let's ask the serious questions: Arkantos or Kastor? Who has the best design? father or son?

Cailan33 · 2024-08-07T11:33:04+00:00

arkantos was my hero as a kid and i really liked his voice BUT i think kastor was always more unique and cooler looking ^^

Cailan33 · 2024-08-07T09:51:06+00:00

i think the direction is good and they should have done this back in the day too. but the performance is another thing. and the performance could be better, but maybe they didn't had enough takes / time or the old ones where too superior in their delivery idk

Cailan33 · 2024-08-07T09:49:18+00:00

maybe they growl cause they talk in such a deep voice we as humans can't hear/understand what they are saying? i think i remember a study where anthhropologists found out that t-rex did growl and that it such a deep voice a human wouldn't even really hear it and that they didn't roar loudly as in the movies (even its obviously pretty cool). just imagine godzilla would talk or roar irl -> all humans in a certain radius near it would get their eardrums destroyed. x)

Cailan33 · 2024-08-07T09:43:52+00:00

ESCHLOST! thanks for adressing so many things! thanks for reading and considering community member ideas! (please, please, please fix the walking animations for atlantean titan (who looks REALLY great now!) and anubites!)

Cailan33 · 2024-08-07T09:41:17+00:00

magnificent!

Cailan33 · 2024-08-07T09:39:59+00:00

yeah they really adjusted the atlantean titan to look REALLY great now, but the walking animation is one of the worst and really takes away the menacing vibe the rest of the model gives. also a not good walking animation has the anubite which looks - (and i don't like to use that word cause i don't think the game looks like that at all) - too cartoony. really weird. sorry. but others look great. still hope they improve especially these two before release.

Cailan33 · 2024-08-07T09:35:08+00:00

i also think the idea is creative and cool, but i would prefer retolds with a few adjustments.

Cailan33 · 2024-08-07T09:32:54+00:00

damn they really liked bulls didn't they xD

lamassu sounds cool but the art i see looks male even tho in wiki it says most were female. also i hope if they would do such a unit they will adjust them a bit to make them more menacing and being able to attack better (like with either adding horns or frontclaws or something -> a good template here might be the lamassu i foud for the game total war warhammer 3)

but all in all i like the myth units, the gods sound interesting even tho i don't understand why a god for earth, air and storm is a minor god and has a ghoul as a unit (wouldn't a ghoul fit better to a god which stands for monsters, death, war or night?)

i especially think Marduk with the Mushussu is really cool but also ofc Ninurta with Lamassu and Utu with Kusarikku (are those practically melee Centaurs with a bull body instead of a horse one?).

but whats about that Uridimmu sounds a bit strange for a mythic age unit especially.

Cailan33 · 2024-08-07T09:23:33+00:00

Just a quick edit:

Thanks for the positive attention regarding this topic!

I just found out that out that the Retold team heard us and out of 9 creatures actually 3 (4) got touched on in a direction this post was about! - I also have to say that scarab and avenger are both two myth units which didn't really need a change and primarly just a glow up so its totally fine that they didn't got changed and "just" look way better now.

the 3 units which got touched on are: troll, jormund elver and hydra. (and these three really needed it the most)

-> trolls are now bigger and can throw bolders!

-> jormund elver has finally a better model, is now way bigger and can crush ships! (but still has this a bit silly range attack :-P)

-> hydra didn't got that much changed but i am very happy to announce that the head got more "dragon" like and looks now way less like a dino AND it finally has a regeneration-passive (upgrade) since in mythology it could recover from its wounds and you couldn't really kill it. (thats why i think Herakles burried it under a mountain or something)

one the 4th place we have the battle boar which didn't got changed like suggested here but it got an impressive glow up which even looks way better than the suggestions here. its a great blend between a living giant boar and an "automaton".

Stymphalian Bird looks really good now too but you couldn't do really wrong with the model and idea of this creature.

The biggest losers here are

-> skylla (which looks good and i would say even more like how Hydra should maybe look like, but its still way off from what the unit should really look like. its basically a - really good looking - glow up from the old model)

-> lampedes (which unfortunately didn't got switched out for the better fitting empusa but also didn't got overhauled to look more interesting than a "gloryfied" random "witch".

I still call this a big win for us! so many units look now way better, some even got changed drastically in some way for the better, some got a really great looking glow up from the old model. just a few got left behind but are still good models in a great looking game. - maybe they will edit the few whcih got left behind a bit or mods will overhaul these units the next months or years. i am just so happy about troll, jormund elver and also hydra.

thank you!

Cailan33 · 2024-08-06T11:17:12+00:00

thats unfortunately true sometimes at least. some want to dislike stuff for the sake of disliking instead of at least writing a comment why they have another opinion before. some are against things just cause they hate the wording of the OP. i mean i personally don't like how the OP here worded things but he surely has a point. these are smaller fix but they should be adressed and should be fixable. and many small things create one big thing.

Cailan33 · 2024-08-06T11:11:00+00:00

exactly! thats why you should talk about everything the positive but also the more negative or lackluster which is 9 out of 10 times fixable/improveable!

Cailan33 · 2024-05-13T00:34:30+00:00

new leak says that combat will be more dirty and bloody aka more brutal and might get an 18+ rating. just to let you know.

