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ORIGINAL: The Gray Mouser

Hello! Couple of questions:

1) from the screenies it appears fog of war is implemented(ie hidden movement etc) is it so?

We've got both fog of war -- to quote the manual, "If fog-of-war is turned on, players cannot see hexes that are outside of the line-of-sight of their units" -- and the boardgame's system for hidden units.

2) are heavy artillery and air strikes implemented in any way (whether on board ,off board , no board )

Yes.

3) MP : will it be using Slithertrix's unique system?

Yes. Implementing it was a major factor in our pushing back the game's announcement (and its release), but will be judged well worth the extra wait.

4) for scenario design, is there any unit cap? ie could I theoretically have 300+ squads on a side?

I don't know offhand, so I'll check.

4) specs: this is my big concern as the required specs, especially graphics card wise seem kinda high for a turn based game and taxing to my aged PC
I have a Nvidia 7600 gs 512mp card... Unfortunately i doudt Im getting full performance as I have , embarrassingly , only an AGP slotted mother board. Hopefully the the 2d mode will be easily handled by my old, yet faithfull dog of a PC??

I'm not the technical brains at WCS, so I'll ask Eric.

This looks like a great game and I cant wait to get my greedy hands on it.

Great! Here's to hoping you don't need to buy a new computer in the process...

Cheers!

ORIGINAL: Iain McNeil

Just to be clear on the multiplayer system, this game is not PBEM using our PBEM++ server, it uses a great new head to head multiplayer server system we are developing. We are developing this new system specifically to support Conflict of Heroes match making and provide good community support tools. It is different to the PBEM++ multiplayer server system we use in pure turn based games such as Field of Glory, Battle Academy and Panzer Corps. We've also decided to create a routing server to simplfying playing the game. Usually to play a head to head multiplayer game you need to open ports on your router to allow you to play. This is nto an indie developer thing, this is what many AAA games still require on PC. We know that many of you are not used to this sort of thing and we decided we wanted to invest a system that just worked and made this process easier. We're creating a server that each player will access, then the server will take messages and pass them to your opponent. This means you'll never directly connect to your opponent and removes the need to do all that tinkering with routers and ports - it will just work. It's a pretty significant job but its part of our commitment to make it easy to play the our games and support the developers with we work by adding tools to enhance their games, and one of the things that makes us unique! The only down side is we are not sure we can stick to the original date and get this extra server set up so we may be looking at a few days to a couple of weeks delay on our original plans.

ORIGINAL: James Crowley

ORIGINAL: Iain McNeil

Just to be clear on the multiplayer system, this game is not PBEM using our PBEM++ server, it uses a great new head to head multiplayer server system we are developing. We are developing this new system specifically to support Conflict of Heroes match making and provide good community support tools. It is different to the PBEM++ multiplayer server system we use in pure turn based games such as Field of Glory, Battle Academy and Panzer Corps. We've also decided to create a routing server to simplfying playing the game. Usually to play a head to head multiplayer game you need to open ports on your router to allow you to play. This is nto an indie developer thing, this is what many AAA games still require on PC. We know that many of you are not used to this sort of thing and we decided we wanted to invest a system that just worked and made this process easier. We're creating a server that each player will access, then the server will take messages and pass them to your opponent. This means you'll never directly connect to your opponent and removes the need to do all that tinkering with routers and ports - it will just work. It's a pretty significant job but its part of our commitment to make it easy to play the our games and support the developers with we work by adding tools to enhance their games, and one of the things that makes us unique! The only down side is we are not sure we can stick to the original date and get this extra server set up so we may be looking at a few days to a couple of weeks delay on our original plans.

Why not release the game anyway, if it is ready, and patch on acccess to the new server when it is up and running

Not everyone can or will want to play H2H and those who want to can get used to the game and it's nuances prior to going online.

ORIGINAL: Chris Merchant

I don't agree

Get the server config working prior to release.
This way any players who want to try H2H can do so without the need to wait for patches, making changes to their port forward settings on their routers, confusion etc.
A healthy multiplayer community will improve the chances of the system's longevity and early rumours that multiplayer is broken will not help.

cheers

ORIGINAL: Joram

While I'm sure they are very flattered by your eagerness to play the game, I don't think waiting a week or so is going to change yours or anyone's desire to play the game.

ORIGINAL: Prince of Eckmühl

ORIGINAL: Joram

While I'm sure they are very flattered by your eagerness to play the game, I don't think waiting a week or so is going to change yours or anyone's desire to play the game.

The longer that the game is under the development, the better that it will be when it goes on sale.

ORIGINAL: Prince of Eckmühl

ORIGINAL: Joram

While I'm sure they are very flattered by your eagerness to play the game, I don't think waiting a week or so is going to change yours or anyone's desire to play the game.

The longer that the game is under the development, the better that it will be when it goes on sale.

ORIGINAL: PirateJock

I'm not a big multiplayer person but I'd go for waiting till all finished ... within reason I've plenty of other games to keep me busy until release.

Cheers