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720p youtube video? You sir, are a sir.

I fully expect this game to give me worms and cause all my fingernails to fall out but I have to say, it does look good. The UI seems much improved over WoM.

1) Stats window on character screen still the same...

2) Please, use colours in UI (to show good/bad modifier, ect).

waiting for beta..

Been so busy with SWOTOR I didn't know there was a date for beta. Can't wait to start complaining about bugs and indirectly contracted Yellow Fever. Both are pretty much guaranteed. 

The game looks great. I have a question: you said your champion left. Can champions defect or abandon players or did I mishear and the champion actually died?

Cool. I think having the spells coming from champions is a really cool mechanic. It makes champions more valuable and makes magic have an added air of mystery; you have to depend on the knowledge of other heroes instead of researching them all like technology.

Loving the idea of defecting champions.

I really think that "History" part of the Unit or Champions screen should be hidden under another tab. Maybe spells too. It would give you more space to nicely show stats and perks which are on the character portrait and also seperate them in different manner. Story is nice, But I do not think it has to be showed all the time. As Stats, spells etc are more important for actual gameplay.

Also, some simple use of colors in UI would help a lot. Blue, red, yellow would help to get info faster.

My biggest gripe, and its been there since WOM, are those small tiny, arrow buttons...You made great new UI, with huge buttons which are great to see and easy to click at. But you left this tiny pidi mini buttons there....Its not only hard to click on them, but also, I really do not want to click thru all the options to see what is next, like 20times... You could get rid of them completely and by simply clicking on icon make a list to pop up and then be able to mouse over or choose whatever you want.

Other then that, I really like what I see and I hope you will not rush it again and take your time to get this game right. Good luck to you

Edit:

Ohh yeah, and those big armies on maps full of units looks bad . You should abstract it a bit, like show only 3 or 4 strongest units in a pack or so, and not with all the units, but just one...more info on mouse over or mouse click.

Why not have espionage necessary to use to reveal enemy army stacks? Or even camouflage spells or abilities to enable units or armies to appear stronger or weaker?

Let's say 7 leprechauns marching on my capital and all I see are 14 Great Drakes of Doom approaching....

EDIT: I noticed that lake on map; are we going to see water units?

Water cities? Quest places etc?

Other plane? Underworld? Aetherworld (sky world?) etc.

EDIT2: Cities and their upgrades/building upgrades. I think building reasearch and upgrade trees should enable city specialization, so that no city can have everything on it. Especialy if cities are able to use local resources which should be in part instantly visible, in part researchable, and in part discovered with city/building research (like deep minerals, coastal riches etc

You must speak louder and a bit clearer since it's hard to hear & understand everything you say.

With all the new cool GUI, why didn't you rework the spellbook a bit? Like... maybe having all spells on one page could be useful?

I don't see why it has to be a book, just make a list.

Right from Stardock either via web or the Stardock Central downloading app, your choice.

Thanks for the video!  Looking forward to the beta.

Cheers