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    WC3 Win95 Patch

    Not for me, I am getting a 403 from the nginx.
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    WC3 Win95 Patch

    The link is unfortunately dead.
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    Best Wingman??

    Long ago, I also learned not to trust guides, even official ones. Plenty of them are written on preliminary information, aka pre-release. Same with game manuals, an example I always remember is Theme Park World, which had a last-minute change before release that removed strikes altogether. That...
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    WC3 Win95 Patch

    Really, such a thing exists? The main reason why I never bought it on GoG is that they do not have the KS music... I first played the Mac version in my childhood, I cannot go back to the MIDI.
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    Best Wingman??

    Do they really fly that different? In WC3 to 5, I always had the impression that it came down to mostly tweaking some parameters like how long they stay on target and how often the use the afterburner, not utterly different flying styles like Seether's AI in WC4. And in WC1 and 2, I fail to see...
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    A Warning (January 13, 2021)

    Do not let it be forgotten, that it is when the newspost is near-complete, the typo is most dangerous!
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    Video-chat compatible (physical) Wargame for you people...

    Sure, it is freely available for everyone of try out after all, but you will either have to meet in person (2P to 3P) or play the TTS version if you are into that sort of software-alternative (I dislike it). Details about COREWARDS are in the thread on BGG, including some lengthy design diaries...
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    Video-chat compatible (physical) Wargame for you people...

    I was touring the web to find more playtesters for my most recent board game project, which is pretty hard in pandemic times 🙂 My nice and really large board game collection is gathering dust, since meeting people in person is irresponsible, let alone sitting around a map of Westeros, the...
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    Squadron 42 Shifts Into Indefinite Pre-Beta Phase (December 29, 2020)

    A good summary of my own lengthy post up there. See it for additional details about the why. I have made two educated guesses over the past few years and both were wrong. This is when I started looking to these roadmaps and the project's internals and what I found was described in detail by...
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    Squadron 42 Shifts Into Indefinite Pre-Beta Phase (December 29, 2020)

    This is actually as much a benefit as it is a hazard. People always bring this argument up but believe the expert coder, that one requires utterly different approaches in a single player experience in contrast to a shared/synced one. The common industry approach is actually to basically only...
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    Squadron 42 Shifts Into Indefinite Pre-Beta Phase (December 29, 2020)

    I am *still* looking forward to this project a lot but I must admit, part of the community around this game has become almost cult-like. I recently got flak once again when I raised a question regarding the The Reunion, Part 1, which was effectively yet another side-project, if this cinematic...
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    Any WC-like game you recommend?

    I have not played Tarr Chronicles but I attempted to play the sequel (which is a prequel) named Dark Horizon and it was bad. No idea if the original release was cool but the second entry was a confusing, crashing mess on my PC. Most other choices on your list like Dark Star One, Starlancer and...
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    Any WC-like game you recommend?

    I was interested more in the "Starlancer you can give some graphical/audio updates yourself"-part. Yes, right, very good game!
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    Any WC-like game you recommend?

    Please elaborate (or link me somewhere) Strike Commander needs to be mentiond as well, unless a space-setting is a requirement. Independence War is awesome too, but take heed, it does have a more "realistic" flight model. ------------- Total unrelated but I am urging anyone to check out The...
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    Lost and Found: WC4 Ships (December 15, 2020)

    That would be very nice, considering you already wrote WC3 is chock full of completed-but-unused assets.
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    Lost and Found: WC4 Ships (December 15, 2020)

    I do not think this was ever the plan, no. The entire theme of the story is crystal-clear and turning the perspective upside-down is exactly when one does in a long-running story. We are fighting among ourselves now and its the faction you thought was okay in the past is such a classic premise...
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    Lost and Found: WC4 Ships (December 15, 2020)

    Is there a write-up of the WC3 unused assets somewhere, in the same style?
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    WC4 Remake

    Arggghhh!
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    Rebel Galaxy Outlaw!

    And now it is out on GoG after all, and gets a Day1 Purchase from me :)