Am I the only person here that plays this game? I wanna here what you guys think should be added in the sequel. First on my list is a map editor, the same one from Advance Wars: DS would work fine, but in 3-D obviously. CO and Super CO powers would be welcomed, for example give the Western CO's the ability to generate more effective firepower or funds, while the Tundran CO's would get, I dunno, the ability to threaten their soldiers with the idea of starvation making them move twice as fast, etc.
I feel like i'm pissin in the wind because no one talks about this game here, but with a Wii sequel in the works and a 8.8 review at IGN (that would have scored much higher had it been shipped with the promised multiplayer), maybe you guys will take more interest.
I can tell you that from my experience if you enjoyed Pikmin at all you will love Battalion Wars, which is basically Pikmin with guns :D It exapands a completely new genre that is being called the CRTS or console real time strategy, or RTAS, real time action strategy. Which ever you prefer, but the experience is intuitive and fun and unlike the usual RTS gameplay, this is fast and based on action. So basically, a third person shooter meets RTS.
But the characters, the iconic story of WW1 in a very disney-style presentation, the music and sound effects, everything (including the gameplay) shines through and through. This game should be in everyone's GC collection, so post your fucking thoughts on it god dammit!
The fifth mission is absolutely KILLING me.
Of which campaign? do you mean the actual 5th mission (in the Western Frontier campaign)?
Fifth mission of the first campaign. It's the mission where you have to get to the top of the hill in the corner and capture the enemy base. The next time I try this mission, I'm just going to rush to the top and capture the flag as quickly as possible.
Gah! dont do that, it's an RTS not a gung-ho shootemup. You're running in to the same problem I did; not understanding how the fuck to play the game.
If you rush the castle you're going to lose your ass very quickly, the first tank will provide the MG nest and second tank to do heavy damage to the entire battalion, while rocket vets and rifle grunts take up the rear and box you in. You'll lose your battalion in a matter of seconds. Here's my strat for the castle:
Start off taking control of a bazooka vet, tell your entire battalion to stay put, but take the light recon with you. Make your way to the flame vet POWs (check your radar) and start charhing up your bazooka, as soon as you're in firing range let the light tank have it, 3 hits and its down. Shoot the FENCE and not the AMMO DUMP, to free the flame vets, then use the cursor to tell the flame vets to sit in the middle of the POW camp - they'll kill off the enemy rifle grunts. Now take control of the light recon.
Check your map and you'll see that north of your position is two rifle grunts and a bazooka vet hiding in a small camp, drive over there and help them find God, in the large ammo dump is two jerry cans which your tanks will love if you take damage. Now go to your map, and take control of a flame vet back at the POW camp.
Make your way with the vets (leave the light recon where he is) and get across the bridge, look at your map to see the nearest bridge from your battalion, it's enforced with bazooka vets. Flame vets Vs. Bazooka vets, flame wins. Now call your entire battalion over.
Once they arrive, switch to the light tank and make your way up the mountain there. The 3 enemy flame vets want to kiss your tank, so help them out. On top of the mountain is another POW camp with another light tank for you, ram the fence and put your new tank on sentry, he'll kill the rifle grunts up there. While he's doing that, go say hi to the MG nest at the bottom of the mountain, then return to your battalion. Put both your tanks on sentry here and take control of a flame vet.
Next to the newly destroyed MG nest is a bridge, across it is a troop of enemy of bazooka vets, turn them to human soup, then call your battalion over.
Now, you could walk right up the main gate, which is the most heavily enforced area, or walk around to the back and take on the enemy heavy tank, light tank and a few dozen enemy rifle grunts by surprise. Take control of the light tank then as you come around the back entrance, tell your bazooka vets and your other tank to attack the distant tank while you dispose of the one in front of you. Now use your cursor to put everyone in the middle of the castle. There's going to be some straglers marching up the main gate, no worries. But dont capture the flag just yet, the Tundran's are going to send in a T-copter with a light tank and some grunts, as soon as the tank leaves the copter have everyone fire on it, then clean up the grunts.
Now capture that flag, in a few minutes another t-copter will be inbound, though just with vets and grunts, no tanks (you're welcome).
Just so you know, if you lock on the capture point and press the all icon to capture it, it seems to randomly choose which vets and grunts will take the flag. Instead, select the rifle grunt icon and tell them to capture, then 5 grunts will capture the flag and the others will go to sentry.
You should have an S rank with this strategy, or atleast an A. But dont think you have to do it step by step like I said here, find out what works best for you.
I used my usual plan to work my way to the final bridge, which has worked very well so far. I accidentally sent a few of my guys forward and they got into some trouble, but I managed to recall them back without them taking much damage. However, this brought their light tank out into the open, which I sniped using MY light tank. Then I lobbed a few shells over the break in the ridge and hit the heavy tank, which came around the ridge by itself. I made quick work of that and then steamrolled the rest of the camp.
