OT: Heroes of Annihilated Empires open beta!

[NTJedi]

DominionsFAN said:
Oh btw NTJedi and OG, Ive seen that you are already registered on the official HoAE forum.

Yes the game looks good !

Hopefully the developers post and browse their forum once in awhile. I've seen the Bioware and Oblivion developers for NeverWinterNights2 are posting and browsing the forums almost every day.

[Gandalf Parker]

NTJedi said:

Yes the game looks good !

Hopefully the developers post and browse their forum once in awhile. I've seen the Bioware and Oblivion developers for NeverWinterNights2 are posting and browsing the forums almost every day.

Those are my favorite forums. Its why Ive always loved Shrapnel

[NTJedi]

Yes the Illwinter developers are also good with posting on the forum... considering how many of them exist in the company... they do great work!

[Gandalf Parker]

They probably are still that active. I just figure its the beta-tester group that is keeping them dancing lately

[OG_Gleep]

Ok I figured out what to do...didn't realize those sprites were builders. Totally changes the game.

[PrinzMegaherz]

I'm a bit underwhelmed:

The game gets repetitive very fast. When I finished the level, my hero had around 1200 kills, from killing the same wave of enemies again and again. Standard strategy: Cast healing tree on your front line troops, shoot that Ice Arrow at the weaker blue things and repeat until you have won.
Other things I don't like: The game gives you very few information about what's going on. I'am not quite sure what activating those monoliths does (those with a yellow or red glow). And there is no way to see the names of the enemy troops or their stats, which would be a great help to get a grip on what unit you should use to counter them.

[DominionsFan]

Prinz, this is an open beta test. You dont see most of the game content, only an idea that how the final game gonna look like. 100% that there will be enemy unit descritpions. Also dont forget there will be lot of spells not just the ice arrow of course to attack the enemy, many races/units etc. etc. Even this beta AI is doing great, it is moving mass groups of troops, I think the devs can script the AI easily and maybe the players can script it as well in the final version...example: how big groups the AI will create and attack etc. Btw the ice arrow is really working great against mass skeleton groups in this open beta. I think the final game gonna be awesome, not to mention the multiplayer part.

[Gandalf Parker]

It seems to be a niche game. Some people will love it. My son for example tends to love berserker style games. And for sales purposes I can see the logic of doing that part first and maybe working on the more strategic parts later