Prerelease/Expans. v2.001A (Expansion Preorders,2 New Map Styles,3 Ship Classes)

[x4000]

Enjoy!  More's coming soon, too.

[darke]

Gah! You had to release this right in the middle of a big load of other games coming out didn't you?

Oh well, patches and licence acquired since I can't resist hammering out odd bugs and edge cases of a game. Though really with playing Borderlands at the moment you'd think I would have had my fill of it by now.

I'm really looking forward to getting Borderlands this holiday season, too. Glad you're enjoying that one, I've heard it is really good.

Very very fun. Definately a FPS with RPG-lite bolted on though. I've seen it described as "a test framework for their random gun generator" and that's pretty accurate. Though don't bother playing it multiplayer at the moment; insane amount of bugs it has. By the look of things provided you get it installed and running you end up with pretty much no bugs in singleplayer. Or at least I've encountered nothing more then inbuilt graphical "quirks". (Such as the game only displaying at most four items of description of an item's attributes, even if the gun has 5 or more. As you might expect you start to wonder where their QA was...)

I imagine by the time you get around to playing it they'll have ironed most of them out anyway.

On an AIWars note: Zenity Bombardment Ship == <3

[eRe4s3r]

x4000 might there be the possibility to convert a normal savegame to one with the expansion units (when on has registered the expansion?)?

Those Golems look absolutely stunning too, can't wait to have them!

And yeah, i too ask for the conversion because of the bombardment ship, that ship is worth GOLD

[x4000]

Gah! You had to release this right in the middle of a big load of other games coming out didn't you?

Oh well, patches and licence acquired since I can't resist hammering out odd bugs and edge cases of a game. Though really with playing Borderlands at the moment you'd think I would have had my fill of it by now.

I'm really looking forward to getting Borderlands this holiday season, too. Glad you're enjoying that one, I've heard it is really good.

Very very fun. Definately a FPS with RPG-lite bolted on though. I've seen it described as "a test framework for their random gun generator" and that's pretty accurate. Though don't bother playing it multiplayer at the moment; insane amount of bugs it has. By the look of things provided you get it installed and running you end up with pretty much no bugs in singleplayer. Or at least I've encountered nothing more then inbuilt graphical "quirks". (Such as the game only displaying at most four items of description of an item's attributes, even if the gun has 5 or more. As you might expect you start to wonder where their QA was...)

I imagine by the time you get around to playing it they'll have ironed most of them out anyway.

I'll probably pick it up for the PS3, and go for split-screen co-op there.  Well, we'll see, I need to look into it more.  But yes, I am quite looking forward to their mechanics in general, from the sounds of them.

On an AIWars note: Zenity Bombardment Ship == <3

Haha, yeah. Me too.

[x4000]

x4000 might there be the possibility to convert a normal savegame to one with the expansion units (when on has registered the expansion?)?

Unfortunately, I just don't think it will be workable, for a lot of reasons.  I actually spent a solid day and a half getting the mechanics of the expansions set up, and that was my conclusion.  It's annoying for me as well, because I also have savegames that I'm in the middle of, but the fact is that the expansion content affects everything from map generation to the ability to then load a given savegame later, onwards.  Especially as more capturables are added, playing the same map seed with the expansion, and without, will be like two completely different maps.

In the end, I basically went with the route that will lead to fewer quality headaches and bugs.  I may revisit to a degree for some of the content, especially the capturables and so on, but also ships that you find via ARSes, but I'll have to think about that more.

Those Golems look absolutely stunning too, can't wait to have them!

Hopefully the first three by Monday!  I'm really pleased with them, and Phil's got a great process for making them now, so we're going to do more than I had initially planned (at least 6).

And yeah, i too ask for the conversion because of the bombardment ship, that ship is worth GOLD

Haha, yeah, I think that might be the new favorite out of the first three classes added.  I think some of the upcoming classes will trump it, though.

[StealthArcher]

Bought my key already.  Now add my ship idea so it can be more worth it.  I want to see how it turns out

[orzelek]

At start I was also very happy with Z Bombardier.

The thing is that after few hours it gets unpleasant - AI can have 15+ of these per guard post and when you jump in there you are pretty much toasted by these quite fast.

PS.

Hello all, my first post here:)

[AcidWeb]

\o/

I will preorder in next few days  

PS.
Witaj orzelek   Nie ma tutaj duzo polaków.

[Haagenti II]

x4000, would you mind to explain to me why I would leave my phone number in that shop of yours?
I really don't feel comfortable with leaving my phone number on the internet.

Can't I just buy it via PayPal without all that personal information for that security metrics thingy and my VAT number?

I always give out a slightly wrong address and telephone number. I learned this from Prasad, who used to call me in the middle of the night (Bombay office hours?) to discuss my PartyPoker account with me.

[x4000]

I always give out a slightly wrong address and telephone number. I learned this from Prasad, who used to call me in the middle of the night (Bombay office hours?) to discuss my PartyPoker account with me.

Doesn't bother me any, as being on the receiving end of that. I do that sometimes, too, and you're welcome to do it on the BMT forms if it will accept it.

[Haagenti II]

Are you actually on the receiving end? Does BMT give you the addresses and telephone numbers?

[x4000]

Are you actually on the receiving end? Does BMT give you the addresses and telephone numbers?

I have access to look up customer information if need be, through BMT only (not other partners).  Only time I've needed to do that was once when a guy lost his computer and needed me to resend his license key based on his email address.  Arcen doesn't analyze, retain, or otherwise use any information that would be available -- and frankly if I could avoid having BMT collect anything but an email, I would.

[Garrett]

I'm back from trying out the new content...


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x4000, do you want to torture us? You enjoy it, eh?
I can't even get out of my darn starting sector now!

Damn bombardement ships.


I think this game will really push my brain to it's limit, concerning tactics.



And that's a good thing. 

[x4000]

Glad you're enjoying it.

One hint: force fields are mobile.

[acantoni]

I have bought the vanilla version in Impulse.
Though its compatible i think its fair to say i'd like more to have the expansion on the same platform (Impulse) so my question is: will the expansion hit Impulse anytime soon ?
Thanks!