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Looked at the game, thought it looked appealing with the 3D Battles (Reminded me of other RTS's.), load up the screen, beautiful artwork, not to hard of a game to grasp (Caught on in about 5 mins or so.), gameplay is very nice, i do how over think that to scroll, clicking and dragging with the Left Mouse Button, or even just pushing the mouse into the side of the screen should move it. I did get frustrated a lot of times using the ArrowKeys or clicking the mini map. Great game tho. 5/5
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I love the turn-based battles and the customization i can have in my army, the graphics are amazing and creating basic units is fast and cheap. My dislikes are the Storage boxes, i was given a "Starter Tutorial Box" for what i thought was free but it actually costs 2 gems to open (very confusing) and also the Double-Window that is Required to play the battles. Overall, a great Strategy Game and worthy of a 5/5.
Thanks!
The boxes you get are a kind of booster packs filled with units and resources. Usually it's worth the gems to open them :P A little trick it to wait for a level up. What's in the boxes depend on your level, so if you close to a level up, wait and get better units!
Also, some of the Advent Boxes we now hand out can be opened with gold or iron.
Happy marauding, MechanicalAngel
hi Zyllyn,
This is a pretty good idea, and i'm in discussion with our devs to see if we can build it in and realease it with the next patch. Can't promis you anything right now, but i'll do my best. When i know more i get back to you in this conversation!!
Cheers Legolas
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Read about the shameful acts of the devs and never forget, never forgive:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/gremmerz/recommended/31740
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Iron Grip: Marauders will go off line on July 23rd 2014. (http://forums.isotx.com/showthread.php?18331-Dear-Marauders&p=119491#post119491)
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STILL NO PATCH! The community anages promise a patch to come out in a few weeks... this happaned more than two months ago. Again nothing else than just empty promises and blatant lies. Too bad such a promising game is in the hands of such incompetent, arrogant developers and c.managers. But at least their other game fails too so justice is served. FAIR WARNING: You are better off not spending any money on any isotx game.
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Just a fair warning who care to listen. Hilarious that once the devs are faced with facts about how incompetent they are and abandoned this game for another one of theirs, broken their own promises since a year and the rest of their misdealings, they censor their forums to hide their shame. You are way better off playing other games from decent devs than waste time on this tyrannical group and their misbehaviour. They just care for your money and if it does't work out they just try anoher game and abandon the previous. Just a fair warning who care to listen.
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Oh and as for bugs, the game doesn't load for me today - I see the loading screen flash briefly and then, everything disappears leaving the standard Kong gray background and game chat (not world chat). Given that the whole thing was working properly for less than 24 hours total since the devs fixed a bug that made battles unplayable, I'm not sure if I should be happy that the game is pretty fun when it actually works, or just peeved that it breaks down so often whereas if it sucked, I just wouldn't care.
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Great game, but the energy regens far too slowly. I know you're trying to make money, but one energy per hour is just too much for me...
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I find this game to be rather enjoyable. but the only thing that bugs me is that I can't read the text during mission's it's simply to small for me to see.
so if you could enlargen the text that would be great
I'm glad to hear that and I'm sorry you can't read the text properly. Perhaps is you change something in the resolution of your screen it would help a bit? We can't really change it on our side I'm afraid.
MechanicalAngel
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I think the lack of any written response to the last two little shutdowns says all you need to know. The last developer response from ISOTX on this forum happened over a year ago.
This could have been a great game.
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I started out liking this game. And then the army that I had carefully built up (including the rare unit from the starting box) was casually wiped out on a level 2 raid.
The difficulty of opposing forces seems to vary widly. I had done a level 3 raid and handeled it nicely, so to be casually wiped out has soured the game for me.
The permanent loss of rare units seems targeted at getting players to re-pay for those units...and is distasteful.
I'm sorry to hear that. I understand that is sucks that your rare units got wiped out. However, at higher levels you'll have more variaty at the units you can build.
MechanicalAngel
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awesome!! thats the game i was waiting for:) Turn-based, lovely artworks, cool 3D battle view, funny in game character comments.
The energy points for missions are a bit to high if u ask me, but this way U can play for a while and not get bored.
5/5
massive respect to all ya at ISOTX
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This game goes "POOF!" in 3 days.
I will never play another game by ISOTX. Shame was that this was one of the best games on Kong.
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Missions cost 2-4 energy, you have a max of 24 energy, and you gain 1 energy an hour. That is 6-12 Missions a day. This is just another pay to win and wait to play game.
Hi Toimu, it's very unfortunate that you feel this was as to be really honest I would like to inform you that a battle takes up to 20-30minutes. This means people can play at least 2-3hours a day. This is pretty hardcore and all advertisement free. Yes we need to make money as we would like to continue working on games, but we try to do it in a friendly way. If you have some ideas on how we can implement the F2P model in an even more friendly way, we are open for advise. Greetings Kittyhawk
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Hey, guys! Thanks a lot for the comments and your enthusiasm. If you like our games, please rate us :) We would really appreciate it! Happy Marauding!
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Your orders! Yes Sir!. You will hate this game if you are bad at tactical and have little patience like i did at first, now the game is back to my favorite list and is top notch in multiplayer games from kongregate, hard but rewarding. Note: Learn to scout the map first then it's easy cake after you lure the AI.
