Upcoming Wyvern Update

[アンジェル]

Right before the stream ended, dev diary #17 got released with some additional information about the upcoming update.
https://steamcommunity.com/games/1669000/announcements/detail/3693560831851793826

[Anarchy Burger]

Wow lots of good stuff, though Im disappointed necromancers will cost gold now as I alway have way more souls than gold

[Gamerbear]

very awesome updates coming. I am really glad to hear that they are listening to feedback!

Though I'll be sad to lose the walls on the outposts.

[Wlerin]

Those are some pretty significant nerfs.

Also, mounted Glade Runners? Oh boy. Glade Runners with Flanker? OH BOY.

[ReverseRaven]

If you attack through an underground passage, the Reinforcement Rule is now disabled, so it’s always a 1 army vs 1 army battle

Wow they really took the one guy who complained about this seriously.

[Cold]

haha
necromancers nerfed
there is no way to spend soul and now need to spend more gold/mana

[Aurumworks]

Originally posted by Wlerin:

Those are some pretty significant nerfs.

Also, mounted Glade Runners? Oh boy. Glade Runners with Flanker? OH BOY.

Mounted Houndmaster. As if those weren't good enough already. Free dogs to bind and distract the enemy while the masters flank. Add in spider, unicorn or wolf mounts and it's getting right ridiculous.

[C'TanGod]

All this is cool, but I'm still hoping they make custom assets for provinces for each culture, definitely the only thing breaking my immersion.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by C'TanGod:

All this is cool, but I'm still hoping they make custom assets for provinces for each culture, definitely the only thing breaking my immersion.

The problem with such is that. aside of the obvious effort-and-time-taking, what happens after conquest. Such feature would need to check the cities under each ruler's control every turn and swap assets which can be an instense resource hungry procedure. People are already complaining about that effect being caused by research, where the game is checking every object in your rule whether it is affected or not by the latest research effects.

[hilfazer]

They mentioned a fix for Web's damage but i don't recall them mentioning a nerf to it. That sounds great to me as that's what i wanted to see: fix the thing, see what happens and depending on what happens apply balance changes (if neccessary).

[C'TanGod]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by C'TanGod:

All this is cool, but I'm still hoping they make custom assets for provinces for each culture, definitely the only thing breaking my immersion.

The problem with such is that. aside of the obvious effort-and-time-taking, what happens after conquest. Such feature would need to check the cities under each ruler's control every turn and swap assets which can be an instense resource hungry procedure. People are already complaining about that effect being caused by research, where the game is checking every object in your rule whether it is affected or not by the latest research effects.

I mean, the province system works more or less like in Planetfall, but even more simplified and that game has more races than AOW4 has cultures. I get the technical aspect of it, but I don't think it's that big of a deal, they could just leave the provinces the same after a conquest and if you rebuild them they switch to your culture and such.
Still, it would be nice to see, whether officially or through a mod.

[Wlerin]

Originally posted by hilfazer:

They mentioned a fix for Web's damage but i don't recall them mentioning a nerf to it. That sounds great to me as that's what i wanted to see: fix the thing, see what happens and depending on what happens apply balance changes (if neccessary).

Well, the fix is for it doing double the intended damage, so the "nerf" is basically halving the damage.

[DasaKamov]

Originally posted by ReverseRaven:

Wow they really took the one guy who complained about this seriously.

A much more likely scenario is that they ALSO thought it was totally silly that six entire armies could fight inside a single doorway. :b

[ACS36]

Originally posted by Wlerin:

Those are some pretty significant nerfs.

Also, mounted Glade Runners? Oh boy. Glade Runners with Flanker? OH BOY.

Glade Runners were terrible compared to all the other arches so they needed a boost. But I'm not sure this was the right kind of boost since you have to have a race specific trait to get them mounts. Glade Runners will still be very bad for races that don't use exotic mount traits.

I'm also not sure what you mean by glade runners with flanker considering all units in the game can get flanking bonuses without having a mount.

[Anarchy Burger]

Flanker means you do an extra 25% on top

[Wlerin]

Originally posted by ACS36:

I'm also not sure what you mean by glade runners with flanker considering all units in the game can get flanking bonuses without having a mount.

Pack Leader from Tome of Beasts gives Flanker to all Animals and Cavalry in the army, as well as a small boost to Critical Hit Chance. The same Tome also gives Animal Kinship which gives another +10% Critical Hit Chance and +10% to damage when next to Cavalry (or animals).