Shipped today...
 

My UK boxed copy from Clearance Games via Amazon.co.uk. Don't know what this 4th May business is all about.

Well as soon as you get your copy would you mind to give us your first impressions after you've played it for a couple of hours?

Thx :)

thats an odd one....

I'm registered at amazon.co.uk and i cant see any release date preview, all it sais is that the game is unavailable.

Care to explain it better Hertston?

Hiya

I can only assume very small stocks have run out. I registered to get the e-mail notification that the game was available months ago, got the email on Tuesday and ordered the game that evening. I assume a few others did the same.

The preferred seller, 'Express Games' was shown as having only two copies, but as they were charging rather more than the only other seller (£17.99 plus an extortionate £4.99 shipping) I went with the latter, 'Clearance Games' (£17.71 including shipping). They emailed me to say it shipped yesterday; I should get it tomorrow, hopefully.

I'm a little worried now that it will turn out to be some imported Far East English 'version' rather than a UK copy. I got caught out like that with Fantasy Wars, there's nothing inherently wrong with a legitimate Far East English language version except that, because of the different DRM and such, nobody ever seems to bother patching them.

I'll keep y'all posted.

I think you'll be receiveing a nice dvd filled with Bulgarian porn :grin:

Hehe... no, maybe that's a risk with ebay, but not generally amazon.

Anyway, it's here, and seems to be the legit UK distribution version (Crioland). Installing as I type. Let's hope I don't end up wishing I had got a nice DVD filled with Bulgarian porn instead! :-P

So what's the veredict?
Are you already doing raponka in that big blue planet?

Getting really curious here too but take your time so you can get a good general idea of the game first ;)

Now if it is Bulgarian porn, I'd like to get a review too :D
J/K lol

Haven't had time to play too much today, and certainly won't over the next couple of days, so I'll reserve comment on gameplay for a while (nothing bad so far, though)

A few general points, though;

Installed without trouble, and seems stable enough, no crashes and such so far. No Starfarce or similar, or online registration.

The to-be-expected dodgy translations from the Russian and less than stellar voice acting (although with that material you can't really blame them). Exception.. the lass who does the in-ship stuff, who is excellent. And sexy as hell. As voices go.

Graphics are 2006 rather than 2009, but work well enough. The odd nice touch, like the dangly Xmas tree in the cockpit - maybe you get fluffy dice on promotion! UI seems well designed, with keyboard shortcuts for everything.

Ship ('or 'flugger'?!) control and dynamics are nicely done. Three options, arcade, inertial arcade and simulation. The first just does doesn't feel right (compare with X3, equally 'arcadey', which does) and the last seems for the hard-core and/or masochistic so I've plumped for inertial arcade so far. It feels much like Evochron Renegades/Legends or Arvoch Conflict, if anyone has played those.

And in answer to my previous, unanswered, question, joystick support seems OK. No troubles with my Saitek X45, and it even recognises my rudder peddles.

Promising so far.

Ok thx mate, looking forward to hear more when you had the time to play for a couple of hours :)

Should have known about the voice acting :/

Keep us also posted please on how the story is, no spoilers of course ;)

I also got my copy this week through amazon (game version 2.1.0.0, I would appreciate if someone could confirm that this is the latest uk version).

The graphics are actually pretty good (no X3 but then X3 does not allow you to land on planets). For example take the saturn rings (I assume it saturn) which look like a bitmap at first, however fly to it and it develops into proper individual detailed asteroids (actually impressive the first time you do this).

I wish the cockpit textures were a bit more detailed though (hopefully the game can be modded).

The voice acting is as to be expected but so far it really is a good game.

Just ensure you drop the gamma (which for some reason will not keep its setting) and crank up the graphic settings.

This is great to hear that someone else already has it too :)
One thing we can at least be sure of, the game is ready.

I don't care so much about the graphics, meaning that they don't have to look as good as the X series, if they are still ok then that's more than fine for me.

I'm looking especially forward to the planetary landings, really curious how that looks and feels and what exactly can be done on those planets.
Also how good the story is and how much freedom of play you have.

Thx for the tip on the gamma setting, I'll keep that in mind for when I get the game.
Highest settings shouldn't be a problem, got a really good config.

