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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/24/2010 11:05:08 PM   
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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/25/2010 3:56:23 PM   
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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/25/2010 5:27:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		Currently I'm trying to play Storm over the Pacific, But with a lousy tutorial, worthless manual, and hard to see counters, this is very trying and I am loosing interest very fast.

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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/25/2010 6:03:57 PM   
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War in the Pacific: AE. It does not leave me much free time to play anything else at the moment.

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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/25/2010 9:32:30 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: vonRocko

Currently I'm trying to play Storm over the Pacific, But with a lousy tutorial, worthless manual, and hard to see counters, this is very trying and I am loosing interest very fast.


I looked at the Time of Wrath demo while thinking about Storm Over the Pacific. The main thing I noticed about Time of Wrath is that the map is dark, the map features are dark, the unit counters are dark, the hex sides are bright white and all I can see on the map are the hex sides. Everything else just blends in with all the darkness. I'm thankful there is a demo out there of the series because it really prevented me from making a co$tly mi$take.

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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/25/2010 10:17:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		This is what I'm talking about. Look how dark the map is! See the top image. Now look at the bottom. I brightened up the map features file a little to make things stand out better. Honestly...which looks better, the top or the bottom image? I say the bottom image is easier to see what's going on. Why didn't the developers just make the map a little brighter?




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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/25/2010 10:38:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		Gary,

First of all, there is no problem to brighten the source files.

Also there are some mods that are really changing the way the game looks like:






Also some skilled modders already started to change Storm over the Pacific, take a look:



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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/25/2010 11:01:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		Doomtrader, show the real map and counters, not the mods. I guess it is up to the customer to mess with files to fix the game.

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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/25/2010 11:06:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		Don't get me wrong. I love most Matrix games but I don't think it should be up to the customer to fix the maps in this one. It's a simple fix but it's something that should have been done with the stock version. The aesthetics out of box look horrible.

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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/25/2010 11:16:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		Can mods be incorporated in a patch giving several map and counter combinations. Too lazy and too much of a technophobe to be messing inside files...

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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/25/2010 11:16:56 PM   
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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/26/2010 12:08:09 AM   
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Status: offline 		I started the thread so I guess I'll be the one to derail it. A little editing in photoshop would have gone a long way with Time of Wrath I think. Here's before (top) and after (bottom) again...






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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/26/2010 12:12:31 AM   
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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/26/2010 12:18:55 AM   
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Not this....




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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/26/2010 1:15:33 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi Gary,
don´t let you get distracted.
I hear what you´re saying & don´t disagree with you at all.
But afaik, one of the main purposes of the game developers was/is the high modability of the game.
I don´t say its easy, but probably manageable. For SoP there are some graphics mods in the work.
I would recommend to wait for the Demo of SoP, to make your final jugdement. Many improvements compared to RTV/ToW.
For me Witp ff. are too complex, but SC: Pacific is in some regards too abstract. That´s why i was waiting for SoP.
Its someway in between of both the other mentioned games. Take some time to get used to it. But my first impressions are quite positiv. Also there is much help from the game developers.

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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/26/2010 1:34:42 AM   
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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/26/2010 9:28:27 AM   
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quote:

Really the game should look like this...

Gary, nobody before raised that the game is too dark (at least I haven't got chance to read such opinion). I don't see a problem to include brighter version of sprites to the next patch.
BTW: I see you are playing a demo version of Time of Wrath. There were many major changes in the first patch, especially in air combat.

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Doomtrader, show the real map and counters, not the mods. I guess it is up to the customer to mess with files to fix the game.

Von Rocko, I made clear statements that the screens below are mods. How does the game looks like can be seen at the official product page or at the product subforum.
I don't think that changing how the game looks should be measured in terms of fixing. We are trying to give as much modding possibilities as we can without harm for the engine and the game itself.
Not every game offers such opportunity and not every developer gives feedback how to change the game.

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Can mods be incorporated in a patch giving several map and counter combinations. Too lazy and too much of a technophobe to be messing inside files...

