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I can trade a Command and Conquer Tiberium Wars CD-Key for this, if anyone would like it. I dunno if anyone would trade that for this, though...

[QUOTE=Pvt. Ryan;13975210]you can buy it in Walmart if that's what you mean[/QUOTE] Eww, Walmart.

[QUOTE=Ragish;13973823]Why can't he have it in English? This is actually the reason Germany has a pretty damn bad english education. they sub and dub everything.[/QUOTE] Why are you so arrogant? Did you grow up with bears or something?

Ive been plagued with crashes (im not sure how quite to describe this type of crash in technical terms, but your audio sticks/keeps playing but your monitors turn off/got black) and the fix for me was to set the affinity of empire.exe to only 2 cores (I have quad core) this fixed it all and no more crashes for me.

Fuck, looks like some parts of Canada are going to have a delay due to a shipping problem. I hope BC isn't affected. EDIT: Haha, look at all the people STILL bitching about Steam in TW Center. Even now they can't adapt to the change.

[QUOTE=Tac Error;13976027]Fuck, looks like some parts of Canada are going to have a delay due to a shipping problem. I hope BC isn't affected. EDIT: Haha, look at all the people STILL bitching about Steam in TW Center. Even now they can't adapt to the change.[/QUOTE] About 48% of the people can accept/use Steam on TW Center, the rest are either A: Too retarded to figure out how to use the internet and think ANY non-windows programs will crash their computers and melt their computers hardware. B: Think that connnecting their gaming PC to the internet will fill it with a million viruses. or C: Don't like change(not Obama's change)

[QUOTE=Tac Error;13976027]Fuck, looks like some parts of Canada are going to have a delay due to a shipping problem. I hope BC isn't affected. EDIT: Haha, look at all the people STILL bitching about Steam in TW Center. Even now they can't adapt to the change.[/QUOTE] Fuck a delay in Canada? I was just thinking of running over to my local Walmart to see if it was there. That fucking sucks, I was excited for this game.

Never played a Total war game but playing this one, it's pretty good. Takes a bit of learning to know what's what and I still don't have a clear idea of what direction to go in my grand campaign, I'm sort of just building shit here, researching some stuff I think would help and I'm trying to fight pirates whilst trying to help an ally at war. I've only had and played one real time battle which was a naval one. 3vs3 of the exact same ships, I came away with one ship left and the pirates retreated with their flagship..then on my way back to the docks to repair they re-engaged me but with hardly any health, so I finished them off! :D Can't wait till they sort out being able to play the Grand Campaign style game online with your friends, that will be epic.

[QUOTE=Diagger;13975800]Why are you so arrogant? Did you grow up with bears or something?[/QUOTE] Chill, forget about him. Also this game is really awesome I began playing as sweden and man, Russia, Latvia, Denmark shouldn't have fucked with me. I have most of their cities, and armies waiting to attack.

Can someone show me an up close picture of their units please? I want to see if it looks like mine.

If you think your units look 2D it's because of your graphics. It's normal.

Well, it's on all high. With 4x anti-aliasing. And it looks kinda... medium graphics. May I get a picture?

