Warlock Multiplayer Thread

[undercovergeek]

isnt it turn based?

[bob48]

Yup.

[undercovergeek]

so we dont all need to be sat at our laptops at 3 in the morning playing them there colonials - player 1 does turn and sends it to all other players, player 2, player 3 etc etc

[LongBlade]

so we dont all need to be sat at our laptops at 3 in the morning playing them there colonials - player 1 does turn and sends it to all other players, player 2, player 3 etc etc

That sounds right, though until we get a game going we'll never know for sure.

[LongBlade]

D/L as we speak.... woo hoo..... I will name my Warlock Climatologist and I will wup L.B. Denialist's butt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPrbccEdI5o

[undercovergeek]

so we dont all need to be sat at our laptops at 3 in the morning playing them there colonials - player 1 does turn and sends it to all other players, player 2, player 3 etc etc

That sounds right, though until we get a game going we'll never know for sure.

is that a hint? do we know how many it supports yet?

as a matter of interest my new warlock front screen says - multiplayer beta - is that the same for everyone?

[undercovergeek]

ok - if you set the world to huge you can have 8 rival mages - i dont know whether thats you and 8, or just 8 - do we have 8 gentlemen?

[ArizonaTank]

ok - if you set the world to huge you can have 8 rival mages - i dont know whether thats you and 8, or just 8 - do we have 8 gentlemen?

I'm interested in playing

[undercovergeek]

okey dokey:-

LB
Bob
Gus
Me
Command Tent
Barthheart
Windigo
Svend
Arizona Tank

Ok - ill check whther its player plus 8 or player plus 7

[LongBlade]

Great point.

I just fired up the game and took a look around.

The MP game is flagged as still in Beta. Not a big deal, but we may want to gird ourselves against an unforeseen crash or lost of game and the associated gnashing of teeth.

The other thing I noticed is that invites are issued via Steam via my Friends network. In other words, if you're not friends on Steam with the guys wanting to play, you'd better get that way.

Lastly, it looks like the max size is eight players.

The game also *may* want us all online to play. Invites can be sent to offline gamers but it *seems* like it wants us all online at least to start. I'm going to poke around the official forums and game site to see if I can verify how this might work.

In the mean time I suggest anyone not friends with me to:

1) join the GrogHeads Steam gamers group (where you can easily find me...ya know, in case someone is an identity thief or something)

and

2) friend me.

I'm LongBlade in case that wasn't clear.

[undercovergeek]

1. check

2. check

once the list is confirmed everyone can do the 'friends shuffle' - so if its 8 players and we have 9

.............. who do we kill

[LongBlade]

1. check

2. check

once the list is confirmed everyone can do the 'friends shuffle' - so if its 8 players and we have 9

.............. who do we kill

No need for drama. We'll just fire up two or three games. No reason we can't start with four or five players instead of eight. Might make the game pass a little faster, too.

[undercovergeek]

always with the good ideas

[Marty Ward]

Now the game goes MP. It couldn't have happened two weeks ago when I was temporarily single   :(

What is the expected time commitment here?

[undercovergeek]

so after adding all names into a cup and picking, how does this sound:-

undercovergeek
bob
svend
gus
barthheart

LB
commandtent
windigo
arizona
+ poss Marty

group 1 coincidentally has 3 on European time - i dont know whether thats good or bad to be all in one group or mix us up