[360] Battlestations Midway Multiplayer Demo

Kworn

Cool

Anyone played this yet?

http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2007/01/18/battlestations-midway-multiplayer- demo.aspx

NailbunnyPD

No. I noticed it was coming to the 360, so I was hoping for a Demo there soon.

Kworn

I think this game has promise.

Sounds like the demo will be quite beefy.

NailbunnyPD

Silly me, this is the 360 demo. I guess I'll be trying it tonight.

Dashui

This is the first I've heard of this game. I checked out the website and the media/videos and holy shit it looks amazing! I can imagine some awesome online battles (up to eight players, too, and with co-op). From what I can tell, it's an RTS where you can directly control any unit, from submarines to battleships to planes. I'll be picking this up for the PC on the 30th.

Der Waffle Mous

Downloadin'.

Yall

Is the demo multi or single player on the 360?

NailbunnyPD

From what I can tell, MP.

TxdoHawk

Not really my thing as far as gameplay goes, but the few impressions I've heard have all been good, so I'll give it a shot tonight.

etoychest

After all the allegations and controversy surrounding this game, here's hoping it's good.

Der Waffle Mous

What's the controversy?


I only started paying attention to this game last weekend or so.

etoychest

WHY wrote:

What's the controversy?


I only started paying attention to this game last weekend or so.

Hungarian Developers Accuse SCi Of Theft

Breaking: SCi Denies Theft Reports On Battlestations: Midway

Der Waffle Mous

wow....


Anyway, after finally "getting it", I've taken quite a liking to it.

The aircraft controls didn't quite come to me right away, but it's suprisingly easy to get used to commanding an entire air-group plus your individual carrier. Once I got the hang of it, I was taking down battleships pretty much on my lonesome.

Also, dive-bombers are awesome.

The ships are neat in their own respect. Battleships and cruisers are mostly the same, they both carry the big guns, but the cruisers are a bit faster on the reload and in actual speed. Destroyers are the more flexible kinds of ships; they have the standard Artillery/AAA guns, as well as torpedo launchers (which the japanese BB seems to have as well) and depth-charges.


The one thing I haven't gotten to try yet have been Submarines. I don't know if they launch from a specific kind of base, or if there's some control I'm missing.

The downside? It keeps freaking freezing.

Dashui

WHY wrote:

wow....


Anyway, after finally "getting it", I've taken quite a liking to it.

The aircraft controls didn't quite come to me right away, but it's suprisingly easy to get used to commanding an entire air-group plus your individual carrier. Once I got the hang of it, I was taking down battleships pretty much on my lonesome.

Also, dive-bombers are awesome.

The ships are neat in their own respect. Battleships and cruisers are mostly the same, they both carry the big guns, but the cruisers are a bit faster on the reload and in actual speed. Destroyers are the more flexible kinds of ships; they have the standard Artillery/AAA guns, as well as torpedo launchers (which the japanese BB seems to have as well) and depth-charges.


The one thing I haven't gotten to try yet have been Submarines. I don't know if they launch from a specific kind of base, or if there's some control I'm missing.

The downside? It keeps freaking freezing.

So it doesn't play like an RTS, does it? I know you can control any ship, but how does it play (interface, etc)? Also, any idea how it might play on the PC? I don't have my 360 here on campus, so I'd like to pick it up on the PC.

Der Waffle Mous

No, it's pretty much an action game.

Airplanes are pretty much like Crimson Skies.

Ships, I really don't have an apt comparison for, save maybe the old Xbox Pirates of the Carribean game.

Evigilant

When you select what you want to be, if you scroll to the right with the left-analog stick you can see what is available to that selection.

Only one port can launch the submarines.

And I realized that only the quick match feature actually freeze's the game. If you go to custom match then select a game there, you can play without it freezing...though you will still get disconnected from time to time.

It's a pretty neat game, I'll most likely be picking it up. The weirdest part of the game is playing with German players who scream: "german german german, Deustchland!"

xzzy

Hey, I think we shot each other up for a while Evigilant.

I also shot up some guy named PA Crypt, who beat me but I was the only guy on my team who stuck around.

Wezoin

Dudes, I found out my little brother's friend's dad's brother is Major Nelson.

It was so weird, cause he came over and he saw me playing on my 360 and was all "Haha, my brothers the community manager for Xbox Live."

Thats what major nelson is, right? Community Manager?

epburn

Wezoin wrote:

Dudes, I found out my little brother's friend's dad's brother is Major Nelson.

It was so weird, cause he came over and he saw me playing on my 360 and was all "Haha, my brothers the community manager for Xbox Live."

Thats what major nelson is, right? Community Manager?

I hear that makes you two absolutely nothing.

It had to be done. Thanks Mel Brooks.

Evigilant

xzzy wrote:

Hey, I think we shot each other up for a while Evigilant.

I also shot up some guy named PA Crypt, who beat me but I was the only guy on my team who stuck around.

Now that you mention it, we did.

Yeah Crypt was playing as well, I was showing him the ropes. I hate it when people quit from the game because they started losing. Every game I've been in, the moment one of the air craft carriers goes down, people start dropping.

Dashui

Man, I want to play with you guys, but all I can get it on is the PC. Hopefully they have a demo for that come out soon. At least I can look forward to mods (maybe).

Guardian Legend

Has anyone figured out how to give units to a teammate, yet? Tutorial tip says it can be done, but dunno how.

I like this game but I'm not sure if the game will sell well. On one hand, it has that "Hey history channel fans, play this!" aspect to it, which is good. On the other, bomb dropping seems like it would be too hard for your casual gamer. The flight sim genre died for alotta reasons, one of them being that your average Joe couldn't really play them. Players can always let the AI control stuff they're not comfortable with, but that could leave the player with very limited things to do...

Still, I do hope this game does well, if only to launch a new genre of games. Imagine a Star Wars game like this. That'd rock!