Silver linings...
when something terrible happens to you, there are some good side effects, it seems.
The expansion for Company of Heroes came out on monday, and should be on the shelf... TOMORROW!!!! oh wait. that's not related at all. but here's something that is:
to play the originial version online with people who get the expansion will require a 1.8 GB PATCH! yes. 1.8 GB. let's think about that download time for a minute now. The mainstream method of download is using the CoH client, not the plain jane "save target as..." and that means that CoH has to eat up your computer's resources as it's downloading, for no apparent reason, which is why there's a good couple seconds between the time I'm done typing this sentence and the time it takes for the characters to actually show up on the screen. it's like lag, only on a couple hundred byte level.
...that's not the silver lining either, I'm getting there.
SO, a 1.8 GB download, which incidentally, I started about 30 minutes ago. now get this.
...it's a bout 2/3 of the way done. in 30 MINUTES!
can I get a hot damn? somebody comment on this and say hot damn. even if I don't know you.
because seriously.
hot damn.
in other news, the 1.8 GB patch should include some AWESOME new features such as weather effects, the passage of time during battles (lighting, clouds? sunsets could be cool), new VEHICLE AI (no more tanks running into each other on bridges and looking like a bunch of two year olds in tonka trucks on I-95), and of course two new races that you can't play as without buying the x-pack, but you will probably get raped by a few you times. Incidentally, the new "races" are the British and the Panzer ELITE division, which is different from the axis you currently play as, who are in fact the Wehrmacht division for those of you who know your WWII history. unlikely. regardless. it should be exciting.
...70% done. oh baby.
...for those of you that are curious, but don't like math, that's about 600 kbps.
The expansion for Company of Heroes came out on monday, and should be on the shelf... TOMORROW!!!! oh wait. that's not related at all. but here's something that is:
to play the originial version online with people who get the expansion will require a 1.8 GB PATCH! yes. 1.8 GB. let's think about that download time for a minute now. The mainstream method of download is using the CoH client, not the plain jane "save target as..." and that means that CoH has to eat up your computer's resources as it's downloading, for no apparent reason, which is why there's a good couple seconds between the time I'm done typing this sentence and the time it takes for the characters to actually show up on the screen. it's like lag, only on a couple hundred byte level.
...that's not the silver lining either, I'm getting there.
SO, a 1.8 GB download, which incidentally, I started about 30 minutes ago. now get this.
...it's a bout 2/3 of the way done. in 30 MINUTES!
can I get a hot damn? somebody comment on this and say hot damn. even if I don't know you.
because seriously.
hot damn.
in other news, the 1.8 GB patch should include some AWESOME new features such as weather effects, the passage of time during battles (lighting, clouds? sunsets could be cool), new VEHICLE AI (no more tanks running into each other on bridges and looking like a bunch of two year olds in tonka trucks on I-95), and of course two new races that you can't play as without buying the x-pack, but you will probably get raped by a few you times. Incidentally, the new "races" are the British and the Panzer ELITE division, which is different from the axis you currently play as, who are in fact the Wehrmacht division for those of you who know your WWII history. unlikely. regardless. it should be exciting.
...70% done. oh baby.
...for those of you that are curious, but don't like math, that's about 600 kbps.