A little like if Homeworld and a space sim were blended, letting you take control of a fighter or capital ship whenever you wanted.
Hey.. that isn't such a bad idea..
Tori the Berserker rides again! bwahaha
If I buy the full game, I will most likely play beasts since they are melee monsters.
*downloads*
There are two major types of players in the game: Commanders who view the game in a WC3-ish overhead view and build structures/give other units commands/etc.
And there are the Grunts. They are the other players who can follow the commands of the Commander. They view the game in a FPS style, attacking enemies with weapons, etc.
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Mortious had this to say about the Spice Girls:
Aye, it's pretty damn good.A little like if Homeworld and a space sim were blended, letting you take control of a fighter or capital ship whenever you wanted.
Hey.. that isn't such a bad idea..
I was thinking exactly the same thing this morning.
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Check out the big brain on JooJooFlop!
Damn, my frame rates suck in this game.
ATI card? Go to options and click on "extra optimizations". It supposedly gives ATI cards a large performance boost. It'd be on automatically, but its not fully supported yet and crashes some older cards/drivers.
Oh and Mort, you basically want the non-suck version of BC3kAD eh? 
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A sleep deprived Talonus stammered:
ATI card?
GF4 Ti4400
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JooJooFlop had this to say about dark elf butts:
GF4 Ti4400
Crap, you can try that anyway but I'm not totally sure what the problem is personally. You can post on S2's forum about it though, the devs (all 6 of them) are quite good about responding to stuff.
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Like Natural Selection, you say?
That would be a bad thing. 
I'll try it anyway...
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Talonus had this to say:
Oh and Mort, you basically want the non-suck version of BC3kAD eh?
Never utter that game again, on penalty of death.
I can't believe I bought it. The box was pretty. [ 10-10-2003: Message edited by: Mortious ]
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Katrinity enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
I'd like to see a Star Wars game like that...The Admiral or Fleet Commander directs which sectors he wants specific ships to fight from and watches over/directs the whole battle, and ship captains(in cruisers/frigates) and fighter pilots actually do the down-in-the-dirt fighting.
YES [ 10-10-2003: Message edited by: Bummey the Fool ]
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Katrinity wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
I'd like to see a Star Wars game like that...The Admiral or Fleet Commander directs which sectors he wants specific ships to fight from and watches over/directs the whole battle, and ship captains(in cruisers/frigates) and fighter pilots actually do the down-in-the-dirt fighting.
Rebellion got too caught up in all the micro-management of running the Empire or Rebellion.
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ACES! Another post by Talonus:
Crap, you can try that anyway but I'm not totally sure what the problem is personally. You can post on S2's forum about it though, the devs (all 6 of them) are quite good about responding to stuff.
I tried it and it helped about seven metric tons.
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Katrinity had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
Kinda like that..but better.Rebellion got too caught up in all the micro-management of running the Empire or Rebellion.
That was one of the only Star Wars games that I have not liked. =\
Granted, you don't hear 13 year old peices of shit who's balls haven't dropped, but some serious strategy could be easily put in with voice comm.
Typing "I'm going for this, this, then x" is nice and all, but I tend to find as a commander in NS that people listen to you if you swear, bitch and yell at your marines.
Otherwise, it's pretty good. Different strategies (Go out and secure stonemines fast, then level up your people, or kill NPCs while workers build, then rush them with superior numbers/weapons/armor, etc.) play well into it, and it's certainly nicer looking then NS at any rate.
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Everyone wondered WTF when Led wrote:
I played that ALL NIGHT omg. Already ending up in first place with kills on most maps, using only melee weapons
I'm getting pretty good with the legionarre. Melee in this game works a lot like it did in Rune, the demo of which I played obsessivly.
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From the book of Katrinity, chapter 3, verse 16:
I'd like to see a Star Wars game like that...The Admiral or Fleet Commander directs which sectors he wants specific ships to fight from and watches over/directs the whole battle, and ship captains(in cruisers/frigates) and fighter pilots actually do the down-in-the-dirt fighting.
I've been waiting for them to make an Ender's Game game forever.
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Inferno-Spirit impressed everyone with:
I've been waiting for them to make an Ender's Game game forever.
One is in pre-production right now I believe.
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This one time, at Katrinity camp:
I thought that was the movie?
Could be I guess 
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Mortious had this to say about Knight Rider:
Never utter that game again, on penalty of death.I can't believe I bought it. The box was pretty.
Ah c'mon, its exactly what you wanted... technically. Well, except for the fact that it sucked. Minor detail though right?
Delphi, apparently they couldn't get voice comm softwares working with the game or they couldn't afford it. They're considering writing their own, like Valve did, if they sell enough copies. From what I've played, enough people seem to listen though.
