Recent reviews by El Tyranos

Labor of Love Steam Award 2023!

I felt a bit overwhelmmed by the changes at first, and the amount of new type of events. Once used to the new rythm this expansion is a must have. It goes way deeper than Royal Court and changes radically the way you play the game by peace time. Many all around additions also make the gameplay richer (travels, regency, accolades).

I was scared to be broke all the time and not able to pay for grand activities but it turned out well balanced, I did a Grand Tournament a pilgrimage and a grand wedding in a single evening.

The only cons so far is the UI, some windows are closing when not expected and difficult to reopen, regency needs 2 clicks to view, but I'm sure that will be hotfixed.

The world and learning curve are overall very organic, creating your own settlement and invite AIs to help you brings a lot of fun. Landscapes are nice and there's a lot of variety thanks to seasons and animals.

Cons are:
* a poor hunting experience due to simplistic animals behavior
* completly useless dialogs (only one options, you don't even have to read most of the time)
* Many unlockable technologies are simple visuals, there is no actual interesting late game technology. (e.g. you can unlock wheels to put them next to your house, but you can't build a wheel cart to carry super heavy wood logs)
* Roads are empty of human activity

Afterall it's a very casual and chill survival game, I am especially waiting for COOP mod and more late game adversity, factions. Kudos to devs for keeping the game alive, hopefully support will continue for a while.

Kill and be killed in a lot of tension. Suprinsigly immersive, interesting combat system based on physX. This game is worth a few years of life support, go buy it.

I have 4000 hours on Arma and a 5 years modding record. I waited for months before publishing my review, hoping things would change.

Now 7 months after release :
* There is still no new content
* CTD upon joining a server
* Random disconnects from server still happen
* Impossible to change keybinds (I spent another evening unable to move left or back despite swapping to QWERTY)
* AI still can't do anything but rush in straight lines, it still can't even drive a car
* Game master interface doesn't have 5% of Arma 3 features
There is no drastic evolution since release : graphics, physx, guns feeling and sounds are excellent, the rest is garbage.

Shame on BI for selling a product they internally considered as a technical demo but never acknowledged it in their marketing, promising things that will likely never happen.

This DLC offers loads of content at cheap price and is supported by a great free engine addition : "memories".

Many people are whining it should be free... Well, in two years Paradox charged 80$ for game + all DLC. It's very reasonnable considering 80$ is the retail price of a AAA console game. There's no reason not to get this DLC if you play CK3 on a regular basis.

La boucle de gameplay souffre d'un cruel manque de profondeur malgré des années en accès anticipé.

En une heure la survie (faim et soif) ne pose plus aucun problème, tout est disponible en grande quantité, il faut néanmoins s'arrêter souvent pour se nourrir, ce qui est tant inutile que fatiguant.

Le jeu tente alors de s'approfondir dans la construction et l'exploration, mais manque de profondeur. Les îles ne sont pas intéressantes à visiter et apportent peu de ressources, les NPC mal conçus, jusqu'au requin qui n'apporte pas grand chose du fait de l'auto-heal des personnages. Il ne reste alors plus qu'à chercher des plans qui sont cachés sur certaines îles, mais cela n'est pas valorisé et on l'apprend en lisant le wiki.

En bref : le jeu est aussi plat que sa courbe d'apprentissage et aussi vide que les îles qu'on s'acharne à visiter sans grand sentiment d'accomplissement.

This expansion is in the design phylosophy as the base game, it's an extremely strong base, a great launch platform for later content.

People who complain about the price don't understand game development and how deep and modular the changes are, and don't forsee this expansion will be a must for many core mechanics added in the future.

Now there are indeed flaws such as poor quality models, poor quality camera and above all a poor marketing strategy as they did not convey well enough the interest of the court, and more about the culture changes that are free. Yet, overall the bugs are only a few and easy to fix.

There's is no major design mistakes in this expansion, it adds a lot of good foundations for the future and its content is fun to play.

J'ai joué pendant le week end gratuit. Je n'ai pas joué à un jeu de foot depuis 10 ans.

L'ergonomie des menus est catastrophique, ainsi que l'accesibilité en général. Il m'a fallu une heure pour faire mon premier match multijoueur. Le alt+tab déconnecte la partie instantanément (WTF??), le contrôle du volume ne permet pas de régler de manière fine et il faut aller dans le mélangeur de volume, il y a des ralentissements en match, la manette n'est pas toujours reconnue après le chargement du match, auquel cas il faut relancer le match de zero.

Concernant le gameplay, je ne comprends pas ce qu'il s'est passé en 10 ans : le contrôle des joueurs est parfois buggés (effet aimant qui repousse un joueur du ballon), le changement automatique de joueur fait perdre des ballons puisque le joueur arrête soudain de courir vers le ballon qu'il pouvait intercepter. La "sur-simulation" rend le jeu absurde. Par exemple il est possible de faire des passes 2 mètres devant, à personne. A quoi ça sert puisqu'il y a la passe en profondeur pour anticiper, quand la passe simple est censée être une passe directe ?

A most welcomed new breath for Arma 3. You should definitely buy it.