I will believe that they can code a better AI when they finally can make sieges not shit. The fucking pathfinding on siege battles alone makes me want to just quit the game altogether.
Apparently the Orks in that demo showcase were meant to just run into the player just to showcase the game but don't worry for the actual game they're not going to do that. Right...
Nawh no worries there. I can admit I am biased being a software engineer who has dabbled in AI for fun so the stuff I see isn't necessarily what you're witnessing, and we both have no idea of the inner workings of CA. At least we are free to debate it and recognize it has room for improvement.
This I fully agree with you on. As it's a brand new release with no technical debt built up or broad range of competing mechanics there's no excuse for releasing with a lobotomized AI. From what we know 40k has been in development for years so any dedicated dev will have had the time to make something at least semi-competent.
Never trust demos this early, they are heavily railroaded to drive hype. The (very) early access previews for some content creators is a better indication of what to expect, and from the limited footage thus far I wouldn't expect any significant improvements. Who the hell knows though; stranger things have happened to CA of late, and 40k isn't a franchise they can afford to fuck up.
I actually think 3K's campaign is criminally underrated.
Realm Divide in Shogun 2 is fine. In the original game you could keep one ally loyal for most of the divide, and it will probably be better now with a new diplomacy system.
You can also always play on Records mode for that traditional TW experience. In any case, yeah. It's the only TW game with meaningful diplomacy that almost reaches Paradox levels. You can have allies and vassals and it doesn't feel like a liability and you can be sure that they won't stab you in the back. Well, unless the 3 kingdoms era gets triggered and one (or both) of your allies spawns an emperor seat but it makes sense why the kingdoms would all have a massive diplomacy penalty. And even then it's not like Shogun 2 where the AI checks if peace=declare war, you can even gang up with one of the kingdoms against the other but you always know that sooner or later you're gonna have to fight the other kingdom.
Sry somehow missed your reply.
As much as I am critical of CA you are right in this regard. They don't have the wiggle room to fuck 40K up. Which is probably the only reason I can expect a decently made game. If 40K launches in a state similar to Rome 2 or WH3 Sega will just pull the fucking plug. And rightfully so.
The petition might be lame but the reasoning for it isn't. Instead of a patch to the OG game finally fixing longstanding issues,adding QoL features, future proving the game and enhancing its modding capabilities we are getting an entirely new game and executable that we have to cough up money for. It's a pretty shitty move to be honest and CA are not in the position to piss in the face of their customer base.
Agreed. Unappreciated by the fans and killed off too early due to CA's incompetence.
CA never, ever should have tried to do Romance mode. It didn't work in China and doubling-down in Troy with those ridiculous mammoth skull cyclopes was one of the dumbest things they've done. That combined with their fucktarded balance choices by making unit types hard counters (militia ji will eat top-tier cav alive if they take the charge thanks to charge reflection and absurd charge bonuses), multiple general types of dubious utility, overpowered archers, and forcing you to level up a general to be able to recruit good units meant that as much potential as it had under the hood there was no hope of it ever realizing it.
It worked and was insanely successful.
CA has a truly demoralized fanbase so they actively want to be haters. However, CA deserves this.
How many times have companies tried this and it ended failing horribly?
The two highest profile so far is EA and Ubisoft, both whom have came back crawling to Steam quietly after loudly and pointedly trying to launch their own distribution platforms.
It's also not going to work. Mod-wise for example Paradox has seen what an unmitigated disaster their Cities Skylines 2 workshop offshoot has turned into (there's a reason they don't repeat this with their in-house studio releases) and Amplitude quietly walked back the mod.io restrictions for Humankind when they thought no one was looking (Endless Legend 2 was Steam Workshop out of the gate too).
TW oldfags are so weird. They will constantly talk about how they don't care about modern TW but then but out long video essays about modern TW.