I would have gotten a much higher score, but I got a freakishly small rating on speed. Only 19%!!
Whatever works. That's the sort of gameplay I like, where there isn't just one strat. Sandbox gameplay is where it's at.
Yup, its what makes BW so awesome, you play it how you want to play it. It's fun to take one assault vet (I call them mules. Ass-ault, mule, yes.) and go through the level without your battalion and play it like a third person shooter, which feels very much like JFG. But if your assault vet encounters too many enemy vehicles at once, just call in your air support and watch them kaboom all over themselves.
The meat of the game is getting total 100% on each mission, and for that you need well planned strategy. But still, things dont always play out the same and instant action and a plan B is needed at all times. Not only does it feel like real military but the console shooter side of the game makes it a perfect hybrid for quick fix runs or spending a few hours on a single mission to plot it out to perfection.
I picked up BW on a whim as a rental, and the official news of a sequel gives me a god damn erection.
A FUCKING HARD ON
IF YOU PUSSIES HAD ONE FUCKING TESTICLE BETWEEN YOUR VIRGIN LEGS I MIGHT CALL YOU MEN IF IT WASN'T FOR THE FACT THAT YOU SUCK ON EACHOTHERS DICKS - ARE YOU GOING TO FUCKING KILL SOMETHING OR AM I THE ONLY ONE MAN ENOUGH TO DO IT?
soldiers: ...sir no sir...
I THINK I JUST GREW BREASTS PRIVATE WHY DONT YOU TRY AGAIN WITHOUT YOUR MOMMY'S PUSSY IN YOUR MOUTH
soldiers: SIR NO SIR
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST PRIVATE I JUST FELT MY DICK MOVE, NOW SAY IT AGAIN
soldiers: SIR NO SIR
THEN WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING PRIVATE GO MAKE THE ENEMY DEAD BEFORE HE SHOWS YOU WHAT A REAL MAN IS
soldiers: SIR YES SIR
ARE YOU FAGGOTS
soldiers: SIR NO SIR
DO YOU EAT DICK
soldiers: SIR NO SIR
MAMA AND PAPA WERE LAYIN IN THE BED
soldiers: PAPA ROLLED OVER AND THIS IS WHAT HE SAID
NOW GIMME SOME
soldiers: GIMME SOME
NOW GIMME SOME
soldiers: GIMME SOME
IT'S GOOD FOR YOU
soldioers: ITS GOOD FOR YOU
ITS GOOD FOR ME
soldiers: ITS GOOD FOR ME
I understand the whole E rating in BW but my god I wish it had shit like that :D
hahahaha
seriously, make a version of battalion wars, same graphics, same game, just include the script General Herman was made for. All will be good. Come on Kuju, you know you want to.
Is that Battalion Wars related?
I doubt it.
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Different... :D
Where are those from...
Is it in two parts there, or are they duplicates?
I hate my harddrive, I need like four or five times more space... I don't want to delete anything but want to keep adding things too... :(
(partition E's constantly filling up, I can't fill D beyond more than 100-200MBs free if I want to be able to play some games, and I need 500MB+ free on C for cache... 110GBs isn't much if you actually use it.)
25MB for that first download, E has 15MB free left right now... and that's only there because I keep deleting files or moving them over to D...
I could just get another harddrive, I guess, if I disconnected one thing (Zip drive?) or got a controller card, but since I'll be getting a new computer within four to six months... maybe if I hadn't bought so much videogame stuff this summer. Oh well... :)
Don't worry, I'll find space for this thing, it's just a pain to have to constantly deal with a full harddrive. :)
I hate games with 5 gigabyte installs... and I have several. And don't like to delete things I think I might want to use. :( I deleted the nearly 5GB KotOR a while back, and I still regret not being able to play it (since of course now that space is full of all kinds of stuff and freeing up 5GBs again would not be easy)...
Just get an external USB harddrive.
I could have done that early this summer I guess, but I just decided that instead of spending much on my PC I'd get console games and stuff (the only full-priced PC game I did get was Guild Wars: Factions...), since once I get one major thing for my computer it just makes it more obvious about all the other things I need too... hard drive? But then what about every other part in the box... I need a new video card, but for that I'd need a new power supply (I highly doubt a 200 or so watt one would do for any modern card, even if I am limited to AGP...), and that'd be a major pain to replace to say the least... :D
I did get a DVD burner this summer for my PC, finally (after accidentally breaking my old DVD player), so if I manage to find some 9GB DVD-RWs maybe I could back up some lesser-used stuff there... and I DO have 110GBs of actual HDD space -- more than most people here, I'd bet. I just have too much stuff I'm trying to keep on it...