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Talonus said:
Ah c'mon, its exactly what you wanted... technically. Well, except for the fact that it sucked. Minor detail though right?Delphi, apparently they couldn't get voice comm softwares working with the game or they couldn't afford it. They're considering writing their own, like Valve did, if they sell enough copies. From what I've played, enough people seem to listen though.
Yeah, mostly because it doesnt have all the HL script fuckwads downloading it and thinking it's a DM server or something.
Still, once some disposable income comes my way, I'll have to get the full version..
I guess Disgaea will have to wait.
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Aury had this to say about Tron:
clickie for the funny.
So that's what passes for funny these days?
It's also one of the mose unforgiving games I've ever played when it comes to ping.
It's not something people hear about.
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JooJooFlop enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
I tried it and it helped about seven metric tons.
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First and foremost, you must make sure your motherboard drivers are current.Not doing this may cause your fast AGP graphics card to run in slow PCI mode, even though you might have it plugged perfectly well into an AGP slot. This is impacting your framerate in all games, although games that have to send a lot of polygons per frame to your video card (such as Savage) will be most noticeably affected.
Here is how you can identify what motherboard AGP chipset you have, and where to get updated drivers for your motherboard:
For Windows XP:
Click the Start button -> click Control Panel -> double-click the System applet -> select the Hardware tab -> click the Device Manager button -> expand the 'System devices' listing.For Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition (SE), and Windows Me:
Click the Start button -> click Settings -> click Control Panel -> double-click the System applet -> select the Device Manager tab -> expand the 'System devices' listing.For Windows 2000:
Click the Start button -> click Settings -> click Control Panel -> double-click the System applet -> select the Hardware tab -> click the Device Manager button -> -> expand the 'System devices' listing.Look for the string "<something> processor to AGP controller"
Generally it will be AMD-<number>, Intel(R) <number>, NVidia <number>, VIA <number>, ALI <number>, or SIS
If you have AMD:
* Get updated drivers here: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_2336,00.htmlIf you have Intel:
* Get updated drivers here: http://intel.com/support/chipsets/driver.htmIf you have NVidia (nForce chipset):
* Get updated drivers here: http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.aspIf you have VIA:
* Get updated drivers here: http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=300If you have SIS:
* Get updated drivers here: http://www.sis.com/support/driver/ (or possibly http://driver.sis.com/agp/)If you have ALI:
* Get updated drivers here: http://www.ali.com.tw/eng/support/support_guide_agp.htm
* Be sure to read the following URL: http://www.ali.com.tw/eng/support/support_guide_agp.htm
If you get a bad Commander, you're fucked, and there is little to nothing you can do about it.
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Leo: "We need siege weapons."
Batshit Commander: "no we dont"
L: "We *need* siege weapons."
BC: "shut up"
L: "Alright, allow me to rephrase: THE ENEMY FORCE IS BUILDING GUARD TOWERS OUTSIDE OF OUR BASE, AND ARE SHELLING US SENSELESS WITH MORTARS. YOU HAVE NOT RESEARCHED OUR BIG WEAPONS, SO WE CANNOT STOP THIS. IF YOU DO NOT RESEARCH SIEGE WEAPONS, WE WILL *DIE*. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?"
BC: "wats research"
That, combined with the lack of a single-player mode, gave it Leopold's kiss of death. Which is sad, because I really do like the game itself.
But I'd rather just download NS again than shell out money.
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Leopold, the Voice of Reason Model 2000 was programmed to say:
You know, I tried to love this game. Truly, I did. But I ended up shelving the idea of buying the full version for the same reason I eventually stopped playing Natural Selection:If you get a bad Commander, you're fucked, and there is little to nothing you can do about it.
Excerpt:
Leo: "We need siege weapons."
Batshit Commander: "no we dont"
L: "We *need* siege weapons."
BC: "shut up"
L: "Alright, allow me to rephrase: THE ENEMY FORCE IS BUILDING GUARD TOWERS OUTSIDE OF OUR BASE, AND ARE SHELLING US SENSELESS WITH MORTARS. YOU HAVE NOT RESEARCHED OUR BIG WEAPONS, SO WE CANNOT STOP THIS. IF YOU DO NOT RESEARCH SIEGE WEAPONS, WE WILL *DIE*. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?"
BC: "wats research"That, combined with the lack of a single-player mode, gave it Leopold's kiss of death. Which is sad, because I really do like the game itself.
But I'd rather just download NS again than shell out money.
You can take over Commander at any poiny, depedning on how the server is setup. I can just walk up to the base, enter it, and take over research and production. So if someone's not doing the job, just take it from them.
