Starting with a central location as your main base of operations, you’ll soon have to conquer outposts, take them over, and build up. Much less building farms with orcs in their barren lands when all you want is a few trees to get things going!Īs time goes on, and that these buildings have been set up, and you have your defenses in place, there’s a bit of a rinse and repeat that will start to get old. This made it hard to manage the placements of barracks for example alongside wood and stone cutters for your main bases before even worrying about outposts and defense towers to start mining metal. In the console version however, short of constantly trying to rotate the camera and hoping that you get it right, if a building doesn’t fit it’ll try to throw itself into the next available spot.
#Spellforce 3 review Pc
In the PC version, it was easy enough to rotate your buildings as you needed in order to maximize the use of space. Moving from heroes and their troops into buildings and bases, this is where things kind of fell off for me on the console version. Once you’ve run out of space, a quick click is all that is needed to swap for an entire second command wheel which is great for lesser used, but still useful, abilities. This shared space lets you setup according to what makes the most sense for you, and for the heroes that you have on the field.
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Furthermore, what I continued to enjoy is that this command wheel is a shared element between all heroes. What I enjoyed about this wheel is that it made it much easier with a controller to select special abilities than it would have with the normal command bar that comes with a keyboard and mouse approach. The main difference between these two is that your heroes also have special abilities that are attached to a command wheel menu that can be brought up at any point in time. Both work well enough and expand over to your armies once they start to be built up and assigned to different squads to move around. Move to the new location and ignore anything and everything else, or, move to the new location and fight as needed. Moving to a new location like in most RTS will come in one of two types.
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Once selected by either having your cursor directly above them or by pressing and holding “X” to expand a selection menu, you can then order them to a new location.
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Starting off with the main portion of the experience, your heroes, things work fairly well.