Evening Reading
- Girl games controversy!
- Space tourism to stop? Booooo
- Oh my god he almost wasnt president!
- Apple is making money
As for the the videogame news around these parts:
- Best selling multi-platform games for 2008
- Street Fighter 4 trailer with all characters
- Sega of America layoffs for 30 people
- Battlefield Heroes beta signups open
- Portal Gun is alive
- Microsoft talking smack about Sony
- World in Conflict expansion in March
- Capcom partnering with MMO company
- Skate 2 screenshots for release day
- Gears of War 2 patch details
- EA layoffs hitting Madden and Skate 2 developers
- TRIBES veterans doing a hover tank game
- OutRun Online now a Xbox 360 America exclusive
- Dawn of War 2 Orks trailer
- LittleBigPlanet getting Wipeout costumes
- GameStop vs Steam?
- FEAR2 vs FEAR comparison video
- PS3 game sales fail to impress
Lastly, I suppose I should finish watching the last season of Lost?
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replyThe Dawn of War II beta is fucking awesome. I am SO HYPED for this game.
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god damnit i dont want to buy soulstorm just for the beta.there's like 10 people on my steam friends list playing. :(
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I can't pre-order...
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It's because I was on the fucking Dawn of War Ii beta page!
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I'm told via a reliable source (as in, currently playing the beta) that simply pre-ordering on Steam will do it for you.
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haha that's my reliable source :(
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WOW WHAT why did i not know this fucking shit im going to buy it right now
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boughted fuck yeah i can't wait to hit you guys in the face with my power sword
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bro demigod is the best game ever, i mean i was pretty sure it was accepted by everyone that demigod was just several tiers of good above every other game that it doesn't even need defending.
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Demigod's half finished in this state, anyhow. It's a true beta. This Dawn of War II MP beta is more like a demo.
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I guess I'm kinda just pissed that I paid full retail price to get into a beta that is at such an early stage. I mean for fucks sake I can't even connect to a lobby for an internet game more than 10% of the time.
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BUT I CAN'T ROLL BOULDERS INTO YOUR FACE IN THAT. >:(
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i have no idea what that means but im almost ready to fuck shit up my download is finished
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It looks too much like a Company of Heroes mod to me. Can anybody confirm/refute this?
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It's very similar, but then it throws melee into the mix, which adds an incredible amount of depth and tactics.
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God damn you bastards. I'm resisting >:(
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in this video you are daisy. Tim and Mike are the shack, the young boy is all the old RTS games of yesteryear and upstairs... upstairs is the new hottness of DoW2.http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9QGv4tYyb9s
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Voice acting sucks? Who did you play as? Seeing as the Space Marines are missing some unit dialogue, Ork lines are great as always, and the Tyranids don't have voices... I haven't played Eldar, but I'd assume it'd be very similar to the first game.
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the new engine is almost good enough for cinematics I'd say
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Still missing the Sisters of Battle.
Behold, the Immolator tank! Purgation MADE MANIFEST!-
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Yep. Gothic unit design, and a solid emphasis on burning things.
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Here's mine: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19004126
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Played two games so far, both as nids, and keep in mind that I've been playing CoH fairly competitively for the last 2 years or so.
Nids are very spammy and kind of boring.
The maps seem smaller, but yet everything moves as a much slower pace.
Also, the voices for the nids seemed very awkward - I was hoping for something nid'ish - instead I have some female commander voice just chirping on and on.
Also, it seems that they haven't put in some critical gameplay items like hitting spacebar for every critical event happening in game - IE i'm being warned that my team mates are attacked (in coh and damn near every other RTS - spacebar takes you to the event). There also seems to be some issues selecting multiple units and issuing commands either individually or as a group. IE I select a group of units and normally I can click on one of the units in the group of units and give it direct commands free of the other units - nope not happening - the entire selection of units take the command. Those were the two biggest gameplay items that I noticed immediately off the bat.
Overall the game is fairly pretty, but everything is so very alien to look at. For example in CoH a building or wall or fence is readily identified and understood as to what it should be. In DoW2 mousing over terrain will give you indicators for the type of cover it will provide your units, but it's mostly just craters and fairly unrecognizable shrubbery. Buildings that you can occupy are strategically located, but are few and far between.
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I agree with many of your criticisms, but at the same time, I feel that DoW II is MUCH more responsive. My units will do what I want them to in DoW II, vs. CoH, where it feels like my units are being dumb as fuck.