Yes, I'm complaining about not having enough HDD space while spending gigabytes of space on backups of things installed elsewhere on my system... game patches I used five or more years ago and keep in their own folder, track downloads for a game that doesn't run on my system (but I have all of them, I won't just delete that! :D), 450MBs of KotOR save files, etc, etc, etc... but darnit, I like my stuff, I don't want to delete it just because it serves no real useful purpose... :D
Anyway, now though I need to save what money I've got left if I want to get a Wii anytime before christmas...
GR/ did you finish up the Tundran campaign and move in to the Dune Sea yet?
I finished the sixth mission, but I haven't yet moved on to the seventh yet.
You mean Striking Distance? or are you including the campaign one bonus? Use the level titles dammit!
Striking Distance is a good one, you have to be crafty with your artillary.
No, I'm not including the bonus mission [which has yet to be unlocked, by the way].
I myself can't remember mission names in any strategy game once I've already completed it. That's like asking me to talk about some TV show by referencing specific episode titles, instead of the only way my memory allows for (and most shows, they generally don't even show episode titles on TV, it's some internal thing) which is to say "that one episode where Data wrote a poem about his cat".
The one thing I dislike about jpeg versions of comics is how you have to separately open each page into a new browser window... oh well, nothing can be done about it...
Uh...or you could just view them with Windows Picture Viewer like most people do...
Never heard of it, is that some XP application? The only things I know of are the mini version of the image that appears in the sidebar (one thing that I think ME has that 95/98 didn't, the image preview/info sidebar in Windows Explorer) and Image Preview, which loads just one image... but I prefer using the web browser for jpegs and stuff because unlike image preview if it's larger than the frame it won't auto-resize it to fit the screen (in which case you have to click on the image to maximize it...)...
Anyway, that thing is crazy, I wish there were a translated version so you could understand what they were saying... (odd, a left-to-right Japanese comic... it's because of the English obviously, but still it's odd)
Nice thing about getting a USB hard disk drive is, in MOST configurations, you can easily just take the thing apart and you have a perfectly usable internal hard disk, and you can use the rest as a new enclosure kit for any future hard disks you come across.
Keep in mind that the boxes don't always illuminate this fact (for some reason they like to keep that a secret) so it's hard to say if you are getting a SATA or ATA drive in that enclosure. It's pretty easy to tell if it's laptop or desktop though :D.
Quote:Nice thing about getting a USB hard disk drive is, in MOST configurations, you can easily just take the thing apart and you have a perfectly usable internal hard disk, and you can use the rest as a new enclosure kit for any future hard disks you come across.
Aren't most external HDs MORE than internal ones?
Quote:Never heard of it, is that some XP application? The only things I know of are the mini version of the image that appears in the sidebar (one thing that I think ME has that 95/98 didn't, the image preview/info sidebar in Windows Explorer) and Image Preview, which loads just one image... but I prefer using the web browser for jpegs and stuff because unlike image preview if it's larger than the frame it won't auto-resize it to fit the screen (in which case you have to click on the image to maximize it...)...
You'd rather go through the hassle of not being able to scan through all your jpegs by simply pressing a single button just so you won't have to press a button to maximize the larger images?
DJ/ BW is a bit different. In most RTS games you typically survive missions and move on becoming more advanced (level, items, skill sets) as you progress. In BW the rifle grunts you see in the start of the game are the same rifle grunts you have at the end of the game; they dont advance.
In Advance Wars your CO moves up levels and acquires more abilities to make up a skill set. Each mission almost requires you to take advantage of the skills. In BW you dont get that luxury, you're presented with a gauntlet and mission objectives (very shooter oriented) and face enemies that each require their own strategy and specific unit type in order to be taken down effectively (think Pikmin). So the game presents each mission (after the training) for the player to consider and plot out, there's no time limit (two or three missions have time critical objectives though) so you can play as slow as you want, but your score will suffer.
Score is something that's pretty much been ignored in video games for decades now, but BW makes it a centerpiece in the game. If you just survive the missions and finish the game it can probably be beaten in a few days, but the whole point of BW is to take each mission seriously, know it like the back of your hand and get the S score.
With some missions I had to do them 3 or 4 times to find that S score, but with others it took me 20 tries in order to find the best strategy and get the S. This is what the game is actually about, it's not meant to be played like a shooter where all you worry about is the objectives and your health bar - you have to manage your battalion and make sure all your boys make it out alive while also killing every enemy and doing it in the required time while also securing the objectives. Instead of increasing your abilities or moving up levels, you actually gain real experience points and become better at playing the game as you experiment with the battalion management, individual and group orders, and using tried and true tactics to slice through the enemy battalions.
