Blood Bowl - for real

[schild]

Sorry, but I refuse to play this without a 1920x1200 option. Gonna go see if I can "hack" around with some of the cfg files.

[Ingmar]

Sorry, but I refuse to play this without a 1920x1200 option. Gonna go see if I can "hack" around with some of the cfg files.

Ouch, dealbreaker. Hopefully it is just a beta limitation of some kind.

[schild]

Uninstalling. Highest resolution is 1680x1050, it won't save my refresh rate and manually configuring config.xml does NOTHING.

What sloppy programming. Even for a beta. Don't people realize now that a beta is just a marketing scheme? Sigh.

[Salamok]

ended up playing windowed mode anyhow as it is less buggy.

[Modern Angel]

Uninstalling. Highest resolution is 1680x1050, it won't save my refresh rate and manually configuring config.xml does NOTHING.

What sloppy programming. Even for a beta. Don't people realize now that a beta is just a marketing scheme? Sigh.

Then for chrissake send me your key, schild, because I will play the fuck out of it until doomsday on my 1680x1050 monitor.

[Hindenburg]

Can't. Can only be installed once.

[Modern Angel]

That is fucking heartbreaking.

[Falconeer]

It's Blood Bowl, dammit. It's a turn based game and it is eyecandy enough to me in 1280x960. It's all about gameplay anyway.

[Tarami]

Does it support 1600x1200?

[Hoth]

Then for chrissake send me your key, schild, because I will play the fuck out of it until doomsday on my 1680x1050 monitor.

Does it make sense to write you a PM regarding new PMs?

[Salamok]

Does it support 1600x1200?

yip.  Does, anyone have a league started?

[Falconeer]

Uhm. Yes, but ?

[Salamok]

How bout, whats our league going to be once this thing goes retail?  Someone in beta should really test that league name out too so we know it works!

[Falconeer]

I think it will be easy to guess, and find. 

[Modern Angel]

Then for chrissake send me your key, schild, because I will play the fuck out of it until doomsday on my 1680x1050 monitor.

Does it make sense to write you a PM regarding new PMs?

of course!

[Falconeer]

I head the beta is ending this sunday 

Bye bye f13 test league    

[schild]

You all can tell me after release if they support 1920x1200. Even then I probably still won't buy it. They screwed the pooch on this one.

[Falconeer]

They screwed the pooch on this one.

The pooch is NDA breaking!

No, seriously. What does that mean?

[schild]

They screwed the pooch on this one.

The pooch is NDA breaking!

No, seriously. What does that mean?

Making a game targeting old school table top players in a world that the youth of today doesn't know is likely to end up with you having a reasonable number of tech savvy folks and computer types, a result of which is a lot of people having 24" monitors. The standard resolution on a 24" monitor is 1920x1200. Blood Bowl doesn't seem to support it.

"Screwed the pooch" is a colloquialism. It means 'they done fucked up.'

[Arthur_Parker]

Send them an email to that contact address thingy, at least let them know.

[Hayduke]

That is weird.  1920x1200 is pretty standard nowadays.  I run at 1920x1080 and it's rare that I have a problem with games unless they're very old.

Kind of gave a pass on this game when I saw there was no PS3 version (playing sports games on a PC seems yuck).

[Falconeer]

This is not a sport game Hayduke, although it's hard to tell what the RTS version will be like.
This is a board game. Or, if you prefer, it's Disgaea Football. It's a turn based, Tactical RPG, not a sport game.

Anyway, gotcha on the 1920 topic. I still stand by my gameplay claim (I played Diablo 2 800x600 for too long to care about resolution when a game is good), but I can see your point. Since so many complained about it, I wonder if they can put better options in before launch. Other than that, and some obvious bugs, the game is anything but screwed. It's a dream came true actually.

Next, Car Wars please.

[Megrim]

I heard that this has Starforce. Confirm, y/n?

[schild]

I heard that this has Starforce. Confirm, y/n?

[Falconeer]

From the interview Arthur Parker linked, the guy answering is the CEO of Cyanide software:

Q: Will the PC version use StarForce for its copy protection?

A: Honestly, I don’t know at this point. Probably not but I can’t guarantee it since no final decision has been made.

[IainC]

Starforce would be about the only thing that would prevent me from buying this game.

[Falconeer]

What's the point of Starforce anyway? It's basically an MMO, so you need the cd-key more than anything else. Or will people really get this for the single player? 

[Salamok]

What's the point of Starforce anyway? It's basically an MMO, so you need the cd-key more than anything else. Or will people really get this for the single player? 

This would be a game that would probably produce more revenue if they gave it away and charged a $25 yearly fee to unlock internet/network play.  I can think of a shit ton of people that would like this game and won't be willing to shell out cash up front because they don't think it is their type of thing.

[Falconeer]

The funny thing is that to a degree Blood Bowl, and the whole GW catalogue of miniature games, is BORN for RMT. Their tabletops requires you to spend real money on improvements for your team.
And still, this won't be the case with the videogame. Colour me happy.

But seriously Salamok: 60 - 120 minutes a game? Free or not, this will always be a specialist game. The niche of a niche.

[Zzulo]

The game is decent. Not sure I'd want to pay full price for it though.

I think it'll be most fun when you have proper leagues with friends up and running, because fighting some anonymous internetguy for 2hrs is just not a good time investment for me with this game.

As for the visuals, they're okay. Animations could have been much more visceral and fun, and the commentary could be much better. Overall I'd say the game is just "okay". Well worth it if you're a blood bowl fan I guess.

[Trippy]

If you are under NDA, don't talk about the game.

[Salamok]

Someone needs to take a speeded up blood bowl concept (like 15-30 min games), ditch the leveling/gear/fantasy aspect and link player stats to fantasy football, sell it to espn and have it be a mini-game within your FF league.  Maybe call it "FF Coach's Revenge" your team is based on your last FF resolved match up (basically a new line up + stats on every Tuesday).  Use your real player performance to add stat bonuses to the equivalent toon players and give all the FF guys a chance to actually coach a game each week as opposed to just setting a lineup.

[Aez]

Someone needs to take a speeded up blood bowl concept (like 15-30 min games), ditch the leveling/gear/fantasy aspect and link player stats to fantasy football, sell it to espn and have it be a mini-game within your FF league.  Maybe call it "FF Coach's Revenge" your team is based on your last FF resolved match up (basically a new line up + stats on every Tuesday).  Use your real player performance to add stat bonuses to the equivalent toon players and give all the FF guys a chance to actually coach a game each week as opposed to just setting a lineup.

No.  I'll take the Blood Bowl adaption.

[Modern Angel]

Yeah, that sounds pretty terrible.

[Falconeer]

That sounds just not Blood Bowl. So shooo, shooo!