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Prepaid for Entrenchment. When is beta available?

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Reply #26 November 26, 2008 11:50:42 AM
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That ship is the Predator's face EXACTLY. How's designing these things?.... If Vasari and Advent are humanoids , dont these things need windows and doors? Call me old fashioned but I like my ship's to look like .....ships.

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Reply #27 November 26, 2008 12:13:58 PM
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Sounds like you should be playing as TEC
Even frigates and cruisers are very large ships, but if you look closely you'll see the many little windows and openings. This particular ship is Vasari.  Their design standards evolved very differently from those of the TEC and Advent due to their uniquely transient history and cultural influences.

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Reply #28 November 26, 2008 1:53:46 PM
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Quoting Craig Fraser,
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Sounds like you should be playing as TEC
Even frigates and cruisers are very large ships, but if you look closely you'll see the many little windows and openings. This particular ship is Vasari.  Their design standards evolved very differently from those of the TEC and Advent due to their uniquely transient history and cultural influences.

Love the game btw. Yes I do play tec only...Us against them kinda thing.

But I do feel that the frigates and cruisers in all races are larger than they should be. Cap ships should be huge next to these, flak frigs is about the right size. All it would take is an extra zoom to see the details you would lose with the smaller model.

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Reply #29 November 28, 2008 2:01:29 PM
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Quoting Craig Fraser,
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Magic glowing dice will now materialize during every battle. Furthermore, we've decided to narrate each battle with text in real-time at the top left. In order to optimize we've also removed ship movement - opting for a cool stop motion style scenes that cut in and out. The level of suspense will be increased dramatically as players plan their moves in between frames.

 

This is great! (Looks at matrix like super fast scrolling screen).."Oh man did you read that explosion when all my ships fired at once? IT was so HAxor COOL"

(Reads text on screen)

[Quantum Dragons radiance battleship, powns flack frigate with ela da beam of Doom...]

[Flack frigate explodes into bright colorful ball causing soft bluish glow on all nearby ships and then 13 fragments of ship emit outwards causing 5 pts dmg to nearby frigates]

 

Man I am so glad I baught that $600 video card, the text scrolls so smoothly!

(Sorry I have gone too long without sleep and have entered the "say wha? stage)

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Reply #30 November 28, 2008 2:06:01 PM
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  haha...I hope no one took that seriously...

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Reply #31 November 28, 2008 2:10:40 PM
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Quoting Craig Fraser,
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  haha...I hope no one took that seriously...

You mean you were joking? And I already got a graphics card upgrade to handle all the extra text on screen. Wtf.

 

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Reply #32 November 28, 2008 6:12:55 PM
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Quoting Craig Fraser,
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Magic glowing dice will now materialize during every battle. Furthermore, we've decided to narrate each battle with text in real-time at the top left. In order to optimize we've also removed ship movement - opting for a cool stop motion style scenes that cut in and out. The level of suspense will be increased dramatically as players plan their moves in between frames.

 

Narration akin to Fallout's "flavour dialogue" would actually be cool.

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Reply #33 November 28, 2008 6:21:53 PM
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so break it down for me, this was probably posted above and I didn't get it. If you have already pre-ordered, you don't have access to the beta because it hasnt been relesed yet. And there is no set date to relese the beta yet. but the final version comes out in january?

 

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Reply #34 November 28, 2008 7:15:49 PM
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There's no set date for the final either. The January 1st date in the store is just a placeholder. The actual release date will depend on how the beta goes

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Reply #35 November 28, 2008 7:32:03 PM
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Aw I coulda sworn they said we'd be playing it over Xmas break...

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Reply #36 November 28, 2008 8:53:41 PM
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Chances are we will be Still ~3 weeks until then.

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Reply #37 November 30, 2008 10:27:42 PM
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ahh the agony of waiting...i guess my philosophy paper will keep me occupied until then....ugh

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Reply #38 December 1, 2008 1:48:12 AM
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I'm waiting for another good coupon to pick up the entrenchment beta.  $8 sounds like the magic # for me, not that $10 is too much, but this is my way of offsetting the fact that there still is little to no multi-core support. 

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Reply #39 December 11, 2008 5:02:31 PM
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come on already! its christmas break!!! whats the update on the beta?!

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Reply #40 December 11, 2008 6:20:00 PM
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$8 sounds like the magic # for me, not that $10 is too much

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Reply #41 December 11, 2008 6:35:39 PM
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Quoting pvster,
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come on already! its christmas break!!! whats the update on the beta?!

Lucky, you have break already.  We have finals next week at my college so I'm stuck until Saturday here...!!!!

And P.S. Maybe if the beta comes out it will keep my occupied during finals week when I have nothing to do.  Or it will just make me fail the two finals I have...

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Reply #42 December 11, 2008 7:11:14 PM
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We have seen the Vasari and TEC starbases just give us a screen of the Advent Starbase and we can try to be quiet for a week.....maybe.

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Reply #43 December 13, 2008 2:14:24 PM
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I think its funny that X-play awarded Sins best strategy game award, and since everybody has been using screenshots form the X-play presentation.   The thing is, they didn't play regular Sins.  They played entrenchment (which isn't out yet).

So the best RTS game of 2008 isn't out yet.

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Reply #44 December 13, 2008 2:41:25 PM
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They didn't play Entrenchment, they just used the footage from it.

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Reply #45 December 15, 2008 3:47:10 PM
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They didn't play Entrenchment. I controlled the computer the full interview. They have played the original SINS quite a bit however. Morgan really likes the game.

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Reply #46 December 15, 2008 7:46:31 PM
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Craig, you're evil. Hell, if I was in a room, a meter away from a guy playing Entrenchment and he was teasing me with it with "Hey, look how cool it is if I do this!" and "Check out this ability, dude!", I'd react. I'd grab the subwoofer box and bash that guy's head in. I'd get me some game!

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Reply #47 December 15, 2008 9:10:41 PM
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Well to put to an end to this thread, lol, the Beta is coming out tomorrow as I'm sure you have seen on the homepage of this site.

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Reply #48 December 16, 2008 5:38:05 AM
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Great. I'm also going to pre-order the official SoaSE: Entrenchment dribble glass and diapers. I think Craig can verify their existence. He controlled them during the full interview.

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Reply #49 December 16, 2008 11:06:54 AM
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Quoting pvster,
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come on already! its christmas break!!! whats the update on the beta?!

Lucky SOB -- my break doesn't start untill after my final final, Thursday evening (who the hell came up with the idea of doing a final in the 6-8 timeslot, when the class runs from 3:30-5:00?)!  At least I get tomorrow (wednesday) off from work *and* school though!

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Reply #50 December 16, 2008 11:10:49 AM
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You're *both* lucky SOBs. My Christmas break is 1 day off work. Bastards. Quit whining

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