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Planetary Annihilation is out.... uh... OT?
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The Cowboy
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Gotta agree, despite really liking the game (i got it a while ago) it is not what I'd call a release ready game, and the fact they've gone ahead and done this really worries me - the game is very much in a beta/unfinished state.
I had the game simply give up rendering everything but the hud. Couldn't save and reload either, had to lose all my progress.
Think i'll let this bake in the oven a bit more before I dig in.
LurkerPrime
Member
Thanks for the reply. I'll have to look up some footage and see if it's for me-
...and maybe wait a bit.
:/
I just had this happen again, both times when clicking on alert pop ups (enemy contact etc...). So yea...
You can't save your game in this. A game oriented around matches that take hours to finish.
LET ME REPEAT THAT.
THIS GAME DOESN'T HAVE WHAT TOTAL ANNIHILATION HAD BACK IN 1998.
Are the developers complete idiots releasing this, who in their right mind would think that this is even an ALPHA?
LET ME REPEAT THAT.
THIS GAME DOESN'T HAVE WHAT TOTAL ANNIHILATION HAD BACK IN 1998.
Are the developers complete idiots releasing this, who in their right mind would think that this is even an ALPHA?
Is this fun to play yet?
The actual game seems solid, it's just everything else around it is a mess.
EDIT: Oh and if you backed it on kickstarter or bought the early access you can get the soundtrack by logging into the Uber Store, there'll be a bandcamp link for it under your product keys.
I'm listening to it now and it's fantastic.
spacemonkeynation
Member
I wish this game had a guided campaign mode akin to Starcraft 2s. As is it's basically just a bad ass tech demo for me.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
If you change that OP I will unsubscribe.
Anyone up for a mega GAF game?
Anyone up for a mega GAF game?
I'm a backer and I'm reasonably sure I never opened a ticket with them. Did they close down the usual key delivery method? I got my key so long ago that I don't even remember how they handled it.
Just got it downloaded earlier this afternoon. The last time I'd played it was during the beta (if you can call it that) back in January. I made the decision to wait for the game to be finished since they kept screw around with it instead of working to finish it.
Mentioned to a friend that we should give it another try now that it's done to see what we think since our initial impressions during the alpha and beta weren't good. I might play a skirmish mode in the next few days but will mainly wait to play with friends and see what it's like.
Mentioned to a friend that we should give it another try now that it's done to see what we think since our initial impressions during the alpha and beta weren't good. I might play a skirmish mode in the next few days but will mainly wait to play with friends and see what it's like.
BitterSidekick
Member
Thinking about buying this, gaf, do you like it? I am a fan of TA back in the day, and i like Sc ( supreme commander ). Not the fan of cartoonish graphics, but i hear gameplay is great.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
I warned you guys during the Kickstarter, the alpha, the boxed beta they are selling and I am telling you again now.
Uber Entertainment are terrible developers and shysters, don't support them. They will drop support for this just like Hi-Rez/Zombie Studios does with all their games.
Uber Entertainment are terrible developers and shysters, don't support them. They will drop support for this just like Hi-Rez/Zombie Studios does with all their games.
So, have they fixed the balancing issues now? Like transport ships that can carry several units?
Last time I played the "campaign" it was impossible to even land on a planet that the enemy had taken over and built shit on every square inch on as every transport could only carry one unit...
Last time I played the "campaign" it was impossible to even land on a planet that the enemy had taken over and built shit on every square inch on as every transport could only carry one unit...
Sir_Crocodile
Member
So where do backers get the drm free version from?
Not got an email or anything
Not got an email or anything
i guess they rushed the Full release :-(
Love the game, but they promised that the game will be NoDRM on launch , but so far game is still online-only serverside without saving. They tested local sevrers on PAX , but IMO they shoud have waited for it and not to rush the ull release.
Both local offline servers and mid-match saves(Chrono-cam) are in the works, but no real info from devs about it (only that they are working on it and will come later)
Love the game, but they promised that the game will be NoDRM on launch , but so far game is still online-only serverside without saving. They tested local sevrers on PAX , but IMO they shoud have waited for it and not to rush the ull release.
Both local offline servers and mid-match saves(Chrono-cam) are in the works, but no real info from devs about it (only that they are working on it and will come later)
Wasn't it supposed to be like 50$? I guess that happens when you're selling the game before it's done, by the time you "release" it's already old news and has to go into the bargain bin.
