Ekko_Tek

[quote who="Campaigner" reply="36" id="3338649"]Have to know though, whatcha think about Dawn of War & Company of Heroes ?[/quote] Company of Heroes 2 beta starts tomorrow!!!!

[quote who="Pat_22_" reply="436" id="3337334"]I like it when games actually play out like an epic galactic war rather than completely breaking immersion with some cheesy move to win.[/quote] Translation: I expect other players to play according to my own arbitrary rules of preference for how the game should be played. They should not try to play their best to win, they should simply follow my lead in choreographing some nice explosions and space battles. (I'm being intenti

Careful Oddski_Boddski - Games Workshop is probably even now sending a Vindicare Lawyer after you...

[quote who="KSSSWM" reply="5" id="3320602"]This will make it much more even for those who are interested in participating but not necessarily capable of going up against Quar or kbroke.[/quote] I'm sorry to pick on this one sentence but it is quite hilarious for reasons I don't have to explain to ICO regulars... I also love the idea of a tournament...and I even thought about trying to organize one myself back when I played more regularly but even then the idea of tryin

I've seen Mr. Book and HuyMac lead with Skirantra's before - presumably for repair cloud/SB - but that was many moons ago.

No Weapons of Massive Jerkishness?

[quote who="DunmeriSpellsword" reply="7" id="3318517"]I gave up on Seleucia the moment I say his first post...[/quote] I also enjoy reading his posts aloud. I find his use of iambic pentameter especially compelling.

It's hard to know without seeing the replay but this part: [quote]Game last night for example which was lets say average skill, i managed to kill the guy above me, took his HW and 3-5 nearby planets but when another player came i was so much behind him, there was little i can do. In the end i was at least partly responsible for us losing the game.[/quote] sounds like you spent a lot on upgrading newly conquered planets while the other player built up pure military to count

Good article/post Frogboy - I agree the demand is definitely still out there - it's just pent up at the moment.

I think saying the RTS market is dying is a bit of truth mixed with a dash of hyperbole and a sprinkling of oversimplification. The games industry has been seeing the same creeping consolidation most industries have over the past couple decades. For RTS we have SC2 with games like CoH/CoH2 and others distant second tier in terms of popularity/players. For MOBAs, it's basically 2 games with HoN a more distant third. Yet MOBAs are considered thriving and RTS is dying? </

[quote who="Jythier" reply="14" id="3318159"]I thought Company of Heroes was innovative. Why am I wrong?[/quote] You're not wrong - it's why CoH2 is happening and why the original had such a strong MP scene many years past its release.

[quote who="Rovert10" reply="2" id="3316842"]The VL Titan is only grossly overpowered if you only allow it to get to level 6. The Advent Rebels Titan is much more powerful and relevant at all levels.[/quote] There's more than that to the strength of the VL titan - Desperation splash damage/aoe affecting corvettes making it one of the few titans that you can't counter with corvettes is another factor. Its micro-jump giving it a get out of jail free card and a way to

[quote who="Yarlen" reply="11" id="3315380"]It's not that us guys in charge of balance don't get things done. We simply disagree with 99% of what people post. [/quote] I would love to see a game of the Stardock balance guys vs. ICO regulars using the disagreed upon imba stuff. Maybe the balance guys can show us how we've just been doing it wrong and the game is 99% perfectly balanced already! :)

MOBAs are built off RPG stuff too - character classes, spells/abilities, upgrading items, using potions... Realm Quests look to be more about spicing up the variety of situations or conflicts the heros fight in rather than just the standard laning/jungling.

[quote who="TAOCuathon" reply="5" id="3314658"]It sounds to me like this game TOTALLY misunderstands the purpose of MOBAs. I wouldn't call MOBAs fun exactly, but I can and have played them a lot, and these people have no understanding of why they are popular.[/quote] Hmm - what secret knowledge of their popularity do you have that they don't? To me, they are popular because they are: 1. Free to play 2. Provide a sense of progression/attachment to the ga

Around the Steam Christmas sale there were sometimes as high as 1000 online at a time - 700-800 was pretty regular - now it's back down to 200-300.

There's also nothing wrong with a last man standing who still has a fleet wanting one last big battle to go out in a blaze of glory on - it's more the dragging out of a game to just mop up for another hour that people rightly object to.

He said he rarely plays online so "to the last ship" is fine vs. AI if that floats your boat - but yeah, online, what ProtoSlackah said.

This thread at least needs 1 replay. Here is 1 replay: http://www.2shared.com/file/of5wzd51/AutoRecord-01261442.html It isn't ideal because one of the other team drops fairly early but they want to play on. I don't think the outcome would've been affected had he not dropped, just taken longer. It's one of the few skilled games I've had that didn't involve multiple crashes/d

[quote who="ARESIV" reply="25" id="3312895"]In any case, I dont know any other game but starcraft that sold good because of its Multiplayer. And even for SC 1, that long after it outsold all SP expectations by far.[/quote] Company of Heroes [quote who="ARESIV" reply="25" id="3312895"]It is a steam game.... no refund, no rights and no selling. Period.[/quote] Too hasty = comprehension fail.

[quote who="JustAnotherName" reply="19" id="3312828"]Quoting Turchany, reply 12JustAnotherName there isn't even anything to measure player skill, even win loss ratio means almost nothing, and played games number is not so reliable as good number in both can be achieved by playing against AI or just friends. First something should be done to measure player skills but this would be too complicated I think.. Have you heard of the game starcraft 2? Check it before

[quote who="ARESIV" reply="15" id="3312804"]To connect players successfully to others. Without problems and illogical connectivity issues that drive everyone nuts because you can never be sure if a game will work out. [/quote] Not sure how much you've played online but one could argue that it fails in this regard semi-regularly. Also, minor nitpick but it's ICO, not ICQ. I've played many other MP RTS games that rely on P2P but they do not result in the same amount

[quote who="HLT" reply="14" id="3312730"]I saw that thread. Unfortunately, because of where he posted them, one needs to download and install an extremely intrusive piece of spamware that starts out by trying to install a toolbar and take over as your homepage. Um, no thanks. There are other free solutions that don't come from such a suspicious publisher.[/quote] Lol - you obviously clicked on the wrong download link on the page if that is what you got. It's a simple free file

Low risk-high reward about sums it up...

I think you mean Sins of a Dark Age, not New Age and I don't think the code involved for the servers of the two games are necessarily compatible as they have different publishers. It would be nice to see a more stable ICO for SoaSE and it is definitely disappointing that a game that has been released for this long still can't manage to have a stable MP server that doesn't drop people every 2nd or 3rd game - which, no doubt, drives players away from the MP component and makes them