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Any Oldtimers (2001)?
Hey , I played this game around 2001 under the alias out4blood/maskedterror/thelonelywolf. Played with magar and loads of kenchi people and won two of the tournaments set up through this forum (have some samurai sword still in my room as one of the prizes).
Anyway , to the point - I was just browsing forums due to medievil 2 comming out and I stumbled on this one... and found some old tournament/tactics threads. And was just wondering , does anybody remember this era ? do they still play ?
some old threads : https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=4278
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?p=357494
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=4214
excuse me posting like an idiot back then, i was only 14 heh
apologies in advance for the timewarp :)
Rich
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Hi MaskedTerror,
I remember you very well. You played in a 2v2 tournament and eliminated Tosa and me. I don't remember who your ally was, but I do remember the battle because your gameplay was very impressive.
Recently several STW vets developed unit stats for Barocca's STWmod for MTW/VI v2.01 which attempts to recapture the gameplay of original STW. I think we've come quite close to achieving that, and right now we play with a small group on Sundays at 20:00 GMT
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hello Masked Terror, I remember you also. I had a different alias back then also. (Toda Neb).
I believe your full name was Masked Terror Ito?
If you still have a copy of STW WE or MI you can play on the fakeserver. Not many people but somtimes there are.
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Hello Masked Terror, I presume we never met :)? Yea, Some of the Old STW vets play the SamWars Mod for VI, and I see Magyar and them on VI every once in awhile ..
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I'm here only from end of 2004... but there's some people still playing STW MP ~:) it has is ups and downs. Right now there's not much of them, but it may become better. ~;) Among them is Shin-GaiJin.. I'm pretty sure he was already playing in 2001.. he was in Yagyu clan and that's pretty old iirc. ~:)
Anyway, honoured to have you visit :bow:
Cya.. perhaps in some stw mp games, perhaps in MTW2.. ~:)
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Nice to see such a positive response :)
Having gone to many other multiplayer games after stw I feel shogun had one of the best communities and mix of strategies/armies whilst keeping fights balenced enough to be able to say the winner was definately the better player. That kinda mix is very hard to find nowadays :)
I played medievil for a matter of minutes before realising the programmers had messed around with the unit fight/morale coding ... it no longer felt "right" or balenced like shogun did. I think I played the demo of rome also , and that really didnt make a great impression either.
My overall thoughts is that probably many people complained about the instant routing that can occur in shogun , without havent a good grasp of the simple game mechanics... thus resulting in the game becomming too user/newbie friendly. However this is just my opinion formed from brief trials of the games :)
glad to see some of you guys are still true to shogun (the original and best!) :)
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sorry to hijack your thread Masked
Drisos I PMed you did you get it?
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Masked maybe we could all play some STW MP games if you can connect to the fakeserver.
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I would love to play some of you oldtimers on STW or the SamWars mod for VI if I ever get etiher one of them working again :-( :-)
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Originally Posted by Drisos
I'm here only from end of 2004... but there's some people still playing STW MP ~:) it has is ups and downs. Right now there's not much of them, but it may become better. ~;) Among them is Shin-GaiJin.. I'm pretty sure he was already playing in 2001.. he was in Yagyu clan and that's pretty old iirc. ~:)
Anyway, honoured to have you visit :bow:
Cya.. perhaps in some stw mp games, perhaps in MTW2.. ~:)
Yeah he was playing in 2001, I'm sure hes the only one from Yagyu who still plays anymore (I havent played in ages) and I'm pretty sure he still reads the forums as well.
PS - On that note, Gaijin if you read this, believe it or not I got in contact with Jubei, hes 37 now and happily married! Still playing his music too.
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Hi Muneyoshi! ~:)
I had some games with him about a month back. Only two though. If you ever have the time, join us ~;) :2thumbsup:
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Yeh I'll prolly try medievil 2 in the future , kinda busy at the moment with uni work and trying out LOTR battle for middle earth 2 (good mix of AOE and shogun).
