Warlock 2: The Exiled

Не могу рекомендовать к покупке игру сейчас. Катастрофически устарела. Спустя несколько часов игровой сессии остро ощущаются недоработки и нехватка некоторых механик. Недостаточное разнообразие редких ресурсов, отсутствие существенного различия рас и их особенностей. Куцое наполнение мира да и всей игры в целом. Возможно, лет 15 назад в игре и можно было провести пару-тройку часов, но сейчас нет никакого резона в неё играть- просто скучно. Особенно, когда есть Age of Wonders от тех же Парадоксов, которая на порядок лучше Warlock. Отдельно стоит упомянуть о багах, которых тоже немало (в частности, невозможность получить достижение "Дракон постарел"). У игры были интересные задумки и идеи, которые разработчики смогли реализовать в других проектах, а Warlock, как бы грубо это не звучало, отправился на бескрайние просторы ненужных, недоделанных и забытых игр. Аминь.

Please make Warlock 3, theres been no new fantasy 4X which keeps fights on the main world map and doesnt zoom in to a separate map. This game is so fun and diverse and has more content than the first one. I bet Im not the only one who wants Warlock 3 or at least a remake of either one. Renessaince mod is a must for Warlock 2 as even the highest difficulty is quite easy once youre past the start. I recommend playing the game vanilla first and then installing the Renessaince mod for more and new content as well as higher difficulty.

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Warlock 2 The Exiled is a charming & satisfying turn based fantasy wargame I highly recommend it to those who like fantasy strategy/wargames I play the sandbox mode which places you in a randomly generated world. You can set various general conditions... your leader & race... world geography & size... difficulty & victory conditions There is also the excellent Renaissance mod available on the workshop which is literally a full expansion pack adding races & tweaking gameplay Excellent & relaxing game 10/10

I have never been so overwhelmed by a game before. From the outset, you are presented with innumerable options for features that you have no knowledge or understanding of. Then the Tutorial throws multiple windows at you with every click. Each window has more windows with more information you will not understand because the mechanics are not actually explained. At no point are you told what you are actually supposed to be doing to achieve victory/ make progress. I have rarely uninstalled a game so quickly.

Warlock 2 is a game that reminds me a lot of Eador, for all the good and bad that that entails. Wheras Eador was a longer form, more complicated game that thrived in it's campaign but was plagued by bugs, balancing issues and repetative tedium, Warlock 2 is much shorter-form - even me as an inexperienced, completely new player was able to finish an entire game in a few hours - but also lacks a lot of staying power and personality compared to Eador. I'll start with the things I liked because they're few enough that I can get them all stated right from the off. the game looks nice, the art is well done, the concept of warring through shards of broken worlds to conquer and claim victory is also a good concept, and I liked a lot of the ideas behind the story and characters... and that's about it. The "story" is about a paragraph long, both campaigns combined, and has barely any staying power or interest. Plot points (such as the United one in the Naga campaign) are brought up once and then discarded, enemy Ai have almost no personality whatsoever (assuming they live long enough for you to even meet them, which tends to be a crapshoot), and the "quest" system is so simplistic and pointless as to be entirely without merit. If you get a quest to kill a unit, you can say yes and get a reward, or say no and... the unit will still spawn in, and you just won't get a reward. A lot of incidental dialogue the player is allowed to give can directly reference the United One... even when you're not playing that campaign, and it's not your goal to kill him, and the diplomacy system is so basic and rudimentary that the game won't even give you a message to let you know someone has declared war on you. Speaking of the campaign itself, it's laughably done. In the main campaign you get three pop up events, of which only the second (involving finding a unique spell to cast) has anything interesting going on whatsoever, as the other two are just "hey we spawned in some minion camps/big minions, go kill them" before the entire story just... stops. No events, no dialogue, no interaction, until you make your way to the final world where some dude just goes "oh hi, you'll have to break my fort to get to the main dude", which isn't exactly hard - before the game drops the final obstacle on you and completely breaks the balance of the game in four, by spawning four incredibly overpowered, massively tanky, way too strong mega units that LITERALLY cannot die unless you kill them in a specific order (and the game doesn't bug out and constantly respawn the one that you're allowed to kill who is making them all immortal), while they start cleaving through your army like it's nothing. The second campaign is actively worse, as you're constantly being terraformed into an ocean (which nobody except the naga can do anything with) every 20 turns or so, compounding one of the main issues the game has *even more*, until you go to the main continent and, surprise surprise, kill a super OP, overstatted hyper unit that will self-resurrect if you don't kill him fast enough, while he's also taking about ~20% of the damage from your attacks. The game constantly spawns monster camps, not in the fog of war like a good game might, but literally inside your city borders, or directly next to them, no matter what - mandating a constant garrison prescence to repeatedly and consistently clear out every single camp that ever spawns, or they'll conquer your cities. This extreme constant pressure is what I can only assume is created entirely because the actual enemy AI in this game is laughable. They literally can't deal with the monsters, at all, and get stuck or even killed on their starter worlds 99% of the time, leading to the game basically being whack-a-mole against endlessly respawning red dragons while you are able to go about your objective almost entirely unopposed. The more I think about it, the more this game seems like it wasn't even slightly cooked. While I liked the core concepts and the ideas, the execution is so far removed from good that It just has no staying power at all. The balance is all over the place, the AI is too busy being killed by the monsters to pose a threat, the campaigns are either annoying or laughably overtuned, and the game even impliments a *city cap*, in case you wanted to have fun expanding (yes I know about the "special cities", but they're so awful and useless that they're not even worth building). I genuinely cannot fathom why this game was released this way, when it's so clearly lacking in so many places. Hell, you can't even tab out without the game slowing all your typing down to a crawl! It's been so long since I've played a game that seemed like someone tore the beating heart out of it before it even got off the ground, but that is definitely Warlock 2. As much as it has problems, I'd recommend Eador over this in a heartbeat - because even while it had a lot of problems, it got a lot more right than this game did. Don't waste your time with this, it's really not worth it.

Played this game years ago in campaign mode: it was fine, albeit low challenge. Played this game in sandbox mode: it cheats like crazy. By turn 10 when the player can only field a few units to explore, the computer players have multiple cities. Even by 1990s standards, that's a terrible way to compensate for pitiful AI

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NEED TO KNOW INFO UP FRONT: A worthy successor to the first Warlock game. I won't rehash my review there, but it should be noted that to really get the most bang for your buck you will need to add the DLC. On top of that you should strongly consider the Renaissance Mod to add a substantial amount of zest to your world I am doing the rest of this review based off using that mod, so take a little bit of salt. PROS: If you are fan of the Majesty setting (Ardania) then you will love this game, just like Warlock 1 Plenty of new structures and units to work with (after modding and DLC) Neat new game modes that make you come back to see what you can get away with Achievements are enabled for this unlike the first game Workshop is enabled for this unlike the first game Spells roster is very robust, still in-love with the terraform spells to drastically alter the map to your favor A lot of new faces to the Archmage rosters, love roleplaying as a magical emperor The leveling system is very crucial, even more so, in this sequel, take full advantage of it Heroes are funny and interesting, plenty of the first game ones return with an updated roster CONS: Vanilla game is basically just like Warlock 1 before DLCs and Mods A few bugs that can CTD, that are NOT mod related, recommend just keep reloading for it to go away Airships are still a bit lackluster, even after the first game OVERALL: A very worthy inclusion to any RPG or 4X gamer library.

Wonderful game, if you like warlock 1 this is just that but more. The only real downside is that most the world is split up via portals instead of being one giant map.