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What meat shall we choose?

Rabbit meat is best meat
- 8 (32%)
Pig meat is best meat
- 17 (68%)

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Author Topic: Let's play S.W.I.N.E. -Part 1 (Choosing our favourite meat)  (Read 6312 times)

Jopax

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Let's play S.W.I.N.E. -Part 1 (Choosing our favourite meat)
« on: August 21, 2011, 08:12:37 am »
So, this being the summer and everything being boring and hot and whatnot i decided to go back to one of my favourite games.Now you might be asking what the hell is S.W.I.N.E. (it gets annoying to type it all the time), well swine is an RTT game that came out in 2002, made by Stormregion (who went on to make other similar games like the Codename Panzers series and Rush to Berlin), it was their first game and to me their best.The game that introduced me and made me love the strategy game genre.It is also free now so there is no reason not to take it (the studio had some issues with the publisher so after a few years they made the game free), the music is one of the best i have ever heard, a somewhat strange mix that perfectly complements both races, and to top it all off the graphics are still looking awesome for a game that is some nine years old.

The premise of the game is very (and i mean very) loosely based on WW2.In this world there are two races, the big and rough Pigs who have a hard german accent and the soft and cuddly (but no less dangerous) Rabbits who speak with that french flavoured english some people find sexy.After a new dictator came to power in the Pig nation (named Iron Tusk) he turns the country around to full war production and gears it up for an invasion of the Rabbit lands.There are two campaigins, the Rabbit one is two missions longer but a bit easier (the Pig one has a tendency to pile up tons of units at you as often as it can).The main difference is the starting points, the Pig one starts shortly before the war while the Rabbit one starts shortly before its end.There are also three difficulties and the only difference is the amount of damage your and enemy units do and take.

The procedure will be simple, first choose a race and difficulty, then as missions go you make the bigger decisions like what units to buy, what way should we take and all that, the micromanaging and trying hard to keep everyone alive will be left up to me.
So, without further ado, what is you favourite meat?
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Re: Let's play S.W.I.N.E. -Part 1 (Choosing our favourite meat)
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2011, 08:16:32 am »
The Pig campaign on hard, of course. Did you think we were going to give you an easy time? Heil Iron Tusk!
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Re: Let's play S.W.I.N.E. -Part 1 (Choosing our favourite meat)
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2011, 03:10:55 pm »
Oh Swine, used to be my favourite game back in the day. Especially because of the masterful and hilarious translation. I vote for Rabbit on hard.
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Re: Let's play S.W.I.N.E. -Part 1 (Choosing our favourite meat)
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2011, 06:40:46 am »
Sorry for the delay on anything, i've had some internet problems, the update with the first mission should be up tonight, going porkies on hard it seems ^_^
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Re: Let's play S.W.I.N.E. -Part 1 (Choosing our favourite meat)
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2011, 06:42:14 am »
Quote from: areyoua on August 21, 2011, 08:16:32 am
The Pig campaign on hard, of course. Did you think we were going to give you an easy time? Heil Iron Tusk!
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Re: Let's play S.W.I.N.E. -Part 1 (Choosing our favourite meat)
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2011, 01:36:54 pm »
Ok, a bit of help is needed, at first i had the game crashing on me whenever i tried to start a new game (it would go up to the mission start button then crash) so i reinstalled it a few times with different installers (the first one was a bit broken) but the problem persisted, i looked around on the net and found one solution that doesn't work.

The message i would get on the crash was this:

SGepard::ResetDevice:IDirect3DDevice8::Reset:D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
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Re: Let's play S.W.I.N.E. -Part 1 (Choosing our favourite meat)
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2011, 04:30:09 pm »
Looks like a video card problem. Depending on the age of the program, it simply might not work with your video card? Otherwise, make sure to update drivers and DirectX.
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Re: Let's play S.W.I.N.E. -Part 1 (Choosing our favourite meat)
« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2011, 04:53:28 pm »
Hmmm, i think i might snag my old laptop and try running the game on it, if i recall it worked fine there.
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