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The Precursors Full Review
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Trimble Bracegirdle
2011-02-23 01:30:39 UTC
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The Precursors is now available on Download Sale sites.
Very mixed impressions of a game that has been hanging around Eastern Europe
/ Russia for over 2 years .
Just about everything about it is 'Messy'
but with a general feeling that this 'Mess' of a game is interesting
enough to try :
"If you loved Boiling Point you'll love Precursors" sort of.
I hated Boiling Point for the many hours of effort trying to get
some decent gameplay fun out of it's amateurish confusion.
IMHO.

Full review here:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/01/04/wot-i-think-precursors/
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Wesp5
2011-02-24 13:44:48 UTC
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Post by Trimble Bracegirdle
The Precursors is now available on Download Sale sites.
Very mixed impressions of a game that has been hanging around Eastern Europe
/ Russia for over 2 years .
Just about everything about it is 'Messy'
but with a general feeling that this 'Mess' of a game is interesting
"If you loved Boiling Point you'll love Precursors" sort of.
The Precursors is much better than Boiling Point ever was, also I'm
doing
Unofficial Patches that already remove some of the 'mess' and I plan
to
continue them because this is a great half-sandbox-FPS/RPG game:)!
John Lewis
2011-02-24 21:15:01 UTC
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:44:48 -0800 (PST), Wesp5
Post by Wesp5
Post by Trimble Bracegirdle
The Precursors is now available on Download Sale sites.
Very mixed impressions of a game that has been hanging around Eastern Europe
/ Russia for over 2 years .
Just about everything about it is 'Messy'
but with a general feeling that this 'Mess' of a game is interesting
"If you loved Boiling Point you'll love Precursors" sort of.
The Precursors is much better than Boiling Point ever was, also I'm
doing
Unofficial Patches that already remove some of the 'mess' and I plan
to
continue them because this is a great half-sandbox-FPS/RPG game:)!
Werner,

Is it still OK to patch both White Gold and Precursors retail
(Russian) versions with the V1.1 official retail patches (which afaik
are still not embedded in the Gamergate releases) ? Will this cause
conflict with your English translation (and bug-fix) mods? The patches
appear to address some graphics and crash issues ( e.g: 2 potential
crashes in Precursors), as well as gameplay ones.....

BTW, I noticed that you have just released V1.3 of your White Gold
updates on Patches-Scrolls. Thanks for your continuing efforts on both
games.

John Lewis
Wesp5
2011-02-25 14:53:48 UTC
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Post by John Lewis
Is it still OK to patch both White Gold and Precursors retail
(Russian) versions with the V1.1 official retail patches (which afaik
are still not embedded in the Gamergate releases) ?
This is in fact recommended, to get all executable related fixes. You
can install my patches on top of the official ones without problems.
Post by John Lewis
BTW, I noticed that you have just released V1.3 of your White Gold
updates on Patches-Scrolls. Thanks for your continuing efforts on both
games.
My pleasure. I'm in contact with GFI right now, they will be using
files
of my Unofficial Patches for their upcoming official English ones :)!
John Lewis
2011-02-25 19:36:48 UTC
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 06:53:48 -0800 (PST), Wesp5
Post by Wesp5
Post by John Lewis
Is it still OK to patch both White Gold and Precursors retail
(Russian) versions with the V1.1 official retail patches (which afaik
are still not embedded in the Gamergate releases) ?
This is in fact recommended, to get all executable related fixes. You
can install my patches on top of the official ones without problems.
Thanks for the clarification. Any chance of GamersGate obtiaining and
embedding the V1.1 official patches for those unable to acquire (or
unwilling, because of Starforce protection) the original Russian
versions?

(WARNING: There are rip-off Russian DVD dupes of the retail releases
both White Gold and Precursors that appear to be genuine but have the
Starforce protection broken. They will NOT accept the V1.1
patches.....and may have other unknown problems....)
Post by Wesp5
Post by John Lewis
BTW, I noticed that you have just released V1.3 of your White Gold
updates on Patches-Scrolls. Thanks for your continuing efforts on both
games.
My pleasure. I'm in contact with GFI right now, they will be using
files
of my Unofficial Patches for their upcoming official English ones :)!
Congratulations !! At least more actual recognition of your
contribution than Activision ever granted you with with your VTMB
efforts.

John Lewis
Wesp5
2011-02-28 13:04:23 UTC
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Post by John Lewis
Thanks for the clarification. Any chance of GamersGate obtiaining and
embedding the V1.1 official patches for those unable to acquire (or
unwilling, because of Starforce protection) the original Russian
versions?
As far as I know the official English patch will indeed include the
fixed Russian 1.1 executables...

Brunon Bluthgeld
2011-02-24 15:37:46 UTC
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Post by Trimble Bracegirdle
The Precursors is now available on Download Sale sites.
Very mixed impressions of a game that has been hanging around Eastern
Europe / Russia for over 2 years .
Just about everything about it is 'Messy'
but with a general feeling that this 'Mess' of a game is interesting
"If you loved Boiling Point you'll love Precursors" sort of.
I hated Boiling Point for the many hours of effort trying to get
some decent gameplay fun out of it's amateurish confusion.
IMHO.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/01/04/wot-i-think-precursors/
I'm playing it at the moment, but I'll wait with expressing opinion to
at least nearest edition of Spalls' post. I'm on the second planet so
far and suffering decision paralysis - there's too much to do.
Trimble Bracegirdle
2011-02-27 00:30:07 UTC
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http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/932745-the-precursors/faqs/60721

Has a starting out FAQ & guide
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