Field of Glory and questions

[magnus]

I don't think you have to be online.

I could be wrong, but I don't think any Matrix/Slitherine/Ageod game you need to phone home.

[gameleaper]

I don't think you have to be online.

I could be wrong, but I don't think any Matrix/Slitherine/Ageod game you need to phone home.

I installed it, and was not asked to enter my serial until I ran the game, then in-game it said it was getting licence from server, maybe it will work offline, but it looked like your serial is checked and then the licence is added, I cant check on an old PC at the moment because I'm decorating and its not setup. all my other games don't phone home from matrix but this could be a sad thing I wont buy any more matrix if they start phoneing home

[jomni]

I don't think you have to be online.

I could be wrong, but I don't think any Matrix/Slitherine/Ageod game you need to phone home.

I installed it, and was not asked to enter my serial until I ran the game, then in-game it said it was getting licence from server, maybe it will work offline, but it looked like your serial is checked and then the licence is added, I cant check on an old PC at the moment because I'm decorating and its not setup. all my other games don't phone home from matrix but this could be a sad thing I wont buy any more matrix if they start phoneing home

I think this is more of an exception.  Many games are still doing it the old way.

[gameleaper]

I don't think you have to be online.

I could be wrong, but I don't think any Matrix/Slitherine/Ageod game you need to phone home.

I installed it, and was not asked to enter my serial until I ran the game, then in-game it said it was getting licence from server, maybe it will work offline, but it looked like your serial is checked and then the licence is added, I cant check on an old PC at the moment because I'm decorating and its not setup. all my other games don't phone home from matrix but this could be a sad thing I wont buy any more matrix if they start phoneing home

I think this is more of an exception.  Many games are still doing it the old way.

Hope so

[jomni]

Hmm. I accepted a MP challenge using armies from a DLC I don't have. I can actually play it. :P

On another note, I am also fighting a MP game with an Ancient army vs a Medieval one.

The AI is still not very good. Some Slitherine forum users call it a potato. Not like Pike & Shot which takes into account terrain and POAs to make sensible decisions. Solo play is still definitely not fun in FoG.  To make things worse, the handicap settings don't work too.

[PanzerFaust]

I don't know why people keep calling it "Field of Glory 2".

This is not Field of Glory 2.

It's an update to Field of Glory 1.

[jomni]

Yes. I confirm that it is not FoG2

[Grim.Reaper]

From the discussions in the official forum, besides it being an update to switch back-end engines, seems that it would be hard pressed to call this even an update/upgrade since so far most comments are about things that no longer exist. things that don't work in this version, and graphics being a step back.

[jomni]

People are expecting too much I guess.

[Anguille]

People are expecting too much I guess.

Really?

I am just expecting at least the same quality as the original game, don't think it's expecting too much imho...

I am not going to complain on the Slitherine forums (made one comment) as i am not a huge player of the game (actually i am playing my first pbem right now....mostly because i have too many games and Field of Glory is still a new game to me  ::)). It's surely hard for the guys who are working on it (Dan?) and i feel sorry for them. It seems however that the usually good beta testing from Slitherine failed in that case.

[Grim.Reaper]

People are expecting too much I guess.

Expecting too much?  I am thinking it was reasonable to expect that minimally all the existing game features would still be there plus not introducing a ton of new issues that supposedly didn't exist in the original version....I know its free and no product is ever bug free, but so far doesn't seem off to a good start for an "update"....maybe with time it will get there, but while that is happening, hopefully they will continue to fully support the old version for those players who do enjoy it already...in the end really doesn't impact me personally since I stopped playing a long time ago, although I thought with the update that I would get back into it and even purchase more content.....but not going to do that now.

[PipFromSlitherine]

I have not read to-much back up in the thread, but I just got the new FOG 2, and I found I needed to be online to input my serial, this is a sad day for me as I wanted to be autonamouse and use my games on old PCs not connected to the net, and don't have current antivirus, correct me if I'm wrong but it definatly seemed like I had to be connected to the server to enter my serial.

You do not need to be online to enter your serials.  You do (clearly) need to be online to register your serials on the server.

Cheers

Pip

[jomni]

Yeah agree.  There's a long way to go for this to be called a real upgrade.

[panzerde]

I'm okay with the idea that it's a move to a new engine, and not an upgrade. But there needs to be feature parity with the game that it's replacing before Slitherine turns off the old PBEM servers - which I understand they've already done.

Unfortunately,  Slitherine adopted a "get stuffed" attitude a few years back with FoG support (not even answering support emails for a product that was still for sale?).  They've  declared that the new Unity version is it for this game.  They're taking the stance that they didn't get any beta feedback (despite numerous beta testers indicating that they did, indeed, point out the problems with FoG Unity over and over).

There's a single developer working on this who is clearly part-time and clearly struggling - and honestly from some of his responses on the Slitherine forums I'm not sure he's a wargamer (he hasn't seen the need for mousing over a square to tell you what the terrain type is, for example). He doesn't seem to have much UI development experience. He's content to release a game that uses programmer-speak for important settings.

I'm not optimistic.

[gameleaper]

I have not read to-much back up in the thread, but I just got the new FOG 2, and I found I needed to be online to input my serial, this is a sad day for me as I wanted to be autonamouse and use my games on old PCs not connected to the net, and don't have current antivirus, correct me if I'm wrong but it definatly seemed like I had to be connected to the server to enter my serial.

You do not need to be online to enter your serials.  You do (clearly) need to be online to register your serials on the server.

Cheers

Pip

thx pip, but I'm sure I saw a message saying getting licence. I'm useining the new FoG2 update upgrade are you talking about the older version pip.