Topic: The Conduit

[ShyGuy]

Hey UncleBob, what time does Walmart stock their Wii games? If I wonder in at midnight Monday-Tuesday, will it be in the cabinet?

[bosshogx]

Hey UncleBob, what time does Walmart stock their Wii games? If I wonder in at midnight Monday-Tuesday, will it be in the cabinet?

From my old EBGames days, I can tell you that most retailers get the new games on the same day as it is released.  Most of the time, we'd receive a box of shipment around 10:30-11:00 in the morning with all of the new releases for the week.  The only exception was larger, big budget titles (mostly from first parties) that would ship the weekend before so that they'd be available for midnight openings and such.  I can't imagine that The Conduit is going to warrant that kind of attention, so I'd expect the game to arrive on the usual Tue/Wed just after opening.  I hope I'm wrong though. 

Also, here's a comic I wrote about my thoughts on The Conduit.  It's called "Typical Hardcore Gamer" and was originally written after the poor sales of Madworld and GTA: Chinatown Wars.  Enjoy!

[EasyCure]

I will be getting this, and I already have m Wii Speak, so I hope to see as many of you online Day 1 for some online (unpracticed) mayhem.

I haven't played a FPS (unless you count MP) in a very long time(except for HL2 on PC).

If day one is wed, i'll try to get some online time. Its my birthday that day but i'll be kinda broke, so instead of going out my gf and i will just probably have dinner at home so.. Does anyone know how online multiplayer works, can i have her join me in a game against the rest of you or is it one of those stupid things where only one person per console even if we can have 12 people total in an online match.. i need answers!

I dont wanna spend my birthday playing a FPS with you guys and have her sitting next to me bored lol

[BeautifulShy]

- online headcount was brought down from 16 players to 12 in order to keep things running smoothly
- Free for All mode: players frag each other until a predetermined frag count is met
- Marathon mode: get as many kills as you can in a certain time limit
- Three Strikes: play a match with only 3 lives to spare
- Last Man Standing: be the last man standing
- ASE Football: the player that holds onto the ASE the longest wins
- Bounty Hunter: take out specific targets, lose points for taking out wrong targets
- Team Reaper: play Quick Match and Marathon with sides
- Shared Stock: teammates share lives from a team pool
- Team Objective: capture the flag style, but with the ASE replacing a flag
- Team Objective 2: one ASE in a level, grab it and bring it back to your base to score
- WiiSpeak supported, but you’ll only hear the players that are actually standing close to you in the game
- at peak WiiSpeak saturation, you’ll hear the 6 closest players


Thats from the press release about Multiplayer a few months back.

Lindy said he was going to review it. Said that he was going to try and get the review up before launch. Hopefully he addresses the multiplayer.

[KDR_11k]

I will be getting this, and I already have m Wii Speak, so I hope to see as many of you online Day 1 for some online (unpracticed) mayhem.

I haven't played a FPS (unless you count MP) in a very long time(except for HL2 on PC).

If day one is wed, i'll try to get some online time. Its my birthday that day but i'll be kinda broke, so instead of going out my gf and i will just probably have dinner at home so.. Does anyone know how online multiplayer works, can i have her join me in a game against the rest of you or is it one of those stupid things where only one person per console even if we can have 12 people total in an online match.. i need answers!

I dont wanna spend my birthday playing a FPS with you guys and have her sitting next to me bored lol

As has been said several times before, The Conduit has no local multiplayer, i.e. only one person can play per Wii. I suspect it's going to have a drastic impact on their sales numbers, could halve them or even worse. They've been told several times that people want local MP and they always refused. Can't blame anyone but themselves then.

The only announced Wii FPSes with local MP I know of are Water Warfare and The Grinder, the former is a WiiWare game, the latter won't be out this year.

[BeautifulShy]

I think EasyCure is talking about something along the lines of Mario Kart Wii where you have the option of going online by yourself or with a friend.

[EasyCure]

- online headcount was brought down from 16 players to 12 in order to keep things running smoothly
- Free for All mode: players frag each other until a predetermined frag count is met
- Marathon mode: get as many kills as you can in a certain time limit
- Three Strikes: play a match with only 3 lives to spare
- Last Man Standing: be the last man standing
- ASE Football: the player that holds onto the ASE the longest wins
- Bounty Hunter: take out specific targets, lose points for taking out wrong targets
- Team Reaper: play Quick Match and Marathon with sides
- Shared Stock: teammates share lives from a team pool
- Team Objective: capture the flag style, but with the ASE replacing a flag
- Team Objective 2: one ASE in a level, grab it and bring it back to your base to score
- WiiSpeak supported, but you’ll only hear the players that are actually standing close to you in the game
- at peak WiiSpeak saturation, you’ll hear the 6 closest players


Thats from the press release about Multiplayer a few months back.

Lindy said he was going to review it. Said that he was going to try and get the review up before launch. Hopefully he addresses the multiplayer.

