Super hyped for summon price cuts. I really love summon armies, hoping they might become viable much earlier in game now with those pricecuts

I like their business model. Big updates every few years for the price of the game. Thats $40 every 6 years. Even if the updates were minor thats a great value

The HP from blood is also big on Rainbow pretenders. No more lossing multiple combat globals to a random arrow/evocation. There are also some chassis that might move from thug to light SC by getting +20hp and 2 regen.

If I'm not mistaken, Ironskin now does +5 protection when already above 20 protection rather than the 3 in dom5, so an E7 Earth serpent with 20 base protection (given bless points you usually won't be able to do less) with Hard Skin still gets up to 20+3+5+5=33 natural protection with Ironskin cast. So in Dominions 6 you won't get the 36 you could get with Earthpower and Ironskin with that chassis in Dominions 5, but it's a smaller nerf than one might think given the Ironskin changes. This might explain why they felt they desire to nerf the scaling protection from high Earth paths.

Loving the previews of the new features. Can't wait for the 17th.

9:18 "I forget who gets the Earth Serpent" literally everybody gets the Earth Serpent my dude.

Jeez man, that blinding white light! Use Dark mode, for the love of god!

@LucidTactics

5 ай бұрын

Haha

When they first released Dominions 5 there were people saying it was too similar to Dominions 4 to be worth buying, despite the change to simultaneous combat turns and entirely revamped bless system. It'd be kind of funny if it was the exact same people saying it for the change from 5 to 6. XD

i look at it like this, i love this series and i can help them by buying 6 to keep them doing more of these, and i am getting a game i will play a lot until the next one.

I'm looking into my Fae crystal ball and it says that Glamour will become required on pretenders intending to be super-combatants. Looking into a less clear crystal ball Ubar and Fomoria will become kings of SCs. Regeneration builds will be an endangered species requiring high MR and/or G paths.

@DemonsthenesDominions

5 ай бұрын

You probably need to fail an MR check in order to take false damage in most cases, so I suspect the fact that you can't regenerate false damage won't be important for high MR super combatants.

@eMbry00s

5 ай бұрын

And if your SC isn't high MR it is soon dead

Gonna be interesting to see the cheap boosters used as a way to bump up resistances in a pinch. Mass thistle mages could be the difference between life and death for foul vapors

For the price of the game and the sheer replayability why not support the developer

@shawndimery

5 ай бұрын

What’s the price?

@Rashagar

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, when I consider how many hours I've put into Dominions 5, I know I'm going to get incredibly good value out of the Dominions 6 purchase.

@Milorada7375

5 ай бұрын

I played like 2000 hours of Dom 5, it came out to pennies per hour of fun

@Bakarost

5 ай бұрын

​@@shawndimery$38

Excited to hear summons are going to be more competitive!

For them changeing the unit stat showcase ui, adding icons - they could've also coloured stats if they were lowered or buffed from base. This would make quickly going over it way easier. Can't wait for release :D

does weakness work like resistances too? Are Jotun's even sadder about fighting air nations?

here for the dom6 content CANT WAIT TILL IT DROPS

bro I'm so hyped, can't wait to get my hands on this game and get absoluteky rekt in MP again. But it's always fun, anyway. Also, I think it's really good the game is mostly the same. The game is close to perfection. I wouldn't want every new Dom to be a stand alone. I think the cycle of big updates and then a new Dom for actual game changing mechanics is very good. thanks for the introduction and the perspective.

I wonder how much shorter/longer life is with F/N. Seeing as it apparently scales by level and higher level mages usually are older. Could kill of high F really fast that way. False damage. Since you can't regen it normally, it could be a nice way of killing high regen/HP guys right? Blood HP. Probably great to have when using temp blood gems. To survive bleeding easier too

The thing that strikes me that I really don't like is the nerfs to pretenders. Once I picked up the Spark of Divinity mod which elevates pretenders significantly and makes them all unique, I realized I absolutely how *worthless* pretenders can feel by default, when they should feel like gods. The game should not be nerfing things like the earth serpent, it should be raising other pretenders up to its level, if you ask me.

If a death 2 mages has a Death booster item. Then casts Power of the Spheres (if that spell or something similar still exists) and is now Death 4 does it get 10 moral for that battle?

@DemonsthenesDominions

5 ай бұрын

It sounds like it! I certainly had the same thought.

If I recall correctly, EVERYONE gets the Earth Serpent.

Mouse pointer, yay :)

Just realized thats why 50 is full resistance, cause the reduction is 100% no reason to go higher.

> maybe even multiple a day YES! YES!!!!!!!!!

Nature OP. Only one with 3 buffs and no malus at lvl 1 🙃

Prediction: 6 will be the great onboarding for a more "mainstream" audience. Call it a gut feeling Little worried how much they may have nerfed turn one expander gods. Did the same with rainbow. Feels like they are trying to insentivize more use of spells and specialization.

@ResandOuies

5 ай бұрын

More army use. Same as nerf to battle wipes and lvl 9 magic being harder to get to. All makes armies more valuable

@Centinym

5 ай бұрын

I suppose that makes sense. But there are entire factions dedicated to army use. Therodos's free spawn. Agarthan Olm spam. Any giant faction. My guess is that they are trying to make inprisoned gods more attractive by making gods weaker overall. But I have to look at what they've done with the chassis to be sure.@@ResandOuies

@katyushamarikov8819

5 ай бұрын

Dominions will never be mainstream.

