The only way you will get an online game is by hosting your own game in custom game lobby and putting the title "noob game" or joining a game with such a title. You will only get the odd 1v1 game or 2v2 at best at a time when a few others are on, evenings or weekends.
It's working! Almost nice to have a little break from it for a while, makes you appreciate it when you get it back. Still no one playing it though, just Doggu on his own in a lobby, I can almost hear the echoes of him rattling his perspex beakers and bunsen burners around in there.
But they have updated us, the sticky at the top of the post with a quote from a Stardock employee in yellow which said hopefully sorted by mid this week. It hasn't been sorted yet which is frustrating but hopefully they will get it up and running by next week. No amount of flaming on here will get them to do it any faster so try and restrain yourselves. Demigod multiplayer is the only game I play anymore so would like to see it fixed soon! Might have to boot up a few other
So lame when people leave as their cit goes down to try and cause a crash. No backbone.
I have about 100 of the best PC games that i've purchased over the past ten years or so and Demigod is one of three that I have enjoyed the most, the other two were Battlefield 2 and Command & Conquer, Renegade which was the first game I really played online and it blew my mind. Nice to hear a perspective from someone who only plays single player as well. Have you tried installing the mod for single player dude, it's supposed to vastly improve the AI. Alt
Suppose it would be pushing things a tad to introduce other gameplay genres in to any future sequal and would dilute the basic game mechanics too much. Instead you could just introduce different game types whilst still keeping the main flavour of how demigod basically works. It would almost be enough to have the connection issues sorted, new maps and new characters. I do think you should put all of the old characters in any sequal though along with an equal or more number of new one
I just didn't get DOTA at all, tried it for like an hour a while back and thought it was the most tedious, ridiculously pointless exercise i'd had for a while, loved WC3 and those types of games though. Maybe I didn't give it enough time but just knew it wasn't for me pretty much straight away, the WC3 graphics & UI are looking pretty dated now as well. Even with Dmeigod's many, many flaws, it still beats those types of WC3 "mods" without even trying in my
Although i'm a big fan of GPG's artistic and creational talent at least for Demigod and what would have been kings & castles when & if that gets released, wasn't too keen on the rest of their stuff though. I can see that it would be good to have one house where the buck stops. One of the big problems with DG1 was the back & forth between Stardock and GPG to try and sort the problems out. I can't see Stardock investing in the talent
One more patch for DG would be good, installing all the community made mods and fixing little things like Occ not showing shield, DA doing the funky moon walk and priests not getting stuck in the cit. I don't think any more expansions would be worthwhile to anyone, the online player base is too small now. With Demigod 2 there must be a way for the studio & publisher to garner additional revenue from developing the game on an ongoing basis by chargin
Why the lol? It's up to GPG to support & patch the game. Least Brad bothers to post at all....
Who are these tools that are hosting games that say "Pacov bans accounts without warning" ?
Hmm, the jury is out, may be good but may be appalling, depends on the quests & story lines. Not sure about the cartoonish graphics though, seems to break from the heritage too much. maybe they're going for a younger audience and the ladies too. Love the way Microsoft are trying to make out that it was planned to switch developers part way through the project, how dumb do they think people are. Be nice if there was an announcement on the Kings & Castles web site t
It is a small community but most of us that are still playing have stuck with it as even with all the problems, bugs and lags, it is still a fascinating, involved, brilliant, exceptional, fantastic game. You just have to learn the best way to get MP games in the lobby. Host your own games rather than join others then you will wear the trousers till you have enough experience to join and enjoy non noob games. Just put noob in the title of your game till you have 300 under
Not played with Robert but Doggu would have like 90% win rate if he didbn't nauze the bejeesus out of his team mates when they're not up to par or was more polite with his "advice" and not cause them to quit to save their ear drums, lol. From some of his posts on the forum he seems decent enough. If he didn't live in Auz with a 350 ping to Europe he'd probly have 99%. I'm sure it can be frustrating when you are good and your team mates not so but there really is n
I think anything that improves the online multiplayer experience is to be commended. I don't play single player against the ai but the majority of people who own the game do and i'm sure would appreciate the ai fix. It's in GPG's interest to facilitate these fixes as it's very little work on their part and if they do develop DG2 then at least they will have an improved initial customer base with the people who are still playing an improved DG1. Also the more "fixed" t
Cool, good find.
Just host your own games then you the boss!
Hope Elemental is going a bit smoother for you Brad. I bought it anyway!
I think the only way it will ever get the treatment it deserves is from a sequal. Hopefully Chris Taylor will do it after Kings & Castles. The bottom line is the multiplayer connection system is flawed and I don't think this can be fixed by a patch. It would be great to see the uber fix mod incorperated in to the game as this, i've heard fixes a lot of the issues (still get priests stuck in citadel) grrrrr. GPG wouldn't even need to do any work for this mod as it's already up and running,
I think he may just have a poor connection, presumably he lives in Russia which I wouldn't say is renowned for fat cable. I played a game with him where he spiked to 3500 ping then dropped, no reason for him to do it intentionally at that stage. People leave right at the end of a game as sometimes if enough people on the losing side leave it may cause a desync and fail to record the loss. These people are douche bags of the highest order.
I read somewhere recently that the multiplayer system used for Demoigod just plain doesn't work very well. Stardock thought GPG were working on it and GPG thought Stardock were working on it so in the end we got some rubbish connection system which causes a lot of desyncs. Maybe Chris Taylor will do Demigod 2 in a couple of years time and put their demons to rest.
I've just come. I still think Demigod is the best computer game i've ever played & i've played a lot. My only concern is even if they made DG2 they may not be able to make it better than the original game (minus the obvious issues). I'll be buying Kings & Castles and see how Chris Taylor does with that, hopefully they'll make enough green to fund DG2.
Thanks GPG and SD.
Will the monks still get stuck in the citadel and will DA still do that funky forward moon walk though? At least it's going to be a series of patches! More to come, yay. Will there be groupies on the Elemental tour?
Splendid. I would say it will be bug fixes rather than new content. Ask that jovial fellow at GPG why you can't pre order kings & castles yet, missing a trick there me thinks. http://gaspowered.com/kingsandcastles/
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