This game got rid of as bunch of BS from Age of Wonders 3 (got rid of EXP grinding by going by units killed not actions taken and make converted units die when you win) and added empire management; so it's a better game but I will probably play it less because I like fantasy more and my greater experience.
(August 17th, 2019, 12:23)RFS-81 Wrote: Did anyone find an option to loop build queues?
In AoW3 it was a button with an infinity symbol on it to the left of the build queue. The UI looks really similar, so surely they haven't got rid of such a useful function.
(August 19th, 2019, 07:07)Lewwyn Wrote: I’ll be getting this soon.
Cool, maybe we can get a SG going at some point!
About looping the build queue, I remember that button in AoW3, but I'm not seeing it anywhere in the Planetfall UI. When I select the Generate Energy project, there's an infinity symbol below the project icon (where the build time would normally be), but clicking it does nothing, and the game still prompts me to give the city a build order the next turn :/
Just started the Dvar campaign. They're space dwarves. With Russian accents. The commander has a warhammer with a little booster rocket for extra punch. Fun times! Their units are unusual in that almost all of their weapons seem to be single-attack. They also seem to be relatively melee-heavy. I like the Trenchers' ability to just drop cover anywhere! They're also supposed to be able to raise and lower mountains, so this time around, it should be easy for production and energy to go hand in hand.
I'm having a lot of fun with the basic Dvar units. Single-shot attacks actually make them surprisingly agile. Units with repeating attacks can do more damage, but it drops off sharply as they move around. The Trenchers can move to flank an enemy, drop themselves some cover, and then still deal their full damage! The Trenchers and Foremen (support units that can heal and boost morale) also have some neat crowd-control abilities that make for some fun combos: They both have melee attacks that stagger enemies (draining movement points for the next turn) and knock them back. That way, you can bunch up enemies and then hit them with the Foremens' hand mortars which have an AoE stagger effect! The damage isn't great, but you can make multiple enemies miss most or all of their turn.
I haven't played a lot with their higher-end units. There are some machine-gun mechs with repeating attacks. The Bulwark can always act as if it had full action points in overwatch mode. The Baron can buff Dvar and machine units.
I still have three factions to go in the campaign, but from what I've seen so far of the others, I think I've found my favorite already!
What do you think the Empeoress is? I'm pretty sure she's an impostor because she mentioned that see has seen many dimensions and if she was the real Empeoress this would be the first one. CORE seems to be more rational (did she really need to blow up everyone and make Paragons?) and supports humanity so I would pick it. (You can go solo and win but that wouldn't be an option in real life). Also the Death's eye is broken if you use supply charge.
I'm not that far along with this part of the story. I've played the Vanguard, Kir'ko and now started with the Dvar. My only encounter with the Empress was in the 2nd Vanguard mission, and asking me to burn down the planet didn't exactly make her sympathetic, so I went with the quest to resurrect the old Emperor who wanted to dismantle CORE back in the day (if I understood correctly). The dialogue with the Empress made the Vanguard commander seem really deranged. "The voice in my head telling me to kill everybody knows that I've seen the Empress on a parade as a kid! Clearly, she must really be the Empress!"
Do you think that the Planetfall universe is related to the previous games? I feel like they're dropping some hints that the Kir'ko are somehow related to the Shadow Demons from AoW: Shadow Magic. They are both hivemind bug things and they have a bunch of similar units, like the Bombard/Barrager or Harvester/Devourer. That's a thing I could write off as coincidence. But in the 2nd Kir'ko mission, there's a patch of Nothing somewhere on the map, and when you go near it, the commander has a vision revealing that the Kir'ko aren't native to this universe and arrived from the void inside a sort of giant bug. Maybe the Shadow Demons are Kir'ko under a mad queen?
Also, if you've finished the Kir'ko campaign, did you support cloning a new Queen of Queens or not? I went against it by killing the Amazon leader that was involved with the project. Many of the Kir'ko are happy as individuals, after all. In the end, I saw some dialogue that the Amazon was following a plot by the Empress to re-enslave the Kir'ko, so that seems like the Good Ending.
