Spears used to do more damage, but they were nerfed. Swords used to do more damage (with counterattack), but they were nerfed. Predictably, some think clubs are clearly superior (though that is debatable). If Stardock agrees with you (I see no evidence that they do) their solution will be to nerf clubs. At which point I imagine we'll be flooded with posts about how axes are OP.
I'd be OK with boats if they were very abstracted. Like you could sail from one city to another and it would take a set number of turns. Crusader Kings style. The map could also have resources for "port towns" that you could sail to and from. Idon't really care but the less I need to manually control boats the happier I'll be.
[quote who="Lord Reliant" reply="62" id="3374744"]Brad, you guys need to create a game where you're a game development studio. You'd have to allocate resources to different areas (marketing, developers, etc.), design the game, communicate to forum users, etc. Would remind me of the DLC Quest game on Steam.[/quote] I can't wait to see how they implement people bitching and moaning on the forums over every little thing you say.
[quote who="Voqar" reply="45" id="3373349"] But it's kind of silly to bag on Civ 5 for having mid/late game tedium when it's something you can almost always find in the genre, and when LH is surely not lacking for it either.[/quote] Not to get too far afield, but I am not bagging on Civ 5 for having mid/late game tedium (mopping up is a plague to the 4x genre). My issue is that Civ V is tedium from the word go. IMO, they boiled out all the decision making and
[quote who="Victor5" reply="3" id="3373013"] Haven't ever encountered this myself. If a town gets attacked by a large army/otherwise powerful foe, my militia goes down fast if I'm not properly prepared in other ways. Crushing Blow or no Crushing Blow. [/quote] The OP's (Original Poster) describing an issue with fortresses being OP (Over Powered). It really has nothing to do with crushing blow. They could build axemen or spearmen just as d
And yet, for all its polish, Civ V is still an utterly boring exercise in button pushing. They should fix the save bug. They might address some exploits (not requiring resources to upgrade units) -- though I doubt it. I think, in a few weeks, we'll see a patch to upgrade the AI and maybe a couple more like that over the next 6 months as long as Brad's interested and then Stardock will move on and leave LH to the modding community.
In WoM you could escape by running away. They've removed that feature before FE was released.
[quote who="highwayhoss" reply="9" id="3372177"] Some possible ideas on weapons balance: Take backswing away from axes (except dual axes) and give it to swords. Swords being fast should give a user the chance at a second hit if the first misses. [/quote] Why nerf axes? In general the weapons should be balanced by making the weaker weapons as cool as the good ones. [quote] All attacks at one tile range should be vulnerable to counterat
I agree in general with everything except #5 Crushing blow is not at all OP. It's just not. Yes, it allows weaker units to punch above their weight class. But the crushing blow weapons come with a significant initiative penalty. So you're almost guaranteed not to get first strike and if the target survives (or dodges!), your unit is likely to be swarmed and destroyed before it can move again. That's the tradeoff. If you can
[quote who="Velihopea" reply="2" id="3370215"] City militias might play an important role at the start of the game, making it hard to instantly overrun the AI factions, but later on they are too easily overrun. [/quote] Which is exactly what Stardock wanted. City militias are supposed to deter early game rushing. By the mid-game everyone should be able to build troops and defend their territory themselves.
The AI figured out how to cast strategic spells in real life . Now our only hope for salvation lies in the hands of the one man brave enough to lead us: John Connor. (Fortunately, Dereck never designed a "time travel" spell for the game, so I think we're gonna be fine.)
