Originally posted by: tigersty1e
Originally posted by: TehMac
Originally posted by: tigersty1e
I'm not going through 7 pages of threads, but it looks like land armies can fight sea based navies.
Cool.
Uh, no that's not true.
I think some people would like that, but I just don't see it happening.
If you look at one of the trailers, it looks like a land based army fighting a navy army... or at least some artillary attacking some ships.
I'm not sure which trailer you're referring to, but CA has explicityly stated navy/army coordination is simply not possible with the current engine/technological issues.
They did express interest in it, but said "ETW isn't the game for it," suggesting it will appear perhaps in the future. I'd like that, but again, engine support would be difficult.
Originally posted by: lupi
What's this crap I just read about the game requiring steam to run whether you d/l or buy the boxed version?
Instead of DRM, CA/SEGA are going to require STEAM, of course they'll support offline mode as well, but my guess is that they spent a lot of money on this, they don't want the damn thing to be pirated. Tbh, I'm ok with it, it's better than giving a shitload of DRM on its ass.
Also, so far 8 playable factions have been confirmed.
France, Great Britain,
Sweden,
Ottoman Empire, United Provinces (Dutch),
Russia, Spain, Prussia
I bolded all the ones I thought were iffy. So far the list seems pretty solid, and the Road to Independence Trailer showed the player playing as the Austrian Empire (I think its the Austrians) so I think they're in as well.