pmviking
01-30-2006, 01:22 PM
First, let me say that I'm extremely impressed by how great the game looks..http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
The few negatives that I have encountered are the following:
In regular multiplayer games (training mode):
Very choppy sound.
Unresponsive mouse, which sometimes requires many clicks to get the wanted effect, which in turn sometimes leads to multiple screens opening up.
The town screen is very user-unfriendly. I would prefer a building screen where all possible buildings were displayed and where the ones you could currently build would be highlighted and the ones that still need certain prerequisites would be grayed out. In addition, it would be helpful to know what the prerquisites for each building are (would help a lot in planning your strategy....) the way things are now you have to use trial and error and experience from previous HOMM games to guess what to build.
The wait during opponents turn could be minimized if certain actions could be taken during his turn, such as entering your towns to plan out what to build for the next day, or to just check other town-related screens. In addition, it would also be great to be able to check out your heroes (equip artifacts, read up on their skills etcetera) and troops (rearrange them, split them etcetera.
Sometimes some of your stacks aren't placed on the battlefield and don't take part in the combat. If you forget/don't place all of your troops, they should be automatically placed before combat begins.
Regarding balance, I haven't encountered enough human-led troops to comment on that for regular multiplayer mode.
Duel-mode:
Very buggy, here are some of the problems I have encountered:
Can't enter the games listed.
Some games aren't listed at all.
After a person joins the game, I can't see his icon and the game can't start.
Sometimes, all the messages in the chat window get duplicated.
The army you select is not the same you get on the battlefield.
Your turns are not properly displayed, so you can't move any of your troops (and get killed....http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif)
Spell effects are way too high and can wipe out almost a whole army at once. (By the way, aren't black dragons resistant to magic?? Not in the games I've played so far).
The few negatives that I have encountered are the following:
In regular multiplayer games (training mode):
Very choppy sound.
Unresponsive mouse, which sometimes requires many clicks to get the wanted effect, which in turn sometimes leads to multiple screens opening up.
The town screen is very user-unfriendly. I would prefer a building screen where all possible buildings were displayed and where the ones you could currently build would be highlighted and the ones that still need certain prerequisites would be grayed out. In addition, it would be helpful to know what the prerquisites for each building are (would help a lot in planning your strategy....) the way things are now you have to use trial and error and experience from previous HOMM games to guess what to build.
The wait during opponents turn could be minimized if certain actions could be taken during his turn, such as entering your towns to plan out what to build for the next day, or to just check other town-related screens. In addition, it would also be great to be able to check out your heroes (equip artifacts, read up on their skills etcetera) and troops (rearrange them, split them etcetera.
Sometimes some of your stacks aren't placed on the battlefield and don't take part in the combat. If you forget/don't place all of your troops, they should be automatically placed before combat begins.
Regarding balance, I haven't encountered enough human-led troops to comment on that for regular multiplayer mode.
Duel-mode:
Very buggy, here are some of the problems I have encountered:
Can't enter the games listed.
Some games aren't listed at all.
After a person joins the game, I can't see his icon and the game can't start.
Sometimes, all the messages in the chat window get duplicated.
The army you select is not the same you get on the battlefield.
Your turns are not properly displayed, so you can't move any of your troops (and get killed....http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif)
Spell effects are way too high and can wipe out almost a whole army at once. (By the way, aren't black dragons resistant to magic?? Not in the games I've played so far).