Yuri Bushen of Freelancer has posted a Myth III review that has loads of new screenshots and is a positive review, scoring an overall 8.06 out of 10. Notable complaints are the incompatibilities with Windows XP and the AI. However, they were very impressed with the graphics and artwork. Bushen on the multiplayer mode:
Mike Donges of MumboJumbo has made a few comments about upcoming patches for the Mac and PC:
According to Blambi's post at MythVillage, Mike Donges of Mumbo Jumbo has said that the Mac version of Myth III that ships will include many of the bug fixes they are working on a patch for right now.
iggy popped of MumboJumbo posted a message in the MWA forum addressing the bug list assembled by Bullseye. The post is massive and should be read by absolutely anyone who has or plans to purchase Myth III.
Zinfandel and rolf have been kind enough to submit reports to the Myth III User Reports area (especially rolf).
there are alot of flashing white pixels that appear when you are zoomed out on the color map.
just noticed, when the player list is broken. the time will only update if you click on it. nice.
If you select a unit and then deselect it, the unit's headshot will remain in the top left of the interface.
There's a discussion thread about the Myth III multiplayer demo over at Blue's News; a few Bungie fans there seem to have positive reactions, but there are also mentions of some of the technical problems we've seen elsewhere.
2 Ability to map F10 (shows friendly players) to mouse
2 Unready/Ready button problems for hosts: all players go to “Unready” status if one change is made. To fix this, changes should be made on the fly (local to the host), but only change to other players when the host hits his own ready button. This avoids checking and re-checking the “Ready” button
2 The Status bar is too big for multiplayer games. It should be just big enough so that it will display what units you have selected and how much experience that a unit has
Other issues.
1 All of the flashy, florescent yellow and green light surrounding selected units gets confusing and it is VERY DIFFICULT to tell what a particular unit's health is in a group of units. A unit at full health will have a green health bar to the side of him, and a YELLOW ring under him, showing that he is in your possession. This makes it difficult to see. Perhaps the yellow ring under the unit should actually reflect the color of his health bar
1 Life bars on selected units are faint and difficult to see, unlike Myth and Myth II.
1 Windows XP not supported (has many issues).
1 Cannot use 32-Bit color in Windows XP or Myth will crash
1 Game won't run on Windows 95. “When I try to run the game I get a big red X and a message saying, ‘The device attached to the system isn't working properly’”
Then it says, Myth3.exe file is linked to missing export User32.dll:EnumDisplayDevicesA.
2 Monitor refresh rate seems to be locked at 60 Hz
2 There is no “Network Installation” option (is this fixable?)