Posts from Twilight of the Idols

I started playing, but I paused for now. What I liked right away was the installer, or rather, the self-extracting archive. It's very convenient, and I have great respect for the author for that. A note for him: it's not necessary to change the original music files to add your own to the game; and even with all the "no" options in the installer, the files were replaced... I would also like a deinstaller that would remove all these files; that would be great.
Unfortunately, the design doesn't catch the eye – the snowy area is a bit empty, but I can't really find any ugly spots to criticize – everything is done well.

The plot is intriguing, but all the quests are presented to the player at once – you don't know what to do or where to go. I didn't like the dialogue window (but that's a complaint about the author of the corresponding mod); ideally, there would be cutscenes.

The difficulty is good; the starting battles were challenging; were the 2 extra starting levels intentional? In any case, I quickly leveled up in luck, spell power, attack, and logistics; I wanted to play as a light mage, but... the game kindly offered me machines and chaos. Well, firearms will do.

With overpowered adepts and fallen angels, I cleared half the stacks on the basic map (the landlords all left), leaving behind annoying stacks like priests, pitfiends, and erls + dragons at the exit of the location. I joined the landlords in the northwest and, at the cost of almost an entire stack, defeated 18 erls guarding fifty archers. (By the way, two stacks of adepts with blinding spells are overpowered, and the peasant upgrade was immediately sent to the mine). With 80 archers, I cleared 95% of the starting location and moved into the snowy area. Here, the challenge suddenly disappeared... or what? There are too many stacks that join you easily; 47 golems guard 55 archers, 1 champion defends 4 seraphs, etc. I quickly followed the path of war, and 64 obsidian gargoyles joined me easily, and with them, I easily defeated the "annoying" stacks. Then, 60 more archers joined, guarding hundreds of landlords stuck in trees (58, 97, surface), after which I didn't want to continue – it was too easy.

P.s. My hero is a necromancer with the necromancer's wheel and counterattack... But then a sudden attack came, and I managed to win a couple more battles.

P.p.s. When I have some free time, I will definitely finish it; in summary, I would like: a few more scripts for the sequential delivery of quests and messages, more difficulty in the snowy location (and balance) + the design of this zone.

Thank you to the author for a good evening!

Played for a week and quit. Another game where the author's idea of 5 heroes is implemented (knight-warlock, without castles, angel-vampire, adept with dark magic, and so on). When will normal maps finally appear?

Played for a week and quit. Another aimless exploration based on the author's ideas about 5 heroes (knight-warlock, without castles, angel-vampire, adept with dark magic, and so on). When will normal maps appear?

...in the author's vision of 5 heroes (... an angel-vampire, an adept with dark magic...).

There's another issue... some units under guard, which should theoretically join (friendly troops blocked by enemy NPCs), are sometimes ignored... they want to fight! Is this intentional? I'm playing with friendly troops, meaning there are no mercenaries in my army.
Furthermore, the same enemy NPCs that should be blocking friendly units sometimes find themselves "under guard" of my potential troops. So, I first join my own troops, and then I attack the "guard" all at once.)))
And even more... I tried to attack the guards of objects from other factions in a row using save/load, and... up to 5 packs tried to join me (I would have had enough money), I could assemble a completely random army. WTF??
I don't have leadership or diplomacy.
P.S. I conclude that the author didn't quite finish this aspect.

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During gameplay, some unpleasant bugs are observed: when summoning elementals (with fire warriors), the game crashes; summoning a phoenix summons an adept; and the elemental tower is guarded by anything but elementals.

raspisnoy, +++
Gargoyles and bone crushers tried to join, and archers are guarding the land lords. The fact is that all stacks are random, so our troops can also be generated.

Guards of the elemental towers

I didn't want to spoil the surprise, so I didn't write about the guards of the elemental towers (15 archangels, zealots, stone golems, and archers, blinding seraphs, and then quickly eliminating the rest, then shooting once and getting hit with divine wrath).