Scourge of war remastered

[Grim.Reaper]

Looks like steam page is up, maybe coming soon.  Kind of generic name, images are Waterloo and believe they previous said that would come first, surprised not part of actual game title.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2205330/Scourge_Of_War__Remastered/?fbclid=IwAR3LvcBDZx6EKNYM-hpomoZ1dzkE7u40AfNy9HxI-Z6Tns8gyq_E83gvZL8

[Destraex]

Well if they do waterloo with terrain that you can actually see and enjoy thats all I want.

[Gusington]

From the Steam page: '...It's been many years since those initial releases and old men need something to do in their twilight years.'

 

[Destraex]

Just thinking about it. It sounds like the base game will be scourge of war engine with the waterloo module being optional? I doubt they would force civil war buffs to buy a napoleonic wars module to get to the civil war content? Who knows perhaps the title is not final.

[Grim.Reaper]

Not sure, they just indicated Waterloo would be the first to be updated, I guess we will see soon enough.

[Destraex]

One thing I do remember is that scourge of war games were pulled from sale everywhere a year or so ago. So I think this new version has been worked on for at least a year.

[Grim.Reaper]

For sure at least a year, when they announced back in December 2022, they implied most was already done.

[Toonces]

With respect, that doesn't look all that "remastered."

[Grim.Reaper]

With respect, that doesn't look all that "remastered."

Been a long time since I played the original, so hard for me to remember and compare the graphics based on these few images posted so far.  But beyond the graphics, they indicated the ai was made a lot stronger and the performance of the game being better, along with introducing the ability to play multi player via steam.  So I don't think the remastered term is solely based on graphics.   Not sure we will really know until it enters early access for us all to see, but either way the past graphics was never a major deal for me as the overall gameplay was what I really liked, although I would much prefer the civil war titles first.

Since they just published the page with coming soon, believe steam has rules they can't release a new product for two weeks so we likely minimally have that amount of time to wait, if not likely more.  Unless there are different rules for games that go early access first.

[Tripoli]

Day one purchase for me. 

[smittyohio]

"Come on, shake your body baby, do the conga" popped into my head as soon as I saw the thread.  Did they ever solve that issue?

[Gusington]

^Haha what the hell issue was that? Sounds more like a feature.

[Grim.Reaper]

^Haha what the hell issue was that? Sounds more like a feature.

Guessing might be meaning how when troops moved in columns, they kind of snapped into place as they moved, especially around curves......kind of making it look like a conga line:)

[Gusington]

^'Bonus feature' 

[Tripoli]

^Haha what the hell issue was that? Sounds more like a feature.

Guessing might be meaning how when troops moved in columns, they kind of snapped into place as they moved, especially around curves......kind of making it look like a conga line:)

I would think that advancements in AI and computer capability would allow the developers to fix the conga line issue.  While visually jarring, the series remains the best regimental-sized USCW system in terms of both visuals and the computer opponent.  I hope that they will also make it easier for user-generated content to be developed.  If I recall, it was difficult to make maps for user scenarios, so that there were only a limited number of battles made.