[SAP]CommanderA 最近的评测

A really fun little game that is best enjoyed with friends. The fact that this is/was a school project is amazing. This honestly doesn't need to be a free game supported by purchased cosmetics; but I honestly give them huge credit for that.

The game plays really well. You start off slow, choose some foods and drinks for the different fantasy races that will come and visit, and slowly work your way up to serving more customers more stuff. Not having NPCs that can help to run the front counter, or the stove, or refill the furnace really means you have to play this with friends. This doesn't mean that the NPCs you can hire are useless, far from it. Having golems to protect your supplies from undead raids was so nice to finally unlock!

The fact that youcan unlock different NPCs, and upgrade your tavern in all kinds of different ways, from more stoves, to more tables, to more storage, a longer lasting furnace, is a really nice treat. Not a lot of games have this kind of mechanic, where you can re-invest your money back into the business to make it better/easier. A lot of games could really learn from the example set here.

On the other hand however, I found choosing the items you will cook or make into drinks to be too simple. Even with the sales on random supplies, in the end you don't really need to care. You will still make great money even if you ignore the sales, and it is much simpler to just get the same foods/drinks for the different races every time. Heck, with the Halflings you just need fish honestly. When you are scrambling to deal with boss customers, refilling the furnace, making food and drinks and serving it, why not go with the same foods over and over again when you still make a fantastic profit? Some kind of change is needed here I think.

Overall though, a fantastic game that I had a lot of fun playing with my friends. I would probably recommend that they optimize the game a bit better; it can start to really lag with a lot of players, customers, and NPC workers on the map in the later levels. However, knowing that this was made by students,and I didn't have to pay a cent to experience and enjoy it, really helps me to get over that part.

I would highly recommend you play this if you can get some friends to play with you, who can work together and divide tasks up well. This is a very, very enjoyable game when done that way.

I can't say that I enjoyed this at all unfortunately. I wanted to play something Borderlands without buying the new game, or replaying one of the older games, and this was just a big dissappointment. While the voice acting is great, and the new levels and enemies are fantastic, the game itself is just kind of, boring?

None of it really works well. The levels look good, but the layout is terrible. The new enemies look cool, but can be extremely annoying to fight. It just feels like a real slog to play through and get through all of the long boring tedious bits to the few small things that are fun.

Maybe this would be a lot better to play with friends? But I don't really know. Enemies were serious bullet sponges, and adding in more people probably wouldn't help with that. You would mainly just keep each other entertained through the immense tedium between the fun parts, and that feels like cheating in a way. Like you are doing the game's job for it.

I honestly wouldn't recommend it. Maybe, maybe, on sale for super cheap if you have friends interested. But even then, probably not.

I went into this game with really high hopes. I think I played it on a free weekend, and I am really glad that I did otherwise I would have bought it and wasted my money. I absolutely love RTS games like this. Company of Heroes really spoiled me I guess with different units for each faction, quality voice acting, good pathing, (somewhat) intelligent AI, and most importantly, an actually fun campaign.

Just starting this game I could see that it wasn't going to be as advertized. It is not interesting, it is not fun. I bought the game for the campaign, and it looked like it had a lot of promise with the different factions, but it just let me down in every way. It is either annoying to play, or boring to play. If there is fun to be had here, I can't find it.

Add to that, that the game has been abandoned by the developers who have left it with several persistant bugs that can really impact your game, I would not recommend this even on sale.

While I find this game pretty fun to play, and I had a good time both playing this alone and in multiplayer with a friend; there are a number of problems with it that I personally find kind of annoying, and that break you out of the immersion.

I understand that this is a pretty hard core survival game, and I like that a lot. I can see that it is going for a pretty heavy amount of realism. You get bit or stung by something venomous or poisonous, you need to find bandages and herbs to deal with that. Leg ripped apart by a panther? You need to seal the wound up before you bandage it so it can heal. You need different types of food to survive, with different nutrition values, etc. Ok, sounds good.

The problem then is, why do I die of starvation in a day? The food system is pretty detailed. You need carbs, fats, proteins, and water, with all of it combining to increase your energy and regenerate your health. So why if I am perfectly fine on water, but don't eat for a day, do I die? It takes several days, even in harsh jungle conditions, to die of starvation. Yes, dehydration is another matter, but in this case, that isn't the issue. This sort of thing comes up throughout the game, where the hard core realism of the game is shattered for more conventional gameplay tropes.

The thing that bothers me the most about the game however, is the never ending number of hostile tribal warriors that are constantly drawn to your base and attack you. You better build up in a tree and make a lot of arrows, or build out on the lake; because otherwise they will break everything you own and kill you over and over again until you find a way to cheese them. In the end, you get so much meat for fertiliser, and so many bones for tools, and skulls for decorations, it becomes just a way of farming endless resources. But still, it stays annoying as hell.

Other than those complaints, it is a pretty good game. There are a lot of different stuff to build, weapons, armour, and items to craft. You can build some pretty nice looking places, with domesticated animals and farms. I love taming the jungle, cutting paths through, building emergency bases in clearings and filling it with supplies I might need. Having a way to make preserved good that doesn't go bad would have been heavily appreciated, but in the end the best you can do is make things last a couple of days rather than several hours.

The game looks beautiful, and sounds really good. You can really get drawn into the atmosphere of the game. Creeping through heavy jungle, swamps, and caves, constantly on alert for dangerous animals, or hostile tribes, it is really engrossing when everything goes well. Then you cut down a tree to make a fire and cook some food, the logs go flying, and the sticks get stuck in the ground.

