While I'm not very happy with the game I've personally decided to pass on the refund route. I knew what I was getting into when I purchased it and next time I think I'll wait for reviews/demo. Anyways not all is lost maybe it will be improved in the future.
Supposedly aow/aow 2 and aow-sm will be available on steam in a few weeks. There is a huge community @ heavenly for this game and there is a fan made patch (1.4) which is quite good. [quote who="Fallout386" reply="78" id="2745766"]I reinstalled AOW:SM and been killing time with that while waiting for the slowdown fix for Elemental. Shame you can't find it for sale anywhere though. I heard they're going the 'steam' route sometime soon. They've also been working on a new
Which of these games do not have interactive (tactical combat)? It sounds like only Domions 3 but wanted to check. Of the ones mentioned wizardry 8, aow sm and kb l/ap are great. Homm is a bit dated (but I enjoyed 3 - hated 5 as simplistic and boring). Wizadry 8, Avernum and Eschlon book 2 (not like rogue since the map is static with a fixed story) are more traditional story rpg games. Anyways (not really related) but with the 1.06 patch I'm getting a lot of ctd m
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Thanks Kyro - as a small suggestion I think it would be kind of nice if on death of an enemy hero his items became yours :) [quote who="kryo" reply="3" id="2731142"] If you defeat someone with an item do you get it ? If one of your guys die with an item but you win the fight what happens to the item? If one of your heroes dies can they be resurrected ? Only your sovereign can resurrect (if you die outside enemy territory and have essence left, a
While I think the game has a few issues; I also agree with your comments. Unfortunately this is a problem with modern media coverage. As official figure head (ceo) you have a target painted all over you and one slip up will result in crap like below. Hopefully the negative impact will blow over in a few days. [quote who="Frogboy" reply="52" id="2730783"]My biggest problem with the article is the quote he took out of context. Qt3 isn't just some random site. I
Well I think the game is a bit premature - I think the problem was the gap between Aug and Feb. Unfortunately releasing it this early has quite a few negative consequences. Not 100% sure of the set of consequences releasing it in Feb. With regards to the game itself; I have many 'complaints' but most of them are fix able with minor patches. The major flaw is tempo. I enjoyed games like king bounty (l/ap) and aow sm (I had hope this would be a combination of aow sm + a touch of civ). T
^bump in hope of an answer.
I'm not sure at least in 1.01 the campaign does not cover tech trees or spells at all. [quote who="dragoaskani" reply="36" id="2729302"] Quoting govtmule1124, reply 35An interactive tutorial would make things so so much better. I keep getting frustrated, turning it off for a bit (looking here each time for a hint), coming back and starting a new game. I get a little more each time but it is frustrating. The vids area nice start but you really need to go over the interface better,
I actually prefer the earlier api where building farms/goldmines ... showed up when you click build for the city and there was a place as well as proper tech to build those items. Having to explicitly click on the land to get the option hides the fact that you can build it (i.e, increases learning curve). [quote who="angryandroid" reply="39" id="2729468"] Quoting BoogieBac, reply 22Working on getting a few more tutorial-esque bits into the campaign as we speak, usi
Let me repeat this question in hope of an answer :) -- If you defeat someone with an item do you get it ? If one of your guys die with an item but you win the fight what happens to the item? If one of your heroes dies can they be resurrected ? I have the game but have only played a little the box has not yet arrived so haven't read the manual so unsure if it answers these questions.
I'm very confused when you say 'marked objective'. When looking at the cloth map I do not see any sort of marked objective. I *think* I have 1.01. I updated tonight and then restarted the campaign from beginning. I'm on something like chapter VI which I presume is near the end from what you said. Hum. Tried to load my saved campaign and it crashed but was able to load it the second time around. Ok campaign sez to sail to port hope where-ever that
Not to be dense but I'm having a lot of problems with the campaign. There seems no way to bring up quest or logs of what has happened. So I'm a ship and I sailed all south; all east and all west but not much happens :) Kind of dull sitting on a ship... There are also quite a few annoying bugs where you will level or whatever and the dialog will get lost and the game will more or less freeze waiting for you to level.
Quick question(s): I was hoping you had won the fight (tutorial video) because it would partly answered the below: If you defeat someone with an item do you get it ? If one of your guys die with an item but you win the fight what happens to the item? If one of your heroes dies can they be resurrected ? I have the game but have only played a little the box has not yet arrived so haven't re
Quick question(s): I was hoping you had won the fight because it would have answered it: If you defeat someone with an item do you get it ? If one of your guys die with an item but you win the fight what happens to the item? If one of your heroes dies can they be resurrected ? I have the game but have only played a little the box has not yet arrived so haven't read the manual so unsure if it answers these questions.
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I stopped playing because the game would freeze up hard and I would have to reboot. This is still happening with beta C. I run xp sp 3 32 bit with all the latest updates. I have a 8800 GTS (512MB version). I do not think this is a graphic issue. I play quite a few pc games and this is the only one that locks hard (ctl-alt-del does not work) and requires a reboot. Drop an email if you need more information; i'll probably stop playing until the next
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It would be nice if the mini-map had markers of some sort to show approx where your troops/cities are located.
As a place holder I had a similar issue :( I also have problems loading saved games (some won't load and some won't render correctly); I have a dual core e8400 and 8800gts nvida card. er yea and windows xp sp3
If you select hardware cursor it does a normal arrow. But now I have a hard crash and have to reboot. First hard crash in a couple of years; yuck [I don't think this is related to the cursor]
This is the first time I've run the game and it looks interesting. I have two quick comments from about an hour of 'mucking' around: [crash by game] When I loaded the game the orientation was completely wrong from when i saved it. I coudln't figure out how to rotate the screen or fix my orientation back to what it was when I saved (I did figure out how to zoom in/out); so I put the process in the background to check the manual (which did not expla
I liked age of wonders shadow magic :) With luck (though not likely) they will make a new one in my life time. King bounty the lgend was lots of fun but after 5 or 6 plays it has become old (static map) but the expansion will be out soon. space rangers 2 was a *lot* of fun - 1c makes nice games (but fantasy wars was not that enjoyable to me). I'm watching to see what sort of game elemental will be - not very clear to me from the press so f
Hum. If I read this correctly if you play a second time and don't delete them then they are not reused in a new game. So if I did 15 of the text games in the first pass I will only get a couple the second game :( I actually like the text games best of all (I dislike the rts because i suck at it and escort/protect quests because they are blah). I would like a reboot reboot with more text games :)
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