Ancient Shadows - Coop only? (Answer: No! Everything works in solo also)

[Cyprene]

I don't play AI War in Co-Op mode, so I almost wrote off buying the expansion since it looked from the promo/wiki like you could only get access to all this cool stuff if you were playing multiplayer.  I'm glad that's not that case, but I would've had no idea from reading what's been put out there so far.

[keith.lamothe]

I don't play AI War in Co-Op mode, so I almost wrote off buying the expansion since it looked from the promo/wiki like you could only get access to all this cool stuff if you were playing multiplayer.  I'm glad that's not that case, but I would've had no idea from reading what's been put out there so far.

Yes, we realize there was confusion.  One of the more recent updates to the blog post makes it pretty clear, though:

Update: 5.056 hotfix is out to add a "Normal+Champion" role because the previous model of requiring "1 Normal Player + 1 Champion Player" for using champions in a singleplayer was... really, really bad. I should never have expected that to fly, sorry The old champion-only role is still available because it does have uses (more than one champion in singleplayer, and champion-only players in multiplayer) but its tooltips and related text have been changed to make it a lot clearer that you should use Normal+Champion if you're trying to use champions in singleplayer. 5.056 also has a bugfix and a few key UI-clarity improvements related to building and upgrading champion modules. Thanks for the ongoing beta feedback!

I'll hunt up the wiki article and see what I can do there.

[Teal_Blue]

  Really looking forward to getting into the editor and making some new story-lines of my own, after going through the story of the game first though. As story is going to be the main emphasis here with the hand drawn art, this has got me very very excited!  Thanks Arcen!!

-Teal

[Mánagarmr]

I was lucky enough to be on vacation before this fix was in, so I never experienced the "Eh, how do I do this?" thing.

[RCIX]

  Really looking forward to getting into the editor and making some new story-lines of my own, after going through the story of the game first though. As story is going to be the main emphasis here with the hand drawn art, this has got me very very excited!  Thanks Arcen!!

-Teal

Meant to post in the AVWW forum? =p

[x4000]

  Really looking forward to getting into the editor and making some new story-lines of my own, after going through the story of the game first though. As story is going to be the main emphasis here with the hand drawn art, this has got me very very excited!  Thanks Arcen!!

-Teal

Meant to post in the AVWW forum? =p

Actually, Shattered Haven I think.

[keith.lamothe]

So many games!

[Teal_Blue]

  Sorry yes, meant this for the Shattered Haven forum and messed up somehow. Anyway, all the Ancient Shadows stuff looks very very cool, a little beyond my abilities though, though i still think its cool to play, haha, even though i keep losing to the AI. But well, then i just start over.

The Shattered Haven game looks very very cool and i am waiting for it, hopefully i will do better at it than AI War and AVWW where the lieutenants keep beating me too, haha, anyway, one of these days i'll find one i can win at. 

-Teal