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tukkek

8 Jul @ 3:36pm

Shorter survival runs

Just got this game for the Summer Sale, played around with it a bit and I'm enjoying it a lot but the runs seem pretty long. On You Tube, the top videos for full runs are all over 3 hours long, which seems about accurate for me.

Are there any modes, mods or settings that can bring the playtime down to around an hour without completely mangling the game experience, balance...? I'm not against doing full runs and hope to be doing plenty of those when I have more time but recently I've had more 1 free-hour slots than enough time to do a proper full run.

I'm not very much into the campaign or saving and resuming later - I know myself well enough to know I'd rather just play something else instead but if others like that, it's fine too.

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Buntkreuz

9 Jul @ 7:46am

Not really i think.
What i hope is that they will add more customizations to your runs (announced on roadmap on the left side along with the Order Knight).
The Order Knight has just been released, so i assume thats up next.
And my hope with that is, that we will then be able to select settings that speed up stuff or shorten the runs.
Maybe less waves, maybe faster resource gains, better or stronger starting options (more units, explored map, whatever). Stuff that will drastically speed up your play.
Imagine you had a setting to start a game with an already explored map (still fog of war).
That alone would speed up your planning and get rid of a lot of tasks that take a lot of time (exploration).

So no, not as of now except making your runs easy.
But theres still a realistic hope.

tukkek

9 Jul @ 8:39am

Oh that's great news! Thank you for letting me know!

linas.warrior has Age of Darkness: Final Stand

10 Jul @ 2:45pm

New player here. Does survival mode have an end? Or you play as long as your keep stands?

Buntkreuz

10 Jul @ 3:14pm

Originally posted by linas.warrior:
New player here. Does survival mode have an end? Or you play as long as your keep stands?

It ends.

tukkek

11 Jul @ 1:01am

Originally posted by linas.warrior:
Does survival mode have an end?

AFAICT about 3 hours on harder difficulties, 4 hours on lower difficulties since you get more days between sieges. Mostly without pausing - if you pause a lot it's gonna be much longer.