7 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 130.8 hrs on record (15.3 hrs at review time)
Posted: 2 May, 2023 @ 7:18am
Updated: 8 May, 2023 @ 12:11am

Could have been a really good game, personally I'm still having fun for the most part, however for a full price title its definitely a complete DISASTER. I can basically confirm the bad things everyone else is mentioning.

Too many bugs, even GAMEBREAKING bugs in campaign - had to ALT+F4 the game a few times as it was the only option, thankfully there are alot of autosaves & I didn't loose any progress.
It really feels like they didn't do any sort of testing or simply ignored any sort of feedback from the testers, since alot of small bugs are so plain to see.

The campaign is very disappointing - best way to describe it is GENERIC, especially the mission objectives. While I like the idea of an "Total War"-style campaign map, it's pretty shallow in comparison and gets boring quickly. But the biggest issue are the "handmade story missions" which should be the main part people care about in a singlerplayer campaign. They are VERY similiar to the random skirmishes in design and lack interesting objectives. Really just feels like a skirmish with some additional secondary objectives... Wth devs?!
Some missions were not working properly because they didn't count in certain aspects of specific units/companies you can bring along...
The "dynamic" aspect of the campaign has a few things that need improvement. The random skirmishes you encounter are super repetitive (there is like 3 different types that keep repeating over and over again) and you are somewhat forced to play them out yourself as the "auto-resolve" feature is useless because it always give you a 50-50 chance regardless of your skill as player or the units skill level, which is quite annoying after a few dozen skirmishes that all feel and play the same.

Huge flaws, many many visual bugs, and terrible pathfinding - are you a fan of watching your vehicles driving reverse for miles, thus with their rear facing towards the enemy? Or squads getting stuck on random objects/cover or simply refusing to follow your orders... And oh lord the absolute ugliest UI / HUD I've seen in a long time. It's the sort of UI you usually only see during testing an alpha / beta version of the game & later is replaced by some professional reworked interface.

And as others pointed out, the sound design is weak and lacks powerful weapon & explosion sounds. And the battle chatter of units should have the factions native language (e.g. German soldiers speaking German), blows my mind that they didn't do this!

Since there is still good parts to it and it can be fun, I'd just recommend to wait for a sale on this
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