Okay that looked freaking awesome
bodyboarder
Member
Had completely forgotten about this, might have to check it out.
Out of curiosity why don't you use the quote button?
Out of curiosity why don't you use the quote button?
Yes, I can't play unless I'm on windowed mode. Taking into account the always online DRM, that you can't save in the middle of a battle and the buggy mesh it is right now, I'm really regretting buying this :-(.
skullmuffins
Banned
Hmm. I'll admit I haven't been following this game very closely, but some of the posts in here aren't very encouraging. What's the point of moving a game out of early access when it's still pretty buggy and missing major features? My first thought is the devs consider their work more or less "done", regardless of the actual state of the game, and post-release support might not be so hot. Wait and see, I guess.
Holy shit, that match was really great.
Uber not releasing the local server software has been the most annoying thing about this whole process for me, alpha, beta, gamma (wtf) and release with no local server to test.
Almost any game I have tried (online, single player or on a LAN), has been plagued with lag spots.
They never really had the cash to make the game at the scale some people were expecting, hopefully modders will take up the slack, and the game won't be full of DLC or some such.
Almost any game I have tried (online, single player or on a LAN), has been plagued with lag spots.
They never really had the cash to make the game at the scale some people were expecting, hopefully modders will take up the slack, and the game won't be full of DLC or some such.
efyu_lemonardo
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any early impressions, GAF?
Is it as good as the pitch video made it look?
Is it as good as the pitch video made it look?
There are definitely a lot of good RPGs but you're forgetting about Star Citizen, Elite, Kentucky Route Zero and a few others. I haven't seen all that many RTS projects.
FTL and Shovel Knight have been great.
Companies are charging people more for early beta access. Full game was never going to be the same $50-60. I don't expect Wasteland 2 to be $60 either in a couple of weeks.
That's disappointing. Oh well, sounds like a reinstall of TA is in order!
SP has a campaign and skirmishes.
SMNC pretty much dropped the ball immediately when they accidentally had an open launch on Steam midway through the beta and from that point on they basically never managed to get any real traction as far as attracting players goes.
They failed to market the game in some pretty spectacular ways, basically relying on pushing the game on other services with "And get this free ingame item" gimics which ultimately just resulted in the existing players signing up for crappy services to redeem items. I think they probably peaked around the time Giant Bomb did a thursday night throwdown for it.
They also didn't work out how to properly patch Unreal 3 until months after launch, meaning for a while every update resulted in a full client re-download, all 3gb, for even the smallest bugfix.
Also rather than add workshop support they briefly had a subforum for fans to submit custom models that they would then sell ingame, they updated with community items once, this was the last update the game ever received.
Oh and for a brief perioid they burried a bitcoin farmer in the game.
So yeah, Uber's track record is not so great for supporting and marketing multiplayer games.
You still have to connect to their servers to play these.
Why "launch" without offline play, especially after Sim City.
The poster wasn't asking whether it was online or offline.
I'm sure offline or offline wouldn't matter so much for single player if the Uber servers could handle the load. As it stands, the online requirement for single player only hampers the experience.
Joseph Merrick
Member
jesus, that's a lot of compression on the opening cutscene. super low res too
wtf? edit: looked like it played the cutscene off youtube. derp. that's.. weird. lol
wtf? edit: looked like it played the cutscene off youtube. derp. that's.. weird. lol
Oh, I wasn't aware of that. Hope they fix it soon.
Yeah but it was something like 80$ for alpha, 60$ for beta and was supposed to be 40$ for final but then they just did that "gamma" phase (probably because they didn't want to wait until it was actually done before dropping the price below what backers had to pay for beta). So I guess now the final is cheaper than the gamma.
http://springrts.com/. Free games that tend to be based on TA.
Honestly, no.
Attaching rockets to a moon and crashing into a planet to blow it up is kind of pretty awesome, but gets hold fast if the rest of the RTS conventions in the game don't work for me.
I backed the game, but kind of regret it (generally not being a standard RTS fan). At least I got a nice soundtrack out of it
Dimitri2401
Member
Volgarr was totally amazing. Tex Murphy was great too (at least I enjoyed it quite a lot). And many others are really good games.
For Planetary Annihilation, it's just a shame that they've released the game in what is still an unfinished state (no offline mode, many many crashes - I personnaly can't play more than 20 minutes without the UI crashing, etc...).
But from what I've played, when it works, it's a fine game.