Yeah, hell with limited towers. I think, this limits feature is just like Empire Earth 2. <_<Quote:
Originally Posted by orcutt989
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Yeah, hell with limited towers. I think, this limits feature is just like Empire Earth 2. <_<Quote:
Originally Posted by orcutt989
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Age of Empires 3: Release Date - October 25th, 2005
I thought it would be appropriate since this is a Big-Name game to hopefully get a thread going that could be stickied or used as a main place to talk about this game.
Welcome to the New World of Strategy
It's the dawn of a new age in real-time strategy (RTS) games. A brave New World is rising – a hostile yet beautiful world, filled with innovative gameplay, new strategic scenarios, eye-searing graphics and much more.
Welcome to a world called Age of Empires III.
New Feature – Home Cities
Players have access to their own European Home City for economic, technological and military support. Your Home City's success depends on you, with your city's improvements retained between games. Learn more.
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Full 3-D Graphics, Destructible Environments and More
The goal of our Age of Empires III team here at Ensemble Studios wasn't just to build the best-looking graphics ever in an RTS game. It was to build the best-looking graphics in anyFind out. game. Period. Did our team succeed?
Civlizations
The Spanish have a strong military, with both hand infantry and cavalry. Flexibility in early shipments from the Home City give the Spanish the option to attack early or set up for a strong, late economy. Spanish Home City improvements benefit soldiers, buildings and naval units.
Quick access to Settlers gives the British one of the strongest economies in the game. The ability to upgrade two key units – the Musketeer and Hussar – make the British military formidable in the late game. The British Home City emphasizes improvements to technology and naval warfare.
Although the French economy starts slowly, the Coureur unit, a Villager with strong fighting skills, makes the French difficult to attack early. The French also have the strongest cavalry unit in the game – the Cuirassier. Plus, the French are experts at allying with the Native Americans.
Starting the game with two Town Centers, the Portuguese can quickly produce Settlers, control territory or support their allies. The Spyglass ability allows the Portuguese to easily spy on the enemy. The Portuguese also have a strong navy, strong light infantry and the best Dragoons in the game.
Although Dutch Settlers are limited and costly, their civilization makes up for this economic disadvantage by building Banks and generating coin automatically. The Dutch Home City emphasizes upgrades to defense and economy.
The Germans have fewer Settlers and therefore a slower economy. Fortunately, both the Settler Wagon and Uhlan cavalry spawn for free from the German Town Center. Plus, the Germans start with the ability to send Mercenaries from their Home City (long before other civilizations can).
Starting the game with extra resources but fewer Settlers gives the Russians the flexibility of focusing on economy or an early raid. Russian infantry, individually weak, are trained in blocks at a faster rate, providing the Russians with the opportunity to overwhelm their enemy with greater numbers.
For the Ottomans, Settlers spawn automatically from the Town Center. Building a Mosque and conducting research help keep that Settler production steady. Befitting their position straddling Europe and Asia, the Ottomans have more unique units than any other civilization.
European civilizations can learn new technologies and gain troops by forging alliances with the Native Americans. A British player who allies with the Iroquois is essentially playing as two civilizations: the British and the Iroquois.
Demo is out, click here to download it!
Minimum System Requirements
Windows XP
1.4 Ghz Processor
256 RAM
64 MB Video Card with HW and T&L
370MB of HDD space
DirectX 9c
The tower limitation was to avoid the AOE2 tower fest :D This prevents players from building all over the map:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Dark Steno
The building time has to increase a little bit as well as the resources gathering.
But it was Trebuchet fest! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Delorean
I like however, how there is no seige weapon that has like the largest range in the game. Everything is able to be killed by something, there is no super-powerful units. You can counter something with something else. And I also like how there are no seige units/regular units with larger range than a tower's range, which gets annoying having to defend the towers. Its just great, Ive played the demo for about a week straight now. I have a question, will the city only level up to level 9? Because there are a bunch of cards I want to get, but I have played 3 battles now and no level up...
is this game any good?
...i.e. Better than the Stronghold series?
Do your citizens actually act like people who need a constant supply of food?
The demo version is out:
http://www.filemirrors.com/search.sr...al&action=Find
The full version wont come out untill Oct 18.
only like one more month till the release. The game is gonna rule!!!
i've been playing age of empires 2 as of late. pretty fun, im not that good at it, but it's always fun to knock down enemies buildings. except when they build 4 f'n castles with buildings all over the map. ran in the little explosive dudes, but they arent very powerful, take 30 to knock out a castle. the trebuchets are ridiculously underarmed, 4 or five hits from a few archers and it's dead.
