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Played again yesterday, and i'm loving the nova cannon again. Still quite powerful and now you can see where the blast will land A La' plasma bombs. Tried the eldar too and I can say that Eldar Vs Eldar kinda stinks as much as Orks versus Orks.

I played teldar foer the first time, first fight was other eldar. i had my arse handed back to me carved up for dinner. AI is good and I am not quite sure what I am doing yet. Edlar are difficult to use and I am ok with that. I only had one cruiser in my fleet and I didnt actually realise that the computer game version of the Solaris is actually a carrier.

Eldar vs Eldar is very hard to maneuver right. I was being picked apart and had to flee with no kills to my name.

Not had this experience with any of the other factions.


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 Selym wrote:

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
["the devs needs to get a handle on this before I demand my money back"

If you played the game for more than 2 hours your not getting your money back.

Yeah. Steam does a 2 hour trial period to check that you can run the game and that you weren't missold anything. But after that refunds are a no show in most cases.

Silent Puffin is a UK customer, he has rights under UK distance sales law if he bought his copy using £. Which allows two weeks IIRC. Steam might not like it but he can get his money back if he wanted to.

Did not know that was a thing.

+1 for staying out of the Eurozone.

 Orlanth wrote:

Silent Puffin is a UK customer, he has rights under UK distance sales law if he bought his copy using £. Which allows two weeks IIRC. Steam might not like it but he can get his money back if he wanted to.

That doesn't work as you waive your right to a refund under distance selling regulations when you agree to the Steam terms of use. Computer software is treated differently to physical goods so once you 'open' the game by downloading it Steam has no legal obligation to offer a refund under UK law, or as far as I know any law, which is why it took them over a decade to change their refund policy.

 Selym wrote:

+1 for staying out of the Eurozone.

The EU as a whole has a very similar law to the UK so your post is relevant because?

Since the devs elected to hide all shortcuts in the pause menus buried in options, I figured quite a few of you guys may find this handy...
I sure hope they take a cue from StarCraft and others and include the hotkey when you mouseover the in-game menus too... le sigh -
Anyways, print and enjoy!

GENERAL

Camera Forward: W
Camera Backward: S
Camera to the Left: A
Camera to the Right: D
Hold to move the camera freely: Middle Mouse Button

Switch between ships in a multi-selection: Tab

Slow Motion/Tactical Cogitator: Space Bar

Hide GUI: F10

Setting the control group bound to (#): Ctrl + (#)



SHIP CONTROLS

All Ahead Full: Q
High Energy Turn: E
Burn Retros (Full Stop): Z

Auto Engagement: F1

Switching the Engagement position setting: F2
Distance of engagement 3k: F3
Distance of engagement 6k: F4
Distance of engagement 9k: F5
Distance of engagement 12k: F6

Closest side to engage in broadside: F7
Left side to engage in broadside: F8
Right side to engage in broadside: F9

Hold Fire: X

Focus on target while moving: C

Cancel current order: V

Contextual action: R


SKILLS

Reload! special order: T
Lock On! special order: Y
Brace for Impact! special order: U
‘Running Silent!’ special order: I

Favour Skill: O

Boarding: G
Lightning Strike: H

Special Weapon #1: J
Special Weapon #2: K

Emergency Repairs: L

Installed Technical Skill #1: L
Installed Technical Skill #1: B
Installed Technical Skill #1: N
Installed Technical Skill #1: M

Bombers: P
Assault Boats: [
Fighters: ]
Warp Jump of faction equivalent: Num.

Eh, thanks !

The Pulsar seemed unwieldy at first, but turning off 'focusing target' and issuing a quick attack order with the pulsar ships does the trick wonderfully.

Emnjoyed my first few games and messing about with stuff - love the look and feel of the game - hope they have some female voice actors as well ???

Level 7 with the Eldar now, and Emperor almigthy are they a cakewalk! Combining a pulsar burst with a torpedo launch against a larger and slower foe is sheer amusment really. Tore appart two Imperial battle cruisers and a battleship that way in my last game

Eh, IN is now (and has been since day 1) the weakest faction in BFG:A...

