New Savage 2.0
There is a new version of Savage: The Battle for Newerth out. It fixes various bugs, increases performance by twofold, and fixes the netcode.
For those of you who don't know, Savage is a game with a concept similar to NS. There are 2 teams that operate quite differently (Beast and Human), each team has a commander, and you gather resources and advance in tech.
With the new netcode you don't have you lead your shots and it plays like a real FPS now. They have also added 2 new buildings and 2 new units. The new units are healer classes that can heal your allies and give them protection buffs. (The new buildings are the prerequisites for the healer units)
A new demo has been released for 2.0 so if you've never played Savage I'd suggest you give it a try.
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><a href='http://www.s2games.com' target='_blank'>Savage Website</a></span>
For those of you who don't know, Savage is a game with a concept similar to NS. There are 2 teams that operate quite differently (Beast and Human), each team has a commander, and you gather resources and advance in tech.
With the new netcode you don't have you lead your shots and it plays like a real FPS now. They have also added 2 new buildings and 2 new units. The new units are healer classes that can heal your allies and give them protection buffs. (The new buildings are the prerequisites for the healer units)
A new demo has been released for 2.0 so if you've never played Savage I'd suggest you give it a try.
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><a href='http://www.s2games.com' target='_blank'>Savage Website</a></span>
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LAst I played (just be fore release) there was just about jack and squat different between beast and human (well beasts where ALOT better).
The units are basicaly the same thing, just .... different
it would be like if NS had Skulks and recons, Gorges and engies, Lerks and JPers, Fades and Teleporting Rines, Oni and Tanks.....
This is not so much basing as curious if they actualy made the races segnificantly different?
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NOTHING is RAM intensive. RAM just helps you load. Its probably your graphics card or processor being slow. I personally get 80fps with my kickass Graphics card...
(and yes, I know what I'm talking about. Only difference in performance between going from my old 256mb of SDRAM to my new 1280MB of DDRRAM was a speed up in load times)
Oh, and on topicness: Yeah, 2.0 is cool and all, but you can tell a lot of people are using cheats for it already.
NOTHING is RAM intensive. RAM just helps you load. Its probably your graphics card or processor being slow. I personally get 80fps with my kickass Graphics card...
(and yes, I know what I'm talking about. Only difference in performance between going from my old 256mb of SDRAM to my new 1280MB of DDRRAM was a speed up in load times)
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What are you talking about?
Its entirely possible to have a Pentium 4 overclocked to 5 GHz, and an overlocked Radeon 9800XT and still lag in a game if you only have something like 256MB of RAM. Just play Planetside with that config - I guarantee you itll be almost unplayable.
And yes, I've played Planetside during the transition too. No difference for me.
Or maybe I'm just special. *cough cough*.
And overlocking only ruins stuff if you dont do it right. IE, not getting an adequate heat sink/fan.
Exactly. If you've got the money to throw that stuff around, fine, but I think if you wanted to ruin hardware a hammer is much better for the job than a PC's BIOS.
Its me finishing off the enemy stronghold.
Hehe - great quote.
i just got savage (25 CAD used at EB), upgraded to 2.0d, it's real purdy. and fun too. erhm. what else? anyone else got it?
Remind me about this on April the 27th someone.
Next patch for savage will have voice I believe.
True, there's the "building under attack", but it fails to tell me WHAT building. There's the nice voice telling you what's going on in ALMOST adequate details, but half the messages aren't logged to the text, so in the middle of the battle I'm blind to team status.
Having played UT2k4 onslaught, I just know it's possible to do so much better. Allright, skybeams wouldn't really fit in savage, but the map would be nice.
True, there's the "building under attack", but it fails to tell me WHAT building. There's the nice voice telling you what's going on in ALMOST adequate details, but half the messages aren't logged to the text, so in the middle of the battle I'm blind to team status.
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Well, there are skybeams, commander "waypoints" create them. The reason you might not have seen many is a lack of officers. They direct the "traffic" and provide a minor regeneration rate increase to surrounding troops. If you are playing with decent players you wil see skybeams.
True, but not when buildings are under attack. What I'm talking about is the skybeams that hover over EVERY powernode that is open to attack, and the ripples running up said skybeams when a powernode is being attacked. In Savage, I kind of had the feeling that I had to fight for information, rather than fight the enemy. That's not good.
name in savage : Rorscharch
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LAst I played (just be fore release) there was just about jack and squat different between beast and human (well beasts where ALOT better).
The units are basicaly the same thing, just .... different
it would be like if NS had Skulks and recons, Gorges and engies, Lerks and JPers, Fades and Teleporting Rines, Oni and Tanks.....
This is not so much basing as curious if they actualy made the races segnificantly different?
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The beasts are VERY dift now, you should try it. There are many many discussions about balance etc. which is good, it means they are extremely different.
They nerfed some weps in the new release and increased some others. They also added healers/shamans to ressurect and shield others etc along with unbelievable ground shaking effects and near point wep sound effects so you can tell how close the shots are to your head etc.
Go give the demo a try, don't be discouraged if you don't get it right off the hop. It takes quite a bit to get the game in the big picture. Skybeams are present, and you will get to know all the action after some hard ramp up. But that is what makes it so much fun and long lasting fun is the steep ramp up.
BTW the community is quite strong and they will post back almost immediately to your questions or help.
Come out and see us!!
NOTHING is RAM intensive. RAM just helps you load. Its probably your graphics card or processor being slow. I personally get 80fps with my kickass Graphics card...
(and yes, I know what I'm talking about. Only difference in performance between going from my old 256mb of SDRAM to my new 1280MB of DDRRAM was a speed up in load times)
Oh, and on topicness: Yeah, 2.0 is cool and all, but you can tell a lot of people are using cheats for it already. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
BTW there are NO CHEATS FOR SAVAGE....
trust me, look for the forums about this topic, the worst you will get is people complaining about keybinds etc.
Anyone that complains during the game in chat is considered a noob,bc they get owned and have to complain about being killed.
People are just that good.
Perhaps I'm just not cut out for its hack-n-slash kinda gameplay.
I personally am not good at melee, but am very strategic and make significant advances for my team when I play through these actions. (sneaking and building a forward garrison, retaking flags, destroying buildings by hand, using siege weapons strategically instead of randomly to support forward advancement of troops, lots of stuff).
try it for awhile and try to get the bigger pic and talk to people during game. You will learn to like it I believe.
A couple of cool mods coming out soon as well as DM mode.