Recent reviews by ρм // Mech

The base game has been completely broken since November. My list of critical bugs:

* If a farm is "targeted" by an enemy it cannot be worked, no matter if it is actually attacked or not. This can be exploited as a denial of service type attack.

* Gates don't actually stop any units, even enemies. Any unit can walk straight through a locked and closed gate, into your base. Trade carts end up on the outside of a wall, and the enemy army end up inside. Highly irritating.

* Multiplayer saves cannot be restored. I understand they are aware of this, it wouldn't be such a problem if the game didn't crash in the middle of a match so easily (for no reason).

* The map generation scripts for several maps are still "missing" so only a small set of scenarios are actually playable.

* AI units just stand in front of walls and do nothing while they are slaughtered. While amusing, this does take the fight out of the game somewhat.

* Pathfinding in general is horrendous. Any group of units larger than 10, especially slow moving units for some reason always take the longest possible path and then get nearly to the goal and turn round and go back again. I don't know if there is some sort of timeout and slow units hit this and they are forced to "recalculate" their path, but its very annoying.

Apparently the developers are "aware" of most of these issues, howver because they are hell-bent on releasing oodles of DLC these have been forgotten for months with no indication at all of when they will be addressed. I would't mind if there was any signs of life from the developers themselves.

Suggestions for the developers:

* Unpin the countless "patch threads" in the forum that are several years old and completely irrelevant. Keep the most recent patch thread in place so people can easily find it. Pin a thread which indicates which bugs you are aware of and some indication of priority or timeline. I'm sure (or I hope) you have an internal bug tracker, it wouldn't be too much to ask that we can get some indication of whether these issues are being fixed at all.

I really want this to be a positive review, but until these blatant issues are fixed I couldn't possibly recommend this game.