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>>15793852

I thought that first pic was Bane because of the coat.

>>15793852

AoW 3 is the most neutered of all AoW games. Where are my overland spells, my enchants, my good summons, my races, my racial units, etc.? Why the fuck do flying units land at end of turn now so melees can hit 'em and why do land units automatically turn into boats on water. What the hell happened to transports? Why are specializations so fucking shit now? Also writing never recovered since AoW 1, AoW 3 having the worst writing of all of them. The sound track is also inexplicably worse, despite having the same composer as AoW 1.

All in all AoW 3 could've been decent, instead it was fucking underwhelming. I'm also not a fan of how AoW 3 went all DRM. Everything except GOG edition comes with mandatory Steam (even physical copies), and even on GOG they tried to completely lock you into Triumph server accounts (GOG had to get on their ass and tell them that they'd have to mass-refund unless they removed that shit) and then they still kept the Triumph server shit and used it to lock off all multiplayer. A man can't even have a dedicated server, run a LAN game, or even play an actual PBEM game. It's all gotta go through Triumph servers and the "Buy Age of Wonders 3" link says exactly what they think of people who don't want to go through Triumph servers.

Anyway AoW 2 SM is better for multiplayer than AoW 3. As for Planetfall, it's not an AoW game and it's going to be a Triumph game after they got bought out by Paradox, so I'm really not holding my breath for them to produce anything decent.

i was hoping planetfall would retain fantasy elements but i think it is not doing that. so its kind of weird to see them using the age of wonders name for it. whatever.

well as long as were on the topic:

i think age of wonders 3 didnt have the best release even if i enjoyed it, but its definitely shaped up into the most interesting game in the series after its had its updates. there are so many strengths to exploit and weaknesses to cover when picking your race, class and magic schools.

my only real complaints are the lack of transport units(although naval combat ends up being more interesting for it and it gives humans a cool if not all too commonly used quirk), the army size reduction, and how they disrespected the most important unit of a race because it was annoying to handle when enhanced by a certain class instead of something more creative, and how playing against the ai at the highest difficulty level made halflings a total fuckin nightmare to deal with because of the huge morale boost they get just for being an emperor ai.

im also not very fond of the sign in thing.

Meh, I wait for the ton of expansion and update later.

It could be a sleeper hit, like AoW3 was.

>>15793964

わんことくらそう

>>15796605

How was AoW 3 a sleeper hit? Expansions may have repaired it to a playable state, but where was the sales spike or shit?

Am I the only one who enjoyed the dice roll combat of AoW2/SM? Shit is exciting and you can't always tell what the outcome of a battle will be.

>>15798478

Yah the lack of dicerolls was a common criticism about AoW 3 combat. That's why they gave the Halflings race the Lucky ability which gives 'em a random chance to outright avoid all damage and shit. I'm not the biggest fan of RNG shit but just slapping some damage reduction on everything that would normally miss just made the game stupid. AoW 3 was really sterilized.

>>15798478

there are so damn many procs though if youre just after unpredictable results. the only rng they took away is regarding basic attacks, and thats not counting morale effects. ive had enough instances where the outcome of a battle was completely flipped around because of a crit or fumble.

>>15799707

Just play halfling necro for high morale stupidity. Undead are immune to morale penalties and halflings can achieve max morale as undead.

Keeper of the Peace adept also has the Bolster spell which makes your entire army immune to morale penalties, but people rarely play Keeper of the Peace, unless they really love morale screwing cities. Somehow Keepers of the Peace have one of the best spells for inciting revolts.