The Great Demo of NTW Thread

Ok, here it is boys, we are coming close to release, 1 month for me in Australia (It comes out on the 10th of Feb here) So in a about 2-3 weeks, we should have a demo.

Now what do we think will be included and what do we want, and what will we be able to determine from the demo.

I hope for something of each, I wouldn't mind:

1. A historical Battle
2. A non scripted custom battle
3. about 5-10 turns of one of te campaigns.

Probably will only get one of those, which wouldn't be the campaign since their is too many variables to include and therefore it would become to big.

I think 1 and 2 would be nice.

I was also wondering what would we be able to take out of it from a modding point of view.

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any word on a release date?

include the campaign the and the download size will become 10 gig.

As much as I'd love to try a demo, I think I'd rather see them use every bit of effort to polish the game as much as possible after seeing what happened in E:TW.

I'm also expecting a demo, but probably they wont release it before the week that NTW lies in the stores.
Again I expect a historical/scripted battle, but we'll see. No judgements yet because there's nothing to judge:p

I vote #2.

I want to see the stellar AI improvements, or lack thereof, in action.

probably the same as E:TW, a tutorial and an unimportant hitstorical battle in which you play as the french and fight probably the austrians.

Hehe silly people want a historical battle, if there will even be demo we shall get ahistorical battle.

Its essentially the same game as Empire but more what they promised us Empire would be, and set slightly later.

That in mind, we won't REALLY need the tutorial as with Empire's demo.

Maybe the Battle of Austerlitz or something?
And the Nile or Trafalgar for us to get to grips with Napoleon's skills and the new naval feature(s)

a short campaign (something like 5 provinces, 2 shiptypes, 6 different units for each faction comparable to the rtw tutorial or second road to independance sceanrio but with no forts) would be nice to try out most new features however i think we'll get an historical battle hopefully 1 which isn't scripted too much

I'm guessing we will get the same as we did in Empires demo.

-Land battle tutorial

-Sea battle tutorial

-Historical land battle

-Historical sea battle

Unless they do release the demo on the week of release than I'm pretty sure a non scripted custom battle will be full of bugs anyway...or maybe it would be the same on the week of release.

I don't really see the need to release a demo at all, it's basically just E:TW but modified; if you look at ETW in comparison that needed a demo since it was a completely different engine and had completely different gameplay to all that came before it. I'd rather they just get on with working on NTW, or better yet making mod tools which sadly they already stated they won't do -.-

Originally Posted by Caelifer_1991

I don't really see the need to release a demo at all, it's basically just E:TW but modified; if you look at ETW in comparison that needed a demo since it was a completely different engine and had completely different gameplay to all that came before it. I'd rather they just get on with working on NTW, or better yet making mod tools which sadly they already stated they won't do -.-

After what happened when Empire was released they have to make a NTW demo.
I'm not going to buy the game unless I get a good quality demo without any bugs,(I can forgive them for small ones).

If I find they have done a good job,that is made the game the way we expected Empire to be than I will buy it .

No mod tools?

I don't trust demo's generally anyway, so for me it makes no difference... besides for £17.49 you can't go much wrong short of it being a complete diaster

Also yeah, Keiran basically said they'd either work on mod tools or on polishing NTW in an interview a month or 2 ago, aside from a tool for creating unit skins. If anything was gonna prevent me from buying NTW it would have been this, and if not for being priced below £20 I would've basically just ignored NTW entirely. I can only assume this applies to ETW aswell >.>

Are you sure its being sold for that price?

I remember it being 40-50 euro on some websites.

Originally Posted by Bloodzen

Are you sure its being sold for that price?

I remember it being 40-50 euro on some websites.

40-50?
http://www.play.com/Games/PC/4-/1155...r/Product.html

Originally Posted by TheJohan

40-50?
http://www.play.com/Games/PC/4-/1155...r/Product.html

Thanks for clearing that up

i dont care for a demo. there is no way i ll buy napoleon anytime soon. when its on steam as a weekend deal for 5 bucks i might get it then depending on if you guys liked it or not.

no clue what new features will be introduced so i have no reason to get excited for a demo showing these features. its probably a custom battle with france having blue instead of white uniforms

anyways... allways the old story..i think empire has many good features but unfortunately quite a few of them dont really seem to work well. this is why i am disappointed about a napoleon add on. polish the game before making a add on damnit. and yes..make it as moddable as the series used to be. thats what makes the long time playbility and the series great. better back to those roots then charging for a single unit with a different colored whig.

If they release a demo anytime soon i will show my in public.

Originally Posted by dogs990

If they release a demo anytime soon i will show my in public.

drastic maybe?