To be honest, Hands of War 3 is so much better than 2. I actually like you can click on a target and then you canfocus on walking around and using spells, while using WASD / arrow keys. Graphics have been improved strongly. The endless grinding for faction alignment has been fixed by offering quests that you can repeat, and they give quite a lot of alignment. Also - not sure if this is a bug - you can wear high level equipment, as long as you can afford the price
To counter all the negative comments, I think this is a very well-crafted game. It isn't unique in gameplay or anything, but quite solid. I've had no troubles connecting to the server though
Also, I cannot seem to remove installed equipment? :-/ unless I sell my ship? And upgraded ships give the same amount of xp (based on rarity) as level 1 ships... guhhh. The idea of the game is nice but there's so much that needs to be developed
Important to know: the guilliotine strike of Eastern Empire is based on your armor. You can easily slay them taking off all your armor. Please rate it up for hard badge hunters
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