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Jason
chasing a bee

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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 5:58 am Post subject: Scourge of War – Gettysburg Preview

[ Preview ] With Scourge of War - Gettysburg, the first offering from Take Command veterans NorbSoftDev, nearing its release date, TCancer took a preview build out for a ride. Like its predecessor, SOWGB features a unique chain of command system. You can play the game on exactly the level that suits you best, and are allowed to take command of everything from a single Regiment (a few hundred men) to full Corps (very large formations of 8.000 to 20.000 men). Commanding a Brigade is easy, a Division is already much harder, but Corps consists of such a huge number of units that commanding on this level poses special difficulties: you can jump directly into the shoes of Generals Lee or Meade, but don't expect it will be an easy job. Read the full article here. Read: Scourge of War – Gettysburg Preview

Turbografx

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Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 6:17 am Post subject:

Neat, can't wait. I loved the TC series. _________________ Genius is what counts, the means of it's manifestations are irrelevant to it's appraisal. - Lyric Suite

TalesfromtheCrypt

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Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:57 am Post subject:

Awesome. Is it out yet? _________________ My father's people say that at the birth of the sun and of his brother the moon, their mother died. So the sun gave to the earth her body, from which was to spring all life. And he drew forth from her breast the stars, and the stars he threw into the night sky to remind him of her soul. - Tyrax Lightning

Jason
chasing a bee

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Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:33 am Post subject:

No. They're expecting to have it out by the end of the month. _________________ Tacticular Cancer - It's the magic of children StrategyCore - I become expert RPG Codex - some times you have to kill a few kids to get a good game

Fuck_The_Banks

Joined: 05 Dec 2009
Posts: 37

Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 9:51 pm Post subject:

It's very nearly done. If this game is even half as awesome as TC2M, it will be a must-have

Jason
chasing a bee

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Location: baby arm fantasy island

Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 6:54 am Post subject:

As we draw to a close...

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Only two items remain between us and a Gold Master. We had an MP test tonight using the demo and it all went very smoothly. There were a couple of minor bugs, but at this point I am confident in the stability of this release and very loath to change anything. I cannot count the number of times that an innocent change made at the end of a dev cycle had unintended results.

We started working on this soon after we released the last patch for MadMinute at the end of 2006. So that's a little over 3 years of a development cycle. This past year we really stepped it up and we're ready to be done.

I wrote an article a while back about what the day is like developing an Indie title, not much has changed. I put in 48 hours a week at my day job and work 9pm-? on this title. It takes a lot of dedication to finish something like this, from yourself as well as those people around you. One really nice thing we did for this game was to share the profits with the team. Since it's not just me making the sacrifice, it's only fair that the other guys that make the same sacrifice also get some profits. So anyone that stuck it out, will get a little cut of the pie. It's only fair. Besides, our families deserve a little reward too as they only got to see our backs for the past 3+ years.

Read on for a post mortem/development history of the game.
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Fuck_The_Banks

Joined: 05 Dec 2009
Posts: 37

Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 9:33 am Post subject:

Demo is up via a link in the game forums... http://www.norbsoftware.com/Portal/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=60&func=view&catid=40&id=13075#13102

GlobalExplorer

Joined: 21 Apr 2006
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Location: Germania, World Capital

Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 10:48 am Post subject:

A tip for all people who download the demo now: Set uniforms to medium. They will only look different when you zoom in very close, but they need much less memory. The highres uniforms need insane amounts of RAM. It may not be a problem in the demo but in the larger scenarios I had crashes and jerky behavior. these are the settings I settled with in the end: http://www.global-explorer.de/20100327/1.jpg http://www.global-explorer.de/20100327/2.jpg _________________ Book and film reviews \| Strategy game reviews for tcancer \| OrionArm Demo

Fuck_The_Banks

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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 11:19 am Post subject:

Thanks for the heads-up GE. I can imagine rendering all those high res uniforms will eat huge amounts of memory in some of the later scenarios....

GlobalExplorer

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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 10:17 pm Post subject:

Sometimes they wouldn't even load. If you get crashes during loading, you are out of memory. I guess they went a little bit overboard with the texture resolution, so it's better to reduce them. Only closeup views benefit from the highres uniforms, but I trade a smoother gameplay for that any day. It took me some time to figure that out so it might help. _________________ Book and film reviews \| Strategy game reviews for tcancer \| OrionArm Demo

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