So what we know for now is,

- joysticks are supported
- graphics look good but not top notch
- voice acting isn't of the greatest quality (except for the girl (voice only, character?) in the ship, she has a sexy voice ;))
- textures can be better on some things
- good impression of the game so far, looks promising
- 3 options, arcade, inertial arcade and simulation
- no online activation and no copy protection
- oh and a Xmas tree in the cockpit :D

Hehe.. I was admiring that just long enough to fly smack into an asteroid. :-P


I haven't had that trouble, so it might be specific to some graphics cards, or a driver issue.

Shouldn't be a problem for many; space sims are rarely that demanding and this is a lot less so than X3, for example.

First possible 'issue', and a question for unholydog, though. Communications. At the end of the battle that concludes the tutorial mission I called up the messages history to see a load of what was obviously battle cockpit chatter, none of which I either heard or saw as pager messages. It's obviously completely useless after the event, so am I missing something? I'm guessing the original voice chat was in Russian (like the sample when setting the voice volume level) and that was never included (or translated and included) in the English language version(?), but is there really no way of seeing it on screen as it's generated? None of the subtitles or pager options seem to do the trick. It's not essential as the 'objective' messages tell you what you really need to know, but even the text would really add to the atmosphere. After the battle is finished, a couple of portraits appear several times top left, obviously supposedly with messages - but I can't hear them, and those ones don't seem to appear on the pager list. Any ideas, m8?

BTW, request to 1C if any of the devs ever read this board.. if Russian cockpit chat was left out (?) is there any way of enabling it, or making the files available? I'd rather have Russian than silence. Indeed, if the English version ever gets a patch I'd rather like to have a Russian language option throughout with English subtitles.

BTW (again), having had a poke around the install directory there seems an awful lot of configuration settings you can mess about with. Something who is into that sort of thing might have a lot fun.

Hertston

I have had the same problem with the communication, I thought it was just me. Especially when a face kept popping up, flickered and then went away, I assume it was to tell me something but couldnt understand what.

Like you say it would be nice to get some feedback from the developers.

I've dropped a line to support asking for somebody to stop by, more in hope than anticipation, maybe. Not a showstopper by any means, but it would be nice to know if there's an answer at our end, or if it needs a patch. I assume it's a new problem; if it had been in the Russian version it would presumably have been fixed a while ago.

Hertston

Can you get past mission 2 where you have to escort the ships to the planet.

Whilst flying onto the planet I get some gibberish text pop up that I have no idea what it is trying to tell me. Once this text appears the game exits to the main menu and I cannot proceed any further.

Amazon says that is for Windows Vista... does run on XP?.

Yeah I noticed that too slamelov but its probably a mistake.
On the other hand on Gamersgate it only says XP so I wonder if it'll run on Vista :D

Got both OS though so I don't have to worry about that.

TW is compatible with both XP and Vista.

Ok thx Nike-it :)

Btw, just found The Tomorrow War on Ebay with no shipping costs from within Singapore.
Now that I don't trust, I'm gonna patiently wait till it becomes available on Gamersgate.

Could you maybe post some screenshots of you flying/entering atmosphere so we can see how does it look?

Nothing that a good modder would not be able to fix. This is good news, thanks.

Nike-it

the version I have (purchased through amazo) says that it is version 2.1.0.0, could you tell me whether or not this is the latest UK version (as obviously it is not 7.62), I am a little confused as to which version I have.

I am running Vista and it runs fine by the way

I think Nike-it is referring to a game of 1C called 7.62 mm ;)

Unfortunately at present real life is barely me allowing time to turn the PC on. Have you managed to sort this yet?

I too have 2.1.0.0.

Nike-it, are you actually able to confirm this is the correct UK release version?

Hertston, I have not managed to get past mission 2, it still keeps coming up with garbled text and then finishes the mission

I passed it without problems.
Well not totally without problems...there is still that in flight chatter missing,but still escorted the ships to the planets and after our business was over, went back to the carrier.

How did you pass it, I even put the auto pilot on so that I could not make a mistake but still I failed it

2.1.0.0. is a correct official version.

If anyone wants to get a box copy, I see amazon.co.uk (seller, 'Express Games') have TM in stock again; only four copies though.