What! No mention of this yet.

[bill44]

Hey, $25 is a real bargin for this series, never mind the knockers Jim, you have enough real customers who will stick with you guys.

 

[bill44]

Have fun around here. Soon you and your flunkys will have this place all to your self. You and the tumble weeds have fun!

Were really gonna miss you.......NOT!

PS: Dont bother following us when we leave....

PPS: Watch for the next announcement:bite:

Jim, where are you guys going ?

 

[Lempereur1]

Its a double secret probation secret......

Were going to Wally World!

Invitations will go out in the next couple of days!

PS: They told me that nobody there has an agenda! :]

Watch your email box!

 

[Lempereur1]

Not a big deal if no cock up had happened with the original announcement. All I saw was the announcement subject line and went straight to the site, considering I am never really sure what to believe in SES emails. And the site had nothing about a later release, it had a price listed, and it had a button to buy it now. So what should I think?

This isn't rocket science. A simple excel spreadsheet with a checklist to make sure you get everything squared away before launch and release.

I'm just saying I am not sure I have ever seen a company have so many small screw ups and poor PR combined, regardless of size.

Its a good thing the product is good.

heh woody,

Heres how much I know about making computer games...

Want to see my awards?

View attachment 32632
These include 4 Wargame of the Year awards from PC Gamer & Computer Gaming World.

Norm & I were making PC Games while you were still in diapers and the Russians were still Communist.

BTW: This does not show my 1994 cover of Computer Gaming World.

Wanna see it?

 

[PongoDeMer]

Jim,

"Noli illigitimi carborundum"

... and I look forward to your next announcement with bated breath. Guadalcanal perhaps?

Pongo

 

[Rhetor]

A must buy for me; sadly, I have so little time!

 

[KGB]

I saw the $54.95 price tag on the website yesterday.
This is not my fault of making the incorrect price or putting it where it shouldn't be.

$25 is definately the amount I'll spend on the second ship pack.

 

[Von der Tann]

*Dribble*

 

[Mustang03]

Given what goes into the research and programming, $25 is a bargain for what we're getting. I'm really jazzed about the new release - and let me know any time you have a need for additional beta testers!

 

[saddletank]

Dogger Bank will contain the following new classes (with most members represented):
RN Predreads: Duncan, London, Formidable, Canopus, Majestic, and modified original Royal Sovereign.
RN ACs: Drake
Other Old RN Cruisers: Sentinel, Pathfinder, Forward, Adventure, "Gem", Pelorus, Eclipse, Astraea, Apollo, and ML-conversion Apollo.
German ACs: Blucher, Roon, Prinz Adalbert, Prinz Heinrich
German CL: Kolberg

There are a few others, such as the ML Princess Margaret and similar minor units.

In addition, there are early-war versions of most ships from the basic 1916 game. These earlier versions typically have some or all of the following differences from their mid-war incarnatoins: lack of director control, wimpier torpedoes, shorter firing ranges, slightly different guns, etc.

Besides all this, I worked in a few other freebies. For instance, Bayern now goes faster as argued on this forum and her sister is available in the ship editor by popular demand. There are a few such things that I leave you all to find.

The campaign is rather different from the original, in that both sides are refitting their ships throughout the year to bring them up to their 1916 condition. Thus, the fleets are much less homogenous and this continually changes. On top of that, there's the 1st unrestricted U-boat campaign.

Oh man! Whoo-hoo! Fantastic news! Awesome! Brilliant! Thank you SES!

Hahaha, I'm still punch-drunk. German ACs! Yes! YES! YESYESYESYESSS!

Curious that you didn't add more KM Pre-Dreads, was there not another battle squadron of them (Wittlesbachs?) still with the HSF in early 1915?

EDIT: When I'm settled in in my new house I will definitely be restarting the MP campaign.

 

[Admiral_Hipper]

Whats with the Braunschweig-class ships SMS Braunschweig, SMS Lothringen and SMS Elsass? They are already in the game, but not in the editor, like SMS Baden. Are they now in the editor too, like Baden?

 

[saddletank]

Perhaps they come under the 'other minor changes' BH mentioned.

 

[Bullethead]

Curious that you didn't add more KM Pre-Dreads, was there not another battle squadron of them (Wittlesbachs?) still with the HSF in early 1915?

We didn't include then because they served almost exclusively in the Baltic. Also, from what I can tell, they were never brought up to full wartime status. They were in reserve prior to the war and didn't get a full crew on mobilization.

 

[barkhauer]

Where's the rowboats?

 

[laca25]

Thanks for the new expansion guys!

Ps: I do not consider myself a fan boy but I am super excited about this game. There is not one more game like this out there...

 

[Amadeus]

I'll definitely but this expansion pack: early WW1 fits my historical/gaming interests very well.

It would be great to have also an option to fight a 1915-1916 campaign, also because, I presume, SES will release a 1914 expansion pack in the future and, eventually, it would be interesting to have the possibility to refight the first years of the Great War in the North Sea.

 

[Derfflinger]

A 1915 - 1916 campaign would be great. Another nice expansion would be the enlargement of the strategic map with the baltic sea and parts of the norwegian sea (two ways to russia baltic + norwegian sea).

 

[FuurinKazan]

Great!
I too hope for a Baltic theater in the future. Fun stuff.

So, since it's been awhile, a quick refresh on the update procedure? Purchace, then Uninstall/Unliscence then d/l and register new liscence? What if I've already bought Pack 1?

Looking forward to est. March 7ish!

 

[rgreat]

I'd buy this if it lets us disable merchant hunting from the campaign. Life really is too short.

I'd like to disable transport chases too.
Please add this.

Interested to see AI improvements.
Can someone from SES describe them?

P.S. MORE AC's please.

 

[Bullethead]

Interested to see AI improvements.
Can someone from SES describe them?

AI capital ships tend to fight at longer ranges with more guns bearing than before, and the light forces tend to act less like water beetles and more like screening units. It's still an AI and still ain't perfect, but it's better than it was.



P.S. MORE AC's please. [/QUOTE]