Official "I got BI!" thread

[edyzmedieval]

Here all you members can post your happiness.
I suspect tons of threads will be like this.

[Stuie]

I got BI!

Woo. That was fun. ~:)

[TB666]

I don't have it ~:mecry:
I'm climbing the bloody walls here :hide:
2 more days ~:handball:

[Viking]

I got it. Wohoo.

What I think of now is that if I had ordered earlier, I could have gotten it at the same time as Stalin, perhaps even earlier.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Anyone who posts "I got it" must post screenshots and/or do research into action items like:

Increased # factions allowed?

Increased # models allowed?

Increased # buildings allowed?

And other modding questions.

[Stuie]

Increased # factions allowed?


I'll take this one: nope. (of course we already knew this from the faq at the .com site...).

[Sol Invictus]

Got my copy in Lexington, KY. I've read the manual and I really think I am going to love this expansion. Modders should be able to run wild with this.

[Dimeola]

....map seems same style......Battle AI is somewhat better...altho the Burgundians just sat there until I walked up and fired arrows....but the West Romans swept left and then stabbed cav at me......my center crumbled and he ran cav up into the gap.....but I staunched the flow and when I killed his general he crumbled.
Something new.....when the barbarians lose their last city they go on the march.....the horde goes in search of a new city, conquers it and goes back to work. Seems like a nice portrayal of the displacement.
Burgundians have good cav, but they couldnt stand up in melee.....Saxons have good foot but weak cav.
Goin back in
D

[Bob the Insane]

Got it after work today...

Reinstalling RTW as we speak (easier than trying to clear out the mods)...

[Kraxis]

Reinstalling RTW as we speak (easier than trying to clear out the mods)...
My story too... ~D

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

I'll take this one: nope. (of course we already knew this from the faq at the .com site...).

Really? It was in a FAQ? I read those, but don't remember one addressing the topic, at least not directly...

Oh, well.

[Sheep]

San Diego has BI! Well maybe not the whole city, but the part I care about (me).

[Puzz3D]

Reinstalling RTW as we speak (easier than trying to clear out the mods)...
and you don't have to do anything about the v1.2 reinstall problem because you don't have to reinstall v1.2.

[Sethik]

I'm downloading it now. 2 hours and the Huns are mine!
:charge:

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Lucky, lucky people...

[CBR]

Sethik: not the most wise post if you ask me...


CBR

[Kraxis]

I'm downloading it now. 2 hours and the Huns are mine!
:charge:
You don't need the patch... BI will bring you to 1.3.

[Sethik]

Crap. Hit replay instead of new topic sorry.

[King of Atlantis]

Downloading or installing...Cause one of those is illegal.. ~;)

[Patricius]

An install will not take two hours, but so blatant a reference to piracy is unlikely. Moreover I doubt an image has been made this early. And pirating rather than support this fine product is wrong, if piracy is being referred to, which hopefully is not the case.

[Sheep]

Moreover I doubt an image has been made this early.

I think you would be surprised... unfortunately... :furious3:

[Doug-Thompson]

Got it. Here's a few basics.

Box Contents: The disc is in one of the paper holders with a clear celophane circle in front. No jewel box, apparently an industry standard. A rulebook and a Sega product registration card.

Time to install: 5 minutes on a 2.0 ghz machine, not including time to read the end user license agreement.

No readme file. [CORRECTION: Oh yes there is. You access it from the main menu.]

Playable factions: Huns, Goths,Samarians, Vandals, Franks, Saxons, Sassanids, Alemanni, Eastern and Western Romans.

You must use the R:TW disc to play R:TW campaigns. You cannot load an old campaign while using the BI disc.

Video options are a little different. You can turn "grass" completely off, for instance.

The game looks much better. I set unit detail on low to have the smoothest possible operation. The units and animations looked so good, I rechecked my settings.

I've complained often about graphics wagging the gamplay dog, but to be truthful, this game is gorgeous.

Just tested Hun horde HA against Goth spearmen. Horde units, at least this Hun one, only had "horde" formation, like peasants in R:TW. Will check further.

[Taiwan Legion]

An install will not take two hours, but so blatant a reference to piracy is unlikely. Moreover I doubt an image has been made this early. And pirating rather than support this fine product is wrong, if piracy is being referred to, which hopefully is not the case.

lol. Yea they have an image. Now why the hell would I know tho? ~;)

But I don't like how there's no prologue. I don't even understand what's going on with the whole religion thing. They need a prologue to help me understand this better.

[GodsPetMonkey]

Box Contents: The disc is in one of the paper holders with a clear celophane circle in front. No jewel box, apparently an industry standard. A rulebook and a Sega product registration card.

Pssst, there is an empty slot for a fourth disc in the RTW jewel case ~;) It's were my BI lives (when not in the drive).

[Dimeola]

...and after one game in MP I remember why I dont play MP...I suck. Well guess its on to something else, wtf.
D

[TB666]

Now I got the game ~:cheers:

[PseRamesses]

Now I got the game ~:cheers:
Got mine on the 23rd here in Stockholm m8! The whole weekend it was just me and BI.... with candle lights, champagne and then we... XXXX ~;)

[CountMRVHS]

Got my version last night.

