RE: USF4 changes!
- From: "Donaldson, Alasdair" <alasdair.donaldson@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:04:24 +0000
Stuffing around on youtube last night and somehow came across the link to Sales
Guy vs. Web Dude. Haven’t watched it in a while. Still golden.
From: cpt-fgc-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cpt-fgc-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Ilitirit Sama
Sent: 06 August 2014 12:26 PM
To: cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: USF4 changes!
Might and Magic Heroes VI reminded me of how far Ubisoft has fallen. It seems
like everything they touch turns to shit.
- You need to install Ubisoft's crappy UPlay client and create an account
- The game uses always-online DRM. You can play offline, but certain features
are missing, like pre-level bonus selection which has always been part of the
series.
- If for some reason the game can't connect to their servers, you can't unlock
the DLC
Here's the best part: Suppose, like me, you played offline for five hours
because the servers were down. The next time you launch the game and it
manages to connect to the server, all your saved games magically disappear and
you have to restart from scratch! That's presumably because the game sees
online and offline as two different modes, which is one of the stupidest things
I've ever come across in a videogame because Online and Offline campaigns are
exactly the same. I suppose they were too lazy to try to figure out which
achievements you've already unlocked once you connected, so they just force you
to restart (remind me again why this is even necessary considering it's a Steam
title...)
The game itself is also disappointing but at the end of the day it's still HoMM
so I expect to be playing it for quite a while.
The developers went bankrupt. Here's what one of them had to say about their
time working with Ubisoft:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/forums/showthread.php?4267-Heroes-6-dev-goes-bankrupt-blames-Ubisoft
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Manase Zote
<bmlzote@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:bmlzote@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Awesome!
On 6 Aug 2014 10:53, "Ilitirit Sama"
<ilitirit@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:ilitirit@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdW4ROw03QQ
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Nicholas Robertson-Muir
<nicmuir@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:nicmuir@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Old news
On 6 Aug 2014 02:36, "Ilitirit Sama"
<ilitirit@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:ilitirit@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
http://www.siliconera.com/2014/08/05/new-3d-king-fighters-game-development/
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