Warplan is a World War 2 simulation engine. It is a balance of realism and playability incorporating the best from 50 years of World War 2 board wargaming.
I think it's time they pulled out the proverbial finger...
As we are the paying customers would be good to know if there a reason for it to take several days.
Would have thought you just send them to updated folder which they then upload to the server. They are not doing any testing are they ? Am I missing something ?
The lark, signing its chirping hymn,
Soars high above the clouds;
Meanwhile, the nightingale intones
With sweet, mellifluous sounds.
Enough of Stalin, Freedom for the Ukraine !
lol matrix is very fast, i never knew they took a week to place the patch into their patcher application. They must have soo many in demand games being patched every week :/
They have a lot of games to take care of and just released a new one. So new games get their patch priorities 1st because if something is drastically broken it needs to be fixed ASAP. I already reminded them that I have angry players ready to burn their hard copy boxes.
Well I've an amount of games, I am very fond of WiF but by now when I play, I play on Vassal as there is the CE out.
I've an amount of Strategic Command - but the 1 unit attack at time and the infinite repair per turn murders it for me.
I've WITE but that's too mental with insane excess of micro to be played at Multiplayer level.
I've Gary Grigsby World at War (which to me is the best game Gary did - fully playable, deep enough, and smooth).
I've also an amount of other titles but in general I like games that encompass production, operations, and the like.
So I've my hopes for Warplan to develop further and better - and while I feel WiF itself is the top notch game, it has characteristics that makes him hard to play (Mostly amount of time required for the full campaign, and the fact its very interactive magic that makes it so interesting does not make it PBEM friendly. WiF is a game I'd only play 'live' with voicecomm in fact.)
Given in general I prefer 'tabletop games' where I know precisely the tables and the rules, and then the dice can kiss me or flail me. (That's also why I like WiF. I know when my fighter can intercept or not, I know if I attack at a +X on the 2d10 these are my chances, etcetera.). I think this would do helluva of good to Warplan too, to be 'known', and then let the dice roll its fate.
Everyone knows that when a game is first released that it's going to have bugs and need a few fixes early in it's life. As a buyer I know this. I accept that.
But what I expect is that as the programmer creates patches and fixes that they are made available to me ASAP. Matrix has dropped the ball again here. This delay is unacceptable. I consider myself reasonably patient. But waiting over a week for this latest patch to simply get loaded on to the matrix server is ridiculous. I could understand it if we were in the middle of xmas. It's a joke really.
I agree 100%, especially since it takes 5 minutes to put a wrapper on the files alvaro sent them, and host it on the FTP server. Why, because SC3 WW1? came out which having played the game feels like the same thing as WAW.
They used to be better at getting patches out, now it seems everything has an order in a que. Remember they will be shutting it down soon, so hope nothing major is found with the patch because I don't think anything else will be released until after the new year.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Be Yourself; Everyone else is already taken" ~Oscar Wilde
*I'm in the Wargamer middle ground*
I don't buy all the wargames I want, I just buy more than I need.
I've not bothered with Strategic Command WW1 in fact.
I feel that the map pratically is the same - the units are pratically the same adapted to WW1 concepts. I mean, it's like selling a game for what is a sizeable modding project of another game. (Not the first time that happens around but in some other cases the modding was well deeper).
Remember they will be shutting it down soon, so hope nothing major is found with the patch because I don't think anything else will be released until after the new year.
This is also my worry. Which is another reason they should have got it out ASAP.
The $40 per Strategic Command installment can be a hard sell, but darn it, they have always sold me.
Nah, not a hard sell at all. People may not like some characteristics about the game, but a well made, fun, and very well supported game isn't a hard sell. To each their own i guess.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Be Yourself; Everyone else is already taken" ~Oscar Wilde
*I'm in the Wargamer middle ground*
I don't buy all the wargames I want, I just buy more than I need.
