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Beta Sign-Ups for WarCraft III
Alcachofo writes "Blizzard Entertainment has announced the long waited Beta Sign-Ups for their newest game: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. Individuals residing in the USA or Canada will be able to register for a chance to be one of the 5,000 players chosen. The beta signup is scheduled for a 24-hour period, beginning on January 7th at 11:00 p.m (GMT -8) and ending on January 8th at 11:00 p.m (GMT -8)." I couldn't even
count the number of great hours of fun WC2 provided us back in the day.
What an absolute classic. I wonder if WC3 will be reboot worthy.
the pace that wine is going, you wont need to.
I'm betting that by the time it comes out as a retail product you'll be able to run it under wine or the special mandrake version.
You'd be suprised at how many games and apps actually run nicely under wine.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
As always Gamespot has a good preview including screenshots
http://www.kubuntu.org/
It's a very good game, with heavy focus on flanking units, configuring well-balanced troops, and actual STRATEGY, with an innovative and streamlined resource management model. It's highly recommended to anybody who wants to play a strategy game.
Please choose me to be a beta tester. Not only have I purchased about 6 copies of Warcraft 2 (For me, for friends, more for me after first two copies were stolen at a lan party, one more for battle.net), 1 copy of Warcraft 1, the Warcraft Battle Chest (Just cause) and Starcraft, and the Starcraft Battle Chest but I have an unhealthy addiction to strategy games. I require little sleep, and have submitted a bug report for starcraft already.
I promise to give you my first born child for a chance to be a beta tester.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
I've already seen a few simple questions that are answered in the Warcraft III FAQ. Some highlights: Yes, there will be a Mac version. No, there won't be a Linux version.
From the looks of things, WarCraft III will continue the age-old tradition of requiring decent hardware to run well. Fortunately, they apparently are making a full-featured map editor (probably similar to Starcraft's, which was VERY impressive, unlike Civ II/IIIs).
Also, they finally are providing high resolution support, while still (somehow) maintaining lower resolution support for those of us with not-so-good video cards.
Looks like it's going to be another addicting Blizzard game for me, but I'm glad it won't compete with my Civ III playing time for awhile.
"The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent." --Carl Sagan
... aspect of WC II.
Clicking on a character multiple times of course!
Click 1 starts with Zug Zug.
yes...
what?
stop bothering me
don't you have anything better to do?
I would not do such things if I were you
my tummy feels funny
BURRRPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP@#@##$@#$@#$@
Say hello to my little friend...
I spent more time clicking on characters then playing.
I know a guy who has a brother whose girlfriend has been sleeping with someone at Blizzard in an attempt to get him on the Beta list. She said that there is a typo on the Beta page and signup really isn't until the January 9th.
/.ers I am passing on this invaluable piece of information. So none of you should waste your precious time trying to register on the 7th. Spend that day downloading patches to your favorite OS, or go see LOTR for the 12th time. Don't go anywhere near the Blizzard site.
That's right, as a service to all of my fellow
I appreciate... uh, I mean Blizzard appreciates your support.
"However, now that they have added 3D chip features, Warcraft III will probably need either a decent video card (Geforce or greater) and/or a relatively fast processor (600-700 Mhz+). Of course, these are guesses."
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The system requirements are listed in the FAQ (http://www.blizzard.com/war3/faq/faq-features.sh
"What will the system requirements be?
It is important to us to make our games playable on as broad a range of machines as possible, and we do not see WarCraft III as an exception. We are planning on having a requirement of a PIII 400 system with a 3D accelerator card and 64megs of RAM. Currently, we are working on game performance and should be able to give more concrete information soon."
Since they are requiring only 400 Mhz and 64 MB of RAM, they most likely will not require a Geforce+ card to run this. That's a relief for me! Whew!
*click*
"This is NOT "Warcraft In Space"!"
*click*
"It's much more sophisticated!"
*click*
"I KNOW it's not in 3-D!"
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
A little offtopic but..The sound editor for WCII was fun for loading monty python bites for my extremely addicted frat brother in college. He would camp out in front of my computer almost everynight for hours, evuntally I "crashed..wink..wink.." my computer and lost the only copy of the game I had. The next day he bought another copy from Best Buy. Also If you didn't know you can play the WCII CD in the cd player and hear the background music.
"Get them before they get....
Hmm. I looked at the screens and the first thing I thought was - someone's been reading too much Lord of the Rings recently.
...
I mean, they added:
magical cloaks
rings
spell books
Oh, yeah.
Now if I could just locate that nice ring I got for my birthday present
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--- Will in Seattle - What are you doing to fight the War?
Diablo II has been plagued with graphics slow downs - including obvious redundant overdraws! - that meant that it ran unsteadily even on top of the line hardware at release date.
Despite marketting it as an online game with secure servers, the servers in question were regularly overloaded and unstable. They were - and still are - not close net-wise to a large number of players, yet the gameplay is very intolerant of high latency connections to servers.
Play over a local network is plagued with inexplicable latency spikes.
It was (and with the expansion still is) a hugely popular game, yet promised continued support in the way of new runewords, cube recipies and the like have never materialised.
They changed gameplay rather than address underlying flaws in the graphics code of the game.
By all accounts, Starcraft is a well designed, well coded, and well supported game. Their more recent project - Diablo II - is good fun, but in spite of rather than because of the game's support and performance.
I am wary of Warcraft III. If it fulfills its promise it will be grand. I'll wait and see.