Preview: The Gaza Campaign

This made my day.
Great as usual!

Great work, indeed! It is nice to see there is something moving.

Someone(s) been busy, looks great!!!!!!!!!!

What worries me about MTWII and pike battles is how poor the pike battles are in MTWII, can EB improve them(ie; always going for their secondary weapons)?

Well, one idea (which I believed was used with for example some Hoplites in later versions of EBI) is to simply not give them a secondary weapon. Obviously though this isn´t the perfect solution, and I sincerely hope and believe that the great EB team will satisfactory solve this problem.
If not, well, that´s quite alright.

In the video the units seem to be a little bit slow...

Colour me impressed.

I am going to see this video, I am sure I am not going to be disapointed.

I guess EB II is going to be a :tnt:
Cheers.

http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif

Great work guys, but just to check, this is just the public announcement of the tutorial campaign's development, right? I.e. it hasn't been released yet?

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Originally Posted by Eastern Foot-Rocker

In the video the units seem to be a little bit slow...

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Medieval 2 battle animation always appears to be in slow-mo to me, or at least in any mod that tones down the "infantry on speed" out of the box battles of the vanilla game (and RTW).

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Originally Posted by I Am Herenow

Great work guys, but just to check, this is just the public announcement of the tutorial campaign's development, right? I.e. it hasn't been released yet?

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:laugh4:

Oh wait, you were serious?

You know what would be really fun, is to announce the release of, say, a tutorial campaign but without a link, leaving it up to the fans to find it for themselves.

Hmm...

Foot

Brilliant idea! If you let me in on it, I can set up a virtual labyrinth of hoax sites and false links filled with Rick-Rolls and You Got Owned´s, only to, in the end, after hours of desperate searching, you find your way through to the download.
You download it, open... and find 10 000 kbs worth of male genitalia! MOHAOHHHAHAHHA!!! MOAMMOHMAHOAHM!! OMHOAMHAOHM!!! MOOHMOHMAOHMAOHMAOHMAOM!! MOHAMHOAM!!!

*falls asleep with a smile on my face, as my mother tucks me in and kisses me on my forehead*

*calls the psychiatrical ward for Appo again*

Gah.

It looks like shit.

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It looks like shit.

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Say what?

Lynch him!

Also: So does yo mamma!

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Originally Posted by Methuselah

*perks up* Damn! Is she hot?! :clown:

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Looks like Sarcasm, so No.

And we all stand in awe, in awe of the mighty

SARCASM

Truly amazing, EB team! These things always make my day! :beam:

Keep up the good work!

AWESOME!

Considering it's one of the first previews - look what we get: movies and stuff!

And we can draw some conclusions: Military/trade colonies = cities and fortresses? 4 socio-political types = religions?

its food for thought...

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Originally Posted by Foot

You know what would be really fun, is to announce the release of, say, a tutorial campaign but without a link, leaving it up to the fans to find it for themselves.

Hmm...

Foot

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Hey we could have a whole set of EB challenges in the same vein as: http://www.deathball.net/notpron/
Or better yet: http://www.pythonchallenge.com/

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Originally Posted by Leviathan DarklyCute

It looks like shit.

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I don't think so. It is quite pretty. But when playing M2TW I always get the feeling that something is incomplete, the atmosphere of RTW is gone, and I am a bit troubled if that might go to EB2. However, on that stage it is perfectly normal for EB2 to look incomplete since it is just that.

Great graphics, and the excellent music from EB1. Maybe a professional movie maker would have made something a bit more polished, and on Large or Huge unit scale the final result would be even more "epic" but this is still great. Thanks EB team!

p.s. you certainly did better than CA once again, they had the green arrows on in their ETW trailer :S

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Originally Posted by General Appo

I´ll have you know, that I - as I am sure many respectable gentlemen will testify - I use my OMG´s very sparingly, and only for occasion which I deem deservant of such level of excitement. This just so happens to be one of those occasions.

So, I repeat: OMG

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I agree. And I NEVER say OMG over anything.

I loved the 'ragged' marching that just made it all seem much more like men marching.

I haven't been following EB2 for months, since I prefer to play EB1.1 than get excited years before we see the results (remember how long we were watching PI for? Although I like their open beta). Are the small unit sizes down to the settings when the film was captured, or is it part of the MTW2 engine?

Genius, foot, genius.

As Leviathan DarklyCute so bluntly and rudely put it, the video highlights not just the progress made and the possibilities but the amount of work that still needs to be put in as well. I make this comment after watching the video multiple times. This adds to my list of why I probably wont play this until summer 09. The game will definitely be one of the best I will ever have played and will be the greatest example of detail, education and fun which I will compare to every other game I buy for the next five years, but I will most likely wait until both Gaza and EBII are close to perfection before I devote my weekday nights and entire weekends to the game.

You guys don't mess around anymore.


I take it you looked at my list, and kidnapped the appropriate people?

I've tried to download the video, but Windows Media Player only gives sound and no images. I can view videos on WMP, so that is not the problem. Do I need to change some settings to display .avi videos or is it something else?