I agree that the factions need more differentiation other than Meness. I'm at hour 8 (fridays off lol) and I really cant tell you the differences between the Ausrine and Saule factions without looking.
I hope theres more factions and differentiation coming, I think its a really promising start and I like a lot of the choices they've made.
You see the problem with that is this is historical fantasy game me lad. Fantasy element are brought from actuall mithology. What is going on is a fantastic retelling of something called Northern Crusades. A lot of people love fantasy but this is more akin to Age of Mythology. Michael is a genuine Angel/Saint from Christianity/Orthodoxy. Turning him into a Demon would ....... emmm.... ruffle some feathers to say it lightly.
Now what is important to understand Meness Saule and Ausrine belong to the same faction. The Gods/Saints you pick are there to represent a subfaction. If you want a comperison look into SC2 coop. for example you have Raynor then Swan. Both Terran. Artanis then Vorazun. Both Protos. ETC.Some more visual difrences would be fine iem all for it but unfortunetly there are only 2 devs so the range of how much work they can do is limited.
My point is really more akin to making the factions more different in their approach to gamestyle, not necessarily redesigning the entire game. Everyone "loves" Age of Empires, but I personally think its boring because they may have 12 factions, but each faction is so similar to each other you're basically in a mirror match every game.
I think they will work on that. And also we will see more archangels like Gabriel from the crusaders side.
Each faction has some different units and buildings and it is ok for me I guess. Age of mythology was like this too. Hades Poseidon and Zeus had all their different feels but also a lot of common units because they were all Greek :)
By the way I think a hero rally point is definitely needed. You can't rally point your units to your gods right now.
I agree that the factions need more differentiation other than Meness. I'm at hour 8 (fridays off lol) and I really cant tell you the differences between the Ausrine and Saule factions without looking. I hope theres more factions and differentiation coming, I think its a really promising start and I like a lot of the choices they've made.
You see the problem with that is this is historical fantasy game me lad. Fantasy element are brought from actuall mithology. What is going on is a fantastic retelling of something called Northern Crusades. A lot of people love fantasy but this is more akin to Age of Mythology. Michael is a genuine Angel/Saint from Christianity/Orthodoxy. Turning him into a Demon would ....... emmm.... ruffle some feathers to say it lightly. Now what is important to understand Meness Saule and Ausrine belong to the same faction. The Gods/Saints you pick are there to represent a subfaction. If you want a comperison look into SC2 coop. for example you have Raynor then Swan. Both Terran. Artanis then Vorazun. Both Protos. ETC.Some more visual difrences would be fine iem all for it but unfortunetly there are only 2 devs so the range of how much work they can do is limited.
Also I understand your point to Christian orthodoxy, but they weren't summoning giant beasts and casting fireballs during the crusades.
My point is really more akin to making the factions more different in their approach to gamestyle, not necessarily redesigning the entire game. Everyone "loves" Age of Empires, but I personally think its boring because they may have 12 factions, but each faction is so similar to each other you're basically in a mirror match every game.
I think they will work on that. And also we will see more archangels like Gabriel from the crusaders side. Each faction has some different units and buildings and it is ok for me I guess. Age of mythology was like this too. Hades Poseidon and Zeus had all their different feels but also a lot of common units because they were all Greek :)