Russian version - first impressions

[Elwin]

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I have managed to use a little translation of fan manual and i am quite impressed. Sacrifice was nerfed quite much ( higher mana cost and lower efficiency). I was often dreaming about a spell converting a rage into mana and there it is ! Good Job.We have timeback spell now, altough timeback + sacrifice combo will loose its power by much.
Also i like the new idea about rewards( or however it will be called) like giving additional leadership after winning certain ammonut of battles without lossing any units. Can't wait for english or polish release

[guciomir]

Originally Posted by Elwin

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I have managed to use a little translation of fan manual

how did you translate it?

[Elwin]

Used online translators, i didnt translated it fully, just was copy/pasting sentences which i found that could be usefull. Much work but was worth it

[Zhuangzi]

I'm pretty sure there isn't a scenario editor in the Russian release. Is this in the works perhaps, or not?

I've been reading the fan manual in the same way as Elwin, and there's some cool stuff for sure. The medals are an excellent addition, as is the new bounty system.

I really think we're on to a winner here.

[Mandea]

I also looked through the manual and found manny interesting things, new artifacts, spells and creatures. I didn't try to really translate it, as I wanted to be surprised later on, once the english version is published.

[Elwin]

So my first impressions are very positive. Except for many changes for units we have some upgrades maybe not that important but still the game is better.

We have reserve slots now without having skill for it.In the battle summary we have also picture of hero who we defeated.
Much weaker enemies are not kamikaze now, further more they are running away from us and if we catch them up we have option for autoo-resoloving battle. It never caused any loses for me so we save much time.Great change.Also when unit is hitted displays damage done and number of units lots

New units are quite nice mostly i liked Paladin and T-rex. ( Royal griphin is just obvoius that its great)
Paladin skill ressurect himslef and all units standing next to him, its just awesome !!( not working on lvl 5 units tough). Also if we have nothing to do we can give action point to other unit.In battle he presents quite well also, very durable and damge is nice also.

T-rex is 2k leadership unit so very high but he got 1000hp and have very high damage and can heal when defeating enemy or from other corpses.Like i once fireballed some enemy units and fb hit him for 990dmg so he had only 10 hp left but he ate corpses in next move and gotinstantly back to 1000, also eating corpses by skil gives him acction points so he dont just waste turn.


Also i am quit impressed about dragon damage abilities. I feared that it will be like with od spirits that damages spells will be worthless but they definetly dont.Even first levels of this skill do quite much damage. Like a skill working like giant ability for 20 rage dealing 300-600 dmg at start.Another one hitting all units in areo of 19 cellls up to 2k damage att 1st level for 50 rage. With warrior special skill i was able to start every battle with 50 ragr and start with this skills. Most units dead , just finish those who surivived or... use awake the dragon spell if we have rage and hit them again xD

[Zhuangzi]

I've been doing some research on the Russian forums with Google Translate and I've discovered a few things:

Enemy ships now chase and attack like normal units.

There are six bosses in total and they are evenly distributed through the game.

Overall game is somewhat shorter. Maybe 30 hours of game time and 300 enemy stacks (depending on how thorough you are).

New areas need to be unlocked with special maps.

All of this sounds really promising.

[Elwin]

Yes the fact with enemy ship i discovered in demo. Of course depend in which stage of demo i went there. If it was end they were sailing away from me xD

[MisterBarca]

Originally Posted by Zhuangzi

Overall game is somewhat shorter. Maybe 30 hours of game time and 300 enemy stacks (depending on how thorough you are).

So there was false advertising, as the developer claimed that the expansion would be even longer than the original game.

[master.jimmy]

Originally Posted by Elwin

For example, the fighter has skills that directly give to attack, defense or a mix, instead of something vague like getting additional attack when killing a troop. Mages can now can cast 3 or 2 spells consecutively if they are 7 mana or less.

loooooool and the PALADIN?