Oct 9, 2019
Age of Wonders Planetfall v1.006.1 "Ankylosaurus 2" update
Age of Wonders: Planetfall - Arnout


As we are about to get ready for PDXCON we have an update for the Ankylosaurus patch. The Ankylosaurus 2 update fixes gameplay, multiplayer and interface issues. Of course we have already been working on cool stuff for you folks. For more about that come find us in Berlin at PDXCON; and if you can't make it, keep an eye on PDX news & updates on social media.


V1.006.1 - Ankylosaurus 2

Gameplay
  • Fixed missing translations
  • Fixed issue where sometimes strategic actions, such as “build (forward-)base” would not be cancelled when a player was defeated.

Multiplayer
  • Fixed that disconnecting while kicking a player would cause out of sync issues after a rejoin
  • Fixed that you could cancel back to the previous menu while kicking a player

Interface
  • Fixed that hero and unit icons would sometimes disappear
  • Fixed that text in the lists in the Imperial Archives would be offset
  • Fixed that you could not call NPC factions to war
  • Fixed that the research tree had a big cross when playing with fixed teams
Sep 5, 2019
Age of Wonders Planetfall v1.006 "Ankylosaurus" update
Age of Wonders: Planetfall - DireDave


Hello everyone!

Patch v1.006, also known as Ankylosaurus, is available and ready to be updated on Steam.

Today we continue with our dinosaur-named patches with the graceful Ankylosaurus. Apart from the Multiplayer Kick system, signified by the typical dutch clog in its tail, we added some important community-requested features, like saving of the last used game settings and the selling of excess Food income! Additionally, there are some significant balance changes to city expansion and critical hit chance! Not to mention big quality of life improvements for interfaces and a massive list of fixes!

