In Dominions you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. The type of Pretender Gods can vary from magically powerful arch mages to huge titans or large monuments. The pretender gods have different strengths dependent on what kind of god you choose and what nation you play.
When you start the game you decide what kind of god you are and how your Dominion affects your lands and followers. It is an expression of your divine might and the faith of your followers. If your dominion dies, so do you. Your dominion also inspires your sacred warriors and gives them powers derived from your dominion.
In order to win and become the one true god you have to defeat your enemies one of three different ways: conquer their lands, extinguish their dominion or claim the Thrones of Ascension.
In Dominions 4 you can also play team games where one of the players take the role of supreme god, and the other members of the team are his servants and loyal subjects. The lesser gods rule their nations, but you all share the dominion of the supreme god.
Dominions is set in a fantasy world that draws inspiration from historical nations, cultures and myths. You will not encounter the elves of conventional fantasy in this game. Instead you might lead a nation of vanir from old norse myth. Aztecs, romans, israelites, greeks, shona and kievian rus are just a few of the inspirational sources of the game.
The first Dominions game was released in 2002 and was well received by strategy gamers. Since then Dominions has been much refined and Dominions series is still actively played making it one of the longest running 4x turn based strategy games.
Dominions 4 is also a highly moddable game. You can create your own monsters, spells and entire nations. Since Dominions 3 there has been a vivid modding community and Dominions 4 will enhance this capability even further.
Ys is a new nation that comes from Ker-Ys that was once the most splendid city in the world. Long ago Ker-Ys was sunken far beneath the waves to protect the Tuatha living there and has not been seen since then. Now with the coming of the new god the city has risen from beneath the waves and the splendor of the bronze-walled city has returned for all to witness. In addition to a new nation there has been work to ensure that really huge battles run smoothly as well as many balance changes, mostly by tweaking the costs of units. There are also the usual bug fixes and some minor new features.
General
- New nation: Ys (middle ages)
- Performance improvement for battles
- Viewing enormous battles could crash the game
- Fixed graphical glitches for enormous battles
- Can now delete old network connections with Del
- Number of old network connections saved increased, 6 -> 8
- Typos fixed
- Event fixes
- Stat and description fixes
- Balance changes, many units have tweaked costs or stats
- Master Smith info printed on magic items
- Age 10 years after Bind Demon Lord didn't work
- Casters will spread out Encase in Ice more
- Therodos dominion now creates ghosts for disciple forts as well
- Ermor/Lemuria random gods starts with sloth 3
- Mindless are not affected by feeblemind
- Mindless cannot get feeblemind/dementia from ordinary means
- Mind Hunt & Astral Projection cannot be cast by mindless
- Split Teleport icon into Teleport/Blink
Modding
- Fix for reading 64-bit values from mods on Mac OSX
- Master ritualist fixes
- #twohanded should work now
- Modding nametypes cleared Oceania names
Minimum Setup
- OS: any 32 or 64-bit distro
- Processor: 1 GHzMemory: 1024 MB RAM
- Memory: 1024 MB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL and libSDL1.2
- Storage: 500 MB available space
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