Since I have been doing a lot of research into monitors in April, I can offer a few pointers. First and foremost, be very careful about backlight PWM-induced flicker, especially on LED LCD monitors. Read more here: https://forums.elementalgame.com/420071 It really depends on how sensitive your eyes/nerves are, but it can induce considerable strain even if you don't realize it. Recently, monitors not using PWM fo
[quote who="Napean" reply="46" id="3285561"] What the heck?!?!?!?!? All of this waitin' and anticipatin', and you claim to have better things to do than pour hours of your life into a video game? Some people.... [/quote] Seriously, younguns today... When WE were playing games in the good olden days of DOOM2 LAN parties, there was no quittin' - all that lugging of computer cases and CRT monitors, coaxial cable madness, IPX/SPX debugging... it t
Must be that "big AI overhaul" ;-) It's probably BOI ("broken as intended")
Yeah. Let's make a bookmark here and come check your enthusiasm in, say, 20 years.
BAne of the Cosmic Forge? Perihelion?
Well, there are some cheesy tactics. For example, I find that playing the small or average shards early in the campaign, the Warrior is massively overpovered when soloing territories, because he racks up tons exp and you pay no cash for new recruits (common units die inevitably, since enemies gang on the weakest and no ZOC in the game). You only pay for repairing warrior's gear. I usually build smithy -> simple chainmail, then arcane magic, and fill spell slots w
Company of Heroes & Dawn of War games have craters usable as cover too. Minecraft has TNT ;-) Dwarf Fortress has cave-ins, magma rivers, obsidianization of lava, tunnel flooding, etc.
I almost, almost killed a dragon. Had a warrior who could trade blows with him (lvl 20, 19 att, 16 catt, 13/10/4 def), but then it flew a bit away and spat the fire - not a crater left where my hero once stood. The ease these things plow through heavy units like swordsmen is scary.
[quote who="t1it" reply="42" id="3295369"]Discovered this game yesterday and I can't stop playing! Tons of depth and difficult choices and I love the art style (more medievalish than cartoonish). Only weird thing is the severe lack of female portraits or females in general. Also playing the same race isn't that fun at all. Anyways haven't had this fun since FFH. To me, Eador ranks among the very best in the fantasy 4x genre![/quote] Lack of female warriors or soldiers is a
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Hehe, found this on GOG forums: That was four days ago, and every spare moment I have had since then has been spent playing this game. The interface is a bit clunky and primitive for a 2009 release, but the gameplay is extraordinarily good. Eador has swiftly outranked Fallen Enchantress and Warlock in my estimation, This is like winning
How about the AI insta-razing bug? Cannot find it anywhere on the list.
Good point. Horses other than war horses should not appear in battles at all, since a common horse will just panic and throw off his rider after first loud "bang" nearby or after sustaining the slightest wound. Training a true warhorse was an expensive and lengthy process, and it had to be armored for battle too. That's why medieval battlefields saw masses of levied infantry, but few mounted and armored knights. The cost of making and maintaining of armor, arms and the horse
This game is addictive as hell. I am still astonished how good it is design-wise. It's not revolutionary by any means, but all the parts are extremely well put together. Plus, it's challenging and the AI seems competent, at least in tactical battles - I still don't know how much it cheats with resources on strategic level. Discovered an annoying, but known and reported bug - if you have a rebellious province (damn centaurs!) and decide to plunder them to ext
Currently somewhere around 7 or so. I feel that the game does not deserve 8, because due to bad synergy of its parts, bland and uninteresting tactical combat and lore that feels like it was generated by a computer. Hell, even Dwarf Fortress RNG sometimes comes with better emergent stories than what I read in that book whose name I cannot spell properly. Howerver, I like the artistic style, the music, and a lot of effort obviously was invested that must be respected.
There are other games not of eastern european origin whose graphics leaves a lot to be desired too. That said, Eador has been very enjoyable for me so far, because it offers very coherent gameplay, and the tactical combat has terrain that actually matters, and also on the strategic layer, you are constantly presented with difficult choices that matter.
I just burnt some 8+ hours on this non-stop. The graphics and presentation are absolutely horrendous, but the game as a whole is surprisingly solid and enjoyable. A mix between fantasy general/elven legacy small scale battles, gamebookish roleplaying (if you fight, turn to page 64, if not, go to page 35) and some rudimentary empire building and management. But surprisingly, it all holds together quite well, the tactical combat being probably the weakest and most repetiti
LCD screen? No, thanks.
[quote who="LightStar" reply="2" id="3286127"]Never had any problem whatsoever with MSE here. Funny how all the top rated ones have to be paid for. [/quote] I bet the malware coming and going did not have any problem with your MSE installation either ;-) False sense of security, that's all Windows users need to sleep well.
There is a vicious bug in Windows 7 I have discovered the hard way. If you have a disk in the old MBR format (UEFI prefers GPT) containing an extended partition with logical partitions, Windows 7 will crash on boot while booting in the UEFI mode. It does not matter that the disk may not be even accessed, just being connected will cause the crash. I had to move all my data to a backup disk, change the empty disks to GPT, and move the data back to make it work. Microsoft offers
More on the topic of privacy: http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/eu-us-data-privacy-war-100999 “The scale of lobbying by the US government and corporations is extreme. Data privacy in the USA is largely unregulated, and general rights are only given through terms and conditions,” Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group
I played that game to the end, yes, the 2D/3D is interesting, and yes, the gameplay is quite solid too, but the story is really MEH, and the graphics is passable only after you force antialiasing in drivers. On the other hand, the combat is horrible and broken and the animations are inferior. But you could hardly say that the game looks better than, say Assassin's Creed 3 with TXAA enabled, or Crysis (the first one, still not gutted for consoles).
The Karateka remake. Just try it, you will see what I am talking about. It seems that while graphics and animation is moving forward, game design is evolving backward till it hit the brick wall of drooling stupidity that is this game. It's not even a game, it's a monkey training tool. Unbelievable.
Sorry, should go to "Personal Computing" section.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/23/why_os2_failed_part_one/ Hilarious article "After Microsoft lost the source code for the actual build of OS/2 we shipped, I reported a bug triggered when you double-clicked on Chkdsk twice: the program would fire up twice and both would try to fix the disk at the same time, causing corruption. I noted that this “may not