V1.006 - Ankylosaurus
Features
  • The last used scenario settings are now saved. These are saved separately for singleplayer and multiplayer.
  • World settings can now be saved into templates in Advanced Setup. Up to 3 templates per Scenario type.
  • Implemented Kick feature; hosts of sessions can now kick other players through the Settings in the session overview.
  • Added a prospect sector particle effect on sectors that can still be prospected, when you have a stack selected that have a Prospector unit.
  • The “share all” food sharing option will now sell any excess food for energy if other colonies are not taking all of the shared food. This allows you to stop the city from growing and managing city happiness better.
Modding (Paradox Launcher V2 2019.09.01)
  • Fixed issue with Mods not updating
  • You can now add Mod Tags
Balance
  • Critical chance of an attack is now capped by the hit chance of the attack. I.e. an attack with 20% chance to hit cannot have a crit chance of over 20%. This to prevent stacking crit increases from becoming an exploit.
  • Stacking Damage Reflection from mods and abilities is now capped at 75% of damage reflected.
  • Ruthless Killer from the Martial Tradition perk now only returns 1AP when it procs, not 3AP.
  • Time Warp (Void Tech operation) and Dimensional Instability can now be removed using debuff cleansing abilities and operations.
  • Indentured Contracts now reduces the energy cost of Indentured units by 33% (was 50%)
Balance: Assembly
We’re planning to do a large balance patch in the future, however the Assembly are currently so strong compared to the other races that we’re bringing forward some of the fixes to try and bring them back into line.
  • Assimilate now heals for 3hp per hit (was 6)
  • Assembly Void Walkers now do 9 damage per hit (was 8)
  • Assembly Scavenger - Shotgun now has 1 level of high impact (also affects the Vanguard Engineer)
  • Vorpal Sniper - Vorpal Shot now has a 15% critical bonus (was 20%)
  • Vorpal Sniper - Vorpal Shot now has damage 18 (was 20)
  • Assembly Electrocutioner - Arc Projector damage is now 11 (was 10)
  • Assembly Electrocutioner - Project Arc Blast is now range 7 (was 5)
  • Remote System Purge now affects 3 friendly cyborgs in a chain (was all friendly cyborgs)
  • Battlefield Autopsies now grants 3 research per unit tier after combat (was 5)
Balance: Colonizers
We've changed colonizer cost, lowering the base cost and having an increasing cost for each additional colonizer you build. This change was made to address colony spam as discussed in the Planetfall community:
  1. An early game land grab rush shouldn't be the only valid strategy, and
  2. Having a large number of colonies resulted in too much micromanagement.
We will continue to investigate people's experiences with colony expansion.
  • Colonizers now have scaling costs. The first colonizer costs 50 energy, 20 cosmite and 100 production. For each colonizer you build the cost will increase by 100 energy and 10 cosmite.
General
  • Improved random commander selection when setting up a game to increase the variety of commanders encountered.
  • Turret defense structures now have unique icons for each race.
  • Reduced stutter in Tactical Combat when moving the camera around for high refresh rate monitors
  • Improved Tactical Combat camera zoom behavior, making the mousewheel and hotkey zoom faster (in particular with notably high- and low framerates)
  • Fixed issue where Paradox Cloud Saves would always update the last modified time causing PDX Cloud Saves to always appear first when launching the game.
  • When disabling cloud saves in steam, saves on the star map can now get saved as a PDX cloud save like the other save types.
Campaign
  • Fixed an issue where commander/hero equipment and levels wouldn’t be transferred to the next mission if they had a vehicle equipped that is unavailable in the next mission.
  • Fixed issue in campaign where items could sometimes not be equipped properly on heroes/leaders that are taken from previous campaign maps.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the player to get stuck in a story message in the first Kir’Ko mission (Arcadia Caeleste) if he didn’t accept or decline the “Contact Nicole Crustus” quest and then cleared the Celestian Archives.
  • Fixed an issue in the first Kir’Ko mission (Arcadia Caeleste) that the player could not enter the Dreamer’s Archives when they were owned by one of the allied Celestian players. Affected players will need to end their turn from their save game to gain access to the landmark.
  • Campaign quests that get closed are automatically declined at the end of the turn if the player does not accept/decline the quest themselves.
Gameplay
  • Critical and fumble chance of an attack can be seen in the attack’s preview (hold ctrl), in the Extra Info section.
  • Level 5 industrial exploitation now correctly gives production instead of research.
  • Fixed issue where the current food income was not taking into account for food sharing.
  • Fixed issue where manually queueing the infinite energy/research production option for a colony would still cause “city production not set” to-do events.
  • Fixed crash that could occur when a victory condition was triggered upon defeating another player.
  • Fixed issue where the effect of doomsday weapons on Colonies would not refresh when a city was occupied or absorbed.
  • Fixed a bug where you could dismantle the exploitation given by a landmark.
  • Fixed a bug where your game could softlock when loading a combat save after you’ve patched the game.
  • Fixed issue where destroying a Monitoring Station wouldn't cancel it being listed in the active operation list
  • Fixed an issue that meant that Resurrect Hero could be used to break the max heroes in a game limit
  • Fixed issue where the Brood Cluster building was able to reduce a unit production cost to 1
  • Fixed a bug where racial research would unlock when you occupy a city of that race, rather than when you owned it.
  • Fixed issue where a player would gain the research of races belonging to the colonies they had occupied on loading a save game. This would also cause an Out of Sync in multiplayer.
  • Fixed issue where migrating an occupied colony would give the player the racial research belonging to the race of the colony prior to migration.
  • Fixed issue where you were able to migrate colonies to another race even if the player had only occupied other cities of that race instead of owning them.
  • Skirmisher Subroutines now correctly targets ground and air units (it was wrongly ground only before)
  • Fixed issue where casting an operation that spawns a unit on the domain of another player could trigger war if in doing so that unit would trespass.
  • Fixed Phoenix Defense Protocol not giving its operation defense bonus. The defense from the doctrine now protects against all operations, not just those that target your colonies.
  • Fixed a crash caused by razing a city while a doomsday victory is running
  • Fixed issue where Organized Cyber Divisions wasn’t giving it’s price reduction to certain Strategic Operations.
  • Fixed issue where the research not set event was still visible after the player completed all researches and the doomsday victory condition was disabled
  • Fixed issue where the colonist auto assignment would not keep in mind supply and happiness deficit when they were not set to ignored.
  • Dvar doctrine Cosmite Collection Program now works correctly.
  • Fixed issue where the player could prime Planetary Unification Protocol even if it was already active.
  • Fixed issue where the Planetary Unification Protocol operation wouldn't be cancelled if the unifier victory was blocked.
Gameplay: Units & Abilities
  • Dvar trenches now correctly give a 25% accuracy bonus to the units stood within the trench.
  • Adaptive Network given through the Synthesis landmark can now stack up to a max of 5 Shields.
  • Fixed Nanite Boosters' buff not working when the unit was being flanked.
