Promising stuff on the newest update! - Page 2

Graeme Dice · #11 May 29th, 2006, 11:37 AM

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Same as before - (mostly) none.

It's currently the single best damage spell a SC can use, so I wouldn't exactly call it useless.

Nerfix · #12 May 29th, 2006, 11:44 AM

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Same as before - (mostly) none.

It's currently the single best damage spell a SC can use, so I wouldn't exactly call it useless.

Biggest source of friendly fire, too.

PDF · #13 May 29th, 2006, 12:16 PM

I fear making BoW undamaging will just make it useless, who will care about a spell that just cools the atmosphere and adds a little fatigue here or there ?
Maybe it could have been done less damaging, or higher level (as Soul Vortex is), or the AI changed to avoid freezing own troops to death, but nerfing it this way doesn't seem good.

BTW in the preview Dom3 version I have (2.79 sent to press) BoW just doesn't work, it's never cast even when scripted

Nerfix · #14 May 29th, 2006, 12:21 PM

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What eras and nations you've been checking out?

ioticus · #15 May 29th, 2006, 12:25 PM

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BTW in the preview Dom3 version I have (2.79 sent to press)

Can you comment on if the AI has been improved (especially strategic AI) very much?

PDF · #16 May 29th, 2006, 01:24 PM

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BTW in the preview Dom3 version I have (2.79 sent to press)

Can you comment on if the AI has been improved (especially strategic AI) very much? [/quote

I've rather started numerous games just to see the new stuff than going far into each, so I won't bet my hand on a definite answer... But I've seen AI building respectable armies with heavy troops, and even building forts !

Varjostin · #17 May 29th, 2006, 02:30 PM

That sounds rather promising. Having followed the wish lists it seems that the better AI is the most anticipated feature in Dom 3. I just lost my temper with Rome Total War and that stupid AI, which just sat his troops down while my scorpions (a type of ballistae {declension?}) were killing them at a steady rate. Of course, I could just not use scorpions, but I wish enemy couldn't use them either, because they jam the AI on sieges. Gee, I got a little sidetracked to OT.

It will serve as an example of an situation, where a bad AI can cause severe headache.

ioticus · #18 May 29th, 2006, 03:13 PM

Wow, that's awesome news PDF! Keep us posted.

Nerfix · #19 May 29th, 2006, 03:26 PM

Do they use mages?

Saber Cherry · #20 May 29th, 2006, 04:51 PM

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If Breath of Winter doesn't do damage anymore, what possible uses for it?

Same as before - (mostly) none.

Considering in the last game I played, Nycafor killed about 250 units with BoW and 100 with his hands, I'd also have to join the "It was far from useless" crowd. With this change, Arch Devils (Fire Shield) might eclipse Ice Devils as the preeminant blood SCs.