Terrible campaign design ...

[DitoLoco]

I have just started a campaign. I used to play this game before campaign was introduced, so now i was curious how it goes ... I beat before the game on heaven level so i thought that i kind of now how to play it ...

First two missions of the campaign were a nice challenge. The third one, however, made me stop playing. The point i really lost it was:
the enemy heroes spawn right back the very turn u killed them .....
And they have lots of hit points ...
Furthermore, enemy can easily summon 7-8 troops / turn...

Mission is doable but the patience require for that is crazy. You would have to grind and grind and bring your heroes to a very high level and your units as well.

I gave up.

[risingsun21c]

yea I agree with you totally... the campaigns gets extremely difficult very soon... the 3rd fight with the Lich was just ridiculously hard and made me stop playing campaign... level balancing is desperately needed here...

[Nidor]

i went till camp no 5 where you need to flee. this was no fun and i stopped doing the campaign

[DitoLoco]

I passed the flee mission ...
Made it to the mission when u have to defend the city - it gets just so tough.
In the sense - there is so many enemy units and yours you cannot even replay it for best results, you have to fight no like three - four fronts, and you messed up one all goes to drain ...

[Nidor]

seems i miss on stuff here and play like a loser. perhaps a difficulty setting for the campaign would be nice.

[resieg]

Random maps on hard lvl is ok for me now (was not a year ago ;) )
But Campaign is just a few levels higher (toooo high appearently!)
Tried the 3rd map so many times, lots of hours: so frustrating.

I like this game. So 2 levels below "NORMAL" should be a solution. I like to see more missions beyond the 3rd :)

[DitoLoco]

i beat a game on "heaven" difficulty and still campaign is just too much work.

[resieg]

Thanks for sharing this, Szalbierz. ;) That makes me feel less of an idiot :)

[FroBodine]

I was just about to buy this game, then I read some of these posts here about how brutally and unnecessarily difficult the game is, and some folks are cheating and editing the unit data files to even have a chance at winning.

This sucks, and I hope the developers fix this if it's an issue. But, I don't see any developer responses on these forums in any of the posts I've read so far.

Too bad. The game looked good, but not if devs are not going to communicate.

[resieg]

I absolutely recommend you: Buy it !

[FroBodine]

But, what is there to play if the campaigns are so bad, that makes you give this a thumbs up, please?

[resieg]

"What is there to play?" LOL, its the game ...

[FroBodine]

Yes, but isn't the campaign the game? What other ways to play the game are there, please? That is what I'm trying to find out. You say the campaign is bad, but the game is excellent. So, how else can I play the game if not playing the campaign?

[edit] Ok, I see you answered this question in another thread. Thank you!

[BrainDeadDad]

l really love the game...but this campaign starting at level 3 is totally insane. Way to hard burned me out probably not finish the campaign..

[itsbrento]

The campaign should be fun and easy, not very challenging if players don't want that. I just got the game, it's fun but the campaign is missing, I can only put about 6 hours or less into this game without the campaign. Campaign is a do or die for me for this game.

[resieg]

6 hours ... - Oh my...
I have about 600 hours without campaign, and will surely have a few hundrets more ...

And yes, campaign should be playable for beginners too.
In many other games, campaign is like a tutorial (at least in the first levels), so beginners can learn about the game mechanics.

Free game is the core impo, but campaign should be playable.