EB in this months PC Gamer UK

[Lusted]

Just got this months PC Gamer this month, and what do i see in the Extra-Life section? A full page very complimentary feature on EB, though contrary to what the article says the mod is not on the disk that came with the mag.

[pezhetairoi]

Sweeeeeet. We are getting recognition, man. Maybe even more computer magazines are going to feature us! Maybe they were just waiting for 1.0...

[mrdun]

publicity is publicity, as they say

[Geoffrey S]

Bah, cancelled my subscription last year. Think I'll buy this one though.

[Leviathan DarklyCute]

Can you plz scan and upload?

[Geoffrey S]

That's illegal.

[Hax]

Blah.

Like you've never done anything illegal before :P

Everyone has.

I bet you stole candy once as a kid.

[Gaivs]

Blah.

Like you've never done anything illegal before :P

Everyone has.

I bet you stole candy once as a kid.

haha exactly. I hate keyboard warriors like him, jumping on the high horse when i bet he has burnt cds and dvds galore. Downloads music from p2p sources and allsorts.

[Anthony II]

Congrats guys

[blacksnail]

Thanks for the tip, Lusted!

[Geoffrey S]

haha exactly. I hate keyboard warriors like him, jumping on the high horse when i bet he has burnt cds and dvds galore. Downloads music from p2p sources and allsorts.

This is not the topic at hand so I won't make this long. In reaction to your unfounded statements, no I haven't done any of those things you listed. I merely warn against an action which has been made clear to be illegal several times by forum moderators, and must kindly ask you to piss off if you haven't got anything constructive to say.

[mAIOR]

Just upload the pages with the EB review for us non-UKers who won't have access to the magazine.


Cheers...

[Megalos]

This is not the topic at hand so I won't make this long. In reaction to your unfounded statements, no I haven't done any of those things you listed. I merely warn against an action which has been made clear to be illegal several times by forum moderators, and must kindly ask you to piss off if you haven't got anything constructive to say.

Quote of the day for me so far!

[HFox]

Hi

You may tend to find they don't mind...as it will probably increase their sales (damn even I may buy it) BUT a quick email to the editor asking if its all right to publish just that article is only polite.
:)

[Lusted]

As just pulling a few quotes from the article is allowed, i'll do that. I will not scan/uploaded it.

"You want Rome 2: Total War? Start here. I'll say this carefully for fear of outrage, but EB feels like a whole new Total War game".

"This is not just Rome in a fright wig, speaking in a funny accent - the game itself is altered and deepended."

"The result is a huge kick up the bum of the strategic map - it's a more satisfyingly complex affair than in any official Total War game".

The rest of the article basically explains the origins of the mod, and what the mod does. Also some nice pics, including one of the Colossus wonder.

[eirik]

Hi, everybody!

I live in Norway, but I was able to get my hands on a copy through a British mate in my MUN class. It was a very good article, it speaks warmly of your work (as would any right-minded person who's tried it -- It may not be everyone's cuppatea, but one would be hard-pressed to disregard the hard work which is so evident).

Back to lurking "moar".

[blacksnail]

Wow!

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Thanks Jack Lusted!
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[hellenes]

Lusted I hope youll pass these remarks to SEGA beancounters...EB is the ultra hard setting that is missing from all TW games...

[Kikosemmek]

Hah! I'm going out and buying an issue today.

[I Am Herenow]

contrary to what the article says the mod is not on the disk that came with the mag.

Thanks for the heads-up! Presumably they'll fix that in their second reprint?

[wumpus]

Thanks for the heads-up! Presumably they'll fix that in their second reprint?

Do they issue a second reprint? Most mags I know don't reprint issues as a matter of practice--not even for their own in-house consumption.
Yes! Congrats EB team--now things are slowly getting there. Great show. (It's a pity that I'll NEVER have a chance to see that issue: we're at the other end of the world from UK.)

[wumpus]

Lusted I hope youll pass these remarks to SEGA beancounters...EB is the ultra hard setting that is missing from all TW games...

