SEV: What am I REALY getting for my money?

[Renegade 13]

frightlever, I think the problem people have with Starforce, is this: People don't like software that prevents them from doing legal things with their legally purchased software, don't like software that assumes that everyone is automatically a criminal, and software that kills hardware.

Of course it's not as important as a job, etc, but if copy protection ends up costing you money (ie: dead CD drive), then it does matter, since it's the crappy CP that's costing you money.

[Fyron]

I'm amazed at the way forums have been taken over by anti-Starforce sentiment in the last year or so.

Its not just these forums, it is the entire Internet and gaming community in general. Starforce is horrible, horrible malware that does nothing but harm. It is only natural for the hate to show here too.

[capnq]

Everyone who's worried about whether SEV will be worth the money seems to be assuming that there won't be a demo available to check the game out before they buy it. I do not understand this mindset. People who are confident in the game can preorder it; people who aren't can wait for more info. Why waste time worrying over this before anything concrete is available to base the decision on?

Disclaimer: I don't expect to buy SEV immediately because I don't expect it will run on my current aging hardware; in fact, I want to see SEV's system requirements before I start shopping for a new machine.

[Ed Kolis]

From Malfador:
Pentium 500 MHz or better class machine
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
128MB RAM
1024x768 or better screen resolution
16bit color or better color depth
500 megs hard drive space
A video card with 3D acceleration
DirectX 8.1 or higher
A sound card capable of supporting MP3 and DirectSound playback. Sound card must be DirectX 8.1 (or better) compatible.

Assuming these specs are accurate, you really won't need much to play this game - perhaps you could even slap a video card in your old machine!

[Kana]

Ed Kolis said:
From Malfador:
Pentium 500 MHz or better class machine
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
128MB RAM
1024x768 or better screen resolution
16bit color or better color depth
500 megs hard drive space
A video card with 3D acceleration
DirectX 8.1 or higher
A sound card capable of supporting MP3 and DirectSound playback. Sound card must be DirectX 8.1 (or better) compatible.

Assuming these specs are accurate, you really won't need much to play this game - perhaps you could even slap a video card in your old machine!

Are these the minimum, or recommended requirements? If we have a much more robust machine, will that allow us to run battles with higher poly models? Or is the poly count in relation to the game engine, not machine specs?

[Raapys]

I'm wondering if the Simultaneus Movement game type works the same way as it does in SEIV, i.e. all battles have to be auto-calculated?

Playing single-player I've found that I by far prefer the Simultaneus type of play, but it's a rather big sacrifice to have to cede control of all battles. A MoO3 type system would have been awesome in single-player.

[Atrocities]

Dizzy said:
Ok, so we have a snazzy new interface... some 3D (low poly) models, a new ground combat feature and a new system look. Just about everything else is the same as SEIV?

Why would I spend $50 on this game when I just spent $20 on SEIV which so far sounds so similar.

What R U getting for you money, well your getting a new addiction, one that will cost you your job, wife/girl friend, home, career, and health. You will for your money, trade your soul away each and every time you start a game. Days will seem like hours, and whole years will pass you buy with you ever even noticing them. One day you will realize that you have been sitting at your computer none stop for a week, grown a foot long beard, lost 50 pounds, and need to clip your finger nails as they are now each two inches long.
So what are you getting for your money, well as I said, a new addiction.

[Kamog]

A one-time cost of $50 is pretty inexpensive for such a good addiction that lasts for years. Can't think of any other addiction that costs less than that.

[capnq]

Thanks for the info, Ed. I must have already seen that listing, because some of the items on my list are worded exactly the way they are there.

Can't just add a video card; I need to more than double my current CPU speed.

[Phoenix-D]

Double your CPU speed? Wow. You have a knack for keeping old computers running, apparently.

(seriously I have one sitting here I got for free that would play SE5..work was giving them away as too old).