Pope, I think you have a point, would be nice if you could pause the game at any time and plan things out, give orders etc before letting rip.

I am told this is a feature in the game at the moment, it sounds like it's gonna be good. Also, rather than building units like in starcraft, you get points for reinforcements by capturing locations, and they arrive by transport or drop pods, which seems to fit better with the background. 

So less C&C, more Ground Control style?

Sounds like it might actually be good then. 

I'd of surely hated having to scrounge for resources In order to magically train up some space marines.

as for what armies will be in it... I doubt many... the ultra marines vs orcs is obvious choice due to the red vs blue idealism. Future armies I'd suspsect would be included in "expansions" in order to turn a buck, and get this game out the door sooner.

being able ot pause will be nice, but in Multiplayer how will that fare?

I most certainly will still invest in this product, as I have been a fan of GW for a long time and this looks like a game that I can enjoy. I still stand by my original idea of simple transplanting the tabletop formula to PC. I mean c'mon it has so much opportunity!
With skin support , there'd be a vast community trading excellent skins for their 'boyz' and whatnot. Individually naming your champions, marking kills on your dreadnoughts. Oooooh I get giddy thinking about it.

and my opinion on tyranids... the default GW color scheme on them is fugly, thus making me shun them until I'd seen some creative paintjobs that just oozeds alien hive activity 

I've read, and mind that all of this info is third hand now, that the races are space marines, orks, chaos marines, one other race in single player, and one other race in multiplayer. I'd like to think the 'nids are going to make it somewhere. 

it wouldn't be 40k without them, evil bastards =) 

Play.com have UT2004 (6cd or DVD edition) available for �17.99 for people that are interrested, I haven't been able to find a better price elsewhere...

http://www.play.com/play247.asp?page=search&r=PC&title=0&searchstring=unreal&searchtype=PC&id=0&adudisc=y&cpage=1&clear=1&zv=1 

Yes, but if they ported it straight from table top, GW wouldn't be able to charge their extortionate prices. 

doom3 to support co-op only on x-box version:
http://www.gamepro.com/microsoft/xbox/games/features/34068.shtml

well, maybe hl2 will? 

Oh boy! Co-op in a game not designed for it! That'll really make the Xbox version better! 

yeah but they'd attract more zealous gamers into the fray.

starting up a Mordheim campaign over here, anyone who wants to fly over here is welcome to play with us. :D

(bring terrain!) 

I think we have a couple of guys from spain here, I hope you guys are alive and well. And all of your friends and loved ones too. This has been quite an awful day... 

My friend's uncle lives two minutes from the point of attack & apparently and takes the metro every morning. He hasn't been able to contact him yet :-/

Frightening stuff... 

3-11, nunca olv�dese

:_( 

I just tried to play the demo. What a load of shit. Haven't they realised it's been perfectly possible to make a reasonably controllable 3PS game without retarded camera controls since, oh, Heretic2??

Bollox to that. 

Breed demo - interesting idea but tedious overcomplicated wank with bad controls feel.

Bloodrayne demo - kinda cool if a bit stupid and outdated engine. Fun moves but no saving. 

How does one alter the default size that windows are opened at in Windows XP?? By default folder windows are "rather large" and I want them to be "somewhat smaller", please. 

Erm... I thought that if you just drag the window to desired size & close it, it saves the settings & reopens it at that size next time you load it?

*tries it*

..yup. 

When i played the demo, i hated the cameras. I think they must have improved a lot by the final game, becuase the camera felt pretty much as good as any other third-person game. In other words, flawed but playable.

I do like they way they put little hints in so that as you approach jump or a climb or something, the camera adjusts to show it to you. 

...errrr yeah, but then I open a different folder and it will be at the large size, and I have to drag that to a better size and so on and so forth. I want to change the *default* opening size.... 

Try maximising and then restoring the resized window, while having no other windows open. That seems to do it for internet explorer, it might be the same for other windows... 

Didn't realise it only affected individual folders. I open everything from the 'my computer' icon anwyay. 

In 2k at least there's an option to not remember folder settings (Control Panel -> Folder Options -> View -> Remember blah...) and set the default size to the current folder (same pane). I'm hoping this is helpful enough to not cause an ejaculation of sarcasm. 

Cheers but that ain't it. That just keeps the size the same for folders you've already opened and resized. I want to be able to change the default that a new folder (e.g. a zip you've just opened) will open at. 

You can't!

You're forever condemmed to have to spend 1.2 seconds resizing whenever you create a new window.

Oh the humanity! 

somewhere in there is an option to apply the current folder setup to all folders

tools->folder options->View->[Like Current Folder]