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WorldShift

Platform(s): PC
Genre: Strategy
Publisher: Black Inc. (EU), Got Game Entertainment (US)
Developer: Black Sea Studios
Release Date: Nov. 11, 2009 (US), April 17, 2008 (EU)

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'WorldShift' v1.0.21 Patch Details - Screens

by Rainier on Sept. 10, 2008 @ 3:58 a.m. PDT

WorldShift is a next-gen cyber-fantasy RTS game designed to be quick and very easy to learn and play. It offers hectic, fierce encounters all around the Earth and a fascinating story uncovering ancient secrets about the true nature of the Shard and the Plague. But also, WorldShift introduces many features new to the genre, like modifiable factions, unqiue cooperative multiplayer gameplay, and more.

UPDATE 1.0.21 (8 September 2008)

  • Added a new special location: “Bridges of Trial”, unlocked by completing “Dunetown Base”.
  • Individual players can now pause the game up to 3 times in multiplayer games. Added a pause counter to the pause window.
  • Fixed several issues related to the regional chat channels. Now these channels should work properly again.
  • Added Russian, Spanish, Italian, and Chinese regional channels.
  • Limited the acceptable characters in a user channel name.
  • Fixed several Vista related issues under restricted user accounts, like non-playing movies and forgetting the CD key entered by the user.
  • Fixed some character portraits: High Priest XLII in “Caught in the Web”, the technicians in “Following the Crumbs”, the Surgeon in “New Enemy”.
  • Fixed the effect icons in the Selection Info window when a mob or boss is selected.
  • Fixed some effect descriptions and icons for the variants of the Confuse action.
  • Removed the obsolete description identifier that showed when the Tribes’ structure was selected in “New Enemy”.
  • Fixed an issue related to picking terrain points at bridges.
  • Units that have died on a bridge will fade out out instead of sinking into the ground.
  • AoE action decals now correctly represent the area affected.
  • The conversation lines in story missions are now correctly visible at screen resolution 800x600.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the cursor not to be changed when selecting items.
  • Fixed an untranslated ‘Alert’ message box title.
  • The Statistic window is now hidden immediately on exiting the lobby.
  • Apostrophes, quotation marks, etc. should appear correctly in the items’ tooltips again.
  • Addressed some crash-related issues under Vista.
  • Moved the numerical indication for Power in the selection info window a little to the right (4-digit health values used to overlap its icon sometimes).
  • Fixed crashes related to incorrect model cache flushing on closing a map.
  • Sound volume now should be restored to previous levels when switching to/from the game.

In the 21st century, shortly after the colonization of our Solar System had begun, a huge dark object appeared beyond the orbit of Pluto. The object, called ‘Shard Zero’ by the scientists, possessed some kind of a deadly aura, spreading mysterious ‘plague’ of cosmic scale around itself, twisting and disrupting the very nature of space and life. There was no time for reaction, and all attempts to study the anomaly remained futile. When we finally realized the object is moving on a collision course with our planet, it was too late. Shard Zero hit Earth and that was the end of our civilization.

WorldShift is set thousands of years later, when our civilization is no more than a fading myth. The remains of Shard Zero still are spreading its Plague, twisting and re-shaping Earth and its nature, sometimes in the course of centuries and sometimes in a matter of hours. Humans developed a new culture and now live in 5 mega-cities, struggling every day for the precious resources they need to survive. The rest of Earth is populated by the Tribes, successors of early humans, that were affected by the Plague.

WorldShift is a next-gen cyber-fantasy RTS game designed to be quick and very easy to learn and play. It offers hectic, fierce encounters all around the Earth and a fascinating story uncovering ancient secrets about the true nature of the Shard and the Plague. But also, WorldShift introduces many features new to the genre, like modifiable factions, unqiue cooperative multiplayer gameplay, and more.

In WorldShift, there are no technology trees featuring hundreds of upgrades; instead, WorldShift allows the players to discover and acquire a vast number of items and powerful relics that they can use to freely change their gameplay and preferred tactics and to surprise their foes. The players will gather items as they fight their opponents and as rewards for completing missions. But to discover the most powerful relics, they must form teams with their most trusted friends and embark on deadly missions where it is difficult to survive and where the real challenges await.

Features :

  • Fast and furious multiplayer
  • Thousands of items and powerful relics to collect
  • Use items and relics to build your own tactics
  • The best cooperative, player-vs-environment gameplay ever made in RTS game
  • Random maps for infinite exploration
  • Unique blend of post apocalyptic setting, hi-tech and primitive
  • Epic, dangerous missions with great rewards
  • 3 playable races


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