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Prince of Eckmühl

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  1. Actually, it may have been bad-form for me to have jumped ahead of others in line ahead of me by accessing the page via the email link, before I received my invite. Who knows? PoE
  2. Honestly, all I can relate to you is my own experience. I pre-ordered the game, and received a confirmation of purchase email that included the download link. When I visited the forum this evening and learned that downloads had begun, I went to my email client and clicked on that link. It took me straight to the download page where I provided my proof-of-purchase code. I was then able to download the game. PoE
  3. I dearly dread taking a guess here, but BFC may have sent out the emails in a staggered fashion based on date of purchase. The earlier you purchased, the sooner you get your invite. That's just a guess, though, my outsider's "credentials" having been thoroughly established, hereabouts. PoE
  4. You don't need an email invitation from BFC to download the game. Go to your email client, find your purchase confirmation email, and click on the link, therein. It will take you to a download page. All you have to do is provide your proof of purchase code, and click download. It's really just as easy as that. PoE
  5. Click on the link in your purchase confirmation email. It will take you to the download. Copy and past the serial number from your purchase confirmation into the window. Click "download." That's all there is to it. PoE
  6. Yes, the game install nicely. No sign of corruption on my download or install. And it's a whopper, 1.78GB. PoE
  7. You don't have to have an invitation to download the game. Click on the link in your purchase confirmation, and it will take you to the download You DO have to have a legit serial number to download the game. PoE
  8. Clicked on the link in my purchase confirmation email. It took me to a page where I was asked for the serial number associated with the purchase. The download only took twenty minutes. Nothing beats a cable modem. I never received any sort of pre-order offer to download up the que, although I expect that my download speed was so fast because the pre-orders didn't have to compete with others for bandwidth. PoE
  9. The first time that I clicked on the game's desktop icon, it wouldn't run. I ran the config utility and it started right up. The first time that I entered a mission, it ran VERY, VERY poorly, very choppy. I went into the setup program, loaded the defaults and THEN tweaked it a bit, which was to set EVERYTHING to MAX. I exited the game, and restarted ToW. It ran fine after that. The game camera is excellent. It reminds me of the camera in TC2M. It's very flexible and responsive, a MASSIVE improvment over some older games. I still don't know what I'm doing. I'm playing the tutorials and trying to learn how stuff works by RTFM. IMO, it's really important to do so, before going negative on the game. I can't tell you how many CM fans showed up at the Panzer Command forums claiming that the orders system was FUBAR'd, only to then reveal that they hadn't read the manual and had no concept of the newer game's turn sequence. No kidding, they just sat down and tried to play Combat Mission and didn't understand why PCoWS wasn't cooperating. One thing that I can tell our readers for sure is that ToW is more complex in it's mechanics than most of us probably assumed. If you hear someone refer to the game derisively as an "RTS," they're mostly full of bull. It's certainly not Sudden Strike or CoH. That said, it's also not CMx, CCx or PCoWS. My vote, thus-far, is a definite maybe. PoE
  10. It's landed here; took eight minutes. Barely enough time to scarf down a meatball sub and some fresh pineapple. Now, I shall drink many brews and belch the night away. Nuke the Whales! PoE
  11. Nah, it's running sweet, 1200 KB/sec here. Download's at 100mb and indicates seven minutes left to go. PoE
  12. Only if you cut your ethernet cable in your sector. Then and only then will you be given the link to download. </font>
  13. Ah, yes, Stalin's heirs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin No Hollywood docudramas about that guy. No Michael Moore vision of evil. And the Russians WERE ashamed of Stalin and that flag. I've talked FTF to too many ex-pats to believe otherwise. And the only reason that its not banned for uses in games is because...well, in the West...commies can get away with anything. PoE
  14. While we're busy fixing flags, how about putting away that nasty old "hammer and sickle." The Russians were so ashamed of it, that they got rid of it. So, why's it still adorning BF games? PoE
  15. If anyone's interested, I'll be happy to post some links to games that you can pay forty, fifty, or sixty-bucks for, and, subsequently, endure the honor of playtesting it for some slack-ass developer. Seriously, if craftsmanship and quality-control don't register on your bling-meter, sound off, and I shall deliver. PoE [ January 23, 2007, 09:42 PM: Message edited by: Prince of Eckmühl ]
  16. Interesting view... I guess this means that 'Daikana' is the best game ever, and 'Combat Mission Campaigns' is something else as a belated add-on feature for a great, but technically hopeless outdated CMBB!? </font>
  17. Anyone that's as knee-deep in development as this guy, doesn't have time to indulge himself in forum jocularity. Hell, he doesn't even have time to use the spell-checker. Trust me, I've been there. Honestly, at times, some of you remind me of a two-year old in a shopping basket near the check-out stand, raising hell over a hershey-bar, just out of reach. Well, it may be annoying as hell, but momma ain't about to spoil your supper by giving in. The longer the game's in development, the better it will likely be when it finally emerges from the belly of the BF beast. PoE
  18. Turns, pauses and other loss pre-emptive features are crutches for old ladies. Stretching out play to hours, days or even months in a tactical situation where units would run out of ammo in a half-hour or less is a total joke. Unless of course, what you really want is an animated miniatures game, rather than any sort of deeper wargame experience, an essential ingredient of which is time-pressure. And if someone can't stand to lose, they ought to go play checkers with a pre-schooler. PoE
  19. @Madmatt, Isn't the image being skewed, stretched right and left on widescreen monitors? Or are the game graphics actually designed to accomodate screen formats beyond the traditional 4-3 ratio? I asked because I met a television personality recently who I believed to be considerably "wider" than she is in real life. Of course, I had been watching her broadcast on a plasma television which was stretching her horizontally, a very unpopular phenomena with the ladies, might I add. PoE
  20. The very first folks to come out with guns ablazing about defects in ToW will be the exact same people who are grousing about the time that's being devoted to tidying up the game. Stand fast, and put your best effort forward. PoE
  21. CC? That is real-time. Or did you mean CM? PoE
  22. I think that it may have been because they couldn't make it look "pretty," guys running in doorways, taking up stations at windows, holing up inside, etc.,. Just a guess. I really wish that the developers had gone with North Africa as the setting. There aren't a whole lot of buildings between Tripoli and Cairo. But, the developers are RUSSIAN, so go figure. PoE
  23. Hey, this thread laid to rest the "When is the demo ready?" nonsense. That alone should qualify me for a humanitarian award (mercy-killing), and a bucks-off coupon from BF for the purchase of some nifty wargaming stuff from its gift shop. And don't go instigating fights with the French brothers and sisters, here on the forum. They delivered my people from the imposition of aristocracy and bad food. And you apparently appreciate none of their generosity or sacrifice in having done so. Yours in incredulity, PoE
  24. Seeing as how we've got such a terrible case of demo-fever, hereabouts, why not try this out? The graphics are mind-boggling, the hacking and peforation prolonged, and the units less responsive than in the previous versions. Mostly, you just line 'em up and charge, but hey, it's the Middle-Ages! PoE BTW, it's also got some gameplay bugs, but it appears stable and has to be seen to be believed. Agincourt is included, albeit in abbreviated length.
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