Yes, you can pick which army you play as in single player (and who you play against). That's because there is no campaign. It's just one-off battles against the AI. This is a port of a board game after all. The base game comes with four armies (the same four as in the physical game), and there are four more available as IAP. Each army has its specific units and action tiles (though some units/actions are part of more than one army) giving each their unique feel. (If you want a 'campaign' of sorts check out the separate app Neuroshima Hex Puzzle, but that's not nearly as good in my opinion.)
@lookmanohands Thanks for your response.... so, there is only one terrain in this & a few armies who have their uniqueness, I suppose the puzzle is like a half played game, for us to complete, is that right?
I think you nailed it EXACTLY! They even have the tag line, "No AI. No randomness. No luck factor. Only you, your enemies and a lot of tactical planning." Bah. While I'm sure a GREAT way to really solidify your knowledge of the game mechanics, it manages to remove all of the aspects I like best about such a game. It feels like you've taken a fun game and turned it into some sort of academic test. Neuroshima Hex Puzzle Portal Games Still not tired of scraping evil machines, shooting raging mutans, facing bloodthirsty gangers and anihilating human kin… $2.99 Buy Now Watch Media DetailsStill not tired of scraping evil machines, shooting raging mutans, facing bloodthirsty gangers and anihilating human kind – or what’s left of it? So come on and continue your journey in the world of Neuroshima Hex. This postapocaliptic world is still full of struggle and troubles. Lead your troops and try to solve the worst case scenarios found on the wastelands’ battlefields. And remember: In Neuroshima Hex Puzzle no one cares to hear you scream. Neuroshima Hex Puzzle is a single player campaign set in the world of Neuroshima Hex. Use your strategic skills to lead your troops to victory and find your way out from 100 hopeless battle situations. No AI. No randomness. No luck factor. Only you, your enemies and a lot of tactical planning. FEATURES - 100 (yes, one hundred!) scenarios to solve - Official Neuroshima Hex armies & artwork - In-game tutorial & manual - Long hours of exciting gameplay - Universal application (iPhone, iPod Touch, Retina, iPad) - Game Center support Information Seller:Portal Games Genre:Board, Puzzle Release:Mar 18, 2011 Updated:Oct 21, 2011 Version:1.1 Size:56.9 MB TouchArcade Rating:Unrated User Rating: (5) Your Rating:unrated Compatibility:HD Universal ultimo Well-Known Member May 5, 2009 3,840 1 38 #744 ultimo, Jul 27, 2012 Last edited: Jul 28, 2012 @LordGek, Thank you so that puzzle thingy makes it more or less a TD game in a vague way... where it is all set, but we have to ensure to survive the longest & win by doing so. Tell me more about the terrain on the NH (not puzzle) title, does the grid get bigger / there is only one size & we have been given a lot more options by 8 kinds of army where as the lite has only 2. Do the cards get smaller in numbers for every game? in simpler words, apart from the online play... whats the difference between the lite & the full version? EDIT: 1st Flawless victory! Attached Files: IMG_0850.PNG File size: 367 KB Views: 1 lookmanohands Active Member Jul 14, 2009 42 0 0 #745 lookmanohands, Jul 28, 2012 Essentially the full version adds online play and access to all four starting armies. (Well, the full version also adds AI difficulty levels, 3-4 player games, and Game Center achievements.) You always play on the same board, and you always start with 35 cards in your deck. I'm a big fan of NH (I have all 8 armies), and highly recommend it. But if you are looking for a game with any sense of progression, this isn't it. All the variation in play comes in by playing the different armies. NH is a multiplayer game at heart, like TF2 single player is the same just against bots. The app basically replicates its physical board game incarnation the same way Carcassonne, Ascension, and Summoner Wars do. Though with how much it seems you've already played NH, I'm not sure how you could be disappointed LordGek Well-Known Member Staff Member Patreon Silver Patreon Gold Patreon Bronze Feb 19, 2009 12,282 141 63 Software QA Engineer Saratoga, CA, USA #746 LordGek, Jul 28, 2012 To partially answer your question, I think the maps size scales according to the number of players but there is no terrain, per se. There are some factions, like Neojungle, that can sort of modify terrain (it's really just a tile that isn't exactly a unit, action, or module), but there are no inherent map features. One of the physical game expansion added a number of neat terrain aspects (like hills, jungles, etc.) but this has never been translated into the digital version. I think part of this is due to the game's current modular IAP nature. Who would WANT to buy an IAP that introduces a lot of annoying terrain features? It would be kind of like saying, "Here's a $1 to add features that will only complicate things for me!" ultimo Well-Known Member May 5, 2009 3,840 1 38 #747 ultimo, Jul 28, 2012 @LordGek n @lookmanohands, Thank you both... for explaining me these things I am getting this & the IAPs... may be will see you peeps online sometime on my touch. BigDaddysCreations Well-Known Member Jul 8, 2010 377 0 0 Software Developer Poland http://www.neuroshimahex.com #748 BigDaddysCreations, Jul 28, 2012 Hope you'l have lots of fun with it! LordGek Well-Known Member Staff Member Patreon Silver Patreon Gold Patreon Bronze Feb 19, 2009 12,282 141 63 Software QA Engineer Saratoga, CA, USA #749 LordGek, Jul 28, 2012 So BigDaddyCreations, any plans to add in any of the Babylon 13 terrain effects eventually? BigDaddysCreations Well-Known Member Jul 8, 2010 377 0 0 Software Developer Poland http://www.neuroshimahex.com #750 BigDaddysCreations, Jul 29, 2012 @LordGek, not in the nearest future. But to whet your appetite I'll say we plan to include a special story game mode not available in the original board game to give NSHex some more variety and something like a campaign mode. Interested? medianotzu Well-Known Member Nov 21, 2009 3,803 9 36 #751 medianotzu, Jul 29, 2012 I know I am. thevagrant Well-Known Member Jun 8, 2009 631 0 0 #752 thevagrant, Jul 29, 2012 So am I. Very much. ultimo Well-Known Member May 5, 2009 3,840 1 38 #753 ultimo, Jul 29, 2012 hey! I got overwhelmed with the 4 races that come in the game, So... I did not get any IAPs. However I am yet having a Blast! Thank you for making this "Polish" wonder accessible in India with such polish, awesomeness & style. I have a few doubts... Kindly help me out NHers @ TA (like u have always done) How to delete a profile? (Reinstalling the gane is the last resort) I love the idea of that campaign mode... is that an IAP too? I hope you are able to maintain the min iOS req to the current one. BigDaddysCreations Well-Known Member Jul 8, 2010 377 0 0 Software Developer Poland http://www.neuroshimahex.com #754 BigDaddysCreations, Jul 29, 2012 @ultimo, you should definitely check out the Tutorial section. In expolains how to delete a profile - you simply touch and hold one of the profiles, they start to wobble and small Xs appear. Tap one X to delete a profile. PS. This advice was not free - you need to buy IAPs in return LordGek Well-Known Member Staff Member Patreon Silver Patreon Gold Patreon Bronze Feb 19, 2009 12,282 141 63 Software QA Engineer Saratoga, CA, USA #755 LordGek, Jul 29, 2012 This could be fun but it all depends, to me, how you do it. Please keep it something nicely replayable! So while the story might setup, for example, a fight between NeoJungle and Vegas, don't then have this become some sort of scripted NS Puzzle affair but rather just a normal match between those two factions. Even cooler is if the player, at the end of the campaign got a score using something like the game's current career scoring system. Having a score at the end of a very finite number of matches means so much more to me then a very detailed scoring system (as it is nice and detailed currently) without a clear beginning or end (did he get that score from palying 1 game great or just losing 30 games?). Greyskull Well-Known Member Dec 13, 2009 5,587 1 38 Photographer/Social Sciences adjunct/sweet sweet l Fort Lauderdale #756 Greyskull, Jul 29, 2012 Just to comment on this being a board game port...so was Europa Universalis, and most of the earlier Paradox/Matrix Games releases. A board game gone digital can just be the game without the board; they aren't, however, limited by being a board game. drdreh Well-Known Member Jul 17, 2012 172 0 0 #757 drdreh, Jul 29, 2012 I love this game, but... no online ranking? no tournaments? ultimo Well-Known Member May 5, 2009 3,840 1 38 #758 ultimo, Jul 30, 2012 Game Impressions I'll cave in tomorrow if not today... let me master the 4 races, 1 I did in a day or 2, won't be long until I start buying races after another I am not sure if you'll change the pricing pattern once that campaign thing kicks in, Kindly answer all the questions (pricing pattern, the minimum iOS req of the next updated .ipa file) so that we have clarity on how you have things planned for us, if you have not decided about it, then do let us know after you are able to find out, I know nothing is set in stone so changes can be brought later, but you can tell us what has been decided for now I am using an iPod touch 2g (not bragging / something but my BlackBerry 10 is enroute for sure, I have my dev alpha device ) & do not plan to get another iPod soon, that reminds me... are you guys porting this gem onto that qnx platform? BigDaddysCreations Well-Known Member Jul 8, 2010 377 0 0 Software Developer Poland http://www.neuroshimahex.com #759 BigDaddysCreations, Jul 30, 2012 @drdreh , We have tournaments and online rankings planned - we just need some time to add them @ultimo, we're not going to change our pricing model, or at least it's not planned as for now. We'd like to port NSHex for as many platforms as possible next year - we'll see how this goes ultimo Well-Known Member May 5, 2009 3,840 1 38 #760 ultimo, Jul 30, 2012 so, the campaign n the 4 races'll be a part of the primary package n extra races are dlc / ll the campaign be a dlc itself? also... ll someone explain to me, how this strength for close ranged attack works? Any connected friendly has never attacked twice if he has the attack once thingy. (You must log in or sign up to post here.) Show Ignored Content Page 38 of 42 < Prev 1 ← 36 37 38 39 40 → 42 Next > Share This Page Tweet Your name or email address: Do you already have an account? 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@LordGek, Thank you so that puzzle thingy makes it more or less a TD game in a vague way... where it is all set, but we have to ensure to survive the longest & win by doing so. Tell me more about the terrain on the NH (not puzzle) title, does the grid get bigger / there is only one size & we have been given a lot more options by 8 kinds of army where as the lite has only 2. Do the cards get smaller in numbers for every game? in simpler words, apart from the online play... whats the difference between the lite & the full version? EDIT: 1st Flawless victory!