I guess what I am trying to say is that it is a fun but heavily flawed game. I would recommend it, but only if you can get it on sale. Doubly so if you can convince a friend to play it with you, as it is even better than single player for sure.

While other factions get unique game mechanics (Grom, Throt, etc.), or really interesting win conditions (Vampire Coast, etc.), the Wood Elves basically get the shaft (of their arrows). Yes, you get a new resource, Amber, but that really only bottlenecks your research and is extremely annoying to deal with. There is nothing fun to do with it. What is even more annoying, is that you are unable to actually fully build in and use settlements you capture outside of the forests of Athel Loren.

This makes it very, very easy for your enemies to then retake these areas and rebuild. You are only actually able to build up your economy and armies in the wild forest regions, which are few and far between even in the third game, meaning that this can be a pretty tough faction to properly play as, or even have fun with. The fact that almost all of these units were in the game when it first came out, means it was made to be sold as DLC, which is extremely annoying. The fact that it is still being sold as DLC, nine years later, for $22 CAD, is extremely galling.

Avoid this completely, don't give them your money.

The fact you have to pay $11 CAD to properly fill out the Greenskin and Dwarf roster of units really helps to point out and exemplify the greed of CA. Even then, it still isn't completely filled out, you need to buy further DLC in the second game to do that. While the idea of having a Greenskin faction that focuses on using Goblin troops is a really neat idea and sticks close to the lore, in practice it makes things extremely difficult for Skarsnick. Then to fix this, instead of giving him further buffs to help him out, or more powerful and interesting goblin units, they have just made it easier for him to get Orcs, which ruins the thematic nature of the faction. Avoid buying this DLC, it just isn't worth it in my opinion.

A shamefully under-cooked faction for way too high a price. $22 CAD for a nine year old DLC, for a faction that is barely even supported in the other games? Add onto that the fact that you will need to buy other DLC packs from the second game to even get all of the units that should have been included in this. Extremely egregious, especially for the price they are charging. Absolutely ridiculous. Just completely avoid this.

I find playing this faction to be both disappointing and annoying. The horde mechanic is interesting, but ultimately it heavily constrains the number of armies you can control. This makes it so that while you are destroying and razing the cities of the Empire, another faction will just move in around and behind you to resettle those cities. I does not seem to matter how much Chaos corruption you leave behind in a province, or how far away the razed settlements are. Someone will always come and claim them, meaning you need to take your one army, or one of two armies if you can afford it, to go back and wipe them out. Then the process repeats.

Your Norscan allies are absolutely worthless, and will often fall into fighting each other, rather than getting with the program and going down South to raid and fight the enemy. Perhaps if they actually did what they were supposed to, other factions wouldn't have such a clear and easy time colonizing the wreckage you leave behind.

As an added note. This faction was clearly all there. The horde mechanics are from Attila, and all of the units are present in the game for the end of the world mechanics built into the main campaign. Meaning that they are making us pay for this to make us pay for this. This should have been free with the first game, but their greed knows no bounds. I would not recommend this at all.

It is still insane that we have to pay for something like this, that was always a part of previous Total War games. You can see CAs slide into greed when the first Total War Warhammer released, and from there they have always released these packs. What irks me even more however, is that if you own Total War Warhammer 1, those factions and the DLC for it carry over into the second game, and the same goes for those into the third; and yet we still have to pay this little blood tax every time, every game. I don't know who I am more ashamed of, CA for constantly doing this, or myself for buying it every time.

There have always been problems with the Total War games, it comes with the scale of the game. But things have changed. Corporate greed has taken hold and infested these great games. They used to be lovingly crafted, and actually patched after they shipped (and the old games had to actually work before they shipped, back when they were on physical copies). I have been playing since Rome: Total War, buying and supporting these games for decades. Seeing them slowly slide into an oblivion of bugs, errors, and slop has been extremely depressing.

It has gotten to the point where I just can't leave a positive review here. I have left negative reviews on DLC I thought was bad, but never a main game before. This may be an example of me putting yet another company on my boycott list like EA, Blizzard, Paradox, and so many more now.

The reason? I literally cannot play this game anymore. I don't mean that in some figurative sense, I mean that literally. I will start up the game and play for a bit, then a will click on the button to bring me to a settlement that needs to be upgraded. My screen will start to move, and then the game will crash. Alright, well I will just move manually to the places that need to be upgraded; then I get into a battle on the other side of my territory when the AI attacks me, or someone from half the world away starts diplomacy talks with me. Crash to desktop. I have posted on the Steam forums, on their own forums, I have contacted their support teams, nothing. I have installed mods that remove camera zoom, as well as a myriad of other suggestions from other players (zero response from anyone at CA). Nothing works.

Then I learn about the fact that several major and minor factions have had their AI completely and utterly broken for months with no fix. I have only been playing the main campaign version of this game at the moment, that does not have Lizardmen or Tombkings, so I didn't notice. So, if they are willing to let that MASSIVE issue affecting ALL players go on this long, will they be fixing my issue any time soon? Yeah right.

I cannot recommend that anyone reading this purchase the game. Maybe you won't have my issue, perhaps they will even fix their AI problems; but it will only be after having a massive community backlash come down on their heads. What does that say about their directives and goals as a company? They are not interested in making an affordable game that WORKS for the people who are PAYING them. I am sure that the game developers working there hate this state of affairs as much as we do. Pumping out more overpriced DLC while the main game suffers to pad the wallets of their corporate lords and make the numbers go up for the shareholders. It is a sad state of affairs.

Until these issues are resolved, I will not be buying another Total War game. If these bugs are never fixed, that is fine with me. There are plenty of other great games from awesome developers and companies on this platform for me to support.