Is there a good review of this game anywhere, I wanna know how long it is, do you need to play co-op. is there lots of loot? Skill trees etc..
I can say with 100% honesty we literally just added the crystal IAPs in at the end as a "i guess -I'm sure some people will want to progress faster". The game was 100% balanced without IAPs, and is exactly where we want it. In fact we never even anticipated people grinding much at all! Because we actually think that most people dying has much more to do with tactics/strategy/skill, then a lack of crystals. We also made sure that you could not buy your hero levels, which is important in a potentially competitive game like this.
The coop crashing bug sucks quite a lot. I've had several games in the past few days where I've gotten up to the 15 minute mark and then lost it all because the game crashes out. This is on an iPhone 5, too. It really makes me not want to play coop at all.
This is one of the things we're spending major time looking into. Should be fixed in update, but I'll give you more details once we find the cause.
I'm done with this game. Stage 4 seems impossible to me. Got through the 1st 3 with no trouble and I find myself completely over run on the 4th. 11 attempts at it with the same result. If I'm having this much trouble so early in the game then I guess I shouldn't be playing.
My buildings/units are almost completely upgraded and I have had ZERO lack of crystals, yet I'm still getting my butt kicked on level 20 due to poor strategy. More crystals wouldn't help at all, in fact they'd be next to useless. Whoever said this was pay to win hasn't played the game for more than five minutes.
Early on I had the exact same thought. But I just spent some crystals upgrading pikemen and it changed drastically in my favor. go for pikemen instead of peons.
Peons+battle academy are pretty much all I used with the knight for the first 10 or so levels. Then it starts getting hard.
I agree, Montanx. Up until level 10 or so, as soon as they became available - I exclusively spammed pikemen and it did the job.
This game is mostly action/strategy, not that much RPG. So there is not loot and no items to equip (except runes). There are no skill "trees" but each of the three classes has different skills (each class has 3 passive and 3 active skills, of which each can be upgraded five times). There are also 6 stats. There's no need to play co-op. To beat the campaign with one hero, you'll probably need like 3 hours, maybe more.
Quick update on anyone who has, or does experience the data corruption bug. We've done some more research and will be able to approximate a restore, based on your hero levels. We can restore your levels, give you skill points, approximate the level you would have beaten, give you your crystals back, and give you a few runes as well. So, if you can wait, the update should have a rudimentary fix coming soon!
Definitely not pay to win, definitely more of a pay to support the devs (I did because this is easily the best thing Foursaken has done since Bug Heroes) and gain an early boost. You'll reach the same state of upgrades just by playing the game. The worst you could say is that the IAP eliminates some "grinding", but when you're a completionist like me who insists on beating every level with each class before moving on, I didn't notice it saving me anything I bought the 60 crystals for $2 and still have over 30 of them because I'd rather wait and see where they're best spent (which means I'm earning crystals on my own the whole time anyhow). The game is hard, but all spending does is fast forward your troops and castle ahead in time. If you still haven't grokked the flow of the game, that's not going to do you any good. If you have grokked the flow of the game, OK, it's a little easier, but that's all.
Im sure we have the correct strategies when we figure things out... Executing the plan is a different matter: forget to create mines as soon as we're able, forgetting that it's time for the chieftains to come out and used taunt just before that which makes kiting too difficult, forgetting to make that third and fourth ballista because we prioritized pikemen and overdid them, wrongturn when herding which got you knocked down and the troll/chieftain got to walk all over you, etc.
I will give that a shot. Am I gonna have to start over? I know it's only a few levels for each hero, just wondering
For the record, lvl difficulty and advice has a LOT to do with the runes you have. A good gold rune can make ALL the difference. For the pallies trying 19/20, Max your invuln. Having like 20s per minute to whack on guys you're kiting or charge snipers/necros makes all the diff. You can pump out a lot of free damage during that time. I also bit the bullet and put like 4 points in armor... You don't need a lot to prevent knockdowns, and you NEED to prevent them since it can mean your death while kiting all those orcs.
More and more crashes I absolutely LOVE this game. However, I have noticed it is starting to crash more and more. It is especially frustrating when I'm playing multiplayer find an awesome partner, we're 15+ minutes in and absolutely dominating... and the game crashes. I've even had the game start to crash during single-player. Any ideas or suggestions? Iphone 5 running OS 6
It is like single-player, runes are not guaranteed. The further you laster into the game, the better the rune you get. When I last 15-20 mins in co-op, i've gotten legendary runes.
