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It's a simple combo, but I'm really liking Shock and Awe + Flash Payload. bamhand posted:Anyway to get around the bug where the game hangs on independents moving? I'm like 4 hours into a game and about to win. Tried reloading an older saved game but it hasn't helped. In strategic or in tactical? In tactical, just wait.
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# ? Nov 29, 2020 18:54 |
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Strategic. I hit end turn and everyone moves. Then it gets to independents and never leaves that phase. Waited about 10-15 minutes.
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# ? Nov 29, 2020 20:32 |
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bamhand posted:Strategic. I hit end turn and everyone moves. Then it gets to independents and never leaves that phase. Waited about 10-15 minutes. Known bug, should be fixed on the open beta branch.
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# ? Nov 29, 2020 20:39 |
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Yeah, was just wondering if there was anyway to salvage my game without waiting for the patch.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 01:42 |
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bamhand posted:Yeah, was just wondering if there was anyway to salvage my game without waiting for the patch. I had the same issue and the beta branch fixed it. You can opt into the beta branch if you're using Steam. If not you might just have to wait.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 03:53 |
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Is there a way to go back all the way to loadout selection before starting a new planet in Empire mode? I made some poor choices on the stuff I wanted to bring.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 04:26 |
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bamhand posted:Yeah, was just wondering if there was anyway to salvage my game without waiting for the patch. The open beta fixes it on Steam. If you don’t have steam the patch will be coming very soon. The hang is caused by having razed imperial defenses in your territory, so you can rebuild those. unfortunately it can also happen if there are razed imperial defenses in AI territory too, so that’s not a reliable fix.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 07:13 |
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toasterwarrior posted:Is there a way to go back all the way to loadout selection before starting a new planet in Empire mode? I made some poor choices on the stuff I wanted to bring. I think that's what the option that replaces surrender is for. 'Abandon planet,' I think? You may not be able to visit the same planet with a different loadout, though.
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 12:30 |
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Am I crazy or is the Star Kings campaign just completely terrible? In the first mission, I'm tasked with destroying an Assembly NPC that has their primary colony on an island completely surrounded by void. They can't seem to leave and I can't get to them. I'm supposed to do quests for three Oathbound colonies. One of the quests tells me to get three keys to unlock an obelisk, but I have no idea what that means or where to find them. One of them sent me to "Shroomwood Forest" to clear out some Mycelians, a no joke 7000 strength stack. I probably could make an army that could destroy them, but at this point I don't even know why I'm bothering.
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# ? Dec 23, 2020 02:13 |
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You're supposed to find a way to destroy those micelians without fighting them. Keep asking your seer for help at every opportunity.
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# ? Dec 23, 2020 06:19 |
I played through the old AoW campaigns and quite enjoyed them but I just cannot get into the planetfall ones at all.
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# ? Dec 23, 2020 06:27 |
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Kind of following on that note, I always faded out on the human "boring" tutorial campaign -- do the campaigns get better or is Empire Mode the best foot forward of this game for someone who wants to play it primarily solo? Should I be warned off playing it solo at all?
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 02:30 |
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Memnaelar posted:Kind of following on that note, I always faded out on the human "boring" tutorial campaign -- do the campaigns get better or is Empire Mode the best foot forward of this game for someone who wants to play it primarily solo? Should I be warned off playing it solo at all? Just picked this up on Steam and am wondering the same thing. Have never played any AoW games but I like Paradox games and space stuff. I see there's a campaign but "Found a New Empire" seems way cooler. I watched a YouTube video on the Galactic Empire mode, and it seems like an ongoing campaign itself if I'm not mistaken. Any recommendation on the best mode for a first play-through?
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 04:35 |
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mincedgarlic posted:Just picked this up on Steam and am wondering the same thing. Have never played any AoW games but I like Paradox games and space stuff. I see there's a campaign but "Found a New Empire" seems way cooler. I watched a YouTube video on the Galactic Empire mode, and it seems like an ongoing campaign itself if I'm not mistaken. Any recommendation on the best mode for a first play-through? Definitely empire mode! Though the oathbound campaign, after you win, gives you a level 5 empire hero and unlocks the super-powerful paragon alpha soldiers in empire mode. But just play empire, it’s a great experience that I hope other games emulate going forward.
