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Title: Cassualties of War Campaign first impressions
Post by: willy_principal on November 25, 2004, 11:29:34 pm

this campaign looks good...
but, in several times...i had NO directives in my HUD...and no OBJECTIVES at all...
this REALLY hindered the gameplay of the campaign...and other problems...like: receiving orders to destroy something that's already destroyed...and stuff...

Title: Cassualties of War Campaign first impressions
Post by: karajorma on November 26, 2004, 04:04:43 am

Casualties of War was a bit of a flawed campaign in my opinion. It looked great but it needed some further playtesting before it was released.

I did enjoy playing it though.

Title: Cassualties of War Campaign first impressions
Post by: aldo_14 on November 26, 2004, 05:17:11 am

I actually lost the first buglist for CoW, so had to retest it; went from having about 5-8 pages of various nitpicks to 2, because I spent less time.

To be fair, CoW was originally only intended to be 'practice' for Reci; Shadowwolf did a good job Freding (and came up with some great mission concepts as well), but I never got enough tester feedback (I think about 2 emails saying "it's ok") and just got too impatient & semi-rushed it out.

but it was intended to be a learning experience for me, and it was, so I guess I can't complain :D

Title: Cassualties of War Campaign first impressions
Post by: karajorma on November 26, 2004, 05:47:23 am

I did actually post a reasonable number of bugs myself when it was released. The thread is probably still around somewhere.

Title: Cassualties of War Campaign first impressions
Post by: aldo_14 on November 26, 2004, 05:57:40 am

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Originally posted by karajorma
I did actually post a reasonable number of bugs myself when it was released. The thread is probably still around somewhere.

Those would probably have been handled in the voice-acted version, had it ever been finished.  But we didn't have enough people, really, and Shadowwolf had to drop out for a while, so it just got put on the backburner and eventually dropped.

Title: Cassualties of War Campaign first impressions
Post by: Mad Bomber on November 26, 2004, 05:55:56 pm

Yeah, it did seem rushed. I noticed very few backgrounds, if any at all, and the sun was often RIGHT IN MY EYES as I started the mission.

Also seemed like you were extremely reluctant to use the Y-axis -- positional OR rotational -- when designing your missions. (12 Sobeks and a Hatshepsut, and they all happen to be exactly on the plane of the ecliptic, facing the exact same direction?)

A good campaign concept (if a bit rehashed), but kinda ruined by some of the non-functional SEXPing. Could have done with more testing and patience, and a bit less craziness in terms of capital ships.