Battlestations: Midway Impressions/War Room

Gurantsu · Post by **Gurantsu** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:25 pm

I'm good to go, but my wife is on her laptop so I better not host. Send me an invite and I'll hop in once I'm done proofing her resume (and she's done playing bejewelled!)

Gurantsu · Post by **Gurantsu** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:35 am

Fun game last night. That second battle was a real knock down drag out fight! Me and Teal took the win on it, but just barely. I was just about ready to lose the last of my ship to torpedo attacks.

The first game didn't go so well for me, but at least I made you guys work for my carrier!

Teal · Post by **Teal** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:44 pm

Gurantsu wrote:Fun game last night. That second battle was a real knock down drag out fight! Me and Teal took the win on it, but just barely. I was just about ready to lose the last of my ship to torpedo attacks.

The first game didn't go so well for me, but at least I made you guys work for my carrier!

Yeah, it took some doing to get that damn carrier down. But I really liked the handicap match that we won there at the end. This is my favorite XBL game at the moment...

Gurantsu · Post by **Gurantsu** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:39 pm

Bet you didn't know a CV could bob and weave like that!

I was working the buttons like a madman, trying to avoid the shots from your ship, as well as the torpedos from the aircraft, all the while trying to send up torpedo bombers of my own to take you out. I was handing out planes to the other guys, but one said his flying was terrible, and eventually I didn't have time, I'd just launch 'em and leave 'em. Worked for a while, although no doubt my crew was getting mighty seasick.

Zeppo · Post by **Zeppo** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:49 pm

Well I just got it in the mail. I wish it had arrived yesterday. Of course I have no manual, so someone will have to walk me through some things at some point.

TCrouch · Post by **TCrouch** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:57 pm

Do the hour-and-a-half tutorial and that's all the walkthrough you'll need. The manual doesn't help much, actually...but the tutorial is very, very good.

Teal · Post by **Teal** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:35 pm

TCrouch wrote:Do the hour-and-a-half tutorial and that's all the walkthrough you'll need. The manual doesn't help much, actually...but the tutorial is very, very good.

What he said...

Gurantsu, I've never figured it out: HOW do you give units to your teammates?

Gurantsu · Post by **Gurantsu** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:53 pm

From the map screen, click down the left analog stick on a unit. You will get a list of eligible players that you can give your unit to.

Fshguy · Post by **Fshguy** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:40 pm

I should be getting mine soon too, probably Monday.

Zeppo · Post by **Zeppo** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:11 pm

TCrouch wrote:Do the hour-and-a-half tutorial and that's all the walkthrough you'll need. The manual doesn't help much, actually...but the tutorial is very, very good.

So I need to do ninety minutes of homework before I am fit to join you guys online? And they said SC has a learning curve. . . sheesh.

I can't promise I'll complete the full tutorial, but if anyone would like to help show me the ropes, I think I'd like to try it out sometime before sending it back.

TCrouch · Post by **TCrouch** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:16 pm

In a word: yes.

There's way too much to do for somebody to try and explain it, and the tutorials are in stages...moving a ship is one mission, firing artillery is another, navigating a map, launching planes, controlling planes, using subs, etc.

There's no way anybody could explain the controls in each specific set of ops that's any quicker than the tutorial. It's not about "fit for joining online", it's about just wrapping your head around the controls that change every time you switch to another unit or map screen.

bdunn13 · Post by **bdunn13** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:26 pm

"So I need to do ninety minutes of homework before I am fit to join you guys online?"

I played the tutorial and I still have no clue how to do what I want to do. I just mash buttons until I say, "ah thats it." But then again, I am a complete moron.

edit: proved it.... but I was debugging 4 threads of .net code while I was making this post.. so I have an excuse.

Gurantsu · Post by **Gurantsu** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:41 pm

Each tutorial is relatively short, and kind of fun if you can get used to Sgt. Carter screaming at you during them. You can skip some, for example if you don't plan on actually controlling a sub or plane, skip those ones. The biggies are really the ones about controlling ships, damage control, and using the stategic map. Learn the basics there and you can jump into any multi-player game, just pick a ship when the game starts.

Teal · Post by **Teal** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:15 pm

New DLC on the way!

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/766/766532p1.html

Gurantsu · Post by **Gurantsu** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:30 pm

Cool, the P-38 will be a neat addition, as well as the Iowa class battleships.

I remember back when I was in the Navy we did an absolutely huge exercise, and during part of it we got to see the USS Missouri and the USS New Jersey, both Iowa class ships, fire off their big guns full broadside at the same time (my ship was directly aft of the Missouri). Thats something I'll never forget.

I still have a picture of part of the fleet during the exercise, and it's filled with US and Japanese ships sailing together. The worlds come a long way since my grandfathers time, then again in some ways we haven't travelled very far at all.