 Selym wrote:
Eh, IN is now (and has been since day 1) the weakest faction in BFG:A...

Only played Skirmish against the computer but enjoying the Imperium and doing the best with it

No, I disagree. Nova cannon is very interesting against Eldars.
I don't know for you, but often, when I face Eldars, they have A LOT of escorts ships, and they are packed .
Just 1 nova cannon hit and everything disappear !

I'm a bit annoyed because I fight Eldars almost everytime now...
I didn't fought an orks since the Eldars are out, this is sad.

Played my first couple of online games...

Lost 1 against Chaos and won 1 against Eldar - bit annoyed as destroyed his 4 ships but it said I only crippled them :( They certainly blew up!

I played like 6 solo skirmish games in a row and they all have been cruiser clash... did they change it to only be that?

Also finally played against eldar and holy crap was that chaotic! my gothic and dictator ships were heavily damaged, and a dauntless was blown to bits! Thankfully my nova cannons managed to kill a few ships to keep me in the game. Fast little buggers!

40% of all games are now CC, as per community request.

tried another couple of online games and I've come to the conclusion that I won't be touching the MP after release at all.

The balance is utterly broken. For example a chaos fleet with a capable player can't lose to orks because the orks simply cannot get in range while Chaos just bombs them to gak.

 Tiger9gamer wrote:
I played like 6 solo skirmish games in a row and they all have been cruiser clash... did they change it to only be that?

Also finally played against eldar and holy crap was that chaotic! my gothic and dictator ships were heavily damaged, and a dauntless was blown to bits! Thankfully my nova cannons managed to kill a few ships to keep me in the game. Fast little buggers!

my first game - took my Dauntless and some firestorms and got a bit stomped on by a couple of Chaos Cruisers - although made one disengage.

I think my Eldar opponent was equally new - took two Dauntless and lasered his escorts to pieces as they closed, then hammered then with Macros,managed to stay with the cruiser with All Power turns and blasted hell out of it - it tried to disengage but failed, rammed me and took both our flagships out in an explosion.

Enjoying it all so far

 Soladrin wrote:
tried another couple of online games and I've come to the conclusion that I won't be touching the MP after release at all.

The balance is utterly broken. For example a chaos fleet with a capable player can't lose to orks because the orks simply cannot get in range while Chaos just bombs them to gak.

Yeah... I and many others have been trying to get Tindalos to prioritise balancing the MP game over adding fleets to it, but so far all we've gotten is a glitchy Eldar fleet, and even moar ability/upgrade spam.

Err.. It is a beta guys. It's not meant to be perfect, lol. They'll fix it.

Eh. They have 10 days to release, and I'll be amazed if the MP is even playable on day 1.

How do you chat in game - just had a great game against a "Ragnar" with my Orks and wanted to say thnx

press enter, like all other pc games

 Selym wrote:
press enter, like all other pc games

Ah right thanks - the only other game I play online is Mechwarrior online

 Selym wrote:
press enter, like all other pc games

Its generally Y and U in FPS games

I for one can hardly wait for the singleplayer campaign. It's going to be so much fun!

Yeah, the singleplayer should be fun.

The MP is a mess though. Orks can't touch Eldar unless you build your entire fleet to counter them, IE, taunt spam.

 Soladrin wrote:
Yeah, the singleplayer should be fun.

The MP is a mess though. Orks can't touch Eldar unless you build your entire fleet to counter them, IE, taunt spam.

Only played about 30-40 games but killed quite a few games vs Eldar so far with Imperials and even Orks but guussing fighting other new players - not used Taunt yet and tractor beams seem to be nasty.............

It really bothers me that they replaced the speed upgrade for Chaos.

It made my battleship less of a pain to use.

Gah Orks are my least favorite opponent in the solo skirmish. I may just be bad but the ramming is so hard to avoid and those ships are just way to tough. I usually win by making the enemy fleet flee and by that point all my ships are severely crippled.

The same here: with my IN fleet, I'm slow so I can't avoid orks, and I haven't the firepower needed to destroy them before they reach me.