after completing the intro on the borg ship i directly end up in a holding cell. it is not possible to get any farther.
the AI cheats and dos not follow the rules of the game. they can produce an infinite number of ships per turn. it is therefore not possible to win against the A.I. the hiver is simply not possible to win with. that is because the other players have plenty of time to rebuild by the time the hiver returns. then when there is an A.I rebellion, they will target the hiver player entirely. what was the developers thinking, when they added such a broken race?
you will not understand everything right away. once you understand it however it is a good heroes of might and magic clone. you do not need to focus as much on the castle however. i also purchased etherlords 2 and regretted it ever since.
if you liked etherlords 1, stick with that. this is half the game for the same cost. if your hero dies, then you lose, meaning that you only have 1 life. make one mistake and you are toast. i understand why there was never an etherlords 3.
an important function:GetDiskSpaceinformationW is missing from the executable, preventing the game from running.
towns can not be upgraded, because that mechanic is not yet finished. the construction cards is simply deactivated. only cards that work is the unit production ones and the battle ones. to make matters worse: lots of features have to be unlocked through the single player campaign. it plays like an alpha. though it does work in windows 7 and 8.1 without issues.
i played it on a 100 mhz pentium back in 1997, right before christmas. it is even better with the mod that makes all cars stealworthy. the offline installer was broken initially but, it finally works. i still have the disc version however.
it was planned as a trilogy but, only the first game was released. the game is mostly solid but, i have yet to win. the lack of a human faction is a curiosity. if the rest of the trilogy had not been cancelled, maybe it had scored better but, now it is just a cancelled and abandoned game.
i will start with the requirements first. the early 2d parts of the game works perfectly on an amd a4 5000 with radeon hd 8330 but, the 3d parts of the game does not work perfectly even on the much stronger i7-4700mq and gtx 770m. what you need to run it depends heavily on what era you are in. present and previous eras requires less, while the future requires more. the hardware mentioned is hardware i have. then it is the gameplay. most puzzles is just click on a random spot. there is some real puzzles however, like the pipe puzzle and the light puzzle and the color puzzle. it is not perfect however: you can only store 9999 gold. you can not choose where to save. the game`s memory management is bad. it reloads all assets each time you die and you die a lot. you have unlimited lives however. certain gameplay elements only appears once.
