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    Anyone tried this?


    I just got it a few days ago, and I'm still not all clear what I think about it


    It does have some interesting ideas:
    - Your units works in groups, and can transform on the battlefield*
    - You need to level the terrain to build on it
    - After sending lots of rockets to some terrain, it starts looking bomed
    - The maps are very interesting: e.g. one of the MP maps is one huge Pizza

    But it has some downsides too:
    - There's one structure that exists all over the map, otherwise you wont win**
    - It's very fast-paced. I doubt MP games will last more than an hour
    - Some of the missions in the campaign are very annoying***




    * There's 3 basic units (soldiers, officers, technicians) which can be tranformed into helicopters, rocket launchers, etc




    ** The power-generator, power-transmitter (Don't remember the ingame name for it)... it has to be built often to generate enough power (power = "gold"), and buildings has to be very close to it to be useable...
    These buildings are linked (you see a network of 'power' in the air between those buildings), which can get very annoying when you've got 30+ of those


    *** Yesterday I spent an hour trying to finish a mission... The game simply just told me to build a certain building in 4 spots, and defend them with rockets... ok, I got them built, and none of them was never touched, since I had lots of rocket-towers defending them... but apparently you had to defend each of them with the rocket-units, not just rockets...
    Today I have played one mission like 10 times, but always with the same result: The enemy can get through my super-defense like if I didn't have any defense in the first place, while even if I attack with more units than them, and they have less defense than me (and worse planned defense also) I can't even manage to get halfway through their land (You have to dig to the center of their land, and they do the same)...
    From being on their forum, it sounds a bit like there's one hell of a huge bug in the game...
    This space is empty... or is it?

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    it sounds a bit like there's one hell of a huge bug in the game...


    No reason to play it for ahile then ey.
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    • #3
      But this bug doesn't show up before mission 7, and it sounds like this bug is only human vs AI
      This space is empty... or is it?

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      • #4
        What's that?
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        • #5
          What's what?
          This space is empty... or is it?

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          • #6
            I tried the demo but the only even mildly fascinating thing was the storyline, and I don't play RTS's for the story so... I still am pretty interested to find out what the whole plotline is all about, with all those connected bubble worlds, strange battlegrounds and what have you.
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            • #7
              I still haven't understud the storyline...

              But the main reason for posting about it, was the new ideas in the game...
              This space is empty... or is it?

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              • #8
                Originally posted by ADG
                What's what?
                What is this game?
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                • #9
                  Perimeter. Please try and keep up.

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                  • #10
                    Quiet, spammer
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                    • #11
                      I'm not the one getting +1s by pretending not to know what game ADG is talking about.

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                      • #12
                        Here's a preview of the game:




                        This explains a bit of it


                        Though as I said before, I wasn't sure about the story...
                        In the preview they say the story is about some people who go to other planets because Earth is 'unuseable'... though as what I've seen in the game this is not correct...
                        Don't expect me to tell to correct story though, I'm still not sure what it's about...
                        This space is empty... or is it?

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                        • #13
                          Re: Perimeter

                          Originally posted by Adagio
                          Anyone tried this?


                          I just got it a few days ago, and I'm still not all clear what I think about it


                          It does have some interesting ideas:
                          - Your units works in groups, and can transform on the battlefield*
                          - You need to level the terrain to build on it
                          - After sending lots of rockets to some terrain, it starts looking bomed
                          - The maps are very interesting: e.g. one of the MP maps is one huge Pizza

                          But it has some downsides too:
                          - There's one structure that exists all over the map, otherwise you wont win**
                          - It's very fast-paced. I doubt MP games will last more than an hour
                          - Some of the missions in the campaign are very annoying***




                          * There's 3 basic units (soldiers, officers, technicians) which can be tranformed into helicopters, rocket launchers, etc




                          ** The power-generator, power-transmitter (Don't remember the ingame name for it)... it has to be built often to generate enough power (power = "gold"), and buildings has to be very close to it to be useable...
                          These buildings are linked (you see a network of 'power' in the air between those buildings), which can get very annoying when you've got 30+ of those


                          *** Yesterday I spent an hour trying to finish a mission... The game simply just told me to build a certain building in 4 spots, and defend them with rockets... ok, I got them built, and none of them was never touched, since I had lots of rocket-towers defending them... but apparently you had to defend each of them with the rocket-units, not just rockets...
                          Today I have played one mission like 10 times, but always with the same result: The enemy can get through my super-defense like if I didn't have any defense in the first place, while even if I attack with more units than them, and they have less defense than me (and worse planned defense also) I can't even manage to get halfway through their land (You have to dig to the center of their land, and they do the same)...
                          From being on their forum, it sounds a bit like there's one hell of a huge bug in the game...
                          I like starcraft and games there rarely last much longer than 30 minutes

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                          • #14
                            I wouldn't have expected to see a response like that on a Civilization site
                            This space is empty... or is it?

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Adagio
                              I wouldn't have expected to see a response like that on a Civilization site
                              Newbie Though not so much you also want to get your +1
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