The Heroes Round Table

On a recent video interview, a dev said the beta would come out August 29th.

There's also some french theing were if you pre-order now, you mihgt get access to the closed beta for the next week (until the open beta takes over). So that's like an early entry.

Get an X800 or 6600/6800 - that should get these games working decently, and cover you until a few months into the next generation of GFX cards. I'm also looking to update my AGP X800Pro to a PCI-E card - I'll probably get a 7900GT (the lowest) or 7800, for as cheap as possible. I doubt many people ...

Well, rumors were unfounded. Supposedly some people got an email about the SP demo that mentioned the release of the MP beta on the 21/8/06 - but there was a * next to it with a footnote saying the date was subject to change depending on development. There are so few of these emails going around tha...

Looks surreal with shadows off

And there's some very cool things you CAN do - knock NPCs into each other to push them over, shoot arrows through flames to make thme catch fire, decapitate enemies, ice the ground and make them slip, backstab them, choke them with a staff, etc. Can't wait for the open MP beta (supposedly 6pm GMT+0 ...

Judging by the commercial success of H5, marketing is the one thing Ubisoft do seem to have pinned down well.



Hopefully well enough to justify (commercially) an MMX - and more importantly, they may have learnt to listen to the community by then.

I'm sure the reviews will give us a better idea, seeing as the demo was so short.

There's no reason to believe that they didn't simply remove the spells/skills from the demo to keep them as a surprise. Simply masking them would be insufficient due to the 'efficiency' of hackers these days.

It ran wierd too. First off, none of the movies at the beginning played (i.e. the Ubisoft logo). I don't know if this was a bug or because it was a demo, but I got a big / through the screen for those. It also came up everytime I got hit by a guy. Did that happen for everyone? Wierd - I had no issu...

Yep, you need level 1 archery. (costs 1 skill point).

You need to have adrenaline (gaind by kills - think it's the yellow bar near your health).

I'm sure everything (espeically skills/spells) will be far more extensive in the retail version, since not all of the skills we've heard of were in the demo (poison arrows etc). I personally wouldn't get this game just for SP - you'd need to be interested in MP as well (even just more relaxed games ...

But Half life 2 is a futuristic shooter, this is a fantasy melee game. Maybe it's just my newness to this style of game, but I thought it was great. And it looked awesome on my PC too (much better than say Oblivion at medium specs) - my PC is a 2.4GHz P4 (just above min specs) with 1GB RAM and a Rad...

I completely disagree. I'm an OBlivion fan myself, and I found the games to be equally good looking - remember, there's no video options for DM at this stage, I'm sure you can pump that sort of stuff way up in the retail version. My PC (2.4GHz P4, Radeon X800Pro, 1GB 400Hz RAM) handled it almost Sea...

Whoa... that's quite Oblivion-esque.

Hopefully, it'll be just as (if not more) worthwhile.

Waiting now... 530th/900... so far it has ~8000 downloads and has a rating of 4.9/5 from over 200 votes. Not too bad, for a demo released ~ 1 hour ago.

There could be golbin shamans and wizards for the casters - I think that goblins are better suited for those roles than orcs.



There could also be elves, dwarves, even demons.



After all, isn't the dark messiah demonic, not necromantic?

There are definitely orcs in single player. Even if you can't play as an orc, it'd be cool to have MP modes where there are random neutral orcs on the map, which you can take down as a team for a small bonus or something.

Yeh, as long as the tip is curled slightly (and is red not white), I'm pretty sure they're safe. And clearly there's no intention of such a reference. I guess the aim is to distingiush them a bit more from priests.

*cough*Maybeithassomethingtodowithallthesepeoplepressuringthemtoholdtheirwordandreleaseapatcheachmonthevenifitsnotready*cough*

Hm? What? Oh, bless you.

If the patches give you issues, just copy the new maps somewhere, reinstall the game, put the maps back, and you're ready to go again. You naysayers have got to admit, there must be something good in this game that keeps drawing you back if you care enough about it to complain to people like me who ...

Well, once I finally fixed my useless internet connection, I found the 1.1 updater works quite well, taking me about 45 minutes to download (~20kB/sec, about 20 times faster than when I tried to download it manually - my internet connection is usually good, so I assume this was due to bandwidth usag...