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Really great to see devs reaching out to youtubers like Potato to showcase their games.

if im being honest im already not looking forward to these golem boosting spells because Golden Golems already piss me off and feel absolutely broken even by Mythic Unit standards

@@zacharyjackson1829 Prepare for true suffering then

Don't worry mate, we will have expansion of our own too :) *looks at the eldritch realms release date*

Oh no 😅

@@anomanomom239 The description seems more likely to be the Shadow World though, which would mean it is Shadow focused, with the return of the Shadow Demons

@@Dark3nedDragon :(

@@anomanomom239 >:) "magical realms and locations bring a new dimension to the game" I mean it could end up being Arcane, and comments like the above could just be marketing speak for the new Realm Traits we'll be given, I think we've got a good shot of getting Shadow Demons though. Also, if you read through the convoluted lore, the return of the Wizard Kings means that a route to the Shadow World is open again, which seems to me to make it even more likely. I hope the expansions do well enough that they do at least 2 full sets, if not 3.

Forgot the reaver culture

The Skaven don't exist. Stop-stop spreading peasant superstitions. Yes-Yes.

@@FoxhoundClass03 You are right, my bad 🙂

@@FoxhoundClass03 Skaven are more Dark than Reaver but they'd definitely take up some of these tomes like alchemy, pestilence, etc.

@@TsunamiWombat Depends on the clan. Eshin is certainly dark, Mors too, but something like Clan Skurvy is reaver through and through, you could convince me that Pestilens is that too with how their diplomacy works.

where the hell did you get Samurais from.. there is no samurais in the game

@@darksilver9593 he's asking for them

Being pc wouldn't help, there are no samurai mods on pc. Personally i would prefer à nomadic culture like mongols but any asian inspired culture would be cool, i wouldn't mind an anicent egypt like culture either so we can remake the tigrans from aow3. Also aztec like culture to fight against the new clearly conquistador inspired reavers

Fortune favors the infamous

Zombie gunfrogs lets go

to me major transformation for materium is the one you get for all your heroes (ancient of the earth) and considering how insane it can be i'm fine with them not getting a major

@@ashesofaranea I speak for everyone else in thinking that we should have gotten an Earthen Elemental Transformation or something similar.

isn't gold-touched already a major transformation?@@ashesofaranea

We need good guys with guns and tanks to fight the bad guys with guns and tanks.

That's part of the free update...

@Dark3nedDragon oh wow, I didn't know. Thanks, man.

Only way so far.

I mean, one of those tomes gets you a War Tank with cannons all over it, I guess? Besides, I suspect guns will be an option for hero units: I doubt they’ll be restricted to Reaver heroes only Besides, nothing says you can’t play Reavers but focus on, say, frost magic?

@@JabberwokeeYou can craft them in the forge. It will also exist as a hero origin weapon, like cryomancer staff or earthshaker hammer.

@@Jabberwokee yeah it was more due to the Reavers having all my favorite toys but placed in a very aggressive playstyle. Back in AoW3 i loved playing dreadnought and usually just went all out in vassalising every free city i found and doing a slow methodical buildup. As far as i have seen that's not quite as much of an option with the reaver.

Im sure some free cities might have the new culture too. Just vassalize them

For real. He sounds so unenthusiastic in this, compared to his normal videos and how he usually talks. Though it might be too chaotic to have him recite stuff from memory, he's... quite something.

Cool bro, keep the negativity to yourself lol

@@Zer0mac316 What negativity? I never said that the game sucks. I was just unimpressed with these features compared to AoW3, which is a neutral response. But I guess, I will have to elaborate and give some more context. Culture - Reavers: - The conquistador aesthetic is cool, guns and cannons look especially nice. - Not including the dreadnaught mechs to the base roster was a good choice - this way players can create various builds not just mech. - The floating chained orb thing looks ridiculous. Not sure how that fits into the conquistador aesthetic. If they wanted some tech spy unit, why not use the Spy Drone from AoW3 or just have a normal explorer unit? - Why so many closed helmet units? This is especially bad if you select the new beaked birds or a long faced race like rats. Where does the beak / face go when the poor unit equips the helmet? By the way this is not just a critique of this culture, since many other cultures also suffer from the closed helmet issue. - I am also not a fan of the forced gameplay features - like the no whispering stone and aggressive diplo. These features would have been better as a selectable culture modifier. The tomes fit the design of the AoW4 tomes, so I guess that's good - less balance issues. The Alchemy tome It is ok, but it focuses to much on this miasma debuff for my liking. I would have preferred if it was linked more to alchemy - like the a philosopher stone or spells/buildings for exchanging resources from one to another and stuff like that. The Tome of Construct I dislike it. Instead of having constructs as the name suggests, it has this command crap. Lot's of mechanical units are missing: spy drone, flame/frost thrower tank and we got that small tank instead of the Juggernaut. Also the Bronze golem - which might be the AoE3 golem analogue is a construct (like all other magical golems) and not a machine, like the golem was in AoW3. And the Linked minds is too magic-y for my taste. I would have liked some steam-punk like race modification better, where you turn your race into a half machine half organic race instead of this meta-game-y group nonsense. The Tome of the Dreadnaught This is good. My only dislike is regarding the Destabilized Mana Core. Since it was placed into the Tier III tome, it will be much much weaker that it was in AoE3 (there it was an ultimate spell - a battlefield wide nuke dealing 60 damage, destroying cover and also removing all battlefield enchantments), which is a shame. The Tome of Severing This is just meh. Finally there are many tech themed spells missing, like flashbang, force field and dampening field to name just a few. And where is the Engineer unit? To sum it up. We get - a new race - which is just cosmetics and 2 modifiers - a new culture - which has nice aesthetics but is very similar to the others - 4 tomes - which brings back some features from AoW3, but heavily modified and changed - and item crafting - which might be good, but to me it looks like a win more feature, since you have to own artifacts to craft artifacts unless you take the trait that generates points from razing stuff. I don't like the changes done to the features from AoW3 and I don't like that the aggro gameplay is tied to the culture but I like the other features, so I am in a neutral position. That's why I said that I am not impressed.

I think it improved on a lot of things from AoW3. It's more customizable, city building has more mechanics and the paradox style event/decision system adds a lot of flavour. The only downside imo is that making all empires custom removes a little of the tailor-made identity between the races from the previous games. But I think that's ultimately small price to pay for allowing the player to make whatever empire they want.

@@pax_galactica I hear the AI is atrocious. It's not surprising because the Planetfall had bad AI as well. Most current strategy games have this problem (Civ 6, Total War).

@christopherboye5498 It is pretty bad. I think that's the biggest issue facing most 4x games. The more mechanically complex a game, the less the AI is able to contend with the player.

@@pax_galactica Yeah thought so. I stopped playing Civ 6 pretty early on because the AI barely feels functional, especially during warfare. Modded Civ 5 (Vox Populi) feels like how the AI should be playing the game. The devs put the least amount of effort in 4X games AI because it's not profitable to do so. And like you said, it gets worse the more complex the newer games get. I feel that it has come to a point that these games only become enjoyable through multiplayer.