- Snag six stellar strategy games for less than the price of one - 27 June 2024
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- Интервью с ведущим геймдизайнером Брэндоном Кастилом: О разработке Tempest Rising, кризисе RTS и наследии Command & Conquer - 24 April 2023
Последние лет 15 жанр стратегий в реальном времени ( RTS ) находился в коматозном состоянии. Объяснений происходящему — масса, а диспозиция выглядит следующим образом. Приблизительно в середине 2000-х жанр достиг своего пика и начал стагнировать. Попытки расширить аудиторию и резко увеличить продажи привели к появлению на свет довольно странных экспериментов, которые только отпугнули игроков.
- Embrace Your Destiny in SpellForce: Conquest of Eo - Out Now! - 3 February 2023
Embrace Your Destiny in SpellForce: Conquest of Eo - Out Now! Vienna/Austria, February 3rd, 2023 - Embrace the path of magic to become the most powerful mage in SpellForce: Conquest of Eo – out now and available on PC! Experience a unique mix of tactical battles, leading your armies and heroes to countless victories. Upgrade your tower to grow your strength and conquer the magical world of Eo in this ever-changing turn-based strategy role-playing game! Make the journey from the humble beginnings of your old master’s small wizard tower and cross the perilous lands of Eo in your constantly changing quest for magical might. Face off against competing factions and send your armies and heroes on dangerous missions as you accrue magical knowledge to become the most powerful mage of all time. SpellForce: Conquest of Eo offers a unique and engaging gameplay experience by combining elements of 4…
- 4 года разработки, 4 года доработки: Обзор консольной версии SpellForce III Reforced - 15 August 2022
Серия SpellForce — хрестоматийное дитя ранних 2000-х, здравствующее, к моей огромной радости, по сей день. Тот период запомнился любителям RTS как эпоха любопытных экспериментов в плане сеттинга ( Paraworld , Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends ) и механик. Немало разработчиков пыталось совокупить жанр со всем, что попадется под руку. Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War позарилась пришить к стратегической основе простенький слешер, а стратегические шутеры не раз безуспешно пытались найти свою нишу — от старенькой Battlezone до относительно недавнего Disintegration .
- SpellForce 3 Reforced Release! - 6 December 2021
SpellForce 3: Reforced During the last year we have been hard at work to deliver you this update. We spent a lot of time gathering feedback, reworking map scripts, fixing bugs and improving the game in many aspects. But not only that, we have also included two completely new game modes: Journey (our version of the Free Game Mode) and an Arena Mode - free for all owners of SpellForce 3, Soul Harvest and Fallen God. This is our way to say "Thank You!" for your dedication, support and love for SpellForce 3. We hope that you enjoy SpellForce 3: Reforced and all its new content, and are looking forward to meeting you in the World of Eo! Cheers The Grimlore Games Team General Changes Improved "Burning Blood" Campaign: Improved RTS mechanics and reworked RTS faction (Humans, Orcs and Elves) designs, introduced in the expansions Fallen God & Soul Harvest Updated skill trees with new spell mecha…
- SpellForce 3: Fallen God and Free Multiplayer Version Versus now available! - 3 November 2020
SpellForce 3: Fallen God and Free Multiplayer Version Versus now available! SpellForce Free: New SpellForce Versus Lets You Play Ranked Multiplayer Matches For Free Vienna, Austria / Munich, Germany, November 3rd, 2020 – The SpellForce-Franchise gets two new additions today. Not only is the second stand-alone expansion, Fallen God out now, but also the all new SpellForce 3: Versus Edition. SpellForce 3: Versus is a Free-to-play version of SpellForce 3, allowing players to participate in the newly introduced ranked multiplayer as well as play in a skirmish against AI opponents. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1154040/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1416260/ In SpellForce 3: Versus, you are able to play either Humans, Orcs and Elves - and your faction is randomly chosen for you when you start the game for the first - once an Orc, always an Orc! While fighting against other users of…
- Open Beta Live! - 28 October 2020
Want to test out the newest game in the Spellforce 3 series? We now have an open beta right here! https://beta.spellforce.com/ Come join discord as well and talk about your experience
- SpellForce 3 Fallen God Features & Troll Faction Mood Teaser - 25 September 2020
