There's a lot of balance stuff we have to address for sure.

So I just tried playing it again.  3 games in a row, I barely got out of eye shot of my city when my starting party was attacked by a large, overwelming force that totally wiped them out.

At this point, I find the game unplayable and unbalanced.  So, I won't be playing again until the next update.  Sorry I can't help more... but it's just insane now.

I don't enjoy games where I am a bug being crushed by a giant foot.

We did an update on Friday that addressed this. Should be ok  now.

I still show version 80 and it's still an issue.  All monster bases seem to start with and extra set of monsters and this second set is WAY too powerful for the level.  On easy, there are 6-8 monsters to my 3.  And they aggressively attack anything near them.  I can't even get to the resources.

The pacing goal for 1.0 is to have a handful of very easy enemies in your starting vicinity ("Overwhelming Victories" & "Victories") to allow newer players a chance to learn combat without fear of defeat. It should be a few steps into the FOW before hitting your first 'Uncertain' battles, and even these will need to ramp up in difficulty the further you get from your capital city.

All balance stuff that will be tweaked in the next few weeks

Oh... and that's on EASY.

Not only that... but what the heck is with the quests?  I did a weak tavern that sent me to a weak dungeon where I find two ogres.  This is before I've even researched my first spell.  WTF?  What does WEAK mean?

And when starting a new game, it should default to our last choice... regardless of whether that was a custom choice.

Another issue... apparently SOMETIMES, things that are supposed to SUBTRACT from the doomsbar actually ADD to it.  Just happened with an allied faction.  I asked them to slow down the SK, it says -5 to doomsbar but it went UP 5.

Another bug - invulnerability potion doesn't work.  Took it... got it by and arrow an died.  Last I checked... arrows are physical damage, so I should have been immune.

Ok... I give up.  This game is too frustrating right now.

Waves of super power creatures roaming around.  Literally, I get no chance to setup cities and when I do, they are immediately wiped out.

More bugs....

When defending a city, the archers can cast invincibility... only... it doesn't do anything.  I had an ogre attack a new town... a few turns into the game (again, crazy balance).  Both units cast invincibility and both units were killed by the ogre's ranged attack.

The highlighting - around the selected unit and around the cities disappears sometimes.

This latest patch has really sucked away most of the joy of playing this game.  Whereas before I was playing it for hours daily... now it's whenever I am so bored and optimistic that I decide to inflict the pain of a masochistic game on myself - I guess rename the game 50 shades of Elemental. 

It may be that the unit ability Divine Shield (or whatever it's called) doesn't work properly, but the Sov Spell that gives invulnerability does - it makes you dodge all attacks and be immune to all spells for 3 turns.  I haven't tested the spell part of it though - I think on the lowest difficulties the SK doesn't cast spells at all.