Steel Battalion online

Brainbug71 · 31-03-2004, 18:53

Ok.. so i've managed to talk the wife into buying this for my birthday.

My question is this...
what's the game like? both the original and the new one?
Is the online play any good?

It's a lot of money for a game and yes, i know your paying for the controller as well but i just don't want to end up with a turkey.

I really enjoyed mechassault both sinlge player and online so this does appeal to me.

Come on folks lets hear those opinions

31-03-2004, 19:08

Don`t know how much you know about the game, so here goes.

First thing you should know, it is an extremely hardcore game. You can forget about it being anything like MechAssault, it is a real simulator, as far as you can simulate a fictional piece of hardware. You cannot backup your saved games, and if you die in the game your save is wiped. If you run out of mechs and don`t have enough credits to buy another your save is wiped. Another major difference from MechAssault is that there is no third-person mode, everything is done from the cockpit of your VT (although you can use a third-person mode in the online version).

I've played some of the online mode during the beta, but found it quite hard to find a game in English (almost everyone playing was Japanese), but that may well be due to bad timing as other people did play more, and I expect that will change once it is on general release. If the final release is like the beta version, the main part of the game consists of battles that are taking place at pre-set times, so you'll need to be able to make some commitment to when you are able to play the game to get the most out of it. There are regular deathmatch modes and the like, but they seemed to be getting a lot less attention. Again, that could well change once it is on sale.

Needless to say, it is a rather hard game, but also immensely satisfying if that is your sort of thing. You will need to devote a serious amount of time to it to get anywhere, but I suspect that if you are willing to fork out for it in the first instance that isn`t going to be a problem.

ic14 · 31-03-2004, 20:32

Once its on sale? I have it! It came out last friday.

Onlne is brill though it is hard to control at first. As a bonus you get the first game in the box too.

31-03-2004, 21:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by ic14

Once its on sale? I have it! It came out last friday.

Onlne is brill though it is hard to control at first. As a bonus you get the first game in the box too.

Curious, where did you get your copy from? I do 99.99% of my game shopping through Game, and their website is listing it as unavailable and price to be confirmed, and my local branch certainly didn`t have it in stock when I was in there last Friday.

ic14 · 31-03-2004, 21:39

I had to preorder it in my local GAME. Cost 130 and there was plenty of people playing it online on friday.

(the control is huge!!)

Tezcatlipoca · 01-04-2004, 00:38

Not wanting to spam, but the following site is a good (& unofficial) site specifically for SB, & also has a forum which already has several UK SB owners as members.

http://www.steelbattalion.co.uk/

kRAyZZed · 01-04-2004, 08:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by dr wadd

Curious, where did you get your copy from? I do 99.99% of my game shopping through Game, and their website is listing it as unavailable and price to be confirmed, and my local branch certainly didn`t have it in stock when I was in there last Friday.

emmm well steel battalion has ALWAYS been very limited and thus goes up in value over time and you see GAME couldnt even meet their pre-orders, good luck finding any shops with this in stock, most branches didnt even get a copy of it in
@Brainbug71 the wife was the first huddle now its finding it thats the next one....

01-04-2004, 10:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by kRAyZZed

emmm well steel battalion has ALWAYS been very limited and thus goes up in value over time and you see GAME couldnt even meet their pre-orders, good luck finding any shops with this in stock, most branches didnt even get a copy of it in
@Brainbug71 the wife was the first huddle now its finding it thats the next one....

Ah, but I`m not actually looking for Steel Batallion per se, just Line of Contact, and given that it will also be shipping without the controller I don`t expect it to be as limited as the first one. GAME in Reading had a fair few copies of the first one in, and I know someone who managed to order one from GAME despite not having placed their order until the day before release (mine was pre-ordered several months in advance).

kRAyZZed · 01-04-2004, 18:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by dr wadd

Ah, but I`m not actually looking for Steel Batallion per se, just Line of Contact, and given that it will also be shipping without the controller I don`t expect it to be as limited as the first one. GAME in Reading had a fair few copies of the first one in, and I know someone who managed to order one from GAME despite not having placed their order until the day before release (mine was pre-ordered several months in advance).

yeah i was talking about Line of Contact, and believe me this is straight from the suppliers IT IS limited lol

but if you already have the controller and you just want the standalone game then you might be ok as the suppliers are struggling to sell the standalone (seeing as you need to have the controller to play it lol)

Brainbug71 · 01-04-2004, 20:45

Ok kRAyZZed......
so your in the business how about pointing me i the right direction.

Where...where....where....where.............

kRAyZZed · 03-04-2004, 18:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brainbug71

Ok kRAyZZed......
so your in the business how about pointing me i the right direction.

Where...where....where....where.............

lol well put it this way we only got 1 delivered out of the 10 we ordered into our shop and our local GAME store got NONE of the ones they ordered, this is very hard to get hold of BUT it is multiregion so an american copy of LoC would be ok (the original is region locked mind...)