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DingBat said:
If you're interested, I've attached a screen shot of my steam console.
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Good call on Defcon.
As for my rent-a-shill comments - I stand by them. Who posts a review virtually on release day saying SE5 is the best game ever? Who defends a comment like that?
And I'm still here because I'm a longtime fan of Space Empires that considers SE5 unplayable and I'll probably stick around here responding to the stupidity I witness until the game gets fixed enough that I can eff off and play it. So yeah, there's an incentive to fix the bugs.
And I still see nothing but apologist propaganda from Atrocities and Fyron. Hey, fair enough maybe the multiplayer doesn't suffer from the same problems the SP does. Then yesterday I popped into a thread proposing workarounds for the broken multiplayer. And there's an (almost?) empty SE5 opponents seeking opponents sub-forum which is a testimony to that end of the game in itself.
And I don't care if Aaron is a club-footed orphan coding in braille - the transaction is simple. I give him money, he gives me a game. If this is a hobby for him then stick the project on sourceforge and let the community fix it. If he's trying to make a living, just like the rest of us, then don't do shoddy work.
EDIT: I mean really some people seem to forget that you can go into EB and pick this product up off the shelves (in the far unlit corner of the store furthest from the door, with the rest of the PC games) take it to the counter and pay for it. When you get it home are you going to be reassured that it'll get fixed in time if you've no knowledge of the previous games or are you going to throw it in the pile of games you wished you'd waited for a review for. And that's besides the point that one of those metacritic reviews (a site I only ever visited because it's used to rate the games on Steam - check out the Steampowered forums to see what I mean about truly uninformed opinions of the game! They're not kind.)is in the 80s, bizarrely.
Who's even struggling on with 1.13? I can hack the combat time limit, ignore the broken boarding and put up with the UI (which I AM actually getting used to. That's not even much of a concern for me now - the TZN? tiny flag mod helps a lot.) but am I playing a fun game? No.