Maybe cu guys online sometime soon :)
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Yep I still come here now and then, the old STW community was pretty special and has never and can never be replicated in any subsequent Total War variants. I think it was the 'honour' principle that made it so unique, that and to a large extent a fantastic community of players....great times eh.
WB Masked Terror its good to see you again, hi too Muney mate best regards to Jubei too!
ShinGaiJin
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Hi all,
Just reinstalled the game myself, havent found another RTS like shogy since we all played, been kinda occupying some time with MMO's, but nothing lives up to the old shogun community. The subsequent Totalwar games I have found a little stale.
Hope everyone is good, nice to see a few old faces still around! :D
RageFury Hijikata
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Hello RageFury,
There's a FakeServer for STW WE, and a mod for MTW. Some people are having fun with that.
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I may not have been on this forum since 01 but I've been playing since 01(not much online more in lan groups with friends) any ways When i was online i went under an old alias *kingrohante3* its been with me for several years till a recent change to *CowTipp* or *RiotJavolin*
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Originally Posted by RageFury
Hi all,
Just reinstalled the game myself, havent found another RTS like shogy since we all played, been kinda occupying some time with MMO's, but nothing lives up to the old shogun community. The subsequent Totalwar games I have found a little stale.
Hope everyone is good, nice to see a few old faces still around! :D
RageFury Hijikata
Hi Fury. Believe it or not, just last week I was wondering what you were doing these days gamewise because we recently released beta 8 of Samurai Warlords for MTW/VI and it's running very well in MP. The quality of the battles have exceeded my expectation of what could be achieved. Using barocca's STWmod for MTW/VI, we got the gameplay as close to original STW as played at 5000 koku as we could. We only had to make some minor adjustments to the original stat due to differences in the MTW engine. We do have a teppo that's 50% stronger than the STW musket. ShingenMitch, ShingeKrypta, CBR and myself worked on the unit stat, and some of the players involved in testing the multiplayer gameplay were AMP, Magyar, Swoosh, Krast, Tosa and about 8 other players from 2000 and 2001. We've been playing this mod at 19:00 gmt on Sundays with a small group, but at other times as well if contacted over MSN.
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I think I might have to go this route and join you on the mod Puzz mate, I can't get STW to work on Xp atm, ev en with all the suggestions ont he forums. It's excellent that so many of the old faces are still about, just a shame I lost contact with all the Rages, i miss the old games with Exe, Sword, Storm etc vs Mizu and Wolves and Chaos and such :D
Gonna try find a copy of MTW/VI and see if i can get that working.
-Fury
ragefury2@hotmail.com if any of you guys use MSN :)
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RageExecutioner Asai. He surely knows how to use his units.
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I'm thinking more and more I should have MTW and join you on the mod in MP...
hmmm :book: where to get MTW these days? probably no store that has it?:embarassed:
Hmmm.. could buy eras but it's kind of expensive :sweatdrop:
btw, RageFury, will add you to msn ~:)
:bow:
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Originally Posted by Drisos
I'm thinking more and more I should have MTW and join you on the mod in MP...
hmmm :book: where to get MTW these days? probably no store that has it?:embarassed:
I still see MTW Gold for £9.99 sold in games shops in the UK. I suppose it depends on where you are in the world? Have a look at ebay or amazon for a used copy perhaps. Either MTW Gold or the Battle Collection will suffice (the same thing - MTW + VI, the first being the repackaged Sega Release and the second being the original Activision title).
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Originally Posted by Smtn
(have some samurai sword still in my room as one of the prizes)
Although I wasn’t involved in the contest, and did not follow it’s progress at the time, I certainly remember seeing a picture of the proposed sword prize.
Not to long ago in recalling that there had been such a contest, and wondering if it might be a good idea to offer another, I remember wondering about who had actually won that prize.
Happy to hear that it is still a cherished honour.
Congratulations Masked Terror :bow:
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Originally Posted by RageFury
I think I might have to go this route and join you on the mod Puzz mate, I can't get STW to work on Xp atm, ev en with all the suggestions ont he forums. It's excellent that so many of the old faces are still about, just a shame I lost contact with all the Rages, i miss the old games with Exe, Sword, Storm etc vs Mizu and Wolves and Chaos and such :D
Gonna try find a copy of MTW/VI and see if i can get that working.
