Anyone thinking of picking this up? Same crew that made the semi-controversial game, Hatred.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/620590/Ancestors_Legacy/ (https://store.steampowered.com/app/620590/Ancestors_Legacy/)
RTS? Not me!
Yeah, these 58 year old reflexes don't do RTS. Hell, sometimes I need a pause button in real life ::)
I'm waiting for someone else to go first...it's been on my wishlist forever.
Well, it is receiving very favorable reviews. Gus, I think you should take this one for the team.
All in favor?
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on May 22, 2018, 06:50:22 PM
Well, it is receiving very favorable reviews. Gus, I think you should take this one for the team.
All in favor?
:bd:
AYE!
Hmm Strategy Gamer gives it an 80% (via Metacrtitic) and the Steam reviews are 96% positive!
Looks like, "The Last Kingdom: The Computer Game". That's not a bad thing. I'm down with Gus taking one for the team anytime but especially on this one.
For myself, I don't see any downside to Gus acquiring the game and giving us all a brief review...
:hug:
Go here:
https://steamdb.info/app/720380/
Click on Free in the upper right corner and you can download the multiplayer beta. Still works, and you can set bot opponents if you host a private game.
I've only given it a brief, distracted play so far. Didn't read the directions, couldn't figure out how to build anything other than scouts and tents while I was not paying attention and my poor little starter squad got steamrolled.
Art is passable, game is kinda heavy on the gore/violence angle (guess its this dev's thing, they did that Hatred game too lol) gameplay reminded me mostly of Company of Heroes with pointed sticks. Music is Viking Death Folk. Will give it a better try directly.
Enjoying it so far. Yep, Company of heroes but with vikings and britons seems like most exact comparison!
Is it 40.00 good?
Ancestors Legacy is a fun little game I got for $10 off one of the usual sites G2A I think it was.
* Good Graphics
* Good Battle Camera
* Classic Company of Heroes style RTS gameplay in a medieval setting
* 10 unit limit
* Unit upgrades
* Typical COH style campaigns for each of the 4 factions.
* 1 Hero\general per faction
Having fun with ancestors legacy atm. Got it for $10 off G2A. This seems to be from either the men of war 2 devs or somebody associated. So far it plays like that old game Praetorian crossed with men of war. You burn and pillage to capture villages and then get the peasants to gather resources for you. But their is no micro management of peasants. The formations are no good but the combat, considering you can play vikings, slavs, anglo saxons or gemans is what you would expect. Skirmish level bands of raiders going at it. You get a glorious leader hero as well. I guess it smacks of Dawn of War 2 if I was to compare it closely to one title.
I don't think their is much depth though which seems sad. But will see how I go. Great little game for some quick RTS action.
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This is NOT from the same developers of Men of War. As stated in the IP, it is from the developers of the game Hatred. They also made a little game called IS Defense.
Same publisher though I believe.
There was some sort of hubbub about men of war 2 getting a new dlc recently as well.
By the way this game has a demo.
Quote from: Destraex on September 30, 2018, 09:55:18 AM
Same publisher though I believe.
There was some sort of hubbub about men of war 2 getting a new dlc recently as well.
By the way this game has a demo.
Might be. 1C publishes a lot of Euro-crap. Every now and again, they publish a gem.
Permanent price drop down to 34.99 on Steam in the last few weeks and IIRC a new campaign has been added as well.
Here is the roadmap. They still have a few things to add and an expansion or paid DLC may be in the works.
The section they are up to here is mod support. Which is really encouraging considering this game is on other platforms as well. I assume only the PC version will have mod support.
I would not have taken the plunge for $40 on steam (I did not notice the DEMO button until afterwards). But having got it on special from one of the other sites I have absolutely zero regrets. This is a great little game to occupy you for 30mins or so at a time. Like company of heroes it can however be frustrating at times to run back and forth trying to stop points (towns) from being burned down and recaptured. Each town represents a major investment because after burning it down and then capturing it. You must build archer towers to protect it, which you will not be able to easily afford at first. Then or before the towers as will be the case early. You must buy villagers to go out to the various resource points and mine them. stone, wood or food. Now all of this is automatic. It's just a matter of clicking buttons on the town and the villagers will go build the mine and mine in it. You see the mechanics are such that like company of heroes. The only real management is of your troops in battle.
I am a little disappointed their are no spear infantry that use shields. It seems that for balance reasons this was not implemented. Instead it is axe or sword infantry that get access to shields. But hey. You cannot have everything. This is an RTS after all. Not a historical wargame. It does a good job though, of giving you a feel that you are a raider from the period. Skirmishing with your small bands of warriors.
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I hit 24hrs of play on this yesterday. I have finished the viking and am half way through the saxon campaign.
Very coh in style these campaigns.
Enjoying it?