It's possible to get 300% on each mission (perfect) and it's possible to finish each mission with a 1% which is obviously the willy-nilly way of playing and will severely kill the game. So you basically end up playing each mission over and over shooting for that S rank, which means you know all the mission names by heart. It really is unlike any RTS on the market.
Quote:You'd rather go through the hassle of not being able to scan through all your jpegs by simply pressing a single button just so you won't have to press a button to maximize the larger images?
This tells me nothing about the program in question you know... :)
Quote:Aren't most external HDs MORE than internal ones?
Yes, which makes applications of said usage somewhat limited. Like if someone used the X360 HDD a a hard drive... $100 for a 20GB drive? Sounds good to me! :D
My issue with a USB HDD would be speed... there's no way USB is as fast as IDE... particularly on a five year old computer that probably doesn't have the newest and fastest USB ports...
Quote:This tells me nothing about the program in question you know...
Okay, here's the deal: with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer you select a picture file and it bring it up in a new window. From there I can Zoom In, Zoom Out, Delete, Print, Start a Slideshow and so on. Also, I have the ability to press the left or right arrow keys on my keyboard to go through the entire folder of picture files. The program automatically resized images to fit in the viewing screen, although with the press of a button they can be put back into their regular size. Your method of bringing up each individual jpeg for the sole purpose of having it appear in its actual size sounds incredibly time consuming, not to mention just a big hassle all the way around.
Quote:My issue with a USB HDD would be speed... there's no way USB is as fast as IDE... particularly on a five year old computer that probably doesn't have the newest and fastest USB ports...
Long-term storage. Put stuff in it that you don't use very often or might not ever use again but don't want to out-right delete. It has the added bonus of allowing you to take large files with you.
Quote:Okay, here's the deal: with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer you select a picture file and it bring it up in a new window. From there I can Zoom In, Zoom Out, Delete, Print, Start a Slideshow and so on. Also, I have the ability to press the left or right arrow keys on my keyboard to go through the entire folder of picture files. The program automatically resized images to fit in the viewing screen, although with the press of a button they can be put back into their regular size. Your method of bringing up each individual jpeg for the sole purpose of having it appear in its actual size sounds incredibly time consuming, not to mention just a big hassle all the way around.
I was asking whether it's some program built into Windows XP that I have no way of using... doesn't matter though. I looked at the programs I have, and IrfanView has a 'forward/back through image files in the directory' buttons... and it doesn't auto-resize things to fit the screen (at least by default); I know that that means that I often have to scroll images, but I prefer it that way...
I should have thought of IrfanView, I already use it frequently to re-save image files in the hopes that it'll shrink their file sizes... on the whole it does, much more often than it expands them -- for instance re-saving the files in this thing (48MB as downloaded) cut the size by over 8 or 9MB... and with JPEGs there is no change in quality; saving bitmaps as jpegs does hurt the quality, but the space saved is so huge that I usually do it anyway...
Quote:Long-term storage. Put stuff in it that you don't use very often or might not ever use again but don't want to out-right delete. It has the added bonus of allowing you to take large files with you.
Yeah, and having a backup of data is a very good idea, while my HDDs haven't gone bad, they always could, and that would be very bad... I don't have much backed up (beyond having two different physical disks so a problem in one wouldn't wipe out EVERYTHING)...
so, so like, battalion wars and, and what not.
cuz... it's all cool... I really like the gunship...
and vlad reminds me of the bad guy from rocky 3...
so...
:crap:
I don't recall level ups in Advance Wars, at least not the first one, which is the only one I have.
GR, I have no idea where you are shopping but at most the only extra charge you should be seeing is for the enclosure kit being included with the new hard disk. There's nothing all that advanced about an external hard disk that it would somehow require that much extra cash. Like I said, most are just internal disks stuck in an enclosure with a USB converter in it.
I looked at prices on Newegg. On the average, external harddrives are between $30-$50 more than similar internal harddrives.
That's not too bad. I mean, I bought an empty enclosure kit for laptop hard drives and it cost about $20. It's flimsy but I didn't need something that could take a car to it so it worked fine. There are more expensive ones made of FORGED STEEL and all though, so I can see where the price might come from. Well, that or just percieved worth.
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Quote:That's not too bad. I mean, I bought an empty enclosure kit for laptop hard drives and it cost about $20. It's flimsy but I didn't need something that could take a car to it so it worked fine. There are more expensive ones made of FORGED STEEL and all though, so I can see where the price might come from. Well, that or just percieved worth.
But if you're just going to remove the HDD, it'd be silly to buy a USB harddrive... :)
I didnt remove the post because I found it phunney.
Like your MOM. *points*
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