The game I think has managed to avoid the problem Stellaris had, where a lot of customization hid a game lacking the depth to make any of it meaningful. I didn't quite recreate what I liked so much about Paladin Orcs, which was namely a high amount of melee damage backed up by Spirit damage, buffing, and solid heals, but I think I got fairly close.Ģ. I did manage to finish the starter scenario despite a frustratingly high number of crashes to desktop in battles. I picked Feudal** as my culture origin, and otherwise focused on Order Magic, which worked well enough. One of my favorite combinations in Age of Wonders 3 was Paladin Orcs, so I did my best to recreate this here for my first play through, which mostly worked. But, I don't want to leave off on a dour note, so I'll talk about my initial play through, and other thoughts:ġ. Outside of that, this game has a lot of potential, but I'd recommend waiting for some more patching before jumping in if you have AMD cards. I'm confident Triumph Studios will fix it, and stuff like generous autosave cools my temper here, however, it always seems to hit in tactics battles, which is frustrating given that's really the star of the show in the Age of Wonders series. If they are still the same team I know from these very forums, they will make things right.So, downside? This game sadly crashes for me a lot, even with hot fixes*.

I might sound like a shill, but my opinion of them is not based on this release alone, I've been following their games and I can vouch for their responsiveness. I personally work in IT and I know that it's usually not that easy to communicate changes.adress issues on every channel.

Maybe they effed-up something, maybe there were some last-minute changes in graphic drivers which broke the game, but imo it's the dilligence with which they work to fix them that shows their work culture (even if it's a bit messy on the communication side). Triumph devs are working on them, they even respond to issues reported here on this very forum on an individual level - they are normal programmers, not magicians. You mentioned yourself there are some technical limitations that might come from specific platforms as far as hotfixes go.

Click to expand.Well, it's unfortunate that you had such an expierience, but I think you should give them more credit.

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