First Impressions

[Yskonyn]

Received the email at 18:00LT, clicked the link, download started! No problem!
Downloaded the game in approximately 8 minutes with my full bandwidth (710KB/sec!! Thanks guys for not joining in too soon! Gna gna!).

After download, installed without problems, although when trying to get the license thing going it asked me (and everyone else I suppose, hehe ) for my order ID.

Be aware that it's not the order ID you have to fill in but the license number that's given in the same row in your order confirmation email as where the download link is.
Logical enough, but still confusing, no?

Anyway, got the license to work and fired up the game. It started without any hickups.
Jumped straight into the options to crank every detail up and started a quick battle.

Great visuals! Superbly detailed models, nice textures although the shadows seem jagged and don't display as they should (Catalyst 7.6 drivers), but only a minor gripe.

Camera control is very slow, though and while panning the camera movements speeds up, then slows down again making it quite a burden sometimes to get the right view or to switch position quickly. Maybe I am doing things wrong here? Just first impressions here.

Sounds are great. Difference between speed of light and speed of sound nicely modelled!

Well that's all the time I have for now... Join in and add more first impressions!

Oh and.. please refrain from posting things like: "The game doesn't work, crap!".
It's about first impressions in-game.

Cheers!

[George MC]

Hi Yskonyn [img]smile.gif[/img]

Glad everything looks to be going well.

The camera controls takema wee bit of getting used to, but once you do, well you'll find yourself trying to use the mouse wheel to elevate your viewpoint if/when you go to play CMX1!

You found out about left clicking on the mouse and holding that down as you move the camera - that pans the view. Other control I found useful was, as I have said the scroll wheel on the mouse.

Happy fighting!

Cheers fur noo
George

[Yskonyn]

Hi George Mc, thanks for joining in on my, still quite empty, first impressions party!

Thanks for the camera control tips they are bound to come in handy, although I do wonder how anyone would be able to play RealTime with a slow camera?
But anyway, waaaay too soon to give a funded answer yet.

I am missing the LOS tool though!

[Michael Dorosh]

Originally posted by Yskonyn:
although I do wonder how anyone would be able to play RealTime with a slow camera?)

Judicious use of the pause button, naturally. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[George MC]

Originally posted by Yskonyn:
Hi George Mc, thanks for joining in on my, still quite empty, first impressions party!

Thanks for the camera control tips they are bound to come in handy, although I do wonder how anyone would be able to play RealTime with a slow camera?
But anyway, waaaay too soon to give a funded answer yet.

I am missing the LOS tool though!

I'm playing out one of the battles in the campaign now in RT. Must admit the camera works OK for me. I do find myself doing the angel bit and hovering overhead, only going down to lev 1 to check out terrain and stuff. Camera works fast enough for me - could the camera speed be linked to having the graphics set to high for your rig?

Cheers fur noo
George

[imported_Major_Jerkov]

So far, so good... mostly. Graphics look good, as mentioned above though, shadows are real jaggy. Have updated to newest Nvidia drivers and problem still persists. I found the controls relatively intuitive, the basics seem to remain the same.

Started a QB battle which had humorous results, I spawnkilled a few squads of syrian infantry that spawned in my spawn. Good stuff. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Video of QB 1st phase

[RedDevil]

why on earth did they change the hotkeys all around???

sheesh now I gotta relearn the keys again

loaded fine
already lost my 1st unit and got my INF pinned down in a sewer trench.. no video issues so far just trying to get the camera angles to suit my tastes...

[Elmar Bijlsma]

Originally posted by Michael Dorosh:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Yskonyn:
although I do wonder how anyone would be able to play RealTime with a slow camera?)

Judicious use of the pause button, naturally. [img]smile.gif[/img] </font>[/quote]Being aware that {ctrl}+{click} (still) works does help too.

[Moon]

Camera controls: left click + hold and right click + hold are your friends!

Martin

[InvaderCanuck]

For you fellas running the game smoothly, mind posting your video cards?

I've heard some people are having serious issues while the OP here is having none!

Im dling atm and really hope I fall into the none crowd!