Hero of Legend
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What's this I hear of a game breaking bug in the Wii version? 
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the ANNO 1404 (DAWN OF DISCOVERY) |OT|
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blu
Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
it cannot be emphasized enough how fucking overlooked this game is. not only is it way above the shovelware that it usually ends up shelved with (if ever gets to see the world outside of the discount bin, that is) in the stores, but it actually is a darn good entry in the settlers/anno series. if you have the slightest of interest in the genre, have a wii, and don't have this game, you can blame only yourself.farnham said:
whatevermort
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So, Anno 1404: Venice comes out this week. Hurray!
Here's the original press release:
And here's a picture:
I'll try to remember to post some lovely high-res screengrabs when my copy arrives and I get back to my PC in a week or so...
Here's the original press release:
And here's a picture:
I'll try to remember to post some lovely high-res screengrabs when my copy arrives and I get back to my PC in a week or so...
Seeing as the topic's been bumped, the official v1.2 patch was released some day ago, that has a nice changelist:
http://anno.uk.ubi.com/pc/downloads.php#patchs
I find the Gateway... fix to be great, since I'm running Windows 7 (x64).
http://anno.uk.ubi.com/pc/downloads.php#patchs
I find the Gateway... fix to be great, since I'm running Windows 7 (x64).
Just got Venice up and running, seems like there is a lot of new content, no new campaign, however there are at least 6-10 scenarios which have their own cut-scenes similar to regular campaign missions. I haven't tried the whole espionage or city council features out yet.
Only downer at the moment is that it seems you can't access the original campaign if you load Venice, a bit of a pain as I'm in the process of getting achievements from them, won't be a problem once I've finished that though.
Oh, and the music is nice, reminds me of The Godfather.
Only downer at the moment is that it seems you can't access the original campaign if you load Venice, a bit of a pain as I'm in the process of getting achievements from them, won't be a problem once I've finished that though.
Oh, and the music is nice, reminds me of The Godfather.
sweetvar26
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I am considering buying this game when it goes on sale on STEAM. Was there a sale or discount in the past?
Caesar III
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Our copies shipped yesterday. I hope they arrive sooooooon!
Multiplayer is pretty smooth and lag free. You can even reload MP saves with different people filling in for anyone that's missing. There are 4 teams, but you can have up to 8 players with some playing coop on the same team. In terms of map configuration, you have all the single player map generation options at your disposal (corsair level, disasters, etc).
fatty
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Newegg currently has the Wii game for only $12.99 with free shipping.
pix said:
Check out the ANNO wiki, lots of good info. there.
http://anno1404.wikia.com/wiki/Anno_1404_Wiki
vocab said:
There's no specific new campaign (in fact you can't even load the vanilla campaign), however they've added 15 new scenarios and each has it's own open/close story cut scenes just like the campaign as well as a specific story and plenty of achievements, so it's pretty much the same/better I think.
sweetvar26
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I started playing this game today, I directly jumped into the Scenario, having some hard times on how to do stuff.
1. How do you establish your base on another island? I take my ship down to a different island, I can't build either a marketplace or a warehouse. Am I do something wrong?
2. It is hard to get my resources building to work at 100%. I tried doing lot of different stuff but I guess the only thing you can do is space them out, am I right?
3. One last one, how do you turn the ascension rights off? The fucking peasants keep using my resources to upgrade their houses while I try to build other building and I keep running out of them. Selfish fucks
EDIT: I found the answer to the first question myself. You will have to take the necessary resources to build a warehouse with your ship and then you should be able to build it on the warehouse through the options in your ship.
1. How do you establish your base on another island? I take my ship down to a different island, I can't build either a marketplace or a warehouse. Am I do something wrong?
2. It is hard to get my resources building to work at 100%. I tried doing lot of different stuff but I guess the only thing you can do is space them out, am I right?
3. One last one, how do you turn the ascension rights off? The fucking peasants keep using my resources to upgrade their houses while I try to build other building and I keep running out of them. Selfish fucks
EDIT: I found the answer to the first question myself. You will have to take the necessary resources to build a warehouse with your ship and then you should be able to build it on the warehouse through the options in your ship.
sweetvar26 said:1. How do you establish your base on another island? I take my ship down to a different island, I can't build either a marketplace or a warehouse. Am I do something wrong?
2. It is hard to get my resources building to work at 100%. I tried doing lot of different stuff but I guess the only thing you can do is space them out, am I right?
3. One last one, how do you turn the ascension rights off? The fucking peasants keep using my resources to upgrade their houses while I try to build other building and I keep running out of them. Selfish fucks
1: You need 2 Tools & 3 wood on board a ship to make a port on another island.
2: Check here, it tells you how many hemp farms you need for 1 weavers hut to be 100% & so forth.
3: Click your marketplace, then click the topmost icon with the scroll. Should put an X through it allowing you to manually ascend peeps when their tax level is Euphoric.
Caesar III
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It's only securom if I recall and the main game (Anno 1404/Dawn of Discovery) is without it already. Only the Venice Addon has Securom right now. They did not and won't use the Ubisoft Game Launcher for this game.
Caesar III
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check back the pages in this thread, there was a patch in August which removed the securom protection from the main game.
Caesar III
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it's on this very page to be exact :lol
[post]17946453[/post]
Don't blame any publisher or developer for you inability to read or look for information, bro!
[post]17946453[/post]
Don't blame any publisher or developer for you inability to read or look for information, bro!
Caesar III
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if you install the game and then the patch you don't need to activate anything anywhere. Just do not start the game before patching. I cannot remember installing tages but if this is the case you can uninstall it using the tools on the tages website. IIRC you don't even need to enter the serial key for DoD itself. Only for the Addon Venice which has TAGES.Plaguefox said:
CabbageRed
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Is this just for the retail releases? Steam still shows it as having activation limits.
Rocket Punch
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So I found this game on Wii and DS for $10 each and bought both. I just spent 3 hrs in the first few missions on my Wii. If the DS game is half as good I'd have to say its the best $20 I have ever spent on games.
Myoclonic Jerk
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Rocket Punch said:
I played a lot of the Wii game.. I'm a huge Anno fan..
but I wish I could get it on PC (I don't have a PC)
With this and Civ 5 I'm seriously thinking of buying a PC just for them..
jaundicejuice
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I've always been kind of curious about Dawn of Discovery, I've seen this one copy sitting on the shelf of a brick n' mortar for over a year now but never curious enough to buy and give the game/series a shot. The announcement of Anno 2070, which looks unbelievably awesome, was the push to finally get me to buy Dawn of Discovery/Anno 1404 and holy shit is this game fun. I never imagined that a game based on resource gathering, city/economy building, managing and trading would be so engrossing but I've just wiled away three hours running a burgeoning rural community on an island and am helping some power mad cardinal gear up for a crusade. It really helps that Dawn of Discovery is an incredibly sedate and relaxing experience, which probably has to do with the fact that I'm playing the tutorial campaign which essentially is easy mode. Either way, what I have played thus far has been such a nice change of pace from the stuff I tend to usually play, Dawn of Discovery is almost zen-like.
And it's oh so pretty.
And it's oh so pretty.