If you meant this as a reply to me, thank you but thats a lot more information than i needed and you didn't address my only concern lol

I will be getting this, and I already have m Wii Speak, so I hope to see as many of you online Day 1 for some online (unpracticed) mayhem.

I haven't played a FPS (unless you count MP) in a very long time(except for HL2 on PC).

If day one is wed, i'll try to get some online time. Its my birthday that day but i'll be kinda broke, so instead of going out my gf and i will just probably have dinner at home so.. Does anyone know how online multiplayer works, can i have her join me in a game against the rest of you or is it one of those stupid things where only one person per console even if we can have 12 people total in an online match.. i need answers!

I dont wanna spend my birthday playing a FPS with you guys and have her sitting next to me bored lol

As has been said several times before, The Conduit has no local multiplayer, i.e. only one person can play per Wii. I suspect it's going to have a drastic impact on their sales numbers, could halve them or even worse. They've been told several times that people want local MP and they always refused. Can't blame anyone but themselves then.

This is what i was looking for! I forgot all about the uproar this caused. Since I haven't been following the Conduit news in the last month or so, i wasn't sure if this was fixed, and honestly i'm a little sad it isn't. It's not a deal breaker though, but i doubt i'll jump online come this wed. just because i feel bad having my gf watch me play a game rather than play one with me. Oh well.

I think EasyCure is talking about something along the lines of Mario Kart Wii where you have the option of going online by yourself or with a friend.

Didn't he just answer that though?

[BeautifulShy]

Why don't you just have her play every few matches then switch back.

[EasyCure]

Why don't you just have her play every few matches then switch back.

She's might find the controls a little intimidating, i don't recall her doing too well on some gamecube FPS's we've played, and having the camera tethered to the pointer might disorient her. I know we can adjust the controls and stuff but that might get annoying going back and forth, and playing together would be easier cuz i'd try to help her out a lil.

[BeautifulShy]

What GC FPS's did she play?

[NWR_Neal]

To be fair, High Voltage never was like "You want local multi? TOUGH! We'll do what we want to do!"
They've stated on a few occasions (including once to me at NYCC) that they wanted to have local multiplayer in the game, they just couldn't get it to work in time.

I think/hope they're working hard on making it work in The Grinder.

[ShyGuy]

I hope the "add a friend of a friend" feature will help link all of us together on the Conduit.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

The CondomUnit is the premiere non-casual Wii game.  To bring the HD gameplay experience to Wii owners, HVS has to assume the players don't have real-life friends.

Kinda funny that the PC, the "premiere" xPniS platform, doesn't care for local same-screen multiplayer.  Talk about fail.  This is why they are still manchildren.

[EasyCure]

I hope the "add a friend of a friend" feature will help link all of us together on the Conduit.

God yes. Thats the a bigger hurdle to me than no-local multi!

[Djunknown]

Its probably been covered, but what's the difference between the regular, so-bad-its-good cover art and the special new-world-order edition? I understand about the art book, and secret agent multiplayer skin but this?

The in-game “All Seeing Eye” (A.S.E.) Device featuring custom detailing and projected light. Allowing you to unlock puzzles and discover the secrets of The Conduit

So ummm, different ASE?

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Not sure I understand the issue.

[kraken613]

My GameStop says they will have it Wednesday.... I really hope I can get $50!

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

I'm trading in Call of Duty: World of Not Doing the Job I Hired This Game To Do

[EasyCure]

I'm trading in Call of Duty: World of Not Doing the Job I Hired This Game To Do

Not very inventive but still a great one. Keep it up!

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

I also have a $25 GS giftcard for filling out surveys.  I think I've gotten $100 in giftcards the past two years since I joined this survey program.  I was invited into the program for buying so many games from one GS store.  I'm so non-casual.

[KDR_11k]

Its probably been covered, but what's the difference between the regular, so-bad-its-good cover art and the special new-world-order edition? I understand about the art book, and secret agent multiplayer skin but this?

The in-game “All Seeing Eye” (A.S.E.) Device featuring custom detailing and projected light. Allowing you to unlock puzzles and discover the secrets of The Conduit

So ummm, different ASE?

Yeah, an alternate skin for the ASE.

I think adding ingame stuff to special editions is extremely lame...

BTW, it seems over here we get only one version, it looks like this.

[Snipper64]

My gamestop says it is coming out Tuesday (23)! Woot! (but some people are saying wensday ?!)

Who is right?

[BlackNMild2k1]

BTW, it seems over here we get only one version, it looks like this.

That box art looks alot better than the one we get here in the states.

[BeautifulShy]

My gamestop says it is coming out Tuesday (23)! Woot! (but some people are saying wensday ?!)

Who is right?

Well it depends on who gets their shipment in first.

I'm going to call around today see who gets it in tomorrow.

[vudu]

Do we know how many friend code slots are in the game?  If it's only 30 like in Mario Kart I'm going to punch someone in the neck.