  • Fixed Phoenix Walker Vehicle not being able to use Dvar Melee mods.
  • Fixed Quantum Avatar not giving it's buff to voidtech modded units equipped with the Stasis Pocket Inducer mod.
  • Fixed Oblivious Refrain, which wasn't targeting air units, when it should.
  • Fixed arc retaliation defense being triggered by cerebral override.
  • Fixed breaching shot on the guild assassin affecting the snap shot ability.
  • Fixed that sleep could be applied to units with status effect immunity.
  • Pyrx bomb no longer hits units with thermal immunity.
  • Cleansing light’s description no longer states it can only target friendly units.
  • Fixed that when a Ravenous’ devour ability would be targeted on a flying unit above a ground unit, it would eat the ground unit (it did not matter what type of unit).
  • Mantra of clarity now correctly shows up in the unit panel as a buff.
  • The cerebral control collars ability is now correctly displayed in the unit panel.
  • Fixed a bug where Echoes of Despair spawned in the wild wouldn't have Thermal/Biochemical attacks when modded with a Focus: Flames/Venom
  • Fixed a bug where the Promethean Phoenix Walker would incorrectly enter it's defence mode after using Torrent of Flames
  • Fixed a bug where the Synthesis Avatar's Amplify Daemon ability wasn't correctly targeting certain units.
  • The description of the Dvar mod Reactive Kinetic Battery now correctly says that the mod can be used by Heavy units (used to be Mechanical Heavy)
  • Thumper (Secondary Hero Weapon) no longer deal double damage
  • Stopped the Voradon’s Devour ability from triggering as part of melee overwatch
  • Prevent the Alert Protocol operation from removing actions points on units that use a leave one point or full action (continue) ability.
  • Fixed bug where Mantra of the Branded wasn't allowed on psionic units
  • Wraith Tank no longer hits itself when it has the Advanced Dislocation Drive
  • Fixed Reassembly Modules mod not being addable to paragons and other non-assembly cyborgs
  • Fixed an issue where Xenoplague units were being targeted by Xenoplague Operations when they shouldn't and vice versa.
  • Fixed issue where triggering Disintegrate on a flying unit would cause Tactical Combat to get into a dead state.
  • Fixed issue where Echo Walker clones, and other temporary units, wouldn’t despawn if they were using Emergency Quantric Shielding mods.
  • Purifiers Plasma Bomb will now scatter if it misses
  • Kir'Ko Star Guide can now correctly equip Path of Flames and Path of Venom mods
  • Plasmoid and Phoenix Walker can now equip melee mods
  • Star Guide can now target Blinding Light anywhere (before it was restricted to having a unit in the middle of the aoe)
  • Fixed Zenith's Reinforcement Zone (now correctly targets allied Biological and Cyborg units)
  • Fixed Sequential Kill System and Ruthless Killer giving multiple action points back when killing multiple units with a single attack.
  • Fixed a bug where the Assembly Colony Defense Turret was being pushed when killed
  • Fixed the Psynumbra Hero Skill, Dark Elation so it affect both ground and air units now, rather than only one or the other.
  • Positron Converter now correctly targets both air and ground units
  • Project Agony Field now correctly damages ALL units in the field
  • Fixed broken animation on Dvar Echo Walkers melee strike.
Gameplay: Diplomacy & NPC factions
  • Cosmite trade value within diplomacy has been increased from being worth 4 energy to 8 energy.
  • Fixed issue where the trespass button in the trespassing confirmation for using an operation to spawn a unit would not function if the player is a vassal to the domain owner.
  • Fixed issue where breaking a diplomatic treaty would not always cause a relation penalty.
  • Using influence to ask a faction to leave an occupied colony will now liberate the colony if you are not at war with the owner of that colony. As opposed to you becoming the new occupier of that colony.
  • Trading casus belli will now also instantly remove the grudge that player may have relative to the amount of casus belli points that were traded.
  • When war is declared on a player that is suffering from the effects of futility of war - which disables the use of casus belli - they will no longer get the negative “war without casus belli” popular support effect.
  • NPC faction accept- and decline demand buttons now show the amount of favor gained with the NPC faction in their tooltips. The tooltip will now also indicate that war will be declared if the demand is declined, if that is the case.
  • Fixed issue where treaties which could not be paid for would instantly end any involved diplomatic treaties that were made within the same trade deal but do not have a fixed duration.
  • Fixed issue where the player could spend all its resources before handling a demand and still be able to select the give resources to faction option.
  • Fixed issue where Sway Ideology would reduce the diplomatic state of a faction relation to much
  • Fixed issue where the offer/demand vassalage options would still be available when an alliance offer was already added to the trade.
  • Added a new event and panel to indicate when a resource treaty could not be exchanged because one of the players couldn’t afford paying the resources.
  • Fixed crash when an NPC faction, that no longer had a dwelling, gave the player a quest.
  • Fixed issue where converting a base into a forward base or a colony could trigger a sector claim violation.
  • Fixed an issue where capturing an enemy city that was producing something would efud the energy and cosmite cost to you, instead of the city’s original owner
  • Fixed issue where the covert operation Casus belli would be given to the player when the covert op was detected, even if the caster was anonymous.
  • Fixed issue where the locate sector button of a faction demand was no longer functional
AI
  • Diplomacy trading tweaks to make the AI less agreeable to trades that are very imbalanced to them.
  • Trading AI balance changes to make the AI less agreeable to giving away items/resources away for free in negotiations, particularly Casus Belli and Treaties.
  • Fixed issue where AI players would sometimes change which NPC faction(s) they want to ally with and which ones to go to war with.
  • AI players may now attack trespassing units from players they are not at war with but have 3 or more trespassing casus belli on.
  • AI players no longer comment on events (such as improving your relation with a NPC faction) while at war with the player.
  • AI players no longer denounce the player while at war.
  • AI players will no longer buy-off casus belli from players they dislike. I.e. relation value at -200 or less.
  • Fixed issue where the AI would sometimes not move onto structures/nodes they had previously bought from a NPC faction.
  • Fixed some issues where some units would not move at all when threatened with a lot of overwatch
  • The AI will now be less likely to make units run away during combat
  • The AI will now immediately make colonizers run away if they enter combat
  • The AI is now much more likely to use Phase Echo abilities on Echo Walkers
  • Fixed an AI hang which could occur when an AI player/independent stack is attacking an undefended structure that has a stack next to it belonging to an ally of the structure owner.
  • The AI now no longer interacts with Settlements during the first 8 turns of the game to ensure the player has enough time to be the first to obtain a second colony.
  • Fixed AI hang caused by trying to attack a settlement that had come under their control during the same turn.
  • Fixed AI hangs during their turn causing you to be stuck with “opponent is moving”.
Multiplayer
  • The turn timer now no longer ticks down when you are unable to perform actions, for instance when auto combat is running.
  • Prevent free production pickup event from being lost when the turn is ended by the turn timer.