#2 on city location, I suspect that sometimes the AI hasn't scouted the entire area when it sends out a pioneer. The pioneer may reveal a better spot while it approaches the target location, but the AI wont change targets. #5 on stacks, I think the AI doesn't grok what happens when a Tornado hits its stack. When that happens the AI forgets what it was doing with that stack because it forgets the stack ever existed. From its perspective it's got a bunch of
Monster level is important. So even if the threat level is the same if the mob is higher level it will give more xp. On top of which the base xp a monster gives is defined per monster type so it's possible that the monster your sov killed is just not giving out an appropriate amount of xp regardless of the other factors. Ialso kinda suspect that the length of the battle also plays into the resultant xp. Could just be be coincidence but I wouldn't put it past Stardock at
[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="7" id="3364430"]Unfortunately, metacritic only ever records the first value assigned to a product by the reviewer. They ignore any changes.[/quote] It's true. http://kotaku.com/5960657/metacritic-refuses-to-pull-negative-review-that-gamespot-admits-was-factually-inaccurate So why hasn't the review been replaced? I asked Metacritic head Marc Doyle, who
Sorry about the delay in getting back to you all; I meant to write something up a couple of days ago, but the conversation with other editors went on longer than expected. Volunteer work, different timezones, etc etc. These things are not solely my decision, but happily I was able to show people what the issue was. I personally will be re-reviewing the game. This review will stay up, because nobody likes it when things disappear mi
[quote who="Publius of NV" reply="7" id="3363966"] Is Delin's land the one where you have a bunch of caves that either contain loot or a battle? Because in my latest game, about halfway through clearing that wildland I hit two successive goodie huts that yielded neither loot nor a battle. I saved, quit the game, reloaded, and all the other goodie huts in the wildland then behaved as expected.[/quote] If that's the wildland area we're talking about, I thin
lol. that is a goofy bug. Probably related, but I noticed playing the Scenario that the icon for henchman changes when you change his equipment. If you buy your henchman a horse, the icon when training another of that henchman will show a horse even if the unit doesn't actually start with a horse.
[quote who="Azunai_" reply="21" id="3363933"] you can use the mouse wheel to swap the pages while "holding" the item with the mouse button. not very comfortable, but it works. a better, more intuitive solution would be preferable, though. [/quote] Hmm, that's not what I do. I click and drag the icon off the left side of the queue and it flicks to the previous page where I can then drop it wherever I like.
IIRC, another disadvantage for henchmen is that their spell books are limited. Not really a big deal, all things considered. I think if they could die (which is in a Parrotmath mod, I believe) they would be fine.
[quote]4.Hardcore achievement poped up and i haven't play for 40 hours[/quote] Me too! Except I got the One.. more.. turn... achievement which is 100 hours, but I haven't played 100 hours (yet!) [quote]6.Tireless march is available even if i have a unit with it.I captured a sov with it casted on him.[/quote] This is not a bug, but rather a hidden perk. When a sovereign surrenders he/she keeps all the spells cast on him/her but without any upkeep.&nb
Hmmm, thank you for posting a screenshot. I had seen people reporting this but didn't know you could look for that information on the Foreign Relations screen. In my game Hard/Hard, turn 161 I see that Yithril has -210 iron, Magnar has -21 Mana, Pariden has -30 Crystal, and the three other AIs (Tarth, Kraxis, and Resoln) have all their stats above 0. That explains how Yithril's power level got so much higher than mine (even though I am in second). It's
I have never seen #1. Does it show negative amounts in the Trade screen? If I had to guess, I'd bet it's a bug in the way the AI upgrades its units (in that it doesn't check if it can afford it, it just does it). Edit. Ah, I see the other thread where someone posted a screenshot. Honestly, in the game I am currently playing, if the Yithril weren't cheating I would have already won this game at turn 100. So, kudos to Stardock for cheating!&
[quote]Friendly units can now move through each other in tactical[/quote] +1. Can you fix this on the strategic map as well?
Don't worry that someone might pirate your game. If it's good enough they will. DRM should be the last thing on your mind. What you should be worried about (besides making a good game) is how your customers will find your game and buy it. How will you collect feedback from players and communicate news and distribute updates. It's possible to do all that without Steam or any other service, of course. It's just that Steam makes all that and more effor
[quote who="parrottmath" reply="29" id="3362344"] We all were. When I was twelve I programed a stickfigure man to walk across the screen in Borland C. No where near the animation qualities of today, but it still worked out quite nicely.[/quote] If only you had combined your game with the animation quality of HOMM6! You would have made the best game ever!