SEGA (and other commercial orgs like them) runs on profits, money, etc.; the EB team (and other non-income orgs) runs on LOVE for the game--how the game ought to REALLY be. I know of many gamers who play only if they win. (People like us, we don't mind losing--we'll just start a new campaign, avoid our past mistakes, swap tips and stuff, until we win.) People who want to play only if they win, they'd abandon a difficult game and play something like SuperMario or Zuma or Sims. And if SEGA et al were to publish ultra-hard games, how many people would buy it? A few like us, maybe, and they couldn't show a profit to their stockholders. But yes, it wouldn't do any harm if these remarks are passed to SEGA--maybe some good will yet result. Don't bother with this one. Hawooh.

[bovi]

RTW/M2TW have four difficulty settings now, which are Cakewalk, Breeze, Piece of cake and Easy (and that's two cakes, which means you can have the cake and eat it too ). What's the point of calling an easy setting Very Hard?

Take notice from Galactic Civilizations II's many difficulty settings, which leaves everyone satisfied. The first 5-6 settings involve adding more AI routines, while the higher ones mean the AI gets bonuses. I could tackle every AI getting 25% more resources, but not more than that, and the worst setting gives them 200% more IIRC.

[General Appo]

Congrats to the EB team, you deserve it.
The worst (or best) difficulty settings I´ve ecnountered has got to be in Lord of the Ring: Battle for Middle-Earth 2, you can give the AI a up to 100 % handicap, meaning that what normally would die from one arrow now dies from about 50. It is truly impossible to win with these settings.

[zooeyglass]

Congrats to the EB team, you deserve it.
The worst (or best) difficulty settings I´ve ecnountered has got to be in Lord of the Ring: Battle for Middle-Earth 2, you can give the AI a up to 100 % handicap, meaning that what normally would die from one arrow now dies from about 50. It is truly impossible to win with these settings.

i found the difficulty very variable on LOTR - some maps, especially any fortress map, were very easy to compete on, and holding off the enemy wouldn't be too hard, until one's economy was rolling. other maps seemed impossible to me also.

but congrats EB - you definitely deserve all the praise you get.

[Geoffrey S]

Well done guys. You managed to turn the steaming heap of crap that was Rome: Total War into one of the best RTS games in existance, and this article in PC gamer is more than deserved.

There you go again. EB is great, but it would have been nothing without the basis of an already great game in the form of RTW. I don't think comments like the above are welcome here.

[pezhetairoi]

It's a free world, Geoffrey S. I think people accept that RTW, for all that it was the basis and platform for EB, is crap, now that we've played EB. You don't welcome these comments perhaps, but notice how you seem to be a solitary voice? That says something, you know.

[Geoffrey S]

It says something? Put it this way. When I first played MTW, and RTW, I had nothing to do with any kind of online community. I enjoyed the games immensely. Upon finding these forums, one of the most noticeable things was the harsh critique of the bugs in RTW. None of these had until that point bothered me in the slightest, nor have they really since. It's a complex type of game, of the kind I have yet to see any company other than CA produce well, if even at all.

It has been made clear time and time again by the EB team that they cannot change the fundamental way in which the game plays. A tweak here, a tweak there, and a huge amount of new content: fundamentally however the game is and remains RTW.

In that sense I find qualifying RTW as 'steaming heap of crap' a thoroughly ungrateful and unproductive comment, completely ignoring the fact that all EB can do is build upon and refine said game. I really don't see the need for such a bashing of the game, same as with M2TW or as already is happening by people with preconceived opinions on Empire.

[Subedei]

To put it simple: No RTW -> No EB.

Look, I just bought a 2nd Copy of RTW Gold + BI for 10 €. I already own both, but I love the mods [esp. EB, as soon as I am able to play it again ] so much, I do not mind RTW being not as good as EB.

Not everybody is part of our exquisite circle of historically interested gamers.

SEGA wants to earn a buck or two with those "Cooool, I can command 10.000 Roman knights and give hell to those Gallic vikings!"-players....so what?

We know about Naked guys and the druggies they were on, the Arveni's eternal love to the Aeidu, the propper look of Eastern Baktrian Elephant mahuds, the MIC of Quarhadast, Nomad civilisation, the fact that armies on the road cost more compared to the ones in towns etc....

But not EVERYBODY else has to be interested in these facts. Without the above mentioned customers it would be hardly possible to develope a game like the ones in the TW series.