Game News Russian indie hit Eador: Genesis got an English release

[hoverdog]

I had no problems clearing them out in one go A warrior in decent (and freshly repaired!) equipment and a retinue of bowmen (or elves if you can get some) will do an easy work out of any number of swordsmen.

How d'you get bowmen? All I can recruit in the capital are slingers, spearmen and healers, and mercenaries are completely random.

So bros, any class suggestions?

I've tried mage (decent) and now I'm using a warrior, who seems much better.

 

[mondblut]

How d'you get bowmen? All I can recruit in the capital are slingers, spearmen and healers, and mercenaries are completely random.

Hm, uh, yes, you are right :D

Spearmen are ok too, though.

 

[hoverdog]

A couple more questions:

- if I explore a province and get "you didn't find anything interesting", does it mean there's nothing more to search for?

- are there any more races available to play, or are humans the only starting faction? that sounds kinda lame.

 

[Commissar Draco]

Well equipped warrior is like tank in first map, just hope he will not suck later on like in DaD, what you expect from game made by one man and sold for 5 jewgold?

 

[mondblut]

Did a quick Warrior run through the tutorial. No exploration, no serious expansion, just a quick rush to enemy castle. Standart equipment (breastplate, shield and the troll club from the early undead crypt - it's not randomized). First battle - lvl5 + 6 spearmen vs 12 pikemen/swordsmen/bowmen - lost all army but won with half the health remaining. Went back for repair and restock on troops, returned to enemy castle and quickly won against 6 bowmen with 2 spearmen surviving.

A couple more questions:

- if I explore a province and get "you didn't find anything interesting", does it mean there's nothing more to search for?

Nope. There is nothing more to search when exploration level reaches 100%. Until then you can always find something else.

- are there any more races available to play, or are humans the only starting faction? that sounds kinda lame.

Humans are the core race (that's explained in lore, too). With 8 non-human peoples you can make an alliance (only one per shard), and they will then provide you with troops via foreign quarter buildings.

 

[Adrageron]

So bros, any class suggestions?

Here is a good small review of hero classes and the game overall.

 

[General Maxson]

So bros, any class suggestions?

Here is a good small review of hero classes and the game overall.

Thx bro! This should come in handy.

 

[General Maxson]

Bros how do you erase unwanted character profiles?

 

[Lightknight]

any class suggestions?

There are no suggestions, archer is pretty much the only viable choice for the first hero.Warrior may bash some skulls, but will quickly hit the ceiling and will be forced to explore to find easy enemies, commander is way expensive and doesnt have that great of an advantage at level 1, and mage requires a large infrastructure in place.

If they didnt rebalance things in the remake that would suck...

 

[Trash]

Not really. All classes have their use if used right. Check out mondblut's link.

http://www.eador.com/B2/viewtopic.php?p=108462#108462

 

[mondblut]

Not really. All classes have their use if used right. Check out mondblut's link.

http://www.eador.com/B2/viewtopic.php?p=108462#108462

Uh, that wasn't me

 

[hoverdog]

This game is addicting. I mean it. I've been playing it the whole day and I don't wanna stop. Really the only thing that I'm not fond of is that you always play as humans. I can see that the sole faction is developed to hell and back, there are lots of buildings and troops, some mutually exclusive - but the feeling persists. I just don't like to play as humans in my fantasy games.

 

[udm]

This game is addicting.

Agreed. I'll only stop playing after completing a shard, or when the game crashes (which typically happens at appropriate times, like 5-6 in the morning).

 

[Overboard]

This game is addicting. I mean it. I've been playing it the whole day and I don't wanna stop. Really the only thing that I'm not fond of is that you always play as humans. I can see that the sole faction is developed to hell and back, there are lots of buildings and troops, some mutually exclusive - but the feeling persists. I just don't like to play as humans in my fantasy games.

Agreed, I haven't replied to this thread due to being too caught up in playing this game.

You can get troops from other races if you do their quests, e.g. if you receive the Elves quest and complete it (rescue Elven maidens).

 

[Humanity has risen!]

