I picked up this game during the steam sale (thanks to the general gaming world that ignored it I may have never found you guys) and I just wanted to say thanks for bringing something good to the table.

This game has kicked me around for the last couple of hours that I've had a chance to play it but it is extremely fun. I'm dreading going online because I know I'll get kicked around some more..

I'll just mirror others who have said this before- this game is the underrated gem of this year and I'll be buying whatever else you bring out in the future!

They're mostly on holidays now, but I'm glad you like it

For MP, jsut don't be discouraged by people rushing or arty spamming. This mostly happens in ranked though.

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Yeah, this is something i've been meaning to say for a long time. Aside from the fact that the franchise is pretty damn close to my dream RTS come true, think for a minute about what Eugen has pulled off in less than a year :

- A pretty good, original (implying financial risk right from the start) game for a reasonable price,
- Based on community input, 4 free DLCs, and maybe more to come,
- Consistent bug-fixing, with numerous minor patches,
- A Mac version announced, for the approximately 4 Mac-only RTS players on the planet,
- Full touch compatibility, for the even smaller player base that will play without mouse or keyboard,
This would be pretty good for any game from any dev. But then they went on and decided to make a new, presumably even better game.
Not bad at all for a studio of less than 50 people.

Now, if you go on the main site, the last ranked player is #15 988. That's an estimated total user base of 30K players, tops. Even assuming everyone paid full price, the amount of money they made is certainly not enough to pay for expenses.
I think all of this shows passion above greed, a trait that is very, very rare in today's PC gaming community.
I think the continued support against all odds even shows some degree of unaltered philanthropy.

I'm not blind to the game's defects. All of us here have something bad to say about the game, the morale, the ATGMs, bushes are overpowered, the spam, the blob, the rush, whatever. Yet, we continue to play, release after release, because we find in this game something that doesn't exists elsewhere. Paraphrasing what someone else said on this forum : "How does W:EE compares to other contemporary RTS ?" "It's better.".

When I rank my favourite game developers (yes I'm a lonely man shut up already), Eugen is right there on the top, tied with Valve.

So yeah, thank you Eugen for a job damn well done. And thank you Focus for supporting them.

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Don't be afraid of going online, just play 3v3 or 4v4, you won't get the nervousness from pressure that some (me at least) feel playing stuff like CoH online. One of the ways I try to sell WEE to my friends is that its not nerve racking and you don't need 100 hours of practice and Starcraft 2 levels of micro and APM to be decent at it.

Also helps to keep in mind that while a higher rank increaes the odds that a player is good at the game, it's by no means guaranteed. I've seen teams of 30s to 50s roll teams of 80s to 100s. This isn't one of those games yet where its only played by the hardcore no-lifers, there's a wide array of skill levels.

Nicely said, nWODT_Niack. While a lot of game devs are amassing gargantuan amounts of money by porting crappy FPS games to PC or coming out with yet another episode of "Space Zombies Invade Inner Earth Episode XIV", EUGEN has tried to bring us some recreation of tabletop miniatures and cardboard map gaming into the computer age. Thank you for that! Maybe some of the younger players who grew up only knowing "Space Invaders" or "Galaga" can't appreciate this effort, but as an old grognard who learned wargaming by rolling dice and constantly cross-checking charts and tables and rules book addendums and spending hours to set up all the pieces, I am one person who can salute EUGEN for a valiant effort.

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Forgot about that part (and the glueing, the painting ...). Amen.

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They'll probably first kick you out of their lobbies, only a bit later does that start happening

But multiplayer shouldn't be feared, it's tough at first but lots of fun in the end, and there's a bunch of cool people. Try adding some nice folks like me (or Varis2000) or DeuZerre to your friends list, chances are you might have a nice game or two and learn a few things, at least if you dare to ask.



Wow I'm not really sure if people who grew up with Space Invaders classify as "youth" today

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Wow I'm not really sure if people who grew up with Space Invaders classify as "youth" today [/quote]
Even THEY are younger than me, varis.

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Give it a few more days and you will find out that the AI (if you can call it that) is blatantly cheating to mask its shortcomings. Then you will find out that its mainly a multiplayer title. Dont judge it before playing multiplayer. Just my 2 cents.