Coe - Page 3

legowarrior · #1 March 29th, 2012, 06:34 PM

And it took me less time to realize that the crowd that plays CoE3 isn't as friendly as the crowd that plays Dominions 3.

samoht · #2 March 29th, 2012, 09:11 PM

haha ooOoOoo

The community is actually pretty great. I think on the whole sometimes we get tired of hearing people make complaints about the game that are quickly and easily answered by reading the manual. Especially from people who are familiar with Illwinter games and know the necessity of familiarizing themselves with the mechanics of the game before jumping in.

Soyweiser · #3 March 30th, 2012, 04:32 AM

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Originally Posted by samoht

haha ooOoOoo

The community is actually pretty great. I think on the whole sometimes we get tired of hearing people make complaints about the game that are quickly and easily answered by reading the manual. Especially from people who are familiar with Illwinter games and know the necessity of familiarizing themselves with the mechanics of the game before jumping in.

Well having to read the manual to learn the ****ing interface is very bad interface design. So Illwinter should not be proud of that. (Also, userability testing should have caught that).

elmokki · #4 March 30th, 2012, 03:25 AM

Well, while it didn't take long to figure out how to transfer troops, I cannot stress enough that it's needlessly unintuitive system. Of course when you figure it out it isn't that horrible for gameplay, but it's still vastly inferior to Dom3 system.

samoht · #5 March 30th, 2012, 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by elmokki

Well, while it didn't take long to figure out how to transfer troops, I cannot stress enough that it's needlessly unintuitive system. Of course when you figure it out it isn't that horrible for gameplay, but it's still vastly inferior to Dom3 system.

I do agree that Dominions 3 is the superior experience overall. As much as I enjoy CoE3, I don't think I'll end up playing it nearly as much or nearly as long as I did Dom3. I don't think I'll play ANY game that much, for that matter. I still enjoy CoE3 a lot and think a lot of people might like it more if Illwinter hadn't spoiled us with Dom3. They're a victim of their own success!

Gandalf Parker · #6 March 30th, 2012, 09:23 AM

Isnt that something that was in CoE2?

Also, a helpful button is the ? key. In the main map screen it has an informative response. In the battle views it has a different informative response. And in the army transfer screen yet another display of keys.

All 3 of those keep changing so its worth checking them again once in awhile also.

Angry_Hominid · #7 March 30th, 2012, 11:24 PM

I bought COE3 but after a couple of games I really wanted more depth so I bought DOM3. I cant seem to find any MP games tho!

vladikus · #8 March 31st, 2012, 12:03 AM

Just thought I'd throw my two cents in (I'll try not to make it a nickel). I actually bought Dom3 a few years ago, but sold it because there were many unappealing factors. CoE3, on the other hand, is right up my alley, and I consider it the better game. All about taste I guess.