In case anyone hasn't seen it yet, Creative Assembly have released the 5th chapter of the trailer, the one for multiplayer. Link below:
http://www.empire-total-war.org/2009...iler-released/
In case anyone hasn't seen it yet, Creative Assembly have released the 5th chapter of the trailer, the one for multiplayer. Link below:
http://www.empire-total-war.org/2009...iler-released/
Good video but the blog is really great!
Thanks ETWUnofficial
Education: that which reveals to the wise,
and conceals from the stupid,
the vast limits of their knowledge.
Mark Twain
Good find! I was just about to post this :P.
How are you people so quick with the news? It's unnatural I tells ye.
Perhaps this should also be posted in the Multiplayer section? I'll let you do the honors ETWUnofficial.
Things the Video Tells Us:
* A variety of customisable multiplayer modes
* Steam Achievements! (Yes! I totally predicted this!)
* Persistent online career
* Compete in ranked matches
* There are rocket launchers.
Last edited by Sir Beane; 01-15-2009 at 19:19.
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Heh, I'm a sucker for steam achievements, so maybe I'll try multiplayer this time.
great find, what exactly are steam achievements what will it include? least impressive of the 5 videos but still worth watching, and it was indeed about multiplayer, but didnt mention a multiplayer campaign so much
Steam achievements are basically little medals you get for completing certain things in a game.
Here are the achievements for Team Fortress 2, a multiplayer shooter on Steam.
They're essentially meaningless, but when done with humor I find them pretty entertaining.
Well said! They had better be funny. If the take themselves too seriously it really wont work at all.
I'm looking forward to witty little comments and joke awards rewarding me for doing rediculous things in-game. Like repeatedly killing my own generals with cannon fire for instance.
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Good Joke!
Now here is a History Lesson right up your ally.
At the siege of Fort Niagara(July 1759) Brigadier General, John Prideaux supervising his mortars, managed to place his head in the arc of fire from one of his own guns when it was fired. Command of the British army fell to Sir William Johnson. The French capitulated on July 26 after a French relief force was defeated at the Battle of La Belle-Famille two miles south of the fort.
It is important for Generals to keep their heads when under fire.
Also an example of when friendly fire isn’t .
Education: that which reveals to the wise,
and conceals from the stupid,
the vast limits of their knowledge.
Mark Twain
That must have been embaressing (for the fraction of a second before his head got blown off)!
I shall take heed of this warning and keep my General well away from anything that goes whiz, boom, or splat. Unless he has annoyed me in some way. Or I get really bored. Or if there really is an Achivement involving mincing your own side.
On a side note I find friendly fire to be one of the stupidest choices of term I have ever heard. Coming under fire is never friendly, unless the guns doing the firing shoot rainbows or chocolate (which I assume is rare in warfare.)
Calling it friendly fire diminishes the severity. There should really be a change in terminology.
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!
Heh heh. Imma go buy a new Total War outfit for ETW. My old cape and sword don't quite fit in with this period...
Anyone else kinda meh about the this one?
I shouldn't have to live in a world where all the good points are horrible ones.
Is he hurt? Everybody asks that. Nobody ever says, 'What a mess! I hope the doctor is not emotionally harmed by having to deal with it.'
It's a little hard to sex up multiplayer - it's single player without the campaign but against real people (I'm purposefully ignoring the hotseat stuff because the trailer doesn't mention it).
I mean, some people probably really dig it, but it's fundamental. Kind of like a good pie. I mean, what are you going to say? "It has a sweet crust, and the pumpkin filling? Knock-out." There's not a lot of (new) features to talk about.
Education: that which reveals to the wise,
and conceals from the stupid,
the vast limits of their knowledge.
Mark Twain
Heh, just a lucky check of the official site really. I had a spare 5 minutes at work so I'd thought I'd take a quick look... and then I got all excited
Um, I'm not sure how to move it? I thought only mods could do that..
I am most excited about the rocket launchers... I love stuff that flies, is loud, involves fire and/or looks cool... and all the boxes are checked in this case
I shouldn't have to live in a world where all the good points are horrible ones.
Is he hurt? Everybody asks that. Nobody ever says, 'What a mess! I hope the doctor is not emotionally harmed by having to deal with it.'
So now that we have the last dev diary, what are we supposed to do for the rest of Jan. and all of Feb.?
I suddenly feel a great deal of despair.
I'll hope for demo.........
Hope all you want, friend. I'm going to send hate mails to CA telling them to hurry up. Situations like this require action!
So....let me get this straight
You think if CA hates us enough, they will give us a demo?
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Education: that which reveals to the wise,
and conceals from the stupid,
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Mark Twain
Oh man, we would make the best pirate crew evah!
Seconded! I claim the boatswain position! Now all we need is a flag! And possibly a boat...
I suggest our first act of piracy be to raid CA HQ and make off with the latest version of Empire! Make US wait will they?
Let us break out the grog to celebrate!
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
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Look there Sir Beane!
You’ll have wonderful opportunities for “friendly fire”!
Keep those General in front of your cannon!
It is something I should have remembered to do in M2TW with all of my dangerously mad heirs…which were practically all my generals for some reason….
Oh my!!!
We may have our first exploit and we don’t even have the game yet!
Education: that which reveals to the wise,
and conceals from the stupid,
the vast limits of their knowledge.
Mark Twain
Most excellent. Any General who offends me will quickly be seeing what a firework looks like from extremely close up.
In Empire we may just be able to fire poor Generals, but where is the fun in that?
Now if only we could load unpopular ministers or heirs into a cannon...
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lets make it happen
Achievement Achieved!
Red vs Red, Blue vs Blue
Kill 20,000 of your own or allied men.
I shouldn't have to live in a world where all the good points are horrible ones.
Is he hurt? Everybody asks that. Nobody ever says, 'What a mess! I hope the doctor is not emotionally harmed by having to deal with it.'
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