Anno 2070 demo is out

[made]

The dialogue and quests piss you off here but they didn't in 1404? Same shit. I almost uninstalled that because of the campaign, this time I'll know better.

 

[Satan]

why would you play campaign anyway? I played only Anno 1602's campaign and never again did the same mistake, so while I played all the series for thousands of hours I never played campaign of 1503, 1701 or 1404 and i'm not going to do it in 2070 as well.

Anno is about freeplay without any quests (I disabled them in 1404 in freemode as well). It's about expansion, trade and wars, not about some shitty banal quests.

 

[J1M]

I liked 1404's campaign. It taught the game, introduced some interesting challenges, and didn't hold your hand too much.

Yes, everyone was super-nice or whatever, but you weren't bombarded literally every second with with messages from different characters for 2 hours straight.

 

[Toffeli]

Is the game still retarded like Anno 1404 where you end up having cities with very unrealistic demographics, like you always need to have more and more higher class citizens to unlock more buildings etc?. In the end your cities have only very few poor people and the biggest group of people is the most highest class of people.

 

[trym88]

Is the game still retarded like Anno 1404 where you end up having cities with very unrealistic demographics, like you always need to have more and more higher class citizens to unlock more buildings etc?. In the end your cities have only very few poor people and the biggest group of people is the most highest class of people.

like real life

 

[J1M]

I always assumed that when a commer house went from 10/10 to a noble house with 18/18 (or whatever) that it was implied 8 noblemen lived there with their 10 employees in the basement.

 

[made]

I'm not sure what the exact requirements are, but you do need a certain number of lower tier houses for the next class to move in. In 1404 you'd end up with almost all nobles as long as you had enough nomads. In 2070 it seems less ridiculous, but you'll still end up with disproportionately more managers and execs compared to workers.

Really enjoying the game so far btw. Just as addictive as 1404. Plastering your island with steelworks and coal excavators while Industrial Landscapes is playing in the background feels pretty awesome.

 

[Paperclip]

Someone please make an LP :D

 

[Lord Chambers]

Finally, a setting where it makes sense for the entirety of the world to be islands.

 

[Satan]

fuck, the game runs slow on my laptop, while the demo run fine... but demo had a very small map and i'm playing continuous game in the full version. that sucks, i love freemode and i can barely play

 

[made]

Turn off vsync. I had 20-30 fps with it on, twice as much without.

 

[Satan]

I did set my graphic settings to the lowest possible

 

[anus_pounder]

So, hows the campaign ? Do you start off as the industrialists and then defect to green peace ? On a more important note, how does the game compare to the older annos, on the whole ?

 

[Jaedar]

So, hows the campaign ? Do you start off as the industrialists and then defect to green peace ? On a more important note, how does the game compare to the older annos, on the whole ?

You start out as industrialists, then get a choice of which, and then go green and then go both at once.

The game is basically anno 1404 with some extra stuff and fancier graphics.

 

[made]

The game is basically anno 1404 with some extra stuff

Pretty much. The extra stuff adds quite a bit to the game though. 1404 got stale after a while, because you'd end up building the same stuff in the same order game after game. Here, you have options. The two factions have different priorities and need different resources, and if you want to settle both to unlock all the units/buildings you'll have a vast, complex multi-island empire to manage. Then there's research and environmental disasters to consider (which are not all scripted events like someone previously claimed). For example, oil rigs can randomly explode and if you haven't developed appropriate counter measures in time they'll flood your nearby islands with nicely-shaded oil spills that kill all fish and drive out the populace while you scramble to get the situation under control.

Unfortunately missing are the spy and sabotage elements from Venice, and the various LARP city prettifications which the AI can build but you can not. Room for DLC, I guess.

 

[MetalCraze]

I take it they will milk us with an addon/dlc that "adds" the third faction (scientists) which is already there but only playable in campaign?

 

[Jaedar]

I take it they will milk us with an addon/dlc that "adds" the third faction (scientists) which is already there but only playable in campaign?

You get access to the scientist faction for a price once you reach the third tier of citizens.

 

[MetalCraze]

OK sweet

 

[anus_pounder]

Well, if even skyway is playing this, can't be all that bad eh ?

Might as well buy it. Ubishit seems to have a habit of offering content thats online only. Not a big deal (i think), but for a guy like me that wants 100% of a game, I can't stand to have 80-90% playable pirate edition. Just hope this isn't what all games are going to be like. Would be the single worst disaster in human history. :/

 

[J_C]

I started playing with the game yesterday, and enjoying it quite a lot. Of course since I loved Anno 1404, and this game is VERY similar to it, this is not a surprise. Too bad I don't have money to buy it right now, so I can't give a shot to the multiplayer. Has anyone tried that part of the game?

In ANNO 1404's expansion, Venice, there was a very basic multiplayer, did they improved that?

 

[Satan]

the only multiplayer I ever played was Anno 1602's. Is it somewhat different in later games?

 

[J_C]

the only multiplayer I ever played was Anno 1602's. Is it somewhat different in later games?

Well I haven't played with the earlier Annos. In 1404, it was just continous play, with real gamers playing instead of the AI Cities.

 

[Satan]

so it's the same

 

[Shadenuat]

This game sure is one of the prettiest and stylish modern games I've played. The setting is also really cool, reminds of Alpha Centauri, like Gaians vs. Morganites. Ubishit locks some upgrades for units if you're not connected to internet though.