New Disciples Game 'Liberation'

[Blake00]

Wow! We've got a fourth Disciples game on the way!!! I'm stunned as I thought this series was dead for sure!

I’ve always had a special love for the Disciples games as while their gameplay was similar to Heroes of Might & Magic they always had this gorgeous dark Gothic art style. The music was beautiful, the HoMM like maps fun to explore, and your units had to be really taken care of instead of being used as cannon fodder. Like most fans Disciples 2 is my favourite in the series!

Anyway the new game looks interesting... the trailer is very fancy looking and the pictures look like decent 3D, but I can't see any interface or if there's the cool Gothic artwork fans have come to love and expect. I’m also wondering if they’re dialing back the HoMM TBS strategy game (eg capture castles & resources) side of it and pushing more of a King’s Bounty RPG feel.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/12878...iberation/

[MJW (ya that one)]

Disciples is too easy (I've beaten even campaign), for example:

[MJW (ya that one)]

Hmmm... I should also mention that my favorite unit was the Hermit. D2's Imperial Assassin was pretty cool too but it got ruined in D3 (which ruined everything, but D3 never added the drawfs) and AoW1's Air Galley is a better Human unit power and flavor-wise.

[Blake00]

lol yeah I remember I was able to take enemy captials in earlier mission with the dwarfs than the other races due to the awesomeness of the Sons of Ymir. I always found it quite satisfying to smash a capital after not being able to in the earlier missions.

Anyway the first gameplay trailer is finally here! Gotta say this actually looks like a fun game I'd play and enjoy but the problem is it's not really Disciples. It feels more like King's Bounty mixed with Diablo & HoMM. They're games I love of course but dropping the gothic artwork for a more HoMM/KB cartoonish look for all heroes and units is a huge loss to THIS series. They say dark fantasy but its just KB & HoMM with a bit more darkness. Disciples visual style was all about the gothic side of dark fantasy. I wonder if it's a consequence of Canadians doing it instead of a eastern European country cause those guys know Gothic.

[MJW (ya that one)]

Played some. Pretty generic tone with a bit of Darkness as Blake said. Only other thing that stood out is that the Clans are DEAD so the Hermit remains unruined.

[MJW (ya that one)]

Finished game. Nothing stood out expect the game uses a logarithmic scale for combat so everything below 5 levels from you is a joke and 10+ levels is almost impossible. It's not symmetrical because you can buff your units a lot, especially main character. You are not supposed to take on 10+ level stacks because you are supposed to come back later. So this is an easy game if you don't handicap yourself by not doing sidequests. You can even gain infinite XP from the second chapter onwards via a character you can fight infinitely. There going to add difficulty levels but I feel it will still revolve around the logarithmic scale.

[Blake00]

thanks that's interesting to know.. hope they continue to work on it and improve it as it will be a while before I'm able to play it

[MJW (ya that one)]

Played with the highest difficulty. Easy enough if you fight every available battle. I recommend starting with the Legions level because it has an area where you get 8 extra fights and a sword that's overpowered for that point in the game.

[Blake00]

Well at least you're getting plenty of replay value out of it haha. I wonder if its doing well enough to get addons/DLC.