Beta Impressions Article

[CountArach]

My worst AI Tactical concerns have been confirmed.

[knoddy]

My worst AI Tactical concerns have been confirmed.

??? he mentions 1 bad bug with the battle AI which he states is a bug meaning that it has probably been fixed.


reading his article gives me high hopes for the game, the campaign sounds awesome

Infantry is stronger than cavalry, firepower works better than melee

this should please alot of people.

[Polemists]

It's not a bad review, and really the 15min thing on one turn did not surprise me. It sounds like it was just a bugged turn. I remeber MTW1 did that every now and then, you'd just have to reload your last auto turn and play from there.

It makes game sound good, however I take all reviews/previews with a grain of salt. I remeber hearing MTW2 reviews and being iffy then playing MTW2 and enjoying it greatly. So until I sit down and play empire (or a demo of empire) I'll just take all this reading as fluff :)

[Belgolas]

yup wait till the demo to judge.

[ElectricEel]

The article's been removed by request of Sega...

[Mailman653]

The NDA has struck! What else could it had been? A simple change to the article to notify its readers that its an early build would of been enough, but the whole thing was taken down.

Anyway, in two weeks the game will be out and all of us will have an informed opinion.

[Barkhorn1x]

Indeed! The countdown has begun on Steam - go check it out. This baby is now officially releasing on schedule. I predict a gold announcement by Monday and the demo...

[Sir Beane]

Heheh "chaos in the community and rash judgements" (from the message replacing the article). Like we need a beta review to induce rash judgements. We are quite capable of making those based on no evidence whatsoever.

This crackdown on articles and videos isn't helping much. We already have very little info as it is.

[Pinxit]

I dont understand why some of you are even bothering worrying about the waiting time.

There is simply no way it actually is 15 minutes long. Thus, no worry. I could go for the 15 minutes long _if_, and only if, you are late in the game and have a view of most of the map due to units being spread out everywhere.

But I must say that due to the increased complexity of the game, compared to previous games in the series, at least I am of the impression that the turns will take very long time to complete. Although this might not be a viable conclusion since CA also stated that, even though Empire is more complex, it should be easier to manage. Personally I would like nothing more than a game with really, really, long turns. I want to play this game like chess. Every move one makes, should be carefully considered. Consequently, I intend to play one turn a day. At most.

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[KozaK13]

Consequently, I intend to play one turn a day. At most.

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are you sure? Remember med 2 and rome had turns you wizzed through as you had nothing to build and everything was on its way somewhere.

CA/Sega have been awefully fernickity about articles and videos this time.

[Sir Beane]

I dont understand why some of you are even bothering worrying about the waiting time.

There is simply no way it actually is 15 minutes long. Thus, no worry. I could go for the 15 minutes long _if_, and only if, you are late in the game and have a view of most of the map due to units being spread out everywhere.

But I must say that due to the increased complexity of the game, compared to previous games in the series, at least I am of the impression that the turns will take very long time to complete. Although this might not be a viable conclusion since CA also stated that, even though Empire is more complex, it should be easier to manage. Personally I would like nothing more than a game with really, really, long turns. I want to play this game like chess. Every move one makes, should be carefully considered. Consequently, I intend to play one turn a day. At most.

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I hope you have the better part of a year to play one campaign then. Personally I couldn't possibly play only one turn a day, given that it takes about five minutes to do everything you need to during a turn, unless you are getting towards the endgame.

[knoddy]

hate to be a party pooper but since this thread was linking something in clear violation of the NDA, and has now been taken down by CA/Sega should this thread be closed/deleted?

[Sir Beane]

hate to be a party pooper but since this thread was linking something in clear violation of the NDA, and has now been taken down by CA/Sega should this thread be closed/deleted?

Fair enough. This thread is off to bed, g'night everyone.

Closed.