Initial Thoughts

First thought - I like it a lot.

Second thought - kudos to Brad and the team for coming in on Sunday to get a pre-day 0 version out early in response to the street date being broken. Colossal pain in the neck for the dev team - very much appreciated.

I went through some of the forums and blogs this morning. I agree with many of the polishing comments. There are still a fair number of small glitches to be fixed and polish points that would be helpful to incorporate. Having said that, this version is light years ahead of the last beta version and is quite enjoyable to play. I love that I have multiple feasible development routes - magic, tech, adventuring, diplomacy. I'm trying to do them all to start with to get a feel for their strengths and weaknesses, which I expect will lead to me getting crushed a few times.

Rather than post anything specific now about bugs or UI, I'll wait until after spending a week or so with the day 0 version.

For the moment, thanks to the entire dev team. It's been a long haul and I am delighted to have the game in my hands at last. Thank you!

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Ahhhh it's refreshing to read a real constructive praise and critique about the game at the same time instead of a "this game suks because ......"

Great post ashampine. )

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I just bought it and started downloading~~ I don't care what people say

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I really like it too.

Played it for 2 hours, no crash, a few typos and glitches here and there but that's nothing.

Diplomacy and tech trees options seem really deep!

For the moment, it's only

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I think this game rocks!

It is a really good solid foundation. I already find it addictive like Civ. What I want to see now is a lot more content added in free patches and paid expansions.

Spells - MORE MORE MORE. Interesting global enchantments please. Armageddon anyone? Eternal Darkness? Season of Light? Chaos Channels? Global Fertility? Battlefield spells - Prayer, Darkness, Mass Confusion, Rain of Fire etc. etc. The devs should basically rob the MoM, Dominions 3 and AoW 2 spellbooks.

Artefacts and Equipment - MORE. And more interesting swords, rings and amulets than just +1 - +5 please?

Equipment Abilities - To give more special ability options for regular troops? Bandage pack to give healing power - training component to give First Strike etc. etc.

Building Art Content - MORE and varied building components for the mod section (crystal buildings, spires like in AoW 1 & 2 for the elves, rounded domes and organic buildings like WarCraft 1 Orcs and organic structures like Zerg or something)

Creatures - Wants more monsters (not just humanoids).

Races - Non humanoid, maybe different gameplay mechanics?

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