Demigod

[Ard]

The creep spawns become an unstoppable wave of insanity once the catapults and giants get added in, later in the game.  I have enough trouble with the angels as is, but they alone don't start the tower destruction wave that the next two up do.

Also, on the zoom, keep in mind this is using the supreme commander engine.  You can zoom out, move your mouse, and then zoom back in where your mouse now is.  It lets you refocus the camera really fast while still keeping track of the battlefield.

[gryeyes]

Regulus is insanity. The range on his sniper attack after a few upgrades is like 3/4 the map.

[schild]

Maybe I should've played DOTA! I seem ok at this!

That's my first pantheon game. I've only played 3MP and 1SP before that.

[Ard]

NERF REGULUS, cheating kiting bastard!

[MrHat]

2v2?  Is there a stealther? :p

[schild]

It was Pantheon, could've been anything from 2v2 to 5v5. I was hoping for 5v5.

[schild]

oh god i think he might actually get nerfed.

[NiX]

How didn't they notice this in the beta?

[schild]

I don't know, but there's a pretty exact build order to be able to pull off that kind of damage by end game. And it involves not upgrading your teams citadel for anything but gold. There's a possibility they just never came across it. But if they let me get to level 20 and rack up 50k gold, it's all over.

[Aez]

I won my first Pantheon game.  My stats say 1W/1L even though I only played one game.  Anyone has an explanation?  Do you get a loss if you drop while the game tries to connect?  If so, it's pretty retarded.  Their connection system is way too bad to punish us for restarting.

[schild]

Do you get a loss if you drop while the game tries to connect?  If so, it's pretty retarded.  Their connection system is way too bad to punish us for restarting.

Yes, yes, and I agree.

[Hawkbit]

Saw a post on Kotaku:  essentially they sold 18,000 copies so far but 120,000 have attempted to log onto their servers.  Ouch.

[Aez]

I guess we can kiss good by to future updates.

EDIT :

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/91001-Demigod-Piracy-Running-High


That's what you get for not using steam I guess.  How come pirate can connect to their online service?

[gryeyes]

I think its just that the pirates are "trying" to connect to their servers that is bogging it down. But i could be wrong.

[Typhon]

1 out of 6 attempted connections is a valid user.  I don't understand why anyone would try to argue that piracy isn't harmful to this industry.

[Threash]

1 out of 6 attempted connections is a valid user.  I don't understand why anyone would try to argue that piracy isn't harmful to this industry.

I think most people argued that pissing off paying customers was worse for the industry than pirates.  Can pirates actually connect to the servers and play online? if they can't won't the attempted connections from them just drop off in a few weeks?

[Tmon]

So anyway, we spent a lot of time today trying to isolate out the warez users from the legitimate users (it would require a lot of surgery to actually break them and even if we did, there'd be no friendly 'ha ha pirate' message which would result in people just saying the game is buggy)."

I'd say based on this quote from the article that pirated copies can connect. 

[Hayduke]

Well bought it last night.  I missed DoTA so figured I'd try this.  It's fun, given how easy the controls are I could actually see this as being pretty decent on a console too.

Maybe there is some hidden depth, but it seems like a pretty shallow game for the price.  Looks awesome though, had to tweak my sound cause it was giving me some weird stuttering.  I hope they release some more stuff for it but if nobody's paying for it that's pretty grim.

[gryeyes]

I'd say based on this quote from the article that pirated copies can connect. 

The article seems to imply otherwise.

[Hayduke]

Anyone know why you're sometimes limited to the demigods you select?  Sometimes I try to start a MP game and it'll only let me select between one or two demis.  And sometimes it doesn't let me even pick the faction.  Weird.  Anyway did my first MP match just now.  Was fun.  We had 3 UBs against a Rook, Oak and Regulus.  We were doing very well for most of the match, but slowly but surely the Rook built up a level advantage and led his team to a good comeback.

I really like Sedna, Unclean Beast and Erebus so far.  But I've mostly been playing SP.  Fun game, but really needs more characters.

[Aez]

Haha, schild shared a few tips with me 

I completely owned this pantheon game :



The multiplayer matchmaking is lagging less and less.  Still shity.  I don't understand why we can't play team ladder.

[Aez]

An other rape :

[gryeyes]

Why cant i choose the demigod i want. Some are blanked out. Just attempted the multiplayer bit could not get a game.

[Aez]

If you play a pantheon game, you chose between the force of light or the force of darkness - you can only play the 4 demigods of that side.

[Der Helm]

What exactly are these pantheon games ? My google-fu is weak.

[Aez]

It's a ladder game.  They also track the win/loss of each side (dark vs light) and put it on their website as a "war".

[gryeyes]

This game refuses to connect to multiplayer. Tried for hours last night and today.

[Hayduke]

Make sure you enable port forwarding (UDP 6100-6200).  And turn off AV.  But yeah there's still quite a few issues with the NAT facilitator even if they've stopped the pirated copies from hammering their servers to check for updates.

I didn't know that when you first picked a Pantheon side that'd be your side for the whole season.  So I'm stuck with dark, unless I play skirmishes.  Oh well.  And yeah for some reason it doesn't always give you all four demis available to your side (strange bug).  Also there's some kind of favor point bug as well.

[Hoax]

I love DOTA, never got fully into it because I never owned my own legit copy of WC3 (not a huge rts fan), this sounds interesting almost.  I'll try to remember to check on the community in a month or two.

[schild]

Protip: Nightmare mode cheats. They were level 4 and 6 while we were level 1 like right at the beginning. We still won but fuck was it close, we basically bumrushed their base after I got Ashkander and we had 3,000 HP left on our base. It was close, but I got a killshot in for 1900 damage. In other words, what a shit AI. Even when it cheats it loses. Exceptionally depressing.

[Aez]

All RTS AI cheat on higher difficulty.

[UnSub]

Saw a post on Kotaku:  essentially they sold 18,000 copies so far but 120,000 have attempted to log onto their servers.  Ouch.

85% piracy rate. Consistent with World of Goo and others.

Also coincides with Stardock's DRM release called (not related) Goo.

We hurt ourselves, we really do.

[Typhon]

1 out of 6 attempted connections is a valid user.  I don't understand why anyone would try to argue that piracy isn't harmful to this industry.

I think most people argued that pissing off paying customers was worse for the industry than pirates.  Can pirates actually connect to the servers and play online? if they can't won't the attempted connections from them just drop off in a few weeks?

If you have a playerbase that's willing to put up with crappy no gameplay for a few weeks, yeah, not so bad.  That not being the case, I guess I'll have to be less of a hardass about not buying games with DRM in the future because I'm convinced that this is worse than DRM for the developer.

[gryeyes]

Saw a post on Kotaku:  essentially they sold 18,000 copies so far but 120,000 have attempted to log onto their servers.  Ouch.

No they had 18,000 legit concurrent users.

[Aez]

I read the article about Goo.  Why bother?  With steam so functional and widespread they'll end up like betamax.