I discovered I don't like playing it because of the auto-save function, I'm not interested in playing a strategy game where every single mistake you make is permanent, considering how long these things take to plan.

Hopefully the sequel doesn't have this feature, because I'll skip it too. I don't have enough time to deal with stuff like this, and don't like wasting hours of my time. Most people actually have lives and don't want to either.

 

[Haba]

oh ffs... I am getting very annoying crackling on the sounds/music when running the GoG copy. Any ideas what the reason might be?

 

[hoverdog]

I discovered I don't like playing it because of the auto-save function, I'm not interested in playing a strategy game where every single mistake you make is permanent, considering how long these things take to plan.

Hopefully the sequel doesn't have this feature, because I'll skip it too. I don't have enough time to deal with stuff like this, and don't like wasting hours of my time. Most people actually have lives and don't want to either.

You can move time back a turn.

also, P U S S Y

 

[Angelo85]

Anyone found out yet what happens if you loose a Shard? Do you still get to keep the new building unlocks?
My current Shard is not looking good, but I really want that new Guard unit from it (unhappiness in non-human provinces is giving me headaches)

 

[udm]

oh ffs... I am getting very annoying crackling on the sounds/music when running the GoG copy. Any ideas what the reason might be?

Many users on the GOG forums are complaining about laggy mouse pointer and crackling sound issues. This post might shed some light on it. Try some of the workarounds in that thread to see if they work for you too.

-edit- Hey Haba try this:
http://af.gog.com/forum/eador_genes...ce_issues_framerate_sound_input?as=1649904300

 

[J_C]

I discovered I don't like playing it because of the auto-save function, I'm not interested in playing a strategy game where every single mistake you make is permanent, considering how long these things take to plan.

Hopefully the sequel doesn't have this feature, because I'll skip it too. I don't have enough time to deal with stuff like this, and don't like wasting hours of my time. Most people actually have lives and don't want to either.

 

[PorkaMorka]

I discovered I don't like playing it because of the auto-save function, I'm not interested in playing a strategy game where every single mistake you make is permanent, considering how long these things take to plan.

Hopefully the sequel doesn't have this feature, because I'll skip it too. I don't have enough time to deal with stuff like this, and don't like wasting hours of my time. Most people actually have lives and don't want to either.

Man up. You can recover from a lot of mistakes. I'm currently winning a shard where I took a couple bad deaths.

It's actually kind of awesome like that.

For example, compare with Disciples 2. In that game, you lose your main hero and it is GG. Here you just have to wait a few turns and pay to resurrect him.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

I discovered I don't like playing it because of the auto-save function, I'm not interested in playing a strategy game where every single mistake you make is permanent, considering how long these things take to plan.

Hopefully the sequel doesn't have this feature, because I'll skip it too. I don't have enough time to deal with stuff like this, and don't like wasting hours of my time. Most people actually have lives and don't want to either.

You can move time back a turn.

also, P U S S Y

And you lose points while doing so.

Screw you, I have a wife and a child on the way, I don't want anything to do with this nonsense.

For a game this long and this hard to plan in which decisions can have very long consequences this is a very bad idea.

 

[mondblut]

And you lose points while doing so.

Screw you, I have a wife and a child on the way, I don't want anything to do with this nonsense.

You have a wife and a child on the way, yet are concerned with high skorez to the point of abandoning the game on the grounds of not being able to achieve them due to restricted reloading?

Well, duh.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

This is not just due to this, sometimes you want to reload from an hour or two back to explore another strategy, and this system prevents you from doing that. And yes many people consider this a waste of important time.

There are many people who are pissed about the state system and don't want to buy the sequel if it follows the same restricting principle. With a Wizardry kind of game, sure... but not a strategy game.

 

[mondblut]

There is always a next shard to explore another strategy. That's not Heroes where you have to try a campaign scenario again and again until you go through it. A lost shard is not a lost game (well, unless you lose them all and end up roasting in chaos). At worst, you lose an opportunity to claim a building knowledge or a shard attack "bonus" that were stored on this particular shard, but chances are high they will be eventually available on another, it's all randomly generated.

(in b4 "i have family to feed and bills to pay, so games shouldn't be longer than 5 hours")