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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #15 on: February 21, 2009, 08:47:49 AM »
Posting from inside steam and ETW - never knew it had a web functionality on steam :)
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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #16 on: February 24, 2009, 12:09:27 PM »
hmm. apparently i've effectively got 7 days to play E:TW. (apparenly released the 3rd on steam, and eve will be released the 10th)

cant they invent 48 hour days... (preferably with 8 hours work a day :) )
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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #17 on: February 25, 2009, 12:10:31 PM »
ugh, a 2 GB download for 2 trials and 2 battles
had hoped for more...

is it just me or are the units much less predictable than in RTW?
could be that i lost touch with how xTW-units work, but I still have the feeling that RTW units just did what i wanted them to do (most of the time)
in ETW, they just... dont do what i want them to do...
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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #18 on: February 27, 2009, 01:58:36 PM »
I was surprised the demo was 2 gig too. I "think" it is becouse in fact you have the complete game minus a few to unluck the whole game (this is just a guess) so that when you actually buy it you have it rather quickly.

That is a guess, but it would seem it is rather small for that option.

Anyway i noticed too and also wondered why :D

as for the units, land battle went as i wanted it. am glad i can use wasd now.. cant do that with M2:TW. I even felt they responded better in E:TW than in M2:TW. Had a bit more problems with the sea battle. Than again i only did that once. :D and in the tutorial i had no probs. the battle was a whole diffrent story :D

Haven't got experiance in R:TW. so really have no say about that
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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #19 on: February 27, 2009, 03:49:34 PM »
what bothers me the most in TW games is that when you move multiple units they place emselves in the distribution they were before, not as a neat line

or there must be a shortcut to fix that i forgot about / never knew about
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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #20 on: March 03, 2009, 11:46:01 AM »
guess what just arrived in the post and is being installed?  :D
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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #21 on: March 03, 2009, 12:01:33 PM »
scrap that stupid steam activation means i cant play it yet Grrrr i have the fucking disc let me play already :S
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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #22 on: March 03, 2009, 12:36:04 PM »
I remembered something on steam that people who purchased via steam could play it sooner (today) than the people who ordered the disk.

not sure though. but will let you know later today :)
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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #23 on: March 03, 2009, 01:11:40 PM »
Quote from: Bethor on March 03, 2009, 12:36:04 PM
I remembered something on steam that people who purchased via steam could play it sooner (today) than the people who ordered the disk.

not sure though. but will let you know later today :)


nah all activation at 5GMT and at least i dont have to download the huge install files as ill have them on disc, i bet steam falls over like it did when DOW 2 came out a few weeks ago ;)  but then im a cynic
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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #24 on: March 03, 2009, 04:39:02 PM »
Im sitting here waiting for the activation time.

Wish steam had an F5 refresh option for the timer :D
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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #25 on: March 03, 2009, 06:41:32 PM »
well downloading mine. guess ill play eve now :D

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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #26 on: March 04, 2009, 09:06:39 AM »
Hmm, as i am dutch i played the dutch (a bit, spend most time on the couch with my gf)

and when sieging a town with the dutch they said something that sounded to me as "beledigen" what means insulting. and it should have sounded as "belegeren" which is in fact sieging. :D

Als the dutch voice was kinda weird. as i under stand dutch it should have sounded familiar. like the dutch in the colonization 2.

But it looks aw droppingly good. and plays like a charm, although the load times are still pretty long imo.

played 2 turns just to see what it could do. Hope to start a real campaign soon :D

But first impression is, I'm impressed!

I wonderd, is it me, or is it, that after a time, a powder fog appears above the battlefield. I had the impression it did and it was more at the location where my cannons were shooting at the town.

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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #27 on: March 04, 2009, 06:26:29 PM »
sea battles rock

just dont start a war in America and Europe whilst at war in India lol hectic isnt the word for it ;)

excellent game i especially like the research they added :D
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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #28 on: March 04, 2009, 07:14:55 PM »
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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #29 on: March 05, 2009, 09:35:58 AM »
Well, I am no longer in the near overwhelmed state I have been the past day or so.  I am loving every minute of this game though, be it defeats or victories, or growing my farms, towns and ports.  I was a little taken back by how much territory I start out with as Great Britain, but having got to grips with its quite a good footing to start on - again the brits feel like a "starter" Empire, but with a complexity over the horizon that is really looking good :)

I am loving land battles and the sea battles - just wish there was a way for me to have my nay bombard places on coastlines, would be a great aid when assaulting harbour cities and such like.

I can see this devouring my freetime for quite a while - especially with it having achievements now in Steam :D
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