release date moved UP?

[Wise Ass]

we could start a pool

[Jawa Jocky]

Amazon.com, Gamestop.com, and EB.com (electronic boutique) all have Oct. 29th listed as the day.

[ixnay]

Well I'm glad it didn't come out this week. I would never have gotten these stupid lab reports done if it did...

The 29th would be fine, though.

[Raiche23]

Warpstorm, I'm not sure where to look for the version number.

I don't see it anywhere.

[notyoueither]

It's on the splash screen. Start the game. The first screen after the video (the one with the various options for starting or loading games). Look in the lower left corner.

There should be a x.xxy. Like 1.29f. What does it say?

[Raiche23]

I know. I thought it would be in the same place, but there is no number. Probably because it's not finished yet.

[notyoueither]

Or the splash screen has been edited...

[Raiche23]

Why would anyone edit the splash screen. The makers just probly haven't numbered it yet.

why? Do you have it? If you do, what's your version?

[notyoueither]

I have been watching the numbers go up for a while now. I cannot say what version I am currently on. It is not my game. It is not for me to say.

[Serotonin]

I tried the leaked beta, and am incredibly worried about final version of the game.

The beta has an incredible amount of bugs in it. Crashes all the time (likes to crash in diplomatic relations)..

Hotseat is unstable, Turn-Based crashes after several turn, simultanous freezes after the first turn and well... turnless is the only stable one but is incredibly hard to keep up with... also multiplayer diplomatic relations crash too..

I was incredibly eager to try out this beta, but now I'm worried about buying the final version cause it might also be this buggy... Let's just hope to god that this doesn't turn into another piece of software for which we need to wait for months for patches that will fix the problems...

Also didn't notice a version number

[Wise Ass]

This is why Beta is normally done privately

I am sure the final product will have few bugs in it and be much more stable.

[rob.derosa]

Like Sim City 4, thats got over 1000 bugs, and they are aiming to fix them all by January.

[Serotonin]

Beta also has new commands for unit. One's the Sentry Command like in Civ 2 and Civ 1 (which was missing from 3). The other is this amazingly handy command called Explore. It automates the movement of the unit to run around and explore any black areas of the map (usually along the borders first).

From what I understand its getting close to the release date of PTW Final. Considering that the beta was just leaked it may be that its a recent beta and thus this may be the current stage of the game. It looks complete to me minus all the crashes and bugs. I sure hope they get them worked out before cause I already can't stand to play it.

Either way though, I'll get the PTW expansion cause 'eventually' they'll release enough patches to make the game playable

[Alex]

Gee, I find it amazing how people get a "leaked beta" of a product that has not even gone gold yet and they start complaining about the bugs. Yeah, right.

[WarpStorm]

And it might not even be a beta, it might even be an alpha copy.