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gradenko_2000 posted:I really need to get the later Strategic Command games. What would give me the most bang for the buck? WWI? Even their Pacific War title looks good and oh god stop making me want this I do not have 95 bux I'd wait a couple weeks and get the Global Assault on Democracy, personally. Latest greatest engine, big global WW2 scenario. I don't think it's standalone though, so you'd need Global.
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Necroneocon posted:Assault on Democracy is out for Strategic Command Global Conflict http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=231&Itemid=359 Well, there goes my evening.
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Nenonen posted:Strategic Command 3 also seems, well, not much at this point, but I'm glad that they have switched back to hexes. Those have got to be really early alpha screenshots. I can't believe, even for a second that they're going to drop rail lines, etc. There isn't even terrain. It's nice to know they're going back to hexes, but they probably should have waited to show screenies, or at least plastered ALPHA ALPHA ALPHA all over them. EDIT: Huh, the lead developer just said over in a thread at Battlefront that the SC series is moving to Matrix Games. Fintilgin fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Jul 22, 2013 |
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Alchenar posted:Strategic Command 3 looks merely like 5 minutes of work has been done on it. I enjoy the SC series, and I like seeing early screenshots, but when your alpha screenshot is literally a featureless green pool table shaped like France maaaaaaybe it's a little early. They better not try to charge 70$ for it or something either. 
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I wonder if Strategic Command jumping ship made Battlefront sit up and take notice? They just announced they'd be coming into the 21st century and allowing ~*unlimited downloads*~ of your purchased titles, retroactive to January 2012... assuming you didn't already download one of them ten times (because then, presumably, you're a pirate? I dunno).
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Jul 31, 2013 18:59
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It's a depth of field effect! FAKE EDIT: Fog of war! 
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Aug 1, 2013 20:07
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I'm sort of picturing a Matrix 'store' as buying a board/hobby/Magic Card shop and keeping it all the same, but adding a shelf of computer games and changing the store sign? I'm sort of... baffled by this too.
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Is War in the West a single grand campaign where you can choose to invade earlier or in different places or whatever, or is it a bunch of disconnected scenarios?
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Baloogan posted:Have you ever played WITP? Its quite a bit like WITP, there are Grand Campaign scenarios with different starting times and then there are tiny little scenarios. Yeah, I played* WITP, I just wasn't sure if they were going to let you say, skip the invasion of Italy and try for a summer 1943 landing in Brittany or weird alt-history things like that or if it was more 'locked down'. * Booted, pushed buttons, goggled in confusion, put down.
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Sep 5, 2013 18:47
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Baloogan posted:Skip Italian invasion Cool. Kinda a shame the North African campaign isn't included. Maybe in an expansion.
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Nenonen posted:There will be a game on the pre-1943 period too. Eventually all of it and WitE will be combined into one giant game! I found War in the East to be far more fun/playable then the Pacific, so Poland 1939 -> Berlin 1945 in the engine sounds like a good time to me.
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Koesj posted:I believe it's called Hearts of Iron 3, the game you're referring to. I've got like, 8 zillion posts in the Paradox threads. You can't trick me. (Also, I already own HOI3.  )
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All this bitching about wargaming companies got me in a cranky mood, and then I saw a thread over on Battlefront about someone who couldn't play their game because of their nutty DRM, and the support guy says:quote:If you have made certain changes to your computer, this could invalidate your activation and produce this error. Is this specifically for AoD ? Please open a ticket in the Helpdesk and we can send you some utilities to delete your current AoD activation and allow you to reactivate with your current hardware configuration. Hey, buddy, if you must leave your new USB drive or controller plugged in all the time you'll need to submit a support ticket and get approval to download a special app to reset your games license. It sounds like that's not even the problem the guy is having, but hey, it speaks volumes when that is the first thing support thinks might be wrong. I really shouldn't waste my time... Irritable Fintilgin posted:Or, maybe, if adding a new USB device to your computer could potentially require you to relicense your games, you guys could, oh I dunno, come into the 21st century with your digital distribution and drop the draconian DRM?
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Panzeh posted:World in Flames is a bloated mess of a board wargame that i'm not sure how it has a following compared to better games like Axis Empires:Totaler Krieg/Dai Senso. Aw, man. Totaler Krieg! was so cool. Back in high school I used to have a big, old kitchen table set up alongside my bed where I'd keep running solo games of TK! going. 
