Demi god

When everyone has their ports open correctly and no interfering anti virus/firewalls, I've clicked on a hosted game and literally had 3 others join in less than 30secs. This of course is the perfect scenario that I've gotten 2-3 times out of 20 games, and most people are still clueless on setting up their comps right.
 
Actually I can understand why he thought that, last time I was on about 75% of the game ranger games were the pirated version, they can't update so they still have the old version...so you can pretty easily tell who the pirates are.

Haven't been on in awhile but i'd assume it's still the same or probably worse because the games servers work fine now, only one's having problems seem to be those from overseas trying to play games with people in the states.
 
harsaphes said:
Wait..you cant pause the game in single player?
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Technoob said:
Yeah, I realized that today too, really really stupid.
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i thought that too, but after having to quit a game just to go downstairs for a couple minutes i decided to have some fun by going through all the keys and found out that you can indeed pause the game if you're in single player. And the magical key is....one of the F keys, i dont remember which one exactly, but im going with either F10 or some key near it :p
 
speedy523 said:
i thought that too, but after having to quit a game just to go downstairs for a couple minutes i decided to have some fun by going through all the keys and found out that you can indeed pause the game if you're in single player. And the magical key is....one of the F keys, i dont remember which one exactly, but im going with either F10 or some key near it :p
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That would be the shortcut for the Menu. Where you can configure all sorts of things like video/audo settings, etc.
 
from there Day 6 Status report

"It’s easy and convenient to blame piracy for the launch debacle of Demigod but that would be inaccurate. Even had Demigod had some nasty copy protection on the DVD, it would still have been cracked and this problem would have come up anyway."

Even tho I enjoy the game alot. Launch was pretty bad.
 
never played DOTA, but i do dig rts & rpg games. saw the demigod 101 preview from gpg's and thought i'd give this a whirl.

i have yet to play online. i've played 4 demigods on easy & normal.

played:

1. the rook = i really liked this guy. found him to be the most fun to play as. he's terrible & killing other demigods, but GREAT @ taking down towers and all the little army dudes.

2. unclean beast = this guy was pretty fun in just the 1v1 aspect. found him to be very dominate in killing demigods.

3. torch bringer (or w/e his name is. the ice/fire mage) = too much customization with this guy. u either go ice or fire. it seems if u try to go hybrid u gimp urself. pretty to watch though.

4. oak = found this guy boring. kinda seemed i didn't have too much progression with this guy. relying on the dead & my minions seemed too much work for sum reason.

playing this game on easy is crazy easy. playing on normal is i guess about right. now, playing on hard seems impossible. seems the AI is just not useful @ all in hard mode. i seem to be holding my own, but when i need back up the AI is doing sumthing completely opposite of what "I" think needs to be done. therefore it ends up being a loss. :'(

i'm running the game @ 1920x1200 with EVERYTHING maxed w/vsync enabled capped @ 60fps and dipping to 45 occasionally.

once i play around with the rest of the demigods and get better @ the "hard" setting i'll venture onto the mp aspect of the game.

the grafx are great for what the game is. i REALLY wish there was sum sort of campaign for sp. that saddend* me. i too wish ALL health was displayed and didn't have to mouse over. i also wish MY health always showed it's numerical value.
 
Rook and Unclean are some of the easiest to play, once you learn the game a bit better Oak and the other generals have more to offer but of course require alot more micro. For me I did not fully understand everything while playing normal mode because its pretty easy to win but after cranking up to hard you learn what your doing wrong because you don't stand a chance unless you have a solid strategy. Eventually hard becomes pretty easy and around this point you start to realize just how powerful some of the other demigods are.

Those of you having problems with multiplayer should download and read this .pdf

http://themonk.ca/Monk/Networking_and_DEMIGOD.pdf

Using that guide I find games in 5-10 seconds and am usually connected to everyone and playing within 30 seconds.
 
I don't see why people keep comparing this game to DoTA. It's closer to Rival Nations (old custom maps that was super popular prior to DoTA) or Footman Wars. By nature of attempting to have a fun and strategy factor, heroes in any game will have their own specialties, but the overall structure of the game with the building up of the army and using items to advance the units seem to follow Rival Nations more than any other Warcraft 3 map.

