cIV E3 stuff

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Adagio
Sounds plausible, but IIRC about 70% of all unit groups has 5 'units' in them. That's a high number of elite units?

Maybe they just changed the numbers later in the game...

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Have you seen the 13 minutes long video? It's worth it

Does anyone know of a way to save it to disk and send it? I have tried three times now, but it always stop at the exact same spot after 2 minutes (just after they attack for the first time)

[FrostyBoy]

Great movie.

Love the leaderheads, so much better than Civ3's slow animation. The leaders have more character now. Thanks for that Firaxis.

And thanks for bringing back the wonder movies.

I am all hyped up now after watching the movie; come on Soren, give us the release date!

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Sn00py
I am all hyped up now after watching the movie; come on Soren, give us the release date!

Gamespot has it for 1st November

I wouldn't be surprised if it was true: Civ3 was released a 30 October, and I believe the expansion packs were released at a similar date.

[FrostyBoy]

Yeah I guessed so. Perfect, my girlfriend can buy it for me on my birthday (31st Oct )

[Locutus]

Wooaah!!! Did you guys catch that last part of the interview: THEY WILL BE RELEASING THE SOURCE CODE OF THE GAME AS WELL!

Man, I'm buying this game, I'm buying it no matter how much bad news might still come out in the next months... I've been sold!



I'll compile a more complete list of new stuff from this video and update the fact thread after I get some sleep...

[FrostyBoy]

It's time for guess the leaders name!

[Locutus]

Errr, Soren mentioned them all. From top to bottom: Mao Zedong, Qin Shi Huangdi, Louiv XIV, Hatshepsut, Gandhi.

[Locutus]

BTW, what software did you use to make those screencaps? I'll want to add a bunch of screencaps to the fact thread as well, once E3 is over...

[FrostyBoy]

Originally posted by Locutus
Errr, Soren mentioned them all. From top to bottom: Mao Zedong, Qin Shi Huangdi, Louiv XIV, Hatshepsut, Gandhi.

I know, I just felt like being silly.


And I used the magical key: printscreen

paste it into photoshop and crop it out.

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Have you seen the 13 minutes long video? It's worth it

Worth reinstalling my Windows so that I can unfsck WMP so that WMP will actually WORK when streaming video instead of crashing and taking the browser (IE or Firefox, doesn't matter, always the same) with it?

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Locutus
Wooaah!!! Did you guys catch that last part of the interview: THEY WILL BE RELEASING THE SOURCE CODE OF THE GAME AS WELL!

You sure? It's not a blunder made by some overhyped journalist? Soren himself did say that?

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Kassiopeia
Worth reinstalling my Windows so that I can unfsck WMP so that WMP will actually WORK when streaming video instead of crashing and taking the browser (IE or Firefox, doesn't matter, always the same) with it?

Yes. That worth.

[Maquiladora]

Yeah that video is good. I like the idea of different types of unit promotions, lets hope thats balanced properly from the outset.

[ixnay]

Originally posted by Spiffor



You sure? It's not a blunder made by some overhyped journalist? Soren himself did say that?

Quote from soren: "We're releasing the game/AI SDK which is basically the game and AI code that people can compile into a DLL to basically change the game"

Also, he scrolled through the entire tech tree, so with some screencaps we could probably piece together the entire tree.