Greetings, Commanders! With our second expansion of SpellForce 3, we will introduce a new campaign, a new faction and many more changes and improvements. Here is a quick overview of what we have in store for you in Spellforce 3: Fallen God! A New Faction We are bringing back one of the most unique and interesting factions: the Trolls! In the future, we will go into more detail about these creatures, their way of living - and fighting. But with their ironbeaks, their unusual way of training units and their different economic playstyle, it's clear they are a force to be reckoned with! All-New Campaign During the campaign you will learn all about the Trolls, their struggle to survive against all odds, and their dream of finding their place in the world. 20+ hours of new campaign content New ability trees with all-new abilities, synergies and combos! Salvaging and crafting of equipment for…
- New Standalone Expansion for SpellForce 3 - Fallen God Introduces the trolls - 6 June 2020
Vienna/Austria and Munich/Germany, June 6th – When the gods have abandoned you, there is only one hope for salvation: Find a new god! This is the conclusion Akrog, chieftain of the Moonkin trolls, comes to. He leads his clan through the continent of Urgath, struggling to survive. The player's mission is to guide the new playable faction, the trolls, through an all-new 15-hour long singleplayer campaign. SpellForce 3 - Fallen God is a standalone expansion and can be played without having played any SpellForce game before (but we would encourage everyone to do so!) New features for the singleplayer campaign include: Salvaging of weapons to craft superior equipment for your tribe and your heroes The new character-shaping mechanic, adding true replayability value (see below) Multiple endings for the campaign, based on your decisions Watch the Fallen God Announcement Trailer: https://youtu.b…
- Out now: Stand-alone expansion SpellForce 3: Soul Harvest! - 28 May 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34131271%2F66a6174e51f501548cafd7d5517dfbff02141b00.png Out now: Stand-alone expansion SpellForce 3: Soul Harvest launches on Steam! Vienna/Austria and Munich/Germany, May 28th, 2019 – "We could have stopped the storm, when we still had the chance": Three years after the Purity Wars, Nortander is facing a new era. Two new factions, the Dark Elves and the Dwarves, are here to change the destiny of Eo, and it's up to you, a disgraced General, to take action. The stand-alone expansion SpellForce 3: Soul Harvest is out now. https://store.steampowered.com/app/817540/SpellForce_3_Soul_Harvest/ Release Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNd24JevOhw Get to know the two new factions: Watch the faction trailer of the Dark Elves: EN: https://youtu.be/xXdx4jrvsWU DE: https://youtu.be/CdKd8tqXn8c CHN: https://youtu.be/IV3EN9z2ne4…
- SpellForce 3 Update 1.40 - Bugfixes - 3 March 2019
Changelog v1.40 ------- BUG FIXES - Fixed a possible plotstopper on map "Liannon" - Fixed a possible plotstopper on map "Mulandir" - Fixed an issue where player controls remain locked in Isgrimm's artefact quest - Fixed a bug where cutscenes can randomly stop and never end - Fixed flickering border stones around sectors
- SpellForce 3 Soul Harvest announced! - 18 December 2018
Hammer, Axe and Keg o’Beer – get ready to celebrate: Dwarves are coming to SpellForce 3! Yeah, and Dark Elves … stand-alone expansion Soul Harvest announced with two new races Vienna, Austria and Munich, Germany, December 18th, 2018 – The most magnificent of all fantasy races is now ready to march on it’s short legs into the world of Eo: With the new expansion Soul Harvest, RTS/RPG SpellForce 3 expands it’s roster of races to five. In the shadow of the glorious dwarvish armies, the Dark Elves are also coming to the game. Make sure to put the game on your wishlist to stay informed: https://store.steampowered.com/app/817540/SpellForce_3_Soul_Harvest/ Sending the player on a full new epic campaign with over 20 hours of gameplay, Soul Harvest has even more features – all five factions will gain new units, flying units! Also there are new game modes and some of the game’s core systems has be…
- SpellForce 3 - Surprise! - 17 December 2018
Hello, Today I am here to let you know about a surprise thats in the current game build which we just updated. Please check it out and let us know your thoughts! Cheers!
- SpellForce 3 Update 1.39 - Anniversary - 11 December 2018
Changelog v1.39 GENERAL - Added automatic graphics presets - Reduced VRAM usage - Some minor general performance improvements BUG FIXES - Fixed crash when changing resolution or UI scale while one of the player's heroes is transformed - Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash randomly Besides that we now have SpellForce 3's anniversary. As you see we are still committed to our product and we have some more great news for you very soon. Stay tuned!
