I am not a designer or graphic guru in any form but I just feel that animations looked more juicy in AoW3. Even when big units were combing smaller ones, you could literally see them flying. Kind of miss that. But coming back to spells - Destabilised mana core used to be a massive nuke! What happened to it in this version? Or shrine of smiting attacks, that thing was fearsome, screen was literally shaking. Here is just a random bar of yellow light bouncing off the floor without any captivating sound effect. I love AoW 4 but I feel it's missing these epic moments we had in AoW3
#Spell animations
heady surge
agile maple
Yeah, the spells look wimpy in this game. It's in a sad state when combat spells from Aow 1 had more flash.
heady surge
Very true - AoW 1 had superb spell animations! Do you remember the Geyser spell that was literally shooting the unit high and killing it with gravity?
odd oracle
Spell and ranged animations too