not so excited about the steampunk additions.   I don't remember steampunk in shadow magic.

The art style has gone a bit cheesy cartoon compared to the older games.

havent been as hyped for a game in a long, long time. graphics look great to me, far better than Elementals (no offense, still a great game).

honestly the only thing i ve read about this game i didnt like was that they re thinking about brining halflings back in expansion DLC. i d rather have them not waste time and effort on such a boring race and (re)introduce something interesting instead (lizardmen for example, but there s a lot more races i d rather see than tiny humans with hair on their feet - heck actually i d rather see another human faction with a different regional background than halflings.... )

otherwise everything sounds amazing and i m praying each day for steam early access because its far too long until the planned release in 3-4 months =/

Main thing I think about is that superstacks will be encouraged due to units earning XP. I would have preferred if only heroes could. And that the Wizard gains XP when heroes can't get it.