- SpellForce 3 Update 1.37 - Big AI & Campaign improvements, Bugfixes + New Skirmish map - 22 June 2018
Hello, After a long silence we are back with a quite huge update. We have added one new skirmish map, fixed dozens of bugs, re-balanced the abilities and improved the AI in the campaign and did quite a lot of other improvements. As always we are glad for any feedback as we will continue improving our baby! Changelog v1.37 ------- GENERAL - New skirmish map: "The Blue Islands" - Discord Rich Presence integration: - See what your friends are doing in the game - Invite friends to join your game via the Discord app - Savegame file size reduced by ~90% - Some minor UI changes to improve coop experience - General rendering performance improvements - General localization improvements - General game stability improvements BUG FIXES - Fixed certain achievements not being triggered although all conditions are met. Players should now be able to get all achievements. - Added savegame compatibility…
- SpellForce 3 Update 1.32, 1.33 & 1.34 - Huge Balancing Update & Bugfixes - 22 February 2018
Changelog 16th February 2018 v1.32 MULTIPLAYER BALANCE UPDATE GENERAL CHANGES - Hero leveling speed decreased by about 30% - The unit AI will now ignore targets that are currently invulnerable - Units and heroes will no longer be slowed during combat to encourage more active fights ITEM CHANGES To give you more options to specialise your heroes and define your playstyle, but also making your choices more significant, we added new defensive item options, increased the cost and effectiveness of specialized gear and placed more items all around. - Shields added - One-Handed weapon options added - Additional armors added HERO CHANGES We are adjusting the overall power levels of all heroes to enable more different playstyles and hero combinations. - Heroes will no longer be slowed down in combat to improve their micro potential - Occultist / Bloodcaller -- Assassinate irresistible damage whe…
- SpellForce 3 Update 1.32, 1.33 & 1.34 - Huge Balancing Update & Bugfixes - 22 February 2018
Changelog 16th February 2018 v1.32 MULTIPLAYER BALANCE UPDATE GENERAL CHANGES - Hero leveling speed decreased by about 30% - The unit AI will now ignore targets that are currently invulnerable - Units and heroes will no longer be slowed during combat to encourage more active fights ITEM CHANGES To give you more options to specialise your heroes and define your playstyle, but also making your choices more significant, we added new defensive item options, increased the cost and effectiveness of specialized gear and placed more items all around. - Shields added - One-Handed weapon options added - Additional armors added HERO CHANGES We are adjusting the overall power levels of all heroes to enable more different playstyles and hero combinations. - Heroes will no longer be slowed down in combat to improve their micro potential - Occultist / Bloodcaller -- Assassinate irresistible damage whe…
- Spellforce 3 adds comprehensive modding support - 9 February 2018
According to shameless wizard aficionado Fraser Brown , Spellforce 3 was quite a pleasant little December surprise. Describing the hybrid RTS/RPG as ‘the poster child for being more than the sum of its parts’, it only stands to reason that the game would be improved by adding yet more parts to the mix. Today, developers Grimlore Games share a little bit of their unspeakable arcane powers with the rest of us, and have released an official modding suite for the game. This should allow players to create maps or whole new game-modes thanks to putting the entire scripting system into the users hands, or you can just use giant rocks to draw dicks on the ground, if that’s your thing. (more…)
- SpellForce 3 Editor & Mod Tools available - 9 February 2018
Dear SpellForce players, Today we'd like to share with you the level editor and initial set of mod tools. These tools have been directly used to create the game so there is a lot to be achieved with those. It also comes with a documentation and example maps. Please check the editor folder in the install folder for the documentation and samples. In addition to that you can find the scripting wiki here: http://sf3scripting.spellforce.com/index.php?title=Main_Page We have plans to release more modding possibilities in the future as well as Steam workshop support. Here you can find a video about the possibilities with the level editor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RunMPQ8k9I We look forward to your creations!
- SpellForce 3 Editor & Mod Tools available - 9 February 2018
Dear SpellForce players, Today we'd like to share with you the level editor and initial set of mod tools. These tools have been directly used to create the game so there is a lot to be achieved with those. It also comes with a documentation and example maps. Please check the editor folder in the install folder for the documentation and samples. In addition to that you can find the scripting wiki here: http://sf3scripting.spellforce.com/index.php?title=Main_Page We have plans to release more modding possibilities in the future as well as Steam workshop support. Here you can find a video about the possibilities with the level editor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RunMPQ8k9I We look forward to your creations!