-Fury
ragefury2@hotmail.com if any of you guys use MSN :)
Hi RageFury I think you will find that STW will only run on FAT32 files on XP.
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Hiya Masked. You probably don't remember me, but I remember you as one of the few guys I didn't mind losing to, because you always gave an extremely challenging and fun battle. Played in the right spirit though I know quite a few thought you an audacious brat, but that's a compliment I reckon ;)
I've still bought the later releases but the gameplay seems to have got progressively worse since the Mongol Invasion. I do enjoy the campaign of the latest one though.
The original STW is the most underrated, and best, game ever.
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I've still bought the later releases but the gameplay seems to have got progressively worse since the Mongol Invasion. I do enjoy the campaign of the latest one though.
The original STW is the most underrated, and best, game ever.
I couldn't agree more. :bow:
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Hi Tosa.
Just browsing through here, nice to see some familiar names.
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I remember playing you in the big 1v1 tournament in the final. Those were the days. I havent been on here since 2005, I am getting RTW soon, so I will be coming out of retirement soon.
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Hi Kas
It's been a long time m8, where you been??
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Hello Kas,
How are you doing?
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I do great.... it's been years since I played TW...2003 I think. Played some CoD after that, but got bored with it and I now only play Albatross18...a dumb, but relaxing online golf game.
I still miss Shoggy, but my machine doesn't like it and I gave up on trying to get it installed. Maybe sad, but I still cherish the fond memories of the good old days and that's enough to keep this old man happy.
A few times per year I check the Org and Aggony website and say hello to all...a bit of a sentimental journey. Former achievements are perhaps completely meaningless, but I'm still proud of the humble part I played.
It's great to see the TW community is alive and kicking.
Be well and be nice to eachother.
:bow:
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You've got to get a total war working!
Grizz wishes to visit your land of totomi with many samurai to fight with kas against some honourable adversarys!
Nice to see you :)
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Former achievements are not meaningless Kas.
New hardware is a problem, have you tried to install MTW VI? You could then install SamWars and play that?
RTW has a samurai project too, that's still in development afaik.
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Bought and played STW when it first came out and every one since. Have had several names, only other I remeber was Croaker. Stopped playing online with RTW mostly because all I got was verbal abuse. What I remember about back then was generally a group of honorable and skilled players. I can think of one 7bear7 general who I faced many times. he always went out of his way to be respectfull while he beat me. I only got the best of him once. But will always treasure that game. Installing on a new PC so will see if I know anyone once I recover my spy acct.
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well maybe I wont play. been a while so went to recover my pass and it never showed up in email, even checked the spam filter. Sent Gamespy an email and they replied with an answer to a question I didnt ask. At this point unless they pull their head out their ass i wont be playing. Bummer.
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Originally Posted by Dimeolas
well maybe I wont play. been a while so went to recover my pass and it never showed up in email, even checked the spam filter. Sent Gamespy an email and they replied with an answer to a question I didnt ask. At this point unless they pull their head out their ass i wont be playing. Bummer.
You don't have to use your old GameSpy account. You can make a new account. However, STW doesn't work through GameSpy. It never did.
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yea...finally got it reset, no thx to gamespy. Was wanting to see about playing the M2TW online, never did get to try that. I wonder if anyone plays the samurai mod online? There still a server up you guys play on?
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Cant play...says my m2tw key is invalid. Bought the game fair and square. got other things to do anyway. Thx guys, good hunting.
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Hi Dim,
Hoho, you need M:TW, not M2:TW. ~;)
I've faced the same problem, btw... But it's solveable. I think I got it solved. too bad I'm so awfully busy this weeks, otherwise I'd probably be playing now.
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well they were trying to help me via email then quit mid-convo. Busy loading graphics stuff onto new pc, then will look at it again. Am i correct in thinking that the client software is on the M2TW Cds?
