[quote quoting="post"] Tactical battle setup option. This is one of the old issues for me that severely hinder the enjoyment of the game. Here is a sketch I made of how the 3x3 grid could be used to place critical troops in the ranks... [/quote] this is just great simple yet effective, i doubt we will see it but id really like something like this good job
well what you call categories is what i mean by "guides" :P just a list of traits and items for that "path"
[quote who="Kongdej" reply="2" id="3238677"] Ceresa should NOT go anything but mage. Warlord Verga should go assassin or warrior. Its simple, the system should pick the path in which the hero is already strong, if the hero have few HP, or access to fire magic (and normal hp, and no bonuses to other stuff) it should go mage. If the Hero have decent HP, and Decent initiative, go for warrior. If the Hero have nice dodge and damage bonus, go for assassin.[/quo
i cant vote because noscript says its dangerous to vote :O
[quote quoting="post"] The pic says it all. [/quote] well if you really won with no troop at all there is a problem
after pondering a lot i dont see a way around it imo (but i would be glad to be wrong) the way ai handles champions etc is too much wrong and too hard to improve priorities dont work on the long run because its too common to find something better in general but worst on the specific so we are stuck having magnar using axes and plate, relias building as warrior and casting fireballs and i really want to cry every time i see irane getting ai
yeah but what you dont seem to understand is that perfect and random arent exclusive one thing CAN be totally random and still perfectly balanced ofc i dont ask such perfection but asking something random AND balanced isnt asking the moon, imo :P btw i dont have anything against premade maps if they dont look too "plastic" and adapt well to the world im perfectly fine with them</
tbh while i have a good feeling with FE in general im a bit disappointed by the last betas, imo they are way under what was the goal for this time, and not enough improved in term of polish from the past ones, and balance/ai is still lacking
[quote who="Mistwraithe" reply="87" id="3237974"] There needs to be some middle ground because the opposite situation, where you spend all this time leveling your heroes, buying/trading them equipment, casting spell buffs on them, etc, and then they are no better than a late game recruited unit, really, really sucks. We've had that before in earlier beta's and it destroys the hero part of the game. Mid game heroes should be very useful but not dominant. However b
well that lair has a very low chance, also its conditioned from being very far from capitals and on river so the chances are even lower but there could be a bug too i dont know for sure
[quote who="Bobofett" reply="13" id="3238587"]What about nearby shards? Clay pits? Food? Rivers and forests? If we need to balance this then aren't these other variables also unbalancing? When does it end? Slippery slope man[/quote] are you really saying a wild horses have the same importance as having essence in the starting location? as i said i dont seek an OP start or id want all you said... i want an
i m modding fe to have a lot more challenge in every aspect of the game, my monsters are so much tougher to kill and champions are weaker i like it rough... i can give you that playing with some handicap is more challenging but it isnt more fun imo, thats why i dont like strategic games with ai cheating too much, i rather play vs humans for the real challenge
[quote who="fenwe" reply="7" id="3238470"] Folks who need 'perfect' starting locations shouldn't play random maps. I think the way that randoms are currently being generated are fine and definitely better than they used to be. Thanks for the work on that, by the way.[/quote] this is absolutely nonsense its not about perfect starting location is about having a balanced starting if i had a guarantee that my
yes reducing mana cost seems the only thing to do id go with 12 :P
well as for ai that would be risky too very risky you would have to give heal inj spell a high priority and a mana cost to balance things what happens very often is that ai has a crap champion that dies always, he gets tons of injuries and ofc ai will never be albe to understand he doesnt ahve to heal that crap champion(because it shouldnt just use that champion in the first place) so in the end ai will on average spend all his mana healing injur
the problem is there isnt in the game a magic dmg for earth things, so they do random stuff mostly resistable but still lets compare the n1 school of damage dealing burning hands cooldown2 dmg 8+4 per shard but HALVED if resisted range 1 mana cost 10 hurl boulder cooldown 3 dmg 8+2 per shard, but CANNOT be resisted range 3 mana cost 22
or 4-2-2 or 5-3-1
im just reading the new xmls and i notice monsters now all have defense all things that didnt have any def now have 1 1 1 so i guess devs just run a script on monsters to add the missing stats and some of the creatures are waiting a further balance probably anyway some other things seems much more balanced, like those that were missing blunt def (some elemental i think and somethine else i forgot)
there is a new seting for champions now you can increase their density i always rise it by at least 1 because its definitely better as for sovereign we all know they are too op, check other threads everyone is telling the same since some time
yes blindness is not arguable its the first thing that i change when new patch comes, but i have a feeling others are a bit too strong too the problem is the stacking as for other things slow per se isnt strong but for example i love playing proci as support summoner ice elemental is incredibly op then too, if you get him to attack and stack with slow and chaos lucky proc the enemy is totally stuck (btw in general i find it a
[quote who="Trojasmic" reply="7" id="3238327"] Ok Mr. Perfect... will you please let the Internet know how often you use Hurl Boulder?[/quote] well the point is i dont want this spell to be an option i want it to be an "emergency i cant go melee i just want something to do" skill in this optic it has its role, which is marginal and very situational, i basically want to use this only when my man is hardly damaged and cant go melee at all i put
burning hands is similar dmg and range 1... maybe 15 mana dunno
dunno if its doable with the actual code a check each turn also it seems overcomplicated i mean its a chance so you rather just calculate the duration at start maybe it would be cool to have partial resist and full resist
imo its perfect they are not mages... you cant have a spell that is comparable to real spells
i mean apart from despair which is op but i agree they have to be super strong casters so with just a small tuning it can be ok but now they have HUGE armor (at lvl 20 they have 20 def to everything.... kinda like drakes or stuff like that) 40+ initiative... i mean wtf, dark wizard 2 has 51 init...