New Screenshots Online & A Few Good Men

David Heath · Post by **David Heath** » Sun Jan 27, 2002 1:02 am

Stay By your phones.... your never know who might be calling. <G>

Lex Morton · Post by **Lex Morton** » Sun Jan 27, 2002 6:21 pm

Hi all just a point I'd like to ask re the late beta test request,was it indeed only intended for US gamers to be considered or was it anybody?The reason I ask is that I am from Scotland and would have loved to take part in testing but was put off by the request for a telephone number as I felt this implied a US only policy.I am a boardwargamer of 25(!) years experience and own VG's Pacific War,AH's Flattop and Carrier (VG) amongst others.I am a member of the (excellent) consimworld forum and subscribe to many topics including Pacific War (VG) and Naval Wargaming.There are ALOT of folks there that would LOVE to see a computer do the Pacific theatre of operations right!They are also very knowledgeable in their history and would have been a good group to use if you wanted some opinions from some 'grogs'.
I will end by wishing you all the best and if you still would like any testers from outwith the US then my e-mail is lexmorton@blueyonder.co.uk

Cheers Lex

PS System is currently an AMD K6 2 350 on a Gigabyte super socket seven M-B running at 100 Mhz,256 MB PC 100 RAM,16 MB Voodoo Banshee AGP card, Creative Labs 128 sound card.Running on Windows XP Pro.

Joel Billings · Post by **Joel Billings** » Mon Jan 28, 2002 4:54 am

I spoke with David about just this topic last night. We concluded that we could use international testers if they have a broadband connection. We are mailing CD's to start with to domestic testers but don't want to bother with overseas mail. We are going to post the beta version but it will be a huge download (about 400 meg) so broadband is essential. If you have this and are interested you should contact David ASAP. We hope to be able to post the version by Monday and mail CD's on Monday or Tuesday.

Joel

reapagan · Post by **reapagan** » Mon Jan 28, 2002 5:47 am

Have all the playtesters been chosen and notified or is there still hope for those of us waiting to hear?

Ross Moorhouse · Post by **Ross Moorhouse** » Mon Jan 28, 2002 11:11 am

The Playtesters will be notified very very soon. They will know who they are when they get the e-mail from us. <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

Paul Goodman · Post by **Paul Goodman** » Mon Jan 28, 2002 5:39 pm

Lex, my understanding is that the beta tester list excluded Scots because they monopolize the 70 proof whiskey.

Paul

David Heath · Post by **David Heath** » Mon Jan 28, 2002 8:05 pm

All playtesters have been emailed at this point. If you have not received an email by now you were placed on our backup playtester list.

Supervisor · Post by **Supervisor** » Tue Jan 29, 2002 1:44 am

Got a phone call from David on Saturday night. I made the list! Is this a great country or what!

mogami · Post by **mogami** » Tue Jan 29, 2002 4:58 am

OH boy am I jealous. Any one need an opponent for online or PBEM who is available 24/7

Marc · Post by **Marc** » Wed Jan 30, 2002 6:45 am

Just took a look at the screenshots. If the game is as a good as the pictures it will be worth waiting for it.

But there is still this picture of a japanese carrier in uv02.jpg that did not exist in WW2.
I already mentioned it here and in an earlier post I cannot find again.
http://www.matrixgames.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=000038

Could you please take a look at it again?

Greetings, Marc

ratster · Post by **ratster** » Wed Jan 30, 2002 8:56 am

Looks like the Shokaku to me?

http://www.ibiblio.org/phha/Shokaku.html

Marc von Martial · Post by **Marc von Martial** » Wed Jan 30, 2002 3:44 pm

Hi Marc from Germany,

Marc from Germany here too. I´m the graphic artist for UV. The ships image on uv02.jpg is old stub art. I´m currently redoing a couple of the ships superstructures to fit them into the time scale of UV.

Cheers

Marc · Post by **Marc** » Thu Jan 31, 2002 3:21 am

Originally posted by Marc Schwanebeck [GS_Marcks]:
Hi Marc from Germany,

Marc from Germany here too. I´m the graphic artist for UV. The ships image on uv02.jpg is old stub art. I´m currently redoing a couple of the ships superstructures to fit them into the time scale of UV.

Cheers

Nice to hear this. Danke! <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

to ratster:
The ship is some kind of KAGA in the state before 1934-36 (but the flight deck wasn't full length till after that time).
It can only be the KAGA because it was the only carrier with the stack lenghtened to the stern.
See this picture of KAGA before 1934: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aj.cashmore/japan/battleships/tosa/kaga.html
And there is no bridge structure either, which is okay for KAGA before 1934.

Greetings, Marc