I recently got into FE beta and have collated a number of observations and suggestions below following many hours of early-mid game play. No comments for late game. I realise some of the points below may be duplicating existing threads - in which case I'll edit this post as I find them elsewhere. Firstly - I think there's so much potential in this game - much of it is realised in the existing mechanics. I had great fun playing with the various factions and restarti
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Good thing Goyte won the Hottest 100 - I had money down on that outcome. Not enough to cover my total 'refreshment' costs, but hey.
+ 1 for Dominions 3 - a game I've spent many many rewarding hours playing, particularly the brutal multiplayer. The various 'Mount and Blade' and 'Total War' games - for pushing the envelope in the TBS/RTS genre. This blend has lots of potential once the TBS elements (of both games) are improved- particularly diplomacy.
Still, mtn_man has some very good points. No Crafting, flying beasties or multiplayer? Seems to me like we're still short on the gameplay systems needed to be close to the 'premier Fantasy TBS'. Back to playing Dom3 for me, with it's far more detailed and complete fantasy TBS content, and it's multiplayer to boot (which is where it shines, AI will never duplicate the challenges, actual diplomacy, bitter defeats and rewarding victories of TBS multiplayer). Will chec
Unfortunately Elemental was also a great disappointment for me - any contemporary Fantasy TBS game that compares itself to MoM has to equal Dominions 3 in my book - and it didn't... here's hoping the ongoing work can bring it up to a level where I'll consider playing this instead of Dom3.