Joined in November, has 41 messages, claims CiV is the best one. Are you even trying to be subtle about trolling? Consider going to post on some trashy resetera shithole with these takes.
Alright well now you're just being a whiny ass. No I'm not trolling. I legitimately don't get the hate for Civ or the sanctity of Master of Magic.
I don't care about MoM much actually. It was cool but I didn't play it early enough I guess. CiV is just the worst civ is all. Civ 3 and later 4 were both improvements on what came before in lots of ways CiV was decline. Heavy decline even.
Well you expect 6 and then 5 to get the most votes in an open poll because most people have only played 6 or maybe 5. Just because of the market growth. If you look at polls of veteran civ players it goes something like 4/2/3/5/6/1. 4 is far and away the best. I actually moderately prefer 3 over 4 and definitely over 2, but that's a rare opinion. The graphics in 4 mostly put me off, rather than gameplay.
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Isn't that exactly what a MoM successor SHOULD be, though?
It would be if Dominions had direct control in battles.
I bought it. Don't really think it's worth the price, though. Even if it was a faithful and good remake it'd still be overpriced imo. The graphics aren't good enough to warrant such a hefty new price tag as the game is graphically uglier than, say, Warlock Master of the Arcane, a 10 year old game. The game also sports lots of memory leaks which means if you play the game longer for an hour it's going to start chugging pretty bad. The settings are also pitiful and offer nothing useful to tweak, really. Even the setting screen for the key binds is just a sheet for the hotkeys but you can't actually change them.
The second big thing that could've changed is the AI, but honestly it's not any better. Check a look at the pics below of how densely the AI is settling cities. Each game is going to be a Sisyphusean task of cleaning up the AI to win. Did anyone at MuHa games test this and think this is fine? It's not just that they settle so densely but it takes a long time to wait for the enemy AI to complete its turn, most of it is spent repeating the same movement paths back and forth as it can't seem to decide what to do.
What else.. the AI hates roads and engineers. The AI will spend all of its energy running after engineers that have been set to dig roads. This can be abused to stall armies pretty much indefinitely.
The auto resolve is also extremely weird. I've lost half my army of Ultra Elite flyer units against a single enemy veteran spearman. Not joking, not bullshitting, not hyperboling. There's an option to toggle on if the AI is allowed to cast spells or not during auto resolve, and I've seen situations where the projected outcome for me is worse with magic casting on. Just.. how?
Forum threads have multiple pages, you know.
I bought it. Don't really think it's worth the price, though. Even if it was a faithful and good remake it'd still be overpriced imo. The graphics aren't good enough to warrant such a hefty new price tag as the game is graphically uglier than, say, Warlock Master of the Arcane, a 10 year old game. The game also sports lots of memory leaks which means if you play the game longer for an hour it's going to start chugging pretty bad. The settings are also pitiful and offer nothing useful to tweak, really. Even the setting screen for the key binds is just a sheet for the hotkeys but you can't actually change them.
The second big thing that could've changed is the AI, but honestly it's not any better. Check a look at the pics below of how densely the AI is settling cities. Each game is going to be a Sisyphusean task of cleaning up the AI to win. Did anyone at MuHa games test this and think this is fine? It's not just that they settle so densely but it takes a long time to wait for the enemy AI to complete its turn, most of it is spent repeating the same movement paths back and forth as it can't seem to decide what to do.
What else.. the AI hates roads and engineers. The AI will spend all of its energy running after engineers that have been set to dig roads. This can be abused to stall armies pretty much indefinitely.
The auto resolve is also extremely weird. I've lost half my army of Ultra Elite flyer units against a single enemy veteran spearman. Not joking, not bullshitting, not hyperboling. There's an option to toggle on if the AI is allowed to cast spells or not during auto resolve, and I've seen situations where the projected outcome for me is worse with magic casting on. Just.. how?
Honestly, I'm okay with this, since it makes multiplayer even possible in such games. Trying to have multiplayer in a game where everyone has to be there at the same time strongly limits the number of players you can have, as there's an exponentially-increasing difficulty of getting everyone on at the same time, while Dominions-style play makes it possible to have a game move at a reasonable clip even if people are just totally random. And the combat system is thus tuned to make this work, whereas having both such systems would mean that one is clearly worse than the other and playing it that way is crippling the full game experience.
Autoresolve in most games is often terrible. I mean, you'd think with all the machine learning we have now, it would be possible to simply put an AI into the game that would actually learn how to autoresolve battles through the process of learning. I'd make it so the autoresolve will use its current knowledge to predict the result of the battle, and give you the outcome: You can either accept the outcome, or fight the battle yourself, at which point the battle you fought becomes part of the training set and is used to train the autoresolve to more accurately predict the outcomes, until eventually you consider the autoresolve a sufficiently accurate prediction of what will happen.
Nothing you said is wrong, but there is something extra wrong with it in this game. My max rank Torin with physical immunity nearly dies (3 HP left) versus a single veteran Spearman unit. But if I take reins of the combat and put it on auto AI he clearly just stomps the Spearman with no problem. And this has happened to me many times. The auto resolve doesn't seem to take damage resistances or immunities into consideration when it does the damage calculations. And even then Torin at max rank with artifact equipment should be vastly superior to a lowly veteran spearman.
Muha is famous for bad UI, but in their previous games it didn't matter as much cause they weren't full on 4X games. Only 4 enemies is from the original no? Also isn't it made in Unity? How do they even have memory leaks?
