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Releasing the beta results in a good game. Holding the beta results in a worse game but better PR.
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[quote who="Nights Edge" reply="11" id="1972325"]If people complain when they give us unofficial probably this but don't want to say for certain dates, then in future we just won't get any dates at all until they're absolutely certain. The beta is for their testing purposes, any entertainment we may derive is purely a freebie thrown in to sweeten the pre-order.[/quote] The fact is it's a Beta. It shouldn't matter if it's polished. So delaying it, thus completely defeating the actual p
The problem isn't that attack-move is no longer A. The problem is that attack-move is appearently no longer there at all . WASD as a screen mover is pretty much where the sub-genre needs to go - see Multiwinia for the perfect RTT camera control.
If you could pick up the potions you could also sell them. Meaning people will just use it as another source of income, doing nothing but actually removing the healing/mana refresh dynamic of current Demigod combat.
Are something you can do with notepad editing. Making changes to already existing FX is hardly a strain - hardest work of it, animations and integrating the FX into it, is already done. Making them more extensive won't bankrupt anyone.
[quote]The fact of the matter is if this game is going to succeed is has to become more than Dota[/quote] The fact of the matter is if this game is going to succeed is has to have as little as possible to with Dota. Dota is one thing - Counterstrike 1.6 in 2008. A completely outdated game, which had free engine and art assets (no cost of development), as well as free for the people playing it, which is only played by a small hardcore fanbase, utterly opposed to any newcomers. If you t
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Precisely Sole Soul. And I can confirm the power of the 8800GT. I'm using it myself (and have seen it used by others), and it runs Crysis on more than max flawlessly.
Visual changes to demigods based on abilities are already in, kind of. The Rook changes appearance as you unlock his passive tower upgrades, and I believe the Unclean Beast has some visual change when activating that rage buff thing. It would of course be far better if the visual changes would be more widespread, and would be more and more pronounced as the abilities are leveled up, but the engine possibility is there. And I can only second Bardus - spell FX needs to show that
Damn you. For a second I got my hopes up and thought they'd finish Conquest 2 or make a new one. Reply #1 is right. The name Conquest is already taken, by the best 2 axis RTS of the old generation. Incidentally, for all people that want a real Conquest fix - the files for the alpha version of Conquest 2 are floating around on the net (legally) - I recommend trying it.
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[quote]If I recall correctly Daton a graphic card of 512 megs back early 2007 was very expensive. So if you were able to buy all new parts including a monitor and the tower all for less then 800$ I want to know how. Frankly it,s hard to believe. Crysis was a pc hog and still is today. Danm it's recommended specs are asking for a core 2 duo. That's becoming main stream now. I don't think most computers had core 2 duo back a year ago and this was Jan 2007. Lets not f
Just let an AI take over until a player joins. Left 4 Dead has already shown the way.
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Sadly it doesn't work like that, because "Good Game" is not a seperate entity from hardware need. [quote]( and I beg to differ with DatonKallandor , it did require a NASA supercomputer to run at max settings when released )[/quote] Err, there is no begging to differ. It wasn't an op
[quote] 1. Total War--I love this series. However, there are many issues that need improvement in this series that don't require new tech. The main one that irks me no end is the clipping that happens constantly when zooming into the battlefield. The sound is great, the graphics are as real as ever, and yet . . . every close up soldier breaks apart into squarish chunks when you get to close to them. I'm excited for Empire:TW, but I'm certain that despite all
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[quote who="CobraA1" reply="24" id="1961201"]Valve's hardware survey is a fine example of how to do things the right way: Instead of spending endless days philosophizing about it, they went ahead and gathered statistics. They don't need to make guesses about their audience - the have the numbers. That's probably the most valuable tool any game developer can have. Sure, people can philosophize about why the numbers are what they are - but at the end of the day, the numbers speak for
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[quote]Did you read that after you posted it? You're stating that the customer base has more sophisticated rigs than reported, because the customer base has been inflated by all those users that wouldn't be customers without the older, highly popular game they're still playing on their outdated machines.[/quote] Actually I'm stating that IMPULSE customer base would have more sophisticated rigs - the STEAM customer base has a host of underpowered machines
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[quote] - 25% of Steam's users have less than 1GB of RAM. - 59% of Steam's users are using a single-core CPU. - 12% of Steam's users have a CPU speed under 2GHz. - 73% of Steam's users are using 4:3 monitors. - 97% of Steam's users have only one monitor. - 78% of Steam's users have a desktop resolution of 1280x960 or less. - 32% of Steam's users are still using 1024x768. Unless Stardock has some reason to believe the users of their digital download s
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[quote]If we have a brief look at some of the more recent, highly successful games (Team Fortress 2, Call of Duty 4, World of Warcraft, Sins of a Solar Empire and World in Conflict - games I just happen to own) we can see that there is a possible relationship between their success and their system requirements. All games mentioned above have very reasonable system requirements and efficient game engines. If you own a system that was built 4 years ago, chances are you could still pl
Not saying there won't be RTS content - just correcting the ones who think that they never claimed there would be RTS content.
[quote who="landisaurus" reply="11" id="1952443"] Now, I haven't played it yet, but I already seriously doubt your statement. So far in all the advertisements I've seen it never said it was particularly heavy in the RTS, just that certain demigods had more RTS qualities. OR, you could go with more hack/slash diablo like demigods. Even if that isn't fully relized in beta 10000, if thats the final product then sales are going to be fantastic. Heck, it doesn't even n
Any complaints about the number of Demigods has no base until we get Beta 2 and get a good look at how the skill trees are supposed to look/how extensive they are supposed to be.
[quote who="TheBigOne" reply="25" id="1958847"]I wouldn't mind such features, but don't believe that they are as good as decisions made by a human mind. A rule like "retreat when health is down to 25%" might be good in many cases but sometimes you will want him to keep firing etc. Warcraft III has auto-casting for most of the spells of non-hero units but good players disable most of it in most situations because an AI is too dumb to know when it is good to use a spell and on
[quote who="Rhedd_V" reply="10" id="1957215"]You'll have to forgive us old farts who view the original trilogy as a life-changing experience, but anything not on those six hours of film isn't Star Wars.[/quote] Then you haven't read enough of the books. The Republic Commando Series singlehandedly saved the whole prequel timespan for me - finally a writer who manages to make the whole palpatine-emperor/dooku/jedi council triple backstabbery work in a logical way. Also,
[quote who="Orkimond" reply="21" id="1958452"]DatonKallandor, warcraft 3 needed lots of decision making skill, and RTS' always need APM but in some decision making has more emphasis, have u ever played COH, that needed lots of decision making not micro. TheBigOne is soooo right, listen to the man. And Sins does need APM, i have won many games because of my combat micro, if you pull back ships whenever they get attacked and bring them to your healing thing (cant remember the name) y
[quote who="Orkimond" reply="8" id="1957169"]I disagree wholeheartedly with WarlokLords presumptioin that distiguishing between inexperienced and experienced players is not important. Where would games like Starcraft and CS be if players of diferent skills didnt make diferent choices and it is easy to tell in both thes games how good someone is by the choices they make.[/quote] Both of your examples of "skill heavy games" are completely and utterly incompatible with Demigod. They both
[quote who="Nights Edge" reply="20" id="1954861"]What about an item that gave nearby creeps a bonus against a particular Demigod? When you talk about what is reasonable to program, it's difficult to make suggestions because we don't know what categories are available to target or modify.[/quote] That should be easy to code - there already is code for aura's, including damage buffs (including those that affect your creeps). Incidentally, that would be