Spiralarchitech

excellent read!

good first post Eaw is a great game its one of the best i've bought this year along with gal civ2 which is good as well. Maybe im biased though, does you opinion count if your a sci fi space freak?? ???

Now i know some people account this as lag but simply what could be causing the horrible frame rates. Land battles are the worst imo, i mean i have tryed this on various comps and the land battles are simply poor on the lowest settings they make the game look like it was made in 1999 though they can still force a 2.8 pentium 4 with 1ghz of ram and an ati x850xl down to 10fps? Another example is when you do max out the graphics the game still has the same fps almost, okay from 10 fps you might get 8-9 now? Just to say the same system runs BFME2 at max settings and the likes of F.E.A.R/quake 4 with no problems.

On patch, multiplayer greatly improved for me seems more stable and less laggy also the lobbys seemed to have gone a bit more quieter now that you can ignore people, the test connection works well. Lands battles don't seem to lag as much as they once did. Ohh and have played online 8 times now and not had that exception error once. just a question i see it has cpu and fps? How is the fps scored is it based on the cpu? as someone could have a fast processor and an intel graphics chip or a decent processor and an ati 1800xt graphics card.

Lucasarts is a buisness, and run like one. I can't see them spending money on something that they feel they won't see a return on. Can't really blame them but at the end of the day if we wanted a great online service for all our starwars games someone is gonna have to put some money on the table somewhere along the line.

Auto resolve= Putting an idiot incharge.

Thankyou delphi on the update it is appreciated, ya know with all these patchs Petroglyph will be in the running for developer of the year

Great news, i noticed this last night when i was playing mp. Also noticed a little amendment LEC made to it on their forums can you guess what it is. Oh and its really childish too.

The balance in this game is only there with the hero's. I have played a few no hero's Mp games and rebels are so overpowered, plex soldiers and infiltrators are all you need to own the empire, and if your still having trouble throw in a few speeders. Without mara jade and vader the empire has no chance, and if you do manage to get to late game their T4-B's wil beat empire up bad with out old palpatine on your side.

Obi wans only purose in this game is to kill the emperor, if you see vader run away unless you've got backup.

Not a flame merely expressing my opinion on how i feel that forum is run and the sort of people who post on it. I think i have listed 4 constructive reasons why i think the forum is poor.

LucasArts game forums are for 10 year olds and trolls, the mods there do not do there job in my opinion. Discussions can be about anything other than the game (EAW) and they won't do anything. On the first page there is 2 topics about civ3 and galactic civ2 what have these to do with EAW? And there is dozens of threads basically slagging of EAW no reason just threads that go 'EAW is crap' ,they even have threads were people have stated they are using a pirated copy and the thread has not been locked.

I played the first game 'soldiers' its a good game, probaly on budget now, i would buy that before the new one as it'll let you see what its like. As its not a traditional rts type game but it is good just maybe not for everyone.

I have to say i like pre built bases it saves me time having to buil one on my own and even if i could the AI would have no chance as it would probaly be impenetrable. But i agree slightly bigger maps would be welcome as 1vs1 maps are cool but 2vs2 or more it starts to get a bit crowded. I would like to see an improvement with infantry combat, at the moment its fairly static i would like the ability to make soldiers go prone for extra defence and for a second ability seek cover in wooded terrain or long grass making them harder to see, p.s. need a scatter key (as in C&C) to make infantry scatter in different directions. Also explosions in space are excellent i think land vehicles could use a extra oomph in the explosion department.

Thx on the update in fact its rare these days, so its greatly appreciated. Also its great that EAW is a success for petroglyph and i hope it continues. P.S. I hope you get pay rises for all your hard work and success, if not 'fight the power'