In most traditional strategy games, the player can recruit / build "units" for the purpose of getting closer to the goal of winning with the selected unit taking a place within a player's strategy. Normally there is some sort resource requirement to stop the game from degenerating into mindless spamming (and to give the player a reason to fight for resources in the first place) as well as serve as a balancing tool (powerful units are expensive etc). This is a common formula for most strategy games out there.

However that's where the similarities usually end. You see there is some different design philosophies that can be adopted in order for a game designer to further control unit production. ]]>http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/316908http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/316908Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:01:27 -04002008-07-04T04:01:27Phazon88http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/316499
The game has had a pretty good life so far, although it hasn't been without its balance niggles and bugs. However overall the game has been a good title and ...]]>http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/316499http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/316499Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:01:27 -04002008-07-04T04:01:27Phazon88http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/316156
This time the focus is on the Pyro class. Until the release of this update, the Pyro had a number of fundamental flaws (both gameplay and bug related) that made the class more difficult to play than he really should be. The upda...]]>http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/316156http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/316156Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:01:27 -04002008-07-04T04:01:27Phazon88http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/315995

Oh wait, no it doesn't. It started at 8:30am earlier today.


Thats basically what I found out when I reread my timetable and had a brainsnap. I was looking at the exam length (which was marked as 2:10) which was underneath the exam time.

Ah well, I'm an easy going guy and I don't like getting stressed over stupid things. I just accepted it and consoled myself in the fact I probably would've failed it anyway (it was the se...]]>http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/315995http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/315995Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:01:27 -04002008-07-04T04:01:27Phazon88http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/315888
The HD48xx series of cards are armed with ATI's new RV770 chipset, built using 55nm production. The card also sports 512MB of GDDR3 memory. It is extremely powerful for its size (with the stock HD4850 being a single-slot product), price (launch price for HD4850 is only&n...]]>http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/315888http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/315888Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:01:27 -04002008-07-04T04:01:27Phazon88http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/314802

At the moment I am using a trial of Diskeeper 2008 Pro Premier. Apart from the normal manual defrag tasks, it also has quite a few automated features such as real-time defragging (which takes place when y...]]>http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/314802http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/314802Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:01:27 -04002008-07-04T04:01:27Phazon88http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/314404
Anyway, here's my impressions of the game as I saw it. Keep in mind I don't actually own a Xbox 360 (my experience with it is really only the controller as I have the windows varient for my PC), but I am a Battlefield veteran (since the origin...]]>http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/314404http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/314404Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:01:27 -04002008-07-04T04:01:27Phazon88http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/314402

The sad truth of this event is, nearly 90% of attendees were not interested in gaming at all. Instead, they all fired up DC++ ( a file sharing program) and shared files (you can guess what kind) with each other. The other 10% (the TRUE PC gamers) were having fun playing games with each other or just playing their fav...]]>http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/314402http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/314402Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:01:27 -04002008-07-04T04:01:27Phazon88http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/313222
After installing the network card and going through the neccessary steps I managed to get it to communicate with the router. All good, yes? Well...that depends on one's definit...]]>http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/313222http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/313222Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:01:27 -04002008-07-04T04:01:27Phazon88http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/312781
After downloading it and mucking around with the themes and set...]]>http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/312781http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/312781Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:01:27 -04002008-07-04T04:01:27Phazon88http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/311567
There was a huge uproar as a consequence, with many potential buyers saying that they would just simply not buy their title (or even pirate it on purpose) just to get rid of this major intrusion...]]>http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/311567http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/311567Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:01:27 -04002008-07-04T04:01:27Phazon88http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/311123
Reason for the version change was simply because to reflect the fact that my mod releases aren't really beta (they are throughly tested for skirmish / online use) with the only potential beta area being the single-player campaign which is untested. Also, the mod an...]]>http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/311123http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/311123Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:01:27 -04002008-07-04T04:01:27Phazon88http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/310962
The World in Conflict mod kit. Its what makes it all happen. Since it was a while since I last worked on my mod, I decided to conduct a reevaluation of things and ideas I had i...]]>http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/310962http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/310962Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:01:27 -04002008-07-04T04:01:27Phazon88http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/310560

All I can say was the process was as smooth as can be. Once I got my payment sorted the game was instantly recognised by Impulse and I was able to start downloading it instantly. Even the serial and relevant registration info was automatically fil...]]>http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/310560http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/310560Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:01:27 -04002008-07-04T04:01:27Phazon88http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/310404
As fantastic as Company of Heroes is, one must always be on the lookout for modifications which provide a different or even more fun experience.

 

 

A squad of fallschrimjager move up the road covered by armour and artillery. Normandy 44 is one such mod. It has been around for quite sometime now (with previous releases on the original Company of Heroes). The latest version for Opposing Fronts incorporates the new game elements as well as being a slight redesign ...]]>http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/310404http://phazon.joeuser.com/article/310404Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:01:27 -04002008-07-04T04:01:27