Author Topic: Not HW, but Hard War? (Read 3694 times)

Petrarch of the VBB · **Reply #20 on:** May 23, 2003, 10:42:57 am

AFAIK it even had quite a small run in the UK. As you can see, there are only a handful of us here who are HardWar fans, and I believe I'm the only British one.

tEAbAG · **Reply #21 on:** May 23, 2003, 12:38:59 pm

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Originally posted by tEAbAG
How is it bizzare? Seems kinda cool to me.

After reading the review and checking out the fan sites I am changing my statement to:

:drools:

I need to get this!
Goddamn my crappy DSL!!

HotSnoJ · **Reply #22 on:** May 23, 2003, 03:12:02 pm

the one problem however is modding it. The makers didn't give out any info on how to do it so it's very open to speculation.

Petrarch of the VBB · **Reply #23 on:** May 23, 2003, 03:19:58 pm

People have started making reskins, though.

YodaSean · **Reply #24 on:** May 23, 2003, 04:34:35 pm

tried downloading it, first it didn't work at all then it told me I tried to download it eight times and I was banned

Are their any other places to download it?

Flaser · **Reply #25 on:** May 23, 2003, 04:55:29 pm

You must be very careful when downloading from HOTU.

I guess your downloadmanagger tried to accelerate the download by breaking it down and downloading the bits simultaniously.

In HOTU's case this is a serious no-no...

You should download only 1 file - with 1 thread at all times!

Tiara · **Reply #26 on:** May 23, 2003, 05:10:24 pm

I downloaded 6 files with a download accalerator and each file was broken up into 8 pieces. 48 files total. Then why did they let me d/l? Because of my dT3?

YodaSean · **Reply #27 on:** May 23, 2003, 08:29:33 pm

nope, no download manager. Download didn't work the first time, I checked in task manager to make sure it wasn't hiding somewhere, then right clicked and tried saving to disk, and it went nuts

edit: Worked this time, for some reason ie was secretly downloading the zip file without showing me

01010 · **Reply #28 on:** May 24, 2003, 05:42:24 am

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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
AFAIK it even had quite a small run in the UK. As you can see, there are only a handful of us here who are HardWar fans, and I believe I'm the only British one.

You believe wrong. The problem with hardwar is the limited scope that being stuck on the planets surface offers, that and once you get a decent bit of cash the difficulty just drops. I still prefer Frontier: Elite 2.

01010 · **Reply #29 on:** May 24, 2003, 05:42:24 am

Petrarch of the VBB · **Reply #30 on:** May 24, 2003, 05:43:44 am

I heard you the first time.

YodaSean · **Reply #31 on:** May 24, 2003, 07:10:38 pm

downloaded it, its a cool game, but which patch do I download? For the latest patch it says the economies screwed up, should I download the one right before that?

Stryke 9 · **Reply #32 on:** May 24, 2003, 07:31:21 pm

Beh, unless you have a tiny-ass hard disk or feel like wasting time playing with partitions just to get one little game working it's a waste of time.

YodaSean · **Reply #33 on:** May 24, 2003, 08:04:07 pm

didn't have that problem on my hardrive on XP(have like 20 free gb). I do remember having that problem on another game on W2K though

HotSnoJ · **Reply #34 on:** May 24, 2003, 08:49:42 pm

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Originally posted by YodaSean
downloaded it, its a cool game, but which patch do I download? For the latest patch it says the economies screwed up, should I download the one right before that?

Use the 2.07 patch, it's the best, unless you want those new features that are in the U3 series.

Flaser · **Reply #35 on:** May 25, 2003, 07:48:44 am

If you plan on using a 3.x patch - which has many cool features, I recommend 3.4 - for some reason it rarely crashed for me, and beside saving in the right moment is a must be in the ordinary game as well.
NOTE:
-Make sure NOT to save when you've died!

YodaSean · **Reply #36 on:** May 25, 2003, 03:15:47 pm

ok downloaded 3.4 patch its a really cool game(wish i had the movies and stuff so i knew whats going on though), only problem is my joystick throttle got deactivated with the patch, which makes dogfighting really tough. Any way to fix this??

Petrarch of the VBB · **Reply #37 on:** May 25, 2003, 03:32:06 pm

I've had this problem, anyone have any ideas?

Flaser · **Reply #38 on:** May 25, 2003, 04:17:00 pm

This is a problem specific with this patch.
Go back to 3.3 if you insist using joystick throttle - believe me or not first time I played through the game by keyboard.
Don't use 3.5 because the economy gets really s****d.

I haven't had trouble though with my Skyborg joystick.
Maybe it only affects older - Game port based - sticks.
What stick do you use?

Flaser · **Reply #39 on:** May 26, 2003, 03:16:33 pm

Lookslike this thread turned into a Hardwar discussion forum, however it still leaves my original question open:

Should HLP have a Hardwar section?

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