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gradenko_2000 posted:Count me in for Decisive Campaigns, game still rules. It's funny how I've run Case White at least a dozen times now (including that disastrous first game where I attacked right into the Mlowa forts), but the HOI3 version still feels like way too much work to make sense of. I think it's the real time nature. I'm fine right up until war starts and zillions of units are moving and air units are flashing around etc. You can technically pause, but there are so many things going on simultaneously that it's hard to keep track of, even paused. It's nothing like the nice, discrete nature of a turn based game, where you can think about each move separately.
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ArchangeI posted:A day after Obamacare went online? If that isn't a plot of a book worthy of his name, I don't know what is. "Communists have infiltrated the US government on all levels and are implementing Communism right under the noses of the American people...and only an overweight conservative book author can stop them." Can our intrepid hero Save America with nothing but his love of Freedom and his massive, overwhelming, technological superiority? 
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Myoclonic Jerk posted:This is a World of Tanks thing, but it involves archival research, so that seems pretty groggy to me. Did you seriously talk to someone at Wargaming and NOT drill them with questions about their plans for Master of Orion?! 
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Myoclonic Jerk posted:. . . They have plans for Master of Orion? Whaaaaa? Well, they haven't said anything, but they bought the rights. If they make a real sequel, I will love them. If they make some sort of horrific, free-to-play, online multiplayer, bullshit abomination and call it 'Master of Orion' I will hate them forever. But it still won't be worse then MOO3.
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Crossing my fingers for Strategic Command III to show up on Steam. EDIT: Wait... Did Rock Paper Shotgun deceive me? RPS posted:Perhaps Buzz Aldrin’s willingness to jump the gun, as demonstrated by the Space Program Manager game which bears his name making its way to the divisive Steam Early Access today, is why he wasn’t allowed to be the first man on the moon. Smart thinking, NASA. But I can't find a link to it on Steam or anything about Steam on the Matrix pages... 
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Got my hopes up for nothing. 
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Zaodai posted:Just wait until I get done my in-depth World War 3 wargame. It's going to have a splash screen straight from the late 80's, a thousand buttons, a deployment phase that takes two real time days to complete, and then the game will just play a poorly compressed GIF of a msurhoom cloud on turn 1 and crash to desktop. Sounds like a niche title. Probably want to charge $200.
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Zaodai posted:Sounds about right, plus $50 for shipping. You wouldn't believe how much it costs to ship a big box of 5 1/4" floppy disks to each customer. Real Matrix Customers respond! quote:IMHO, I think its a class act to publish a hardcopy, I have often looked forward to purchasing a game only to find a cd/dvd/download contained in a giant box. I will happily pay the $199 (my guess) to have it, and the maps, bonus. Can't buy class, your born with it. quote:Some of these posts seem ridiculous to me. So you don't have a job, or have other priorities, then don't buy the game, buy food instead. This is a premium game and priced accordingly, for the first release. quote:There's a lot of "Me! Me! Me!" in some of these posts. Cool...if you don't like how they're doing it, don't buy the game. Looks like you got a winner!
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So who's the guinea pig who's going to buy Pandora, the supposed Alpha Centauri clone? Any good? Worthless? Priced at $30 which seems fair if it's decent.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Maybe we could share recommendations on stuff that's good? I liked the idea of AT, but it was much too fiddly with sub units/production/logistics for me to actually get all that much fun out of. Has there been any other decent modern take on the old 'Empire' formula of random map wargame with production? Something with clean mechanics like Panzer Corps might be fun.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Storm Over the Pacific / WW2 Time of Wrath / anything made by that shitheap Wastelands Interactive (studio name+game quality combo!) I got a little fun out of Time of Wrath, but the AI is so dire it's sort of pointless.
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Did anyone ever do a 'how to' thing on Decisive Campaigns? Thought I'd give Warsaw to Paris a serious go and am a little confused. How important is the big strength number? Sometimes I seem to crush a unit with similar strength and sometimes I can't make an progress against units with tiny numbers. Do people usually play with the 'big' units or the 'little' ones? Basically, is there a 'dummies' starter guide to this, or should I just smack my head against it for a while? Fintilgin fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Dec 4, 2013 |
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dtkozl posted:I'd like to know when is the best times and worst times to go over the stacking limit. I was just thinking the same thing. 'Avoid at all Costs' or 'Sometimes Useful' or 'Do with Abandon'?
