Eador Genesis

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3150, 256 mbs RAM. Shit, I know, but should be more thaenough to work. Is iit a resolution problem? Windowed doesn't work either.

 

The problem is the resolution, not your card.

http://www.gog.com/forum/eador_genesis/cant_launch_the_game_cannot_initialise_gfx

Now you just have to find it,

 

That will not help them. They would need a detailed different stuff which is internally consistent, not just a 1/2 gems, or 2x more fear.

Basically they would need world building and write some fluff around these shards to make them unique, and perhaps even add victory condition to ownership of these shards.

 

i think that is too much to ask for the addon. It is more for an Eador 2, which i presume the guy that made the original is working on.

 

They are basically rewriting it from a scratch, they can add some text and improve gameplay. They definitely added bugs.

 

Fuck!
Can't someone from the Kodex Komrade Krew of Russia get the link for me? I'm going to have to rumage through thousands of topics written in cyrilics, and I'm traumatised by cyrilics since I played FOnline beta 2.

 

Try this one: http://www.old-games.ru/utils/files/dxwnd_og.rar

 

Just got this on the 50% off sale on GOG, fairly impressed so far.

 

Anyone knows how's the remake development going?

 

according to one of the fellow fanboys its going pretty shitty.

 

Tell us details.

 

Well I'm basing this off of what one of the russians in this thread has been saying (buggy mess). Its here somewhere

 

I bought this on gog's sale and it ate my whole weekend. Game is p addicting.

 

Yes because its literally one of the best strat-rpg's ever made despite its annoyances. The worst one being the fact that the early game is way to fucking hard in relation to mid and late

 

Just started this shit...and it's just way too addictive. I've wasted hours up hours on it.

I find the game to be quite trolling though. So I've met my first Master in a shard, he was nice to me and didn't attack me, so I just moved on to kill the local lord...and then the fucktard immediately declared war on me. Ok, big deal...but then I realized that all his provinces' guards are level 6+ undead groups (something like 5 skeletons + 4 zombies + 2 ghouls). I sent my warrior with the best troops to try take one over and I failed miserably. Being swarmed over by undead - with Skellies having 15 HP - within only level 4-5 tier 1 troops was no fun at all. Realizing that I cannot win at all I ragequitted...

Seriously, what did I do wrong? I thought that town guards are supposed to be basic resistance against harassments, not armies of dead that can kill off my main armies. Even town guards like 11 thieves were lethal. And those guards are all 7+ level. Even slingers are lethal because they can double shot.

This tediousness reminds me playing King's Bounty on the hardest difficulty.

I really, really like the game's art and music, surprisingly good for a supposedly one man's work. And the world design and writing are really superb, perfectly blending the 4th wall with the in game world, and providing lots of great flavour.

 

Skeletons and thieves are no match for a properly built warrior; even at high level they just don't do enough damage to get through the DR. The key is getting decent equipment (especially armor) and spells. Get enchanted weapon&armor; a couple of astral energies is a good idea as well. You can solo a shitload of stuff that way even with a fairly inexperienced hero.

The cookiecutter build which makes things easy when you're noobish is a warrior + a healer + 2 swordsmen. In the beginning have your swordsmen tank and parry while your hero attacks; defend your healer. After a couple of fights and hero levels most of the stuff thrown your way won't be a problem - just watch out for T2 and higher units and magic users which can eat your swordsmen alive; boost resistance if you can.

The worst guard party early game you can encounter are the adventurers; you really need a strong bro to take them on. The good thing is you can (and should) hire them as well to protect critical spots. They're pretty OP to be honest, being an effective cockblock for way too long while being too cheap and easily available; I hope that they (along with other guards) will get a rebalance in the half-sequel.

Another tip is: don't play the campaign on expert or higher unless you're Russian/masochist or are very well versed in the game's mechanics and want a more munchkin experience. While expert does offer a more "fair" challenge and is generally more difficult it also limits you in ways that are just not fun and forces you to "optimise" by sticking to one of very few viable opening army/hero builds and sometimes doing completely anticlimatic and gamey things like starting each shard with pillaging your home province to gain extra gold. In early campaign expert means pretty much either going for a healer/swordsmen based build I described above or using a lot of barbarians. Most of the T1 units are pretty useless because they're too hard to keep alive long enough to improve and T2 or higher units are unavailable unless you luck out and find a monster den of some sort or a summoning spell.

Competent will give you enough of a challenge anyway.

 

That's the easy guard. The difficult one is Minotaur guard. (Or phoenix...)

BTW what idiot ragequits?

Nothing. You just need to accept it.

No vampires, why are you complaining?

11 thieves are lethal.

That's correct description. However it would last long.

 

Whining.

