Dust: An Elysian Tail ($5.99) knocked off a lot of socks around here when it released on iOS last October. Originally an Xbox 360 release, Dust made its way to iOS in style. We liked it enough to give it our Game Of The Week and a five-star review, and I personally included the game in both my Best Overall Of 2015 and the RPG Reload 2015 Golden Pancho Awards. In short, the game has fantastic production values and it plays like a dream. That said, if you weren’t using a newer device with 1 GB of RAM or more, or simply couldn’t get on with virtual controls at all, you couldn’t join the party. Well, friends, your invite’s in the mail and you can RSVP tomorrow, because Dust has a really nice update coming this Thursday.
The developer, Humble Hearts, took player feedback into account and tried to address everything they possibly could with this new version. The first big new feature is the ability to play the game using MFi extended controllers. If virtual buttons aren’t for you, this will finally give you the game just as it was originally designed.
The next bit of good news is that the game now supports devices with 512 MB of RAM, including the iPad Mini. It doesn’t run as well as it does on newer devices, mind you, but it won’t crash on start-up anymore. In addition to those major additions, language support has been expanded to include French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Japanese. The update also includes a bunch of performance and stability tweaks to ensure a smoother time for all.
The update for Dust: An Elysian Tail should be hitting within the next day or so. If any of these new features are enough to nudge you over the line on buying it, all I can say is that you’re in for a real treat. It really is a special game, and I’m glad more players will be able to experience it now.
Definitely a step in the right direction. I still think defensive buildings need to be changed so that they never target or purposefully fire at the king towers.
I quit the game last week. My OCD had kicked into overdrive and I was constantly monitoring chests and chat etc. I feel like a burden has been lifted. I did have fun while it lasted though.
I feel like I'm not far behind you. This game makes me rage like no other, and I'm constantly checking it to the point that it's getting in the way of other things...
Lol..."balance."
Here is a game that had done a masterful job into tricking millions of people into thinking it is an actual strategy game. How can you call a game balanced when two teams with identical decks can fight each other and one can steamroll the other because he has spent more money or grinded countless more hours to level up his units so that his team of XYZ is vastly superior to another team of XYZ?
Take that, Supercell.
It's balanced because however good you are and however much you spend you'll always wind up playing against people at the same level as you and therefore winning 50% of the games.
So if you and I join the game today and I spend $1,000 before my first match and you spend $0, you will have 50/50 odds of beating me?
You'll quickly stomp players, gain trophies, then be at a 50/50 win rate. $1,000 doesn't give you the ability to beat everyone forever. If this game upsets you, I'd advise just not reading these stories. You're constantly jumping in the comments to start arguments surrounding Clash Royale. If you don't like the game, spend your time playing something you do like.
So you're saying everyone - everyone - has a 50/50 win rate?
This is a falsifiable hypothesis!
And a pretty darned interesting one, at that.
It is an ELO ranking system - Eventully when you reach a rank corresponding to your skill and troops then yes it would be normal to win and lose about the same amount of games - To be honest it does feel like the ladder is various at different times of the day though (probably when Asia is awake) xD
Within a few days, you'll be playing against others who've spent similar amounts.
No, I will beat you. Because it is your first match and I am very good at this game. It is pay to win if two people are at the same strategic levels, but the strategic one will stomp the paid one
No nerf to hog or freeze ... hog royale
I 100% agree. I see a lot more hog/freeze than I do mortar.
I think freeze needed to be nerfed. I'm glad they addressed bomb tower. But hidden tesla will now take its place.
But yeah, the more I think about it. Hog/freeze is annoying. Hog Riiider- Ching - Crack Crack Crack. Followed by a laughing emote.
Tombstone in front of your tower usually does the trick, most people don't time the freeze properly to catch the skeletons.
Wait for hog to break tomb stone. (1-2 hit) use zap to kill skeletons. Lol.
Unless people still play mortar after this, tesla will definitely replace. I think freeze isnt the card that needs to be nerfed though, its that the hog always takes more elixer to counter than it costs.
Welcome to Hog Royale
Biggest hog counters? Cannon, Bomb Tower, and Elixir Pump. Cards that were nerfed? Cannon...Bomb Tower...Elixir Pump...
If they don't want people winning with Mortar/Xbow decks they may as well just turn them into defenses, these nerfs are just ridiculous
I don't understand the hype about this game I had it on my phone but I didn't like it but hé different people different tastes,but the side effect is that we get a lot of clones as we see by CandyCrush and that is something I can do without.