Deadhold

Una pena que cancelaran el desarrollo, porque es lo más parecido que había a la saga Myth. Cuando lo jugué, en acceso anticipado, aún estaba verde y tenía muchas cosas por pulir, pero ya era divertido y rezumaba Myth por todos lados. Ahora nada, esperar que retomen el proyecto (difícil), liberen el código o que Nordic Warriors, otro que recuerda a Myth, incluya multijugador competitivo y cooperativo.

Deadhold is a remake of Bungie's classic Myth series, the grandfather of real-time tactical games. There's no base-building here, instead, points are allocated pre-mission to spend on units. For people who have only played the Total War games, battle tactics here are similar, though instead of large squads, units are singular. The way units support and counter each other, places heavy emphasis on formations/spacing, facing, and micro - through the use of well-timed tactics, a small force can take down armies, or just as easily destroy itself in an instant with friendly fire. Every casualty is felt through buckets of blood and gibs. On top of its Myth core, Deadhold has integrated a levelling/loot/customization/unlock layer to coop PVE. So now it's an RTT/RPG. Finding new loot to try new builds with makes replaying missions and challenge modes more fun, where more risk=more reward. Don't worry though, PVP remains a "pure" Myth experience with an even playing field. Updates are slow, glacially slow, though this could be attributed to the fact that the devs have day jobs. Apparently the game's already been in development for several years prior to early-access; they're in this for the long haul. Total War, World in Conflict, Ground Control - all these games share similarities as they exist in the RTT genre, but Myth's combat remains a unique, bloody, visceral experience, and nothing's come as close to matching it as Deadhold. Solid investment. //update: Development halted. No communication, no updates, up until the bombshell dropped. Sigh. Despite that, I'm leaving the review positive, 'cus Myth.

I remember talking to the head devs and asking about vanilla unit balance. Their line of thinking was "we aren't going to balance the vanilla units until after we balance the spells. Totally ass-backwards way of balancing a game. The very fact this game was approached with this philosophy was a ___HUGE___ red flag. Vanilla balance comes before extra mechanic balance. Especially the hamfisted DOTA clone style powers that were added. It's not rocket science. You can't know if your deity spells are balanced if the base units aren't balanced. It's like building a house on a slanted foundation. You're going to be fixing your own problems forever in a sideways fashion instead of doing it right the first time. If perfecting vanilla balance isn't your overarching goal ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE, you are not engaged in making a spiritual successor to myth, full stop.

A great example of what scam is. "Developers" shut the development off only after a few months after EA release.

So far so good! Just had time to get through the tutorial and it feel like I am playing Myth 2. Can't wait to get into the campaign and multiplayer.

found it enjoyable no major deal breakers great foundation. going forward though id love to be able to see some in depth unit tactic/logic adjustments for example rangers hang behind warriors and volley over. or hang behind and rush out barrage and retreat. or shield wall and phalanx tactics. even if it wasnt a user controlled metric but a generated group modifer based on composition. those are just examples ould really go as far as you wanted in that realm nextly unit veterancy and non player controlled equipment drops that units will auto grab and equip as battle progresses to sort of push for mid and end match gameplay tactical shifts(on that note even environmental and global events would be something) thirdly heros and epic units(high tier version of base unit) available to bring in would be a great way to increase depth and scope. i want to play as the undead badly idk its good try it out. wish there was a demo i might have waited to buy but still definitely would have ended up buying completed title

Hope you did something useful with my money.

Like this game