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awesome game, great everything, the only thing I could possibly complain about is the optimization, sometimes it takes a while for everything to load correctly but otherwise, 5/5, oh I hope you guys make expansions and stuff, I want this game to become as bi as Clash of Dragons, if not Bigger ^^
Thanks! We are working on some new stuff, but as of now it's not clear what that's going to be. We will release an iOS game pretty soon!
MechanicalAngel
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Judging by the top comments, the Devs seem really nice. Im glad the game worked out well and I love it. No games perfect but this hits as one of the best of its genre.
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So, I'm a sucker for turn based strategies AND for steampunk - this game takes both of those, adds some pretty great production values for a browser game and promptly proceeds to screw up the great first impression with an avalanche of bugs and massive amounts of hidden data (how the hell am I supposed to plan out an effective offensive if, for instance, the game doesn't tell me enemy bullet based units have an alternate AT fire mode? Lost a couple TDs this way today to BSTW - not to mention I'd like to know the exact damage efficiency ratings, rather than just the highly generalized approximations the tooltips display)
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game is like most of the others I have played with this style but char. creation ain't so bad, better than some and overall gameplay is pretty decent. Gotta play some more though!
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Wow, it costs $0.52 to double your play time each day. $5 = 50 Kreds, 39 Kreds = 30 Gems, 4 Gems = 24 Energy, 1 Hour = 1 Energy. That is pretty good compaired to a lot of other games.
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Get ready to rumble! We’ve arranged a tournament for our young, promising captains. Everyone between level 6 and 12 can now sign up for the Rookie Rumble Tournament. Do you want to show the world what you’ve got?
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it sucks that this game has a low rating,if i speak infront of 6 billion people,i would say....rate iron grip 5 stars!
Yeah we agree, please spread the word and help us get the rate up.. If only people would give the game a chance and played for a couple of levels then they would see the whole awesomness of the game!!! Cheers Legolas!!
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Looked at the game title. Though it was going to be one of the crappiest games ever. I was wrong. Nice game, and amazing effects with your 3d, and great gameplay.
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The overall appearance of the game is quite nice. I like the old fashioned round based battle system as well as the development part particularly.
Things i would like to see improved:
XP bars for all units (do units even carry on their battle exp if they dont level up?) and the ability to pick them for battle individually (so to level up more easily)
more tactical approach on the heroes (skills?) so to personalize them further
ability to counter attacks in battle (saving action points as means of indicator)
Looking forward to future development.
Meantime: Merry X-mas and a happy new year!
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I have played the game as much as i could possibly want to and not ran out of energy. The packages opened by gems are not even needed, but are helpful, and you end up gettting free gems eventually to open them.
Good game, battles are fun and the load doesnt take very long.
Hi Nick,
This one of the best comments i heared so far. As a developer this is all we work for! Thanks for the support and if you have any more questions, don't hesitate to come by in the World Chat or react here!! Thanks again, you made my day!
Cheers Legolas
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Wow such a good game. The graphics are great, the combat is fresh, even the idle parts (smuggling, assault, recruitment) feel involved. The interface makes so much sense, and I've never felt lost in it. Even though I'm early into it, I don't think the energy will get restrictive, and purchases with gems seem to be balanced (you can actually buy cool things with the "mega-money" yayayay ^-^). And what really surprised me was how well it all worked. Loading times are short, and I've only seen one bug. Not to mention everything is steampunk. Some things I would like to see in the future for this game; more customization, like being able to customize the look of your airship, etc. And perhaps experience for your units, with some branching skill or stat trees, something like that. 5/5, can't wait to see what this evolves into. Keep it simple and stay away from too much cash grab, and this game will become one of the greats.
thanks for the support, you are totally right :) Hopefully more people will react the same. Btw did you see the World chat, you can speak with our online community and developers there who are playing through other platforms!! Have fun Marauding!!
HI Neroger, thanks for the support, there are more then (out of my head) 50 different types of units you face by leveling up. Check the research tree that you can find in your resource room, there you can find all units that you can research by leveling up. So now you know that, go and level up!! Cheers Legolas
I don't think thats why wer are game of the month, i would be happy to discuss that more and deeper with you, but for now have fun playing marauders!
Cheers legolas
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We have a new captain joining us! His name is SneakySoundz and he is waiting for you at the Captain's bar!
http://www.isotx.com/?p=5447
Hi AriezaJ,
I think you mean the advent boxes, right? Cause the Kongergae pack that we gifted to all new Kongregate players is for Kongregate users only and free to open. Those advent boxes are a big thing in our complete comunity and a tradition for multiple years now. Some of them cost some gems, other cost gold or iron.All of them are pretty easy to open. Next to that you can gain enough gems ingame to use them and you can save the crates to open them on other (higher) levels to get better rewards.
So please don't see this as an annoying feature.. see it as an opportunity, cause the rewards you get out of the boxes are way more worth then if you try to get them on other ways.. as an example, sometimes to open a box i costs you 1000 gold, but you get 3000 gold and 4 units out of it)
Chees Legolas
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Why is multiplayer (deliberately or undeliberately) left out on the "view new games" screen, so I don't know before coming in here, really annoying.
Hi Sleepingpill,
What do you mean with the "view new games" screen? We're willing to help on this support issue since we want to inform our players at best, but i don't quite get what you mean here..? Could you explain it a bit better :) Thanks on forehand!