Close Combat

[BTs_hooks]

hey whats up have u guys heard anything about this games mulitplayer like wether or not it will be mulit-platform or GR, stuff like that im quite curious



hooks

[Civrock]

it's coming out for Mac very soon and will most probably have GameRanger support also.

www.firsttofight.com

www.macsoftgames.com

[Archon MkIV]

That sounds quite nice indeed.

[.vooDoo.]

The only down side of this game is that it only supports 8 players in multi. The game itself will be released  with the PC, mac and xbox version.

I pre ordered mine about a month ago and is due to ship mid aplril.

[bloodanguts]

Does anyone know the min req's?  Will I be able to play it on my 800mhz machine, or will I have to use my dads...?

[Civrock]

Preliminary System Requirements:
• Macintosh OSX v10.2.8 or higher
• 1 GHz or faster processor
• 256MB RAM
• 32MB or higher (NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX/ATI Radeon 7500 recommended) video card
• 3 GB free hard drive space

[c| Lone-Wolf]

It will be interesting to see how Multiplayer tactics turn out.  If it's like AA where it's every man for himself, but everybody is working semi-together, just going the same direction, or if total strangers will be able to work cooperatively on the fly, like they are  supposed to (in AA, RvS, GhR, etc.) 

Im just as curious as voo, if this will have GR support, or if they will have their own system.

[Civrock]

when we were testing Rise Of Nations with one of the Aspyr developers on GameRanger he told us that they're working on First to Fight at the moment and also that "it might have GameRanger support" (with a "" smiley behind it). so i'm very confident about that point.

besides, the first two parts of Close Combat series had GameRanger support already.

[|MP|Nomad]

Hey all, just wanted to remind everyone that CCFTF is out in 3 days according to the store I buy my mac games from.  Actually, it showed that its out in 3 days for Mac and 15 days for PC & Xbox. Tee Hee!!  Just wanted to know who here will be getting it?

[BTs_GhostSniper]

I don't know, will it be any good?  Right now I only play Ghost Recon and America's Army.  I bought Raven Shield, Command & Conquer Generals, Call of Duty, BattleField 1942, and a few others...and I never play them, at all.  In fact, I gave some of those games away cause I didn't like them much at all (I really thought I would like BF1942 and CoD because they are WWII based).  So, this Close Combat game, what's it all about?

[|MP|Nomad]

Its more up-to-date warfare type fps game.  It about Marines in the middle east setting, urban warfare, where you get to give tactical commands to your troops and order them around to do different things to complete your objective.  For example, you can give orders to clear a room, flank an enemy by odering fire team to suppress enemy with fire, etc etc.

I don't know how good its going to be, but I am looking forward to it simply b/c its not a port, so Macs should expect to get fps in the 100's, assuming yer packin a G5.

[BTs_GhostSniper]

Yep, I'm packin' a G5 so should not be a problem.  Is it on the same engine as America's Army?

[c| Lone-Wolf]

This belongs in the Mac Games section of the forums.  I believe there is a thread already there about this subject. 

Moderators please merge the two together, thanks.

-Lone


done. - Civic

[th.Sentinel]

First to fight is build on its own engine. AA uses the unreal engine.

Here's a good preview from MacGamer.com

And here is a special community for First to Fight gamers with the latest news on the development and reviews of the game.

My copy is allrdy preordered and the release date should be around 19 april according to official sources.

[.vooDoo.]

I just got an eamil from EB Sports today and my copy ships on April 14th. wOOt.

[KGB]

from the community page

MacSoft also let us know that the game's system requirements have actually been lowered on the Mac from 1 GHz G4 to 867 MHz, thanks to some extra optimizations done by the team.

That is great, now I can at least play this game with everything xtremely low.

[ghost.fr]

guys problem is : like for BF42 it needs 4k/s per player (for memory GHR is 2,5) so who is able to send 8 X 4k/s in upload (32 for the braindeads)!!

i hope this game is less tha 4k/s per Player and has punkbuster implemented

[Civrock]

according to that you'd need a 256kb upload connection to host 8 people. that's not bad since the MP playerlimit in First to Fight is going to be only 8, compared to possible 64 players in BF1942.

[bloodanguts]

867! thats awsome! I can probably manage that fine!

[(SiX)Sheixhundt]

My Understanding is that it will be modeled directly on Open GL so that should help the sys reqs. And since its on it's own engine, perhaps it will run well for lower machines.
However, If the preview movies are actual gameplay, then the engine looks a little funny..running animations looked awkward and not as smooth as RVS, but I'm sure I'll buy it just to try something new.  You mention FTF is approx 4k/s per, for hosting 8, and yes, i know this isnt RVS board, but anyone know what the upload is for Raven/Athena? I can host a max of six with 304 up.

see you on the field....in my scope.