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Oh no. Steam is lying to me then. I thought it released in 1 hour.
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I think I'm gonna do Chaos/Nature rats with a focus on animal summoning. Still not totally sold on which culture, though maybe Dark???
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Zore posted:I think I'm gonna do Chaos/Nature rats with a focus on animal summoning. Still not totally sold on which culture, though maybe Dark??? There's a decent synergy between cavalry play and animal summoning, and the tome of the horde plays into this synergy since scouts get buffed by both sides of it. Dark has cavalry scouts, and has tier 3 cav, so dark is a pretty solid culture for this combo, as well. You'd also benefit a lot from a faction mount.
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Building Better Dwarves!
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May 2, 2023 15:30
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You will probably find streams of this coming out before launch, since someone hosed up at Microsoft and released it early on their store. And the usual  copies flowing around now because of it.
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My planned imperialist high elves, leader named after an old DnD character of mine with a juvenile joke name. Gonna have him be more of a fighter, tome of evocation for some of the units and such that one seems to bring and generally fitting with DnD elves being magical.  e: I might also just play some type of Frostlings, because those were, together with orcs, my favorite race to play in the original game. Randarkman fucked around with this message at 15:50 on May 2, 2023 |
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May 2, 2023 15:37
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It looks like Arctic Adaptation plus the Tier III Tome of the Cold Dark can turn any Culture into Frostlings. Plus the tier I tome of Cryomancy optionally.
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Thyrork posted:Alright so what's your plans (no need for details if you don't wanna, concepts are good too) for your first non-prefab race? General concepts: Earth/Druid Molekin Arcane Goblins Firstborn Dwarves (magmadworf, depends on what's in tomes)
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May 2, 2023 15:59
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I'm going to make several dozen variants of rats.
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Servetus posted:It looks like Arctic Adaptation plus the Tier III Tome of the Cold Dark can turn any Culture into Frostlings. Plus the tier I tome of Cryomancy optionally. Yeah, but I was thinking kind of apart from that as well, like trying to recreate somewhat the Frostlings race from Age of Wonders 1. I'd use either humans or goblins, give them blueish-white/grey skin, arctic adaptation and possibly wolf mounts (they rode wolvesi n age of wonders 1, but it was only a couple of units, so could just go for the wolf mount aesthetically). Take either barbarian or dark culture, barbarian culture would probably be closer aesthetically, though the jaggedness and spikes of the dark culture could look good for an ice theme, especially if you can make the armor color be like white or bright blue. e: I think there is a pre-set Frostlings faction in the game though, led by some witch lady. So if I want to play Frostlings I might just play them. Randarkman fucked around with this message at 16:06 on May 2, 2023 |
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May 2, 2023 16:00
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As long as you can cover the world with ice and cute cuddly penguins. 
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I will start with standard high culture elves that dabbles in pyromancy and gets corrupted by demons as the game progresses.
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Either i'm going to play some goblin barbarians led by an elf wizard king or i'm going nature + order + high society frogs. maybe with some warg mounts.
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Ojetor posted:
I wrote some exporters for her that dump data out of the game that can be read by the web app in the site!
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Randarkman posted:Yeah, but I was thinking kind of apart from that as well, like trying to recreate somewhat the Frostlings race from Age of Wonders 1. I'd use either humans or goblins, give them blueish-white/grey skin, arctic adaptation and possibly wolf mounts (they rode wolvesi n age of wonders 1, but it was only a couple of units, so could just go for the wolf mount aesthetically). Take either barbarian or dark culture, barbarian culture would probably be closer aesthetically, though the jaggedness and spikes of the dark culture could look good for an ice theme, especially if you can make the armor color be like white or bright blue. Age of Wonders 1 is the only AoW game I have played before this, and Frostling and lizardmen were my favourites in that game. Yeah, if you wanted to replicate them in this game that would be how to do it, but a lot of the flavour could be added with just the Tome, I wouldn't be surprised if taking the transformation changes skin colour.
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I think all the race transformations have a visual component actually.
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Randarkman posted:Yeah, but I was thinking kind of apart from that as well, like trying to recreate somewhat the Frostlings race from Age of Wonders 1. I'd use either humans or goblins, give them blueish-white/grey skin, arctic adaptation and possibly wolf mounts (they rode wolvesi n age of wonders 1, but it was only a couple of units, so could just go for the wolf mount aesthetically). Take either barbarian or dark culture, barbarian culture would probably be closer aesthetically, though the jaggedness and spikes of the dark culture could look good for an ice theme, especially if you can make the armor color be like white or bright blue. I hope at some point they add Beetle mounts and Mammoth mounts so we can get mammoth riders and beetle riders back. And maybe mole mounts, but then we'd probably get a lot of moles on mole cavalry.
