Closed helmets - and armor should hinder magic abilities. Armor hinder delicate hand movement necessary for magical gestures and a closed helmet turns your incantation into illegible "hrrmphgrrrph". You should be forced to make a choice - either be steel-clad behemoth, or go light-dressed so that you can cast those complicated spells.
Bought it, played a few rounds, got beaten to a pulp. Looks very good so far. It seems that Warlock is going the asymmetric way like AI wars and other games. If it's so hard to write an AI to compete with human players on even grounds under the same rules (and then let it secretly cheat to provide challenge), it's better to openly state that the AI follows different, but transparent rules.
Doesnot have anything to do with video drivers, libcurl.dll is a dynamic client-side url transfer library: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL I think Visual C++ 2010 redistributables provide it, so just reinstall/repair the package and you should be fine. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555 Worth a try, no?
Playing with a beastlord sov, I clicked the Tame ability, clicked the enemy, says out of range. Next turn, the ability is greyed out, cooldown 10 turns. Bug.
[quote who="Glazunov1" reply="16" id="3280549"] Quoting charon2112, reply 14IGN also gave MoO3 a 9.2. Their credibility in reviewing 4X games is lacking. Seriously, now: you don't like a specific review they had in 2003--that's nine years ago--so that kills their credibility? What do you do if an infant pukes on you, wait for him or her to grow up so you can foreclose on their home mortgage, and put nails in their tires? [/quote]
Exploration strongest part of the game - agreed Tactical combat weak - agreed Lore bland - agreed Fair review, fair score.
Any official comment?
AFAIK that ability was removed, the roads now appear automagically after you research a certain tech, Trading, if I recall correctly. The patterns of the roads are sometimes quite bizarre.
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To introduce range penalties is fine, but longbows used to have range of 200 yards, a bow that could not shoot at the 50 or so steps wide battleground that are used in the game would be a pitiful toy indeed.
There you have it. Neoliberal economy does not mean automatic democracy. In fact, neoliberal economies turn into fascist states, given enough time.
I would say that word of mouth is much more important when it comes to niche games. Minecraft or Dwarf Fortress had little to no official advertisement, yet they became quite popular.
I said "given the same training". Comparing trained and untrained individual is useless. Trained anyone can always beat untrained anyone. My point was that given the same drill, men will perform significantly better in close combat then women.
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The best part on FE is graphics. Seriously, that's how I see it. The rest is just flawed in one way or another - not necessarily bad, but surely flawed.
[quote who="NanakoAC" reply="12" id="3276398"] Quoting Kamamura_CZ, reply 10I don't care, but generally, there should be no females in close combat roles ever. But since this is fantasy, it does not really matter. lol, what ? you have to be kidding. You don't need to be a man to swing a sword, or fire a gun. and women can be just as strong when they work at it<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_H9jxLJKL2p0/TSWuHeJTZ7I/AAAAAAAAABE/i748kD0ySV4/s1600/Blog+-+Wome
What I absolutely hate are those scripted "introductions" of units - they do nothing until they get into your LOS, then they start to jump around like circus clowns. Enemies should of course execute their own tactical plans even if you don't see them - in the original UFO, you could sometimes just see SOMETHING moving through the grass, and these moments added to the atmosphere immensely. This modern nonsense detracts immensely from the overall impression.
I don't care, but generally, there should be no females in close combat roles ever. But since this is fantasy, it does not really matter.
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Guess he won't be the last to "abandon ship". Windows 8 has serious disaster potential for MS, especially when it has lost the chase for mobile platforms.
[quote who="verwandlung" reply="28" id="3275489"]HOMM 3 and Age of Wonders 2 Shadow Magic are the crown jewels of the genre. Fallen Enchantress could potentially match or exceed them in time.[/quote] Says who? The International TBS Commission? Age of Wonders is nice, I agree, but Homm3 contains some really very strange concepts, basically the fact that you spend all the game pampering your killer stack hero with experience while heavily using save/load - because f
[quote who="Roloccolor" reply="5" id="3275509"]@Kamamura i doubt that ! GigaByte Z77-D3H /Chipset: Intel® Z77 Express -factor: ATX 2x PCIe x16, onboard, CrossFireX You blame it on the board / seriously buying almost the cheapest board with crossfire support and having a 670GTX? ok you only have one gfx card so it doesnt matter but still [/quote] Your logic has received a serious bump in the head somewhere on the w
How about criticals affecting magic? The whole "assassin is the best wizard" syndrome?
For the best fantasy themed names, look at the prescription medication names. Endiaron the Wizard - isn't it stylish? Valetol the elf is not that bad either. Just avoid the obvious ones like Kinedryl.
I have been upgrading my gaming rig two or three weeks ago with Core i5 3570K and Gigabyte 670GTX with 4GB RAM (for large texture pool games like Arma 2), and I had to chose a new board as well. I bought the GigaByte Z77-D3H, and let me tell you, it was awful-to-horrible. The BIOS was a mess, the whole board system was unstable on stock clock values of the components - RAM errors, blue screens, restarts. It was the 1.0 rev though, 1.1 has larger secondary PSU connector (8 pin in
I think the Heroes series did tactical much better. What? You consider a system that allows you to have 3543123 skeletons occupying the same hex, moving at once and striking at once... better? Once again, I was talking about concept, not the actual implementation. The magic system as a concept was better in MoM - and you said it yourself. The fact that the whole game was half finished/broken is another thing, but
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="20" id="3275265"] Quoting MarvinKosh, reply 19 Quoting Frogboy, reply 11I was going to have the AI scan your hard drive for incriminating files, then black mail the player into letting it win. Like this? The Internet never forgets! [/quote] Oh, it does, when CIA asks really nicely. I remember that under Bush, they pressured Google to flush its caches, because it made their changes to articles referring to events in the past o
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[quote who="sweatyboatman" reply="8" id="3274884"] Quoting Kamamura_CZ, reply 5[Facepalm] and also, critical chance still affects spells. Why not? Isn't the whole point of a critical hit that your attack strikes a particularly sensitive spot on the enemy (kick in the crotch). I think a fireball to the crotch would be significantly more damaging than a fireball to, say the shoulder. [/quote] Why not? Because critical chance is asso