New for the 5th version of Conquest of Elysium is four additional planes to interact with, boats and ports which enables players to travel to islands beyond the main continent of Elysium, three new factions, new rituals and summons for the existing factions, new battle maps for different fortifications, new independent factions that fight each other, new monsters, more and different random events, and much more.
I own both CoE3 and CoE4 and still have yet to be grabbed by the series. Of course I will buy this one, just a question of whether to do so on release.
TBH, this looks like a CoE4 expansion. There were more changes from CoE3 to CoE4. This seems CoE4 with boats, more factions and more planes. Exact same graphics, UI and combat.
I admire the idea of the design, but I’ve never really had fun playing coe. Not sure that I own 4, but I purchased several of them to show support for Illwinter and their support of dominions.
I may buy this one out of the same sentiment, but I’ll have to hear some rave reviews before I spend 10 minutes with it.
The most interesting thing from that screenshot is the sea passage above, if you have some amphibious units you should have an easier time assaulting it.
But seriously, I see this and I can only think how many tiles per turn I’m going to lose, lol:
I hope there will be something to cut down on the tedium of having to keep retaking resources captured by the animals. I haven’t seen anything to suggest that’s being addressed though. CoE5 looks like CoE4 with more stuff.