Man, my first battle went disastrous, I immediately went through all the menus so I know how to research new weapon technology and the like, but I hadn't researched even basic bayonets when I entered battle with the Cherokees at the northernmost point of America, I didn't send enough troops over from Europe (that tiny town you start off isn't very productive.) to make much impact, and I stupidly assumed they'd have bayonets, my gunfire didn't hold the Cherokee axe men off, and when they got close I realized my men were trying to club them to death, so that was a loss. I attacked the Cherokees at Georgia without the bayonet, luckily my high number of gunmen and a couple cannons kept me and the enemy at range, my cavalry troops made short work of their archers, that was an easy victory. I leave one of my platoons there and head south, next target was Florida, unlike Georgia the Cherokees here have a city, so I figured that having bayonets was a must in this case, so when I start the battle I immediately order one of my platoons to attach the plug bayonet, problem being that once attached you can't tell them to detach it, I think of it as a minor setback and keep on with the battle. After drawing a few of their troops out of the city gates and shooting them until they ran back, I decide to head to the side of the city and rope climb up the sides (Having accidentally figuring out I could scale them.) that plan didn't work out so well, their armed tribesmen ran up and waited, luckily I sent up the troop I had told to plug bayonet their rifles, so I did kill a few of them in melee combat before retreating back off of the walls. Next plan, blow the walls out, I take out the walls their remaining archers are standing on, then I stand in the gap, and the enemy surrounding the gap then... do nothing, not even moving, I edge up some militia into a 3 front line infantry to just slightly fill in the gap and shoot them, and they still do nothing, it wouldn't matter if I killed these non-moving enemies right now, they still have more behind them that seem less... Catatonic. I send the plug militia back up the now empty walls and station them around the ramp that leads up then pull my militia out of the gap for them to follow up, I thought I'd be able to use the small width of the top of the ramp and station my men around it, offsetting whatever melee advantage they have, meanwhile my militia sits to their side and shoots the blind, deaf, still standing yet unmoving enemies on the floor. It works, when their still brain intact troops run up the ramp they are forced into a semi-circle of bayonets and killed off swiftly, my militia is not so lethal, only having 5 men stand at the side of the wall and slowly shoot the people below, after about a minute I notice that the side gate is open which leads right into the city center, I consider whether or not sending all my men in is a great idea (I really don't want many casualties.) because the rather peaceful enemy may just spring to life and actually do something, but ultimately I go through with it, and THEN... nothing, I put all the troops in the center of the city and slowly approach the enemy, and they still won't move. So I just tell my men to commit euthanasia, they all get shot to death, Florida is mine, and I'm done for the day. I love this game, the melee combat does look a bit more brutal and fluid, the battles are still very fun and intense, and every choice still feels quite serious.

Here it is: [url]http://img3.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wtfgraphics.jpg[/url]

[QUOTE=The Best;13976779]Well, it's on all high. With 4x anti-aliasing. And it looks kinda... medium graphics. May I get a picture?[/QUOTE] Well, i run it on low.

Thats not good.

And can you show me what that looks like? Look at my post above yours. Also, when I first ran it, it gave me a vcredist.msi error. Here it a picture: [url]http://img187.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vcredist.jpg[/url]

Will I be able to run it fine with these specs? 9800GT E8400 Wolfdale 4GB DDR2 800 RAM

[QUOTE=Pvt. Ryan;13975210]you can buy it in Walmart if that's what you mean[/QUOTE] No, I meant that despite buying it retail, you'd still need to install it on steam and need steam running to play it.

[QUOTE=The Best;13976870]And can you show me what that looks like? Look at my post above yours. Also, when I first ran it, it gave me a vcredist.msi error. Here it a picture: [url]http://img187.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vcredist.jpg[/url][/QUOTE] Oh, the game loads when I click cancel, but I don't know if that has anything to do with it. This happens every time I run it - It'll say it's extracting vcredist.msi somewhere, then it'll give me that message box.

