

Im sry and I dont mean to be rude, but you did you even read my post? I had said that I didnt have any Dtools software installed so that would include any virtual drives to intefere with securecom. Ill try that unplugging from the net but I doubt thats going to do anything. Just fustrates ya when you pay for a product and cant use it..... thanks for the replys though and sry if I come off as rude, just mad rightn now

okay serious answers only please, because that isnt it. Its a secur com bullshit protection issue

Okay thought I would stop by my local EB games and see if they had the game in early, which they did which was freaking saweet, so I bought it and took it home and loaded it up only to be greated by this msg "A required security module can not be activated. This program can not be executed." So I check to see what I had running, which was literally nothing. I uninstalled Dtools, made sure ntohing else was running other than essential windows components, and I still get the error. I tried putting the shortcut into compatablity mode of win 2000 but I still get the error. Im kinda pissed off right now. Hear I spent 50 bucks on a game in which there own damn copy protection isnt even allowing me to play it. Keep in mind I dont have anything running or installed that would mess with copy protection like alcohol 120 or anything like that.