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[wayspooled]

Is there cooperative multiplayer of

1) human team vs human team and ideally also
2) human team vs AI? (Total Annihilation, C&C Tib Sun 2, Warcraft I-III, Supreme Commander, Comp of Heroes, etc.)

It's a beautiful looking game. I'd love to buy it if it had option 2 above. Me and a million others plus most of the MTW community hehe..

[briny_norman]

The biggest issues (game-breaking issues, actually) for me with the Total War series, are the exaggerated kill-rates and unit-speed.
As far as I can judge from the videos, XIII suffers from the same issues.
Will it be possible to mod these things? Can we tone down the kill-rates and unit-speeds ourselves or are these tings hardcoded?

Over all, though, the game looks interesting - and it's nice to see Activision getting some competition.
Good luck!

[Evgeny]

Hi. The game is planned to be sold with the editor and the set of tools. The thing you've mentioned can be tuned in scripts.

[briny_norman]

Hi Evgeny,

Thanks for a quick answer!
Sounds great that the game will be moddable and include editors.

I probably should have worded my question a bit differently, as the "issues" I have with kill-rates and unit speeds in some games are due to my personal prefences more than anything else and is not necessarily shared by the majority of customers.

It's impossible to satisfy everybody, so the real issue here is whether a game will allow the player the ability to fine-tune the gameplay to his/her own prefences, either through in-game settings or high moddability.
If XIII allows extensive modding of the combat model (as I understood from your answer) everything will be fine from my standpoint and I will no doubt buy the game.

By the way, any update on an expected release date? (I know you're probably tired of this question, but please bear with me...)

[noah]

Hi Evgeny,

The game looks very interesting. Do you have any information regarding when it will ship?

[MARIAN]

Originally Posted by wayspooled

Is there cooperative multiplayer of

1) human team vs human team and ideally also

You may play human team vs human team (3 vs. 3)