What is difference from Dominions II???

PDF · #1 December 11th, 2006, 12:21 PM

And the AI actually builds castles !

Jack_Trowell · #2 December 11th, 2006, 01:18 PM

... and you haven't known fear until you have the dom3 AI starting to attack you with 1500+ units armies

And when you win against such an army, you truly feel epic

Of course you can also lose, as even a force of double-blessed elite units can die from fatigue against such numbers.

SC are less dominant in dom3 and, it's a good think : you can still have an unit that can win against large armies (by dom2 standard), but it will be more a way of raiding your opponents that winning the war.

As the AI construct castles now, and as a lone SC cannot hope to harm the walls, armies are now really used even in the late game.

^_^

Cainehill · #3 December 11th, 2006, 04:22 PM

New and improved game inbalances and bugs. More double-blessed sacred troops, a detested age system, shields more effective against arrows than air shield or maxed air blessing, the AI not reducing castle defense properly when sieging, less variety because special dominions were removed, etc.

Shovah32 · #4 December 11th, 2006, 05:03 PM

Dont be so critical cainehill

imo it has changed for the battle(most overpowered things have been weakened but blesses are very good now).

Alot of new nations, units, spells and the addition of national summons is very nice.

Teraswaerto · #5 December 11th, 2006, 05:25 PM

Cainehill is just living up to his sig, bitter taste indeed...

Endoperez · #6 December 11th, 2006, 05:31 PM

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Cainehill said:

New and improved game inbalances and bugs. More double-blessed sacred troops, a detested age system, shields more effective against arrows than air shield or maxed air blessing, the AI not reducing castle defense properly when sieging, less variety because special dominions were removed, etc.

There aren't that many more double-blessed sacred troops that are overpowering, the few that are good are just much better than they used to be. Still, it is rather visible in blitzes. Vanheims, and Helheim, are exteremly strong as an example.
Many people dislike the aging system, but many others find it fitting. No one actually likes their expensive mages dying, of course, but few people like how it sometimes makes most expensive mages worse for e.g. research than younger ones.
Shields AREN'T more effective than Air shield, even though going through the formula math would suggest so.
There is some kind of a bug that makes AI inefficient at besieging. There are many other bugs, too.
Themes have been removed, so the recruitable troops will always be the same when someone plays a spesific nation. Of course, the fact that randoms have been changed and/or limited to be spesific to nation and mages, and the fact the old summons most often used to diversify magic have also changed, makes differences between nations' magics more widespread. That improves diversity. The fact that national units are used also increases diversity. Of course, it's not as diverse as it would be if the themes were still in AND we had these changes, as they change diversity of slightly different things and in slightly different ways.

Captain_Kremmen · #7 December 11th, 2006, 05:44 PM

Thanks guys, I appreciate the effort. Deffinitely sounds like an evolution of Dom II rather than a revolution.

Unfortunately I only play it single player, so not sure yet whether a good buy for me. As I live in the UK it can be expensive.

The changes you mention all sound good, and I do like the sound of the manual

Ta

Andy

Shovah32 · #8 December 11th, 2006, 05:54 PM

I live in the UK and play alot of SP too, its great

. You should try to get into some MP server games as you only need to give up a few minutes each day, you get alot of time to think about your next move and its both fun and challenging.

Cor · #9 December 11th, 2006, 06:40 PM

Currently I play only single player as well. I played dom2 for 2 years and loved it. I had the same concerns as you. The demo doe not give a good view of the changes made in the game. It was well worth the money. This is from a guy who usually never spends more than $10 on a game.

Meglobob · #10 December 11th, 2006, 08:29 PM

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Captain_Kremmen said:
Thanks guys, I appreciate the effort. Deffinitely sounds like an evolution of Dom II rather than a revolution.

Unfortunately I only play it single player, so not sure yet whether a good buy for me. As I live in the UK it can be expensive.

The changes you mention all sound good, and I do like the sound of the manual

Ta

Andy

Dom3 is actually cheap for UK buyers because of the strong pound at the moment. You will pay around 34.99 pounds for Dom3 at the moment if you order from shrapnel games using a credit card, this includes posting and packaging. Most UK games are 35 quid new, the collectors editions are 40 - 45 quid at the moment for most games. So Dom3 is a bargain for the weeks/months/years of play it will give you.