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Savage Demo Lets You FPS/RTS On Linux & Windows

Posted by simoniker on from the linux-and-windows-sitting-in-a-tree dept.

Ant writes "According to Blue's News, there's a playable demo for S2Games' FPS/RTS hybrid, Savage: The Battle for Newerth now available, providing the chance to sample multiplayer under either Windows (143 MB) or Linux (155 MB)." There are also BitTorrents of the Windows demo and the Linux demo, courtesy GameTab, for this welcome Linux-friendly title, recently cause for controversy when GameSpot pulled a review of it after "...allegations by the game's developers that the reviewer of the product did not play it for a sufficient length of time."

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  1. Re:Sorry by Grand · · Score: 2, Informative

    apt-get install savage
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    E: Couldn't find package savage

    no luck here either !

  2. heh... by rwven · · Score: 3, Informative

    this is NOT flamebait. i was a beta tester for this game and such and i can honestly say i am not impressed with the final product. it's just kinda uninspiring... but in any case, you're welcome to have your own opinion ;) cool in concept but bad in implementation IMHO

    1. Re:heh... by HolyCoitus · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I'll be buying it regardless of it working on my hardware or not. A game that works natively in Linux that I'd be interested in regardless is definitely something I am going to support. My friends who aren't Linux users are even excited about it, not even through me. Should be fun hopefully. If it sucks in the long run, so do most other games.

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  3. Re:Out of curiosity... by linuxkrn · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's a self-extracting sh (shell) script. The data is included in the script to install the game.

  4. i was impressed by Alcimedes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    to me it's been a lot of fun. a game where your strategist is a person, and the units you have to work with are people.

    all in all very nice. of course, a bad commander and you're hosed, so the key is to get folks who are good on both ends, the FPS and the RTS angles.

    it just stuck me as the perfect solution to really crappy AI problems that have plauged games since the beginning.

    1. Re:i was impressed by MMaestro · · Score: 2, Interesting
      If you get a bad commander, thats when you start using the vote system. Course if you wait too long to use it, you'll find yourself facing enemies with level 3 equipment (3 is the highest) while you're still using the crossbow (the second ranged weapon you'll get). Naturally, I'm only saying this because I've had this happen to me.

      Surprisingly, players on the FPS side -actually- work well with their teams as a result of the game's balance. With the exception of a few complaints here and there (for example : low end computer users are forced to spread and pray with ranged weapons due to slowdown) the game could a step in the right direction when it comes to bad AI problems (at least for now, the graphics had to be severely sacrificed for the FPS/RTS engine sharing).

  5. Re:BitTorrent is slow by damiam · · Score: 2, Funny

    Some of us would give a lot to be able to hit 25KB/sec.

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  6. Finally, played the demo. My 2 cents... by antdude · · Score: 2, Informative

    A very pretty game and it has nice music, but not really my type of game. It did remind of Natural Selection mod: http://www.natural-selection.org ... I like its aliens vs. humans with science fiction theme better. :)

    Good job, S2Games! Nice work especially with a small company and Linux support. I hope to see more games out of you, guys.

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  7. Re:Sorry by Mawen · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hmm... I use Gentoo too and am downloading the binary right now on my cable modem (peaked at 308KB/s).

    The parent troll makes me think that someone probably should write an ebuild for this binary, but more importantly, they could incorporate bittorrent into the portage system. As the burdens on gentoo mirrors grows, perhaps it would be helpful to allow gentoo users to optionally donate a certain amount of bandwidth per day to the gentoo community via bit torrent uploading.

  8. Good Game by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've been playing off and on for the last 12 hrs (nice to be able to do that when you want). After an hour or so of playing it does really start to shine.

    Pros

    graphics are superb

    gameplay is smooth

    netcode is a bit better then good

    Balance is well thought out

    get into some incredibly complex strategy when the team is communicating well

    Cons

    not being able to go to the armory and change weapons on the fly.

    a building of healing, regeneration

    lack of bots when in command mode. Nice for single player or 1 on 1.

  9. Sleepless in Savage by inkless1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    *snip*

    Couldn't sleep last night, got started on the Savage demo. It annoyed me at first, it didn't like the screen resolution I had chosen and needed to be beaten to play at first. My first couple of games I was pretty horribly confused and mostly just seemed to be respawning. The game doesn't feel much like an FPS to be honest, it actually kinda feels like you are playing one of those animated figures from an RTS game. For people who are expecting Quake slammed into Warcraft, you'll be a bit disappointed, the graphics and physics aren't terribly up to par for modern FPS games.

    But then again, if you wanted to play a modern FPS game - you would be already. The novelty here of being part of a large scale battle that slowly evolves with new buildings, units and techs is pretty invigorating and fun. Once Savage becomes familiar, it becomes very entertaining. The graphics might not be mind blowing, but they do keep the lag down to a serviceable (although sometimes not very fluid) level. I would definately be interested to see what the game is like with all it's features and commanders who have actually played for more than an afternoon. Try this one for a couple hours, there's a decent chance you won't walk away disappointed.

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