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Age of Wonders 4
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Blutwurstritter
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Single player is not perfect, but certainly not unplayable. None of the AoW games are particularly well-balanced, not that it matters much for the single player experience. I am rather impressed how "unbroken" the game is, given the ruler options and the tome system. This could have turned easily into a much bigger mess.
The part about multiplayer seems to be true, the forum is full of complaints about it. Apparently it runs horribly and is unstable. Anyone interested in MP should probably avoid it, or make sure to check the forum first. There are also already a couple of balance mods from the mp community, but I haven't checked them out. It seems that basic properties for balance can be modded fairly easily.
Blutwurstritter
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I am afraid we will never get an improved version of AoW III, at least not by Triumph. A dev basically stated that the games are not made explicitly to appeal to fans of the predecessors, but are supposed to be their own thing.
"It is quite literally what we've done with AoW, 2, SM, 3 and Planetfall. Each title was it's own unique game that diverted from it's predecessor and allowed both to exist within in the same space."
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/aow-4-vs-aow-iii.1706930/post-29918828
"It is quite literally what we've done with AoW, 2, SM, 3 and Planetfall. Each title was it's own unique game that diverted from it's predecessor and allowed both to exist within in the same space."
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/aow-4-vs-aow-iii.1706930/post-29918828
Dr1f7
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translation: "we want more money so we're taking our established fans for granted and changing a bunch of shit also u want archons that'll be $20 + tip lol"
Oh yea, AoW, 2, SM, 3 and Planetfall are completely unique, totally unrelated, they're literally ranging from an RTS to a shooter, a survival game, a football manager and a hentai fapping assistant.
What a load of bull, jesus.
What a load of bull, jesus.
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What fans?
Blutwurstritter
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I didn't want to copy the whole thread, so the quote that I gave sounds more unreasonable than it is within the context of the discussion.
There is a interesting answer to a question about the goals and audience AoW4 is aiming for. Also a tidbit about AoWIII requiring a private investor to be released. But anyone interested can read it on their own,
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/aow-4-vs-aow-iii.1706930/post-29920668
The next dlc also comes with a free patch, and it seems that the hero skills got a large rework. There are now proper skill trees and hero classes, and tomes do no longer include hero skills. The governor stuff also got reworked and heroes can unlock larger economical boni by earning renown, which is obtained by full filling conditions. The skill tree stuff is shown in the dlc dev steam at ~35:30.
https://www.youtube.com/live/cWjtLmVqxs0?si=4H4VOmBywwjjl7MQ&t=2127
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Exclusive aficionados, to be precise.
Raghar
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People who pay money for theirs game, charming people: fanboys who have money.
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The people who enjoyed the older AoW games surely can't be fans of this one, so the only people left are Reddit zoomers who don't know any better.
Zboj Lamignat
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So they even adopted the "completely replacing a mechanic with another one at random intervals long after game's release" from paradox now, huh? Not very subtle.
Also tried reading that linked rant. Planetfall's aim was to ”expand their audience by providing a game developed for hardcore strategy gamer"?? Literally what the fuck is he on about.
AoW3 was a fluke and these people have no clue. The entire secret behind 4's success was dropping series' identity and shoving cuckadox and nuciv in its place. Yaaaay, good for you, but you can feck off now.
But is it that worse than custom factions in Master of Orion 2?
I found the dragon ruler early game pretty cool, and different enough from the other archetypes, but what I disliked was to have to ferry units by groups of 3 stacks of 6 for the end game...
That made battles really tedious in the second half of the game, when stacks were already much lower to begin with (because victory was already almost secured).
Total War suffers from this issue too, but it felt much worse in AoW4.
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