Author Topic: Early Copy of 2.0 (Get Yours)!  (Read 5484 times)

Offline AcidWeb

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 127
Re: Early Copy of 2.0 (Get Yours)!
« Reply #15 on: October 21, 2009, 02:05:48 pm »
For anyone who wants the full 2.0 installer, that's up through GameTrove.  (AcidWeb, if you want to mirror this again, I'll update your site's listing, too).  I'm just holding off on the official announcement here until things are finished being set up on Steam.

Files will be at server in next 20min.

PS. That "AI War 2.0 vs. 1.0" retrospective look awesome :)

EDIT:
Done.
And I think that linking directly do file looks better :)
« Last Edit: October 21, 2009, 02:40:57 pm by AcidWeb »

Offline x4000

  • Chris McElligott Park, Arcen Founder and Lead Dev
  • Arcen Staff
  • Zenith Council Member Mark III
  • *****
  • Posts: 31,651
Re: Early Copy of 2.0 (Get Yours)!
« Reply #16 on: October 21, 2009, 02:59:56 pm »
Updated -- thanks!

And glad you like the retrospective, I thought that was pretty cool. :)
Have ideas or bug reports for one of our games?  Mantis for Suggestions and Bug Reports. Thanks for helping to make our games better!

Offline Echo35

  • Master Member Mark II
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,703
  • More turrets! MORE TURRETS!
Re: Early Copy of 2.0 (Get Yours)!
« Reply #17 on: October 21, 2009, 03:17:02 pm »
Updated -- thanks!

And glad you like the retrospective, I thought that was pretty cool. :)

Where is this mythical retrospective?

Offline Volatar

  • Hero Member Mark III
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,055
  • Patient as a rock
Re: Early Copy of 2.0 (Get Yours)!
« Reply #18 on: October 21, 2009, 03:18:00 pm »
Updated -- thanks!

And glad you like the retrospective, I thought that was pretty cool. :)

Where is this mythical retrospective?

Right here.  ;)

Offline x4000

  • Chris McElligott Park, Arcen Founder and Lead Dev
  • Arcen Staff
  • Zenith Council Member Mark III
  • *****
  • Posts: 31,651
Re: Early Copy of 2.0 (Get Yours)!
« Reply #19 on: October 21, 2009, 03:19:38 pm »
Updated -- thanks!

And glad you like the retrospective, I thought that was pretty cool. :)

Where is this mythical retrospective?

Right here.  ;)

It is on the sidebar on the main site, too, and it will be featured in our upcoming 2.0 release news post, but I'm still waiting on Steam at this stage.
Have ideas or bug reports for one of our games?  Mantis for Suggestions and Bug Reports. Thanks for helping to make our games better!

Offline eRe4s3r

  • Core Member Mark II
  • *****
  • Posts: 2,825
Re: Early Copy of 2.0 (Get Yours)!
« Reply #20 on: October 21, 2009, 09:03:44 pm »
I've gotta mention it but the retrospective should also showcase explosions and shot effects ;p  ;D ;D ;D

Anyhow - its really astounding.. ;D The game grew from really ugly in 1.005 (when i bought it - with a unreadable radar! ;p) to very nice looking rts - and i think with some of the next patches (if x4000 finds the time) the game will go from very nice to absolutely awesome state of the art sprite graphics ;p The foundation is all there now.

The energy/supply concepts were added too - lots of bugs squashed and trillion units added, which other game developer could match that, with a free patch! There are game developers who wouldn't even release so many things and changes as expansions (fallout 3, anyone?) they'd had us billed 3 times 60$ for next iterations of the game (Dominions anyone?).

I think this update truly goes in history as the largest single game changing update/revision that a indy dev ever did, and released for free to his customers.

And i am really proud to be part of this community and event ;)

And with that said - on to more tuning and tweaking of the graphics! :D ;D :D :D
Proud member of the Initiative for Bigger Weapons EV. - Bringer of Additive Blended Doom - Vote for Lore, get free cookie

Offline Velox

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 327
Re: Early Copy of 2.0 (Get Yours)!
« Reply #21 on: October 21, 2009, 09:33:01 pm »

     Wow, the retrospective really blows me away.  I'm pretty much a newbie (didn't find out about the game until 1.007) and the change even since my first look is amazing.  Each update seemed pretty big but to see them all added up and the before/after side-by-side.. whoa!

