Hi Folks,
no, I'm not dead, still most of my time is consumed by working and playing EU.
As for EU: The game is just great ! Double all your expections and they'll stilled be fitted by the game.
Still I'm not completely satisfied with the German version. This is mainly caused by two reasons.
a) I thought this was the German version. BUT it seems as if it had been developed out of an English one. The intro video has English language, sometimes, on-screen-messages are partially written in English. Also, Venice state is called 'Venice' (English word), while 'Venedig' (German word for Venice) refers to Venice city.
b) The manual sucks. It has no real structure. I tried to play the tutorial and thought that the manual would provide me with all the info I needed. But failed. I finally started playing a Grand Campaign (that is called 'Der Grand Campaign' in the German version - another hint on that their must be an undistributed English Final Version - and acquired my knowledge on the 'learning by doing' basis. Although it took me about ten minutes to figure out how to have an army board a fleet (well, this would have been discribed in the manual - but I didn't read it), I still think that this is the best way to find out how the game works.
Conclusion: The game is really great. There are no technical problems like random crashing. Still, I'm waiting for a language patch - one that extincts the rest of English language and makes the game all German.
I did not find the time yet to look for any files that could be altered easily if you want to make German -> Englisch language patches on your own. So you can keep hoping for that it would work.
So long
Cptn Kiff
no, I'm not dead, still most of my time is consumed by working and playing EU.
As for EU: The game is just great ! Double all your expections and they'll stilled be fitted by the game.
Still I'm not completely satisfied with the German version. This is mainly caused by two reasons.
a) I thought this was the German version. BUT it seems as if it had been developed out of an English one. The intro video has English language, sometimes, on-screen-messages are partially written in English. Also, Venice state is called 'Venice' (English word), while 'Venedig' (German word for Venice) refers to Venice city.
b) The manual sucks. It has no real structure. I tried to play the tutorial and thought that the manual would provide me with all the info I needed. But failed. I finally started playing a Grand Campaign (that is called 'Der Grand Campaign' in the German version - another hint on that their must be an undistributed English Final Version - and acquired my knowledge on the 'learning by doing' basis. Although it took me about ten minutes to figure out how to have an army board a fleet (well, this would have been discribed in the manual - but I didn't read it), I still think that this is the best way to find out how the game works.
Conclusion: The game is really great. There are no technical problems like random crashing. Still, I'm waiting for a language patch - one that extincts the rest of English language and makes the game all German.
I did not find the time yet to look for any files that could be altered easily if you want to make German -> Englisch language patches on your own. So you can keep hoping for that it would work.
So long
Cptn Kiff
