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Sie wird in Company of Heroes verwendetkiller36 am 28.03.2008 11:37 schrieb:Geil ich freu mich schon so auf DoW 2.
Jedoch sagt mir diese Essence Engine nichts,in welchem Spiel wird sie denn verwendet??Weil ich möchte jetzt schon wissen wie das Spiel aussieht.![]()
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tomtailer14 am 28.03.2008 11:38 schrieb:Sie wird in Company of Heroes verwendetkiller36 am 28.03.2008 11:37 schrieb:Geil ich freu mich schon so auf DoW 2.
Jedoch sagt mir diese Essence Engine nichts,in welchem Spiel wird sie denn verwendet??Weil ich möchte jetzt schon wissen wie das Spiel aussieht.![]()
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System am 28.03.2008 11:27 schrieb:Jetzt ist Ihre Meinung gefragt: Hier können Sie Ihren Kommentar zum Artikel veröffentlichen und mit anderen Lesern darüber diskutieren.
The intel (gathered from the preview and an interview with Producer Mark Noseworthy in the same Belgian magazine, PC Gameplay):
- Uses the Essence 2.0 engine with Havok physics, all optimised for DX10 and multicore support.
- It looks great, think of the DoW intro but with a bit less polygons here and there (in terms of lighting and all that it looks almost exactly the same).
- Units also use CoH-like unit AI for awareness and pathfinding to find cover and such.
- While DoW 2 shares the same (upgraded probably) engine as CoH it won't be "CoH in space", while soldiers in CoH will ask themselves if flanking the enemy is the right option, in DoW2 it will be more like Space Marines asking themselves if they should use their jetpacks to jump over an Ork squad to attack them in the back. Different settings, different kinds of warfare.
- Preview only showed a destroyed city landscape, akin to DoW (but more detailed), other tilesets will offer deserts, jungles, mountains and other cities.
- Only the Orkz and Space Marines were revealed, more races on the way obviously and to be to revealed later this year (though how many isn't known).
- Co-op campaign for both the Orkz and Space Marines, apparently not for the other to-be-revealed races.
- More focus on making units and squads unique; every unit has got a name (at least in the campaign it seems), more details and more animations.
- Relic wants to give players rewards at the end of a mission like wargear (armor, weapons, rare objects); "Let's pimp out squads with cool stuff!", you will see these items in-game as well of course.
- You'll fight your way through the campaign with the same squads.
- You can't control more than six squads! I am not sure if this is campaign-only but the preview made it sound like it wasn't.
- The squads are going to be a lot more interesting than before though.
- A squad leader (one or several?) will need to survive if you want to complete a mission; you really have to look out for your squads and don't treat them like cannon fodder.
- There is a lot more interesting commentary from the units as well; if your SM commander is holding a Thunder Hammer f.e. then the opponent will specifically comment on that, Ork Warchief saying something like "Ooh, nice hammer, but mine is bigger!". The warchief will say something else if the commander doesn't have the hammer.
- The campaign lets Space Marines operate from a spaceship, you'll get a view of an underlying planet and you'll be able to choose from different missions (which are tagged with difficulty colours, green, blue and red).
- Certain reward items won't be useable at once in the campaign, so they'll be taken back to the SM spaceship for research.
- Dreadnought can now also trample Orkz.
- No sea or air units (though jetpacks are still in of course).
- Development team of 55 people has been working on it since September 2006.
- Release in early 2009 or later.
This is just a summary, the preview also describes the battles that were shown but that wasn't really revealing. Also remember that this is a translation based on the impressions of a Belgian gamesjournalist and on a translated-to-Dutch interview, some of the info might be incorrect or poorly worded in the preview/interview itself to start with, you never know with these first-revelation articles.
I am not gonna scan the magazine since most folks probably don't understand Dutch and I also didn't think the preview was that informative (didn't focus enough on difference with DoW1, seems to talk only about the campaign). Can't say I am that excited although the screenshots look great, I expected something... bigger (in scope at least) but that's probably because there isn't much information yet anyway.
hehe I couldn't resist and bought the dutch gamemagazine.
