Redmask wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 08:21:

Quboid wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 08:00:
No they didn't, that's misrepresenting what they said.

"That is just a performance decision," Quigley told IncGamers. "Given that was the performance constraint we decided to work under, we built a larger region environment and a bunch of the multiplay to work with 2km cities. At some point in the future, especially with mainstream computers become more capable, we could certainly make the city sizes larger."

The idea that PCs are somehow incapable of rendering their advanced game is absurd, go look at the resource usage while you're playing sometime. The Dads PC crap is just an excuse to sell you this as an addon later on. There is this concept called scaling and its applied to modern video games all the time.

They are holding it back as a feature to sell later, are you contesting that they will sell this later on or just quibbling about the language they used?

Redmask wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 07:10:

Julio wrote on Mar 8, 2013, 06:49:
Add the features back in as microtransactions!

There will be a Big City Moving On Up expansion, just watch. They already admitted they kept bigger cities sizes held back as a feature.

avianflu wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 15:51:
None of the major game review websites have reviewed this game except Giant Bomb. That's odd in itself with a major game release.

Normally they most would have reviewed by now. Look at Far Cry 3 or Crysis 3 as a point of comparison. Or really any major game release.

Perhaps the reviewers cannot actually connect to play?

jdreyer wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 13:56:

Quboid wrote on Mar 7, 2013, 12:50:
Creston, Verno, I thought it was built to do some of the simulation online and that's the core requirement. This is not the same as leader boards and that sort of rubbish which definitely are secondary.

Who are P4R Gaming? Is there any reason to believe them? That article looks fake, even the comment from EA looks fake.

Yeah, that crossed my mind as well. It has an Onionesque feel to it. Still, here's a thread where some of the comments show up.

nin wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 16:27:

Quboid wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 16:26:

nin wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 15:41:

My system's quite old so poor performance and graphics are to be expected.

What's your video card? I've got some variety of 560 I think (at work right now), and wondered how much it would chug.

Thanks!

It's a Geforce 460 768MB, running on an Intel dual-core i3 4.2Ghz.

WOOT! I'm in! Thank ya!

nin wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 15:41:

My system's quite old so poor performance and graphics are to be expected.

What's your video card? I've got some variety of 560 I think (at work right now), and wondered how much it would chug.

Thanks!

Parias wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 14:08:

Quboid wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 13:27:
DX:HR was excellent and the rubbish boss fights were only 50% their fault, in that they didn't make them but they should have paid more attention. I didn't like the expansion but that's a relatively minor complaint.

Heh, that's a bit of an ironic stance.... are you aware that the expansion had what was considered a "fixed" approach to boss fights - you could approach that particular battle any way you wanted to, and even just knock the guy out instead of killing him if you wanted? It was one of the better points.

Slick wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 15:03:
I'm completely and utterly outraged that I am being forced to be connected to the internet to constantly view and post on these forums. I am a loyal, dedicated fan and as such deserve to have things my way and get to choose whether or not I want to be online for these forums. This isn't communist China, you shouldn't be allowed to force us fans into something we don't want to do. If I want to be on a deserted island in the middle of nowhere that has no internet, I should still be able to post on these forums and view topics.


If my demands are not met within the next 2 day, I'm going to pirate these forums. I'm going to use the internet to find a way to use these forums without the internet. Then who will have the last laugh? Me! That's who. The loyal fan(s) which you're rolling over by this requirement! Unbelievable!

InBlack wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 10:10:

When we all first heard about new "six strikes" plans being used by ISPs to identify copyright infringers, we all agreed it seemed like a perfect and foolproof system, but it seems our optimism may have been unfounded

Rofl....

SpectralMeat wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 13:11:

Quboid wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:54:
It's not just travelling that always online buggers up. Try playing it now, particularly if you've preordered, when the servers are swamped ... surprise surprise. It seems preorderers are being screwed in favour of people buying now because, hey screw you we've already got your money.

Which is why with a game like this or any game in particular it is better not to preorder but wait a bit and see how it turns out.
People who preordered the game should have been well aware that this may happen. I am not saying this is right or this isn't sucking big time sure it does, but it is no different from an MMO always online requirements. If servers go down you can't play.
This game is not an MMO but you don't have to pay monthly fee for it either like you would for an mmo. It still have the same online req.
Give it a day or so I am sure it will be up and running, in the mean time they offer people a refund, so it is not like you said "hehe we got your money screw you"

Flatline wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 13:04:
So far I'm not thrilled with what I'm seeing. Thief games didn't have "multiple paths" through levels, they just had open levels and you went nuts in them within the limits of your equipment.

Dagnamit wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 13:13:

Burrito of Peace wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 13:02:

Creston wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:59:
Come on, they made DE:HR and it was awesome. Give them a little faith.

Creston

You mean like the boss fights?

No. Faith is earned.

That game didn't even need boss fights. Why on earth would you switch gears in the middle of the game from, get from A to B however you want, to, your only option is to kill this guy. Ignore the boss fights, because they were from an entirely different game that sucked. They only put them in there because they thought that people would be disappointed if boss fights weren't in the game. They were wrong. I doubt they make the same mistake again.

Besides, they outsourced the boss fights.

Quboid wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:44:
I always tell myself not to buy Arma, it's glitchy as hell and you'll never play it enough to justify it. Then I buy it. Then I find it's glitchy as hell and I don't play it enough to justify it.

Dammit I'm so tempted. I should wait for a demo but that looks awesome and it's a good price. The movement and feel of Arma2 was what killed it for me and apparently that's fixed.

Decisions decisions decisions.