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 Posted: Tue, 19th Apr 2005 13:53 Post subject: Stronghold 2 |
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| Posted: Tue, 19th Apr 2005 15:09 Post subject: |
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No, Stronghold, not starforce.
The supposed RELOADED release that popped up yesturday was deemed a fake.
Stronghold 2 is a highly anticipated game. Some group must be working on it.
Anyone have any news or sightings?
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| Posted: Tue, 19th Apr 2005 15:45 Post subject: |
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keep protection talk in the other forums
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| Posted: Tue, 19th Apr 2005 16:07 Post subject: |
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I've deleted the protection posts because apparantly Skids request was ignored.
I also inserted a template
| Injurious wrote: | | And then Mabel tripped over a rock and landed in a well and was trapped there with Timmy. Sadly I shot Lassie so no one is saving that bitch! |
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HubU
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| Posted: Tue, 19th Apr 2005 20:48 Post subject: |
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| tim73 wrote: | To the Moderators. I know Protection talk should be in another Forum, but that's all we're interested in at the moment. After all, we can hardly talk about the gameplay, cos' it ain't released yet!
I like to see all these 'Protection talk' posts'. It's a right laugh as various protections are announced and denied. Who'll wager me 3/1 on this is Starforce? |
Cause this is downright fuckin retarded. The mods made a protection board in the first place so we didnt have to read 9/10s of the pages that are supposed to be about the game, about the protection instead. And the SF3 talk has been done to death. Theres nothing that you DONT know by now from reading all the posts. And who cares anyway? It will be cracked/cloned when the groups do it.
Anyway, been waiting to play this game. I'm a big fan of the original even though I'm not totally big on RTS's... the first one was a blast to play, especially online. Havent tried Cossacks yet, but I heard its similiar. I've been reading nothing but good things about StrongHold 2. I like how they added a nice editing for the castles. More units and it looks like better control over your troops to. However, I wish the game was out now so we would have something to talk about in terms of features, online, and gameplay ;/
Anyone else here collect the Strong Hold games including War Chest and Crusader? I know Warchest was really a buy of the two games, but had some extra features I believe.
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| Posted: Tue, 19th Apr 2005 21:46 Post subject: |
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I hear you have to build crap pits in this game =P
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| Posted: Tue, 19th Apr 2005 22:56 Post subject: |
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Man cant wait for this game!
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| Posted: Wed, 20th Apr 2005 01:22 Post subject: |
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This game and the new Splinter cell are on sale at *sorry no advertising* in case anyone is interested.
The offer ends on april 23rd I think.
edited by ApeX PredatoR
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| Posted: Wed, 20th Apr 2005 01:41 Post subject: |
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| tim73 wrote: | | It's out in 2 days and NOBODY knows the protection??? |
No, it's out NOW...in the US at least.
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| Posted: Wed, 20th Apr 2005 03:28 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Wed, 20th Apr 2005 03:30 Post subject: |
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btw, what kind of multiplayer is it? Is there a campaign type of thing or just battles?
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| Posted: Wed, 20th Apr 2005 03:58 Post subject: |
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2 cds
Multi is very broken atm. As usual.
No LAN play but no key either. Manual says LAN play but it is'nt there.
Have to wait for patch to fix it I guess.
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| Posted: Wed, 20th Apr 2005 04:04 Post subject: |
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I was hoping they would have that campaign from single player. I read in a gamestop preview about where some provinces you trade resources with to build up others and stuff =]
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| Posted: Wed, 20th Apr 2005 04:56 Post subject: |
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| DethZero wrote: | | I was hoping they would have that campaign from single player. I read in a gamestop preview about where some provinces you trade resources with to build up others and stuff =] |
Theres a building called a Carter post, I havnt been able to build one but the description is:
The Carter post allows goods to be exchanged between player's castles. Your village estates will use carter posts to send you goods.