Anyhow, so people are liking this game, eh? I was thinking about buying a new game but I didn't know what to buy.
 
Alai said:
I don't see why people keep comparing this game to DoTA. It's closer to Rival Nations (old custom maps that was super popular prior to DoTA) or Footman Wars. By nature of attempting to have a fun and strategy factor, heroes in any game will have their own specialties, but the overall structure of the game with the building up of the army and using items to advance the units seem to follow Rival Nations more than any other Warcraft 3 map.

Anyhow, so people are liking this game, eh? I was thinking about buying a new game but I didn't know what to buy.
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I don't think you've played dota or demigod if you don't see why people are comparing the two....
 
Technoob said:
I don't think you've played dota or demigod if you don't see why people are comparing the two....
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Um... I play DoTA all the time. I will destroy you in DoTA.

On a side note, I see it, but what I'm saying is there are OTHER maps that are even closer semblance than DoTA.

You wouldn't describe a Pinto has being similar to a Porsche just because they are both cars...
 
Alai said:
Um... I play DoTA all the time. I will destroy you in DoTA.

On a side note, I see it, but what I'm saying is there are OTHER maps that are even closer semblance than DoTA.

You wouldn't describe a Pinto has being similar to a Porsche just because they are both cars...
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Most people know about DOTA, few people know about Footman Wars and Rival Nations. Therefore the comparison is being made to the far more successful game in the genre, DOTA.

To sum up. Pinto's are similar to Porsche's because they are both cars and Demigod is similar to DoTA because they are both RTS/Fantasy/Action/Strategy games involveing tower defense and minions summoned thru portals.
 
Jr. Woodchuck said:
Most people know about DOTA, few people know about Footman Wars and Rival Nations. Therefore the comparison is being made to the far more successful game in the genre, DOTA.
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I don't really see the semblance to footies and I was playing a dozen of games of foots a day before Demigod came out. I played DOTA a few times and it's pretty much the same thing. If not exactly the same as DOTA then it's a 3D Tides of Blood.
 
I noticed the game got a 26mb patch I'm downloading from Impulse. I wonder if it's something to do with the proxy UDP stuff. Edit: It's not.

Another Demigod patch is live on Impulse, though it does not include the proxy implementation, as was expected:
It’s Friday not and we’ve got the Demigod update out. So what’s new?
The disconnect threshold has been increased which should hopefully decrease in-game disconnects
Various timing changes in-game to make connecting to games more effective
What isn’t in this update:

The disconnect issue when joining a skirmish game. Highly frustrating. It’s some sort of timing issue where it’s just thinking people are too slow. GPG is working on this and we hope to have another update early next week.
This is not the update with the Proxy Server setup. That’s also for next week. So if you simply cannot even see other players, this update won’t fix that, that’s something we’re going to try to get into next week. But I have a feeling that a lot of people were having timing issues which hopefully, at least in custom games, this version helps.
We initially had a new NAT fascilitator which addressed quite a few things but quickly discovered that it wouldn't scale well to the # of users trying to use it thus creating a deadlock so we had to pull it. We'll give it a go again on Monday. We apologize for the delay on that.
We’ll be around this weekend to see how things go. Good luck and thank you again for your patience.
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The big update we were working on to get up this week went down to the wire which was a new NAT facilitator that made joining games extremely fast and extremely robust.
Since we’re doing some of this on the fly, we obviously didn’t get to stress test scale. And so what works great for say 50 people testing things out fell apart when a few thousand people jumped on.

We had considered that possibility so we had an alternative, more conservative build already wound up and flipped the switch on that. But the result is that the progress for those having connectivity issues in MP was not as far as we had hoped.

Gas Powered Games and Stardock are taking the weekend off to try to recharge a little bit. There is high confidence on both teams that those people having problems connecting will see their problems resolved shortly.

Like those of you running into those kinds of issues, I get frustrated at this kind of thing. Tonight was particularly tough since it was working so well.

