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Also pre-ordered it, with my left over chinese new year monies ;D
Really liked it before the patch, but its like kinda broken atm >_> still playable if you dont get abusers. Anyways hopefully relic gets it together for the release, however theres like 7 maps with the release which is like wtffff......more maps come out every year for starcraft in the proleague, how they only made 7 maps for the release of their game is beyond me, unless they plan to charge for DLC/include more maps in future DLC or something really retarded like that.
So in the beta thus far we have 5 playable maps, so unless its 7 maps not including the ones alrdy playable, thats not a lot of variety atm lol. Hopefully this changes in the future, because the previous games had a lot more than 7 maps.
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On February 16 2009 14:18 ToyotaDemon wrote:
Also pre-ordered it, with my left over chinese new year monies ;D
Really liked it before the patch, but its like kinda broken atm >_> still playable if you dont get abusers. Anyways hopefully relic gets it together for the release, however theres like 7 maps with the release which is like wtffff......more maps come out every year for starcraft in the proleague, how they only made 7 maps for the release of their game is beyond me, unless they plan to charge for DLC/include more maps in future DLC or something really retarded like that.
So in the beta thus far we have 5 playable maps, so unless its 7 maps not including the ones alrdy playable, thats not a lot of variety atm lol. Hopefully this changes in the future, because the previous games had a lot more than 7 maps.
I guess there's only 7 maps for ranked games and some more if you want to play custom games. Will have to wait and see (3 days left).
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Mora - can you comment on if they plan to fix the NAT negotiation code? Or is that something Windows LIVE controls? I have seen zero information about it in any patch list?
Also - bump. Game is worth a purchase if one wants a casual RTS - and it will likely be the only thing offered before SC2 - so keeping the hype up.
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On February 17 2009 09:55 [-Bluewolf-] wrote:
Mora - can you comment on if they plan to fix the NAT negotiation code? Or is that something Windows LIVE controls? I have seen zero information about it in any patch list?
Also - bump. Game is worth a purchase if one wants a casual RTS - and it will likely be the only thing offered before SC2 - so keeping the hype up.
I disagree; it's a very one-dimensional and boring game. With such a low number of maps and little scope for skillful play it get's boring VERY fast.
It's a lot of fun for the first couple of weeks, but pretty soon you'll realise you just wasted your money.
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On February 18 2009 19:22 Klive5ive wrote:Show nested quote +On February 17 2009 09:55 [-Bluewolf-] wrote:
Mora - can you comment on if they plan to fix the NAT negotiation code? Or is that something Windows LIVE controls? I have seen zero information about it in any patch list?
Also - bump. Game is worth a purchase if one wants a casual RTS - and it will likely be the only thing offered before SC2 - so keeping the hype up. I disagree; it's a very one-dimensional and boring game. With such a low number of maps and little scope for skillful play it get's boring VERY fast. It's a lot of fun for the first couple of weeks, but pretty soon you'll realise you just wasted your money.
Flamebait
Nobody cares what you think. If you did not like the beta, why would you bother come in this thread and pull out of your ass a post like this.
Maybe you're jealous because you cant afford to pay for the game.
For everyone else, I look forward to play some great games with you all on the new maps this week end.
omg, just cant wait !
12 hours to go !!!
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On February 19 2009 01:36 Famehunter wrote:Show nested quote +On February 18 2009 19:22 Klive5ive wrote:On February 17 2009 09:55 [-Bluewolf-] wrote:
Mora - can you comment on if they plan to fix the NAT negotiation code? Or is that something Windows LIVE controls? I have seen zero information about it in any patch list?
Also - bump. Game is worth a purchase if one wants a casual RTS - and it will likely be the only thing offered before SC2 - so keeping the hype up. I disagree; it's a very one-dimensional and boring game. With such a low number of maps and little scope for skillful play it get's boring VERY fast. It's a lot of fun for the first couple of weeks, but pretty soon you'll realise you just wasted your money. Flamebait Nobody cares what you think. If you did not like the beta, why would you bother come in this thread and pull out of your ass a post like this. Maybe you're jealous because you cant afford to pay for the game. For everyone else, I look forward to play some great games with you all on the new maps this week end. omg, just cant wait ! 12 hours to go !!!
lol fanboy
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Or maybe he played the game, realized it was one dimensional, and wants to dissuade people from buying a horrible half RTS game with shitty mechanics and possibly less skill ceiling than the original DoW.
