Demi god

Disciple Lan said:
you know, the almost nazi-like censoring of these forums gets a bit old. if you veer off-course at all, everything gets deleted. talk about community-building.

crap, i godwined the thread.
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Just add a generic tidbit about the game in the last line.
 
in many ways, the forum moderators are like demigods. the person to censor the most stuff ascends to god status. It takes a real commitment to 'controlling' your minions, 'directing' the flow of the game, and smiting enemies who attempt to 'veer off course' to one of your flags.
 
Disciple Lan said:
in many ways, the forum moderators are like demigods. the person to censor the most stuff ascends to god status. It takes a real commitment to 'controlling' your minions, 'directing' the flow of the game, and smiting enemies who attempt to 'veer off course' to one of your flags.
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In before lock....J/K.

Seriously how is everyone liking the game? Can anyone comment on multiplayer?
 
Multiplayer in demigod is interesting and fun. I've never played DotA but apparently its of the same mold. There are several game modes, and although I've only tried "Conquest", the other modes look compelling.

The basics:

You have a couple of buildings that supply various things to your forces. Certain buildings can be accessed when standing next them and will open inventory windows where you can buy better loot/potions etc. There is a central temple that will replenish your health and mana if you stand near it.

The main building, the "Citadel" (I believe), allows you to upgrade skills, rates of exp gain etc for all of your minions and heroes. Other buildings (portals) produce non-controllable allies that aid you in battle.

The battles consist of taking flags, protecting areas, lvling your hero for access to more powerful spells/abilities, and ultimately destroying the opponent's Citidel (in Conquest). It can be a really exciting, tug-o-war game, kinda of like UT2K4 although its an entirely different genre.

The action is fast, mostly consisting of skirmishes where you gain and lose ground. Intelligent use of abilities / mana to take advantage of opportunities (such as when an enemy hero goes down) is imperative. If your hero is killed, you must wait to respawn, but the death penalty can be reduced via upgrades at the Citadel.

The graphics are good and the art style really sells the game. Overall is has a very polished feel to it, much like Blizzard games. I have had some problems with the sound, but nothing too bad. The game runs flawlessly (once i fixed the sound - vista setting, see earlier post), and matchmaking seemed to be fine.

Hope that helps. Let me know if you have more specific questions.
 
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Disciple Lan said:
Multiplayer in demigod is interesting and fun. I've never played DotA ancients but apparently its of the same mold. There are several game modes, and although I've only tried "Conquest", the other modes look compelling.

The basics:

You have a couple of buildings that supply various things to your forces. Certain buildings can be accessed when standing next them and will open inventory windows where you can buy better loot/potions etc. There is a central temple that will replenish your health and mana if you stand near it.

The main building, the "Citadel" (I believe), allows you to upgrade skills, rates of exp gain etc for all of your minions and heroes. Other buildings (portals) produce non-controllable allies that aid you in battle.

The battles consist of taking flags, protecting areas, lvling your hero for access to more powerful spells/abilities, and ultimately destroying the opponent's Citidel (in Conquest). It’s can be a really exciting, tug-o-war game, kinda of like UT2K4 although its an entirely different genre.

The action is fast, mostly consisting of skirmishes where you gain and lose ground. Intelligent use of abilities / mana to take advantage of opportunities (such as when an enemy hero goes down) is imperative. If your hero is killed, you must wait to respawn, but the death penalty can be reduced via upgrades at the Citadel.

The graphics are good and the art style really sells the game. Overall is has a very polished feel to it, much like Blizzard games. I have had some problems with the sound, but nothing too bad. The game runs flawlessly (once i fixed the sound - vista setting), see above, and matchmaking seemed to be fine.

Hope that helps. Let me know if you have more specific questions.
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Thanks for the report! I think im going for it!
 
on another note, at $40 or less, its a real bargain imo. I have spent $60 on console games that don't hold a candle to it. This game is just a good, old-fashion RTS-based slug fest. remember that feeling that you got when you starting playing starcraft mods on battle.net 10 years ago.. yeah... that's the one.

ALSO, single-player is NOT the focus of the game. SP is tournament style, so its basically MP without the human being on the other end. not really my cup of tea for a game like this. this is an MP game, first and foremost.

for those that are wary of MP, Demigod wasn't at all intimidating as a beginner. It helps that you have others on your team, and you realize the battle is longer and more complex than "the first skirmish'. you stop worrying about training the right tech tree, and start worrying about distributing punishment. also, the independent minion allies make you feel more like a difference maker in the long run rather than a do-or-die hero in the short-term. it makes it easier to step away from the battle momentarily to heal/upgrade/lvl/buy.
 
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I was at my friends place and seen him play it. It looks good, runs fast on a comparable computer to mine.

He maxed everything out at 1680x1050, and it still ran fairly well.
 
Someone at Rage3D threw these up a couple of days ago. I may have to split my time between Dawn of War II and this...

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kencheeto said:
so this is glorified and dedicated dota?
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That would be the upcoming League of legends, it is made with help with Guinso and Pendragon. Infact if you watch the trailer you get the impression that it's Dota using WoW rendering engine.

