EvilMonk3y

i5 4670K, 8GB RAM, AMD 280X (3GB) and Windows 7. I will be going to Windows 10 upon release.

[quote who="MindlessMe" reply="1" id="3565881"] I feel at the current resource level you have to expand out pretty quickly. You can only maintain a smaller force on the resources you initially start with, and is a good thing. This forces people to play in a somewhat aggressive manner since they can't turtle up in one spot the entire game. I also like that Reactive materials are not located in the seed region. This makes it impossible for people to turtle in their stating region and s

I personally like middle mouse button to drag the map, I feel that while you can get used to using right mouse you end up with times where you accidentally issue attack commands when you are just trying to move. I think WASD movement can work great in some games (I love the implementation in total war) however with the macro focus here I really think these keys need to be reserved for Hotkeys.

Could anyone confirm if Mantle should or should not be working on my AMD 280x? As I mentioned in my initial post I vaguely remember reading a post on these forums that that it would only work for certain cards to begin with but I can't seem to find where I saw that now.

[quote who="moltobenny" reply="2" id="3565700"]The victory-point/area-control system is the best part of it. [/quote] Totally agree with you on this, the way it works and the points connect in a 'web' is pretty interesting (plus the fact these points can have neutrals on). That part of it totally reminds me of a Company of Heroes / SoaSE hybrid. [quote who="ColaColin" reply="1" id="3565696"]It screws with my head how it uses right cli

I thought we could have a thread to post some first impressions. I have only played for just about an hour so far. Fist problem I had was that the mantle version doesn't work for myself and gives an unsupported hardware error, it may be because I an using a 280x which as far as I know is based upon older hardware (7970). <span style="font-s

My key JUST appeared.

Awesome, I am downloading the founders edition now. Looking forward to having a mess around with it. Will keep all of this in mind.

Any idea when the keys are going to be released?

Thanks, this is all really interesting info. Where would you put this in terms of development so far? I am getting the impression that this is at more of a Gal Civ 3 stage (when that was initially released to founders) or perhaps even earlier rather than something like Sorcerer King which felt much further along.

Sorry for asking again but I kind of want to know. Am I still going to be able to purchase the $99 Founders edition when this releases or will that offer expire?

Is the lifetime edition due to end soon with the release of this build?