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Joined: 2/22/2005 From: Secret Underground Lair Status: offline
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I've played about 30 or 40 hours with 1.02, and have not updated to 1.04beta yet. I have a well-tuned rig (MD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~2.6GHz 3328MB RAM) with ample power (900w) and a good vid card (NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT) and run XP Home. I keep malware off my machine assiduously. It has been a long time since I did a tuneup but it doesn't seem to matter yet. I've never had a crash or lockup with this game, let alone a slow-down or process glitch. No errors, no pauses, no CTDs. Not a single crash in about 40 hours of play time. I've had a lot of fun with this game too. Right at the moment I've turned my attention over to Mount & Blade Warband, but I'll be playing this one for months I'm sure. When the 1.04 official patch is done I'll install it and, based on about 8 years of experience with these Matrix guys, and about 12 or 15 of their games, I am confident that I'll be pleased with the improvements/tweaks. Apart from some "ghost" space ships that left port before they were finished, and some mines that got "knocked lose" from their moorings on moons or planets, I have encountered NOTHING in this game that I think could be qualifed as being "broken." As far as I could tell, EVERYTHING is working as designed. I keep seeing the same people use that phrase 'broken,' and apart from them having crashes or errors, I have yet (despite asking more than once) to see them list precisely in objective terms what aspects of the game they are talking about when they say it is "broken." If it is broken, tell me where, and I'll be happy to play a bit to try to replicate your observations and see if I have the same results. Tis' true that not everything is optimally balanced, and some functionality is a bit awkward or less than ideally efficient. In a highly complex strategy game made by a small Independent developer, those are the types of things that get gradually sorted out by players commenting on them and developers adjusting, if not mods being made. The expectation that some folks have expressed in here that a publisher like Matrix should behave like an Xbox publisher is absolutely detached from reality. To be fair, the fact that the game works WELL on my machine does not mean that it does not behave as if it is "broken" on your machine. Maybe you are not full of it, and really are just frustrated. If so: calm down, note the problems you are having while you play, take screen-caps, run Dxdiag so you can tell them your rig specs are, and be prepared to follow the myriad of other objective calm actions that a constructive user will follow to help the publisher to troubleshoot. If you switch to that approach instead of the bashing approach, and you sincerely want to have a fun game and not simply have an excuse to troll around Matrix forums, you will get what you want. I say that with confidence based on my past experience with these Matrix guys. Or you could just shelve it and come back later after more patches come out. But assuming that your perspective is authoritative, that you are "not alone" and that there are "lots of others" who share your perspective, when in fact there are many of us who have repeatedly praised the game in the same threads in which you post your rants suggests one thing: you are a troll.
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