my demigod life

Heya boys and girls, and frog boys and girls. Thought i'd share my thoughts on the game after playing a bunch of mulitplayer games so far. There also seems to be a decreasing number of constructive posts on these forums which... is kind of getting annoying, but hopefully they'll pick up again

So hero balancing .... love it. I have to say, i absolutely love the balance in the game. I have no idea how the dev's did such an amazing job balancing the game to the near-pristine state it is in. I personally decided to devote myself to playing UB early on in Demigod while i was trying out all the characters, and i absolutely praise the fact that depending on what characters i verse, i can change my play style, and no matter who i play against, its always a measure of skill and knowledge of the game to see who wins. No heroes are unbalanced in this game, and if balancing is needed, then it would end up being very slight adjustments. So, A+++ for balancing ^^

Next subject will be the multiplayer-online experience... this feedback will be different, so ill divide it into a pro's and con's section.
Pro's:
- Custom games, very cool, you get to join up, talk to people before you start, you also decide on which game you want to join or if you want, you can even host which ever map you feel like playing. So custom games is a great big tick.
- Chat system in game, nice and basic, can even chat to all, or just to allies.. keeping it simple and giving us all the options.
- Pantheon, the idea of dark vs light... first time i saw it, dark was losing .. so i actually felt compelled to play more games to boost up the dark points!! It feels cool to be apart of something massive like that, the idea of pantheon as a tournament is great as well.. i would look forward to this being developed into something more maybe?

Con's:
- Pantheon/Custom games... there is no chat channel system whilst not actually in a game at the moment. This makes it hard to socialise with other players in the community, makes it hard to communicate with people outside of games as well. To be honest, one of the main drawbacks of Demigod as a game... is that there is no actual feeling of being involved in a community, when ever i log on to Demigod, my only option is to click on a game and start playing with random people that i dont actually know otherwise. Don't get me wrong, playing with random people is great, but wouldnt it be nice to be able to talk to people in a chat channel and play with arranged team games with who you choose to play them with?
- Arranged team games... dont exist... except for in custom games, however that would result in 1 side being arranged and the opposing side being randoms.
- No "random" selection for heroes? So, when you want to play a game, you choose "random" as a hero, and the computer will randomly assign a hero to you. ( a true test of skill for veterans =P )

So, in terms of a multiplayer-online experience (lets face it, it's what this game is all about), it just feels like there is no actual community, that there isnt any sense of belonging anywhere. The only actual reason for this is because there isnt a chat system, the only kind of communication that i have with anyone else that plays the game is on these forums, which just isn't the same.

Hm, so i hope this has been constructive, i mainly wanted to point out and make suggestions for a chat system in game (similar to what wc3 has done maybe?) as i have a feeling it would be much appreciated by a lot of players

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Hello whitewolfx!

The good news is that a couple of your con's are already being addressed as we speak, arranged teams are comming soon, and "random" hero selection is in fact coming this week in 1.1. Even the chat system in game, which you like, is getting changed to be more readable (i think that's what was said) in 1.1 also.

As for not being able to chat in lobbys in Pantheon games, I agree, I even made a post about it suggesting it change to custom game type lobbys, though it didn't get much of a response. Being able to chat to the people before the game would help with a sense of community I agree, perhaps they will make the formation of these groups less 'invisible' with time.

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Also you can all chat in game by using shift+enter.

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- Pantheon/Custom games... there is no chat channel system whilst not actually in a game at the moment. This makes it hard to socialise with other players in the community, makes it hard to communicate with people outside of games as well. To be honest, one of the main drawbacks of Demigod as a game... is that there is no actual feeling of being involved in a community, when ever i log on to Demigod, my only option is to click on a game and start playing with random people that i dont actually know otherwise. Don't get me wrong, playing with random people is great, but wouldnt it be nice to be able to talk to people in a chat channel and play with arranged team games with who you choose to play them with?

Press shift+tab, click chat. Problem solved.

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Sounds like some cool changes are coming our way soon then which is good to hear ^^ ill look forward to them hehe. I'd love to see the birth of a proper chat lobby for Demigod though, that would be the icing on the cake

**ill check out the shift tab thing **

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Press shift+tab, click chat. Problem solved.

The problem I have with that is that unless I actually bring up the message window for a particular friend, I have no way of knowing Ive been messaged. I realize there are tabs on the right side of the screen and I presume they are meant to signify unread messages, but they dont seem to work. For me at least. Sometimes I get tabs showing with no messages. Other times I have messages but no tabs.

To the OP: I agree they did an amazingly good job of balancing the various demigods. I think there are still some minor issues, for example tower rooks on crucible. All of the time though when Ive perceived a particular DG as being a bit powerful, Ive found that he isnt so wonderful when Ive played him myself. I would suggest thisto anyone to actually play a particular DG yourself before claiming its OP.

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Quoting kryo,

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Press shift+tab, click chat. Problem solved.

I didn't realise you could do this to chat with -Pantheon- people. Each time I tried the shift+tab chat I get some closing link: excess flood message. Perhaps this is cuz I haven't been paired up with anyone else at the time I start the chat? Can't wait for my net to uncap this week so I can start trying some real online games propperly >.>

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You can use the overlay chat at any time, regardless where you're at in the game. If you're flooding out on connect though, either your ISP is futzing with the IRC traffic or there's a bug going on.

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haha, yeh that's the reason i can really appreciate good players with certain characters, its not easy if your in the player seat. As a UB player, i love it when i see Sedna on the other team, its always a lot harder when Sedna is played well

, as for Rooks though, i mean yeh, they can be a real pain and push you back a fair bit but thats just their play style, there are always ways in this game to counter ^^

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Hey Kryo, with the impulse chat sometimes when I click on my friends and the chat history pops up, it shows someone else in the chatbox instead. It'll show a log of a conversation between my friend and a different person which doesn't allow me to talk to my original friend anymore. You know why this happens?

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The friends functionality is completely separate from the main chat, so if you're having issues with it, please give screenshots and as much detail as you can get about it in a new thread.

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