Topic: East India Company - Update: $5.00 on D2D this week (Reply 3)

[MysterD]

Well, that was quick!
East India Company -- their official website is here -- is going to expand already.

Anyways, East India Company: Privateer (Expansion Pack) has been announced.

When playing Privateer, you can hire two distinct type of commanders for your fleets: merchant captains and privateers. You’ll be contracted by the crown or other powers for different missions, ranging from smugglin and escorting friendly fleets to locating, capturing or sinking important ships from enemy nations. Also included in East India Company: Privateer is a brand new multiplayer scenario entitled ”Breakthrough.” In Breakthrough, one team will attempt to escort their flagship to safety while the other team tries to destroy the enemy ship.

East India Company: Privateer Features:

    * Two new campaigns in which you play the game as a privateer of your chosen nation.
    * New missions, including locating and either sinking or capturing enemy ships, blockading enemy ports and escorting friendly fleets.
    * New commander skills to fit the life of a privateer, such as "False Colors", which allows the player to get close to the victim without them perceiving a threat, and "Critical Hit", which gives the player a chance to hit an enemy ship’s magazine, causing the enemy ship to explode.

[Pugnate]

Wing Commander?

[MysterD]

Okay, first off, this here has nothing to do w/ EIC: Privateer Expansion, which is still in the works...

East India Company: Designer's Cut announced.
For all you EIC owners, this is a Free Add-On / DLC / Patch (or whatever you wanna call it) coming for your game.

Free Add-On Announced for East India Company

Control the Vast Ocean Like Never Before with EIC "Designer's Cut"

NEW YORK – October 7, 2009 - In its continuing efforts to deliver the ultimate gaming experience to PC gamers, Paradox Interactive and Nitro Games today announced a "Designer's Cut" update for the hit naval strategy title, East India Company. Based on ideas from the game's developers, as well as feedback from the loyal East India Company community, the development team has gone to great lengths to ensure that players of East India Company experience everything they could possibly desire as they assemble the strongest naval empire to sail the seas.

The free add-on introduces a vast amount of enhancements for improved gameplay, including new port views, the ability to fight on land in island battles, the introduction of multiplayer modes "Beehive" and "Breakthrough", history graphs to help track long term progress, and many more new features to make East India Company a deeper experience than ever before.

"In 'Designer’s Cut', we made several improvements to the original game to make it even better," said Kim Soares, lead designer for East India Company. "Some features were chosen from the ideas presented to us by the East India Company community. This kind of feedback from the active players is invaluable, as they have spent hundreds of hours playing our game and know it inside and out."

The East India Company Designer's Cut will be available for download on October 27. Starting today, East India Company is also available at a reduced price of $ 29.99/€29.99 in retail and via digital download.

For more information on East India Company or upcoming expansion East India Company: Privateer, please visit the official East India Company website at http://www.eic-game.com.

[MysterD]

D2D's Deal of The Week - East India Company = $5.00.