I would strongly recommend against doing that outside of business hours. My experiance is that they usually release mid day. (also, I think it would be faster to check impulse. since thats when you'd be able to start downloading.)
I've made 2 pre-orders for SD products in the past, and I was told via IRC that you should contact sales support and have one of them canceled, then 'gift' the pre-order to a friend. In the case of 3, you'd cancel 2 of them and make 2 gifts.
right, we should be happy that they won't have any more "micro" expansions. I know I'm eager to have a macro expansion XD but diplomacy 1st I suppose.
[quote]So all of Beta 1 consists of an initial magic system? Without magic spells (which are implemented in Beta 3)?[/quote] I think there is more to it. 1. Spells will have lots of flashy 3D particle effects that may not be available in the 1st 3D build. So while we may have spells by the end of Beta 1, they are likely removed again in Beta 3. They said one benifit of the cloth-map only is they can play with things without having to make expensive grap
so I guess we don't need to report that AI started too closely together? Jing is pretty handy. I've always just posted screenshots on my website or on photobucket, but its great to have a website that handles that for you in addition to adding text.
its great to see it broken down like this. so we don't even get the "skeleton" off the bat, eh? I'm curious to see what that contains over whats in the 1st version. I'm glad we'll have magic and quests before the end of Beta 1. I was scared about that for a while.
[quote]Today is always today. Yesterday is always yesterday. And future is always future. So how can you live in the past if it's yesterday and you live in the present that is today and future does never happen because things can only happen in the present?[/quote] I would have to disagree. If you are standing on the prime meridian at midnight, you're probebly underwater. But assuming you're still alive, and talking to somebody on the other side of the prime meridi
I got to the paint where a single ogre hut was spawning 4 ogres, and I think the crypt was spawning 2 liches (or maybe I just wasn't paying much attention to them and it seemed like there was always 2 of them). Its obvious to me that I have to destroy the ogre dens faster, but my heroes wouldn't go explore the second one for a long time. I have since not had the courage to go that far again.
you'd better. wait shouldn't be long now.
I would have to disagree that Cyberpunk is reverse steampunk. Its more like its sister genre. Often Cyberpunk looks like Steampunk. Really the biggest difference is level of technology, where steampunk is closer to industrial revolution with steam powered everything, Cyberpunk is closer or past modern technology with straight-up electricity. They are always shown in a gritty technology/industry based setting. Take the movie "Metropolis" for example (the an
I'm glad this made news! my favorite part is yarlen in the background (its a big deal because apparently he avoids being on film)
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its interesting to see some of these different UIs. not what I'm used to seeing from screenshots and PAX. I certainly feel that its been moving in the right direction.
I'm fairly sure its more important on the legal side of things. They have to maintain deals with certain magazines and game news sites so that they keep running news articles. These deals include exclusive screenshots and such. If they release some images "to the public" it means we, the community, can make bannors and stuff from them without the need of rubbing in something that might be, for example, "IGN exclusive" or similar.
good times! I'm sure this is a lot better than the manually ripped stuff I created XD
steampunk != magical technology. Its just "magic meets machine" is a common theme. Its a style, which Elemental certainly doesn't carry at this point. Nothing about steampunk in anyway suggests magic is present. "Reverse Steampunk" would be a very shiny, smooth, clean theme with very little apparent technological dependance. If there is technology, it wouldn't run on a steam engine, or even a combustion engine. Just like a mysterious force that calls fo
[quote]I smell a [e digicons]:troll:[/e] [/quote] you call? I haven't been in this thread yet. For the record, I haven't known Stardock to do many updates on monday (with exception of when they are ready on Friday and just waited for the weekend so they are around when the **** hits the fan. They don't like to work on weekends) But since there wasn't a "we're ready to release on monday" post somewhere, it shouldn't have been expecte
Necro police! man, I love those guys. (I should make a picture of this concept)
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what if I told you my firstborn daughter was butt ugly and at some point changed between daughter and son? Did I mention he clingy personality? She'd be nagging you by your throne every day. But seriously... I don't think you'd be able to take over Michigan. Have you forgotten Michigan contains the slums of Detroit? You'll be shot for sure.
Oh, we don't know that. I mean, honestly. Stardock 'claims' it won't be fun until Beta 3, But people can find fun in anything. Give them an environment to do something, and they will find something fun to do with it. Once Beta 2 gets to a point where you can have a stable online game (which should be a lot easier than it is with a real-time game like Sins or Demigod) then there will be fun to be had. I personally am hopeful it will be fun right away
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The single-player campaign promises to give us a more story driven experiance compared to GalCiv 2. However apparently it may be randomized in such a way that you'll need to play through it a few times to get it all. (rumors I've heard) Ideally, even the skirmish will feel like it has a story because of the quests, but we'll see how that works.
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I just wanted to show people where I ended up with that face. Since enough people here should know a bad MoM reference when they see one. " Old man, I hear you seek the Spell of Mastery ." I'm still working on the blog, though I've turned to working on somethin
So far I've found my most frustrating piece is that I have no clue if my friends can actually play a game with me or not. For example, if I select Demigod, I can be fairly certain that most of my friend list has Demigod, but I have no way of knowing. For a less common (at least as far as the Stadrock crowd) like Left 4 Dead or Civilization IV, I can still choose from all of my friends list even though none of them have it. I know there is that "show people
you actually can just set it in the notification area to remain present (so it doesn't hide it) Its a windows 7 thing. I believe you can also pin it to a superbar somehow, but don't quote me on that since I haven't actually played with pinning yet.
for some reason having a child, that can't pronounce the words she is trying to use, make a decent looking slide show with fairly epic music completely destroys any credit that commercial might have for me. I could suspend disbelief for a resteraunt or something a small child might get excited seeing, but not for a new OS. I love windows 7, and if I wasn't so deticated to buying it this commercial might make me NOT buy it. Its like, if they have a solid product, why
I better make sure I have a light. Elemental Beta might be dark, and I don't want to be eaten by a Grue. so is that going to be an actual screenshot XD
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