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Started by Syt, September 10, 2013, 12:57:22 PM

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Syt

September 10, 2013, 12:57:22 PM
It appears Matrix is looking for beta testers for WiF:

http://www.matrixgames.com/beta/

(and GG's War in the West)

Considering the game has been in development at least since, oh, Two-Thousand-Fucking-Four, I'm not sure this means that the game is close to release or if there's too much attrition in the team at this point. The game has been in development for LONGER THAN THE WAR LASTED!

Didn't they nix the AI for this one, too? Like for Empires At War?
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Viking

#1
September 10, 2013, 01:10:28 PM
The problem is that there is an online WiF community and play on Vassal. The community went off and did it on their own. The AI will be crap and pointless.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Ed Anger

#2
September 10, 2013, 01:11:37 PM
MRSP: $199.99
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

11B4V

#3
September 10, 2013, 04:13:51 PM
Meh.
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Scipio

#4
September 10, 2013, 07:29:25 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 10, 2013, 01:11:37 PM
MRSP: $199.99
About the same price as actual Wallet in Flames.
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PDH

#5
September 10, 2013, 08:18:17 PM
This would have been so great a decade ago.
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Tamas

#7
September 11, 2013, 04:42:42 AM
Quote from: Viking on September 10, 2013, 01:10:28 PM
The problem is that there is an online WiF community and play on Vassal. The community went off and did it on their own. The AI will be crap and pointless.

From the product page:
QuoteIMPORTANT NOTE: This title does not include an AI player in the initial release.  It is designed as a computerized, automated and online multiplayer-capable World in Flames.

Also the beta recruitment post says it will be out in November.

Viking

#8
September 11, 2013, 04:58:45 AM
Quote from: Tamas on September 11, 2013, 04:42:42 AM
Quote from: Viking on September 10, 2013, 01:10:28 PM
The problem is that there is an online WiF community and play on Vassal. The community went off and did it on their own. The AI will be crap and pointless.

From the product page:
QuoteIMPORTANT NOTE: This title does not include an AI player in the initial release.  It is designed as a computerized, automated and online multiplayer-capable World in Flames.

Also the beta recruitment post says it will be out in November.

so, basically completely redundant

I played around with one of the much earlier betas (it was called a beta at the time) and the interface was just bad and convoluted

vassal is just better in every way.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Tamas

#9
September 11, 2013, 05:01:07 AM
Quote from: Viking on September 11, 2013, 04:58:45 AM
vassal is just better in every way.

unless you want to PBEM with Berkut.

Viking

#10
September 11, 2013, 05:10:55 AM
Quote from: Tamas on September 11, 2013, 05:01:07 AM
Quote from: Viking on September 11, 2013, 04:58:45 AM
vassal is just better in every way.

unless you want to PBEM with Berkut.

Rest assured, that will not happen.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

crazy canuck

#11
September 11, 2013, 11:35:45 AM
Quote from: PDH on September 10, 2013, 08:18:17 PM
This would have been so great a decade ago.

Yeah, a decade or two ago I would have been all over this.  But now? As the wise men said, Meh.

Bluebook

#12
September 13, 2013, 12:25:38 AM
Quote from: Viking on September 10, 2013, 01:10:28 PM
The problem is that there is an online WiF community and play on Vassal. The community went off and did it on their own. The AI will be crap and pointless.
How do they handle the sequence of play?

Viking

#13
September 13, 2013, 12:48:11 AM
Quote from: Bluebook on September 13, 2013, 12:25:38 AM
Quote from: Viking on September 10, 2013, 01:10:28 PM
The problem is that there is an online WiF community and play on Vassal. The community went off and did it on their own. The AI will be crap and pointless.
How do they handle the sequence of play?

by being online simultaneously.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

The Larch

#14
September 16, 2013, 07:05:12 AM
Tamas, are you involved in this? I see that the NDA agreement for the beta is with Slytherine...  :ph34r:
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