OT: Heroes of Annihilated Empires demo

[DominionsFan]

vanedor said:
I've downloaded this demo last week-end.

I found the game totally boring. I only tried the campaign mission and it was basically just learning how to use the (ultra powerful) few spells they give us. All units they give us are as good as dead at the next battle. Eventually, I got to the point where I could start building a base in the usual rts fashion but two seconds after I got started, the undead started to come in unending waves, single handedly killed by my ranger with a sword. And that's hundreds of undeads.

Eventually, I became bored of killing undeads coming from every direction and having my base ruined for the sixth time. If only it had included a tutorial of some sort. And the graphics are so zoomed out... nice zoomed out graphics are easy, and the story and dialogue feel cheesy.

The AI is excellent. Frankly this is the best AI what I've seen so far. It is attacking with huge number of troops endlessly. I don't know if its cheating or not, but this was on normal diff. level. Try a skirmish game against the AIs. Its hardcore. I think that the game will require some balance. The Elven faction seems more powerful then the Undead. I've played 3 skirmish games so far, and the Elven AI steamrolled he Undead AI in all games. Mass archers just killed off the hundreds of skeletons and ghosts, and at that point the UD AI had no stronger troops only some mummies.
Anyways this game will be excellent for both SP and MP.

[Cainehill]

You do realize that giving the AI huge resource bonuses, thus allowing hordes of units, isn't exactly "excellent AI" - it's the same thing that most strategy/wargames have done to make things more difficult for the human players, and is generally simply considered cheesy.

[DominionsFan]

Cainehill said:

You do realize that giving the AI huge resource bonuses, thus allowing hordes of units, isn't exactly "excellent AI" - it's the same thing that most strategy/wargames have done to make things more difficult for the human players, and is generally simply considered cheesy.

How do you know that the AI is getting a resource bonus on "normal" difficulty level?
Anyways I can beat the Galciv2 "superAI" on the hardest setting without any problems, but the HoAE normal AI is better, its much harder to beat. Now I was playing more with the Undead, and I can beat the AI now on normal. However, Ive never ever seen this in any other strategy game, that the AI is moving huge forces in the same time. In fact listen to this. My AI teammate has attacked the enemy AI from 2 different directions. [front and rear attack] Not to mention that my teammate upgraded the skeletons 5 times so they were at maximum level. [3x def bonus and 2x att bonus] It was moving fliers and siege weapons with the core skeleton infantry. I am really impressed. SP fans will like this. Also imho the MP part will be awesome, which is very important for me. The whole system is excellent.