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Frozen Synapse |OT| The Thinking Man's Shooter
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just purchased, have another copy, will trade for a worms reloaded, pm if interested.
Versipellis
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Tournament, Dark Extermination, We'll start after the Steam Summer Sale
ADD YOURSELF IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE.
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56. Dooles
57. PjotrStroganov
58. Dascu
59. WHOAguitarninja
60. Darkkn
61. Flayer
62. Tegris
63. welford
64. OldGamer
...It seems I have to be the 64th.
Oh what the hell, even though I have not played in ages...
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Tournament, Dark Extermination, We'll start after the Steam Summer Sale
ADD YOURSELF IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE.
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56. Dooles
57. PjotrStroganov
58. Dascu
59. WHOAguitarninja
60. Darkkn
61. Flayer
62. Tegris
63. welford
64. OldGamer
65. Munin
...Just did my very first match against a friend and won! 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_u0lO1XQoI&feature=player_embedded
I cannot beat the first level of the campaign(shotty only) for the life of me though. D:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_u0lO1XQoI&feature=player_embedded
I cannot beat the first level of the campaign(shotty only) for the life of me though. D:
Reluctant-Hero
Member
What server does GAF play on?
Reluctant-Hero
Member
Sounds good. UK1 is showing the most players right now too.
Reluctant-Hero said:
Yup, which is the main reason to play on it for now. And most of us are on UK1 atm.
I will suggest meeting up on UK1 for the games in the tournament anyway, so it wouldnt hurt if everyone would meet up there.
TheExecutive
Member
I HATE all of you for beating me constantly.
Oh and the servers are slow as hell today.
Oh and the servers are slow as hell today.
Q: How do you aim without firing? That is, say I want to go to a window and look in a certain direction to check for enemies, then quickly duck back because I know that if the enemy is standing behind the cover I think he's standing behind, he'll beat me. I use "continue on sight" all the time, but that isn't quite the same thing since I can't aim in that mode (I think).
slaughterking
Member
You either right click on each enemy and "ignore" them or you chose "Continue on sight" before going out of your cover.Ledsen said:
Ledsen said:
Issue a 'check' command and direct it to look into the direction of window while making sure that you have a 'continue on sight' OR 'ignore enemy' (if you know which it is) currently active. After that it's simply a matter of adding the duck command to your chain. Remember to add engage/clear ignore afterwards.
That's pretty much how I play.Ultimoo said:
MGs cover the largest area possible, if not to outright kill the enemies at least to spot them if they try and flank and the other units try to poke here and there to find vulnerabilities.
They move only when I am completely sure that the area they stop guarding is completely secure.
Unfortunately my shotgun play seems to be pretty bad.
TheExecutive
Member
I would like to know why I am losing points for kicking the shit out of people. -123 points in secure for killing all combatants and never letting them in the zone by the 2nd round? I hope thats just a graphic bug... I want to get 1st overall daily and am currently at 3rd.
And what is up with the leader boards taking forever to update! I think 20 hours or so in the past 3 days is too much but I cant stop playing this fricking game
And what is up with the leader boards taking forever to update! I think 20 hours or so in the past 3 days is too much but I cant stop playing this fricking game
TheExecutive
Member
Kalnos said:
Ah ok
I was thinking that was probably it... My only complaint about this game right now are the server slowness and how some of the text/wording is used for the leaderboardsTheExecutive
Member
Holy crap some poor fool is 1-19 today. That is some patience...
flipswitch
Member
Is it possible to play different game modes in instant skirmish other than the default extermination?
flipswitch said:
Nope, not possible yet. I heard that there is DLC around the corner though. No idea whats in, but we'll see.
Kalnos said:
And its actually not "your" points but they always display the points the first player is getting.
Omi said:
Probably best to go directly to their forums with your system configuration:
http://forums.mode7games.com
Ive got 1 copy of Frozen Synapse to gift someone if they can gift me The Void:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/37000/
Anyways, just pm me if you are interested.
Edit: Already traded...thanks Guilty.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/37000/
Anyways, just pm me if you are interested.
Edit: Already traded...thanks Guilty.
