Age of Wonders 3 announced

[crazy canuck]

I tried it.  Had a hard time getting into it.  Might come back to it at some point.

[Darth Wagtaros]

This new update did something, the game runs slow as shit now.

[Darth Wagtaros]

WTF is up with the dracoliches showing up so early in the game that I just get wiped out without any chance at all?

[garbon]

So looks like this was successful enough that they are now posting dev journals again and have dropped hints about them creating new races. First looks like it'll be the Halflings or Frostlings.

I think that was probably my biggest let down with this release, as while it had good AoW feel, the lack of races makes it significantly less fun.

[garbon]

So it was Halflings in what they released. Apparently they are now working on Necromancers which is a new wizard class. Instead of having undead as a race, now it'll be something that affects your given race over time like zombiefication.

Developer had made a now deleted comment that this will likely be last expansion. I guess a version of AoW that had less content that previous iterations of the game didn't sell well.

[Tonitrus]

Yeah, it was a good effort, but still kind of limiting in many ways for replayability/fun value.

[Syt]

Meanwhile I've dipped a bit into Endless Legend. First impression is positive. Its province mechanic is a bit strange but prevents city spam - it's a hex based map, but the hexes are arranged into provinces, and only one city per province is allowed. Each province can have resources where you can build resource extractors, and a minor faction that you can ally through quests or conquer and then assimilate, giving you access to their units.

As with Endless Space, the races are not exactly your run of the mill orks, elves and halflings. You have e.g. BDSM mages who thrive on pain, survivors of a high tech race who lived for centuries (millennia?) in a vault, or a race of powerful spirits bound into magic armor.

The game has tactical combat (the battle maps are adapted from the world map), quests, and unit design.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/289130/

[Tonitrus]

Have you, or anyone else, tried out this one?  I've heard good things.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/265970/

I understand the developers were really trying to keep the "soul" of classic MoM.

[Syt]

It's from the same devs as Time of Wrath/Time of Fury/Storm over the Pacific, so I'm holding off for now.

http://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Wastelands%20Interactive

[MadImmortalMan]

Meanwhile I've dipped a bit into Endless Legend. First impression is positive. Its province mechanic is a bit strange but prevents city spam - it's a hex based map, but the hexes are arranged into provinces, and only one city per province is allowed. Each province can have resources where you can build resource extractors, and a minor faction that you can ally through quests or conquer and then assimilate, giving you access to their units.

As with Endless Space, the races are not exactly your run of the mill orks, elves and halflings. You have e.g. BDSM mages who thrive on pain, survivors of a high tech race who lived for centuries (millennia?) in a vault, or a race of powerful spirits bound into magic armor.

The game has tactical combat (the battle maps are adapted from the world map), quests, and unit design.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/289130/

Worth $45?

[Syt]

Can't say yet. But of 775 reviews on Steam, 91% are positive. Although many will be about the Early Access phase.

[Syt]

Oh, there's also Let's Plays by quill18 and Arumba.

[garbon]

The graphics for both look a bit wretched. I think ill go and play AoW2.

[Syt]

I like the art style of EL, but YMMV, of course.

[MadImmortalMan]

Okay I am trying out EL also. I've only played a bit but so far I like it better than ES, which I assume is the same engine. I've only tried one faction so far. The twilek people.