Rumour regarding M2TW Demo

[SaberHRE]

Release before end of summer!

Dont want to screw up my exams!

[hoetje]

Release before end of summer!

Dont want to screw up my exams!

Okay,so that means you don't know right ? :P

[Myrddraal]

I would imagine any demo we see with be a couple of battles. Maybe they'll be scripted, hopefully the AI won't need it.

I would be very surprised if they don't use any scripting at all. If nothing else, I expect a little in-game intro done with a script.

[TB666]

Well it will probably be historical battles like always so yeah a scripted AI but CA can't screw the AI up, it is damn near impossible consider the improvements they did to the AI in the 1.5/1.6 patch for RTW. And pretty much all previews shows a improvement as well.
But in my case I'm not playing the demo to see how the AI is but how it will run on my computer.

[Mikhal]

does anyone have any idea if we will be able to try the strategic mode out in a way so you can manage some cities and try some agents and not just walk with your general as in the rome demo.

[hoetje]

I don't think they will include the campaign map in the game.
Just custom battles (with 1 or 2 factions) i think.

[Tamur]

Mikhal, a demo with the strategy portion of the game as well would be approaching or over 500Mbs to download. Far more than any game site wants to host.

Also, that would be a huge amount more work for the programmers with little payoff --- I'd guess a majority of the audience for the demo (even here at the weird Org) are far more interested in the battle engine. So I wouldn't expect it.

[therother]

Mikhal, a demo with the strategy portion of the game as well would be approaching or over 500Mbs to download. Far more than any game site wants to host.

Never underestimate the bloatware effect:

http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/gam...mo_en.exe.html

[Monarch]

Whens the next PC Gamers issue out? I'd expect a demo to come with that.

[Mikhal]

PC gamer is usually pretty slow with thier demos. they realease em like a month after it first shows up on the web and i can't see why sites don't wanna host more then 500mb on www.gamershell.com/pc they've got the dark messiah demo which is like 1.1 gb.

[Tamur]

http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/gam...mo_en.exe.html

That is simply stunning! Well, I guess it's within the realm of possibility, I'll just be quiet now

[4th Dimension]

Never underestimate the bloatware effect:

http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/gam...mo_en.exe.html

Nothing special. It's 446 MB heavy.

[sunsmountain]

Well it will probably be historical battles like always so yeah a scripted AI but CA can't screw the AI up, it is damn near impossible consider the improvements they did to the AI in the 1.5/1.6 patch for RTW. And pretty much all previews shows a improvement as well.

An improvement to the AI in a preview? Considering they haven't played it, and if they have, it was in a scripted environment?

Why do you think demo's are scripted in the first place? There were some improvements in the 1.5/1.6 patch, but nowhere near enough for me to buy MTW2. It's always possible to screw something up.

[Dan.o6]

My fingers are crossed. Let's not have a repeat of RTW eh?

[Tw-Turkiye]

Do you think that the demo will be available on august 25th

[highlanddave]

i am going to download the demo no matter the size. i need to evaluate whether i care to spend money on a rtw clone or not. it is not just the money. i do not want to waste time playing a game that is designed for the fantasy genre and rts players. i expect them to script the game so that it appears more mtw-ish, but that is why i want to download the demo. i will carefully read others evaluations as well.

[Chad]

Can't wait to try it out