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Wow! The graphics are amazing.If you want to see just how far flight sims have come - look at this
NTW added some to the naval battles. I haven't done a close comparison, so really they're bound to be quite similar, but still.Best game I ever came across was men of war 2 - chains of command. You could signal your fleet etc - something i really enjoyed. Plus all games only ever have three sail settings - none, battle or full.
Feel free to ignore this post entirely, but if anyone know's of a game Im missing let me know!!
The reason why WWI games are few, and far between is because this particular war is Trench Warfare. There isn't much that can be done if you are wishing to be historically accurate.After reading the Guns of August, I think someone should come up with a mod or even game for perhaps the most ignored war of all - as far as computer gaming goes: WWI. Especially in the first month, the combat was fluid and hadn't yet settled into trench warfare so it might not be as boring as everyone thinks.
Definitely. I've never ever played NTW vanilla in MP, that says a lot. Too arcadish and often with casual and immature players. Modded is totally another experience: historical battles at battalion or regimental level are an amazing sightseeing and with some house rules (like column before square) and realistic stats a decent level of historical realism can be achieved but..but it uses to crash on long battles. This alone is the worst game killer, you cannot really play a 2 hours battle just to get a desync/crash at the end before the outcome has been decided. I've been desperately asking for a save routine but CA really doesn't care about custumer and MP players. That's why we're starting to MP with SOW, I will trade off any graphic for a higher reliability (not to mention that SOW is much more realistic regarding structure of command and formations).ETW and NTW must be seasoned to taste, I think (ie modded). I was playing ETW when it first came out and some of the problems with the combat were so severe that even I took to going into the files and modifying values. Now that the mods for it are more complete, I find it a much better game. I actually never played NTW stock, Kester got me into the Napoleonic Total War Mod (cool to see some of TheLordz modders showing up here) straight away, so I've only really dealt with that.
Yeah, the developers dropping ETW like it didn't exist was a real kick in the shin for me as a gamer. What kind of team drops supporting a game only months after they release it (and then refuses to release modding tools, etc)? I got NTW because it was relatively cheap, but I'm not surprised they've pretty much already abandoned it too. Too focused on releasing new games for $ instead of supporting what they've got out now. Good thing the TW series attracts lots of good, dedicated modders, or the games would decline in popularity big time.I've been desperately asking for a save routine but CA really doesn't care about custumer and MP players. That's why we're starting to MP with SOW, I will trade off any graphic for a higher reliability (not to mention that SOW is much more realistic regarding structure of command and formations).
I've been helping Primergy (one of the modder) for map making, but I think it mainly deals with SP.How good is the Blue and Gray mod for ETW- is it worth loading?