Age of Wonders 4

[Dwarvophile]

what I find the most surprising is how AI's alignment will systematically shift from evil to good or vice versa along the game

 

[Dedicated_Dark]

So been playing this and I got to say, this game has more flavour than most of the pablum crap that comes out these days. You get to mold a story with the mechanics and the unique events are much more engaging than the regular pedestrian crap from other games, though there are those too. The systems and the amount of customization gives a sense of true ownership, the flexibility is real unlike the apparent surface level one present in the prior game. Went back and played Planetfall for a bit to see if it was a feeling and yeah, mechanically Planetfall has more variety and more stuff to do but actually playing it feels like eating flour.

AOW4 needs a lot more stuff in it to be actually engaging beyond a campaign or two, endgame was a clusterfuck for me and mastering most of the tomes was weird, kind of homogonizes the race identity. Definitely needs a few patch for bugs.
Hope this game gets some patches & dlcs to elevate it.

Edit: Nvm, dropped it so fast..

 

[Fedora Master]

Remember this game?
Me neither.

 

[Lacrymas]

Nobody does. I'm surprised it's still holding on to 1k average players per month.

 

[Dr1f7]

the art direction sucks dick
idk why devs keep outsourcing probably the most important part of their game to chinese mobile graphics developers

 

[cvv]

Remember this game?
Me neither.

Sure I do.

Still waiting for my schweet 75% off, which is what I did with 3 and Planetfall too.

Gonna be a few hours of fun times at 15 bucks with all DLCs.

 

[Lacrymas]

I got Planetfall with all DLCs for like 2 Euro from the ...grey-area sites. But I have 0 interest in AoW4, I pirated it when it came out and it's downright bad. I don't think it's going to get much better honestly.

 

[Fedora Master]

You can be a dragon now, you know.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

You can be a dragon now, you know.

Huge step down from being a barbarian

 

[Blutwurstritter]

You can be a dragon now, you know.

Huge step down from being a barbarian

Can you look into these

eyes

and say that again?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

You can be a dragon now, you know.

Huge step down from being a barbarian

Can you look into these

eyes

and say that again?

Well shit. How about if I look into them one at a time.

 

[rumSaint]

I've sunk like 80h during 7 campaigns and ideas are great, molding your nation feels cool, as you can roleplay whatever you like. I really had some HoMM3 vibes( dunno why).
Unfortunately endgame (past 100 turns) is total clusterfuck, researched units are obsolete after recruiting 2-3 of them. This game is like playing MTG without color mana. You just slap together what's seem strong. Some tomes are better than the others and there is no reason to not take them, like Revelry, or Barbarian Tome.

It really needs some time in the oven. Where are desert affinities? Where are water tomes? Why Necromancy sucks so much? Why are there are so little powerful spells? Why strategic map is so flat. |
Also siege mechanic is a fucking joke, wait for 10+ turns to start assault on the city, wtf?!

Overall I'm waiting for all DLCs and patches, to play further.

 

[Blutwurstritter]

You can be a dragon now, you know.

Huge step down from being a barbarian

Can you look into these

eyes

and say that again?

Well shit. How about if I look into them one at a time.

Quite tactician, aren't you.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

You can be a dragon now, you know.

Huge step down from being a barbarian

Can you look into these

eyes

and say that again?

Well shit. How about if I look into them one at a time.

Quite tactician, aren't you.

"A straight line is the the shortest distance between two points." -Sun 'Archimedes' Tzu, empirical tactician.

 

[Blutwurstritter]

You can be a dragon now, you know.

Huge step down from being a barbarian

Can you look into these

eyes

and say that again?

Well shit. How about if I look into them one at a time.

Quite tactician, aren't you.

"A straight line is the the shortest distance between two points." -Sun 'Archimedes' Tzu, empirical tactician.

I see, a scholar too. But consider this, "Without Nipples, Tits Are Pointles", Gaius Julius Caesar, around 69 bbc.

 

[Seethe]

Did they fix that god awful design where enemy AI spawns with copy/pasted sets of items making exploring wonders borderline pointless? Did they fix the AI and shitty winning conditions yet? Did they add more items?

 

[Lacrymas]

No, they haven't fixed the most egregious things that will require an almost complete overhaul of the game and they won't fix them. Daed gaem on top, with only 1k players daily.

 

[anvi]

Good. They can eat shit. They C&C4'd the series.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

What a weird way to announce an expansion. Probably left with a pack of doritos and some snownigger change for a budget from paradox again.

 

[Lacrymas]

Why would they give them a bigger budget when the game barely holds on to 1k players.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

Also that four eyed guy who features in most of their videos looks like he's on the verge of transitioning. All is not well at the house of Triumph.

 

[cvv]

It's not -75% off yet, why did you wake me?

 

[Mortmal]

It's not -75% off yet, why did you wake me?

I paid full price for it, and it's not good enough. Just torrent it; morally, it's like I've already paid for both of us.

 

[Blutwurstritter]

Good. They can eat shit. They C&C4'd the series.

That is nonsense. C&C4 was utter garbage. AoW IV is a decent game, just too barebones for now. I'm pretty sure it will follow a similar road like AoW III, which got better and better with dlcs and mods. Its still possible that it turns out fine. But this will take at least another year or two.

 

[Lacrymas]

Even if all gameplay-related issues are fixed (they won't be), AoW4 still lacks the content AoW3 has. AoW3 has 4 meaty campaigns and a bunch of scenarios before getting into random maps. It also has much more interesting race/class customization than AoW4.