About building descriptions...there doesnt seem to be any info in game on what each building does, and theres TONS of buildings. I would be completely lost in whats going on if it were not for the manual, which that info on Carter posts was taken from. There IS a help system in game, but the only way to access it is if you have already built the building, and then select it.
The multiplayer is single battles as far as I've seen, and its very laggy, to the point where most of the time the games will time out after a few minutes, and sometimes you even time out while in the game lobby waiting to begin. In general multiplayer feels like an afterthought, but I have faith that they will fix it up with some patches, apparently one is already in the works.
Anyways, it is handled by territory, each player starts with a piece of land, and you cannot build outside of it...any nuetral territory can be purchased with gold, but I havnt been able to do this, theres a button but I cant click it, even when I occupy the territory.
This game requires alot of power from your PC, at the beginning I start with 60fps, and it quickly drops as you build more stuff...after I have my castle set up I'm running about 10-15 FPS, and it gets pretty jerky, my basic specs are:
Xp2800+
1gig ram
WinXP
9800pro 128
BTW this game is not alt-tab friendly.
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| Posted: Wed, 20th Apr 2005 11:19 Post subject: |
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hmm..Game looks not so good an Reveiws from Amazon.com People. Seems to many Bugs in the Game and the 3D Graphics are not so good.
But read for your self:
Written on 20.04.2205
I got this game today after waiting over 2 years for it to be made. My PC is pretty good (1 gig Ram, Athlon 64 3200+ and 128mb 9800 Radeon PRO) - but after your units start to build up there is a serious performance issue - the game stutters and starts to slow down. Obviously the 3D game engine is nice - but not if it's going to affect gameplay so much. The camera angles are almost useless and very finickity - you won't want to waste time playing with them.
I really want to love this game, and it's a sold 3 stars so far - but areas of it seem to suggest that it's lacking polish in certain areas: - the cut scenes with little or no attempt to lip-synch - zoomed in animation of units sliding or 'walking on air' as they clumsily negotiate the environment.
On the plus side - with so many options and the chance to play a peaceful campaign or even just free build - if you love castles then this is your game.
However, I am now waiting for the first patch to be released to see if they iron out these performance/animation issues. We'll see....
** Second Review **
Written on 20.04.2005:
The 3-d does nothing to enhance the game and actually makes gameplay more difficult.
To really see the 3-d effects you must zoom way in, but then you see such a tiny piece of the map you must zoom all the way out. The camera is jumpy and the animations get jittery as you add more units.
This is on a 3Ghz machine with 768 Megs of RAM and Serial ATA RAID drives!
I ran right out and bought this game and played for several hours...it left me wanting to replay the original.
Save your money play the original until this one to goes into the bargin bin.
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| Posted: Wed, 20th Apr 2005 11:31 Post subject: |
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Performance issues....oh no, and I was looking forward to this game so much. I can't stand slowdown.
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| Posted: Wed, 20th Apr 2005 11:58 Post subject: |
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nice to see that the game is less that a gig (1 full cd + 210meg on cd2)
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| Posted: Wed, 20th Apr 2005 12:51 Post subject: |
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People, please keep the protection talk in the proper forum :<
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| Posted: Wed, 20th Apr 2005 19:17 Post subject: |
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So I saw someone tested out multiplayer and wrote there is a browser? Does the game use something gay like Gamespy? Does it use any type of accounts for online play or keys?
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| Posted: Thu, 21st Apr 2005 02:22 Post subject: |
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Hope its good like the first one.
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| Posted: Thu, 21st Apr 2005 03:33 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Thu, 21st Apr 2005 08:14 Post subject: |
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This game requires a top of the line PC to run at decent speeds when engaged in large battles (which the game was designed around)...even on the lowest graphical settings (looks worse then #1) the performance is pitifull, dropping to 2-5fps during a large battle.
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| Posted: Thu, 21st Apr 2005 14:15 Post subject: |
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even empire earth which was soposed to come out on the 26 (todays the 20th) got released earlier then this 