Well, to be more precise, I sat on my ass and played MTW while my wife went into town and picked it up for me. ~:cheers:

Not gloating or anything....

To be honest, she fired it up first and started with the Sarmatians. The Huns soon attacked her only city en masse and she called on me to fight the battle (Easy difficulty). It was a night battle and I was hopelessly outnumbered so I couldn't resist.

A good thing I noticed is that the AI *seems* to be using alternate routes through the city to a greater extent. While my general was fighting down by the gate and chasing routers, I had a couple enemy units work their way around through the back & side paths.

Of course it was on Easy, but I still feel pretty good about my crappy 200 men seeing off 1000 Huns. ~D Will start my own game probably tonight.

CountMRVHS

[rebelscum]

I got it this morning. Though I'm fitting a stair carpet today and wont get a chance to play it until tonight. :wall:

[Stuie]

Time to install: 5 minutes on a 2.0 ghz machine, not including time to read the end user license agreement.

You're kidding, right? Do people actually read those things? ~:)

[rebelscum]

Hehe, yeah and when you click on, I agree, do you really know what you are agreeing to.
You might be selling your whole family into lifelong slavery in a DVD factory in Sweden.

[Doug-Thompson]

The lack of any "readme" file was the most interesting thing to me. They seem pretty confident that there's no last-minute changes we need to know about.

There's also no province map, which makes life interesting. I'm going to remain a horde as the Huns until I've explored things thoroughly. There appears to be no hurry.

CORRECTION: GAH! There is a readme file. You open it from the main menu.

[King Ragnar]

Yay my copy has arrived this morning, installing now, looks like i wont be seeing daylight for a about a week :D

[SpencerH]

So (just for interests sake) where are american buyers picking this up at?

[Jochi Khan]

Got my copy this morning.

Like the idea of installing straight over RTW install and being able to play either, depending on which disc you have in your drive.

My problem: I have installed and each time I try to start the BI game I get a window with this message.....

The Application has failed to start because MSS32.DLL was not found. Try reinstalling etc

Have reinstalled twice and still the same message.

RTW starts up ok.

Can anyone help me with this please?

Edit: I have now copied the file from the original install so don't get this window now, but now get........ Failed to initialize 3D audio

Jochi

[Garvanko]

Got it today. ~:) Works fine. WRE looks a killer, but am gonna start with the Sassanids..

With RTW however.. I can't seem to play Dacia, Armenia any more (they were already unlocked).. just get a CTD. Any ideas?

[Terry]

"The Application has failed to start because MSS32.DLL was not found. Try reinstalling etc"

I saw this message a number of times too. After the third time of: uninstall rtw, reinstall rtw, install BI, doesn't work, uninstall rtw and BI, and do over, I got in.

Most annoying. By the third install, the time seemed to take forevvvver...

Terry


BTW, when I picked up the box at the store, it was so light I had to make sure I wasn't getting one of those empty boxes you see that advertise the soon to arrive game. No map?????

[Patricius]

I have it now and I will shortly install it. The manual is small enough, but the MTW features (in a modified form) like religion and civil war, which make a welcome return, are well described.

[gardibolt]

I was going to wait but I saw it on the shelf at Best Buy and couldn't resist. But I've got a Gallic campaign I want to finish first so I won't be installing it for a couple days.

But maybe I'll just break down and say phooey on the Gauls. ~:cheers:

[Malcolm Big Head]

Got it. It is sitting next to me in a box begging me to take the afternoon off.

[Bwian]

It's Friday....
The Wife's going out with work-mates for someones birthday....
The kids are going to bed early ( they don't know it yet... )
And BI is on the HD

Yup... I have my very own copy in exchange for 1999 shiny new pennies

Right....off to play!

[Doug-Thompson]

So (just for interests sake) where are american buyers picking this up at?

Gamestop, but it was a pre-order.

[Taurus]

Got BI at 12:20 today ~:) Had to wait until 5pm to play it though ~:eek:

But having played a few custom battles and multiplayer battles, it is great :bow:

[Malcolm Big Head]

EB Games in KC

[Orda Khan]

Well sadly, I have been badly let down and so I do not have BI yet. It's great to read the posts, It looks like BI is receiving some good response. Tomorrow I will go out and buy it and my supplier can shove his order where the sun don't shine

......Orda

[Craterus]

I still don't got BI... :sad:

Hopefully, I'll get it tomorrow on my way back from Exeter.

[frybread]

I bought the game today and tried out some of the cheats. I seems the add_money 40000, create_unit, and process_cq cheats are unlimited in both BI and RTW.

[Craterus]

I got BI! Shame I can't play it for a while, 'cos of those annoying things called sisters and their selfish need for use of the computer. :furious2:

[tibilicus]

I got BI on friday. Shame my big computer decides to break at the wors possible time!:furious3:

[abortretryfail]

Got it Sun evening. So far I like it.
I wish I could just go to the store and buy EB that easily.