Offline Echo35

  • Master Member Mark II
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,703
  • More turrets! MORE TURRETS!
Re: Early Copy of 2.0 (Get Yours)!
« Reply #22 on: October 22, 2009, 01:07:10 am »
(fallout 3, anyone?)

That and Bugs. But honestly, half the fun of playing Bethesda games is using the mod tools to fix the bugs. ;D

Offline x4000

  • Chris McElligott Park, Arcen Founder and Lead Dev
  • Arcen Staff
  • Zenith Council Member Mark III
  • *****
  • Posts: 31,651
Re: Early Copy of 2.0 (Get Yours)!
« Reply #23 on: October 22, 2009, 10:25:00 am »
Thanks, you guys -- that means a lot.  I would write more, but am not feeling so well at the moment (despite all the great stuff happening, the body does what it will).
Have ideas or bug reports for one of our games?  Mantis for Suggestions and Bug Reports. Thanks for helping to make our games better!

Offline alex2005

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Posts: 1
Re: Early Copy of 2.0 (Get Yours)!
« Reply #24 on: October 22, 2009, 06:27:36 pm »
Hello everybody, new to the forum and to the game. I got mine earlyer today :P

When I opened steam, it had the game in the update page that shows up. And I got intrigued by it. And I started looking for gameplay videos on youtube, which there are not that many, so I could understand what the game was about. But after reading about it, it sounded very good. So I bought it :D

It reminds me of "Star Trek: Armada II" which is still a good game, but "AI War: FC" has alot of new and better features, like the AI and massive armies ;)

I just played the 2 first tutorials, didn't had much time for the others. Looks very good. Congrats for v2.0!



A few notes. The trailer on steam doesn't have any audio. Neither the low-res version, neither the HD one. And also when I try to update the game, through the menu, it says "Unable to launch updater!" don't know why.

Anyway, nice to be here. Get well soon x4000(or Chris from what I read) :)

Offline Revenantus

  • Arcen Games Staff
  • Hero Member Mark III
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,063
Re: Early Copy of 2.0 (Get Yours)!
« Reply #25 on: October 22, 2009, 06:39:54 pm »
Hey alex2005, welcome!

Glad to hear you're enjoying AI War so far. Thanks for reporting the issue with the trailer, we'll got that sorted as soon as possible. The in-game updater is (supposed to be) disabled in versions of AI War that were purchased through distribution platforms such as Steam and Impulse, as those platforms manage game updates themselves. The update button should be grayed out on the menu - I'll look into that.

Feel free to post any suggestions you have in our suggestions forum. Enjoy playing AI War!

Regards,
Revenantus

Offline Volatar

  • Hero Member Mark III
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,055
  • Patient as a rock
Re: Early Copy of 2.0 (Get Yours)!
« Reply #26 on: October 22, 2009, 06:49:28 pm »
By the way, Chris should put the AI War demo on steam. The store page of games with demos on steam includes a very obvious link to the demo, and I think that having the demo so close at hand would be helpful in getting more people trying and buying the game.

Offline Volatar

  • Hero Member Mark III
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,055
  • Patient as a rock
Re: Early Copy of 2.0 (Get Yours)!
« Reply #27 on: October 22, 2009, 09:00:40 pm »
By the way, Chris should put the AI War demo on steam. The store page of games with demos on steam includes a very obvious link to the demo, and I think that having the demo so close at hand would be helpful in getting more people trying and buying the game.

All right! The demo is on Steam now. Only problem so far is that it doesn't actually work... It also keeps wanting to install .net 3.5 and slimdx, even though I already have them. My non-Steam copy still works fine, so it is a Steam issue.
« Last Edit: October 22, 2009, 09:04:01 pm by Volatar »

Offline RCIX

  • Core Member Mark II
  • *****
  • Posts: 2,808
  • Avatar credit goes to Spookypatrol on League forum
Re: Early Copy of 2.0 (Get Yours)!
« Reply #28 on: October 23, 2009, 03:54:39 am »
It reminds me of "Star Trek: Armada II" which is still a good game, but "AI War: FC" has alot of new and better features, like the AI and massive armies ;)
If you're still interested in that game and have your copy, check out fleetops.net for a great "remake" of it! (end of shameless plug)
Avid League player and apparently back from the dead!

If we weren't going for your money, you wouldn't have gotten as much value for it!

Oh, wait... *causation loop detonates*