11/11/2022 0 Comments Anno 2070 not launching![]() ![]() The early missions act very much as a tutorial, gently holding the player's hand and issuing instructions through the persistent AI narrator, "Eve". Much like Anno 1404 before it, 2070 crosses both factions over in the campaign, with a heavy reliance to serve each group in the largely Fed-Ex inspired missions. Tying these groups together is the mysterious S.A.A.T (Scientific Academy for Advanced Technologies), a robot AI NPC that is largely responsible for the technology on display, and can be interacted with to unlock further advancements. Reasonably enough, their colour scheme is more reminiscent of a Victorian rail yard. They're less reliant on farming to support large populations, and are more likely to run with a surplus of energy to power their industrial machine. This faction thinks nothing of mining each island for their own commercial interests, and as such requires most of their population to live in a perpetually polluted landscape. The Global Trust however are more concerned with progress through industrial means. ![]() This translates over to their appearance as well, with buildings and units cut from a warm palette of colours that sit well with the environmental theme of the faction. They're geared up to use largely pollution-free energy generation, require sustainable farmland to encourage population growth, and are highly susceptible to swings in the environmental state the islands they've colonised. The Eden Initiative are about as left wing as can be expected in 2070. The Anno franchise is about as hardcore as mainstream real-time strategy titles get in this regard - no mere city simulator, most interaction will be between the player and the economy, with a side-serving of war for those sufficiently cashed up to partake.Īnno 2070 does away with the creaky charm of a world lit only by candlelight, and skips forward several centuries to a world affected by rising sea levels, a scarcity of resources and two political factions attempting to fix everything using their own ideology. Such is the case with Anno 2070 all four earlier entries in this franchise have based every aspect of gameplay around a single premise the constant need to maintain supply and demand for a burgeoning population in a historical setting. The only real problem with this is when the entire theme of the game is usurped in the interests of reinvention. It's always encouraging to see developers try new things, particularly when so many games recently seem to follow the "tried and tested" mantra. ![]() Three days and no solution is pretty bad form from Ubisoft even if Anno 2070 is an older game.21ST CENTURY BOY: Screenshot from Ubisoft's latest real-time strategy game, Anno 2070. The fact that players can get the game to run while not being connected does indicate there is a DRM issue at play which is ironic because pirated versions are likely to run with no problem at all. Apparently, it will run in offline mode but that disables game features such as multiplayer and the ability to unlock campaign missions. Players have been trying to figure out ways to get the game to work including uninstalling, reinstalling, and disabling the Internet connection. Ubisoft has not been saying too much at all about the problem apart from one post which said they had “narrowed down the issue” and then today they added, “we are still working on the solution”. Players are now pointing the finger at the DRM although Ubisoft has not confirmed what the issue actually is. The issue was reported on the Ubisoft forum on Tuesday when players discovered an “Unknown error” message popped up while trying to play. Nearly four days later it’s still not working. We’ve been keeping an eye on this for the past couple of days after players of Anno 2070 discovered they could not play the game at all. ![]()
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