So I'm immensely curious about this game, but how netbook-friendly is it really? It mentions in the OP and official site that it'll run on low-end hardware but my netbook is really pretty janky (it chokes at parts of Recettear), so I'm a little hesitant to go whole-hog unless others here have been playing on really low-spec machines.
Rage quitters are kind of frustrating. Maybe the guy had to go, but when you have a first round in which you kill 3 of his units and he kills 0 of yours followed by a status of 'here' to 'offline' is kind of annoying. I have like 4 games in limbo that I will obviously win eventually.
Sometimes, the yellow AI is crap.
Othertimes, they're really good. Lucked out because they carried me in that mission. Otherwise we'd have been fucked because I can't seem to wrap my head around aiming and having the AI fire on people despite them being in the vision cone. :/
Othertimes, they're really good. Lucked out because they carried me in that mission. Otherwise we'd have been fucked because I can't seem to wrap my head around aiming and having the AI fire on people despite them being in the vision cone. :/
old manatee
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Tournament, Dark Extermination, We'll start after the Steam Summer Sale
ADD YOURSELF IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE.
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56. Dooles
57. PjotrStroganov
58. Dascu
59. WHOAguitarninja
60. Darkkn
61. Flayer
62. Tegris
63. welford
64. OldGamer
65. Munin
66. dustbot
...LocoMrPollock
Banned
Toma said:
Tested it on a centrino 1.6ghz Vaio thats about 5 years old and it chugged pretty badly and overheated.
I put it on my Asus 1000HA and while it's playable if you turn off the backgrounds in the options menu, it takes a LONG, LONG, LONG time for the turn outcome calculations to complete in singleplayer.Clunker said:
Presumably this wouldn't be a problem in multiplayer? There's no AI and I assume the server does the actual calculations. Still...
So bought this game the day after the daily deal... and I'm glad I did.
Really really great game, nice and quick, and very different than anything I've ever played before. It's kinda like if a board game and an RTS made a baby. I won my very first game, but have lost all my others since very very badly.
If anyone interested in playing sometime
SteamID: Ferrio
Really really great game, nice and quick, and very different than anything I've ever played before. It's kinda like if a board game and an RTS made a baby. I won my very first game, but have lost all my others since very very badly.
If anyone interested in playing sometime
SteamID: Ferrio
flipswitch
Member
I'm currently up to the 6th or so mission, but when I resume the campaign mode it goes to the mission before it.If I chose play unlocked missions I can select the 6th mission that I am up to.
Is there any way around this besides playing off from the fifth mission?.
Is there any way around this besides playing off from the fifth mission?.
Thanks for the responses -- I ended up gambling on a purchase last night and it runs on my Toshiba NB205, which is single-core. I turned everything off that I could and it definitely slows during the AI "thinking" turn, but otherwise it works pretty well!
Really glad I bought it too. I've only played the tutorial and the first campaign mission, but in my first try in the campaign I had two of my guys slaughtered on the first turn, but I somehow spun it around in the end and had my last guy take out four machine gunners in the last two turns. <3 I'm not much of a PC gamer (naturally, since I have a netbook!) but this is a really awesome blend of turn-based and real-time strategy.
Really glad I bought it too. I've only played the tutorial and the first campaign mission, but in my first try in the campaign I had two of my guys slaughtered on the first turn, but I somehow spun it around in the end and had my last guy take out four machine gunners in the last two turns. <3 I'm not much of a PC gamer (naturally, since I have a netbook!) but this is a really awesome blend of turn-based and real-time strategy.
Can someone point me towards some guides / tutorials for this game, because I have a hard time getting the hang of it.
I'm a big fan of turn by turn strategy games in general but the fact that the two players turn are resolved at the same time really is a disturbing factor for me in this game xD
I'm a big fan of turn by turn strategy games in general but the fact that the two players turn are resolved at the same time really is a disturbing factor for me in this game xD
PjotrStroganov
Member
Kalnos said:
I have a few that probably tried the 'find me a game button' and just left after finding no server.
TheSeks said:
Whut. Campaign?
Ooooh singleplayer. Should check that out, I guess