Interface
  • The selected stack will now be remembered when zooming out to the orbital map and reselected when you zoom back in.
  • Increased the size of scrollbars so they are more noticeable.
  • Added cosmite and influence generation to the colony interfaces.
  • Leader Colony Supplements and Vices are now visible in the Imperial Archives under Hero Skills, the relative filters will now also properly filter these items.
  • Pressing Esc now properly closes most of the menu screens.
  • Fixed an issue where the scroll position in city production was not remembered.
  • Tooltips have been added to the dismantle sector exploitation/upgrade options in the colony interface. Additionally, the amount of turns dismantling will take is now also displayed.
  • Fixed the cost of unit mods being hidden in the unit interface if the player didn’t have enough energy or cosmite to buy them.
  • Fixed bug where sometimes images would be incorrectly offset or scaled.
  • Fixed bug where hyperlinks in interfaces related to NPC factions could not be clicked.
  • Fixed bug where the UI could not be interacted with when meeting an NPC faction while the turn timer runs out in hotseat.
  • Fixed bug where success and detection chances would not be shown while using a controller when casting a covert operation.
  • Fixed overflow issue when 20 or more colonist slots were on 1 type of resource.
  • Fixed an issue where 50% scroll speed was not selectable
  • Fixed an issue where disabled checkboxes in lists would enable
  • Fixed miss aligned text icons in headers above lists
  • Fixed an issue where quickly switching selection in lists with controller would select multiple rows.
  • Renamed the scavanger shotgun to scavenger shotgun to fix the typo.
  • Trade screen now correctly identifies who has sent/is sending the trade and changes the “You offer”/”They demand” & “You demand”/”They offer” correctly.
  • Hazard removal now shows how many turns are remaining until the hazard is removed from the sector.
  • Fixed typo and formatting in Falsify Atrocities casus belli.
  • Fixed an issue where switching input mode while in controls menu leads to dead states.
  • Fixed issue where the Happiness Event threshold in the colonist tab for colonies was sometimes displaying the incorrect threshold depending on the happiness income and accumulated happiness.
  • Fixed issue in the quest overview panel where the description of some campaign quests would only be partially displayed.
  • Selecting Previous/Next city from the city screen now no longer selects cities you don’t own, preventing it from switching to a different interface without these buttons.
  • When a covert operation is detected as well as when purging the Casus Belli gained for someone using covert ops is now visible in the Operation results as well on the internal purge screen (to the purging player).

