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Anno 2205 announced (PC, November 3rd 2015)
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uncleniccius
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I've never played an Anno game before.. is it a City builder on a much bigger scale?
anonymous_abc
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It is a city/civilisation builder but with very different mechanics than SC or CS.
uncleniccius
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Interesting, I assume much more micro management/much more in depth?
As I noted in the conference thread, at first glance the Moon stuff looks like a dead ringer for the underwater stuff from 2070. Hopefully it's a little more varied than that was (felt that was a bit of an underwhelming aspect of 2070). Very pleasant surprise, even if I really don't want to have to load up uPlay.
anonymous_abc
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You need to manage resources in order to build and make your population happy and grow.
They are fantastic games and it's well worth checking out the old ones.
uncleniccius
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That sounds really cool, sadly I doubt my laptop will run it.
I'll have to buy it once I can run it!
anonymous_abc
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That sounds really cool, sadly I doubt my laptop will run it.
I'll have to buy it once I can run it!
Get an old one. They are still great!
That sounds really cool, sadly I doubt my laptop will run it.
I'll have to buy it once I can run it!
Try 1602, the first one. It still looks and plays great today. It's also a lot simpler.
I still play it from time to time! <3
If this is too old for you, try 1404!
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[IMG]http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/33250/ss_592104ce5dcd98a9cf5e9bf83b7243ade5db617a.1920x1080.jpg?t=1397517049[/IMG]Don't know about the others, but with Anno 2070, there was also the campaign, which told a story and was often objective-orientated rather than simply growth orientated. This was a pretty big difference compared to something like SimCity.
uncleniccius
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Thanks guys, I'll look at 1404.. I think that looks more to my tastes as I struggle with super dated stuff that I haven't played before.
It looks awesome.
Man what is up with the field placement in that screenshot. Bleargh.
Got to organize that shit. Optimize.
archnemesis
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Awesome! The world needs more resource management sims.
Kresnik258
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Fantastic news. I still haven't played 2070 yet though, should really get on that!
Looking good!
The comments on the "game play" trailer have a good point. It's not actually showing any gameplay, it's just a trailer on that subject.
At least it appears to be mostly in-engine, and it's not like there's anything to worry about since it's just building on an existing interface.
The comments on the "game play" trailer have a good point. It's not actually showing any gameplay, it's just a trailer on that subject.
At least it appears to be mostly in-engine, and it's not like there's anything to worry about since it's just building on an existing interface.
Fragamemnon
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The BEST part of Anno games are refactoring your supply chains for bigger and/or more reliable output. Tearing things down so you can build it better elsewhere is awesome.
edit: I know it's cliche and stupid at this point, but honestly Ubi would sell twice the copies if they went whole hog Steam with this. I felt both 2070 and last year's M&M X (and this year's HoMM VII) were all commerically hamstrung by the required separate client/service, even if in the case of Anno 2070 the online features were actually really awesome.
Sci fi fits this game, but they'd be best placed making a successor to k240 instead, where the asteroid theme fits better than the moon.
Wiktor
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It would loose to much variety and classic Anno style this way. The most brilliant thing about 2070 is that they finally made the series feel fresh again, but yet somehow it still felt like pure Anno.
I would love K240 sequel, but trying to force Anno into it wouldn't work.
-Deadpool-
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So who's going to be pre-ordering for the Beta access?
Going to get mine down over the weekend.
Going to get mine down over the weekend.
Wiktor
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All of those games were still on sold on Steam and overall were financial successes. I doubt the ammount of "I won't buy anything on Steam that requires additional log-in" crowd is anywhere near big enough to make a real dent. They're propably even less successful in their boycotts than all those famous Modern Warfare 2 boycott groups were
Especially since with Anno and Heroes I suspect most of the sales might still come from retail
No gog release, no buy.
I kid, I kid. I'm not quite as big a fan of the franchise, but I do love blue byte. So I will get this eventually. Right now I simply have too many other games competing for my attention, and I don't do preorders anymore, so there's that, but once a time slot opens up this will be the game to occupy it.
I kid, I kid. I'm not quite as big a fan of the franchise, but I do love blue byte. So I will get this eventually. Right now I simply have too many other games competing for my attention, and I don't do preorders anymore, so there's that, but once a time slot opens up this will be the game to occupy it.
I've always been impressed with how nice Anno games looks, eager to see some full resolution screenshots from this one.
So I decided to give Anno 2070 another go, after all I had only played it a few hours at a friend's, maybe I'll like it better this time.
Bought it on steam sale.
"Ubisoft game launcher has not been found, please reinstall anno 2070"
So people were right. Fortunately I can try on another PC. But I should remember to not install it on a third one or I'm fucked!
I hope this 2205 will do it differently....oh well.
Time to try the new refund system
Bought it on steam sale.
"Ubisoft game launcher has not been found, please reinstall anno 2070"
So people were right. Fortunately I can try on another PC. But I should remember to not install it on a third one or I'm fucked!
I hope this 2205 will do it differently....oh well.
Time to try the new refund system
Just verify the game cache, should fix it.
Tried that, it reacquired some files and then the autopatcher seems to fuck things up since I verified the cache again and it redownloaded stuff.
I've found some old threads on ubi forums saying to download and install the ubi launcher manually, but it says I have a more recent version on my computer. They then say to delete some ubi folders but I don't have any.
Even in hidden folders.
Ubi tech guys on threads I've found on the subject don't seem to know what to do next :lol:
I'll keep trying for a bit but it's already annoying
Jesus. Fucking Uplay.
Okay managed to fix it by deleting everything I could. Even found an hidden file with a numbered name after advice from someone who had the same problem.
Now Uplay is redownloading the dlc I alreayd had on steam and patch stuff again. I'm praying it doesn't mess things up :lol:
Now Uplay is redownloading the dlc I alreayd had on steam and patch stuff again. I'm praying it doesn't mess things up :lol:
Not exactly a demo, but there's some footage of the game as well as an interview with the devs on Gamespot if anyone's interested.
icecold1983
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the incredibly small map size you were limited to was the main reason i never bothered trying anno games. 5 times bigger is long over do.
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Wiktor
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That's proud Anno tradition since 1701
vagabondarts
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Anno is my favorite series to chill out with.
I was LTTP, only getting on board when dawn of discovery came out, but man I love it.
Moving Colonies into space is the best idea. Lets grow space hemp.
I was LTTP, only getting on board when dawn of discovery came out, but man I love it.
Moving Colonies into space is the best idea. Lets grow space hemp.
You should look at the steam reviews for 2070. You'd think it was a terrible game until you actually read the reviews.
-Deadpool-
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Reinstalled Anno 2070 over the weekend and took advantage of the sale to grab Deep Ocean (which I'd never played before). Obviously it's end game content, so I haven't seen any of the additional stuff yet, but it's been nice to get back into Anno for a refresher.
I've missed this series lots. Crazy hyped for 2205.
I've missed this series lots. Crazy hyped for 2205.
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