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 05:47 |
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Alamoduh posted:Definitely empire mode! Though the oathbound campaign, after you win, gives you a level 5 empire hero and unlocks the super-powerful paragon alpha soldiers in empire mode. Just play Empire mode. I actually didn't even try any of the campaigns until after finishing a million Empire games. I wouldn't have bothered without the concept of cool unlockable soldiers, and I went back and started a new Oathbound campaign today after apparently doing it wrong before and not consulting the seer. The campaign is actually just as bad with that bit of advice, it's just a trash campaign. The unlockable soldiers aren't even that great. Edit: You can only unlock a couple of units through the campaigns, the Paragon Elites. It's not worth it. Just make custom commanders and play custom missions that sound fun. litany of gulps fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Dec 24, 2020 |
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Idk if it's better for a new player to jump right into empire mode or to do a standard random map instead. The campaigns have people who like them and people who don't, they're worth a shot but if they don't grab you just move on to the other sp modes I would not say this is a game to steer clear of if you're looking for a purely sp experience. I play almost entirely mp and while a lot of great considerations have been made this is not a game that was built for mp first and foremost. It's definitely a game meant to be played single player, with some fundamental game design that makes for some really fun multiplayer even if a lot of base mechanical implementation isn't well suited for that ninjewtsu fucked around with this message at 07:31 on Dec 24, 2020 |
# ? Dec 24, 2020 07:27 |
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The Official Recommendation (TM) is to play one quick game on the Practice world template if you've never played the game before. You don't have to finish it or anything, but playing for 20-30 turns on a chill world where all the threat is turned down lets you get to grip with the game's mechanics and things without all the stress of knowing that some AI player or random monster spawn is going to turn up and start loving with you.
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 09:35 |
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Gerblyn posted:The Official Recommendation (TM) is to play one quick game on the Practice world template if you've never played the game before. You don't have to finish it or anything, but playing for 20-30 turns on a chill world where all the threat is turned down lets you get to grip with the game's mechanics and things without all the stress of knowing that some AI player or random monster spawn is going to turn up and start loving with you. are ya'll making age of wonders 4
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 09:41 |
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Gerblyn posted:The Official Recommendation (TM) is to play one quick game on the Practice world template if you've never played the game before. You don't have to finish it or anything, but playing for 20-30 turns on a chill world where all the threat is turned down lets you get to grip with the game's mechanics and things without all the stress of knowing that some AI player or random monster spawn is going to turn up and start loving with you. Oh yeah, it's always easy to forget once you know everything because all of the individual mechanics are (relatively) simple, but there's a real metric gently caress ton to learn when you first get into the game. Getting a feel for the mechanics and learning what each unit does (there's tons of them and they're all fairly unique!) And what each mod does (there's a ton of them and they're all fairly unique!) While playing a low stress world would be a good idea
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 09:57 |
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THS posted:are ya'll making age of wonders 4 I’m not allowed to talk about that kind of thing
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 13:01 |
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Memnaelar posted:Kind of following on that note, I always faded out on the human "boring" tutorial campaign -- do the campaigns get better or is Empire Mode the best foot forward of this game for someone who wants to play it primarily solo? Should I be warned off playing it solo at all?
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Gerblyn posted:I’m not allowed to talk about that kind of thing Can you confirm or deny having something to do with the plush toy frog in the Oathbound campaign?
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Gerblyn posted:I’m not allowed to talk about that kind of thing I'll take this as a yes.
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 19:51 |
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I'll be honest as much as I want an age of wonders 4 if triumph announced a first person farming sim tomorrow I'd be pretty hyped to see what they put out
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 20:50 |
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Planetfall 2
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 20:55 |
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Overlord
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 21:14 |
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my dad posted:Can you confirm or deny having something to do with the plush toy frog in the Oathbound campaign? I... uh... what?
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 21:34 |
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It's like the very first thing in the campaign. You have a dream about losing a toy as a child, and a plush frog is one of the options. Then you go and seek the toy on a quest.
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 21:51 |
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I thought it could have been a reference to Something Awful's "get out" frog.
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# ? Dec 24, 2020 22:43 |
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Haha, no I didn’t know about that! I didn’t play through the finished campaign yet.
