No, it's just that the entire .dot team has no idea what they're doing. ;)
Who was the genius who came up with the idea to set the stats on a 1000-point scale, or to add 3 races instead of the usual 4, or to create a huge battlefield (it should have been about twice as small), an inconvenient backpack (it's full of stuff... and you have to dig through it), and many other flaws, but I'm still looking forward to the add-on.
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I'm posting the voice acting and portraits of the Necropolis:
Демократия есть одурачивание народа при помощи народа ради блага народа.(Уайльд Оскар)