Demo Discussion Thread

**peacemaker** · 02-20-2009, 19:48

gah. i warned myself not to visit this thread till ive played the demo since i want to try and get this thing all by myself before seeing your strategies...the demo is SO SLOW!!! or maybe it's just my internet connection...Steam said there was a demo and a big button "play now!" but i just closed that and am hopefully resuming the original demo from this morning. 29% so far after a few hours...hopefully it'll be done by tonight.

**Meneldil** · 02-20-2009, 20:00

First comments make me feel like a sad panda.

Furthermore, I'm not really found of the battle aspect of the TW serie, and this demo apparently only offer a few battle tutorials. Too bad.

**peacemaker** · 02-20-2009, 20:01

GAH 47.8 kb/s download speed...Im dying with excitement but am also worried about what some comments have been said....

**Sir Beane** · 02-20-2009, 20:02

Originally Posted by peacemaker

GAH 47.8 kb/s download speed...Im dying with excitement but am also worried about what some comments have been said....

You aren't the only one who is worried. The fact that the demo is taking ages to download only makes things worse.

**Elmar Bijlsma** · 02-20-2009, 20:08

Just had a quick go at both battles.
Controls were unfamiliar, so I struggled more with that then the enemy. No giving orders when paused? That can't be right! The AI didn't seem to suck, which is nice.

The naval game was a huge let down. I expected an arcadish approach but wasn't prepared for what I saw. Overly manoeuvrable ships (and not a little, think handbreak turn manoeuvring) and the French sailed dead into the wind at a fair pace while my man o war were crawling along at what should have been the ideal angle (just to the side of the wind direction) Hope the modders can fix this because it's a mess.

**Elmar Bijlsma** · 02-20-2009, 20:11

Forgot to say that the Naval battle froze up on me too. Also, menus are choppy.
Smooth gameplay though, even if I had to turn stuff down a notch more then expected.

**Brighdaasa** · 02-20-2009, 20:17

lol, benelux servers: ~30 k, US east coast servers ~700k, go figure...

**Hosakawa Tito** · 02-20-2009, 20:24

Both battles played smoothly for me. Load times were no different than COH, under a minute. Melee animations were a bit weird as Monk stated, but my system handled it just fine. My specs:

Processor: IntelCore 2 Quad Q9650 3.0GHz 12 MB Cache 1333MHz FSB
Power Supply: 750 Watt Multi-GPU
Graphics Processor: Dual 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT
Memory: 4GB DDR2 SDRAM 800MHZ - 2 x 2048MB
Motherboard: NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
System Drive: 500 GB SATA 3Gb/s 7,200 16MB Cache
Dual Optical Drives: 20x Dual Layer Burner, 4x Dual Layer Blu-ray Burner
Killer K1 Gaming Network Interface Card

**Rhyfelwyr** · 02-20-2009, 22:27

Originally Posted by Elmar Bijlsma

Forgot to say that the Naval battle froze up on me too.

Do you mean went really laggy, or actually crash?

Because if this is happening to several people, it may be an issue worth looking into. I've had two crashes in just a few minutes play on naval battles, but I've never crashed on the land battles...

**Zenicetus** · 02-20-2009, 23:29

Originally Posted by Elmar Bijlsma

The naval game was a huge let down. I expected an arcadish approach but wasn't prepared for what I saw. Overly manoeuvrable ships (and not a little, think handbreak turn manoeuvring) and the French sailed dead into the wind at a fair pace while my man o war were crawling along at what should have been the ideal angle (just to the side of the wind direction) Hope the modders can fix this because it's a mess.

Ugh, that's exactly what I've been afraid of, and griping about, for months. I'm not even downloading the demo until I hear more about the naval battles. So far, it doesn't sound good at all.

**Rhyfelwyr** · 02-20-2009, 20:03

I've had similar problems with the time loading screens take, and the battles have been a bit laggy, even on Low settings. Also, has anyone else gotten crashes playing naval battles?

**Daimon** · 02-20-2009, 20:19

Originally Posted by peacemaker

GAH 47.8 kb/s download speed...Im dying with excitement but am also worried about what some comments have been said....

Try switching to a other region, I switched from Holland (Benelux) to USA East Coast and it boosted my download bij 300 kb/s (I was downloading around the 150 kb/s before)