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Posted by fishy on Tue Dec 13th at 10:50pm 2005

i'm currently downloading it, though i expect nothing but bad things. we'll see.




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Posted by rs6 on Tue Dec 13th at 11:08pm 2005

I keep meaning to try that out. I played Introversion's other game uplink. Uplink is such a cool and inovative game.



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Posted by Forceflow on Tue Dec 13th at 11:30pm 2005

I think I might try it out and buy it. The game looked pretty cool. Different.



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Posted by omegaslayer on Tue Dec 13th at 11:51pm 2005

Anyone know how you place an officer? I've deleted enough squads to have one enter....but It just wont let me :S.



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed Dec 14th at 12:58am 2005

I don't know off the top of my head but maybe you can check the FAQ here: http://db.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/file/darwinia.txt




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Posted by gimpinthesink on Wed Dec 14th at 1:16am 2005

I( thourght about buying it a a couple of months after it was origanaly relesed a go cos it looked different from all the other games I tryed but I never did I thin I will buy it on monday after I get payed now from gamestation cos they have it for only acoupple of quid second hand.



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Posted by omegaslayer on Wed Dec 14th at 1:20am 2005

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I( thourght about buying it a a couple of months after it was origanaly relesed a go cos it looked different from all the other games I tryed but I never did I thin I will buy it on monday after I get payed now from gamestation cos they have it for only acoupple of quid second hand.

Sorry this makes my head hurt when I read it



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Posted by fishy on Wed Dec 14th at 1:47am 2005

omega, once you select the make officer option, you need to click on a darwinian to apply it to.




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Posted by Paladin[NL] on Wed Dec 14th at 9:10am 2005

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Posted by gimpinthesink on Wed Dec 14th at 4:12pm 2005

Yeh sorry about that was a little drunk at the time.

But what I ment was that I thourght about buying it a few months ago when I saw it in my local Game shop but I didn't and I forgot all about it and now I think I'll get it second hand as it will only be a few pounds. It will also be cheaper than what Valve wants for it now they have re-released it on steam.



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Posted by Crono on Wed Dec 21st at 10:30am 2005

I just finished the demo. I have to say I really liked the idea of Action type RTS game-play, but as the game went on it got very, very, tiresome. I thought it was really well made towards the beginning ... but after trying to command those little bastards ... with other slow bastards ... it became very annoying. I don't think I'll buy it, but it is pretty fun ... just not worth my money, I'm afraid.


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Posted by Captain P on Wed Dec 21st at 11:09am 2005

I liked the demo as well. I expected the game to be very abstract, and granted, it does look like it, but it plays like a combination of FPS movement and RTS commanding. I felt the controls were somewhat cumbersome now and then, though, but it played nicely. I think it's a nice little funny game, quite different from what I'm used to. Maybe I'll pick it up, though I'm not getting a Mastercard or such unless I'm planning to buy more over the internet, which I'm probably not doing in the near future.


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Posted by Gorbachev on Thu Dec 22nd at 1:40am 2005

I bought it after playing the demo, it gets pretty challenging at times, but is a good play for a level at a time. The controls are super simple once you use the shortcuts a few times, then you can whip out commands like nothing. You can have as many officers as you want, just make sure you have a task manager slot free otherwise you can't create one. I usually have a few stationary officers and right click while they're selected on the area you want them to 'force' the regular Darwinians in, I then have one or two that I roam around who have the original officer(s) as their right click focus so it makes a chain.




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Posted by Myrk- on Thu Dec 22nd at 12:25pm 2005

It's customary on the snarkpit, or at least I think it is, to post a link referring people who haven't heard of the game to screenshots and/or info on the game...




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Posted by fishy on Thu Dec 22nd at 1:39pm 2005

? quoting Myrk-
It's customary on the snarkpit, or at least I think it is, to post a link referring people who haven't heard of the game to screenshots and/or info on the game...

people that still use steam will find it on their 'games' list.




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Posted by Underdog on Thu Dec 22nd at 2:36pm 2005

I fear turning Steam on for the updating so, can anyone clue me in on what this is?

Perhaps a few screens or something?




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Posted by ReNo on Thu Dec 22nd at 2:44pm 2005

Still people have trouble searching on google? It's not like Darwinia is a common word that wouldn't find you what you wanted guys <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">

http://www.darwinia.co.uk/




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Posted by Underdog on Thu Dec 22nd at 3:04pm 2005

? quoting ReNo
Still people have trouble searching on google?

(pouts)

No fair, using my own words against me.

Duncan, searching will not produce compressed images. I was hoping that someone here that CARES might post some. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif">




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Posted by wil5on on Thu Dec 22nd at 3:18pm 2005

I downloaded and played a bit of it today. Interestingly, it took less time to download an entire game than it did to update CS:Source.

Its certainly different, seems fun. I'm still in the tutorial, I'll play a bit more soon.




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Posted by Myrk- on Thu Dec 22nd at 4:05pm 2005

As I said, I like to think it customary for people to post info about a game when they show it- it takes less effort for 1 person to search google for info and images than it does for 2914 or so members (not that 99% of them will look, but you get the idea).


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