How Do I Play Savage?!?!
<div class="IPBDescription">It's a hard and therefore STUPID game :(</div> Okay, i've spent about two hours, spread over two days, playing Savage Demo online.
I've got it on lowest quality and 56k [I don't want to waste my 3 GB optusnet cable cap just on a few hours of savage... ahem.]
But it's so.... hard and slow. I can understand the lag, yes, but still...
I'm running around, i can build buildings alright [although I don't know if what i'm doing helps, there's nothing to show that I'm doing it properly] and I can mine. But when it comes to combat, etc, I'm totally screwed. I try to aim using a crossbow/bow/scattergun/repeater/mortar etc and over 2, 3 hours of gaming, I've only gotten 3 kills. And those were random kills, I don't know how the hell i did it.
And are you SUPPOSED to be brought down to half health when you try and attack a monkit? And killed when you try and attack another one? I usually can get the first one, but it takes me down to half health, and the second one always kills me.
Also, with the little glowing bags that fall out of the bodies... is this gold, or experience, or whatever? Do i pick it up by running over it? Or is it just something showing that it's dead, and I've already got the points...
Any help would be much appreciated, otherwise I've just wasted 3 hours of my time and my cap for something that was unenjoyable, and I can't practise to make it enjoyable.
I've noticed in the servers there are a few people who treat the demo alone as a godsend, so it must just be me.
I've got it on lowest quality and 56k [I don't want to waste my 3 GB optusnet cable cap just on a few hours of savage... ahem.]
But it's so.... hard and slow. I can understand the lag, yes, but still...
I'm running around, i can build buildings alright [although I don't know if what i'm doing helps, there's nothing to show that I'm doing it properly] and I can mine. But when it comes to combat, etc, I'm totally screwed. I try to aim using a crossbow/bow/scattergun/repeater/mortar etc and over 2, 3 hours of gaming, I've only gotten 3 kills. And those were random kills, I don't know how the hell i did it.
And are you SUPPOSED to be brought down to half health when you try and attack a monkit? And killed when you try and attack another one? I usually can get the first one, but it takes me down to half health, and the second one always kills me.
Also, with the little glowing bags that fall out of the bodies... is this gold, or experience, or whatever? Do i pick it up by running over it? Or is it just something showing that it's dead, and I've already got the points...
Any help would be much appreciated, otherwise I've just wasted 3 hours of my time and my cap for something that was unenjoyable, and I can't practise to make it enjoyable.
I've noticed in the servers there are a few people who treat the demo alone as a godsend, so it must just be me.
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Anyway, to answer your questions.
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The game has very bad netcode, though i think it is much worse in the demo than the retail (im not sure, havent played retail, but ive heard so). If you lag, apparently you do no damage, but you still take damage, so if you lag trying to kill a monkit you will probably get owned. But most of the time i can kill it w/o taking damage. Im on 1.5Mbit connection and i still get this lag, its fscked i know.
You build buildings by attacking them. <a href='http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/?t=archives&date=2003-10-15' target='_blank'>Hehe...</a>
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The glowing bags are money, though u can only pick them up if you made the kill. The boxes are ammo, u can pick them up if you can hold more ammo, and have made the kill.
About aiming the weapons, it is difficult. You have to compensate for lag, predict where the enemy will move, and the trajectory of the wep. You are ment to use the ranged weapons to force melee combat.
I know savage seems like a game where u need 10 ping and 100fps, but it really is a good game <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
so, pretty much, its not going to get better unless i invest
a) about a thousand american dollars into a new computer
b) about a GB each month of my 3 GB plan, the same 3gb plan i share with 4 other people... =/
nooo thank you.
so, pretty much, its not going to get better unless i invest
a) about a thousand american dollars into a new computer
b) about a GB each month of my 3 GB plan, the same 3gb plan i share with 4 other people... =/
nooo thank you. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
A.)I had a 1.3Ghz/512SDRAM/GF4MX run it at 40fps with Maximum detail/low res.
B.)That isp company is screwing you.
b) yes, it is. i hate it.
b) yes, it is. i hate it. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
a.) I bought a new AthlonXP 2700+ @2.4ghz 512DDR, Geforce4Ti4200 128 with 8x. I now get 60fps max detail/max sound/max resolution.
b.)I get half-life like pings
c.)you now hate me <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->