Ancient and mysterious Shrines have revealed the location of an extinct alien home world. Discovered in the aftermath of the Gallius IV war, these Shrines unlock the most powerful technology in the Universe. Now, seven interstellar empires race across the galaxy to conquer this one planet and gain t...
Ancient and mysterious Shrines have revealed the location of an extinct alien home world. Discovered in the aftermath of the Gallius IV war, these Shrines unlock the most powerful technology in the Universe. Now, seven interstellar empires race across the galaxy to conquer this one planet and gain the secret power of the ancient civilization.
Deadlock II: Shrine Wars is an exciting game of strategy, resource management and military conquest. Each race has its own strenghts and weaknesses - learn to exploit them to your advantage. Build, trade, research, attack, as you search for the ancient knowledge that will grant you ultimate control over the entire Universe.
Colonize many different worlds across the galaxy as you race to find the ancients’ home world.
Trade on the Black Market with the Skirineen race to get illegal supplies of valuable resources.
Command more than 40 Sea, Air and Land combat units as you seek to dominate your enemies.
Establish alliances with other races to share technology, resources, and even victory conditions.
Play 42 scenarios or use the mission editor to create your own scenarios and campaigns.
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... under windows 10. The review by adrianwong81 helped, but got me a little confused at first, because the site (s)he linked to did not contain ddraw.dll. If you go here https://github.com/narzoul/DDrawCompat/releases you'll find it under ddraw.zip (unless that site changes). Apparently you need to use the 0.2.0 version.
What I did was:
Extract ddraw.dll from ddraw.zip into the directory that contains deadlock.exe. Have deadlock.exe run in windows 8 compability.
Hope that works for you too.
My very first strategy game and an extremely formative experience for both my both entertainment & artistic tastes. It's a fairly simple game in some ways (little shock for its age) but it's more than complex enough to keep you entertained for hours. There's enough unit, building and resource variety that things won't get stale.
The different races are also meaningfully different. They don't just get a unique unit or two; they get different unit abilities, different resource production rates, population growth rates, military & espionage buffs & abilities. So the race you choose, while not INCREDIBLY important, is actually a meaningful choice. The Tarth, for example, are brutes who excel in combat and produce more food than other races in order to field a larger army of these tougher troops than their enemies can support.
In addition to a primary campaign there's also the option to play random skirmish maps. Notably you can determine the size and terrain features of the world when playing these maps. And if you can't generate a map to your taste then you can make one of your own using the game's uncommonly robust editor, the likes of which we wouldn't see again (to my knowledge) until Civilization 4.
I see a lot of people saying they have trouble running the game. For me it ran perfectly the first time I launched it on Windows 10. Try running the DirectX configuration tool before you run it from the Additional Executables menu in Galaxy. I did so before I played the game and while I didn't change anything and I can't see why that WOULD affect anything, it's worth mentioning just in case.
The same problems you will see reported back in 2016 in other one star reviews IS STILL IN EFFECT HERE IN 2021!
GOG HAVE DONE NOTHING. YET THEY STILL PEDDLE THIS USELESS, BROKEN TRASH!
Absolute shame on you GOG.
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