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-Archangel-
Croatia7457 Posts
On February 08 2015 10:26 Cyro wrote: Brood war never had observer support lol but it had option to share vision and ally/unally i missed it, where are VOD's? https://www.youtube.com/user/RomeoAndJulietCOH2/videos Today was ro 8 matches. Sunday is ro 4 and Monday will be finals. Seems no Humans signed up for this mini tournament. | ||
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Yurie
12046 Posts
On February 08 2015 10:58 -Archangel- wrote: https://www.youtube.com/user/RomeoAndJulietCOH2/videos Today was ro 8 matches. Sunday is ro 4 and Monday will be finals. Seems no Humans signed up for this mini tournament. They said one human signed up and lost and one random signed up and lost. Don't know if it is correct though since I only watched the last two series. | ||
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Aron Times
United States312 Posts
Also, low concurrent player count is not that big of a deal when you look at what this game's target audience is. I mean it's pretty low, lower than I expected, but do note that a lot of people don't play games every day, and those that do sometimes don't play the same game every day. And finally, this game can be played offline; in fact, one of their high priority fixes in the latest patch was for offline play; apparently, it was saving games to the Steam Cloud by default and didn't allow offline players to properly save games. I will admit that there are many things that hurt this game's player count: 1. The high price. USD 49.99 is a bit too much. I actually got this game from G2A for USD 35.32, which is a much more acceptable price. 2. Lack of a commentator community due to lack of replays and observer mode. Part of what sustains older RTS games are YouTube commentators. Even ded gaems like Age of Empires 3 and Kane's Wrath can scrounge up over USD 1000+ in prize money due to their active YouTube commentator community. 3. Inability to share and analyze strategies (again, thanks to the lack of replays/obs). Destiny and Huk are excellent Starcraft 2 players but when I last watched them play, they were terrible at Grey Goo. They built way too many refineries, or they kept their armies in one big deathball (a very bad idea in Grey Goo due to the insanely powerful artillery). Also, they were trying too hard to micro their one single deathball instead of launching multiple simultaneous attacks all over the map. Basically, they were playing Grey Goo like Starcraft 2, and made the game look like a skill-less spamfest. If we could easily share gameplay footage (replays), then we'd be able to share how to properly play the game more easily. 4. Poor performance on high end systems. The game performs poorly despite not using even half of a high-end CPU or GPU's processing abilities. It seems to severely limit its own hardware usage even on a system which can handle its workload, resulting in poor performance. Classic RTS games, as mentioned earlier, are niche games. I figure that this game will have a decent enough competitive community to sustain itself for some time. It doesn't have to have Starcraft's hundreds of thousands of concurrent users to have a stable multiplayer community. The fact that there is a classic RTS alternative to Starcraft 2 will hopefully inject some life into this dying genre. Starcraft 2 has stagnated too much because of sheer lack of competition. | ||
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TelecoM
United States10695 Posts
On February 08 2015 10:56 -Archangel- wrote: Official observing feature is being developed by the devs. They just didn't get it finished in time for release. Same for replays. Yea but that still doesn't answer the question he asked, I would like to know the answer as well. EDIT : as a temporary fix until they add it to the game themselves. :-P | ||
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chairmobile
United States111 Posts
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LegalLord
United States13779 Posts
I think a lot of people feel the same way, which sorta keeps the player count down. It's a fun game but it really needs to fix its outstanding issues ASAP. On February 08 2015 14:21 GGzerG wrote: Yea but that still doesn't answer the question he asked, I would like to know the answer as well. EDIT : as a temporary fix until they add it to the game themselves. :-P Right now, what people do is free-for-all on a 4-player map, the observers play Goo and surrender. That gives them full map vision. | ||
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Yurie
12046 Posts
On February 08 2015 14:42 chairmobile wrote: Am I the only one that thinks this looks boring and slow as fuck? Economy wise I would say it is similar to SC2 in speed. Units move slower though and you have a lot more slow projectiles such as SC2 fungal in the game. I think it feels a bit slower then SupCom in unit speeds even. Only the air speed is comparable. | ||
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TelecoM
United States10695 Posts
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ain
Germany786 Posts
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LegalLord
United States13779 Posts
On February 08 2015 17:09 ain wrote: Wait. They have neither replays nor observer mode? That's mindboggling. The game looks fun and I was gonna pick it up as soon as it goes on sale, but that's just a really bad sign. It's a sign of the fact that the company didn't have enough money to delay release dates the way Blizzard does. It'll be done in maybe a week or two; it's not like they weren't planning on making it. | ||
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-Archangel-
Croatia7457 Posts
On February 08 2015 11:43 Yurie wrote: They said one human signed up and lost and one random signed up and lost. Don't know if it is correct though since I only watched the last two series. You are right. First match was Goo vs Human | ||
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HewTheTitan
Canada331 Posts
#3 beta stream I really want to emphasize that this is one of the best twitch streams I've seen for any game, period. No affiliation, just really impressed. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20326 Posts
I think a lot of people feel the same way, which sorta keeps the player count down. It's a fun game but it really needs to fix its outstanding issues ASAP. I agree on those two. Replays, performance and i want to see some good humans cast. I was master league sc2 player but going into a new game and figuring out everything completely by yourself without having even seen anybody play a 1v1 before requires a huge amount of time and effort. The performance, well, i hope they can substantially change it in the somewhat near future. Starcraft 2 has its own major performance issues, but nowhere near as bad as GG. I have the strongest system available for playing this type of game so i can't imagine what it's like for people on more standard systems Thanks for the VOD link; i was hoping for Human play though | ||
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Yurie
12046 Posts
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TelecoM
United States10695 Posts
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HewTheTitan
Canada331 Posts
stream bracket lets get some hype going, even if it is just a top-ladder tourney :D | ||
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PassiveAce
United States18076 Posts
On February 09 2015 06:11 HewTheTitan wrote: ro4 starting stream bracket lets get some hype going, even if it is just a top-ladder tourney :D these goo rushes are disgusting lol | ||
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TelecoM
United States10695 Posts
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HewTheTitan
Canada331 Posts
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PassiveAce
United States18076 Posts
yeah this guy uses his mother goo in an early rush very effectively he builds 2-3 small proteans as he makes his way across the map with his mother goo hitting vents along the way. the rest is just microing proteans/destroying harvesters/morphing them before they die while ramming the mother goo into their factories. very effective against greedy builds and on small maps. | ||
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