General Maxson
Arcane
Is it still boring, soulless shit?
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Is it still boring, soulless shit?
Multi-headed Cow
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If you've already tried Fallen Enchantress and consider that boring soulless shit, yeah. Definitely.
If you haven't tried Fallen Enchantress then I'd say it's Stardock's least boring and soullessly shitty game. Not great by any stretch of the imagination but good enough I've played it a bit. Not a bad $10 fantasy strategy game.
And if you're asking if Legendary Heroes has been improved since I first talked about it in the FE thread... That's a bit of a mixed bag. It still seems ridiculously low on new content for a $20 expansion ($40 stand alone), and they've removed the encumbrance mechanic entirely and just put flat initiative bonuses and penalties on items themselves (And have added armor proficiencies you have to buy with skills from leveling up heroes, so your warrior has to spend multiple levels going down the side of the skill tree that gives access to wear chain and plate. Whereas in FE fighters typically had higher encumbrance which let them wear and wield heavy shit that wizards and rogues wouldn't want to). I still have no goddamn idea if I prefer Fallen Enchantress or Legendary Heroes. Instead of being a "This is an expansion, so it's the game only expanded! More stuff!" it's more of a weird sidegrade.
Fucking Stardock.
MetalCraze
Arcane
zwanzig_zwoelf
Guest
The lighting quality seems vastly different from screenshot #1 to screenshot #2
Cowboy Moment
Arcane
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Sounds pretty cool, mayhaps the developers will bother to add actual gameplay in Arma4. Looking forward to it!
sser
Arcane
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So. I spent years wrangling Lithuania and Hungary back into my realms. Kings came and went. I was bullied endlessly by Gotland, some pagan shithole of a territory that always managed to field mega-huge armies anyway. Russia never unified. It couldn't. I eventually lost Hungary for good, at least half of it, and resolved to settle in Lithuania again and try to connect some territories to Kiev. By one point, I had almost every count/grand prince of note in jail, as they were all after my sweet King-ass, proving once again that Lithuania = the Jerusalem of the North.
But none of it was to be. The Mongols showed up and swept through Russia. Every city of note was conquered. It took hundreds of years for me to get my lands in order. It took the Mongols six months to ruin it all. I was relegated to two counties in the north. Hideous Asiatic tribes took the rest. Hilariously enough, they used me to marshal their armies, and I led the Mongolian hordes into Poland. Sorry Poland.
After that guy died, I was left with one heir: an 8-year old kid. I had no friends except for a very old, elite spymaster. I reached the age of ten, ducking past a few assassination attempts as numerous Lithuanian hitmen wanted me beyond dead. Unfortunately, my guardian spymaster died of old age. I'm sure his last words were: "You're fucked."
My new spymaster was a shaky, wire-framed man who had no idea what he was doing.
Trying to find meaning in life after my guardian and best bro had died, I walked the castle balconies.
And that is where a dynasty ends. From the King of Lithuangary and Leon, to a pile of broken bones in the brush.
But none of it was to be. The Mongols showed up and swept through Russia. Every city of note was conquered. It took hundreds of years for me to get my lands in order. It took the Mongols six months to ruin it all. I was relegated to two counties in the north. Hideous Asiatic tribes took the rest. Hilariously enough, they used me to marshal their armies, and I led the Mongolian hordes into Poland. Sorry Poland.
After that guy died, I was left with one heir: an 8-year old kid. I had no friends except for a very old, elite spymaster. I reached the age of ten, ducking past a few assassination attempts as numerous Lithuanian hitmen wanted me beyond dead. Unfortunately, my guardian spymaster died of old age. I'm sure his last words were: "You're fucked."
My new spymaster was a shaky, wire-framed man who had no idea what he was doing.
Trying to find meaning in life after my guardian and best bro had died, I walked the castle balconies.
And that is where a dynasty ends. From the King of Lithuangary and Leon, to a pile of broken bones in the brush.
Cassidy
Arcane
Slaughtered by Lithuanian Hitmen. A fitting end.
Data4
Arcane
Graphics whore.
MetalCraze
Arcane
Graphics whore? Poor guy has to LARP that letters switching places are actually people entering a car.
DraQ
Arcane
If only this car had tire textures...
Data4
Arcane
My poor attempt at irony.
At any rate, after spending a couple of weeks regularly watching Dyslexci's videos and some from UO, I've come to the conclusion that 1. ArmA is meant to be played in multiplayer in an organized fashion, and 2. if something as petty as a lack of mount/dismount animation is enough to drive someone's angst about the game, they have larger problems than the game itself.
zwanzig_zwoelf
Guest
Fix.
MetalCraze
Arcane
Tire textures are so last decade. Dragonfly wing textures are all the rage now.
DraQ
Arcane
I wonder if Skyway knows that he's larping that bunches of textured polygons switching places are actually people enetering a car.
Silly Skyway.
Wings are ok, but WTF was wrong with the guy that made thorax and head.Tire textures are so last decade. Dragonfly wing textures are all the rage now.
What a shitty game, would not buy.
DraQ
Arcane
Has fat head though, lol.
Multi-headed Cow
Guest
By and large the game has gotten worse the more I play it, but it still has moments.
circ
Arcane
DON'T MIND IF I DO!
Multi-headed Cow
Guest
That "Make the most of it" line though... God damn. And he's telling the husband of the woman who was raped and murdered. That whole bit of dialog made me laugh out loud. And the flat delivery of it by the voice actor, wonderful.
DraQ
Arcane
I bet I could tinker with this model to make it look right with the same amount of polys, but right now it's a disgrace.
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