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Echo · May 2011

Zenitram wrote: »

Now having said all this, shotguns pretty much insta-fire if their target is in range and in their line of sight. The above rules do take effect in shotgun vs. shotgun battles though.

Much to my surprise I actually had a machinegunner kill my shotty when they both moved around corners. The gunner might have been aiming, pretty sure my shotty wasn't.

Inquisitor · May 2011

I feel like this game needs a "coming round the corner" bonus or something. I'm thinking back to FPS games that I've played and the aggressor often has the advantage because they know exactly when they are going to be going around the corner, while the defender has to react to that. Something to promote less static gameplay, is what I'm getting at.

That said, I'm still having a blast with this game.

Drez · May 2011

Inqui, you never finished our game.

Inquisitor · May 2011

Drez wrote: »

Inqui, you never finished our game.

It told me I had no games awaiting turns from me. Stupid program *kicks*

Drez · May 2011

Yeah the servers are a bit slow and things are a little glitchy right now. That's happened to me too. Actually I think it happened to me with our game.

Inquisitor · May 2011

Now my game doesn't even want to log into the grand server, it keeps hanging. Le sigh.

Silas Brown · May 2011

Going up against Rend, I knew I'd have to pull something serious. I'd have to do something he would never expect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLC4YKZ_hkw

So I gave orders to the wrong team on the first turn. Check and mate.

Inquisitor · May 2011

I've yet to get to play a game with grenade launchers, they look fun.

I'm pretty miserable with rockets so far. I don't think I've scored a kill with them yet.

Darmak · May 2011

Silas Brown wrote: »

Going up against Rend, I knew I'd have to pull something serious. I'd have to do something he would never expect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLC4YKZ_hkw

So I gave orders to the wrong team on the first turn. Check and mate.

That's right, mix it up, don't even do anything your first turn, genius! He'll never suspect! :rotate:

Inquisitor · May 2011

It's interesting that this game has such a low (in my mind) turn limit. I guess they really don't want the game to drag, but I find myself hitting the turn limit without really meaning to. Just my play style, I guess.

Darmak · May 2011

Inquisitor wrote: »

It's interesting that this game has such a low (in my mind) turn limit. I guess they really don't want the game to drag, but I find myself hitting the turn limit without really meaning to. Just my play style, I guess.

I'm guessing like you said the devs didn't want games to drag. I know my games would drag otherwise, I'd be crouch-walking all over the place, hiding and camping and shit. Since there's a turn limit it forces me to be more aggressive than I would otherwise (though I still camp areas when it's needed).

Entriech · May 2011

I'm playing on Texas2 as Entriech. Feel free to challenge me to a few games!

Drez · May 2011

Okay, so one of three things is true:

a) TEXAS2 is like 500% slower than TEXAS4.
b) The entire game/all servers in general have slowed down quite a bit since 11AM this morning.
c) I'm going crazy.

Seriously, I was juggling five games at a time this morning and now I can barely connect to one. It's very annoying.

Drez · May 2011

Seriously, it's taking upwards of 2-3 minutes to send a move to the server. Something must be wrong. Is it possible my connection to TEXAS2 is obstructed somehow? Or is everyone else experiencing this?

Drez · May 2011

God damn you, Rend.

Echo · May 2011

Yeah, same here.

Stabbity Style · May 2011

Should everyone finish up their games on Texas2 and switch to Texas4?

Drez · May 2011

I'm going back on TEXAS4 just to see if it's any faster or if everything has slowed down from this morning.

Drez · May 2011

Nah TEXAS4 seems slow as hell too. I think they need to increase bandwidth or something.

Drez · May 2011

Actually, no, TEXAS4 now seems a lot faster once I've gotten into it. Turn submitted immediately. Was able to switch to a new game immediately.

You guys should check it out and let me know if you notice a substantial difference between TEXAS2 and TEXAS4. I do.

edit: Yeah, it's like night and day. A turn went to the server immediately here on TEXAS4. For two games. And I can fluidly switch between games. On TEXAS2 it's slow as hell. I guess find me on TEXAS4 for now, if you want to challenge me.

taliosfalcon · May 2011

Texas 4 seems the same as 2 to me, but i wasn't getting the multi minute waits on 4, they both take me about 20-30 seconds to upload a turn

Drez · May 2011

That's really weird. I have 2-3 minutes of lag to do ANYTHING on TEXAS2, including submitting turns and switching between games.

Establishing an initial connection to TEXAS4 just now took about 2 minutes, but now that I'm in it, everything takes 0-3 seconds, from submitting turns, to switching between games.

Maybe it's a routing thing. I don't know. For now, sadly, I'm staying on TEXAS4 because TEXAS2 is almost unplayable for me.

