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Also: (1) spell advancement does very little relative to the cost. (2) You need some advantage to reducing number of both enemies and your own troops in order to reduce lag. (3) Value of strategy is massively overwhelmed by grinding for gold.
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This game has promise, but there are some critical faults. Most have been mentioned here already: lag, grinding, crafting. I find the lack of information on skills to be frustrating. What does "true" damage increase? Do auras impact anyone nearby, or only your own troops? What does "finisher" do? Is armor reduction applied on every hit?
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After spending some time with this game, I find it dull when you hit the grind stage. A few urgent fixes - less random crafting results, more control over the type of special mercs you can hire (e.g. have a few mages available at all time), better inventory management system with auto-functions.
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How to grind: Get a Genie with Polymorph and sheepify Skyscraper in Greatcloud #10. Fight lasts 5 seconds, pays decently. Repeat until bored or insane.
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first couple zones are pretty well paced but once you get to the third zone it becomes super grindy. it should be pretty straight forward to reduce enemy health across the board to make this version play a bit smoother. You can then use this as a playable limited version. It is also very very laggy once you get a couple dozen troops. I dont think that will be as straight forward or worth the dev time to fix. I know you mentioned ads but since I am running an adblocker I dont get the normal ads on kongregate. I know one person who mehntioned a speed up button. this could simply elminate all the fight animation loops. or you could be sneaky and dupe all the characters of the same type so they all do the same action at the same time. So instead of running animations for each archer it onlyu runs one animation in multiple places. you could really cheat and use a bunch of copy pasta GIFs and run the damage counter at the start of the GIF loop
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I dont often comment, but this game has kind of annoyed me. For starters what is the point in using higher level materials when I am getting bottom level items? I put 4 mithril into boots and got bronze boots. secondly, the progression is so grinding. the income increase between levels is so minute. i have to farm the same level for 5 minutes at a time to get a few upgrades which dont make any difference in my level progression.
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Well, how do I start this? Basically I want to say thank you for all the great games you brought us over the years and (I hope) will bring to us in the future.
I also enjoyed this game, though it is kind of slow at some times. A solution to speed up would have been great, sure. But I can also deal with this pace. It is always fun to see the little bits of progress my troops are making when replaying a battle and finally getting the three stars.
So basically, thanks for another fun game.
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I wish more stats were given for the enemies and heres. Like under the encyclopedia, list in more detail what they do. And as well, maybe a %guide with the blacksmith? Like something off on the side that shows what percent of getting what level item with eh current ingredients being used. That way I don't spend 3 level 5 items and a 4 to get something bronze, when 4 level 4 can get me a sell every single time.
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I'd really like to see upgrades for the commander, such as an upgrade that increases the amount of gold I earn for completing missions
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In the early game it seems like swarming archers is a good idea. They have insane damage output and no risk of retaliation. The only downside is that the kongregate version ofthe game is a bit slow i think.
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the blacksmith sucks ... take adamatium material ... get bronze items -
then take the last bronze .. get adamatium ! .. i get mad !
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It seems to me that the Tavern is kind of broken. Refresh it with a gold cup and you get 1 4-star, refresh with silver and you get 1 3-star ect... Randomness is only in wich heroes you get.
Blacksmith could also be better - Why should i get a lvl 1 item when crafting with all lvl 4 materials? Seems unbalanced. And when crafting, its a very monotonous job to fill all the materials in. Make it so you can select what lvl material to fill in on a blueprint instead.
Good fun aside from this. :)
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I can't seem to use any Earth runes. I have 3 and clicking does nothing. Also is it just me or does revive not always work, especially with large groups.
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I used all my copper and now all my resources have shifted up and my copper is in the very last spot(scrolling down). Since each item has a power level it should be in that row or allow us to relocate/sort items.
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ps help for people wanting to farm. get 4 stars hero with polymorph (need luck on refresh, white mage got it) put white mage on first line, farm boss skyscraper (he's alone so one cast sheep only and almost no lag), turned into sheep in the 4 sc, 2400 gold and 85 xp. if sheep fail just restart.
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It would be nice to have a button to replay a fight instead of having to go back to the map each time when you want to grind up gold and xp
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loool answer of dev about game: go on steam. you made my day. advice: go on coding for noobs if you can't improve flash version, and don't release it here if it doesn't work properly
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Well, I've found a hack. Quickest way to farm $$$ in this game. I Return to Level 1, I'm like level 30. So I kill off the goblins within 4-5 seconds. I found that I can make roughly 8,000 in 1 minute. Plus I'm also gaining spell experience far quicker.
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Typical game design where they fail to balance troops. Anyone who wishes to win this easily and quickly: Just use all archers. Took me about 4 hours time to beat the entire game. Avoid all melee troops. Ending SUCKS by the way. The end...
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The Healing spell is kind of useless, since there's no radius indicator to let you know how wide the area of effect is. Also, in a melee jumble, it's very hard to tell which low health bars belong to your own troops and which are enemy, since they are THE SAME COLOR...
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As much as you obviously intended us to grind (and grind and grind) for gold, you sure didn't build much in the way of features to make it convenient for the user. Where's the button to speed up (or skip to the end) of combat? Where's the button to auto-level any leveled units? I understand that this is an "upgrade-centric" strategy game, but a few convenience features here would go a long way to mitigate the tedium here. Did you want us to have fun playing your game, or was it supposed to feel like a job after a while?
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It's a promising game, but feels unfinished to me. Should be more and harder levels. The spell options get far too expensive. And nearly all armour etc. needs metal and you get lots and lots of wood and fabric. All the mini experience upgrades are really great. This should be worked on and a really good 2nd game produced.
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bring only your ranged troops to defeat these horus dudes! Also, the game is complete garbage in its current state - horrid grinding, laggy af, bs spell upgrades, bs crafting
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Only a note: Putting archers in front is better, but it is not against logic.
In the past times Archers were put in front, along with javelin lancers and other ranged units. They were called "skirmishers", their role was to weaken and disrupt enemy formation before the columns charged to impact. They also carried lighter equipment so that they could shot and run without engaging in melee before running out of ammo.
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FROM WHERE DO YOU HAVE THIS FRONT PAGE MUSIC?????? IT IS NOT MENTIONED IN THE CREDITS!!!
It's sounds so familliar. But I forgot from which game it is...
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"We lost 99 percent of our troops, sire." "I don't care about that! Did we beat them in under 30 seconds?" "Uh, yes..." "...EXCELLENT."
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chest armor takes 8... 8 pieces of metal out of 4 different materials and many different power levels, and I get a power 1 armor. Amazing start because it doesn't rely on equipping units, but when equipment matters, the game is practically broken. It is way too difficult and tedious getting all these materials for the off chance of getting something decent. Give more material drops if anything. 2 items on repeat? broken.