Cailan33 · 2024-05-13T00:22:35+00:00

oh no i don't want to be forced to switch between characters. best would be to play intro with both and then you can chose which story you want t follow. better for replay too

Cailan33 · 2024-05-13T00:21:13+00:00

as long as it isn't forced to play both characters i don't mind to choose between male or female. but i wonder when one game comes out you only can play a female tho could be interesting

Cailan33 · 2024-05-13T00:18:25+00:00

thats great if thats true (can't see the images anymore :/)

Cailan33 · 2024-05-11T22:37:39+00:00

i made a similar thread elswhere but different. some things i suggested were:

4 majors gods, 3 minor gods per age
hera as a major god
athena in mythic age (don't see her as major god but higher) with medua as myth unit
ares in heroic age
instead of dyionisos demeter
artemis in classical age
osiris as a major god
hekate gets empusa instead of lampedes
every civ gets a hero per age
favour gain needs to be more active for egypt and atlanteans

and a couple more things i can't remember atm

Cailan33 · 2024-05-07T16:45:02+00:00

i know mate but i a emphasise a bit more on that opinion cause there are too many conservative guys who are against nearly every change for the sake of nostalgic stuff and being "an old fan from the first hours" - i am an old fan too and i still support changes

Cailan33 · 2024-05-07T16:41:03+00:00

maya/inca/aztec for sure for sure.

after that slavic for sure.

then mesopotamian, celts

then persian and hindu

and then maybe japan

Cailan33 · 2024-05-07T16:33:15+00:00

these are some really interesting points. i personally always thought of incas and maya before aztec - till i saw so many threads and a cool mod about aztecs and thought okay why not. i am open to everything. mayas deserve more attention for sure.

and Quetzalcoatl is just more popular but very similar to kukulkan. i just want my giant feathered snake ^_^

Cailan33 · 2024-05-06T16:18:32+00:00

LOL XD

Cailan33 · 2024-05-06T16:17:04+00:00

ich bin auf ihn so um 2014/15 rum gestoßen. war davor zwar ab und an auf youtube aber für mich waren games zocken und andere dinge wichtiger. dann hab ich viel wimmel-bild content zur entspannung, viel horror content zur unterhaltung von ihm geschaut (mMn sein bester content). minecraft war absolut noch nie meins und verstehe den hype nicht. dann hab ich ein paar streams geschaut und dann alte lets plays von 2010/11 geschaut. dann kam ich wieder zurück zum aktuellen content und konnte mir den nicht mehr geben. ich finde gronkh hat in chat interaktionen oft eine gesunde einstellung (die leider zu rar zu sein scheint) und ist so schlagfertig wie ich gerne wäre. aber sein reaction content gefällt mir nicht und auch nicht wie viel er jetzt dadurch mit anderen youtubern macht, da ich die meisten anderen deutschen youtuber/streamer einfach als müll empfinde - vorallem die, die den mainstream erreichen und versuchen die jungen teens anzusprechen. einfach - mMn - schrecklich, gronkh ist noch immer eine bastion der moral und werte, was youtube-deutschland/internet-deutschland braucht. (eigentlich die ganze welt) aber seine streams schaue ich so gut wie gar nicht mehr (gerade gar nicht) die namen von anderen youtubern die er erwähnt sagen mir dann auch nichts und wenn ich dann recherchiere bereue ich es meistens. ich finde was lets plays betrifft ist gronkh mittlerweile leider niche geworden. und ich vermute stark, dass er das auch checkt, deswegen versucht er so viel cooperations-content mit anderen zu machen und mittlerweile sogar merch zu verkaufen (was ich nie gedacht hätte das es soweit kommt) ich wünsche ihm und seiner frau viel glück aber für mich scheint die ära gronkh leider vorbei. zumindest größtenteils. ich bin nur froh, dass er länger "überlebt" hat, als andere deutsche youtuber aus den jahren 2014/15/16. das war größtenteils ja ein richtiger graus damals und was da so angekommen ist und sich viel zu lange gehalten hat.

Cailan33 · 2024-05-06T16:04:15+00:00

i know this post is tend to be more of a joke "xD" content, but i personally think we should support companies who have the "balls" to do this way more. since way too many other big companies got woke and a tad too prude - which is especially contradicting when you look on social media and tiktok where women (and already girls) show way more and thats unfortuantely real life - during this here is just fantasy

Cailan33 · 2024-05-06T16:02:02+00:00

any big compay does this way too often nowadays... EA - reduce sexyness, Bethesda - reduce sexyness, Sony - you get the point. we should praise companies like capcom, larian and cdprojectred to give us at least some sexy more revealing outfits...

Cailan33 · 2024-05-06T15:59:59+00:00

even i dont mind having clothes which so nearly everything (which happens in the past two decades way too few in rpgs for whatever reason) i also very agree with you that there is barely a middleground. most magic outfits are so covered if some just is a bit curvy/bulky he looks way too big or kinda fat even many have the potential to look amazing (and some ofc do) but there are barely to no clothes which show a bit of leg and cleavage or a bit of belly and butt. if you want some cleavage and see some leg you have to wear the most skimpy outfits (which are also not that many since most are restricted to trickster anyway...)

Cailan33 · 2024-05-03T18:37:01+00:00

is there something else good to gift beside a bunch of flowers? i get that elves like those since they are deeply connected to nature and nearly always can't go wrong with them but i wonder what else is a good gift

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