Bay 12 Games Forum

Aky should already have it, actually, I think. M'bout to (almost literally, am incredibly sleepy) pass out, so fiddling with a pm will have to wait. Nine hours from now would be... interesting, since it's about a quarter 'till eleven (PM I'm... GMT -6? I think.), for me, so that'd be... 8 ish in the morning. Which... might be awake! Might not. Will find out then :V

E: Well, after three or four attempts at games, I think we've learned that dawn of war does not handle out of sync players with anything even remotely approaching elegance. Looks like having a slow-ish computer doesn't fly with this game, in multiplayer

Did have some moments of personal hilarity when I was communicating with people 15-20 minutes ahead in the game to try to help out. This is how you play a co-op time travel themed RTS, if you want to lose customers :V

Still, playing dawn of war effectively blind is kinda' interesting. I could actually see someone making a game to do that intentionally -- one person can see enemies, the other person can see allies, and they have to communicate back and forth to achieve victory. Something like that.

Hey, I think they're not too far off from having the coding and assets and whatnot for the boys, too. Just think, literally automated boy band production! And imagine how much easier the PR would be with a pre-programmed digital group compared to a living band. No scandals that aren't specifically intended! No getting old unless you want them to, and you can turn back the clock as you please! It's like a manager's dream, I'd say.

Heh. I liked the comment under the jay z part, though. "If you have a $10 pair of headphones, maybe not for you."

Joke's on him, my headphones cost like two bucks. Or maybe five? Somewhere in that range.

Harpoons. The answer to the initial question is harpoons. Hopefully by the point we have space police, we'll also have even more effective trauma medication. Probably, if the space cops are shooting people with harpoons to get them to hold still.

Hey, there's quite a few politicians I'd sooner give a vote to an insentient data construct than them. Miku'd probably have a decent enough chance, if we threw out the natural born citizen requirement.

*blinks* Well... sure. PM sent, heh. Definitely will roll some games with folks.

And yeah, both nids and the daemons are pretty solid. The latter in particular has some incredible turrets, and some of their stuff is just ridiculously tanky. I watched one of those khornite defiler things just kinda' sit in front of two SM turrets and a fully upgraded listening post and take literally zero damage. Nothing. It was ridiculous. Thing was tougher than a full upped primary hero critter. Part of that had to do with what weapons were hitting it, but still...

Nids are a little harder to get a handle on, though pumping out their 'rets is pretty sexy, too, especially if you intersperse them with the spore mine spawners. Was able to take a standard AI 1v1 in a nid on nid match without much trouble, but it's a little spotty figuring out what to throw at things, heh. I'm too enamored to ranged :V

Their little artillery squads are pretty awesome, though.

I'm updated already, as noted

Actually just finished fixing the coloration (GLORIOUS PURPLE) on everything I'd have access to in multiplayer at the moment (without shenanigans, anyway). Only irritation would be only having access to the soulstorm stuff. I actually own everything in the dawn of war 1 line except winter assault, but the base and DC ones are, well. Actual CDs. Somewhere. And I lost the keys years ago so :V