Look, I am sympathetic to the developers who have slaved away. But, who is the dipshit that let this project release without at least a stable build... And I am on an Asus gaming laptop, not a netbook...
Well..... During the Beta the testers were continually saying that the game was no way near ready to ship. But the developers were convinced that it was. They kept insisting they had extra content built that wasn't in the Beta. There has obviously been a big stuff up. I feel bad for Stardock, this is not going to win any good scores from the reviewers. They've said they will spend the next 12 months or so working on it which is great but people paid for a playable game NOW not to get something is essentially still a Beta.
Some of my thoughts so far
- the tactical combat is boring and incomplete (MoM was more fun) It feels more like a party adventure game than an epic strategy
- spell research is linear and disappointing - you get the same spells from every school every game. I really think they should have adopted MoM's magic system which had 5 specialised and unique schools that you could either invest heavily in 1 or lightly in multiple books (jack of all trades)
- unit design is poorly implemented. Stats are linear, items just get higher in stats. It feels very much like Galciv 1 not a rock-paper-scissors system
