There is a tremendously stark difference between the earliest screenshots from the PC Gamer preview and the current batch. The unit viewer on the official site is pretty nifty. It's too bad that the screenshots on the site aren't viewable at a higher resolution.
I would love to see some video footage of this game in action, just so I can truly begin to comprehend how epic this is going to be and just how much it's going to put most of the other upcoming games within the genre to shame.
Between this, MTW 2, and having to buy a better graphics card to play all these, this is gonna hurt.
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Shinova wrote:
Units section has unit sizes. And the screenshots section has a screenshot of those destroyers that beach themselves and crawl on land.
Ok, that's stupid. But I forgive them.
And how about submarine aircraft carriers, flying aircraft carriers, spider mecha? The game isn't shooting for realism and never was. It is going for fun factor and fully admits that. Air combat is going to be stylized after WW2.
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Alyeska wrote:
And how about submarine aircraft carriers, flying aircraft carriers, spider mecha? The game isn't shooting for realism and never was. It is going for fun factor and fully admits that. Air combat is going to be stylized after WW2.
Like I said, I forgive them. It's hard to have "realism" when the game plot is- well, what it is.
And SC doesn't pretend to be trying to be scientificaly realistic. The good thing about SC is that they are trying for proper strategic realism, which is still going to be very fun.
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Admiral Valdemar wrote:Are you insane? The HAB would positively die to have something like that. Want to upgrade the Iowas? Let them crawl on land as 30,000 tonne tanks.
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Bah, can't see it, no flash 8 for Linux, and too lazy to boot VMWare and install it...
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I wonder what sort of system requirements there will be to support those huge theatres and unit counts, especially when you start talking multiplayer. Will a dual core system be almost a necessity to handle all the unit threads (assuming they implement the units as thread ala TA)?
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Miles Teg wrote:I wonder what sort of system requirements there will be to support those huge theatres and unit counts, especially when you start talking multiplayer. Will a dual core system be almost a necessity to handle all the unit threads (assuming they implement the units as thread ala TA)?
I seem to remember the original TA being a bitch on my system on the bigger maps. I think RAM will be very important for this game - but I think it will be so good as to warrent the expense.
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