Profile of OmegaSlX

Not teh ones with server side calculations. Let me give you two examples, wot, mwo. Theyre not RTS's, but, they are hack free.

As for the dev thing, I find it hard to believe that the publisher has sole control over bug fixes. Didnt they make money off sales as well. They made it, and made money off of it, but cant reinvest some of that capital in fixing it correctly?

Coho should have been server side calulations, and they should let you reconnect if you get disco'd by a drop hacker. I wish that hadnt failed I loved spamming tiger 1s, you couldnt in coh.

Also when my stats got fubar'd by the trainer user (howd he ever get that anyways, is that the publisher's fault too??), they didnt need to spend money to fix it, just change some server data relating ot my account, but, they never did.

Let me give you three examples.

1. Having your base rushed by churchhills moving while hulled down.
2. Having your stats wrecked by someone using a trainer, and after showing them via a replay, they dont fix your stats. (player did get banned though)
3. In a sub-mode PK, glitching teh infantry operated by AI so you can control them, to cap/attack, which basically ruined that whole sub game mode. You can still do this today, and theyve been told about it 1000x over.

Now you tell me,is that "support" to your satisfaction? Not saying I hate relic, despite what they did to the dawn of war series , but if you all have forgottenabout just how little they care about fixing broken things, and just throw more money at them absent some affirmative statement this behavior wont be repeated, then youll get the exact same again.

Was it moral to create coho, with the same drop hacking exploits coh had, when they never fixed it in coh, and charge more money from players, after not fixing what those same players had already paid for in coh?

PS I did play for more than 5 minutes. Played a long 4v4 yesterday. Was aot of fun for abot an hour, we were finaly turning teh tide in our favor, and we got drop hacked. My pals said screw this game and wouldnt play another, so I went and played something else with them. I dont blame their frustration, but dont turn a blind eye to all this, and pretend it is not true.

So what is their position on bugs, glitches, patches, support, exploits, etc?

Publishers choose whether developers patch in game exploits/glitches?

Are you sure? Ive seen some things to the contrary. Thought they chose when to go live, who to advertise through etc.

I havnt played a total war since midevil, which i loved, but played offline years ago. I really did love that game. Templars for the win.

I never heard of universe at war I will have to check it out. But just for clarifications sake, I thought it was teh ones that made them game that then wrote the code to fix the mistakes that had missed when they initially created it. Can anyone second this, or add their 2 cents?

I guess that leads to the question of:

What is theyre position on patching and support for this product. I dont want a repeat of CoH in terms of support. For example, haiving a 82 win streak broken by someone suing a trainer. Sent the replay in with teh ticket, and they verified that was teh case, but never fixed the account stats.

The other is, whether they will be including some mechanism for addressing drop hackers, whether that be banning their IP's like the starcraft 2 support staff after repeated violations, or some third party software which detects attempts to drop hack and kicks the offender before the match instance is ruined.

Thoughts?

And the balance? After ToV, I am not sure they ever implemented a single balance patch. Will this product be similiarly situated? Years of an imbalanced product? Why? Keeoing the server up and running is one thing, but a lack of balance, in a pvp rts, just wont cut it.

Any1 can still 'pull the plug' ofcourse. Don't think you can do much about it.

That was the drop hack. Starcraft 2 addressed it. Some kind of drop hack detector that kicks the player trying to exploit it.