[QUOTE=snake eye;13976789]Man, my first battle went disastrous, I immediately went through all the menus so I know how to research new weapon technology and the like, but I hadn't researched even basic bayonets when I entered battle with the Cherokees at the northernmost point of America, I didn't send enough troops over from Europe (that tiny town you start off isn't very productive.) to make much impact, and I stupidly assumed they'd have bayonets, my gunfire didn't hold the Cherokee axe men off, and when they got close I realized my men were trying to club them to death, so that was a loss. I attacked the Cherokees at Georgia without the bayonet, luckily my high number of gunmen and a couple cannons kept me and the enemy at range, my cavalry troops made short work of their archers, that was an easy victory. I leave one of my platoons there and head south, next target was Florida, unlike Georgia the Cherokees here have a city, so I figured that having bayonets was a must in this case, so when I start the battle I immediately order one of my platoons to attach the plug bayonet, problem being that once attached you can't tell them to detach it, I think of it as a minor setback and keep on with the battle. After drawing a few of their troops out of the city gates and shooting them until they ran back, I decide to head to the side of the city and rope climb up the sides (Having accidentally figuring out I could scale them.) that plan didn't work out so well, their armed tribesmen ran up and waited, luckily I sent up the troop I had told to plug bayonet their rifles, so I did kill a few of them in melee combat before retreating back off of the walls. Next plan, blow the walls out, I take out the walls their remaining archers are standing on, then I stand in the gap, and the enemy surrounding the gap then... do nothing, not even moving, I edge up some militia into a 3 front line infantry to just slightly fill in the gap and shoot them, and they still do nothing, it wouldn't matter if I killed these non-moving enemies right now, they still have more behind them that seem less... Catatonic. I send the plug militia back up the now empty walls and station them around the ramp that leads up then pull my militia out of the gap for them to follow up, I thought I'd be able to use the small width of the top of the ramp and station my men around it, offsetting whatever melee advantage they have, meanwhile my militia sits to their side and shoots the blind, deaf, still standing yet unmoving enemies on the floor. It works, when their still brain intact troops run up the ramp they are forced into a semi-circle of bayonets and killed off swiftly, my militia is not so lethal, only having 5 men stand at the side of the wall and slowly shoot the people below, after about a minute I notice that the side gate is open which leads right into the city center, I consider whether or not sending all my men in is a great idea (I really don't want many casualties.) because the rather peaceful enemy may just spring to life and actually do something, but ultimately I go through with it, and THEN... nothing, I put all the troops in the center of the city and slowly approach the enemy, and they still won't move. So I just tell my men to commit euthanasia, they all get shot to death, Florida is mine, and I'm done for the day. I love this game, the melee combat does look a bit more brutal and fluid, the battles are still very fun and intense, and every choice still feels quite serious.[/QUOTE] You just made me go buy the game.

[QUOTE=junker154;13970250]I don't know I like the old one but I played the demo now and I must say it feels a bit awkward. And there were a few bugs with animations and the loading is horrible. However this is a demo. Although I like the sea battles so great :D. How is it then guys?[/QUOTE] The demo and the actual game itself are worlds apart.

So were the horrendous loading times fixed?

[QUOTE=spike12;13977645]So were the horrendous loading times fixed?[/QUOTE] I want to know this also. The demo had fucking ATROCIOUS load times. Is it better?

A little Also, Latvia-poland got crushed by my mighty armies. I'm considering moving on to invade Russia, after i've crushed Prussia.

Heh, just how many men can you get in a house. In the end I had 350 of my guys plus 180 enemies in there. [img]http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1462/loltu2.jpg[/img] Also, this game is FUCKING EPIC beyond all proportions!

I've still got another 16 hours left on my download. damn

[QUOTE=133753P34K;13975213]If anyone is willing to buy this for me on steam I have a good amount of CD keys to trade, I can list em in a PM if you're interested.[/QUOTE] Crysis Crysis: Warhead Warcraft 3 Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne Far Cry 2 and Bonus Missions preorder exclusive Dead Space Battlefield 1942/expansions Battlefield Vietnam If anyone was wondering, the battlefield ones [b]are not[/b] used, so they work with the online play.

[QUOTE=Killoch0;13977948]Heh, just how many men can you get in a house. In the end I had 350 of my guys plus 180 enemies in there. [img]http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1462/loltu2.jpg[/img] Also, this game is FUCKING EPIC beyond all proportions![/QUOTE] What? They can only assault buildings through doors?

I just bought it on steam, and I can't download it yet because of my stupid brother using all my bandwidth! BAHHHHHH fuck.