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I don't understand how Relic can be so shitty. Only TWO 1v1 maps? They are clearly cutting corners to push this out fast.
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Actually theres 3 1v1 maps but yeah still pretty shitty lol. Anyways about the game itself the mechanics needed are not that demanding, the game isnt totally one dimensional. It does focus ENTIRELY on battles, thats its main selling point and at the same time the turn off for some players. In the end its friggin W40K, need I say more?
I'll say this though, theres not too much room for creativity and generally it doesnt reward those trying what we would call "being cute". I know this is a starcraft site and I still regard sc as being the #1 rts ever atm, but if game developers did not try new things like relic did with DoW2 we would just be getting games which are like carbon copies of starcraft except just with different models and units. I think DoW2 is a strong product but DEFINATELY needs some more content in it asap or players will absolutely get bored to death with the 7 available maps atm.
Single player atm is decent, though ive only played it for 2 hours (yes im playing single player because I wanted to play with what relic supposedly spent most of their development time on). Single player is very different to multiplayer, you completely customize your squads, its pretty much like "TimeShift" but a whole lot more better and not completely stupidly difficult. Imagine Diablo 2 in space and as an rts sort of thing.
DoW2 is a strong product that will keep people amused until starcraft 2 comes out, even the people over at the official DoW2 forums acknowledge that starcraft 2 > DoW2 even before its been released. But hey having something to play around with until sc2 isnt that bad ;D better than nothing. Strong product that NEEDS DLC and maybe some different approaches to its development might of made it a much stronger contender to sc2, mainly suffers from lack of depth and variety, i mean i CANT scout, i CANT really rush, but having said that it is still worth a play if you havnt played it yet though that would be hard now since the beta is closed.
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I just don't get what their thinking behind this kind of release is other than we could really use the money let's release this half-finished game and then as a selling point say they will add free down loadable content as the game progresses, when really it's things that should have been there at release. No 2v2, 7 total maps (3 1v1, 4 3v3), and their attempt at patching during the beta just made things worse.
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On February 19 2009 10:51 mrgerry wrote:
I just don't get what their thinking behind this kind of release is other than we could really use the money let's release this half-finished game and then as a selling point say they will add free down loadable content as the game progresses, when really it's things that should have been there at release. No 2v2, 7 total maps (3 1v1, 4 3v3), and their attempt at patching during the beta just made things worse.
I liked 99% of the changes done in the patches during beta. And I like this game a lot and can't wait to see how the retail looks/works (just waiting for the post to deliver my copy).
Really small amount of maps can be a problem, although I'm used to WC3 where you have 13 maps for 1v1, 6 of them are horrible and you can only de-select 5, the horrible maps make you want to cut your wrists if you play on them. This leaves you with 8 maps and being paired only with people who haven't got them de-selected gets you playing only 2-3 maps all around most of the time.
The biggest issue for me is lack of 2v2, although I think Relic stated that they're working on it.
I disagree with people saying this game is crap and not worth the money. It's definitely worth giving it a shot and checking out later how it's gonna develop.
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Wow, I'm just experiencing the worst possible game distribution in the history. I have a nice shiny metal case for my DVD, a campaign walkthrough with pictures and shit and everything I need to get me started.
The problem is that I can't even install the game...
Seriously, I have absolutely no idea why Relic decided to go with Steam and GFWL but it's causing some major pain. Just browsing through DoW2 tech support forums reveals this:
- can't install the game in Europe for at least 2 more hours (and people outside Europe are happily playing the game right now)
- although I have the DVD I'll most likely have to download it from Steam
- redeem keys for bonus pre-order content aren't working
- I won't be able to even play SP campaign without logging on into Steam and GFWL
I'm seriously let down right now...
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Well if you have to download it from steam don't feel too bad, the download is extremely fast so you shouldn't let that hold you back, just go for it.
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Oh man I can't wait to start playing the campaign IM SUCH A WH40K DORK, the multiplayer was really boring to me but the single player is enough for me to buy it.
I wonder why they chose to have such a small amount of different units by the way while having no base building capacities, now everyone is gonna get bored with the game in a matter of months. I really liked the first game soooooo much better than this one online.
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Phew. Managed to install/update without any problems. Now changing my locale to english because I can't stand polish.
Being 24h behind in release really hurt my stats 
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