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Yeah. I also hope they eventually re-add the tier 4 Snakes, they were a fun unit to evolve up and only having tier 2 versions now is kinda sad.
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Assuming this game is successful they'll probably be adding numerous new cultures and tomes to the game, probably not new affinities (though we'll see). I feel like somethign that's kind of missing as cultures are like a "sylvan" type (though you can kind of do it by combining others with a nature affinity), but I think that's something that people would want. Also a "nomad" culture that would probably draw from the faction in AoW2. Lots more they could do as well, as you could pull from the past games, or just fantasy tropes in general. e: Maybe also somethign to kind of more properly simulate the LotR-ish hobbits from game 1 and 2, where you'd have mostly weak units, but some fun abilities and economy bonuses. Randarkman fucked around with this message at 16:34 on May 2, 2023 |
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May 2, 2023 16:32
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The hype is real. Cmon just 23 more minutes....
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So... Be prepared for Steam to poo poo itself and things getting stuck on some kind of "unpacking" or "veryifying" or whatever?
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It just crossed my mind that there's a really cool synergy between feudal, maining order, seconding nature, and thirding chaos, if you go all in on mounts, animals, and keeping tier 1 units relevant. Feudal stacks your adjacency bonuses even more early on, and order provides you with mighty meek - not only does this boost your ludicrously numerous and partially freespawned animals, all the battle freespawn tier 1 animals you get are going to be faithful (since being tier 1 seems to be the only criteria for the mighty meek enchantment), but later on this will insanely turbocharge your shrines of smiting into being powerful beyond all reason.
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GMG keys are out 15 more minutes
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The things that are missing from in AoW4 compared to AoW3 1) Draconians/Lizardfolk/more dragons (coming in DLC) 2) Pretty much the entire Dreadnought class(coming in DLC) 3) Naga/Merfolk/Archons (Naga might be in DLC) 4) A selection of animals/monsters/Mounts (Gryphon, Manticore, Bear, Eldritch Horror, Cockatrice, Beetles, Elephants, Tigers, Feathered Serpents, Node Serpents) (coming in DLC) 5) Blight/Spirit elementals and Shadow Stalkers (might be coming in DLC) Pretty much every other unit or a way to make it through enchantments/transformations can be found, though obviously a lot unlock in wildly different ways. Warlord units are mostly split between the Chaos tomes and Barbarian cultural units for instance. And obviously there's a load of cool new stuff that has no equivalent in AoW3.
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They've specified that this specifically will be a DLC already? e: I wonder what the culture name for the dreadnought class-equivalent would be. "Dreadnought" wouldn't work there I think. Assuming it's represented as a culture and not as tomes that grant like gunpowder and technological units and abilities. e2: Ah, look at that, that's a lot of plans already. The primeval culture kind of sounds like it would be what I expected would be coming as something along the likes of "sylvan". Randarkman fucked around with this message at 16:54 on May 2, 2023 |
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Randarkman posted:They've specified that this specifically will be a DLC already? We know about these DLC quote:Archmage Attire
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Randarkman posted:e: I wonder what the cutlure name for the dreadnought class-equivalent would be. "Dreadnought" wouldn't work there I think. Assuming it's represented as a culture and not as tomes that grant like gunpowder and technological units and abilities. Mechanist maybe? And have the units be a mix of living support types and machine melee/ranged stuff.
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I think I'm going to try and recreate the races from Malazan. Jaghut can be orcs with the ice tomes. T'lan Imass can be humans(or dwarves?) with the tome that turns your race undead. The Tiste Edur and Tiste Andii can be some variations of Elves. Edit: It's downloading  If you have it on Steam you might need close Steam for the Install button to appear
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Let's goooooo Edit: I haven't been this hyped for any game for ages.
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Download is live now. 8.19 GB, not that big by modern standards.
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Downloading for me, 14.45 gb. Edit: oh wait, that's space. 8.2 gb is right.
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I succumbed to the hype and preodered. I think disciples 2 was maybe a bit similar to this, and homm series, but I haven't been playing anything like that in like 15-20 years. It was 40€ from 2game.com with some discount code. Hopefully I did not waste my money 
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Why is Steam not unlocking for download, Gerbyln I will DECLARE WAR on the Netherlands, Gerblyn
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toasterwarrior posted:Why is Steam not unlocking for download, Gerbyln You probably know this but just in case or for anyone that doesn't - if you run into an issue like this restarting Steam usually fixes it. I was able to install without restarting though so, eh?
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Giggling at Karissa being exactly as she should be. You go girl.   A tease for DLC 1. Thyrork fucked around with this message at 17:21 on May 2, 2023 |
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apparently this has gotton alot of hype because the multiplayer servers already crashed
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12k concurrent players  . Looks like people on the fence should have some opinions from the public very soon.
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house of the dad posted:12k concurrent players this is up to almost 19k-20k way more than i thought
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