[quote who="StevenAus" reply="9" id="3191436"]I think you mean that last sentence the other way around (ie. valid patches to installation cracking patches), though I certainly understand what you mean. [/quote] Nice catch. Thanks.
Steam is arguably (and I'd say there's probably not even much of an argument) the single best thing to happen to PC gaming in the last decade. Sure, it has flaws, but any number of games people rave about on this forum would not exist if not for Steam. How about this list: Legend of Grimrock, Warlock: MOTA, probably Portal, and thereby Portal 2, and Endless Space. All games that have generated a fair amount of discussion on this very board and every on
The changes look awesome. I'm sure there will be minor things to be worked out with all these new changes, but overall I love the direction the game is going.
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I play on hard. Tried two games on Challenging at .915 launch, but found myself prolonging the game unnecessarily just to explore endgame content. On hard I either steamroll or screw up and die relatively early 50% of the time and have a good challenging game 50% of the time. I planned on going up a level, but life got in the way and I haven't played recently.
In no particular order: Vintage: Total Annihilation Star Control 2 X-Com Master of Orion 2 Civilization 2 More Modern: World of Warcraft Civilization 4: BTS Neverwinter Nights Dragon Age 1 Half-life 2 (I can't believe this isn't mentioned yet!) Either Morrowind or Skyrim... Skyrim is the better game, but Morrowind holds a special place in my m
[quote who="TheBirthdayParty" reply="41" id="3178955"]Yay for hijacking my thread! Anyway, i've been needing a new game to play; in this case something to make a game i've played and and interesting. So I bought the expansion from steam. So far for one play through i'm finding not much has changed. Just a new aspect for trying to race ahead other civs. The spying is very minor and doesn't require much attention. The new civs aren't all that interesting either.
[quote who="Gandhialf" reply="26" id="3178478"] Quoting Kantok, reply 24That picture is idiotic. Just because what you are stealing is intangible does NOT mean you are not stealing. You don't get the point. Tangibility is irrelevant. Removing original "thing" (tangible or not) is relevant. I, in fact, can steal something that is intangible: copy a file and delete it from the original source. Copying without deleting is not stealing.[/quote] Semantic bu
[quote who="Gandhialf" reply="23" id="3178461"]You guys really don't see the difference between theft and piracy? I'm not trying to justify piracy. I'm just saying that it is not a theft. It's... piracy. [/quote] That picture is idiotic. Just because what you are stealing is intangible does NOT mean you are not stealing. To the larger audience: Anyone trying to justify piracy as an ethical or moral im
A few technical observations on diplomacy: Establishing tribute prohibits you from going to war with the other nation. This is never discussed or talked about in any of the in-game text I've seen when establishing the tribute. You simply no longer have the ability to go to war once tribute is started. This is either a bug or should be made a more explicit portion of the tribute treaties. I have occasionally had an is
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I think this is a terrible idea. First, what's the logic behind the idea that the road you're army is following suddenly stops working because you crossed from an area inside your glowing blue magic line into their glowing red magic line? In gameplay sense, what causes it? What's the immersion reasoning? Secondly, it has no real historic precedent. Roads and crossroads are generally some of the most strategically significant targets
It's not exclusion to allow all users to take full advantage of their hardware. I'd pay quite a bit to support it.
Part of the problem determining what is useless and what isn't, especially for new players, is that the game does such a poor job letting you know which traits are gateway traits and what traits you are forgoing ever having a shot at by skipping a seemingly useless gateway trait. I get the feeling the devs are not looking to do any form of talent tree (which would alleviate this problem) but some sort of UI mechanism needs to be added to tell the player what traits are link
I am unable to kill this enemy hero. I go into battle, kill her, the battle ends, and then she's still alive with 1 hit point on the strategic map. I kill her again, get the xp again, and the process repeats. Here's a picture and a save. Here is the
[quote who="Kalin" reply="48" id="3149902"]Wow, looks like brad's been busy. I've loving the change log, can't wait to test it out. Though, if I may, a word regarding the difficulty of the AI... currently a lot of people feel that challenging AI is still a bit too easy, while the hard AI is pretty tough. As a result, I think it would be wise to try to buff up challenging difficulty a bit, while lowering the bonus it gets on hard slightly. Ridiculous AI should be... well, ridiculou
It never updates.
[quote who="bpalczewski" reply="22" id="3149153"]No playing for me ... I made a mental resolution i am not playing this game anymore till they fix health bars and damage information to be shown properly ... [/quote] So you're not going to play the beta because it's a beta?
Both are in the same battle on the first turn of battle after my unit has self cast Noble Legacy. The tooltip for my unit generated by mouse over of the initiative list portraits does not show the hit point benefits from Noble Legacy, however looking at my unit's detailed stats on the unit card, it shows that the Noble Legacy benefits have been applied. I'm not sure if the benefits aren't showing in battle tooltips because the battle is using unmodified stats, which me
[quote who="Alstein" reply="5" id="3148793"]I think the best idea would be to get rid of the Life/Death mechanic, and use Life for both, or some other name.[/quote] Why?
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I think this question is useless until we see what the city changes hold and if there are any associated outpost and map generation changes. Those are big issues. This is a balance issue. There's no point in worrying overly about balance until we have all the major systems in place, which we don't at the moment.
Same here. In my current game I've done it a few times and have a Kingdom Sov with Death 3.
The tooltip for my Sovereign is not updating with the hit points granted by Noble Legacy during battle. See below.
[quote who="kapeman" reply="13" id="3148297"]I find blizzard to be extremely effective, at least in .912. It has greater damage and a larger area of effect than fireball.[/quote] Blizzard is 4, not 3 like fireball. It should be a more effective spell. And anyone who thinks fireball is a bad spell, probably isn't using it right. Once the game is all balanced out, fireball will have to be weaker vis-a-vis trained units in some way. Otherwi
So I'm unable to end my turn. I have an army of three heroes that are on route to a destination, along a road. They still have 1 movement point left and there is nothing blocking their path. If I try to change their destination, nothing happens. They are animated as if moving, but standing still. The army in question is in the picture below, as is their destination square. Giving them the guard command, did cancel their movement. <a href=
Question for the masses. Do you think casters in the midst of casting a spell (those with cast times: fireball, storm, etc) should lose their ability to counter attack if they are holding a bladed weapon?
The quest text is incomplete for the update after you kill the ogre's in the ancient village.