Punk Reaper, Most of them could be, but there are IP issues. We would have to have a letter from mod creator that there are no copyrights on the materials he has used.
But fortunately most of those mods are very simple to be used. Just unzip and paste.


th1207, thanks for the kind words. We are trying to answer every question and consider every proposal.

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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/26/2010 11:59:25 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Gary Childress

I started the thread so I guess I'll be the one to derail it. A little editing in photoshop would have gone a long way with Time of Wrath I think. Here's before (top) and after (bottom) again...







Gary can you make those bottom units LIME GREEN please? I miss my lime green army men days.

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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/26/2010 12:57:37 PM   
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ORIGINAL: doomtrader



quote:

Doomtrader, show the real map and counters, not the mods. I guess it is up to the customer to mess with files to fix the game.

Von Rocko, I made clear statements that the screens below are mods. How does the game looks like can be seen at the official product page or at the product subforum.
I don't think that changing how the game looks should be measured in terms of fixing. We are trying to give as much modding possibilities as we can without harm for the engine and the game itself.
Not every game offers such opportunity and not every developer gives feedback how to change the game.



Yes Doomtrader, I understand about the games moddability, but I don't mod, I don't know how nor do I want to learn! I pay money,for the game, to have others write programs and mess with files. It is great to be able to mod a game, but not if you are forced to mod a game to get it in decent shape. You would think that after TOW, you guys could have done better. I remember the same unit and map troubles there. Your games have much potential, but the whole package is cheap and amateurish.

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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/26/2010 3:54:50 PM   
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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/26/2010 5:16:09 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Gary Childress

What are your CURRENT favorite games that you play? They can be anything from a first person shooter to a turn based strategy. What absorbs your interest most at this moment?

I'm trying to get ideas for another game purchase. They don't have to be Matrix games. It's been awhile since I purchased anything that has kept me glued to the screen for more than a month. So I'm looking for something to absorb me for awhile.



Nothing. I have tried WWI Distant Galaxies Ageod Civil War etc etc etc

Each has aspects that I like, and aspects that I dont. Currently I am hoping that DC online will be good

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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/26/2010 6:11:05 PM   
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ORIGINAL: bairdlander

I agree a lot of these games have outdated graphics.I think BftB graphics are much better.

Outdated? Are they 8bit 320-240 or something like that?

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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/27/2010 12:25:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		I must agree about the dark units and maps. I had the brightness way up on that one. Why was it made so dark in the first place?

Back to the original thread.
Just got second Manassas. Great game.

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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/27/2010 11:08:09 PM   
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ORIGINAL: mikkey
EDBtR
Achtung Spitfire!
Over the Reich
Flight Commander II
Fleet Command
Plants vs Zombies

Is that Jane's Fleet command?

I remember 'Achtung Spitfire' but not 'Over the Reich'.

yes, Fleet Command is Jane's Fleet Command with NWP patch 19.01.
And Over the Reich is predecessor of Achtung Spitfire!. You can play as either British, American, or German pilots in European theater from 1943-1945.

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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/28/2010 7:42:34 AM   
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RE: What are you playing right now? - 6/28/2010 9:12:19 AM   
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Prob going to kick in CC2 for a campaign in the coming days.

and sometime this summer, going to install Baldur's Gate Tales of the Sword Coast and import my character from Baldur's Gate and play the story out proper.

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RE: What are you playing right now? - 2/15/2015 8:19:30 AM   
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RE: What are you playing right now? - 2/15/2015 12:07:52 PM   
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1)Everquest2 (MMORPG)
2)Age of Wonder III (Strategy-turn based)
3)Skyrim (RPG)
4)War in the Pacific: Admiral Edition (Grand Strategy-turn based)

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RE: What are you playing right now? - 2/15/2015 12:34:32 PM   
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http://store.steampowered.com/app/340050/

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RE: What are you playing right now? - 2/15/2015 1:02:04 PM   
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