Age of Darkness: Final Stand Preview (Steam Early Access)
For our Age of Darkness: Final Stand Preview, Where we play a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.
Age of Darkness: Final Stand Preview Pros:
- Decent graphics.
- 12.17GB Download size.
- Graphics settings – target display, resolution, v-sync, lock cursor, window mode, ui scaling slider, dynamic resolution, brightness, contrast, gamma, textures, shadows, post-processing, ambient occlusion, bloom, anti-aliasing, and environment detail.
- Can rebind controls.
- Tutorial tip pop-ups as you play.
- The gameplay tips menu gives you a refresher on all the controls and mechanics.
- ARPG gameplay.
- Two game modes – survival, and campaign.
- Hand-drawn style cutscenes along with in-game.
- Fully voiced and narrated.
- Plays like an RTS in terms of selecting and moving with characters.
- You can drag over a bunch of characters at once and create units then assign macros to quickly change between them.
- Characters can have their own set of abilities.
- Simple click left to move and right to attack controls.
- Enemies are stronger and in greater numbers at night but give more exp and rewards.
- Day and night cycle.
- Powerful story and voice performances.
- Impactful soundtrack.
- Each mission shows how many objectives there are and also how many you have done.
- The map for level select is a normal size in 3D with your characters larger.
- Create units and have them Patrol an area or have overwatch.
- Earn EXP and level up characters for new abilities and unlocks.
- At all times you can only see so far around your units.
- Fog of war whereby the map uncovers as you explore.
- Click anywhere on the mini-map to go straight there.
- All abilities have cooldowns.
- Play how you want within a level.
- Building structures requires resources and workers to make.
- The handy building grid system shows green for safe to build and red for unsafe.
- You can see enemy health bars.
- Uses a system called Swarmtech that allows 70,000 swarming Ai units on screen at once.
- Living fog that moves in and around light and dark.
- Skill trees for the leaders and higher-up characters that allow you to customize.
- Scratches the Wow classic and Starcraft itch.
- Does a good job of seamlessly transitioning between combat/gameplay and cutscenes.
Age of Darkness: Final Stand Preview Cons:
- Doesn’t support controllers.
- No Steam achievements.
- Cannot skip the cutscenes.
- No benchmark test.
- It feels like cutscenes and interactions can just hang in silence for a short time.
- Bits of placeholder text on loading screens.
- No difficulty settings at the start.
- Combat is very sluggish at the start.
- Dealing with many upgrades and individuals is a lot of hard work.
- No multiplayer as of yet but there is a menu option greyed out.
- Pathfinding is a bit hit-and-miss.
- You cannot just right-click on the mini-map to send troops somewhere, instead, you have to click on the map the right click on the land in the game.
- Tutorial pop-ups are very basic.
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Age of Darkness: Final Stand:
Developer: PlaySide Studios
Publisher: Team17
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