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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fineus on July 04, 2002, 03:16:13 am

Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Fineus on July 04, 2002, 03:16:13 am
I'm not sure how I missed this one but one of the best up-coming strategy space games has just released a demo (http://www.3dgamers.com/dl/games/imperiumgalactica3/ig3-demo.exe.html). It's about 65Mb (and no I've not got it yet). But I've seen some shots and it looks absolutly incredible - including the kind of in game battle damage to ships that we'd like to see in Freespace!

Anyways, I recommend anyone with even a passing interest take a look at this beauty.
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Crazy_Ivan80 on July 04, 2002, 03:37:20 am
Thanks for the notice, Thunder :yes:
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Ryx on July 04, 2002, 03:54:36 am
I don't think this is my kind of game, but I'll download it anyway and give it a go.
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Crazy_Ivan80 on July 04, 2002, 04:09:38 am
just watched trough the movie-mode....

wow! It's like freespace all over again, but this time you're in command.

Beams, beams galore!

and the ships: beautiful.
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Ryx on July 04, 2002, 06:17:28 am
Well, the gfx was Very nice. It's too bad that it's only a rolling demo. It shows a battle in an asteroid field. Quite nice.
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Rictor on July 04, 2002, 06:34:13 am
can someone tell me how to actually control the ships, i have a basic idea, but they dont listen to me much
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Jani on July 04, 2002, 06:34:18 am
IG2 was a wonderful game :D But if those requirepments are true (600MHz etc..) i dont think im gonna play this game...but yeah IG series is a damn great
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Unknown Target on July 04, 2002, 06:38:21 am
IG2 was incredibly cool. I played the demo of it (never bought it) and so did some of my friends, but no one ever beat a mission (except me :D).
I hope this is even better than that one!
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Styxx on July 04, 2002, 07:35:31 am
Checkin'...
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: phreak on July 04, 2002, 12:21:03 pm
its pretty sweet. i just wish it wouldn't lock at 1024x768
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Unknown Target on July 04, 2002, 01:30:08 pm
My..........god..............

THIS GAME IS ****ING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WWWWWWWWHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: DragonClaw on July 04, 2002, 02:23:35 pm
Wow... I can't beat that mission tho.. its impossible :(  I've tried everything, from supercharging shields and weapons(leaving engines with no power) to just evasive actions... god... that mission sucks lol
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Unknown Target on July 04, 2002, 02:27:14 pm
I actually got pretty far...destroyed two cruisers, and about 3/4th of the battleship. But the game crashed...:(
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Thorn on July 04, 2002, 02:31:01 pm
They dont give you enough feedback on what your ships are doing...
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Unknown Target on July 04, 2002, 03:12:46 pm
You're expected to know, I think. What I don't like is that I can't tell my ships exactly what to do...
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Fineus on July 04, 2002, 04:19:29 pm
Ryx: Push escape, it'll give you a menu from which the rest of the demo is available.

I know what the rest of you mean about the lack of control... I've yet to figure out what the hell I'm doing...
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Kamikaze on July 04, 2002, 06:42:27 pm
The game keeps crashing on me....... :(
The farthest I've managed to get is to where it's trying to load the one mission it has....
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Fineus on July 05, 2002, 02:41:50 am
Drop the graphics and sound down to nothing and try loading the mission again, after your ships have jumped in put the graphics and sound back up to what they were. It's a problem I've had as well.
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Ryx on July 05, 2002, 03:02:19 am
Managed to play the game a few mins before it crashed (brought Win down with it).

I think I'll wait for the next demo.
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Fineus on July 05, 2002, 03:08:15 am
Yeah, I really hope they clean some of this stuff up - one thing I hate is not having any direct control over the ships. Having played HW for so long I spent all of my first and second try at the demo mission wanting to issue movement orders and cursing at the stupidity of the ships. I imagine of course that I'm doing something wrong but it's still annoying not to have direct control over movement when you have control over everything else.

It'd also be nice to see a tutorial mission, I'm a little worried that dropping everyone in the deep end without any knowlege of the game when they're out-numbered and out-gunned is going to put a lot of people off since they won't beat or even make a difference to the outcoming of the demo the first few times they play.

It seems to have gotten rid of a lot of planetry micromanagement (apparently) although there may be some added into the final release. But then again we've no direct control over ships so it's not like HW either... which means that in the end it's just a case of learning what to click and when to beat the game and that doesn't look like fun to me - even if it does look incredible.
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: DragonClaw on July 05, 2002, 05:57:30 pm
Anyway, I found the manual for the demo...

http://www.ig3.de/download/manual.zip

Also on the website it says the demo was made for a certain graphics card, the Matrox Parhelia... in a few days they'll come out with a demo for other cards... so just wait.
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Pera on July 05, 2002, 06:03:38 pm
I couldn't even get the game to start. Must be because I only have TNT2 and the readme said that Geforce 2 is a minimum requirement.
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Unknown Target on July 05, 2002, 06:18:53 pm
If anyone needs some help with this, I've figured it out. An odd thing about it is that when you tell a ship to attack, there is no indication that the order was recieved. Also, I think the mission was designed to be (almost) impossible to beat.
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Unknown Target on July 05, 2002, 06:20:46 pm
Here's a tip: When your ships are engaged, get your cruiser to drain the shields on the target ship, while your battleship trys to destroy it.
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Kamikaze on July 05, 2002, 06:34:55 pm
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Originally posted by RKIF-DragonClaw
Anyway, I found the manual for the demo...

http://www.ig3.de/download/manual.zip

Also on the website it says the demo was made for a certain graphics card, the Matrox Parhelia... in a few days they'll come out with a demo for other cards... so just wait.


I was just talking about bad hardware optimization for IG3 just today to my friends...... I guess this is why it had the little parhelia icon :p (now I have to re-inform my friends....)
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: DragonClaw on July 05, 2002, 07:11:12 pm
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Originally posted by Unkown Target
If anyone needs some help with this, I've figured it out. An odd thing about it is that when you tell a ship to attack, there is no indication that the order was recieved. Also, I think the mission was designed to be (almost) impossible to beat.


Actually its pretty easy... I beat it without losing a single ship :)
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Unknown Target on July 06, 2002, 12:42:53 pm
How?!
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: DragonClaw on July 06, 2002, 01:51:44 pm
You know the last two ships that enter the system? they are far away from the battlecruiser and the other 2 cruisers... you take them out first. Destroy all the cruisers with the Phalanx guns, and then you can use your missiles and bombers without any harm coming to them. Also, you can select which system to attack, so you can specifically destroy a shield system of an enemy ship... quite useful ;)
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: Unknown Target on July 06, 2002, 02:09:45 pm
That's what I try to do, but my Phalanx never seem to work...
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: DragonClaw on July 06, 2002, 03:33:08 pm
the BattleCruiser of yours doesn't have any Phalanx... only 2 of the ships have them I think... the carrier and one of the cruisers.  Stay away from the asteroid field until you destroy the enemy ships, then use Attack Devices on the asteroids...your ships should use the phalanx automatically against the missiles.
Title: IG3 Demo Released!
Post by: SlipStream on July 08, 2002, 03:15:01 pm
Thanks Thunder.  :):)