If you think the demo is tough, try this for a change.
I recommend making an army of about:
15 Musketeers, 15 grenadiers, 3 cannons, 3 rockets. That'll hold off all the invasions as long as you continue to supply them with reinforcements when the others die. I'm pretty sure your cannons and rockets will barely die off, if not at all.
Only grab coin from your shipments, since it's very limited on the lands. You also need to build some walls to divert the enemy's armies into one point.. enclose your city except the area you want the enemy to attack...obviously they are pretty stupid to only attack that one area. Eh, I never lost a single piece of wall!!!
If you want to attack the enemy..build atleast 2-3 rockets, 10 musketeers, and 5 grenadiers. Those rockets will annihilate the hell out of any building!!! I love how they fire in infinite supply!!! You could blow sh*t up all day if you had a group of 20 rockets guarded with 20 musketeers! Blood baths!
I got error 1935 near the end of the progress bar was I was installing the demo. :huh:
then I got error 1603-fatal error :blink:
The Installation file must be currupt, because that's news to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by maebach
:frusty: try redownloading it
Yep. Usually because of corrupted file.
Man, this game is pretty cool once you get to know it. There are many improvements over the previous two, including the ability to recruit 5 units at a time. (unfortunately, settlers can only go one at a time, but otherwise, 5 would make things too easy).
i saw the trailer for this and said to myself "that cant look that good" but sure enough it did. surpases aoe2 by a landslide.
Heh,plus the game looks pretty good on slower graphics cards too. ATI Radeon 9500 pro runs it at around 25-28 fps, but it looks fine. My friend has a slower nvidia card and gets around 22-24, but it still looks pretty smooth.
my 9500 pro still gets a good 85-90 fps on Halo.
COOL!!!!!!
OMG i can't wait for this game.. used to overplay AOE 2.. and this one looks.. like....... AMAZIN'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What's the release date..?
Oct 18th i think I know its between the 16-18
try the demo. You'll be playin skirmish 2-3 times against the cpu or muliplayer. They've improved many things, so it's less stressful with the tedious tasks, while you still have an overall challenge.Quote:
Originally Posted by tralalala
holly momma!!!! :w00t: :w00t: :w00t: :01:
god i love filelist
I have a 4hr wait and its still dling. :01:
I'll be done within the hour :D Current speed is 710kB :01:
WTF? What is ur internet speed? The best I see on FileList is 100 kb/s. :frusty: :frusty: :frusty:Quote:
Originally Posted by Samurai
yea, thats rediculusely fast, too fast :ph34r:Quote:
Originally Posted by Samurai
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Originally Posted by Samurai
r u trying to make me mad or what? I have speed 20 times smaller than u're so :cry:
it's also posted on usenet (multiple groups) :D
Wow, the game is supposed to come out on october 18th according to gamespot.com . im downloading it right now from torrentbytes :D...
Newsgroups :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Gam3Guy
I too was in the situation you're in now until I got pissed off with waiting and decided to go for NG's a few months back. Haven't looked back.
Enjoy your wait fkers muhahahaha :lol:
Its at torrentspy if you dont have a Torrentbytes account.
WTF im only downloading it at 6KB/s from torrentbytes http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/image...ies/frusty.gif . I'll try filelist.org...
Edit:
file list: 8 seeder(s), 1066 leecher(s) = 1074 peer(s) total
torrentbytes: 86 seeder(s), 1289 leecher(s) = 1375 peer(s) total
Damn , i should stick with torrenbytes :(.
FileList isent so great either.
its on pisexy, but I dont trust their games for some reason
I actually used to have newsgroups. :cry:Quote:
Originally Posted by Samurai
so this comes out around the same time as F.E.A.R. wonder which will sell more?
I would guess F.E.A.R., IMO.
WTF ??? I was playing this game and it took up 200,000 KB of my ram, and i only have 512mb :o . Has anyone elese experienced this ? I also have the settings at low ? Please can someone help me ?? is there a possible way for me to limit how much ram a program uses? this is outrageous!!!!
BTW this is an amazing game, its my first time actually playing RTS...
Try using MemTurbo on http://www.nsaneproductions.com/
It's in the Applications > System & Security tabs ;)
Thanks alot Samurai, i'll give a try :)
Whoever wants it w/o the wait, drop me a pm.
Hot damn, its even better than the demo! Rock out!