Essentially the full version adds online play and access to all four starting armies. (Well, the full version also adds AI difficulty levels, 3-4 player games, and Game Center achievements.) You always play on the same board, and you always start with 35 cards in your deck. I'm a big fan of NH (I have all 8 armies), and highly recommend it. But if you are looking for a game with any sense of progression, this isn't it. All the variation in play comes in by playing the different armies. NH is a multiplayer game at heart, like TF2 single player is the same just against bots. The app basically replicates its physical board game incarnation the same way Carcassonne, Ascension, and Summoner Wars do. Though with how much it seems you've already played NH, I'm not sure how you could be disappointed
To partially answer your question, I think the maps size scales according to the number of players but there is no terrain, per se. There are some factions, like Neojungle, that can sort of modify terrain (it's really just a tile that isn't exactly a unit, action, or module), but there are no inherent map features. One of the physical game expansion added a number of neat terrain aspects (like hills, jungles, etc.) but this has never been translated into the digital version. I think part of this is due to the game's current modular IAP nature. Who would WANT to buy an IAP that introduces a lot of annoying terrain features? It would be kind of like saying, "Here's a $1 to add features that will only complicate things for me!"
@LordGek n @lookmanohands, Thank you both... for explaining me these things I am getting this & the IAPs... may be will see you peeps online sometime on my touch.
@LordGek, not in the nearest future. But to whet your appetite I'll say we plan to include a special story game mode not available in the original board game to give NSHex some more variety and something like a campaign mode. Interested?
hey! I got overwhelmed with the 4 races that come in the game, So... I did not get any IAPs. However I am yet having a Blast! Thank you for making this "Polish" wonder accessible in India with such polish, awesomeness & style. I have a few doubts... Kindly help me out NHers @ TA (like u have always done) How to delete a profile? (Reinstalling the gane is the last resort) I love the idea of that campaign mode... is that an IAP too? I hope you are able to maintain the min iOS req to the current one.
@ultimo, you should definitely check out the Tutorial section. In expolains how to delete a profile - you simply touch and hold one of the profiles, they start to wobble and small Xs appear. Tap one X to delete a profile. PS. This advice was not free - you need to buy IAPs in return
This could be fun but it all depends, to me, how you do it. Please keep it something nicely replayable! So while the story might setup, for example, a fight between NeoJungle and Vegas, don't then have this become some sort of scripted NS Puzzle affair but rather just a normal match between those two factions. Even cooler is if the player, at the end of the campaign got a score using something like the game's current career scoring system. Having a score at the end of a very finite number of matches means so much more to me then a very detailed scoring system (as it is nice and detailed currently) without a clear beginning or end (did he get that score from palying 1 game great or just losing 30 games?).
Just to comment on this being a board game port...so was Europa Universalis, and most of the earlier Paradox/Matrix Games releases. A board game gone digital can just be the game without the board; they aren't, however, limited by being a board game.
Game Impressions I'll cave in tomorrow if not today... let me master the 4 races, 1 I did in a day or 2, won't be long until I start buying races after another I am not sure if you'll change the pricing pattern once that campaign thing kicks in, Kindly answer all the questions (pricing pattern, the minimum iOS req of the next updated .ipa file) so that we have clarity on how you have things planned for us, if you have not decided about it, then do let us know after you are able to find out, I know nothing is set in stone so changes can be brought later, but you can tell us what has been decided for now I am using an iPod touch 2g (not bragging / something but my BlackBerry 10 is enroute for sure, I have my dev alpha device ) & do not plan to get another iPod soon, that reminds me... are you guys porting this gem onto that qnx platform?
@drdreh , We have tournaments and online rankings planned - we just need some time to add them @ultimo, we're not going to change our pricing model, or at least it's not planned as for now. We'd like to port NSHex for as many platforms as possible next year - we'll see how this goes
so, the campaign n the 4 races'll be a part of the primary package n extra races are dlc / ll the campaign be a dlc itself? also... ll someone explain to me, how this strength for close ranged attack works? Any connected friendly has never attacked twice if he has the attack once thingy.
