Come release day, Uplay, resold physical keys (e.g. CDKeys.com), and EGS will be your only options.
-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
Anno 1800 - A masterpiece of a game! (so far)
- Thread starter Pingal Pratyush
- Start date
Come release day, Uplay, resold physical keys (e.g. CDKeys.com), and EGS will be your only options.
Yeah, as far as I can tell, Uplay didn't start reporting playtime until For Honor (i.e. early 2017). It seems to pull the data from Ubi Club as opposed to it being client-level info a la Steam.
Last edited:
Well I played the demo until it cuts you off and now I have to buy the game. I was gonna wait for a sale before I tried it.
Damn this game seems well made.
Damn this game seems well made.
Yeah I've gotten drops below 60fps frequently even very early on with my i9-9900k 2080 and neither CPU nor GPU are being taxed at all. Seems like a quirky engine with some innate performance issues.
Probably will be enough to make me wait for a deep discount...
Sorry to hear that, but that is not something that we in the dev side have any impact or even visibility into.
If Uplay is in Offline Mode or otherwise experiencing connectivity issues, then it won't report anything to the Ubi Club servers and your playtime won't update. I've actually used this to my advantage to sync my Steam and Uplay/Ubi Club playtimes when I'm nearing the end of a game, haha.
It seems to work better on DX12 btw. Cant tell what the fps is since fraps doesnt work, but it is clearly higher.
Interesting, would be maybe the first game to really leverage DX12, but that might make sense with the numerous discrete objects / geometry...
I think Anno 1800 and ROTTR are the only games that I have played which give me more frames with DX12. Would be cool of there was an in-game benchmark or fps info.
But yeah, the game seems to be running way better on DX12. Check it out yourself.
Had no issues with loading times (game is installed on a HDD) for the sandbox mode though haven't loaded an in progress game. How much RAM/ What CPU?
The game loaded really slowly when it was on my 4TB WD Blue, which isn't the fastest mechanical drive out there but I don't think I've ever had a game load this slowly on that drive. I had to move the game to my Samsung 500GB SSD and it's fine now.
Open Beta shaped up well. I do think the UI could do with some more work, especially for scale/size options.
No, though I would expect expansion/DLC announcements sooner than later. IIRC, there was a pass for 2205 on launch.
No, though I would expect expansion/DLC announcements sooner than later. IIRC, there was a pass for 2205 on launch.
It looks promising so far but it's still out in the open how it handles the big problem of most building games: the endgame or more the lack thereof.
We do have plans for additional content in the future (both paid and free), but I don't think you will feel swamped by it.
Great beta. Love the pace of Anno games. The UI could be better, it took me a lil bit to realize I could make some buildings because they were hidden in a tab I didn't notice. The in game music is almost a straight rip from Banished, which is one of my favorites. Not sure if I'm willing to spend $60 on it, though.
How's your performance? Can't reach 60fps with a GTX 1070 (and i5 4690k) and some lowered settings at 3440x1440. My graphics cards is giving everything, 100%, but it runs mostly around 45. At first I thought my CPU is bottlenecking, but the fact that lowering GPU graphics settings like resolution and AA helps and my GPU, not CPU, is at 100%, tells me it is not my CPU that's the problem.
Managing to always have enough of each worker class is not really fun. But at least i got the game running smoothly on my maxed out 2017 4K iMac. Doesn't look significantly better than Anno 1404 but that's my hardware.
This series is one I constantly feel like I should love, but I've tried a few and bounced off pretty quickly previously. Is there a secret to enjoying them? Like... I similarly bounced off of crusader kings series a few times but then talking with some folks I figured out how to configure the UI with autopausing and play at higher speed with that and turn it fun and got obsessed.
My thinking is this series and settlers I have been playing wrong somehow and that's why I haven't enjoyed them
My thinking is this series and settlers I have been playing wrong somehow and that's why I haven't enjoyed them
Ok, finishing my first expedition just blew my mind. This game might be in my top 3 of the year. God damn.
This is the points discount. The codes work for some time.
Dropped this in the beta thread but wanted to say again. My first experience with Anno (I've been meaning to try it for so long...) and I loved this open beta. Game is fantastic and totally my jam.
Gonna be looking to pick up the full game soon.
Gonna be looking to pick up the full game soon.
I spotted this *just* in time to download it and then.... not be able to play the game because the beta end timer is UTC or something instead of my local time. Thanks, guys.
Doing this on the same weekend as For Honor's XP fest also strikes me as a bit unfortunate. I was a liiiittle too distracted to notice this. Bit of a shame, I think.
Doing this on the same weekend as For Honor's XP fest also strikes me as a bit unfortunate. I was a liiiittle too distracted to notice this. Bit of a shame, I think.
same.
Did they just pull the open beta? Uplay is asking for a key now. :(
Steam preloading.
My uplay is naib_0C <that's a zero, not an o
Damn, I have 92 uplay points. Anyone know a fast way of earning some quick? Think I only have Division 2 installed atm
I thought you couldn't use the uPlay points codes on preorders?
Speaking of, if I do need to wait, are the pre-order bonuses just skins?
Speaking of, if I do need to wait, are the pre-order bonuses just skins?
uPlay points for the 20% discount works on pre-orders in Europe (and Australia, I think), but not in North America.
However, GMG is selling the game for 15% off right now, which is pretty close:
https://www.greenmangaming.com/games/anno-1800-pc/AddToBasket
Well, ended up hitting the buy button in the end. It seems like a very good game, although I do hope the performance and constant pop-up gets ironed out at some point.
Any thoughts on getting rid of the land combat? You guys gonna miss it? After checking a couple of videos it looked a bit like a drag in the older games tbh.
Any thoughts on getting rid of the land combat? You guys gonna miss it? After checking a couple of videos it looked a bit like a drag in the older games tbh.
I've never been a huge fan of games like Anno, but 2205 is really fun and immersive and apparently it's the worst rated Anno game so far. I'm very much into futurism and space, but with all the talk about 1800 I'm more and more hyped about it. I think I need to see people play it a bit before I decide to get it too.