SUBSIM's totally awesome Empire: Total War thread

[Raptor1]

I still wonder how they're going to do the Holy Roman Empire, they could make it a single faction (Like the M2TW HRE or the Greek Cities in RTW), but that would really suck considering that all the different principalities in duchies in the empire were practically independent

[GlobalExplorer]

According to this news, ETW will require an internet connection to play:

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/42...ine-Activation

Creative Assembly's Empire: Total War will fully utilise Steamworks, Valve's suite of publishing and development tools. For gamers, that means friend lists, achievements, and online activation:

Steamworks will support both the retail and electronic versions of the Empire: Total War game giving players game updates, downloadable content, friend-list support and achievements. To play single-player Empire: Total War, players need only to connect to the internet once via the Steam client after installing the game. Steamworks will serve as Empire: Total War's multiplayer backend, providing server browsing and match-making functionality, bolstering Total War's new level of commitment to multiplayer game modes and features. Further details on multiplayer will be announced soon.
“We are delighted to be working with an infrastructure as effective as Steam” said Mike Simpson, Studio Director at the Creative Assembly. “Having their matchmaking and support systems on board for Empire; Total War makes a huge difference both for players and for the development team. It not only helps make multiplayer slick and sizzling, it also frees up a huge chunk of the team's time which helps make the whole game better.”

Bla bla bla. I'm not interested in friend lists, achievements, and online activation. I only want to play the ****ing game, not put my computer under CA's control from now on.

Well, I guess for me that means one thing less to worry about. I didn't like the trend in their latest games anyway. TW was amazing in the beginning (STW), RTW was still fun, MTW2 was meh.

Everything must end.

[stabiz]

This doesnt bother me at all.

The drama.

[GlobalExplorer]

One day in the future, when your desktop is nothing but a mess of flashing ads, and automated processes controlling what you will do with your computer, you will understand what I mean ..

It's about who has control over your computer, you or someone else ..

[stabiz]

Okay, are you one of those persons who carry around billboards with "The end is neigh" on them?

Steam is not Lucifer. Steam doesnt have any control over my computer, not any more than ... say ... Mozilla does. I can turn both off, and actually I can uninstall them too!

[GlobalExplorer]

Originally Posted by stabiz

Okay, are you one of those persons who carry around billboards with "The end is neigh" on them?

Steam is not Lucifer. Steam doesnt have any control over my computer, not any more than ... say ... Mozilla does. I can turn both off, and actually I can uninstall them too!

I wonder what you will say in a few years .. but good response

[AJ!]

Jeeeez everything from fallout 3 to red alert 3 has got a bad name here because of this copy protection rubbish and now ETW is getting the same treatment...

To be honist GlobalExplorer most people dont care whatsoever about this copy stuff. Ive heard people complaining that they wont buy a game because of the protection on it which is just stupid. If you care more about how you install a game then playing it then thats your problem so keep it to yourself.

Its not the end of the world and unless these people are complete loosers who spend there whole life on the computer its not going to be anywhere near as bad as they say.

Now back to ETW

They have announced a collecters edition (special forces) which has 6 special units included, (one of those units is HMS victory) :p

It seems a bit silly having to pay more to get these units and im not sure how multiplayer will work with standard and special edition but those units do seem cool.

PS another wicked sig raptor

[mengle]

the release of the demo is coming soon, anybody knows when?:hmm:

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by mengle

the release of the demo is coming soon, anybody knows when?:hmm:

Where are you getting yar info? :hmm:

[stabiz]

:hmm: Med2 demo arrived a few months prior to the game, no? I dont think we will see it until 2009.

[mengle]

Originally Posted by Raptor1

Where are you getting yar info? :hmm:

the demo is not far away i think when i see the list in fileplanet
http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/demo_reserve/

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by mengle

the demo is not far away i think when i see the list in fileplanet
http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/demo_reserve/

I do hope it comes out soon (IIRC RTW's and MTW's demos came out before the games too, no?)

[stabiz]

The guys on twcenter.net believes the demo will appear in january or february.

[AJ!]

Some pics to put you in the mood for Empire

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by AJ!

I hope we get Xebecs like this one in the game