Recent reviews by The Fungus

Like zomboid and trakov had a drunken one nighter. It's good.

Send help it's consuming my life

Only game I've 100%'ed. It's good.

Sold out to China, stay away.

ahhh it's good?

Do not buy this game at $70. Pirate it, get in on a steep sale (max $30 AUD) or from a key seller.

short version?


They've added basically nothing since they released into early access in 2020 . It still has less features than modded warband, it's still a buggy mess.

long version?

This game shouldn't have entered or left Early access. It is a game that would have been A-tier in 2014-2016, but is very dated and buggy for a "newly released" title that has had a solid decade of development time.


The world map is still clunky and full of "odd" things, such as settlements starving themselves back to poverty because they won't stop growing (wiping out your garrison), settlements having nothing but problems if you don't spend your every second completing missions for the notables, being unable to launch sieges because a single AI army rocks up to "reinforce", instantly taking over the siege and never launching an assault (Even if you're the king of that armies kingdom). The list is long and at this point old.

As for the combat/fighting? yeah it's pretty much the same as warband. The AI is slightly less dumb, but it's somehow buggier. Basically no different from the gameplay trailer in 2016.

The full list of stuff that they've added that I've found?

• Limited voice lines. They appear AI generated and it's awful.
  
• Banners! They're buggy and don't always work.
  
• Warehouses! yeah, the thing warband. They were hyping it up for some reason, no excuse for this thing taking 2 years to cook up.
  
• Piles of new armor. Sadly you'll probably never use any of it because you're looting the very stupid AI lords A-tier armor
  
• Sieges are no longer bug filled nightmares. They're now just let down by how dumb the AI is during them.
  
• alleys, they're not really worth it.

As for what hasn't improved?

• heros/notables are still a pain in the ass. The interactions are shallow and the grind is long.
  
• Campaign map AI (actions, armies, trading... just... everything)
  
• Smithing, still a big hype feature that is shallow and unrewarding (it no longer replaces every weapon in the market pool though so that's a win)
  
• Skills and the levelling system (a large number of them are "implemented" but useless or so minor that even if you can stack them, the improvement is just not worth it)
  
• Troop tier performance/balance (Tier 4 is your friend)
  
• Troop trees are basically all unchanged and poorly balanced (Spam cav archers or Fians + knights and you'll trade 4:1 with pretty much everything in the game)
  
• Graphics are unchanged. They were good in 2016 but it hasn't improved much since that trailer. This applies more to armor and weapons than the environment which is currently still holding strong.

Worst of all the Banner quest is still in the game and provides nothing. You can't even turn it off in vanilla, it just clogs your menus.

Go get the mod.

dead lizards

Rat-nukes

sick archers