Haven't read the article, but judging from the, thank god, many screenshots, it looks awesome.
Some quick info:
-Buildings can be occupied (like in coh)
-Envirement completely destructable ^^
-Vehicles are bigger (there were only a couple of dreadnought shots)
-LOTS of blood (i saw the screens and thought LOL)
-Over the top finishing animations
-when units are in melee, pieces of battle armor can be chopped off in the action
Mods if this isnt allowed plz delete this (but this is only general information, nothing into detail)
The pics:
There's a screen of an Ork Warboss taking on three space marines. The warboss looks really brutal. With his right hand he picks up a space marine and crushes him in the air, with his left arm he's holding a chainsaw i think, and sawing the space marines in two?(pic is rather small so not to clear), a third marine attacks the ork from behind.
There's a screen from a Commander with a warhammer, charging an Ork Warboss.
The most brutal pic is that one of a dreadnought that slams his left arm into an ork, and the blood splashes in the air ^^
After looking real good, i can see the tongue of an orc coming out of its mouth with mucus.
Another pic is that of a battle between two dreadnoughts and some thirty orks i think (plus behind some cover, a few space marines supporting the dreadnoughts with heavy bolters).
A space marine with a flamer roasting some orks.
A rather large battle, involving three predators i guess (wasnt too clear, looked like two of 'em were already destroyed) many orks and some orks were obliterated by an orbital bombardement (that's right ^^).
A close combat marine (forgot the name, with the jetpacks, yes that one), bursting his jetpacks and flying into the air.
Two brutal finishing animations pics, but they werent too clear.
And a pic orks occupying a LARGE building(looked like a cathedral), some marines assaulting it.
AND:
The developer said that in the course of the campaign, the space marines would encounter OTHER RACES.
I quote this from the magazine: In the full game there will be diffrent worlds and diffrent races, all presented in a diffrent envirement (deserts, jungles, mountains, cities...it will all be included).
Also: NO Air- or Sea-units.
Danke!Meinereiner am 28.03.2008 12:12 schrieb:Ein paar mehr Infos:
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tomtailer14 am 28.03.2008 20:32 schrieb:Ich bete dafür, das es einen Tabletop Modus geben wird und das es auch alle Einheiten von Gamesworkshop übernommen werden
Also das bezweifel ich mal stark, es gibt mehr als genug Irre die das dann sofort kaufen würden, solange es sich halt an die Original Reglen halten würde bzw einen sonder Modus drinn hattBoesor am 28.03.2008 20:38 schrieb:tomtailer14 am 28.03.2008 20:32 schrieb:Ich bete dafür, das es einen Tabletop Modus geben wird und das es auch alle Einheiten von Gamesworkshop übernommen werden
Klingt reizvoll, allerdings befürchte ich die infrage kommende Zielgruppe dürfte ziemlich klein sein.
tomtailer14 am 28.03.2008 20:59 schrieb:Also das bezweifel ich mal stark, es gibt mehr als genug Irre die das dann sofort kaufen würden, solange es sich halt an die Original Reglen halten würde bzw einen sonder Modus drinn hatt
Spielst du etwa auch??? Aber im Prenzip hast du (leider) wahrscheinlich rechtBoesor am 28.03.2008 21:03 schrieb:tomtailer14 am 28.03.2008 20:59 schrieb:Also das bezweifel ich mal stark, es gibt mehr als genug Irre die das dann sofort kaufen würden, solange es sich halt an die Original Reglen halten würde bzw einen sonder Modus drinn hatt
Meinste? Ich weiß nicht, eine Tabletop Schlacht hat am PC doch ne ganz andere Atmosphäre. Also eher nichts für die Hardcorefreaks.
naja, vielleicht werden wir es ja sehen
tomtailer14 am 28.03.2008 21:06 schrieb:Spielst du etwa auch??? Aber im Prenzip hast du (leider) wahrscheinlich recht