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Is anyone interested by the Tau Empire' Fleet here ?
Is anyone still playing this game ? I broke my computer, so I couldn't play it for weeks !

Playing on and off - still enjoy.

Looking forward to seeing what they do with the Tau

What about the Space Marines ? Are they still the "torpedoes spam" faction ?

Its one of their things yeah - Orks tend to be equally adept at this.

Oh, well. I was hoping they fixed this. So annoying !

I'm still playing when the urge strikes me, but I almost exclusivly do skirmish games. it feels so much more balanced and fun than the campaign!

Orks still seem uber strong though, and games with them are tough, but it's a great feeling when you finally win those kind of battles.

So downloaded my Tau beta and they do look great - lots of nice fluffy stuff in the interface - no teleportation or warp drive etc.

Not sure on some of the stats but that's what the Beta's for....

I tried them a couple of game yesterday, too.
As you said, glad to see they didn't screw the fluff !

Made a video looking at their fleet and had a battle:

Kinda hilarious seeing you forget the Warsphere after being confused about it early on.

Downloaded the beta and did not expect the Tau to roflstomp everyone else in the skirmishgames so far, the sole exception being orks

I liked your video, I'll probably look the others ! Oh, and you forgot to choose a doctrine (it is during the deployement phase, at the left and right of the button to beggin the battle). I forgot it too, but my brother pointed it out.

40% off on steam right now.

I’ll be playing once it finishes installing.

Good choice !

 godardc wrote:
Is anyone interested by the Tau Empire' Fleet here ?
Is anyone still playing this game ? I broke my computer, so I couldn't play it for weeks !

Was wondering that myself - I cannot for the life of me get into any multiplayer games. Anyone else had this? Spent the better part of an hour searching.

 Selym wrote:
Was wondering that myself - I cannot for the life of me get into any multiplayer games. Anyone else had this? Spent the better part of an hour searching.

Haven't played the Tau yet but I've liked the rest of it. Found the campaign quite entertaining. Most of the battles in the campaign are the same as skirmish battles but you either retake, hold or lose a planet (losing a planet results in less renown being won, more of a chance of being lost in the Warp, less boarding strength etc). The "bosses" often require you to use difficult tactics than against conventional enemies. I have 43 hours on it most of which as been single player.

Main problem would be that you can't play a custom game and have a big customised fleet straight away. You either get a random high level fleet or you build one up by fighting battles.

 Selym wrote:

 godardc wrote:
Is anyone interested by the Tau Empire' Fleet here ?
Is anyone still playing this game ? I broke my computer, so I couldn't play it for weeks !

Was wondering that myself - I cannot for the life of me get into any multiplayer games. Anyone else had this? Spent the better part of an hour searching.

Have you got the mod installed - i could not get any with it installed ?

The game is dead people, rampant cheating, very poor balancing, non working multiplayer etc.

I liked the game when it came out but as the problems kept surfacing and the devs did nothing, in spite of being told contstantly that there are issues, I ended up demanding a refund from steam

rampant cheating ? Fortunately, I never met a cheater (or maybe I never realised my opponent cheated^^ )

 godardc wrote:
rampant cheating ? Fortunately, I never met a cheater (or maybe I never realised my opponent cheated^^ )

yeah its pretty bad, lvl 1 ships with all the upgrades or more upgrades than can actually be taken, ive played dozens of games where the other player had easily twice my points, or invincible ships, the list goes on, and the devs basically did nothing, its almost as bad as the division on pc.

Huh. I've never encountered that. The hardest games I've had are where a fleet maximized a new and unbalanced weapon. An entire fleet of Orks with maxed Zzaps, or SMs bristling with their homing torpedoes. Oh, and of course, Eldar festooned with their lances.

Orks Zzaps..Omg I hate those so much !

 Gitzbitah wrote:
Huh. I've never encountered that. The hardest games I've had are where a fleet maximized a new and unbalanced weapon. An entire fleet of Orks with maxed Zzaps, or SMs bristling with their homing torpedoes. Oh, and of course, Eldar festooned with their lances.

Yep and it's that kind of stuff that killed the game, lack of balance patches is a major one, the player base just gets ignored and the game gets worse, not to mention the lies that the Devs have fed us, non working mp, horrible balance, terrible bugs for MONTHS, at its heights the game had 8k people a night on mp, now it's lucky to get 300, pretty abysmal.

Good thing I just bought the game and the Marine DLC...

You know, I never touched multiplayer once and i'm still playing skirmish mode almost every time I get the urge, and I have to stay i'm really enjoying the game still. IT's the kind of Real time space game I wanted without all that 4x bs, so i'm just going to continue playing it, and i'm going to defend that aspect of the game.

I think I may have encountered a cheater today, but, after all my games, he is the first.
However, I really enjoy this game, and all the different factions we have.



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 War Kitten wrote:
Good thing I just bought the game and the Marine DLC...

Did you visit the Battlefleet Gothic Armada forum ? They have tons of advices for newcomers. It may help you build a good fleet and not wasting hours with a bad fleet.

 Tiger9gamer wrote:
You know, I never touched multiplayer once and i'm still playing skirmish mode almost every time I get the urge, and I have to stay i'm really enjoying the game still. IT's the kind of Real time space game I wanted without all that 4x bs, so i'm just going to continue playing it, and i'm going to defend that aspect of the game.

and that good sir is absolutely fine, infact that is the games only saving grace, the single player skirmish and elite mode ARE fun, I'm just disappointed in the terrible support and feel I need to warn others about it prior to buying the game, I actually enjoy co op skirmish too, so hit me up some time.

T-bono

 godardc wrote:
I think I may have encountered a cheater today, but, after all my games, he is the first.
However, I really enjoy this game, and all the different factions we have.



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 War Kitten wrote:
Good thing I just bought the game and the Marine DLC...

Did you visit the Battlefleet Gothic Armada forum ? They have tons of advices for newcomers. It may help you build a good fleet and not wasting hours with a bad fleet.

To be honest I haven't had time yet. Barely got the game installed before I had to run off to do other things. My "fleet" as it stands is just 2 Light Cruisers and a Destroyer

The Tau Empire's fleet is being released today at 7pm IIRC !
Anyone interested by playing the Tau ? I had great fun fighting them during the beta, I'm glad they are finally here.

Must check this out over the weekend as not really had a go with the Tau.

Have they changed much - there were a few nasty combinations.