Loved that game, but to me it sorta died. With the impending release of WiC The Complete Pack and Soviet Assault, anyone plan to get back into the game?
Soviet Assault planned for a March release(no specific dates yet)
Not me - sorry
Game was virtually born dead due to number of fundamental design errors across the board and mini-expansion won't fix it...
I had extremely high hopes for it (being long time Ground Control fan) but for me it turned out to be way too shallow and way below my game play standards.
As if this wasn't enough already, cherry on the top is a fact that WiC has got one of the worse online communities I have ever seen...
In short, total disaster really
Saying that, I am defo keeping an eye on Massive and potential future project(s) !!!
Hope dies last!
I've ordered it for £8 because of responses in the thread: http://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/338126
Hoping I will like it more than -=XX=-Nephilim
i have it and love it as the graphics are amazing but im not sure im gonna get the expasion as its being published by a different company ( Ubi-crap ) is what i dislike the most since ubisoft's stuff has been crap like FC2 (since u cant mod it). but i'll wait till the reviews to make a final decion on the matter
World in Conflict?!?What is that?
I played the demo it was fun, interesting, but I am on a short budget right now...
Shallow? Fundamental design errors? Horrible online community? I've been playing since it came out and I haven't noticed any of these things :/.
I think you should take a second look at it, Nephilim.
For me, it's one of the few games where strategy is defined by more than 'Bigger army!' and tactics is more than 'Attack move!'.
Been following it since Pre-Alpha! So I can say I know it quite well
Comparing it to Ground Control series it is defo let down in every possible sense and department appart from gfx and built in clan support, imho...
Looking at it alone, without keeping GC in mind or any other decent RTS title, its kinda fun for few weeks...
Saying that - it surely is different than anything else out there while it also tried to reorder / change / refresh professional gaming scene and move it away from CSS and likes... It tried, but failed... But just for being different and trying something else I still respect it
Shame that respect alone isn't enough, at least for me, to fill all the gaps in game design...
Oh well, have a fun with SA when it comes out guys and let us know how it plays
I'll be somewhere around here - Entrenching
I`m still playing the single player campaign of the original; I take my time! I`ll likely grab the expansion - can`t inadvertantly destroy too many American towns you know...
I probably will. I enjoyed WiC as a *beautiful* RTS beer-and-pretzels wargame. Unfortunately, I think the bitter division that occured between the casual players and the so-called "expert" players killed that game. Hopefully, the expansion will give the game a fresh start.
I loooooved the single player campaign in that game. One of the best I've ever played in a game that supported multiplayer as well.
Definitely, the whole pro mentality was what really killed the game. Sad fact was though that aside from infantry players, the pros didn't actually have very good individual skill. I did very well in a few clans but I quit clanning, because all they did was whine about how "pubs and noobs" were totally "ruining WiC".
I enjoyed that game immensly for a rather short period of time. I played the hell out of it online until I got sick of no one cooperating and moved on. That and I found the game too shallow to satisfy my longterm interest (though I'm not saying it's a bad game).
Demo was pretty good but it just didn't compell me to get the game. Sorry
I've heard such great things and how its better than EndWar. Though I'm still looking for a copy.
Well, not me. I've got Ground Control 2 if I want to play a game that is very similar.