I backed this on kickstarter and so many bad reviews have outlined so many flaws and issues that I've yet to even download the game or play it! It's pretty sad to see a legacy like this fall flat. I'll play it eventually, but there are so many more interesting titles vying for attention right now.

Right! Back to Mushroom 11!

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Quoting: JudasIscariotIf by "shrines" you mean those little brown buildings you find out in the wild then those allow you to unlock stone construction and more tower upgrades along with more castle upgrades.

Ah, right. I thought they were little churches. So that's how I got my upgrades. Cool. So what do the big statues do then? I've found a guy with a sword and and with a hammer. Presumably worker upgrades? But if the shrines/churches are the key to better buildings, how do your workers get upgraded? They seem to have three levels too.

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I got this tonight on a whim and spent five hours straight on it. The tactics are little obtuse, but this is waaay more than a Facebook game. As mao_dze_dun points out, it's a new style of game and it's definitely worth two pints of lager. I agree with Liam that the graphics aren't bad, but they're not fantastic either. They do a job.

But the strategy! Lots of subtlety around how far you expand your borders. Too far and neither you nor your vassals can get to the action quickly enough. Too small and the horde isn't thinned out before it reaches you.

Also, archers gain you money, but towers (which consume an archer) don't, but are almost immune to attack. A tower on the outside of your wall is better than inside (which is counter-intuitive) because it doesn't have to shoot over the wall.

Leave a tree between you an a camp for as long as possible so that you have a nearby source of recruits. If you chop the tree down, the camp vanishes and you lose recruitment capability.

And the balance between builders, soldiers and farmers is tough to balance too, particularly given the big hordes every ten days.

No idea what the shrines do. Nor the churches. I'm also uncertain what unlocks the tower upgrades you get later on. Was it the number of builders I had, or is based on the day? No idea.

So, it's a bit of a learning curve, but I survived until day 39 just there and I only have only one regret. I need to go to bed now, cos it's coming up 1am... :-)

No worries though. I can be a queen again tomorrow. Er, king. Hail to the King, baby.

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So is this is a bit like DXRebirth, where you download the engine, then throw the paid-for assets in and it runs a high-res version of an old game?

I love playing Decent again through Rebirth and while I never played Freespace 2, the video alone has tempted me to try it out. Looks excellent!

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Can't wait to play this - such a cool TD game. I'll be buying a couple of copies for this for my sons and I'll get the free upgrade for my version.

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Now that you say that, I've just googled for "Final Fantasy VI" fight scenes and you're absolutely right! Here's one : https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/WikibattleFF6.PNG [External Link]. Very similar...

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Quoting: sub

A developer: I took the liberty of replacing the Nvidia 660GTX in my Linux machine for our Radeon 270X and ran some tests.

Doesn't this statement, again, shows that many developers develop on Nvidia first, then try with an AMD card and are disappointed - or even blame AMD for bad performance?

Possibly - I'm not sure how much you "code" for a specific manufacturer though. Also, the R9 270 is about a hundred dollars more expensive that the GTX card (http://www.hwcompare.com/15671/geforce-gtx-660-vs-radeon-r9-270x/). You certainly wouldn't expect "half" the performance.

Great to see such diverse testing though.

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Can't wait for this one. The first game was absolutely mental in multiplayer. One of those games that you can't really "come back" to though. You learn these crazy 6-button combos for massive damage, healing, shields, or whatever, then you don't play it for a month, sit back down, and realise that you can't remember any of it!

I think this new version allows you to store macros to certain spells? That might solve that problem.

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Looks pretty sweet but I'm not sure I'd be good for five hours... pretty intense.

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Yeah, I'm and sure they said that they'd spent all that time on the Extended/Enhanced Edition so that their platform would be agnostic for future titles. And then, before the new Edition is even close to ready, they launch a Kickstarter with that kind of message.

Make up your mind, goddamit!? :D

Worst thing about all this though is the developer reinforcement - "waah, our game hardly sold any Linux units... we're not supporting Linux again". Although I suspect most studios are seeing past that lie now.

It's October, right? Steam Machines are going to fix all this, right? Right??

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