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Offline zespri

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War for the Overworld is out of Early Access now
« on: April 04, 2015, 07:16:22 am »
This games looks promising - lovers of dungeon keeper / evil genius - make sure to check it out.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/230190/

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Re: War for the Overworld is out of Early Access now
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2015, 09:47:32 am »
Wishlisted it.  I'll try and get a hold of a particular friend of mine who owns it for his opinion.

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Re: War for the Overworld is out of Early Access now
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2015, 12:47:04 pm »
I own it since Bedrock Beta (which was more like an alpha) and have played the full release.
I say, wait a little bit. While the game itself is very entertaining and fun (all the rooms, creatures, spells fit perfectly together), the game is in its current state very bugged. That happened because the developers locked the campaign away until full elease so alpha players won't have the game already finished before it came out. However this comes side to side with some serious bugs. For some they are more serious as for others. Some people report crashes, other only AI problems. I noticed some lag when the dungeon core is attackes. The developers are currently working day and night to solve all issues but with each hotfix they find new bugs.
It will take a while to rule this all out and you would do best to wait until the worst is gone.
But when they are mostly finished you should check the game out, it is really beautiful. Feels exactly like the old DK games with some own ideas.
If you ourchase in the first month you will also get the first DLC for free which will include a side campaign and some other stuff.

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Re: War for the Overworld is out of Early Access now
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2015, 02:58:58 pm »
Noted!

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Re: War for the Overworld is out of Early Access now
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2015, 06:03:56 pm »
I'm waiting for it to go through a few patches first. Then I'll get it. Simply for the fact that this is a genuine attempt at recreating the awesomeness that was DK2.
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Re: War for the Overworld is out of Early Access now
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2015, 07:25:40 pm »
Yep. I started the campaign and was not able to complete the forth mission because once I took over the opponents dungeon heart (probably was not intended) the game start lagging really hard. I mean lag is the wrong word it basically freezed occasionally producing slow jerks...

It looks like it can't handle the load when the whole map is open and there are a lot of objects to process. Suprisingly you can still save and load alright - this part does not lag at all - as soon as you are in the ESC menu it works =)

Let's wait for them to fix it.

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Re: War for the Overworld is out of Early Access now
« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2015, 02:02:03 pm »
Let me know how this is once it's fixed. I'm definitely considering it.

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Re: War for the Overworld is out of Early Access now
« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2015, 03:23:28 pm »
You can see the patch notes of all hotfixes here: https://forum.subterraneangames.com/threads/compiled-hotfix-notes.7522/
Just check regular and you will find if it's fixed. I appreciate that they work really hard on the game. When tehy moved to a new office, they ddin't even wait until they had chairs or tables before starting with developing again. They even showed soem pics about this.
You have also to understand that before they moved into the new office they worked mostly on the internet togetehr because they came from different countries. This is kind of rare in developing processes and the bigger a studio is the harder it is to manage. You cannot simply walk aroudn the office and check what others work currently at, you have to wait until someone sends you the codes/models/pics etc.

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Re: War for the Overworld is out of Early Access now
« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2015, 04:08:46 pm »
You have also to understand that before they moved into the new office they worked mostly on the internet togetehr because they came from different countries. This is kind of rare in developing processes and the bigger a studio is the harder it is to manage. You cannot simply walk aroudn the office and check what others work currently at, you have to wait until someone sends you the codes/models/pics etc.

My company farmed something out to India once and the slew of excuses about why it wasn't getting done included, in order:

1) Riots on the streets
2) Wife delivering a baby
3) Getting married

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Re: War for the Overworld is out of Early Access now
« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2015, 05:23:50 pm »
So I tried this map that hanged on me once again and this time I was able to finish it, fulfilling all the objectives, but they somehow did not register so the map does not finish. I have no energy trying for the third time, I'll just have to wait for the fixes.

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Re: War for the Overworld is out of Early Access now
« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2015, 11:56:21 pm »
I didn't had any troubles to finish level 4 (the one with Marcus) but today crashed the game when I first started it (second try worked well however) and level 6 had some pausing bug. When I paused and returned after some time, the game will continue but the pause menu won't disappear, preventing me from playing (while all the action goes on). After about 3 or 4 minutes the menu disappeared but still very annoying.

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Re: War for the Overworld is out of Early Access now
« Reply #11 on: April 06, 2015, 12:54:13 am »
Yep, the Marcus one is the one I'm having the trouble with.

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Re: War for the Overworld is out of Early Access now
« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2015, 11:07:57 pm »
So tried with the latest patch - this scenario from scratch. Finished it, the end condition registered and then game hanged and crashed. Sigh...

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Re: War for the Overworld is out of Early Access now
« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2015, 11:50:51 pm »
Did you sent already a bug report to Subterranean Games? If not, you should do so.

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Re: War for the Overworld is out of Early Access now
« Reply #14 on: April 07, 2015, 12:09:51 am »
Did you sent already a bug report to Subterranean Games? If not, you should do so.
Nah, I'm sure I'm not the only one. The'll figure it out in time... or not.

(I mean there is a form thread about this, with other people reporting the same issue so they are likely to know)