SpellForce: Conquest of Eo - Review
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This game seems like it would be right up my alley. Happy to hear more about it if you get back to it before I, eventually, buy it.It is a great game. I can't wait to sink more hours into it ... but the backlog prevents me so far
Playing it at the moment and thoroughly enjoying it. A lot of good Master of Magic / Age of Wonders / HOMM vibes with its own unique twists. The crafting element actually enjoyable and fairly fundamental to the gameplay as well, hopefully will make a playthrough with a different crafting base fun too.
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Hadn't realised the adventures were procedurally generated! That explains why there's loads of them but quality seems fine, hopefully will add to replayability.
I'd disagree with the comment about needing to put units on crafting nodes . . . actually adds to the gameplay, the juicy nodes are in dangerous areas or defended so you can get ahead of yourself with a bit of sneaky positioning. You can also hire workers who are pretty good at getting the terrain movement upgrades and harvesting upgrades so I mostly have a few of them sneaking around to gather stuff (you don't station them permanently, it takes 1-4 turns depending on how many units there are to harvest), and as an artificier at least you can set up to be able to give all your units mining ability so active armies generally just pick up resources as they clear out an area
They're also a bit wrong on the passive generation of crafting materials, there are tower upgrades that produce weekly volumes, although the pressure is there to keep exploring and gathering (but nowhere near running out of resource to harvest and you also get plenty from fights & loot). Also can buy stuff from independent cities or world map shops for crafting
I'd disagree with the comment about needing to put units on crafting nodes . . . actually adds to the gameplay, the juicy nodes are in dangerous areas or defended so you can get ahead of yourself with a bit of sneaky positioning. You can also hire workers who are pretty good at getting the terrain movement upgrades and harvesting upgrades so I mostly have a few of them sneaking around to gather stuff (you don't station them permanently, it takes 1-4 turns depending on how many units there are to harvest), and as an artificier at least you can set up to be able to give all your units mining ability so active armies generally just pick up resources as they clear out an area
They're also a bit wrong on the passive generation of crafting materials, there are tower upgrades that produce weekly volumes, although the pressure is there to keep exploring and gathering (but nowhere near running out of resource to harvest and you also get plenty from fights & loot). Also can buy stuff from independent cities or world map shops for crafting
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Nice to hear good things about this game. Feels like this will be my thing too. Sad that it only works on Windows as I will not have a working Windows machine any time soon. Is it possible to play through GeForce NOW?
I'm really enjoying CoE. I'm getting toward the end of playing as an artificer and it definitely has that one-more-turn gameplay. The late gameplay doesn't get boring and the crafting of runes is excellent. Leveling of units and heroes is done well.
My only complaint is I wish there were more units and they made armies hold more units. Artifacts and items are a bit boring also.
I'm definitely going to try the game as an alchemist and ramp the difficulty up another level. I would give the game a solid 8/10 and hope they keep adding features through patching and maybe a DLC.
My only complaint is I wish there were more units and they made armies hold more units. Artifacts and items are a bit boring also.
I'm definitely going to try the game as an alchemist and ramp the difficulty up another level. I would give the game a solid 8/10 and hope they keep adding features through patching and maybe a DLC.
I'm also enjoying it.
I don't like crafting in games in general and this one is not exception. Also the guessing of the recipes is pointless. I'm quite sure that almost everyone looks them up anyway. Then there are QoL features missing. When I want to craft a rune again, I want to click on it and I want to be shown the combinations of my available ingredients to complete the recipe.
I don't like the level-up lottery where the selectable feats seem to be randomized. I would prefer to be able to plan a character build.
Also I'm unsure about the possibility to move the tower. Sure, it's innovative and kind of cool, but somehow I'd rather have an actual home base.
However I don't like these aspects.
I don't like crafting in games in general and this one is not exception. Also the guessing of the recipes is pointless. I'm quite sure that almost everyone looks them up anyway. Then there are QoL features missing. When I want to craft a rune again, I want to click on it and I want to be shown the combinations of my available ingredients to complete the recipe.
I don't like the level-up lottery where the selectable feats seem to be randomized. I would prefer to be able to plan a character build.
Also I'm unsure about the possibility to move the tower. Sure, it's innovative and kind of cool, but somehow I'd rather have an actual home base.
I agree with clicking on the recipes once they are learned to automatically make the rune or potion. Learning new recipes is just color-coded and kinda fun once I figured that out.
I'm also fine with the lottery at level up because you can customize heroes and units with items and runes.
I wasn't sure if I would enjoy moving the tower but it has grown on me to go into more dangerous areas.
I'm also fine with the lottery at level up because you can customize heroes and units with items and runes.
I wasn't sure if I would enjoy moving the tower but it has grown on me to go into more dangerous areas.
I'm fine with the additional customization options but especially for the apprentices getting a spell or not can be a complete game changer with totally new options in combat. I'd really like to have more control over that.