@eMbry00s

5 ай бұрын

Olm mind blasts now cost 5 fatigue and can't be used when over 50 fatigue! Irrelevant to your argument but still interesting

@Centinym

5 ай бұрын

I hope not, but I've said that before@@katyushamarikov8819

I just want them to update the Gorgon sprite, it's so bad.

Why is fire giving normal leadership ? It makes sense somehow, but i don't know WHY it makes sense.

@callumfinlayson-palmer8393

5 ай бұрын

I suppose fire is a common tool historically for camps and touches for armies as well as it being a symbol of rank quite often.

@throeawae2130

5 ай бұрын

well it gave morale in dom4 (superior morale in the bless), at least. and fire items like the dragon helmet gave morale. i think it is associated with leadership in dominions

@jamaro2006

5 ай бұрын

Fire also has the +30 leadership bless

@duartemarco

5 ай бұрын

I associate it with charisma, innate leadership, courage, that sort of stuff.

@TheSeventhChild

5 ай бұрын

They got that inner fire and ambition

I really wish they'd remove the shorter life from fire paths. It's not like fire is even a great path to begin with, its been really weak for a long time, but it just makes it a bit of a liability on mages that are at/near old age for no reason. No other path comes with a drawback, and I'd prefer to just have nothing than +10 leadership if it's coming at a price, since it's no problem to just field commanders to lead troops.

@CodyEthanJordan

5 ай бұрын

Fun flavor though, burn hot burn short

@user-je1lp5yt2g

5 ай бұрын

@CodyEthanJordan Do you think people would be happy if Illwinter also added drawbacks to all the other paths based on flavour too?

@CodyEthanJordan

5 ай бұрын

@@user-je1lp5yt2g Astral makes you vulnerable to Magic Duel, water spells can be impacted by being on land, blood slaves can die in battle (even to your own auras). So yea I think it's interesting that different paths have their own character, but not that they all need to have a specific downside for the sake of completeness. Little flavor things also don't have to be part of their passive Path bonuses either.

Fire still shortens life? I thought we had finally gotten away from that.

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dom 5 has added 8 factions over about 7 years. idk if thats major or alot cuz 1 update a year seems not like much support if you compare it to most other games of this genre. also calling 1 faction a year major update also seems a little lacking support

@LucidTactics

5 ай бұрын

Well i consider balance and bug patches to be minor patches, and patches adding significant new content to be major. I suppose everyone can define it differently. I cant think of hardly any big strategy games which add a lot of free new factions after release - most do it as paid DLC. Hope im not being disingenuous, just trying to explain how illwinter development has worked in the past. Lots of small patches, then a few big ones that release new factions. Then things that do major new things with the new engine that they actually collect money for in terms of it being a new game. Some people will think changes arent big enough to warrant forking out more $$ and i totally respect that. I personally love their development approach and am very happy to throw my money at them when its time for a new game - but thats primarily rooted in me loving what they produce. If i didnt like it so much, the new games might not be worth it to me!

@whitefox25

5 ай бұрын

its not your fault your fine the big issue for alot of people is the price and lack of discount for people buying a game that is mostly the same as the previous even tho 6 to 7 years passed by. It runs on the same game engine so idk why it cant just be a cheaper dlc. No reason to charge full price again. Plus if they did dlc im sure people would support them even more and make more money. Plenty of 4x games add new systems and mechanics to the game over time threw dlc. you dont need to re release the game again and add a number to do that.@@LucidTactics

@FLESKFIST

5 ай бұрын

A new faction would be a DLC in any other game, Civilisatoions/stellaris/aoe2 comes to mind, so yes it's fair to call it a major patch in Dominions. It only looks "small" because there's so many factions already, so in that context it won't change the core gameplay of the game. Regardless, comparing dom5 to other studios is unfair. Dom5 has 2 devs. Stellaris has 150, and Civilisations has thousands. If you played dom5 and thought it was meh, sure you most likely wont love dom6 so don't bother. If you love it like and played it for years, then "buying the same game again" is absolutely worth it for me.

@adhabens

5 ай бұрын

​@@whitefox25Developers like these deserve all the support, let's say one day they sell to a bigger studio, maybe we will have a brand new shining engine for example (and you will be more inclined to think that upgrade is worth the money), but there's also a huge probability that they will dumb this game down like they do with countless of others making it worse and irrelevant. Sometimes the biggest changes are not immediately visible like a revamp of the visuals can be, but they can have a much bigger impact on the gameplay.

@noneofyourbuisness2539

5 ай бұрын

What you are buying is a niche product that most fans get hundreds of not thousands of hours out of in between releases. For that to be viable it's bound to have a high per sale cost. Those other franchises both sell at least a hundred if not more for every copy dominions sells but that's why they are comparatively simple games, to appeal to a whole bunch of more casual fans.

And dominions 5 look like dominions 4 lol

But they should give a discount to people who own dominions 5.

@duartemarco

5 ай бұрын

That would kill all their income. Most, if not almost all, people who are going to buy dominions 6 already own dominions 5.

@callumfinlayson-palmer8393

5 ай бұрын

I wouldn't mind if they increased the price, as I enjoy these games alot and I want to support the devs.