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[quote who="Lemminkaeinen" reply="25" id="2312514"] [some stuff] [/quote] Of the premades who post on the forums, I'd guess nearly all are more keen for a good game than a nub stomp. Certainly I know facet, bear and itchy are all looking for competition because they've made numerous posts trying to organise such games, though with little success it seems. I can host a pre vs random game because the Australian community is small enough that I know which players

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="3" id="2312524"] That's exactly why it needs to stay as it is - if everyone could use this same ability but as a favour item, what would be the point of Erebus having it as an ability in the first place? I don't see a favour item granting the user Archers and a Trebuchet equal to that of Rooks, why should it be the case here?[/quote] I think it should stay the initial range of 20. There are very few counters to blinking, in order to

[quote] Perhaps putting "premade" in the title leads to 20-minute wait times as some people keep saying. I haven't tried it as I have no mic and no Finnish friends who are into competitive computer games. But if it indeed takes 20 minutes to fill up, then that means that most of the premade teams actually avoid logging on to such games, which in turn leads to my original point. [/quote] Joining someone else's lobby requires the host to be prepared to kick randoms in order to play against yo

[quote who="XSive_Death" reply="6" id="2310473"]Individual units with an emphasis on micro-management makes it fall under the umbrella of tactical game (ala mech commander) rather than a strategy game (ala supcom). The level of "thinking" required is irrelevant.[/quote] So apparently Starcraft and Dawn of War aren't strategy games... Hate to break it to you, but only SupCom and TA players are still singing that tune.

[quote who="Healer" reply="25" id="2310453"] You really didn't understand my post or you just kidding ? How their premade team gonna get better when playing against unorganised players ?[/quote] They're not. There aren't any organised teams they can easily set up a match with so they're going to play with the casual crowd.

[quote who="sho333" reply="24" id="2310437"] That's like saying the CEO of mcdonalds is responsible for giving you your coffee and egg mcmuffin in the morning.[/quote] He's responsible when the customers of McDonalds decide to boycott the company because their food is poor quality, in the same way Frogboy would be responsible if the forums were full of outcry at a poor product (which was the case on release with networking issues, but has since been remedied) that could lead to p

[quote who="Lemminkaeinen" reply="15" id="2310356"]How many times have you three's premades battled it out? I mean, you're all US and seem to play at the same times so you must've had many games together battling it out in a grandiose way really challenging yourselves instead of noob stomping, right? [/quote] [quote who="Healer" reply="17" id="2310368"] That was my point. Just waiting for those three hotshots to answer and saying that nobody beats them. After browsing t

[quote who="SveNitoR" reply="6" id="2310172"] You have absolutely no idea about the difference in complexity between making games for consoles and computers, have you? Compare making a product where every comsumer has exactly the same equipment (consoles and older computers) to a situation where almost every consumer has different equipment (todays computers) and different OS and software. It's not easy. That said; there were problems at release, and there still are,

[quote quoting="post"] Honest question, im not looking to start a flame war or anything, this is my second competitive game (my first was World in Conflict) and i really dont know why when we play competitive games we tend to become jackasses. GalCivs2 Community is great and a lot of people i see in this forum that come from there are great, so if the problem is the competitive games why are does players not changing?, i guess it could have something to do with maturity but i

[quote who="Xristina" reply="6" id="2310089"] 1) You think that somewhere else you will get rid of the trantums and frustrations thwron by ppl? The answer is no, the forums are toxic because ppl are asses on the internet, gives them a high sense of superiority, so if you give up even if it's justifiable and understandable. But the nagging will never stop in neither industry, gaming or software. [/quote] I highly doubt the Elemental forums are going to be anything like the cu

[quote who="SoFFacet" reply="2" id="2309901"]Well, my partner and I use UB + Sed specifically because we think its the strongest, so uh, I'm not surprised to hear you say this, but I'm not sure exactly what to tell you. I wouldn't use Rook if I were you, hes weak for 2v2s. If you could convince your friend to use a different DG, Oak + LE is the other great 2v2 combo, in my experience. Its not a direct counter but it'll get you close enough to try to win by outplaying them. [/quote]

RE: The Dawn of War 2 patch list. The new patch is pretty damn impressive. DoW2 came out 2 months before DG, do you think in 2 months we will be seeing a similar amount of progress from GPG? Different projects, different budgets etc. but I don't feel it's an overly unfair comparison. Both companies are veterans of the industry (and both make games I really like) and have experience with RTS games in particular. Also worth noting that despite the giant changelog DoW2 ha