I'm not that far along with this part of the story. I've played the Vanguard, Kir'ko and now started with the Dvar. My only encounter with the Empress was in the 2nd Vanguard mission, and asking me to burn down the planet didn't exactly make her sympathetic, so I went with the quest to resurrect the old Emperor who wanted to dismantle CORE back in the day (if I understood correctly). The dialogue with the Empress made the Vanguard commander seem really deranged. "The voice in my head telling me to kill everybody knows that I've seen the Empress on a parade as a kid! Clearly, she must really be the Empress!"
Do you think that the Planetfall universe is related to the previous games? I feel like they're dropping some hints that the Kir'ko are somehow related to the Shadow Demons from AoW: Shadow Magic. They are both hivemind bug things and they have a bunch of similar units, like the Bombard/Barrager or Harvester/Devourer. That's a thing I could write off as coincidence. But in the 2nd Kir'ko mission, there's a patch of Nothing somewhere on the map, and when you go near it, the commander has a vision revealing that the Kir'ko aren't native to this universe and arrived from the void inside a sort of giant bug. Maybe the Shadow Demons are Kir'ko under a mad queen?
Also, if you've finished the Kir'ko campaign, did you support cloning a new Queen of Queens or not? I went against it by killing the Amazon leader that was involved with the project. Many of the Kir'ko are happy as individuals, after all. In the end, I saw some dialogue that the Amazon was following a plot by the Empress to re-enslave the Kir'ko, so that seems like the Good Ending.
If Kir'ko were shadow demons they would have retained their racial magic abilities. Empress is probably an alien though.
(August 27th, 2019, 14:42)MJW (ya that one) Wrote:
(August 27th, 2019, 12:37)RFS-81 Wrote:
I'm not that far along with this part of the story. I've played the Vanguard, Kir'ko and now started with the Dvar. My only encounter with the Empress was in the 2nd Vanguard mission, and asking me to burn down the planet didn't exactly make her sympathetic, so I went with the quest to resurrect the old Emperor who wanted to dismantle CORE back in the day (if I understood correctly). The dialogue with the Empress made the Vanguard commander seem really deranged. "The voice in my head telling me to kill everybody knows that I've seen the Empress on a parade as a kid! Clearly, she must really be the Empress!"
Do you think that the Planetfall universe is related to the previous games? I feel like they're dropping some hints that the Kir'ko are somehow related to the Shadow Demons from AoW: Shadow Magic. They are both hivemind bug things and they have a bunch of similar units, like the Bombard/Barrager or Harvester/Devourer. That's a thing I could write off as coincidence. But in the 2nd Kir'ko mission, there's a patch of Nothing somewhere on the map, and when you go near it, the commander has a vision revealing that the Kir'ko aren't native to this universe and arrived from the void inside a sort of giant bug. Maybe the Shadow Demons are Kir'ko under a mad queen?
Also, if you've finished the Kir'ko campaign, did you support cloning a new Queen of Queens or not? I went against it by killing the Amazon leader that was involved with the project. Many of the Kir'ko are happy as individuals, after all. In the end, I saw some dialogue that the Amazon was following a plot by the Empress to re-enslave the Kir'ko, so that seems like the Good Ending.
If Kir'ko were shadow demons they would have retained their racial magic abilities. Empress is probably an alien though.
If you look at the Unity victory condition it is CORE. CORE wants peace order and harmony. Empress's wants humanity to transcend, break free and grow from CORE. So I guess her victory condition is Development. This might be another reason she pushes you to fumigate in the second Vanguard mission. Her ability to delete Sectors also fits this too. People like taking the easy way out and combine this with the Empress instability makes most factions pick CORE. If you go alone you want a liberal star union where you work together with the other factions but that doesn't make too much sense because you killed everyone else. It does make sense if you just look at rejecting CORE and Empress. Rejecting CORE means rejecting control/unity which means freedom and Rejecting Empress means rejecting transcend/development/blowing people up which means diversity. Freedom and Diversity-->Liberal Star Union. Empress and CORE are meant to be mirrors of eachother. Both are meant to be bad. CORE wants control at the cost of development and Empress wants transcendence at the cost of unity.
Anyway I'm probably not going to play anymore (expect SG) after finishing the campign because stack-splitting makes it so you don't lose unless you get dogpiled and not vassal. zzzz
Their units are unusual in that almost all of their weapons seem to be single-attack. They also seem to be relatively melee-heavy. I like the Trenchers' ability to just drop cover anywhere! They're also supposed to be able to raise and lower mountains, so this time around, it should be easy for production and energy to go hand in hand.