Demigod is more like Dota inspired. And I expect some 3 way competition in the future between them and the WC3 original. Personally I don't really play dota any more (my dota forum account is one of the first thousand) but might give demigod a try.
 
I like the look of Demi-God more then the look of "League of Legends" I'm getting tired of cartoony graphics ala wow or warcraft.
 
I think this game is cool, my only beef is that it would be nice if there was an easier way to identify who the enemy is vs. who are allies when theres a swarm of people fighting. The only real effective way I've been able to tell is by mousing over creatures and looking for the red glow for an enemy. This is important because there are many area of effect abilities.

That is my only beef. I really want to see lots of different maps, and more god classes. I hope Gas Powered Games / Stardock release a map editor or tools to allow the modding community to run with the game.
 
Oh nice, that review my confirmed my intent to buy the game. Now to get another day off from work! lol
 
Ok here's my screenies 1920x1200 everything high with 4x AA

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I'll be picking this up soon.

For the record, the people on the DOTA forum are comparing it more to Footies than Dota. We'll see how it goes. It will get old pretty fast if they don't let people mod it. Being a regular, long term dota player, I expect updates and changes to keep the game fresh and fun.
 
I'm really interested in this game but I'll probably get steamrolled online. Are there any other noobs that can share some experiences?
 
Game literally JUST came out, you're not going to be too far behind the curve.

I'm having the damn validation failure that alot of people who bought retail seem to be having. Just waiting to hear from Stardock so I can get my ass online!

Skirmish is fun, I never played much DOTA, but I loved Tides of Blood. Did one match, AI is pretty tough, can't wait to try more heroes out.
 
Whoever has played online, I would really love to hear about your experiences. This looks like a game I could pick up and play!
 
I have but I also bought it through Stardock and be sure to make an account there.
 
First game in a while to make my system chug. The rook seems uberly overpowered so far to me.
 
Game runs well for me at max settings (1920x1200) but I have no idea WTF I'm doing. Where's the tutorial? :(
 
Game runs 60-75 fps all the time at 1920x1200 Full detail 8xAA
Looks quite good =)

Someone post some tips ... i havent tried online yet (skipping the frustration of the mess it is right now)
Tournament on hard my team always gets beat... i cant seem to make nice cash to buy good stuff
 
Technoob said:
First game in a while to make my system chug. The rook seems uberly overpowered so far to me.
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Mine was really chugging along at first, so I updated my video card drivers and turned off aa/af. There was an enormous difference after those changes, moreso than I would have expected.
 
I do enjoy playing the Rook, mainly because him and The Oak, are the two heroes i've learned and developed playing styles for. When the Oak hits level 15+ he hits so hard that I don't fear the Rook or any other god I just run up to them and they instadie.

I'll tell you what though the next hero i'm learning is that dude with the wings and the cross bow. That guy is single handedly kicking my ass. He does some ability where he can just evade everything I throw out at him. Of course I haven't gone online or update my system yet, I plan on doing that tomorrow I want to play all the heroes before I go online, but perhaps he's too powerful and the patch fixes him. I dunno.
 
Unclean beast + atk speed augmented gloves is frickin incredible. Spit on em and then just attack away. Torchbearer seems to be a good hero killer, but he seems to lose effectiveness at later levels. I haven't got too into the generals yet.
 
Game runs pretty good on my system, 1920x1080, max settings , 2xaa, 16xaf. It can get choppy near the end when you have massive amounts of creeps attacking the enemies base.

Pretty similar to dota, less heros but you can customize the heros more. Seemed slower paced and somewhat less personal than dota though, might be due to the more standard rts camera.

Even though it has more content than dota I can see myself getting tired of the game in a couple months unless new mods/updates come out. Don't get me wrong its a really fun game especially compared to other retail pc games. Dota is just like dust2 on counterstrike, never really changes much but some reason it's playable for years.

I really enjoyed playing Oak. I still need to learn the other heros. The graphics are a nice change + widescreen support(wc3 stretched makes me sad). I would say if you haven''t played a push up type game like this or really like this type, it would be definitely be worth the buy. I been playing with a group of 4-6 friends and its been a blast.
 
phobic said:
Game runs well for me at max settings (1920x1200) but I have no idea WTF I'm doing. Where's the tutorial? :(
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It's pretty easy to get the hang of after a couple skirmishes against AI. But I guess you did that already.
 
I just purchased this game last night, seems really cool. I am not an RTS player, but thought that this might be a good game to get my feet wet on the genre.

Game runs perfect on the rig in my sig, but struggles on my older system: X2 3800, 2GB RAM, 7800GT.

Now if I can just figure out how to play:) I can't seem to figure out how to make my armies go where I want them to.

BTW - I also had to update to the newest nvidia driver and update my DX to get the game to run.
 
Assassins don't control any of the units. Generals only control the ones they summon. You kind of have to open the path for your units so to speak.
 
Correct. The minions (or creeps as some call them) that come out of the portal are not controlable they just come out in waves and run forward.

You can select the units you can summon. To summon a unit you need to purchase the item that allows you to summon them. They will then appear as 3 small buttons to the right of your mana bar (forgot the hot keys to summon them). However i'm not sure how you select them and tell them to attack target x. These minions though do guard you, heal you etc.
 
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