Official "I got BI!" thread

[edyzmedieval]

Here all you members can post your happiness.
I suspect tons of threads will be like this.

[Stuie]

I got BI!

Woo. That was fun.

[TB666]

I don't have it
I'm climbing the bloody walls here
2 more days

[Viking]

I got it. Wohoo.

What I think of now is that if I had ordered earlier, I could have gotten it at the same time as Stalin, perhaps even earlier.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Anyone who posts "I got it" must post screenshots and/or do research into action items like:

Increased # factions allowed?

Increased # models allowed?

Increased # buildings allowed?

And other modding questions.

[Stuie]

Increased # factions allowed?

I'll take this one: nope. (of course we already knew this from the faq at the .com site...).

[Doug-Thompson]

Got it. Here's a few basics.

Box Contents: The disc is in one of the paper holders with a clear celophane circle in front. No jewel box, apparently an industry standard. A rulebook and a Sega product registration card.

Time to install: 5 minutes on a 2.0 ghz machine, not including time to read the end user license agreement.

No readme file. [CORRECTION: Oh yes there is. You access it from the main menu.]

Playable factions: Huns, Goths,Samarians, Vandals, Franks, Saxons, Sassanids, Alemanni, Eastern and Western Romans.

You must use the R:TW disc to play R:TW campaigns. You cannot load an old campaign while using the BI disc.

Video options are a little different. You can turn "grass" completely off, for instance.

The game looks much better. I set unit detail on low to have the smoothest possible operation. The units and animations looked so good, I rechecked my settings.

I've complained often about graphics wagging the gamplay dog, but to be truthful, this game is gorgeous.

Just tested Hun horde HA against Goth spearmen. Horde units, at least this Hun one, only had "horde" formation, like peasants in R:TW. Will check further.

[GodsPetMonkey]

Box Contents: The disc is in one of the paper holders with a clear celophane circle in front. No jewel box, apparently an industry standard. A rulebook and a Sega product registration card.

Pssst, there is an empty slot for a fourth disc in the RTW jewel case It's were my BI lives (when not in the drive).

[Stuie]

Time to install: 5 minutes on a 2.0 ghz machine, not including time to read the end user license agreement.

You're kidding, right? Do people actually read those things?

[rebelscum]

Hehe, yeah and when you click on, I agree, do you really know what you are agreeing to.
You might be selling your whole family into lifelong slavery in a DVD factory in Sweden.

[Doug-Thompson]

The lack of any "readme" file was the most interesting thing to me. They seem pretty confident that there's no last-minute changes we need to know about.

There's also no province map, which makes life interesting. I'm going to remain a horde as the Huns until I've explored things thoroughly. There appears to be no hurry.

CORRECTION: GAH! There is a readme file. You open it from the main menu.

[King Ragnar]

Yay my copy has arrived this morning, installing now, looks like i wont be seeing daylight for a about a week :D

[Dimeola]

...and after one game in MP I remember why I dont play MP...I suck. Well guess its on to something else, wtf.
D

[TB666]

Now I got the game

[PseRamesses]

Now I got the game

Got mine on the 23rd here in Stockholm m8! The whole weekend it was just me and BI.... with candle lights, champagne and then we... XXXX

[CountMRVHS]

Got my version last night.

Well, to be more precise, I sat on my ass and played MTW while my wife went into town and picked it up for me.

Not gloating or anything....

To be honest, she fired it up first and started with the Sarmatians. The Huns soon attacked her only city en masse and she called on me to fight the battle (Easy difficulty). It was a night battle and I was hopelessly outnumbered so I couldn't resist.

A good thing I noticed is that the AI *seems* to be using alternate routes through the city to a greater extent. While my general was fighting down by the gate and chasing routers, I had a couple enemy units work their way around through the back & side paths.

Of course it was on Easy, but I still feel pretty good about my crappy 200 men seeing off 1000 Huns. Will start my own game probably tonight.

CountMRVHS

[rebelscum]

I got it this morning. Though I'm fitting a stair carpet today and wont get a chance to play it until tonight.

[frybread]

I bought the game today and tried out some of the cheats. I seems the add_money 40000, create_unit, and process_cq cheats are unlimited in both BI and RTW.

[Craterus]

I got BI! Shame I can't play it for a while, 'cos of those annoying things called sisters and their selfish need for use of the computer.

[tibilicus]

I got BI on friday. Shame my big computer decides to break at the wors possible time!

[abortretryfail]

Got it Sun evening. So far I like it.
I wish I could just go to the store and buy EB that easily.