So take your balls out of your purse and kick some ass.

 

Is there a thorough tutorial somewhere about how to fix the slow-downs/jerkiness in this game? I know someone mentioned using a CPU throttling program, but there were no links, and I am lazy.

 

I think I get why I sucked at this game:

- The bad habit of savescumming I used in practically all other strategy games has declined my brians and more importantly, patience. I like how the game gives you massive score penalty when reloading one turn back, or even give you permanent resource penalty if you restart a shard. This kind of semi-roguelike settings really force me to think thoroughly of my decisions before carrying them out (and as you see, I didn't do well in this regard).

- I tried too much using Wizard and Commander as starting heroes, which was probably not the best decision at all in the early game. It seems that both really need at least tier 2 spells and/or troops to shine, otherwise in the early game, when all you can use are tier 1 stuff, and the maps are all so small, these two classes are massively gimped. Warrior and Scout are on the other hand very easy to use.

- Speaking of wizards, I actually had my wizard doing a great job in the first couple of shards, summoning imps and zombies to kill stuff. Then I found I got the "Untrustworthy" or something title, and realized there's karma in the game. So I changed my wizard gameplay style to not using summons at all...but then I was lost because I didn't know how to play it effectively.

- Not knowing the main know-hows of the game. For instance, my warrior got stuck and swarmed fighting the undead guards because his stamina ran out (and yeah, warriors are fucking tanks), and that's because I didn't know using Astral Energy (it finally comes to my mind thanks to Monocause mentioning above). I lose one shard because I hired the 2nd hero (a wizard nonetheless) in like the 4th turn, and then I realized I could have put that 500 gold into building troops and conquer provinces with better results. As you may imagine, in that game I got stuck with two low level heroes doing nothing because I had no money to hire troops to do quests, and the upkeep dragged everything down.

- I was playing on Skilled, which means neutrals are much weaker than what the real troops are, that's one of the reason why I found thief or undead guards so surprisingly hard to kill compared to the neutral guards and got caught off guard. However if even Skilled is raping me so hard, I can't imagine playing Expert with my current (limited) knowledge about the game.

The game itself is really fantastic. And from what I've read most from the in game dialogue or tutorial messages, "learn from your mistakes" is one of the main game theme here.

 

Do not hesitate to use "return to last turn" button while you're learning to save time. Stat score is not important and you can start new fresh campaign later if you like big numbers, or you can grind huge shards for high score (fast expansion before ending shard). Stat score is somewhat good for experienced player who will not grind or use other means to get high score intentionally. It's more like additional fun text to read after your victory or defeat.

 

I found getting a 2nd hero as early as possible to be very helpful. If nothing else you can just grind exploring and some of the weaker locations (ruined towers with goblins seems to be the easiest). To get some levels.

The main bad part of the game is not having a bestiary. It's kind of cool to learn that getting attacked by Gargoyles damages your weapons on your own, but when this leads to a TPK it really sets you back.

 

Well considering you can resurrect the main hero, at least you'd be smarter next time. Considering main character has bit memory loss, a result of his own stupidity, it's actually quite in character behavior. (Another result of main character's stupidity was that Zarr. A party of poker where bets were not sane.)

 

I've been playing exclusively the campaign but i tried a couple of random skirmishes vs AI and i must say ... wow with all cheating from the campaign gone AI is so weak. It is true what the russian fellow who knows a lot about the game said; i should have started with skirmish maps first.

 

It seems that with the help of one turn back, and using a little more brains and patience, the game isn't that impossible to manage after all. It is still possible to say, keep the first swordsmen alive all the way until endgame veteran, you just need to know how the game works and which kinds of tactics I should use. Even minotaurs are killable with tier 1 troops and spells.

Warrior really kicks major arses. He could solo trolls with ease, minotaurs with a bit of micro, though unfortunately not ogres yet. Otherwise he could f10 pretty much all the normal guards. Btw from using him I also learned a lot of game wisdom, especially what kind of creatures has what weakness and how to deal with, and which mobs can be soloed or not, e.g. soloing 4 giant spiders without poison immunity is suicide.

Another big learning experience is that stamina and morale management really make or breaks an army. Messing with enemies with Slow or even Fatigue can be even more useful than Webbing them. Ah yes, speaking of magic, REALLY all spells have its uses in most of the battle, for instance I had my Wizard's spell slots filled with at least 12 different spells - all tier 1 nonetheless - and to my surprise, I could empty them in almost any big fight, and bring out good effect out all of them. That's so unlike other games in which a lot of spells may never see any use at all in the whole game.

For now I still have some trouble keeping troops like shooters and healers alive, even veteran healers got easily killed by slingers which was very rage inducing.