Biowraith

My experience joining a bunch of custom games this evening is that I can connect to 80% of people quickly and without incident. However the remaining 20% I can't connect to at all - it just sits there attempting to connect indefinitely. Either of us rejoining the lobby has no impact. And that 20% doesn't seem to vary, it's the same people each time; I'm starting to recognise names from the various lobbies I've joined that when I see them I know we won't con

re the demo: 2 demigods (1 good, 1 evil; 1 assassin, 1 general) 2 maps (1 small, 1 large). Multiplayer has Skirmish and Custom, but only connects to other demo players (demo players can't see retail and vice versa - like with the beta patch this weekend but with an actual message to let them know this is the case... or let them see retail games, but grey them out with a mouseover of "not available to demo" kind of message). Single player skirmish; for newbies l

I get the same error during connection to multiplayer games: when the connection info window says I've failed to connect, it hangs, and if I alt-tab I see that window has opened in the background. I'm not 100% sure, but it seems to only be when I fail to connect to someone, not when they fail to connect to me (i.e. You have failed to connect to so-and-so, not So-and-so has failed to connect to Biowraith). I was getting these fairly often the first few days of release, either whe

My connectivity issues are kinda inconsistant, and are perhaps best demonstrated by a Pantheon match it tried to set up for me yesterday: There were 6 players including myself. 4 of the players successfully connected to everyone else. Myself and one other player successfully connected to those 4.. but then when it came to connecting to each other, it (eventually) "failed to connect". Unfortunately this happens quite often (though not always quite so frustratingl

The rankings seem to have a random number generator element to them. I've got two games listed on mine that both started at exactly the same time, with exactly the same duration, but one's custom with 1 player and the other's pantheon with 4 players. Apparently I lost the former and won the latter.

My first impressions are that it looks great, good sound, and it's plenty fun. But medium to long term is going to be about whether multiplayer grabs me or not - the single player game looks like it'll get old really fast (in fairness, I find most RTS games do). (Disclaimer: this really is first impressions - I wasn't in beta, didn't really pay attention to pre-release until a couple weeks ago, and I've just got 3 hours of gameplay (all today) under my belt at present)