Yeah that's a really old post, the unit was improved after that.
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Well, some good came of the discussion then.
 I agree that Beastmen as a whole are just fine. Minotaurs do their end game work. I'll try Beastmen out specifically next game to play with the manticores a bit more. Flying poison at range might be more useful for clearing out neutral towns than I think. Sounds like ghouls will be nastier as well now too. I'm trying to mix up my world size, starting conditions, races, etc each game to facilitate bug searching. My suggestions are merely thoughts as I play. CoM 2 is further along and more bug free than most early access games I've bought on Steam. It's been fun hunting for the last few bugs to be found, and you fix them so fast! It has been a real pleasure thus far. I wish people didn't get so hung up on graphics, because CoM 2 is a real gem. Deserving of more attention than it will get, probably. I would argue CoM 2 is better than Stardock's Elemental series (all of them), all other MoM clones which are usually bug riddled, the AoW series and the Endless Legend strategy games. Paradox as a developer suffers from endless post release game overhaul and feature bloat in all their games such as Europa Universalis, and Stellaris. I have probably 2500 hours played in Civ 5 so that's a tough call, but to even be having an internal debate about this game versus Civilization is a tremendous accolade. I suppose it was all the mods that puts Civ over the top in the end, not the base games themselves. If you were, in a magical world, able to shift from squares to hexes, and hire the art team from the Blizzard's Starcraft 2 universe this game would be the blockbuster strategy hit of 2021.
November 26th, 2020, 09:25
(This post was last modified: November 26th, 2020, 09:26 by Intaka.)
As if on cue, my game repeatably locked up (no response) upon taking a big nature node.
This is the 22Nov2020 build. Take the nature node next to the hero stack. I suspect it is a spellbook / retort overflow issue. 9N 7L 2C with warlord & myrran. Game freeze occurs upon killing the last Earth Elemental in the node (treasure generation, I'm sure). On the plus side, I guess I can move on to the 26Nov2020 build now. Was such a perfect game though. https://www.dropbox.com/s/b8u6olb8ldhhv66/8.sav?dl=0
November 26th, 2020, 09:29
(This post was last modified: November 26th, 2020, 09:33 by Intaka.)
The spell one gets from taking a tower. Is it guaranteed to be a spell you don't have in the research queue? I have been disincentivizing taking towers in the thought process that I needed to finish as much research as possible to maximize the probability that I would get an additional spell.
Stupid question. The treasure in a node is a fixed value, correct? If I throw in a stack to kill part of the node garrison, and the node is taken by a 2nd stack, this doesn't decrease the treasure value of the node. Similarly, the Call of the Wild spell pre-removing part of a node garrison doesn't lower the reward I am guessing. All of that True?
November 26th, 2020, 09:55
(This post was last modified: November 26th, 2020, 09:56 by Seravy.)
Treasure value and type is predetermined, yes.
Spells are given in the following order of priority : -Spell you can't research -Spell you can research but don't see yet -Spell you can already see -Spell you already started researching -Replacement mana crystals if you have all spells of the tier already researched. This has been that way even in CoM I the past few years.
November 27th, 2020, 07:55
(This post was last modified: November 27th, 2020, 07:56 by Seravy.)
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Quote:2020-11-27 What does everyone think about the AI's mana saving decision? I didn't have all that many battles this game so far but can't help noticing I lost much fewer units because my enemy is not wasting mana casting Confusion in unwinnable fights. Which ultimately hurts him. The units that didn't die will attack him again later. |