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I'm always shocked to see how many people on Steam are playing others games and not this one. Part of me believes the publishers leave banks of computers running just to boast numbers..it was bugging me that civ 5's Steam numbers were easy to find and Warlocks wasnt on the list so I went and bumped a thread about Warlock at one of the civ forums. People playing that game over civ 4bts are playing for the hex based combat and Warlock is simply a better game than civ 5 and has the same hex based combat.

Anyhoo I noticed the thread I bumped didnt have any info about armageddon so I'm think we need to get to the word out to those communities who might not know. Arma makes a much harder game and difficulty or lack there of was one of the complaints people had at release.
 
Fenryder said:
I'm always shocked to see how many people on Steam are playing others games and not this one. Part of me believes the publishers leave banks of computers running just to boast numbers..it was bugging me that civ 5's Steam numbers were easy to find and Warlocks wasnt on the list so I went and bumped a thread about Warlock at one of the civ forums. People playing that game over civ 4bts are playing for the hex based combat and Warlock is simply a better game than civ 5 and has the same hex based combat.

Anyhoo I noticed the thread I bumped didnt have any info about armageddon so I'm think we need to get to the word out to those communities who might not know. Arma makes a much harder game and difficulty or lack there of was one of the complaints people had at release.
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Can't really figure out why this game doesn't have a bigger following... but then again, I've seen basically no advertisement for it. Maybe hit up communities like reddit/tumblr/etc with content and help spread the word.
 
Warlock is one of my favourite games and if my Let's Play videos help get the word out then that would be great. I'd love to see further development of this awesome game.
 
I also think that it doesn't help when their latest DLC Armageddon is not linked to the game on Steam. I mean that when you highlight Warlock and look at the news there is no mention of it. Usually there is something like "New DLC available" with a description underneath. Somebody needs to really fix this. People shouldn't have to be searching the forums to see if a DLC is out and then manually typing in the name of the content to see if it is there.
 
I wouldn't recommend the game currently. It's a crash fest.

I was going to gift this game to a bunch of people for Christmas. I just started playing again and am very happy at the development of the game with new features and cheap, optional DLCs. It's a lot better than the original some months ago (I have a couple DLC's now too). Unfortunately it quickly became apparent the game crashes so much after 50 or so turns, new players would simply rage quit and scare other potential people away. Personally I'm obsessed with Warlock and desperate to play at the moment (I miss my ghosts and vampires) but it's a waste of time until the bugs are quashed. Now is not the time to be trying to get new players from Civ5 or elsewhere. Hopefully things are fixed soon and I'll start singing praises about it again... hopefully before Christmas.
 
It doesn't crash for everyone, the devs are trying to figure it out, but since it is random they don't know what is causing it. (It never crashed for me i just see a lot of ppl who have the problem).
 
Vind said:
It doesn't crash for everyone, the devs are trying to figure it out, but since it is random they don't know what is causing it. (It never crashed for me i just see a lot of ppl who have the problem).
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+1. Ive rarely had a CTD from day 1. So its something that only affects a sub-set of owners. If anyone is experiencing regular CTDs and has the time to help the devs track these down, you can contact a dev through skype which is posted in one of the LARGE ctd report thread in the tech. support area.
 
I've been playing on and off since the new patch and have had 2 ctds (just playing the one game, I think I am in turn 186 or so). Neither could I reproduce but both were connected to using the new land changing spells - I think one was setting off a volcano (very satisfying that) and the other was using the restore the land spell.

with all the warnings about ctds etc, I have been saving much more often that I did before. With this experience I am now saving before casting any of these spells so if it does crash I can reload where I was. Should say in both instances, when I reloaded and recast the same spell it went fine.
 
The CTD arnt random at all for me. They happen every turn after the first during the AI's turn. There are also crashes when the game is saved and when land-changing spells, like volcano are used. I'm wondering if the KGB spy package inserted into US versions isnt causing these crashes cause it seems the non US region games arnt crashing. Are you in US Coats?
 
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