It's funny you say Exile...cause that's the map it was on. I'm just trying to say not to over do it. Certainly bringing in surprise reinforcements nets you extra kills and gold and gives a decided advantage. I just don't people creating a noob train that follows one DG around and does nothing else. You still can lose in that scenario to a well coordinated team. That's all I'm saying.
I actually disagree with the "all stick together" cheat. I just played a 4v4 with decent players, though they beat us up on kills roaming around the map in a pack of 4, we managed to hold most of the flags and gained a large war rank lead on them. We then proceeded to upgrade like crazy. We ended up winning. The other team was at least 3 levels higher across the board and they had more kills, but map management and creep upgrades can out war rank such a strategy. We had war rank 10 an
Custom Games work awesome now (and have for sometime). I think favor is actually working for me now. Items purchased seem to save and favor seems to be working right. Pantheon and Skirmish still take forever to find a match/game. Haven't been able to actually get in a game in awhile (since the patching started). At any rate....Happy Anniversary! Take the weekend off! You need it!
I was originally in support of spit not targeting buildings...but after having put some more games under my belt I don't think spit needs a nerf. If you make spit not effect buildings, UB becomes too squishy to do any kind of dmg to buildings in the early/mid game. Like Erebus' bite, spit may seem overpowered but it is counterable. All of the other assassins have good anti building skills of some form. Reg has his mines/range, Rook steals health and smashes, torch can freez
I find myself buying pretty much the first tier items for most of the games....scaled helm, banded armor, scaled armor....and then cit upgrades. I usually upgrade to a flemish faceguard as soon as possible as I tend towards skill builds and need the mana. Other than that I usually tailor my items to what I'm facing. Autoattacks? Stack armor. Skill dmg? Stack health...etc.
I too have this problem...I no longer have my 2 billion points (okay I suppose), but now I can't earn any of the acheivements as they are all unlocked. I'd prefer to have them reset to help me regain some favor.
Dear Frogboy, If you do reduce it, could you please reset my acheivements so that I can re earn some more favor? Or perhaps leave me with like 4k favor points...I'm sure I've earned more than that, but it never saves/or saves items. Thanks! Dahkar
I am also experiencing these long hangs at the end of games. Custom game connection is great....pantheon and skirmish seem to have issues. Favor is like off the charts (I'm on of those with like 265 million) and a bunch of my acheivements are unlocked when they shouldn't be. I can buy favor items, but they still don't seem to save. Not really a problem though considering I still have 200 million or whatever! Just thought I'd let you know. Patch works great low, the low end audio optom
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I too have this problem with the latest Beta patch.....custom games work great, but the connections for pantheon and skirmish aren't working.
Dear GPG/Stardock, Thanks for listening to all of our posts on the subject. If the new beta build gets up today, we'll let you know how it turns out. Hurray for a company that actually listens to ppl that have problems, investigates, and fixes those problems! Dahkar
No burst damage will ever really take down targets end game....you have to wear them down with a mix of autos and skills and save your burst for the killing blow, imo.
I will say this...there is something to be said for the surprise factor of playing a hybrid. The enemy never quite knows how to engage you and you can mix up the way you start combat. Keeps you from falling into a rut and people adapting to your spell sequence. Besides, it's a lot of fun to play ice most of the match and then when a DG is running away suddenly switch to fire and hit him with the big fireball he didn't know you had.
Yup, same problem here. Worked fine until about 5pm today...then every game seems to hang on the loading screen. SP loads fine, even an mp game every now and then. However, the majority seem to hang.
If you're having trouble staying around in the early levels, I have found that buying your priest idol at the start is a huge help. They are hard to kill the first few levels and give you lots of staying power, not to mention helping out your teammates. This is especially true for a general like oak who really needs a little help early on.
Dear Frogboy, Please realize that for every person that is like the poster above there are many more who do appreciate the inordinate amount of work and transparency that you and Stardock are putting into the situation. This is a tough situation for everyone, but I can hardly fault you for all the communication and positive feedback you've given. I for one am completely satisfied with the support that has been given. Keep up the good work, and personally I say take normal work
My only wish is that favor/acheivements would work and possibly the sound issues (slow down when on, game is unplayable with 5.1/quad settings. Have to run in stereo). Then we are in business! But still, great improvements! I can get into a lobby in under 10 secs now.
I'm not entirely sure. They are highlighted in Demigod like they are unlocked, I can't seem to find an acheivement section in Impulse itself. I'm content waiting until they are fixed. I was just curious if the acheivements would reset once everything was working correctly. Shock - Yes, each acheivement is worth favor points equal to the value on the right of the acheivement in Demigod.
No, I'm looking at the acheivements in Demigod itself. When I'm in single player they are all greyed out and I have 150 favor points (haven't played much sp). After I login (in Demigod) to play on the internet, if I go back and check my acheivements about half on each character are unlocked and I haven't completed them so I can't/won't get favor from unlocking them...and my favor total reset to 0 again after the latest patch. Perhaps you will be resetting everyone's acheivements/favor
Bara, I have an odd request. For some reason a bunch of my online acheivements show as unlocked when I haven't completed them yet. Is there a way for you to reset my online favor/acheivements without me creating a new account? Thanks!
Not sure if the Favor was supposed to start accruing again correctly in this beta patch....but played a game and all favor was reset to 0 again.
Might sound like a dumb idea, but after the beta patch like half my acheivements unlocked. While I know that favor/acheivements are still not fixed, the points at least for me seem to be accruing correctly. I was wondering if there is a way to reset the favor/acheivements to your online account so that once they are working correctly I can actually earn them. Anyone know how to do this without creating a new Impulse account?
With so many skills that reduce movement speed.....no! You would go from barely running away from UB or Reg mines to just plain stopped.
Pretty much what everyone else said. Use your experience advantage to pound them. Use your income towards cit. upgrades. You'd be suprised how much of a difference they can make. They'll waste their money on disposables while you have better creeps/items and are higher level. As the others said, when you see locks coming out you know you are in for a fight as the other team knows what they are doing. Be prepared for a tough and fun game!
I can't believe this thread still lives! Can we all stop replying to this thread, let it sink into obscurity, and forget it ever happened? *I realize by submitting this post I am perpetuating the horror I seek to undo. My apologies.
I would agree. If you're going skill based, you need to end the game as soon as you can. If you drag it out too long, other DGs will stack armor/regen/whatever and it becomes very difficult to make skill damage stick. A good skill build outlevels the competition and then ends the game before things get out of hand.