I don't know if we're ever going to get preview movement paths (that is, something that shows the path a unit will take to the specified destination before you click). But I sure would like an option to cancel movement while the unit is moving.
I really don't understand the point of this mechanic. It really feels awkward and wrong to me. As I recall, the major complaint about the "Raze" option was that it could reduce an enormous city that took the entire game to build up to nothing in no time at all. This just compounds that problem by making "Raze" even more devastating. It's also mostly pointless. It seems to me in order to Raze an settlement a physical army needs to be present. It sh
I think there are also champion attributes that generate influence.
50% chance it hits for 4x damage - otherwise it hits normal and reduces your dodge and armor to zero for one turn.
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The AI is still borked... just not as borked as it used to be.
Now that spells are interesting and useful, the spell book could use some love.
Excellent, for a beta. The game is fun, beautiful, and very distinctive. This was the first time in playing WoM or FE where I really thought "wow, this is fun!" It lasted all the way up to the midgame where it became apparent that the AI was incapable of strategic thinking. It looks to me that all the complaints in the thread (except the guy complaining about insignificant bugs in the game engine -- ZoC doesn't update until the next turn! Oh noes!) come dow
[quote who="CHiZZoPs" reply="60" id="3118968"]How about this: 1-Tile Cities with individual building screen, but on the map, an (up to) nine tile city is shown. How hard would it be to periodically render the city build view into a texture to lay over the area on the overland map where the city is, which would be a current depiction of what the city looks like?[/quote] This would be great [e digicons]k1[/e] . I don't know about the technical details. But it seems to m
Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?
eh. we're a long way from release. faction differentiation is cooked into one of the later betas, I believe. and it looks like FE may end up being ridiculously moddable. So if manticores and centaurs aren't in the vanilla game, they'll quickly be available in mods or as (dare I say it) DLC.
[quote who="Satrhan" reply="47" id="3115283"]But seriously, I realy don't understand how you and sweaty can just brush over the whole scale issue. In lategame WoM nearly a third of the map could be urbanised. FE did slightly better, but it still doesn't fit the setting. This isn't simcity or a settlers game. This is a game about rebuilding a civilization in a big, hostile world. The smaller the cities, the bigger the world seems. With one tile cities, a tile with trees will look l
[quote who="mqpiffle" reply="24" id="3115010"] Quoting sweatyboatman, reply 4No more building placement, ok. What makes you think building placement would be gone, even in a 'miniaturized', city-screen style UI environment? I think they would be silly to completely scrap this empire-building function because at least a few of us enjoy such things, and the code already exists.[/quote] i enjoy it myself. however the only legitimate reason to do away with t
[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="21" id="3114930"]It would make sense that a tile is at least a couple hundred square miles. 10 x 10 mile square is pretty small part of land, but pretty large area for a city in medieval times to take up. And then if you consider how long it takes to walk over normal terrain, I wouldn't put 62,500 square miles out of the picture for each tile. Think about it, how long would it take to travel 8 squares? 1 year? That's
[quote who="seanw3" reply="5" id="3114827"]That is the problem though, growing a city past one tile means taking away hundreds of square miles from the game. Why not simply have the city view screen grow the city along the river? Then on the main screen, have the outlying huts grow along the river.[/quote] Why are you talking about miles? Where in the game is anything measured in miles? Is your next complaint going to be that the rivers are too wide? How wil
Only one tile? [e digicons]X([/e] It seems just as easy (considering the engine already supports it) to make cities grow organically across multiple tiles. No more building placement, ok. But cities could still grow along rivers or coasts; they could still blob out over the landscape. (Though instead of 5 tiles across, maybe just 2 or 3.) The on-map cities are one of the great visual aspects of the game. I'd hate to see that abstracted away t
Don't f- with bears
[quote who="Bellack" reply="4" id="3112333"]Read the review. That picture in the FE section where is this 'Gildenarena' I have never seen this in game. Is this something comming out in a future beta release. Looks like a pretty cool tactical battles map.[/quote] It's a quest that's only accessible after you get the 3rd(?) quest tech. On the main map, it shows up as a coliseum that takes up the entirety of the tile.
I'd give it a 7.0. It's competent, looks great, and the game is occasionally interesting. The extra half-point to get it up to 7.5 connotes a game that has something more than mere competency. 0.86's just not slick enough to make up for the lack of drama and/or gravitas. Of course, we're only judging one half of the game. With an interesting campaign and a decent story, the game might already be past the 8.0 mark.
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Cities are capped at the number of units that can be displayed on the HUD, which is 9.
[quote who="Sarudak" reply="36" id="3109457"]There's plenty of space at the beginning but what about late game when it's displaying 4 digit gold, 3 digit mana, 3 digit metal, crystals, wargs, horses, at least one of each shard and diplomatic capital? I've had mine overflow and I play at a fairly high resolution too. [/quote] Knowing the absolute numbers is on the whole more valuable than the rate of income. Permanently cluttering up the display with more numbers
I really think this is the big hurdle that gamers are going to have. Most games accustom the player to either never dying (or death not having consequences) or death being the end of the game. It's OK to die in FE, but it's not meaningless. And it makes the game more interesting because of that. You can experiment, take on fights that you might not win, rather than only taking on fights where you are completely dominant. On the same token
It's too easy to kill enemy champions, period.
I would add that from a newbies perspective, it's going to be REALLY important that they understand that you can "die" and your heroes can "die" and you don't lose the game. I'd put in a chapter where you start in a battle against an unbeatable monster and your army is obliterated and then you return to your city and need to race to build up your army and heroes to the point where you can destroy the beast before it reaches you.
Is it wrong that this post reminded me that I want more pose options?
I always enjoyed the campaigns in RTS-style games. Not everyone enjoys starting a game by being thrown into the deep-end. It's nice to be introduced to a game via a well-built narrative that establishes the lore with voice-acting and all the bells-and-whistles. Speaking for myself, I'm looking forward to it. Though I think I'll be in the minority on these boards. The campaign is to attract new players, so I don't think the people in the Beta a