Recent reviews by D-Black Catto

The most important DLC

Arena and roaming nomads: great source of money and gear, especially early game

New gear: wepaons and armor good for early and mid game, grenades tho expensive are awesome always. Firearms are cool.

New enemies: Cool, and you can get ingredients to sell and craft items from them, including aforementioned grenades but also stuff like for example serpent skin mantle that is an armor upgrade that gives you not just durability but also fire and firearms resistance.

Trade: New goods to sell in the north, and also new markets to sell northen goods like amber or copper for good prices.

Terrain: Lotsa open terrain, I like it

Retinue: One time payment to get a permanent global upgrade, cool

Mount and blade, but tactical

Subject micromanagement hell

Other then that, bugs. I expected bugs, but this is something next level. Normal bugs like not being able to assign armies to frontline, convoy fluctuations and broken journal entry are one thing. But AI can't handle the new system, all the countries are getting bankrupt and the AI pretty much stopped building armies and navies.

Playing my first game in this update/dlc. It's 1880's now and for example usa still has only 17 divisons. Dunno how they gonna fix it other then massive AI overhaul, and how they didn't notice that while beta testing before release.

For now, keep playing 1.6. If you want to update to 1.7 guess it's a good idea to buy this dlc as without it it will be extra unplayable. But really, just stick to 1.6 until they fix the issues with this update. 1.6 was more or less complete game without any game breaking bugs and ai behaviors (other then AI not being able to do naval invasions efficently, which it still can't).

edit: they released a hotfix where they accidently added a line of code which made it so that countries won't befriend any country that is above 5 million gdp, which is every country aside from the smallest ones. This resulted in current patch version (1.7.3) being a hilarious deathmatch. But it's also kinda sad.

I think I'll go insane

Can someone eat my brain

potentially good game but ♥♥♥♥ ubisoft launcher and ♥♥♥♥ not having active pause

this is a nice game, but it was marketed incorrectly. it's not really a strategy game, nor an economic simulator, tho it has elements of both.

first and foremost it's an idle game.

while other paradox games can be compared to clicker games: that is, you may get carpal tunnel from clicking and micromanaging everything, here you just sit back, relax and wait until some timers run out, then click a couple more times, and wait for more timers to run out.....not even warfare requires your direct input.

and compared to other idle games on the market it's waaaay too overpriced. and just look at recent dlc price, it's like 2/3 of base price. What are they thinking?

edit: after finishing my first 100 year playthrough as austria (took only about 70 hours) I think east asia needs a dlc, women characters need to appear more often, and positivism is too prevalent. Also britian is op, but I don't mind having a final boss style country. There were some bugs.

The game is good, and has a potential to be even better.

edit2: over 120 hours over 10 days of gameplay, I haven't quite slept for a few days, or so I feel. You know what, it's a very addictive game, kinda like opium. Speaking of opium. Did you know you can get the english, all english people all over the world, addicted to opium if you play east india, try to switch to state atheism, and get opium for the masses event? And then you can get chinese addicted to opium through opium wars too.

>be me
>played the original rome a lot in childhood
>see remake on sale
>turn on the game
>start campaign
>crash in the first minute when inspecting settlement

not even task manager or alt tab helped, only pc reboot got me out of that

and no, it's not my system, my specs are much better then recommended ones, I can run total war three kingdoms and warhammer 3 on ultra settings without any freezes or crashes but this remake of 21 year old game where they just upgraded graphics a bit, changed UI and added a couple of new campaign mechanics freezes like that?

what a joke

btw, the infamous ♥♥♥♥♥♥ UI is that way because this "remaster" is literally a phone game ported into pc.

The crashes I and many other people experience is probably because Feral Interactive, the company behind this mobile phonized version of Rome Total War, doesn't know how to code for pc platform.

>be me
>play wh2 for almost 500 hours
>heard wh3 released in bugged and unfinished state
>wait 2 years
>buy it on sale

it's still bugged and unfinished

rip gg

Cons:

-Each character has a storyline/scenario. Some scenarios are good, some bad. Some are too short that you're surprised by sudden credit roll, some drag and drag so you're bored and want it to be over. The alternate history scenarios of dlc and "other" characters are good as they do their own thing, but many historical scenarios are just speedrunning through history which would probably be confusing for someone who doesn't know the story of three kingdoms.

-The historical scenarios shy away from showing which characters died or how, so they just leave and never appear again and you are confused what happened to them if you don't know what's up. They also shy away from showing real relationships between some female characters and male characters, like Wang Yuanji being Sima Zhao's wife and not just a friend and some other, less then wholesome relationships.

-The difficulty is non existent, but it's not really that big of a deal because musou hack n slash games are what I'd call glorified clicker games meant to relieve stress as you look at flashy moves and listen to upbeat music

-Fighting near bodies of water is frustrating, if you or enemy falls in water you can't fight anymore, you have to slowly swim to shore and hope you or the enemy won't fall in again.

-A lot of battles have less troops then in other games of the franchise, and anyway it's meaningless because most of the time you just need to kill main officer or a couple of officers and the battle is won so you just rush to them. Could have been easily solved by making it compulsory to kill a certain amount of troops before the leader spawns or making battlefields larger and requiring the player to conquer several areas first.

-Bow targeting on gamepad is bad

-Leveling up is just a numbers game without any builds to speak of

Pros:

-A lot of people complain that characters don't have movesets, just weapons do and each character can use every weapon type(tho they get a bonus to their favorite weapon types). Personally, I don't mind, it gives some versitality if you don't like a moveset but like the character.

-The open world is large, looks geographically nice and has plenty of things to do: capturing bases, hunting, fishing, crafting...plenty of things to distract adhd/ocd/depressive/whatever you've got brain

-Music is good, familiar tunes remixed with inclusion of some new ones

-The graphics are the best in dw franchise and actually objectively not so bad

-The japanese voice acting is good enough, I dunno about english people complain about it
but why would you play a japanese game set in china with english voices?

-Getting all achievements isn't nearly as grindy as in other games. Remember replaying battles over and over again in other games to fulfill all objectives and ridicules objectives for getting legendary weapon drop, rinse and repeat for every character? Nothing like this here.


Dlc are mostly cosmetic and the full price of dlc is wrong. it's not that expensive. because the price listed on steam is season passes plus each dlc individually. But if you buy season passes you don't need to buy dlc individually anymore. Real price is "DW9 Complete Edition"

Do I recommend it? Although the game has issues, I like it. Buy it on sale.

unbelievably cringe