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[MichaelJCaboose98]

It would be cool if this game could have the graphics of a total war game

[NorbSoftDev]

@MichaelJCaboose98 I agree, but we wouldn't be able to show as many units as we do.

[GusHansen11]

Very nice game with pretty impressive real time battle scale. Unparalleled level of battlefield confusion thanks to stubborn (or incompetent or adrenaline addicted etc.) commanders and lost couriers. I wish more games would incorporate AI like this to allow for this army scale.

[NorbSoftDev]

@GusHansen11 Thanks Gus!

[NorbSoftDev]

Huge price drop for the download version of the game. Check out our main site for details.

[ZackNTW2]

Looks great, just purchased boxed verision yester should come in soon with priority, great stuff Norb.

[NorbSoftDev]

@ZackNTW2 Make sure to stop by the site and check out the boards. Thanks Zack.

[Jonnybooster]

Looks like TC2M just better graphics

[NorbSoftDev]

@Jonnybooster In a way you are correct. The graphic requirements are the same. Different artist for the units, but the specs are the same. The maps are much improved. The biggest differences are multiplayer and what's under the hood.

[Fleax1973]

i just play the demo,,,looks very very nice, do you guys think it will be popular online?i know it will be fun but i dont know if i gonna find a lot of players around,,,,

[NorbSoftDev]

@Fleax1973 So far it's holding it's own online. We have a lobby where you can go to meet players. Many players also use ventrillo to talk during the battle. We are a small community, but we're growing!

[Fleax1973]

@NorbSoftDev all right, ill try to get it as soon as i can,, ill go back to you! thanks a lot for the response,,so,, you can commnad divitions or companys?? how many ppl you can have in one game??

[NorbSoftDev]

@Fleax1973 I am pretty sure they have had a good game with 11. There are still some glitches that we are working on. Please check out our forums, many questions can be answered there.

[SocratesRulz]

@Fleax1973 we've had good games with 16+ people whenever all players had decent computer specs. You can command army, corps, div, brigade level.

[xBanox]

it sux i can't run this game, i get to the title screen but my cursor never moves, it takes me a year to get on to singleplayer then when i try and run it, it loads so slow then i end up quitting

[NorbSoftDev]

@xBanox I hope that you'll check out our forums.  We have a lot of people there running the game and working through different hardware configurations. The game should run on most computers by setting the right options.

[brisduv]

Looking forward to trying out the demo as I am a long-time wargamer. In the video there sure are a lot of rebel flags, kind of overwelming to see so many together, distracts from the other images like terrain and troops themselves.

[St1gar]

While on the topic of graphics - does the game support widescreen resolutions? Like, say, 1680 x 1050?

[NorbSoftDev]

Yes, we support a bunch of resolutions. We look through the video driver and present the list.

[St1gar]

Thanks. Much appreciated.

[willypete2171]

the game looms awsome! My only gripe would be that the battle field looks a bit empty. Would it be possible to mod the size of the unit? For the people with monster machines, would it be possible to put in 200-300 men per unit/regiment or more?

[NorbSoftDev]

@willypete2171 It will be possible once we release the SDK, soon after the game.

[MrSolinvictus88]

or hopefully even 1920 x 1080 :D

[SocratesRulz]

@MrSolinvictus88 yeah i run it at 1920 X 1080, great resolution!

[MrSolinvictus88]

@SocratesRulz me too - thanks and it works great! :D

[MrSolinvictus88]

or hopefully even 1920 x 1080

TC2M works fine with that so I hope SOW does too :D

[NorbSoftDev]

@MrSolinvictus88 It should work well. I've run at 1900x1200

[Jafuet]

the triangle flag at the end looks like waving reversed

[NorbSoftDev]

Thanks.  We'll take a look.

[PzVIE43]

is that vincent's brigade arriving at the end there?

this looks incredible ill certainly buy

[NorbSoftDev]

I'm not exactly sure, but I filmed this during one of our historical scenarios, so you're probably right.

[EastMassParanormal]

haha awesome i like how you even included the Devil's Den! and it actually looks like the Devil's Den should look, not just a pile of rocks.

[ytdell22]

Norb, the game is looking great, I have been checking up on it for along time.

had a question about the grahpics engine. Would this engine support any kind of lighting and shadows system? If not done by you devs, could a mod accomplish this?

While things are looking good as they are, I believe they would look twice as good with a higher contrast lighting with shadows.

If not, can/will there at least be in game settings for us to adjust contrast/brightness of display settings? thanks.

[NorbSoftDev]

There is a lighting and shadow system in there, but nothing you can mod and nothing that we have worked on. That is one of the areas where I admit we are behind. We just have not found a way we like to do shadows for so many units without a big hit on performance.

[user8881]

Can't wait for this!

[Senor0Droolcup]

NorbSot, as a happy TC2M owner, I'm really looking forward to this! Sid Meier's Gettysburg is still one of my favorite games after all these years. I'm sure you'll exceed it.

[chorkybrenner]

Will there be a "What if Jackson survived" scenario? And have him at Gettysburg?

[NorbSoftDev]

I think that we do have Jackson in there in a scenario or two. We do like some What If scenarios.

[Fma42081]

that would be fun to play...even thou we all know the answer ..."what if Jackson survived" - Lets just say had Jackson survived Lincoln and Dc would have been surrendering not to much long after Gettysburg! :P

[chorkybrenner]

Of course, if Jackson survived, maybe Gettysburg would have never happened at all? Even if I were Lee, I would have avoided the whole battle or retreated and waited until I could engage the Yankees on better ground (but I'm certainly no military expert). So this game will be really short for me.

[apauditor71]

Even if Jackson were there they still would not have known how close the Federal army was thanks to lack of communication fom Stuart. I agree...head to Harrisburg, cause some more havoc and find some good ground somewhere else as I am sure Meade would have had orders from Washington prompting him to attack immediately once he could find Lee.

[apauditor71]

I could have sworn I saw him in this video :)

[kdawg68]

Gotta make sure Law gets the Alabama brigade up over Big Round Top before Vincent can get into position! :-)

[MadPANGI]

i looked in the forum on your site...i speak for solution in case of flagbearer? isn't simply possible to make flag sprite as not only flag but with flagbearer? one sprite -> flag and flagbearer

[NorbSoftDev]

There are a lot of solutions, but none that we want to address right now. We do not consider it an issue with the current unit design. Once we switch to models we'll probably make it work more as people would expect.

[Garnier44]

It's easier to create new flags if they're not part of the flagbearer sprite, so the best thing is not to change it until it's worth the effort to make it look better without making it harder to mod.

[rfblast]

Looking good guys! Atmosphere still seems a little muddy and lo-contrast, but look at all that terrain! huge!

[refuckulate420]

Excellent! Looking forward to playing this online!

[Barkmann44]

very cool. would like to know system specs of pc this was played on

[NorbSoftDev]

Winxp, 4 gb ram, NVidia 8800 GTS, 640 MB video ram, Intel Dual Core 3.33mhz

[Quintianus]

An excellent video!! I can't wait for this game to come out!!