This game is getting good now. :) Thanks for persisting everyone at Stardock. I've had one crash ( Debug error file here ) and one freeze but loading the auto-saves took me past these points. What I particularly like in 1.0.9o are: The tactical battle UI feedback on to-hit and damage. How the wandering monsters collect together and intelligently hunt you down. Having different
Haven't been able to post to the forums for quite a while. Editor window looks different now so perhaps it has been fixed.
Thanks for this. :D Haven't had a look yet but will the models, rigs etc work within 3dsMax. And I suppose we also need to ask the question about Blender 3D.
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I don't think it quite works this way. The first roll is the 'To hit' against the dodge counter. If you score a hit then the next roll is the damage against the armour.
[quote who="Alstein" reply="25" id="2829406"]This is a great feature. It needs to be a journal entry though, and stickied. [/quote] Yes. But maybe it should be called TODO list rather than Changelog.
[quote who="huminado" reply="28" id="2828537"]The day the 1.1 demo comes out, is the day you pay full price for only the current game with no expansions whatsoever. And this is why I'm asking for a video, because if I buy the game today, there is at least 1 (but I think maybe 2 or 3) free expansions included in the purchase price. A great motivator, except I have nothing to go on other than people's posts in the forums. [/quote] You have a good point about
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Nice reviews RooksBailey. :) I forgot about AI War. I don't currently have this installed but was also very impressed with this game. Quite a different approach. Your description of 'masterful combination of the 4X and tower defense genres' sums it up nicely. Another game worth looking at is Armada 2526 . This has been patched recently and is miles better than the release version. A TBS game but what makes this game s
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[quote who="OMG_pacov" reply="3" id="2828009"] Distant Worlds. By far the best Space 4X game I've played. Better than sins? Do tell. Why do you like it so much/what is excellent about it? Thanks![/quote] First of all, I should say that I usually prefer TBS rather than RTS and even though Distant Worlds is a RTS, it is pausable at any time so to me it plays much like a TBS game. So basically it isn't a click-fest. People who prefer games like Supremacy or ot
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Distant Worlds. By far the best Space 4X game I've played. Soon to be updated and will be even better.
The game plays fine for quite a while then a battle will trigger the old Tactical Battle memory leak (like from the 1.0 beta). The battle will become very slow and then once finished the game will be unstable and could crash.
If you load a game the prestige radius around your city shrinks by about two. Any resources or shards built within the zove will be lost and will need to be rebuilt. After a couple of turns the radius returns to where it should have been.
First of all, after playing for a short amount of time this is starting to look good. Well done Stardock team. :) Below are notes I've taken during my first couple of hours: Start * Would be nice to have random opponents and also random numbers. Game pacing * The game is quite slow to build-up - which personally I really really like - but I th
During the early betas Brad used to post up information on what particularly they were wanting the testers to look at. It would be great to get a similar list for this release so we can see what areas should be focussed on and other areas that aren't ready yet for detailed testing. Yes, I know we are supposed to look at everything, but it is good to do this with some context. Also, I seem to remember that balance was not considered a beta tester priority by Stardock and that this was
I don't mind how long it takes as long as it is working properly when its actually released. I also hope that Stardock re-looks at how they handle the beta process. Using DropBox is fine for some of us to lodge issues but I think it would only be a very small percentage that could be bothered doing this way. Much better to have the game itself guide the users through the log and lodge process.
Generally sounds like a big leap in the right direction. :) But from what you describe it may still not be far enough and now would be the time to make the changes - at least in the XML structure... [quote quoting="post"] In 1.1 they have been changed to the following: Accuracy = 15 + (Level * 2) Dodge = Dexterity / 2 Attack (which is damage) = Weapon Attack + ((Strength - 10)/2) Defense (which is damage absorb) = Armor Defense [/quote]</p
[quote who="_PawelS_" reply="11" id="2819602"]I think calling a player's territory/area of influence "Zone of Control" is confusing, because this name is usually used for a completely different concept in gaming.[/quote] Lol. I opened the thread excitedly thinking, "Zones of control in Tactical Battles." :)
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This thread is important. From memory the game allows classification of damage types in the XML but does nothing with it.
[quote who="Dhraconus" reply="2" id="2817425"]...If on the other and you're expecting it to improve the game a bring it another step closer to "best game ever" then I think (hope?) it will be just that.[/quote] That's what I'm expecting too. I expect 1.1 will be a 'get the thing back on the tracks' sort of update and the 1.2+ patches will have it gaining momentum. Not expecting 1.1 to be anywhere close to the final iteration of the game but still to be light-years better than 1.0.
[quote quoting="post"] ... such as faction differentiation... [/quote] Yes! Please!
Well done. :)
Lol! Love it. I just jumped in here to have a quick look before firing up Civ5 myself. :D
Do you mean like in The Settlers series? While the concept itself is not overly complex, combining it with a game where there are so many different concepts already in play is not a good idea. I would much prefer some sort of barter system through a market so if you need iron it will cost you a lot of another resource you have in abundance.
[quote who="BoogieBac" reply="77" id="2811167"]Next week Derek will be joining us to solidify our direction from this point on, and with our overall confidence shaken pretty heavilly, I want to ensure 1.1 and beyond have the changes players WANT, not what we THINK they want, which may seem obvious but, again, our confidence wanes as of late. Shoddy, vapid, or broken updates will do little to repay the goodwill of the community, so we need to make sure each major update is a 'ho
I like the rendered art style from the engine. I like the cloth-map approach. I like the potential of the game in so many diverse areas. I like the accessibility of the devs on the forum.
Thanks for posting your review RikazeMA. I really enjoyed reading it. There is a lot to take in but your writing style makes it easily digestible. I hope the dev's take on board your comments because they really hit the nail on the head with the current state of the game.