DatonKallandor

[quote]In fact with that matchup i think the game should have lasted about 25-30 or so minutes. You go HP build, AoE the rook's towers while they are busy with your creeps and thus prevent the rook from making a garden of them. Push them back up in the corner, then one of you keep them busy there, while the other warps into their base and caplocks their flag once you hit warscore 10. Upgrade to giants and its GG.[/quote] And then it rains frogs and you can eat heartily. You're

Camp 1, but only if it doesn't require micromanagement every single turn to achieve good performance.

Better than L4D is wishful thinking. But it's decent.

Soul Power? Really? You want to make him even more Assassin like. Change Soul Power to something that's actually appropriate for a General - even a (smaller?) weapon damage buff in a radius would be better.

[quote who="Ron Lugge" reply="18" id="2201849"] (FYI, to do replays the right way is actually a very complex issue as the right way includes being able to always view a replay even if the game has been patched and you want to view an older replay). I don't think that one is ever going to be possible, not without far more coding than should ever occur. [/quote] C&C3 already does it. And yes, it's a huge amount of work - but EA had money to burn on that game (wh

[quote who="FlyByU" reply="16" id="2201260"]LOL thats funny DatonKallandor because if they had all that on a floppy and the HD's back then were very small a few games would have filled up the HD with just the copy protection you say it had. [/quote] I never said they had it on the floppy itself. Code Wheels and other copy protection came with the box - unless you pirated your games. Since you don't even seem to be aware of the existance of that copy protection...

Then you'll have a problem. That's the nature of online play.

Although you could take your CD out of the tray after launching (if you chose the full install) most of the time. Back then, you had to make a tradeoff - do you want to install those huge 100 mb games and need no CD or do you want to save your precious space and use the CD.

Well, it would impact mostly P2P. RTS mostly, some download sharing software (Blizzard's Downloader comes to mind - that's one finnicky piece of P2P), etc. . Many people reporting problems with the same thing, while having the same provider is a big clue.

[quote who="Colonel_Jessep" reply="14" id="2196861"] Quoting Sheezwack, reply 7Yeah I mean as game in progress, why can't you just connect to the existing people, then update the new player with the necessary data which is what you have to do for everyone in the game anyway. To keep the games in sync you have to be sending that data to everyone anyway... it's not like there would be much extra to send that isn't being sent already.The engine doesn't work like this. The data you tra

[quote who="Christian Ons" reply="13" id="2182641"]A multiplayer demo is very rare, actually I can't remember ever seeing one before, and there is a reason for that.[/quote] They're called "Betas" nowadays. It's just like a demo but with built in "it'll be fixed in retail for sure!".

[quote who="illumin8" reply="10" id="2192825"]You can't enter the lobby until you have first connected to everyone else who is in the lobby? I can pretty much guarantee you that if you have a server with 1000 random people connected, I won't be able to connect to at least a few of them.[/quote] I don't think that's the "lobby", since there isn't a traditional RTS lobby. I think lobby in his explanation refers to the pre-game set-up screen. So that's a lot fewer than 1000 - yet s

[quote who="FlyByU" reply="6" id="2196256"]When I first started playing PC games you did not have any of this crap.[/quote] Bull. The heyday of the PC had copy protection - code wheels, random word checks out of the manual, etc..

[quote who="Sblade1" reply="13" id="2189652"]We DID. we ASKED. We got NO REPLY, we removed them from the DRM free section.[/quote] Unfortunately that's not how contacting someone works. If you try to contact someone to get information, you do not get to make up whatever you want if they don't reply. You try atleast one other venue of communication - SOP is "if the recipient does not reply, assume he did not get the message". PS.: Please remove "Reclaim Your Game" from the DRM-

[quote who="ElPopo" reply="25" id="2191512"]AFAIK DoW2 is using a p2p system too, Games for Windows Live is just for the matchmaking part. (And hey, that one doesn't add 5 bots in a 3vs3 game...)[/quote] Nope, DoW2 uses GFWL for it's entire online system. That's why DoW2's online system works so well - Microsoft have spent a lot of money making sure it does (which also means a lot of certification required - see 1+ months of leadtime on patches). You also shouldn't confuse the

[quote who="ganKing" reply="6" id="2187265"] How can they be releasing "betas" for a game I already bought? I don't understand the people who, this far in, can still have such a positive attitude about this.[/quote] Running Betas for patches is standard operating procedure - it's a good thing, not a bad one.

[quote who="Evanescent" reply="11" id="2187284"]A Customer wants to play a 5v5 game, the game has maps that a capable of 5v5. Is it Slurpie's fault that he is not able to play a 5v5 game? Are we still blaming the people who pirated Demigod? I sort of lost track of the last few weeks.[/quote] I can play 5v5 - if you can't that's not the products problem.

[quote who="TarlSS" reply="25" id="2147582"]Honestly I don't see where the problem is here. I usually play a different god every game, and I find assassins/generals to be more or less well balanced. The trick with assassins is to use their high burst damage early and often, and to get one or two AOE spells to take care of minions. For instance, with TB, I usually start out with Fireball/Deep freeze, but as the game progresses I use Frost/Fire Nova to take care of minions in one hit

[quote who="scyldSCHEFING" reply="21" id="2147351"]Perhaps this was because it was simply too difficult in the end to implement a true RTS interface that would give a player tight control of his mionions and minions that are powerful and durable enough to be true primary sources of damage?[/quote] Which is simply hilarious because the game is built on the engine of one of the most advanced RTS games, interface wise.

[quote who="gkrit" reply="6" id="2080939"]im just wondering.. coz i havent actually read it anywhere (plus i dont have the game). are items "1 use per item"?[/quote] Only items which are in the "Consumables" tab of the store have charges. Mostly potions with some utility items like universal gadgets and slow scrolls.

Not only is Erebus himself having those issues (although they're a very minor niggle - a quick second click or minor move order will solve it), his minions are still broken. Only they're far more broken - they simply ignore attack orders, irregardless of how many you give.

So is it normal that Demigod prompts me to download the update via Impulse, while Impulse then shows no update being present and waiting?

[quote who="mewz" reply="5" id="2135378"] Excuse me but forcing a customer to belong to loyal cult is something very funny. Every customer has a right to be treated with respect and deservs so, if you want to be loyal to someone thats your right as well, but its not any customer obligation or moral duty to do so. [/quote] If you want to be treated with respect, you shouldn't associate with frauds (ie shady retailers who fuck over their business partners). From naught, comes naugh

[quote who="Blitz64" reply="5" id="2136344"]I wonder if it'll reach the top 10 NPD pc weekly sales chart for a week. The NPD has been dominated by mostly WoW and Sims.[/quote] As if the NPDs had any value. They're not evaluating all forms of distribution, and they're have a limited regional view.

[quote who="Daikaze" reply="5" id="2135923"]I think all of those ideas are terrible. None of these ideas would "punish" Gamestop; These ideas would all punish Stardock/GPG, which is the total opposite of the desired outcome.[/quote] It works the other way around as well. Stardock are a source of income for Gamestop - and Gamestop screwing over Stardock lowers Stardocks profits. That's a pretty clear cut - you mess with us, we mess with you case.