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Whoopy-Cat Silent Dude
Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Posts: 11 Location: Iowa, USA
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Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 8:52 am Post subject: |
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I definitely like 3.2 but I haven't been able to find 3.4/3.5 anywhere. I remember seeing it in the stores a couple years ago but I thought, "how stupid! I got it for FREE!" DOH! I didn't know there would be a difference. Now, of course, I wish I had bought it -- at least so I could play both versions of the game if I wanted. :-/
I did find a place where you can download what is being referred to as a "retail version" of TacOps (from IG games I think?) online for US$20. But the site refused to give any technical details about the download such as the exact version number and compatibility.
Even though I knew they're robbing from me (TWENTY bucks?!?!? EGAD!), I did finally decide to try and download a copy from them because my kids and I wanted to play online and there are precious few good 3.2 servers available to us. (I KNOW that if I just searched around long enough I could find a copy of the retail version for US$10 or so somewhere, but it would take a LOT of looking and I'd have to go to another town - a big city with lots of game stores!)
But when I tried to download the game, I came across a whole page of FAQs, legal disclaimers and what we often call "fine print" (the stuff they don't expect you to actually read before downloading ). In this section they clearly said -- more than once -- that their download version was NOT compatible with ANY other version and that patches and mods available elsewhere on the internet were NOT compatible with their version. I thought that was very odd.
It's possible that this was just a broad, general statement referring to ALL their downloads and not to their TO:AoT download specifically. But I wasn't about to pay twenty bucks just to find out! So in the end I decided not to buy the download from them. $20 is too much, especially when I'm not even 100% sure it would solve our "version mismatch" problems when trying to connect to the online servers. :-/
I'll try to find that link again (I'm pretty sure it was at IGN, but I'll check again to make sure) and when I find it I'll reply here again. Maybe you guys can help me decide if it's actually a genuine copy of the retail 3.4 version or not and if it will actually be upgradeable to 3.5 or not.
But for now, we're stuck with 3.2. And we like it -- LOVE it, actually! Is 3.4/3.5 better? I don't know. I can't argue because I've never tried it. But I do know it's very hard to find. But I also know it's hard to find good 3.2 servers for online gaming with good people. Thank God there are at least a few still around! It'll be a sad, sad day when the last 3.2 servers close down. _________________ ~ Joel ~
whoopycat
veni - vidi - vvhoopi ... {I came - I saw - I ... got fragged ... again} :-/ *sigh* ~LOL~ |
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