Disclaimer: This update is still in the works for PS4 and Xbox One.

Thanks for all the feedback! Many of these changes were a result of all the comments and reports provided to us.

For any remaining issues please report them to:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?forums/age-of-wonders-planetfall-bug-reports.1056/

Have a nice day!
Aug 29, 2019
Weekly Age of Wonders: Planetfall stream
Age of Wonders: Planetfall - missdeliana

Make room in your schedule on Thursdays, because we'll be doing weekly streams again! Join us on today at 16:00 CEST, as JimJ4m, cKnoor and Tom Bird do another Planetfall "Big Builds" stream at twitch.tv/paradoxinteractive !
Aug 12, 2019
Steam Charts: Win A Free Car Edition!
Grand Theft Auto V Legacy - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (John Walker)

Hello, I’m high school sweetheart, John Walker. Welcome, if you can, to Steam Charts.

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Aug 9, 2019
Age of Wonders Planetfall v1.004 "Velociraptor" update
Age of Wonders: Planetfall - Arnout


Hello everyone!

Patch v1.004 also known as the Velociraptor, is available and ready to be updated on Steam, GoG and PDX.

We have decided to name our substantial updates after dinosaurs in honor of the Amazon beasts. We’ll try to reflect the updates’ focus in the choice of dino. This time around we decided to go for the Velociraptor due to its speed and size; which reflects this patch perfectly! It features a variety of fixes and quality of life improvements!

General
  • Significantly reduced waiting times between turns late game
  • Added edge scrolling; disabled by default (setting can be found in the Controls options)
  • Added a button to randomize the commander names in commander customization
  • Added an option to ‘Force Fast Combat Animations’ in the Options > Combat UI menu.
  • Changing the language of the launcher now automatically updates the language setting for the game.
  • Fixed startup hang when the installation folder contains non-ansi characters; this affected some of our Chinese, Japanese and Russian players.
  • Other general stability improvements; including some of the most commonly reported crashes.
  • Various text fixes in multiple languages
  • Improved various Imperial Archives entries to provide additional and clearer information.
  • Fixed that Steam invites to a password protected lobby would fail and show an “incorrect password” message.
  • Renamed the invert combat camera rotation/zoom settings to X/Y axis. These 2 settings now support the mouse rotation in combat.