GalagaGalaxian · May 2011

So, steam lists this as the requirements:

OS: Windows XP, Vista, 7
Processor: 1.6 GHz
Memory: 512 MB
Graphics: Netbook integrated graphics
DirectX®:
Hard Drive: 220 MB
Sound:

This seems deceptively low, how well does this run on older computers? I've got a 6 year old laptop with a 1.76 dual core and 1gig RAM on XP. I thought I heard something about how the AI loves to computer tons of different scenarios, will my laptop actually run this? :?

Dusda · May 2011

Texas 2 is really slow.

Drez · May 2011

GalagaGalaxian wrote: »
So, steam lists this as the requirements:
OS: Windows XP, Vista, 7
Processor: 1.6 GHz
Memory: 512 MB
Graphics: Netbook integrated graphics
DirectX®:
Hard Drive: 220 MB
Sound:
This seems deceptively low, how well does this run on older computers? I've got a 6 year old laptop with a 1.76 dual core and 1gig RAM on XP. I thought I heard something about how the AI loves to computer tons of different scenarios, will my laptop actually run this? :?

Well, the default resolution is 800x600x16. I mean, that's what the game initially sets up. And it doesn't really look that bad. It helps that the entire game is essentially rendered in four colors, and probably vectors. So yes I think that's probably right.

Drez · May 2011

Dusda wrote: »

Texas 2 is really slow.

Does TEXAS4 run better for you?

taliosfalcon · May 2011

I', seeing a bit of improvement with 4 now, like, 10-15 seconds for turns as opposed to 30 on 2 so I guess it is a bit better

Silas Brown · May 2011

For my money, I'm sticking to TEXAS2 unless there's a larger movement. I don't feel like switching servers to play with different people and I'd rather have long load times than cut myself off from the majority of PAers.

Figgy · May 2011

Guys, it's not that one server is miraculously faster than another. The game is experiencing some growing pains. You all up and switch to another server and before you know it, the grass is going to be greener somewhere else.

Give it time.

Dusda · May 2011

Drez wrote: »

Dusda wrote: »

Texas 2 is really slow.

Does TEXAS4 run better for you?

Not sure, I'll try it after I finish this game.

Drez · May 2011

Figgy wrote: »

Guys, it's not that one server is miraculously faster than another. The game is experiencing some growing pains. You all up and switch to another server and before you know it, the grass is going to be greener somewhere else.

Give it time.

I don't agree. I actually do think that one server is miraculously faster than the other.

I got the game at 11AM today. That's 10 hours ago. This has been my experience with the game:

11AM to about 1PM (on TEXAS4): Everything was smooth.
5PM-7PM (on TEXAS2): Slow as shit.
8PM-8:20PM (on TEXAS2): Slow as shit
8:25PM-now (on TEXAS4): The exact opposite. Same experience as 11AM-1PM.

I mean, I'm not dreaming the differences. And it's very possible that one server is on older hardware or is somehow throttling.

edit: TEXAS2 is virtually unplayable for me, especially compared to TEXAS4. This kind of game isn't worth waiting 2-3 minutes between turn submissions, especially if you are juggling multiple games.

Rend · May 2011

I think we should at least try and stick with texas 2 for a bit. They have been quick to fix server issues so far, hopefully that continues

Drez · May 2011

If it were a minor difference, I wouldn't mind, and maybe I'm experiencing much worse issues than anyone else, but there's really no option for me to stay on TEXAS2. I'm not exaggerating when I say it's virtually unplayable for me right now. If they fix TEXAS2, let me know, and I'll come back. Otherwise, look for me on TEXAS4 if you want to slap me around. (I've only won one game so far.

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Dusda · May 2011

Couldn't get into TEXAS4. I'm switching back to UK1.

kleinfehn · May 2011

Still looking to go half and half with frozen synapse. $10 paypal to the kind gentlemen/lady who wants to do this with me.

EliteBattleman · May 2011

Inquisitor wrote: »

INeedNoSalt wrote: »

if you give orders to red team during the prep phase, do you see that go through when you press play?

so you can simulate what you think the other team will do too?

Yup.

This seriously changed the way I play this game in the biggest way. It may have just been the single most helpful post on the internet.

It also allowed me to get my first perfect game against the AI!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EbgLF-QwoY

I still feel pretty retarded when I'm playing this though, so any pointers would be super-helpful.

Raiden333 · May 2011

I can't imagine trying to play this WITHOUT simulating what you think your opponent will do. It's a fundamental part of the game.

It'd be like trying to play Mario without the run button.

chiasaur11 · May 2011

Raiden333 wrote: »

I can't imagine trying to play this WITHOUT simulating what you think your opponent will do. It's a fundamental part of the game.

It'd be like trying to play Mario without the run button.

Well, about Mario...

Yeah, dark times.

Rami · May 2011

I set up a hostage game and I'm so confused. I don't know if I'm saving or killing them.

Okay I'm killing, but holy shit this is so hard. He could run them off the map in any direction in two turns.

Jintor · May 2011

Cheers for the game Inksplats

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