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Nifty, I was going to pick up Afrika Corps and maybe Allied Corps and possibly try the mega scenario thing, but I'll definitely wait and buy on Steam to help be part of sending a message.
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I honestly think a lot of these guys defending Matrix don't actually want the games to sell more and do better. They want them to be a niche product for the 'elite'.
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Steam is a digital sweatshop. Developers will take their bowl of gruel and like it!
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Tomn posted:It's possible that he's just being an idiot there, though, since he was also the guy dumb enough to claim "Matrix never tells even their developers (like myself!) what their sales figures are, they don't need to tell anyone!", which turned out to be untrue - it's just that the sales figures weren't passed on to him personally because he wasn't in charge of that poo poo. I'm really glad to hear that rumor was false. EDIT: Also, in response to Alchenar, since I don't want to derail the Matrix thread too much with talk of Battlefront, I really hate Battlefront's DRM. In a thread where someone complained their game wasn't working they recently said: quote:If you have made certain changes to your computer, this could invalidate your activation and produce this error. Is this specifically for AoD ? Please open a ticket in the Helpdesk and we can send you some utilities to delete your current AoD activation and allow you to reactivate with your current hardware configuration.
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:Ha pricing error. Unity of Command and Red Turn are half off on their official site (unityofcommand.net) and not on Steam. Black Turn (released yesterday) was a buck off ($8.99) on both their site and Steam yesterday. However, due to a pricing error my friend noticed, it was briefly $3.99 on Steam. I got everything for less than $20 yesterday. Yaaay. Now I feel slightly guilty for 60-70% off, or whatever it was. Playing Black Turn right now. I'm not very good. I mean, I'm completing the objectives (usually on the last possible turn), but I have no idea how you're supposed to do a few of the 'before turn 3' captures. It does make me want a big, unified Eastern Front game at about this scale and level of complexity. It's a good game, but I'm not a fan of the disjointed scenario style of play. I want a single mega-campaign.
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:
This. I'll check out that unified Barbarosa scenario for sure. I'll have to check out that 3MA podcast too. It's pretty much the only podcast I've found worth my time.
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Hurrah! I took Moscow, and...  Oh, COME ON! That loving COUNTS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6gyUgPl1SU
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V for Vegas posted:Isn't the whole point of UoC to have small, discrete and balanced scenarios? A full front mod is like making half life 2 an open world sandbox. There's probably a good chance that it won't really work well with the AI and design of the game, but it would be awesome if it did. Large scale campaigns are much more up my alley. In some of the Black Turn scenarios I'd find myself realizing that my infantry couldn't possibly hope to keep up with the tanks or contribute to the final objective in any way, because they simply didn't have the movement points to even get there in the short number of turns given. So I just stopped moving them. Which, of course, you would never do in a full campaign. I like the sense of consequences and long term planning over the short 'disjointed' feeling UoC scenarios, where you can burn all your units down to ashes as long as you hit the goal before the final turn and magically start at full strength in the next scenario. Black Turn has made me appreciate UoC more though. Definitely a good game, even if it's not quite what I want. I still wish we could get more middle ground games, like Barbarosa 1941-1945 but with UoC level complexity instead of some crazed need to model individual units exact vehicle makeup and ammo outload and needless chrome like that.
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Larz posted:There is some kind of weird Stockholm Syndrome going on on the forums. Some of these people have been waiting a decade for this game to come out and totally believe this is the best game they have ever played (or will be when it actually works). They have been abused for so long they have become sympathetic to their captors. Some of the things they say and justifications they give for the state of the game on the forums are mind-blowing. Anyone else remember the MOO3 'difficulty cliff', and how great it was once you climbed it? I do. I was there, man. I was there. 
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Panzer Corps is coming to Steam, and although nothing has been announced Distant World seems like a good fit for the future...
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uPen posted:Is matrix going to pull it from their catalog if it comes out on steam? I think it's being greenlit by Matrix?
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uPen posted:I read that page and the forum they just put for the game and I can't find a piece of information I'd expect to see. There was really only room in that press release to focus on the essential information for anyone interested in a purchase. quote:Soviet Major Formations: Personally, I'm really pleased my favorite howitzer, the 152mm Howitzer M1937 ML20 made it in. Oh, ML20-chan.
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