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# ? Dec 25, 2020 07:42 |
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litany of gulps posted:Am I crazy or is the Star Kings campaign just completely terrible? In the first mission, I'm tasked with destroying an Assembly NPC that has their primary colony on an island completely surrounded by void. They can't seem to leave and I can't get to them. I'm supposed to do quests for three Oathbound colonies. One of the quests tells me to get three keys to unlock an obelisk, but I have no idea what that means or where to find them. One of them sent me to "Shroomwood Forest" to clear out some Mycelians, a no joke 7000 strength stack. I probably could make an army that could destroy them, but at this point I don't even know why I'm bothering. I just played the first level and all of the quests have work arounds if you read the little objective thingy (except the obelisk one, not sure what that deal was). It's meant to be some role playing where you're a knight that needs to complete a series of quests to protect your kingdom. Like Arthur or whatever.
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# ? Dec 26, 2020 01:13 |
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bamhand posted:I just played the first level and all of the quests have work arounds if you read the little objective thingy (except the obelisk one, not sure what that deal was). It's meant to be some role playing where you're a knight that needs to complete a series of quests to protect your kingdom. Like Arthur or whatever. Yeah, I ended up finishing it. The obelisk one just has to be done last, which was sort of unclear. It all ends up feeling like something is bugged out until you get to the end and realize it was actually just awkwardly executed. I should've built three stacks of exemplars and wiped out the giant Mycelian horde manually, as preparing that force would've simplified the end of it, where the Assembly guy had built 15 stacks of scavengers on his island. I did enjoy my stuff transferring over to mission 2, if only for the beginning of the scenario having a hilariously overpowered pair of heroes right off the bat.
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# ? Dec 26, 2020 03:52 |
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I tried Shadow Magic and bounced off of it. Is Planetfall more of the same with sci-fi set dressing or is it mechanically different enough to be worth checking out?
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# ? Dec 26, 2020 09:52 |
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shadowmagic is a generation behind planetfall. planetfall is a mechanical iteration on age of wonders 3, which is a complete modernization and revamping of age of wonders 2, of which shadowmagic is a sequel. They're pretty different to the point that it's honestly an apples to oranges comparison
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# ? Dec 26, 2020 10:11 |
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Lazyhound posted:I tried Shadow Magic and bounced off of it. Is Planetfall more of the same with sci-fi set dressing or is it mechanically different enough to be worth checking out?
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# ? Dec 26, 2020 11:08 |
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litany of gulps posted:Yeah, I ended up finishing it. The obelisk one just has to be done last, which was sort of unclear. It all ends up feeling like something is bugged out until you get to the end and realize it was actually just awkwardly executed. I should've built three stacks of exemplars and wiped out the giant Mycelian horde manually, as preparing that force would've simplified the end of it, where the Assembly guy had built 15 stacks of scavengers on his island. The campaign is kind of worth it for the very last mission. It's about as epic you can get in the sense that you still have a situation where you need to build everything up and take over sectors but the stakes are raised and there's interesting things happening. I think that mission and the Shakarn mission where you have to kill a group of three AI while also dealing with a never ending void spawns were both fairly memorable. Everything else kind of seems grand but typically isn't much beyond carting your hero around the map and making friend/rushing people. Empire mode is amazing though.
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# ? Dec 26, 2020 12:59 |
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I just wish I didn't have to replay the campaign in order get Paragon Elites in a new campaign. Tier 2 skirmishers with a solid-damage repeating ranged attack, overwatch, and a loving built-in stun on every shot are really, REALLY good. Way better than their army rating suggests.
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 17:21 |
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There's an in game tip for if you start a new empire, just load up the last turn before you win in the campaign and it'll unlock when you win.
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# ? Jan 18, 2021 01:37 |
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Now that the last DLC has been out for a while, how are people feeling about oathbound? The opinions that I've seen tend to fall on one of two hyperbolic positions: they're either complete trash or the best race in the game. Interested in where SA players are falling on that
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The Oathbound tactical play style doesn’t strike a chord for me. Not saying it’s strong or not, good or not. I spent so long getting over my habit of bunching up my lines into easily exploded clusters, especially with Kir’Ko. Now that my starting stack contains a hero and unit that have one or two abilities each that encourages me to pack my units tight the return of several bad habits gives me a mild aversion.
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