[quote who="SoFFacet" reply="23" id="2309082"] I really, really don't want to ragequit this game. I'm trying so very hard not to, because at times it really is fun. But you are right, GPG is not helping me in that respect at all. Two of the teammates that I started playing this game with have already stopped playing. It seems only a matter of time until I follow suit. [/quote] Would you move to HoN, LoL, or something else? What about your friends? For ref

[quote who="XaviorsFist" reply="13" id="2309065"] Because map editor's always turn out so well. Normally people create some secret thing that only they know on the map and completely massacre everyone with it. Age of Empires 3 did it, Starcraft did it, and a lot of others. It isn't necissarrily a good thing. It just means the developers didn't want to take the time to create simply amazing maps so they release a few decent ones and let the community do the rest. I'm pretty sat

I was discussing DG in the context of the DoW2 patch that is soon to come out with a friend, and some of the balancing issues present there and their responses to them carry over to issues I feel are present in DG. Most interesting was on the subject of a knockdown chance on a unit, which actually reflected exactly the problem I have with playing DG competitively. If a unit has a 20% chance to knock another down, you can safely say that there is a 20% chance, regardless of skill, that

[quote who="Misfortune" reply="15" id="2308928"]Just to remind you of something ZehDon, from ImpulseDriven developer: These features are already advertised as being present in v1.0. The question remains why was Impulse Reactor chosen as the multiplayer system for DG if it was known it wouldn't be ready for another year (don't forget DG was delayed quite a bit also). Brad once wrote that they wanted to have options to using Steam or another service, but while pursui

[quote who="si1foo" reply="25" id="2308841"] this game iss good but also is shit[/quote] 0.o

[quote who="aRoobs" reply="8" id="2308628"] Quoting Lonous, reply 5Give the yetis jetpacks and chainsaws. Seriously, how cool would that be? It'd give sedna far more utility against enemy heavy weapon platforms.[/quote] Not going to work against imba nids though.

[quote]Being able to escape with another favor item is all well and good, but when it really comes down to it a good player with blood of the fallen will never have to run from a player not using blood of the fallen. Sure you can take poisoned dagger/swift anklets, but if the other player never needs to run, who cares? All the items you buy with another favor item can just as easily be purchased if you are using blood of the fallen. If there was no blood of the fal

[quote who="alvaro202" reply="21" id="2308215"] Sorry to disapoint any avid DG players out there, but the only good games for communities to advocate are open sourceand indie games. Corperations are always after the $, not creating something unique for a community to enjoy for a long time.[/quote] Relic are in the middle of gutting Dawn of War 2 through a massive patch in order to cater to the competitive crowd. Their game had fundamental issues (some of which are shared with Dem

I use the cloak of night. Reg players use the poisoned dagger. It's not very good in late game and it's starting to become redundant in mid. You can effectively cover it with the +hp items you buy in mid game such as unbreakable boots and nimoth, whereas getting a 20% chance 25% slow item is more difficult (closest is Wyrmskin). Getting a good blink item is impossible since Warpstone was nerfed ages ago, making the cloak unique. I see people using heaven's wrath a bit as well,

[quote who="Spooky" reply="14" id="2307871"]That's not a strange aspect of Demigod's design. Latency is just something you have to deal with in every game. And 350 isn't that much. It's still between WarCraft 3's LAN latency of 100 ms and Supreme Commanders latency of 500 ms.[/quote] My point is more that you have a bunch of skills that can't be interrupted without a large amount of luck. No matter how fast your reactions are it's impossible to interrupt pounce or heal through skill a

[quote]so the 0.1s cast time Ice TB spells actually take 0.45s from when you click? that would explain why its so damn hard to interrupt skills such as mines or heal..[/quote] One of many strange aspects of Demigod's design. The number of skills that can be interrupted through luck alone is frustrating to be generous.

[quote who="TheScottishAlien" reply="16" id="2307193"]thank you, i can now move random objects around the place, still figuring out whats what but i think i got the hang of it. while i'm posting i was wondering if anyone new what the code was for towers? say i wanted to add in a few extra towers or maybe move an existing one, which line of code would that be?[/quote] in the MAP_save.lua There should be large blocks of ugbdefense01 and ugbefense02 tied to war rank 1

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="8" id="2307445"] If there's a typical daily population of say 2000 Demigod players and of that only 100 of them are "pre-arrange teams" it doesn't really make sense to spend a lot of resources to cater to those 100 people. Instead, the effort should be made to make it easier for the other 1900 players who just want to have a good fun game. [/quote] I think there's a lot more people who play in pairs than that, though I appreciate it's diffic