dissapointed with the Demo somewhat

[barocca]

in general most of the items i mentioned are likely to be adjusted in the final release (well hopefully)
and navigating is something we will likely get used to,

but the game speed - too fast,
you dont have a hope in hades of managing your army once engagement starts.


All i can hope for is CA put in some method of adjusting the speed.

If they dont i will begin experiemting with some old fashioned CPU slowdown programs and see if i can come up with a solution once the game is out.

OF COURSE natural lag in online play may solve that problem for us,
it is entirely possible the game is designed to run as fast as possible to negate (as much as possible) the effects of online lag.
just someone forgot about the campaign players?

am going to post this particular comment on dot com (speed too fast),
I have got my flame retardent suit on,
will post the most interesting flames back here for your enjoyment
B.

[King Edward]

I think there is a very overly critical view of the demo on these boards, although i do agree with many of the comments made, at the end of the day it is still just the demo and a tiny fraction of wht the full release will be so I wont be getting to hot under the collar until I have played the finished game.

Having said that, I totaly agree on the speed thing, it is difficult to control everything and also doesnt give you time to enjoy the fantastic graphics in full! as far as control and camera issues go, we will just have to adapt as we would playing any other new game.

[1dread1lahll]

Yuuki, I feel that the majority of the of people fall with-in two lines, the hard-core people like us you have played from STW and in Multi,... and the people who play only rather superfisial. Those people, (like many of the new people comming to multi from single) THINK they are 'hard-core' but lack the knowledge how to fully group and march their armies,...thus they have no clue what has been taken out of the game; you cant miss what you dont know exisited. The blistfully ignorant are blistfully happy with what they see, and dont miss, what they did not know existed.

[The_Emperor]

I disagree 1dread1lahll.

Many people do know how to control their armies in MTW. But your point does raise an interesting question. Were there too many commands in MTW? I have a couple of terrible memories of trying to left click and drag and my troops ended up spinning on the spot when I moved the mouse, rather than drawing a formation out.

Now I am no fan of the Right-clicking interface, but I do wonder how many commands really were neccessary in MTW.

As for the ALt-click method of army movement, I used that quite a bit and I do think this should be retained.

[Colovion]

I shudder to think that CA balanced the Gaulish Swordsmen and Warband with the warcry:

"These guys are kind of weak"

-"Yeah,... hey how about a warcry ability where they scream and shout and gives a bonus?"

"Yea that'll even it out"



elsewhere in the gaming world:

"OMG GUYZZ STIMPAKZ ARE R0x0Rzzz!!!11ONE"

[Oleander Ardens]

Well I observed without saying much the DEMO .com "discussions", as sometimes you could hardly call them in this way. Was almost funny like veteran STW and MTW players were almost instantly flamed, mostly by newcomers. The Mods cleared most of the mess up, thankfully, but the bad taste remains...

Both the style of posting and the game taste reminded me very strongly of Blizzard's forums and WIII - this is were this guys mostly come from. I'm glad the CA got more costumers, let's hope that the polite guys of the .com are able to absorbed them somehow and that the poor Mods are able to handle the flood..

Was almost laughing when some guy told Puzz3D to simply double his raction time - I hardly doubt that he had ever played MTW and tried to control 16 units at once...


To come back to the topic: I agree with most of your points, would be a good idea to post togheter a Summary in the com, like the one of Blodrast...

Cheers

OA

[Aymar de Bois Mauri]

Yuuki, I feel that the majority of the of people fall with-in two lines, the hard-core people like us you have played from STW and in Multi,... and the people who play only rather superfisial. Those people, (like many of the new people comming to multi from single) THINK they are 'hard-core' but lack the knowledge how to fully group and march their armies,...thus they have no clue what has been taken out of the game; you cant miss what you dont know exisited. The blistfully ignorant are blistfully happy with what they see, and dont miss, what they did not know existed.

Excellents points. You're absolutelly right.