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Strange W4 screenshots 7 years, 2 months ago #1592
There are few strange screenshots around the Net, saying they are from Warlords IV demo version.
It seems that initially the isometric tactical battle engine was planned, similar to that of Master of Magic or Age of Wonders. Is it really so, and if yes , why it had been cancelled/changed? |
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Re: Strange W4 screenshots 7 years, 2 months ago #1596
I've never seen those before. Can you provide a link?
They look more like what I'd expect for Warlords Battlecry 4 (the RTS version of Warlords). I do know the early development of Warlords 4 was not done by Steve. It was done by SSG (his publisher / collaborator company for the original 3 games). They ended up WAY behind on the project and Steve and company took it over and rushed it to completion before they ran out of budget which is why the game lacked so many features like Fog of War. Maybe SSG planned something radical like that but it seems pretty advanced for pre-2003 era hardware. KGB |
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Re: Strange W4 screenshots 7 years, 2 months ago #1597
Typing in DuckDuckGo 'Warlords IV' or 'Warlords IV demo' and narrowing my search to images only, I get a few links like these:
megagames.com/demos/warlords-iv-heroes-etheria-demo spong.com/game/screens/11027684/Warlords...-of-Etheria-PC/92938 fogstudios.com/games/warlords-iv-heroes-of-etheria/ Yes, they are similar to Warlords Battlecry in regard of units sprites or some GUI elements, but at the same time they have some button icons obviously seen in Heroes of Etheria, and terrain tiles look very familiar too! And layout of unit groups looks rather more similar to tactical battle screen in vein of Master of Magic than of Battlecry melee pell-mell And it's definitely NOT Battlecry 3 screens nor certainly earlier games' of serie. |
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Last Edit: 7 years, 2 months ago by Flagris.
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Re: Strange W4 screenshots 7 years, 2 months ago #3394
Well, I have found the prooves
web.archive.org/web/20070204153201/http:...es/448/448999p2.html Steve himself said: If you look back to the very original design of Warlords IV from four years ago however, I think almost everything changed! The original design was for something very big and complex, which blended features from Heroes of Might & Magic and Age of Wonders and Warlords into one, and then added some new things! I am very glad that we had the freedom to change what was required - for example, the original tactical combat system had combats taking five to 10 minutes each. When you note that a typical game of Warlords has hundred of combats, using this system would have been disastrous! The final system we settled on was quick to play and retained the Warlords flavor. |
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Re: Strange W4 screenshots 7 years, 1 month ago #3395
And even more unusual demo screenshots (with townscreen!):
computergames.ro/imagini/warlords-iv-heroes-of-etheria/ |
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Re: Strange W4 screenshots 7 years, 1 month ago #3397
No screen shots on this page for me???
[nggallery id=2043] ^ | This is at the top of the page above the screen shot of the box cover. Not sure I want to click any links there since it's not in English either. KGB |
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Last Edit: 7 years, 1 month ago by KGB.
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Re: Strange W4 screenshots 7 years, 1 month ago #3399
Oh, seems it doesn't work now for me too... These mysterious Romanian sites
Well, you could look at it in my Warlords-dedicated group in Russian social network VKontakte (kinda Facebook, only much more convenient ): vk.com/album-140685452_241619128 |
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Last Edit: 7 years, 1 month ago by Flagris.
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