Savage 2: A Tortured Soul Trial Plans

As a longtime fan of the first game in the series, Savage: Battle for Newerth, I have to admit that I am quite concerned about this move.

For one thing, I hope that you are careful about this demo...what I'd do...include both races, disable at least 1/2 of the guys for each race, and also disable at least 2/3 of the unit abilities, and cap the max lvls by at least half the maximum lvl, and of course, at least half the weapons, including disabling the most powerful weapons of each class, and of course, making sure that the content isnt even included in the demo so that it cant be enabled by hacks and thus turning into another "savage 1 demo" where they are satisfied to the point where they dont buy it.

I may be overreacting more or less, but I want it to be a successful game, and want to see a lot of people on the full version servers, not 95% of them on the demo servers :(

please dont make the same mistake twice. Its always a good idea to leave them itching for more. I just want the game to be successful, nothing less.

btw...what exactly do you guys mean by "build a character" and "save stats online"? please say that the stats part has to do with saving commander records and showing them when we vote for a commander...I know that commanders wont be AS vital as in the first game, but its always nice to know that you have a reliable commander with a good track record, and not one who doesnt know what he is doing after being a commander for 10+ games in a row.

And for "build a character," does that include the whole weapon/spell/item/unit buying/Lvling up? not completely sure what you guys meant by that. please clarify :)

sorry for such a long post :) please reply, and GL with the game...been delaying with preordering for too long...going to do that by Friday latest :)

Interesting move...though I think I'm a little worried by it. This basically means that the "demo" is not going to have Internet multiplayer. But isn't the whole purpose of the game the Internet multiplayer? How can we get a feel for the game with only a tutorial and LAN functionality? That would be like releasing a demo for one of the Battlefield games and only letting you play the "single-player." Shit, I would NEVER have bought the Battlefield games if I had only played the single-player-->that sucked ass and wasn't representative of the game at all.

Still, I can see why you wounldn't want to release a multiplayer demo. In the case of Savage 1, people were so satisfied with the multiplayer demo that they never felt the need to buy the full game, hehe. Double-edged sword I guess. Good luck with however this goes!

YESSSSSSSSS can't wait for this game

I really, really liked a lot of elements of Savage, but some rather niggling bugs that too them too long to fix killed it for us in terms of competitive multi

I hope it pans out for them better this time around, Savage had some wonderful concepts. If they can enhance the melee and add more depth to the strategic aspects of the battle, it could be an awesomely fun game

Let me in the beta damnit! I need this game!

Brilliant move on allowing people to play the tutorial and LAN games! What hurt the first Savage was that you could play a full game in the free demo. While the full version had more of the game, the demo really was enough to satisfy. This gives you an idea of what the game is like without satifying your thirst. And it allows you to play with your buddies on a LAN without having to buy 20 copies.

Gotta love these independent developers.

I've always thought that largely online games should just can copy protection and just require a CD-key check for online play. Good on S2 for making this move, it really seems like they're making a lot of steps in the right direction.

Hi five, s2jason!

shit, 4300s PRL? holy crap this things for real. wtf. guess i'll go take a piss.

This is a great idea. People love to play something before they buy it.

I hope this team has a lot of success- this is the future of PC gaming.

that is really cool

There you go.

In other news, S2 Games has huge balls. And hopefully huge moneyhats when this is done.

I can't wait to see if bold moves like this (akin to Stardock's lack of CP for GalCiv2) continue to pay off or not. The GalCiv2 maneuver and this one are being recieved well, but in the long run will people continue to pay?