Have you ever played Hero Academy?

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(08-04-2012 01:34 PM)worldfamous Wrote:  

(08-04-2012 12:42 PM)saikyo Wrote:  Hero Academy is lame in my opinion. I tried it. Spamming all your moves into 1 unit is pretty cheap.

I think a better game, and a better comparison to Outwitters, is UNIWAR.

What does "spamming all your moves into one unit" mean? You must not have played it much. I can't imagine anyone giving it a few plays and not liking it. I didn't even realize how deep the math went until they added the puzzle mode. I had to try the final challenges 20 times before I got the right formula.

Being used to strategy games with mechanics like Advance Wars and the like, the HA ability to move a single unit multiple times really threw me off at first, and seemed imbalanced. As I got better, though, it became clear that it's balanced just fine around the mechanic. It's a defining feature of HA gameplay that sets it apart, not a flaw or an imbalance.

I whole heartily agree, thou, that HA would be 10 times better with skill-based matchmaking and replays like Outwitters has. Hopefully the developers start trying to one up each other with feature improvements so we can benefit from the competition.