World in Conflict Beta

**Mikeus Caesar** · 07-25-2007, 10:34

Husar - screw vehicles, infantry ftw. Masses of infantry that are kept on the move can destroy anything. I've taken on hordes of armour, support, air and enemy infantry, destroying it all, and as long you don't keep still for too long, you're fine.

I made the mistake of staying still a few times - fwoosh, napalm destroys three quarters of my men, while i make the survivors sprint for their lives into a nearby forest. Thank god you can replenish them.

Originally Posted by Bijo

Splendid; I have located the source causing corruption or more precisely general errors: the directory in which I stored the data was named WiC-β which was -- presumably -- somehow not allowed. Renaming it to WiC-Beta frought forth resolution.

Of course this occurred áfter data was redownloaded from another source which took another hour or so. Luck is on my side.

Have you begun playing on it yet?

**Husar** · 07-25-2007, 10:53

Infantry is nice as long as the enemy artillery keeps missing and their armour players don't know that you can drive over them. Depends on the terrain though, if they have forests or houses nearby that helps, as long as noone destroys them with bombardements(napalm on forests = no infantry cover left

).

**Ja'chyra** · 07-25-2007, 12:26

Does this game have a decent single player option, if so I might download it tonight.

**Husar** · 07-25-2007, 16:11

The beta is MP only apart from the Tutorial which is not really a decent SP option.
If you want SP, you should wait for the SP demo which will hopefully come shortly after the end of the open beta(31st July that is). But since release is end of September, I have no idea when the demo(s) will come.

**Bijo** · 07-25-2007, 17:31

Originally Posted by currywurry

Have you begun playing on it yet?

Hardly; not so much time. But I had a brief moment a while ago. One or two matches actually shortly. It is very... chaotic and too RTS-like for my taste. The chaotic part is the worst, however. I was playing a one-on-one match and this guy started spamming helicopters.

Agh, I guess online multiplayer RTS isn't my taste. If anyone wants to play you can locate by the name Mr. Black. I'll hardly be playing anyway, so you'll probably won't find me if you search.

**Mikeus Caesar** · 07-25-2007, 18:45

Originally Posted by Bijo

Hardly; not so much time. But I had a brief moment a while ago. One or two matches actually shortly. It is very... chaotic and too RTS-like for my taste. The chaotic part is the worst, however. I was playing a one-on-one match and this guy started spamming helicopters.

Agh, I guess online multiplayer RTS isn't my taste. If anyone wants to play you can locate by the name Mr. Black. I'll hardly be playing anyway, so you'll probably won't find me if you search.

1 on 1 matches generally aren't the best. 8 v 8 messes are much better, as you'll have other people sorting out the chopper spam, leaving you to do your own thing. And of course it's chaotic - it's war. If you don't think fast, you die. And you could have just changed roles to support, pwned all his choppers with heavy AA and then quickly taken all of the control points, thus winning in about 10 seconds due to total domination.

**Bijo** · 07-25-2007, 22:19

Well, alright. I just played a little and it's simply too fast. I'm probably getting old already, heh heh. I'm just not used to the damn game and it's too multiplayer to me. The game appears promising however. If there will be a single-player demo I'd certainly check it out. If the release version will have SP I will certainly get it.

**Husar** · 07-26-2007, 19:16

Wow, I never played 1on1 so far, 8vs8 sounds a lot more relaxed because you can blame the other 7 guys on your team if you fail.

**Bijo** · 07-26-2007, 19:41

Playing one-on-one will give you generic battle capability (infantry, armour, airforce, support).

The worst thing about this multiplayer beta is when annoying American guys/boys with silly nerdy voices (almost even gay-like (I have nothing against them by the way)) use their mic and start dissing people. It sounds ugly. "Right, you know.... next time nuke the enemy.... ah, *cough* not your friends." What a terrible voice it was.

**Husar** · 07-26-2007, 21:44

Press and hold Tab and then mute the guy or just mute everybody.

**Mikeus Caesar** · 07-26-2007, 23:42

Originally Posted by Bijo

Well, alright. I just played a little and it's simply too fast. I'm probably getting old already, heh heh. I'm just not used to the damn game and it's too multiplayer to me. The game appears promising however. If there will be a single-player demo I'd certainly check it out. If the release version will have SP I will certainly get it.

When you're on the main menu, the music playing in the background with fragments of radio reports gives me the idea that single player will be very detailed and very awesome.

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 07-27-2007, 16:42

Played through the tutorial, looks very nice and the mechanics are interesting. It's burning my GPU though...

I think I'll give MP a try now.

**Bijo** · 07-27-2007, 18:42

Single-player is promising indeed.

For sake of easiness I put my settings to low and added some effects separately. For multiplayer acceptable speed to see what occurs is more important than pretty graphics and slowdown. And even on this low setting it looks reasonably good.

It would be splendid if they would release a free multiplayer version like it was done with F.E.A.R.

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Alexander, MP took me an evening to get used to. Now I find it very enjoyable and also because in normal public matches without clans I usually in the end get some positions for best teamplay, best role (infantry), one of the top three players, transportation, tactical aid, repairs, etc. Very nice if you see your name multiple times.

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I mentioned the in-game communication system before, and it's worth mentioning once more. To request allied aid one basically holds 'Q' (or whichever button is chosen for it) for a popup menu to appear whereafter you select an option (examples: need artillery; need anti-air; need repairs; need chemical/napalm strike; etc.) and then click a target (area or foe). It is beautful.

Gameplay -- from what I've seen -- mostly revolves around heavy armour, heavy air, heavy artillery, many airstrikes, nukes, etc., and not so much around infantry, but that's exactly why I like infantry (and I like infantry more in any case). They are so versatile and good if well applied. It is a nice sight when your infantry hidden in the bushes and/or buildings suddenly send anti-air rockets towards passing helicopters, especially when they were first attacking your teammate who was just retreating his armour towards you and another teammate's anti-air vehicles. Most satisfactory.