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http://steamcommunity.com/groups/shackdow2 join it! Public for now. Msg me if you want to be an admin.
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FOR THE EMPORER
me and razzle rolled ealmo and kill9 YEAH BITCHES WASSUP YOU GOT OWNNNNED
haha this game is awesome.
add me to your windows live friends list: DrFlammable-
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I just don't get it, I've played several recent RTS games over the last 5 years or so and it just seems like the EXACT same thing. Maybe i should stop playing them, I don't hate them but i always get a little excited about the new "sexy" RTS game then i play it and come away feeling completely underwhelmed. Ya sure the game is polished, the new units are cool, and the graphics are great, but it still seems like the same game just with fancy new wrapping paper, and yes i realize this might be a "beat a dead horse" argument but i just feel bleh about this game. No offense to anyone that likes it or the people that made it, but i think i just need to stop getting excited about these games ....... damn you starcraft 2.
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Without even commenting on the quality of the game, I completely disagree. This game has no base building, it has the cover system that's still pretty uncommon in RTS games, as well as the control-point-based system that's a whole lot newer than, say, the StarCraft type.
I just don't understand how you can say this is like all other RTS games, even if you don't like it. I mean, when I loaded it up, I was struck by how incredibly different it is.-
I guess i just see base building as further drawing out the tech trees, this game gives you one building that you upgrade and gives you all the units with the 3 tiers. basically consolidating all those "base buildings" you make in other rts, and the cover system while new, minus CoH, doesn't seem to make that big of a difference. With the control point system i guess i have been spoiled by the fps multiplayer games that have the same concept, but like i said maybe i'm finally discovering that i'm just not a true rts fan :(
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Cover not making a difference? Are you on crack?
Cover is SUPER important.-
IAWTP I beat a guy earlier purely BECAUSE of cover, we were pretty evenly matchd but when ever a fight broke out I made sure I was in cover and when he cottoned on and doing it himself I started to use flanking maneuvers on him. One of the things I love about this and CoH is that you can use real infantry tactics and it makes a difference.
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Relic is my favourite RTS developer.
They seem to be innovating in EVERY which way.
As much as I like Starcraft, I fear Starcraft II might be a little tired.
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Wait that sounds more like Company of Heroes which is what I had hoped for but had thought they didn't go with. So there cover system/lack of base building/control point gameplay is still intact from COH but it's all futuristic etc?
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Do we know if there's going to be a demo?
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open beta for people who dont own soulstorm or havent pre-ordered is 27th. don't think there will be SP demo
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I think you just don't like RTS games.
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I'm going to bed, but add me to your shits and I will play over the next few days because this game is rad.
Steam: chrisremo ( http://steamcommunity.com/id/chrisremo )
Live: The Idle Thumb ( http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/profile.aspx?pp=0&GamerTag=The+Idle+Thumb ) -
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it absolutely refuses to run for me. C2D@3ghz, 2gigs DDR2-800, 8800GT, winXP pro. The opening video is a slideshow, audio runs fine, the background animation in the menu moves at about 1 frame per 3 seconds. The Live login takes forever to load then it takes minutes for anything I type to show up and even then it doesn't show up correctly. menu buttons take 5-10 seconds to light up after mousiong over them. Latest DirectX and Nvidia drivers from their website.
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I FOUND A FIX (hopefully) , after some more Googling here at work I found that a number of guys were reporting this issue at the DoW forums ( I couldn't find this last night searching their forums). It's apparently a vsync issue.
"Re: Weird catastrophic bug...
I FOUND A FIX after messing around for about an hour
to fix this go into \My Documents\My Games\Dawn of War 2 Demo\Settings
open settings.lua , just use wordpad or notepad to open it
change
setting = "vsync",value = 1 to 0
after changes save the file and try it this fixed the problem for me
thanks to whelp i edited for the exact fix"
I'll be trying this as soon as I get home this morning.
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this needs to be inf+
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A couple of style choices I noticed. Why isn't the mekboy player commander the BigMek instead? Like in DoW? I think it would fit better. Same with the eldar warlock, it should be another aspect leader, like a striking scorpion exarch or howling banshee exarch. Same play style but we would get to see another eldar aspect. And no Dark Reapers = me sad :(
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I just schooled some eldar lovin dude with nothing but devastators, didn't even upgrade my tech just a shed load of supressing fire and finish off with my force commander
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