Link to Barbarian Invasion demo

[Dago]

http://files.filefront.com/Barbarian.../fileinfo.html

[Chester]

Link does not work for me :(

[Prof]

Link works, but i can't download anything (when i click on download it says: server not found)

[Jebus]

The download works. It just takes aaaages to launch... Probably due to heavy traffic.

Downloading right now. It weighs 225.7 MB.

11 more minutes...

[Dago]

I`ve checked the link twice and it works, maybe you have something wrong with internet.

[Centurion Cato]

The sound don't work

[Prof]

It Works!!!

[Centurion Cato]

Ok sorry, my fault it does work!

[Dago]

I`ve played it and i must say that this is worse then i thought. I will definitivly not buy it, even if EB will mod it. BI just sucks! I launched it, played 2 minutes and delete it from my PC.

[Jebus]

Too bad it's only a historic battle preview. Most of the changes are probably going to come in the campaign map, and I was hoping you'd perhaps be able to play a turn or ten... But alas.

Nevertheless, I had fun. For what it's worth, the battle AI really *has* improved... It's especially obvious in the Hun vs Romans battle.

[Tux]

Just a note about the AI, the battles could be scripted(i don't know exactly since i didn't downloaded the demo) and maybe that's why you have the feeling it's better, it may be a marketing scam by CA.

[Chester]

It's working now. Remember to unlock the other factions.

[Little Legioner]

I'm downloading the demo at the moment and i can openly say it i don't expect any miracle too much. I was looking for the custom battle but they decided a historic (well prepared and designed) eyecandy. BI demo will not reflect any a helpful source for us. It's just a false advertisement. I shall care only communities rewievs when the expack is out.

[jerby]

i hate myself for doing it, but I'm curious

[The_Mark]

Just a note about the AI, the battles could be scripted(i don't know exactly since i didn't downloaded the demo) and maybe that's why you have the feeling it's better, it may be a marketing scam by CA.

No, the AI isn't scripted, only battle scripting in there concerns intros and battle victory tweaks. And if you want to be absolutely sure that there are no scripts involved in the battle you can get BKB's battle pack for the demo.

[Tux]

No, the AI isn't scripted, only battle scripting in there concerns intros and battle victory tweaks. And if you want to be absolutely sure that there are no scripts involved in the battle you can get BKB's battle pack for the demo.

Hmm you made me curious, alotugh i still don't except to much of improvement over rtw, i'll download the demo and that battle pack and see.

[Prof]

No, the AI isn't scripted, only battle scripting in there concerns intros and battle victory tweaks. And if you want to be absolutely sure that there are no scripts involved in the battle you can get BKB's battle pack for the demo.

where can i get this battle pack?

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Try here:

BKB Battle Pack Link 2

Or here:

3D Downloads link

[Tux]

Gelatinous Cube
Link

[Blamat]

I`ve played it and i must say that this is worse then i thought. I will definitivly not buy it, even if EB will mod it. BI just sucks! I launched it, played 2 minutes and delete it from my PC.

Yeah same, I just closed it in shame, I played about 10 seconds of the Battle of Badon Hill but ya know, it just doesn't look the least bit fun at all. Like why the hell are all my cavalry up on a hill? And you only have like 5 fighting infantry units (one of which for me was reduced to 50% before the battle even started!) and 2 cavalry near the first army. What am I even supposed to do? I don't get it, should I wait for the Saxons to attack? My Sarmatians near the start weren't even any help because they got obliterated by the Onagers.

Do CA even play the demo first? They're conversation must be like "Ok, that's good Joe, but add some random skirmishers and mix up the units on the faction selection screen and give them random amounts of experience and weapons, that looks too normal to me."

"But boss that doesn't really make sense, what good would half of these things be to the user? It will just confuse him and he won't know what to do at the start."

"Joe, are you saying you don't want to screw over our consumers?"

"N-No! No boss not at all..."

"Good get back to work."

[Steppe Merc]

Hmm. My question is: Why steppe swordsmen? Why steppe spearmen?

Thank you.

[Narayanese]

Hmm. My question is: Why steppe swordsmen? Why steppe spearmen?

Thank you.

What sort of steppe infanty was actually used´in the period? only dismounted cavalry?

[Steppe Merc]

Nah, the Huns were actually quite infantry based, since they absorbed a lot of Germanic influence. But their infantry weren't from the steppe, thus they wouldn't have been steppe infantry.
But most of the infantry of the other steppe peoples (Sarmatians, Alans), would have been archers.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Ignore the unit selection - you knew it wouldn't be any good.

Then try the battle pack to look at the AI - I got smashed on BKB's Badon Hill II (forgot actual name). The AI (gasp!) did the sensible thing got on the biggest hill and sat there. Try it playing on VH as the Saxons.

[Shaun]

well i got the BI demo on tuesday.........and its great!

[Perplexed]

None of the links work. Can anyone direct me to one that does?

[Teleklos Archelaou]

None of the links work. Can anyone direct me to one that does?

Don't download it PC! Make more skins for us instead!

Don't forget we have those incriminating photos of you and.... ahem.

[Perplexed]

Don't download it PC! Make more skins for us instead!

Don't forget we have those incriminating photos of you and.... ahem.

So it's blackmail, eh? Ah well, back to work I guess...

[Zawath]

Yeah same, I just closed it in shame, I played about 10 seconds of the Battle of Badon Hill but ya know, it just doesn't look the least bit fun at all. Like why the hell are all my cavalry up on a hill? And you only have like 5 fighting infantry units (one of which for me was reduced to 50% before the battle even started!) and 2 cavalry near the first army. What am I even supposed to do? I don't get it, should I wait for the Saxons to attack? My Sarmatians near the start weren't even any help because they got obliterated by the Onagers.

Watch the intro, dude. It clearly says what you must do. It isn't CA's fault if the players are blind.

[Dux Corvanus]

Don't forget we have those incriminating photos of you and.... ahem.

You have incriminating photos of PC with a smilie with a steak on its face?