Campaign
  • Fixed a problem that under rare circumstances the “Find the Propovus Lab” quest in the second Kir’Ko mission (Xa’Kir’Ko) could not be completed. Players that ran into the problem will need to re-enter the “Propovus” Xenoplague Labs sector with one of their armies to complete the quest.
  • Fixed an issue where the player could get stuck in looping story messages after meeting the Psi-Fish in the first Kir’Ko mission (Arcadia Caeleste).
  • Fixed an issue where the player could not complete a quest to ally Chin Til’Trz in the second Vanguard mission, if he already allied Chin Til’Trz before receiving the quest. Affected players need to wait for a new turn for the quest to complete.

Gameplay
  • Added icons to operations on the Research screen to clearly show whether they are tactical, strategic or doctrine operations.
  • Fixed an issue where the AI would sometimes offer peace and make war at the same time with players who are in the run for multiple victory conditions at the same time.
  • Removed a line of text from the message that appears when a call to war is declined; to make the message clearer.
  • Fixed a crash when the AI tried to denounce a player without having any Casus Belli to denounce with.
  • Fixed that locating a sector that is being demanded by an NPC faction would close the demand screen.
    Fixed that the player could not declare war on an NPC faction while being in an Integrated (Highest) relation state with them.
  • Fixed that the Hasher SMG hero weapon was missing particles and sounds when being fired.
  • Sectors are no longer tradeable if they are annexed to a colony that is occupied.
    Trade analysis text has been changed to the following format “Trade analysis: good deal for you” to help clarify that this analysis is targeted at the player and is not something the (AI) player on screen is saying.
  • Fixed crash in tactical combat when switching to nearby units while another unit is destroying an obstacle.
  • Now you no longer receive race relation penalties at the start of a Fixed Teams session due to starting wars, to prevent negative relations from the start. Note: This only applies to newly created scenarios.
  • Completing the last item in a city production queue now keeps the remaining production, rather than wasting it.

Disclaimer: Note that new text entries are English only at the moment; localization will follow shortly. This update is still in the works for PS4 and Xbox One.

Thanks for all the feedback! Many of these changes were a result of all the comments and reports provided.

For any remaining issues please report them to:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?forums/age-of-wonders-planetfall-bug-reports.1056/

Have a nice weekend!
Aug 7, 2019
Age of Wonders Planetfall v1.003 update
Age of Wonders: Planetfall - Arnout
Hello everyone! Planetfall Patch v1.003 is available! This mainly addresses system specific issues people have reported where they have been unable to launch the game, were confronted with freezes at startup, or have been unable to load a map. Then there are a bunch of smaller fixes. Please read the full patch notes for details.

  • Fixed hangs and crashes occurring while the is starting up, i.e. before displaying the main menu.
  • Fixed a freeze that would occur for some users on the game loading screen.
  • Fixed a freeze that would occur for some users when loading a map.
  • Fixed an issue for players with remapped Documents folder that would prevent the game from saving data. E.g. settings, customized commanders, save games. Note that this includes a fix for language not being correctly set in-game when changing them through the Paradox Launcher.
  • In-game language selection dropdown now fits all core languages without the need of scrolling. This means you no longer need to scroll down for the simplified chinese option, preventing players missing the option.
  • Fixed a crash in Leave-6 - the first Vanguard - campaign during the Syndicate quest line, when taking a specific story branch - i.e. following her quest line.
  • Fixed an issue where the player was unable to buy the dwelling through peaceful means.
  • Fixed an issue resulting in lesser quality tutorial maps due to random map generation.
  • Fixed an issue for GoG users that caused false positive when checking for build compatibility in multiplayer games. This triggered warnings asking players to update their build before they could continue their game, when this was not required.
  • Fixed an issue where clicking on the “End Turn” event would not end the turn.
  • Fixed an issue where customization was not correctly applied in the Leave-6 - first vanguard - campaign map, after playing the tutorial. Note that this does mean that mods and experience gained in the tutorial map no longer carry over to the Leave-6 map. Jack(y) lost those in cryosleep, sorry.
  • ‘Hide password protected games’ is now disabled by default in the multiplayer lobby.
  • Fixed an issue where the wrong custom commanders can be deleted, if custom commanders were ‘disabled’ due to disabling mods or DLC.

