Graphics in PBO are Crap!?

Hi again everyone!
Here are as usual the latest news about Perfect Battle Online (PBO) - the great action/strategy game from Bit2logic. So what is new then?!
Well first of all we have got some positive and negative feedback. I start out with the negative.

Many people at the swedish computer games forum Loading has told us that the graphics in PBO looks like crap and asked us what kind of graphic designer we have anyway? Well, I admit that the graphics isn´t exactly state of the art. This is because neither I or Staffan are very good at making 3D models, and there are just the two of us working with the graphics (expect for the title image in the main menu that was made by my friend Christian Håkansson, please check out our credits section for details).

I personally think that the graphics in PBO is way better than the graphics in Perfect Battle (PB1). We have added light effects to the gold, shadows, new wall textures, new energybar and plenty of other small things to give the game a greater graphic apperance. Still, as "Fudgepuppy lvl2" told us at the Loading forum, "When was strategy about graphics anyway?"

Now to the positive feedback. When I was browsing the guestbook at my personal homepage Marcus Homepage, I found a post by John Louie, stating that he loves the music in Perfect Battle. I was really happy to read this since I am the one who made all the music in Perfect Battle (and most in PBO). Anyway John, I hope you take your time to play PBO as well, since the music in PBO are way better... in my opinion anyway.

Well that is all for now. Don´t forget to write in our forums and keep tell us what you think about our games.

/Marcus Lindmark

Don´t be shy, Play Online!

Hi again!
Perfect Battle Online (PBO) has been out a while when I´m writing this and some new suggestions are starting to show up at our forums. Keyar19 has suggested that the main tank in PBO is too hard to control because of the high speed and Keyar19 also misses the weapon store from Perfect Battle (PB1). Read all about it and our answers at the forums.

One of the new (and hopefully not too confusing) things with PBO is the flexibility added by our new game rules (read more in readme.txt). But I figured it might help somehow if I would explain the online rules more throughly one by one. Ok, here we go then...

First the basics. To play online, select "Play Network Game" in the main menu. Choose between LAN network (many computers connected together in a house) or play online through the Internet (against people all over the world). Then choose a cool name for yourself, like Crusher King or something like that. You can also choose between a normal game (shoot anyone you want) or team game (all the tanks with your color is in your team). Finally select a map to play and create a new game.

The game starts right away and all the players except yours is played by the computer. Then if a player joins the game (through LAN or Internet) they take over a tank at random played by the computer (like Mr Smith does in the movie Matrix with people. Matrix is by the way a great movie!)

The aim of the game is to destroy all the enemy bases or
to collect the highest score before the time runs out. This means that if you have NOT defeated all your opponents before the time runs out then the one who has the highest score will win. To get a high score you need to blow up enemy tanks and buildings. All the players score can be displayed by pressing the TAB key.

The buildings in the online game also acts a bit differently than you might be used to. Instead of exploding for good when you shoot at them they are replaced with a new factory/base but with your color. This is how it should be because when you have blown up a building then that means that you have conquered it.

If you are playing a online TEAM game and have destroyed and conqured a factory then it will also appear a text at your new factory stating that the factory now belongs to you. This happens because the gold that the small ships collects in team game is shared by all the members of your team, except of course for the ships produced in factories that you have conqured by yourself. In other words the more factories you conquer the more wealthy you get! =)

Ok that is all for now. Please keep on downloading our games! Bye.
/Marcus

Perfect Battle Online spreads at the web!

Hi everyone!
Perfect Battle Online 1.0b (PBO) is finally out and is already spreading. PBO has currently (2007-07-13) been downloaded more than 900 times from our homepage! It has also been awarded a 5 Star rating by the editors at Sofotex. There is already starting to pop up homepages (like PCindir) on languages other than english that links back to us.

This is however only the beginning... What we would like to see now are reviews, bug reports and map files created with our Map Editor. If you feel like writing a review please consider to post it to us. Either at our forums or directly by mail. We would be glad to publish all opinions, bad or good, about our games at our homepage. If you find a bug, please report it so that we can fix it for future versions of the game. If you feel creative, then try out our new map editor and create your own maps!

Okay now for something different. Check this out!
Video presentation of Perfect Battle Online

That is all for now. Have a great time playing our games! And if you like them you should consider donate a small amount to make us happy =) Donations can be made from Bit2logic.com.

By for now! /Marcus Lindmark