Difference between Download and Boxed

[Lonewolf]

Other than the $18 price difference and the physical DVD, what else is in the box?

As for the manual: Color or B/W? How many pages? What type of info are in the printed manual?

P.S. I wished at times that I have bought boxed set of WITP:AE because of the manual. I hate reading pdf and you cannot print it out as cheaply while keeping the quality. The WITP manual contains useful information that will come in handy after you learned how the basic works.

[meskary]

I don't have the manual handy, but it is a nice color high quality color manual. Good pictures etc...

[Lonewolf]

Other than pretty pictures. Any charts, rules, tables, etc.?

Since the boxed edition includes download, that way I can download/install while I wait for the box to arrive. Question is: Will I still need the manual once I figure out how to play the game?

[Erik Rutins]

Yes, it includes an appendix with relevant game charts as well. The PDF manual has the same content as the color printed manual, it's just not a nice color printed manual.

I think the game is pretty easy to learn based on the in-game tutorials given your previous experience, but the manual helps with mastering the game if you want to be a very good player.

Regards,

- Erik

[Lonewolf]

Thank you Erik.

Just ordered boxed edition. Download takes less than 2 minutes for me, 5 MB/s. Fast internet helps.

Downloaded couple of the mods so I can visit the classic SL scenario: Guards Counter Attack. I'll go through the tutorial later. I have to look in the pdf manual just to get couple of controls figured out.

Trying to print the manual last time with WITP:AE cost me more than the price difference at Kinkos and the quality was worse.

[Blond_Knight]

Ive never bought a boxed game from Matrixgames before. But I got the boxed version with my beta-test voucher along with the download. The box looks great and feels heavy. But I just don't have the heart to unwrap and open it.

[Lonewolf]

I had bought the Uncommon Valor boxed edition back many years when it first came out. However it was bought from an authorized online retailer locally, the guy run it out of his basement so I had to pick up the box from his house.

Since the manual (for WITP:AE) contains more than just simple commands to play the game, it will be nice to have it. Also the pdf has a dark background with light color text, that by itself will be a printer nightmare. Kinkos charges way more than the $18 difference + shipping cost if you want to print/bind a decent copy.

[Numdydar]

ORIGINAL: Blond_Knight

Ive never bought a boxed game from Matrixgames before. But I got the boxed version with my beta-test voucher along with the download. The box looks great and feels heavy. But I just don't have the heart to unwrap and open it.

Easy solution. Just buy another copy [:D]

[Blond_Knight]

ORIGINAL: Numdydar

ORIGINAL: Blond_Knight

Ive never bought a boxed game from Matrixgames before. But I got the boxed version with my beta-test voucher along with the download. The box looks great and feels heavy. But I just don't have the heart to unwrap and open it.

Easy solution. Just buy another copy [:D]

Sigh...Ofcourse your right.

[Lonewolf]

Physical copy arrived today by "snail mail" from Los Angeles. Physical manual looks super. I wish I did the same with WITP.

[fran52]

Check if alos your have an error.My copy have page 82-83 instead of 32-33 repeated also for others pages.

[Numdydar]

ORIGINAL: Lonewolf

Physical copy arrived today by "snail mail" from Los Angeles. Physical manual looks super. I wish I did the same with WITP.

The printed manual for WitP is very much out of date after all the patches (the latest one just last month [X(]. Not too bad for a game this old [:)]) So you are just as well off with the pdf version as the printed one.