We appreciate your patience and on behalf of everyone at Stardock and GPG, have a good weekend and you have our dedication.

Hopefully next week we can start talking about additional Demigods.

In the meantime, I hate to have to recommend a third party program but Game Ranger does work pretty well as long as you’re playing other people with the legitimate version.
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I still think this game is going to end up failing because of the lack of skill variety and uniqueness coupled with really boring items that don't seem to do that much.
 
aeonrevolution said:
I still think this game is going to end up failing because of the lack of skill variety and uniqueness coupled with really boring items that don't seem to do that much.
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Well, if the developers of Demigod take any lessons from DoTA, it is that they must continue to evolve the game as people keep playing and provide feedback. I am sure the game will change into something more and more as time progresses.
 
I just purchased this game two days ago and must say, that it really is fun.

On another note, does anyone have any problems with this game? I find that when I'm in the middle of an online game, sometimes it will just crash to desktop with no error message. Anyone else experience this?

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I haven't heard of your problem yet. You might want to head over to demigod's forums and check out what they say there. The only problem I have with the game is how long it takes to get a multiplayer match going.
 
I don't know if I'm just not use to it or what, but I don't really like the way Demigod's forum is set up...maybe I'm just too use to the [H] forum....

Anyway, can we get a discussion going here regarding the Demigods in the game. I was trying to use Sedna and I find her kinda useless, but i'm sure she's ferocious when played correctly. Anyone have any thoughts, or ideas?
 
Sedna's healing is a lifesaver. Never used her myself either, but I see the best results when she's back a little bit and healing everyone.
 
Nearsite said:
I don't know if I'm just not use to it or what, but I don't really like the way Demigod's forum is set up...maybe I'm just too use to the [H] forum....

Anyway, can we get a discussion going here regarding the Demigods in the game. I was trying to use Sedna and I find her kinda useless, but i'm sure she's ferocious when played correctly. Anyone have any thoughts, or ideas?
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For Sedna, Inner Grace and the Wind skill that gives her HP regen is a must, helps out both your creeps and yourself during fights. Plus when you get max heal, it will give 200 damage aoe, which helps quite a bit.

What Sedna should usually get (IMO) is the heart item, mana regen items, and some health and she is good to go. Pounce is really scary.
 
is there a way to make this run on gma950? im getting an error on boot up.
 
Just played this last night, seems like a dumbed down version of dota with better graphics.
 
I like aspects a lot more than DOTA and others not so much. DOTA seemed to have the balance thing down much better. This has some issues with character balance and some item balance that still need to be worked on. I do miss some of the diversity as DOTA had a ton of characters. I wish the dark and light sides had different characters like DOTA and that you could pass gold between team members.

Overall I am liking it and hope they can patch it into working better. Thankfully they fixed the network issues mostly.
 
I honestly think that the charecter balance is almost perfect in this game. Yes, some demigods are better against other demigods, but overall, if you find a balance issue, there is always a demigod or skill set w/ the demigod you like that can counter it.
 
I do believe i have read they are actively patching and providing rapid updates, so with the patch's, how is it acting recently?
 
Honestly, I never had any of the networking problems that other people were having. I was always able to connect to online games, with little delay and no lag. I am pretty sure that if people properly forwarded their router ports for the game (currently ports 6100-6200) then most problems went away.

The patch seems fine, and I love how frequent their patching is. So far every week, and sometimes every few days. I think they fixed a bug or two in the game also. They are also already mentioning their expansion w/ more charecters and clan matching.

Cool stuff.
 
Standpoint said:
Honestly, I never had any of the networking problems that other people were having. I was always able to connect to online games, with little delay and no lag. I am pretty sure that if people properly forwarded their router ports for the game (currently ports 6100-6200) then most problems went away.

The patch seems fine, and I love how frequent their patching is. So far every week, and sometimes every few days. I think they fixed a bug or two in the game also. They are also already mentioning their expansion w/ more charecters and clan matching.

Cool stuff.
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I was thinking the same thing, some people just aren't savvy enough to forward their ports suffering this problem.. maybe I'm wrong and it's something more than just port forwarding for people. But I've never had any of those problems before.
 
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