After Heroes VI, I made a promise to never EVER buy anything from Ubisoft EVER again. I love the game, so the weird stuff they pulled off were only more hurtful. The fuckups from the publishers part basically made the game unplayable for the first year or so. Then after they finally started supporting the game (after putting down the original creator studio) it took another 3-6 months to get it to the point where it should have been on the launch. I will never forgive them. I've forgiven the inconveniences with some of their other games, but this one.. never.
Ubisoft has a nice puppet regime of scapegoat game studios and a very convincing support scene, but when you reach the heart.. only darkness can be found from there. THQ, don't sell Relic to Ubisoft, please.
here for all those who wish to avoid said topic or my post feel free to watch this video I have about a lion, a jungle and some other happy shit. its in the spoiler below.
rant begins...
RUSE
il-2 Sturmavik (the most recent one.)
Assasinscreed 3 (haven't played it yet but ive heard the news gonna play it anyways just because ive come this far.)
just to name a few that I personally bought or was gonna buy that they took a dump on sold to the consumers. with ubi this happens to consistently to not for ubi to have a large role. sure im sure the devs have some fault but look at the blood trail Ubi's associated with.
also lets not forget U-PLAY wait i have problems with uplay??? okay fixed back on track lets not forget there DRM crap they keep trying to shove in our faces (making it next to impossible to play there games). because they want more money. people are either gonna pirate there game or they aren't. you can't truly win the war against piracy without just seizing up and stop producing games. and even then they just gonna steal your old games.
then there's EA but that's a whole nother animal for a whole nother time.
but.. well ubisoft not that bad of a company I think..
you apparently haven't played any of there games besides assassin's creed.
there are 3 company's I don't want touching thq ea, ubi, activison. if i made a 4th it would blizzard but im not sure about them but, if blizzard let them do there thing it might be okay.
IMHO, they should allow drop in spectating. Just as DOTA allows...
You may be thinking ghosting is a problem, but this can easily be fixed. First off, pros are already being ghosted due to the increase in streams. Second: If it is too much of a problem, only allow drop in observers in skirmish games, and if the Host has enabled it for public view.
The fact that I can enter CoH and suddenly realize I can spectate the Sunday Night Fight LIVE? Thats priceless. If they do implement it, an option or rcon password to allow VOIP broadcast to observers could potentially facilitate commentators.
The Tech is already out there... its doable. Maybe not at launch, but itss doable.
you can only do that with dedicated servers coh2 is run off p2p or peer to peer can't do that unless it has dedicated servers. hell im not even sure if live stat tracking is possible without the game running off a dedicated server.
Something simple like a 3rd hidden faction without units/commands and fog of war.
psersonally i think it should be set up like this
4-8 slots for spectators (basically a team 3). the spectators are invite only and have to be accepted by both teams. this is to prevent the host from cheating by moving in spectator to spy on the other team without them able to prevent it. toggle able fog of war and the ability to click on both sides like your on there team. (to see what there building.)
caster HUD or spectator HUD. should be slightly different than the regular HUD for instance...
a live stat tracker (kinda like in sc2) of sorts allowing the spectator to see manpower lost comparisons, total tanks built/lost, total infantry built lost, que of both teams.
possibly even make it so all arty has marker to where the person clicked so casters can easilly see where the arty going.
stuff like this probably should also be in the replay system as well.
thats my main wishlist really i just want a spec mode. even if it isn't very fancy just the ability to turn off fog of war is plenty.
Update: I put everything together, but it doesn't work ....
There's a light burning at the motherboard so that and the Power supplier must work. But I can't even get the fans working, guess there's something wrong with the RAM or maybe the processor. I'll call technical support tomorrow ^^