Release Date: October 25th
I thought it would be good to have a thread that follows Stronghold 3 and posts all news, interviews, and new screenshots for the benefit of all fans.
Known Information
Minimum System Requirements:
OS: Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Vista Service Pack 2, or Windows 7
Processor: 2.8 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon™ 64 3000+ or higher
RAM: 1 GB for XP / 2 GB for Vista and Win7
Graphics: 128 MB DirectX® 9.0c-compatible video card (ATI® Radeon X1000/GeForce® 6 Series or better)
DirectX®: DirectX 9.0c
Hard Drive: 2 GB space free
Sound: DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card
SH3 will be released on
-Economic and War Campaigns with approximately 30 missions
-The Wolf is the main Antagonist in a plot continuing from Stronghold 1
-Fog-of-War-like implementation of darkness to prevent omniscient intelligence, which requires the player to use scouts and watch towers
-Economics is simplified
- Walls can be build in a more "round way", so real circular castles are now possible, too.
-Different tax options with a proximity-based appearance of peasant housing and taxable income.
-Popularity system is akin to SH1/SHC
-the establishment of franchise-owned map-hosting services, possibly powered by google.
-Stronghold 3 will use the Trinigy Vision graphics engine, which has been used in Settlers 7
-Stronghold 3 will use the PathEngine (Metro 2033, Just Cause 2 and Venetica) for the AI
-Stronghold 3 will use Havok (Halo 2&3, Fallout 3, FEAR, Far Cry 2, World in Conflict, etc.) for the physics.
We'll keep you posted on future developments!
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[This message has been edited by Sir Hugh (edited 10-03-2011 @ 04:36 PM).]