We hope you have been enjoying the game so far! We will continue putting our efforts into resolving all remaining issues!

For any issues please consult this thread on how to report: https://steamcommunity.com/app/718850/discussions/0/1643170269586711632/

Have a nice day exploring the remnants of the Star Union!
Aug 7, 2019
Age of Wonders: Planetfall review - depth without flavour
Age of Wonders: Planetfall

I promise you I have tried very hard to find something deeper, beneath the surface of Age of Wonders: Planetfall, that shows its true brilliance. I really have. It screams "hidden gem", on the face of it: a generous glob of SyFy channel space-cheese, spread over a rich and hearty mix of genres. Civilization by way of XCOM, in the ideal setting. Perfect. By any conventional wisdom you'd think, if you scratch away long enough, that the schlock on top would give way to some buried treasure. That there'd be some B-movie, Starship Troopers gold lying in wait, reserved only for those patient and diligent enough to keep digging.

If only. Keep digging at Age of Wonders: Planetfall and you will find some impressive depth, for sure, from tech trees to unit modifications to character customisation - only it's depth, unfortunately, in the sense that a twelve-page restaurant menu has depth. It's depth that inspires a sense of dread and regret, maybe some resignation, and a sigh: there is an awful lot here, I will spend a very long time working my way through it, and there's a fair chance none of it will be as good as it could have been were it left to stand alone.

A lot of that feeling is made worse than it really ought to be, too, because Age of Wonders: Planetfall simply does not explain itself well. In fact it seems confused about what, exactly, it needs to explain at all. The premise of Age of Wonders: Planetfall is that it's a mix of two brilliant but also seriously complex genres. You manage unstacked cities on a hexagonal-tiled world map, acquiring resources, advancing through tech trees, moving armies and conquering your way to more territory as you go - all very Civilization (in fact all very Civilization 5, much like 2014's Age of Wonders 3 was too). When you engage in combat, meanwhile, it's down to the turn-based-tactics level. You control an army of up to six units and move them around their own tile-based map through full cover and half cover, expending action points and improving percentage-chance-to-hits - hence, Civ crossed with XCOM.

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Aug 6, 2019
Age Of Wonders: Planetfall plummets out
Age of Wonders: Planetfall - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Matt Cox)

Hark, for the dawn of another wondrous age approaches. Or at least a competent one. Nate and Astrid have both taken a good hard look at Age Of Wonders: Planetfall and have declared: (in different, longer words)’yeah, that’s pretty good that is’. It’s a 4X game that pans down into small-scale tactical combat, wedding gross imperialist strategy to itty bitty unit bossing through the medium of “buff ladies riding laser dinosaurs”.

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Aug 6, 2019
Age of Wonders: Planetfall - Now Available!
Age of Wonders: Planetfall - Alden

Discover. Conquer. Expand. Exciting strategic turn-based combat and in-depth empire building in an all-new sci fi setting. Age of Wonders: Planetfall is now available! 🎉

Now that the game is out, there’s a wide selection of streams to choose from if you want to check out some sweet gameplay! Check out who’s streaming now: https://pdxint.at/2YQaTe8

If you have any questions about Age of Wonders: Planetfall or if you need any help, there's a good chance you'll find what you need in our excellent FAQ: pdxint.at/2YmPB8G


https://store.steampowered.com/app/718850/Age_of_Wonders_Planetfall/
Aug 6, 2019
Now Available on Steam - Age of Wonders: Planetfall
Age of Wonders: Planetfall - Valve
Age of Wonders: Planetfall is Now Available on Steam!

Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders series, bringing all the exciting tactical turn-based combat and in-depth empire building of its predecessors to space in an all-new, sci-fi setting.
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