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I assume it's so that any fresh stains will actually show up, as opposed to blending in. BB fans prefer to know just how much stuffing has been knocked out of their opponents, so they can decide whether to invade the pitch due to a lack of action or not.
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Avatar 720 wrote: I assume it's so that any fresh stains will actually show up, as opposed to blending in. BB fans prefer to know just how much stuffing has been knocked out of their opponents, so they can decide whether to invade the pitch due to a lack of action or not.
Aye I hope that's the case
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They need to make some vast improvements over the game modes if they hope to get any sort of fan base going. Seemed like only BB veterans found the first one appealing, everyone else got frustrated trying to play it.
I'm terrible at it, but I own the tabletop version and love it, but the PC version was just bleh. Keep the traditional mode, but we need something that plays like blitz or something.
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Shiny new graphics aside, I hope they improve the AI. I don't play online modes and playing against an AI that cheats something rotten is not much fun.
Was just wondering how they plan to actually get a new game out of this. I guess if they just fix half the bugs in the old one and dust off the graphics it would be a big improvement...but not necessarily worth a new game.
Then again, the same NFL game comes out every year and people apparently buy it. Maybe Blood Bowl will try to emulate that style of marketing (I hope not though).
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BrianDavion wrote: Between the two of us... I think GW is assuming we the players are not complete idiots.
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dementedwombat wrote: Was just wondering how they plan to actually get a new game out of this. I guess if they just fix half the bugs in the old one and dust off the graphics it would be a big improvement...but not necessarily worth a new game.
Blood Bowl has been released 3 times so far (original, legendary and chaos editions), I don't see that Cyanide will have any problems issuing Blood Bowl 2(4)
I quite liked the original, the AI was a bit ropey and the RNG was blatantly not a RNG but it was quite decent and if you could get a good league going it was an enjoyable, if tense, multiplayer game.
RegalPhantom wrote: If your fluff doesn't fit, change your fluff until it does
The prefect example of someone missing the point.
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Its just a shame that they couldn't fight off Andy Chambers.
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Wait, legendary and chaos were full on "new" games? I thought they were that fabled relic of times gone by known as the "expansion pack". Like if you had the original and you wanted chaos edition you'd pay full retail price?
Learn something new every day I guess.
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BrianDavion wrote: Between the two of us... I think GW is assuming we the players are not complete idiots.
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dementedwombat wrote: Wait, legendary and chaos were full on "new" games? I thought they were that fabled relic of times gone by known as the "expansion pack". Like if you had the original and you wanted chaos edition you'd pay full retail price?
Learn something new every day I guess.
They were expansion packs but they are all classed as standalone games and are priced above what an expansion pack normally is, Chaos edition for example currently costs £20 and its about 2 years old.
RegalPhantom wrote: If your fluff doesn't fit, change your fluff until it does
The prefect example of someone missing the point.
Do not underestimate the Squats. They survived for millenia cut off from the Imperium and assailed on all sides. Their determination and resilience is an example to us all.
-Leman Russ, Meditations on Imperial Command book XVI (AKA the RT era White Dwarf Commpendium).
Its just a shame that they couldn't fight off Andy Chambers.
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They were standalone expansions. That doesn't make it a full new game. It just means they were nice enough not to keep charging you if you didn't own the old ones. Add that you got massive discounts on steam for owning previous titles so yes, they are expansions.
Anyway, I liked the PC game and it is actually what got me into it, never played tabletop. Quite looking forward to this.
Soladrin wrote: They were standalone expansions. That doesn't make it a full new game. It just means they were nice enough not to keep charging you if you didn't own the old ones. Add that you got massive discounts on steam for owning previous titles so yes, they are expansions.
Steam is not the entire gaming market and they aren't priced as expansions.
RegalPhantom wrote: If your fluff doesn't fit, change your fluff until it does
The prefect example of someone missing the point.
Do not underestimate the Squats. They survived for millenia cut off from the Imperium and assailed on all sides. Their determination and resilience is an example to us all.
-Leman Russ, Meditations on Imperial Command book XVI (AKA the RT era White Dwarf Commpendium).
Its just a shame that they couldn't fight off Andy Chambers.
Warzone Plog
I play in online leagues pretty regularly, and have no issues with the current implementation doing so. The AI could use some work for single player mode.
What I'd like to see is a way to (and especially for single player mode), just enter teams and players. A lot of BB tournaments have different rules for team generation (like at Adepticon, it's 1.1M $$, plus one of three stat boost options (either 5 regular and 1 double skill on different players, or 2 skills on two players, or a stat increase on a player)).
I'd like to be able to just design and test teams online without having to play through all sorts of nonsense games just to get the players configured as I want them.
