New graphics yay! I want to be able to get more out of my new rig with Sins. ;) Keep up the great work Stardock and Ironclad! I look forward to seeing future titles from both parties.
Just posting to confirm this issue also affects me. It always happens if I play Vasari, but not any other race. Both the visuals for the weapon effects and hit effects do not display. Occasionally you may notice a quick display of one weapon effect or two when zoomed in I found. My graphics card is an ATI HD3850 running 8.453.0.0 version drivers.
[quote]the 9600 is a better card than the latest ati cards being the 3850/70. just look at some benchmarks and u will think the same thing. costs like 180-200 dollars us.[/quote] It only shyly beats the HD3850 in some games, but in a game where both cards are equally supported I've seen the HD3850 actually be the superior card. Considering the HD3850 supports PCI-E 2.0 and Shader Model 4.1 (which the 9600 or any Nvidia card currently out does not), and ATI generally has better
After playing yet another satisfying game of Sins today, a thought hit me in regards to some of the upgrades and technology you research in the game. If you look at the little buttons for the various weapon upgrades and such, you can see that each consequent weapon upgrade looks more visually powerful on the button art. My question is, why doesn't it (as far as I can tell) look more visually impressive in-game as well? Ships with better weapon upgrades should have bigger more power
No campaign is a blessing in disguise. It meant that Sins had more advanced and capable AI for the skirmish mode (not to mention a large collection of scenarios). I think the sacrifice of a campaign game (which most only would really play through once then stick to skirmish) for smart AI is worth it in the long run. I mean look at Company of Heroes. Sure it has a nice and interesting campaign. I finished it (even played through it multiple times). However, when I found the
I have it now. Getting it through Stardock is the best method for Aussies currently.
Oh look, its Daton the troll. Please do not feed.
Anyone else find it a bit strange that you can freely take a neutral planet whenever you feel like it, even though they still have a fleet in orbit around their world? Logic would dictate you'd have to eliminate their space forces before you can conquer their world. I saw a strat tonight where one guy just focused on building Akkans, and rushed them around to systems caputuring planets as he went with the colony ability. He basically disregarded the enemy fleets and went on a c
I've just noticed a strange bug of sorts. On the Radiance battleship of the Advent, the info card for the Detonate Anti-matter ability really slows down the game's FPS while its displaying. This is strange because the other info cards that display for the other abilities on the very same ship do not have any effect on FPS. This is related to the text message FPS slow-down, there is definately a bug somewhere with the text.
There seems to be a bug where the particle effects stop displaying. Occurs randomly, and saving and reloading the game when it occurs seems to fix it. Wouldn't mind that being fixed (if it is an issue with Sins and not hardware). ;)
[quote] Sometimes the game will stop drawing certain kinds of particle graphics, such as the bullet-like gunfire from some ships, or the explosions when things are destroyed. I'll be able to zoom in on, say, a group of vasari light frigates, and I can hear them firing and watch their target's HP go down, but I won't see any bullets coming out of the frigates. [/quote] I get this also, it just seems to happen randomly. Saving the game then going to
Sins supports widescreen out of the box. I was easily able to set it to 1680x1050 in the game menu. Saying it doesn't is pure LIES! :P
I only just got the game and you guys are already all over it perfecting it up. :P Nice!
There is a review over at www.gamedaily.com I'm sure we'll see more in the coming week. I'd much rather the game reviewers actually played the game before trying to rate it. ;)
I honestly don't how know how people keep assuming every game that has Games for Windows marked on it means it uses Windows Live... I must have at least 5 or so games with the Games for Windows marking on the box, none of which use Windows Live.
I'm getting the game from Stardock just as I did GalCiv2. As soon as the payment goes through I can download it through Stardock Central. Then I get the box and DVD later in about a week or so. :)
