Recent reviews by Peabush

The game is beautiful. It is very polished and plays great! There are some issues regarding balancing. It is too hard to keep your village alive. Even early on. There simply is not enough food, or the demand is too high. I have tried mutiple instances where i really dug into the mechanics but i fail 9/10. Definitely needs some tweaking.

Don't get this if you think this plays like Age of Empires. Get this game if you enjoy slow paced rts games. You will not get an army the first hour and a half. Hell ive played 15 hours now and i have only just managed to contest a neighbouring region with an army. A fight i lost spectacularily, despite being both larger and had the highground.

Exciting to see where this game is headed.

Bugs and Issues i have had so far.

- Text is flickering when 12x
- Mouse over text info boxes close by themselves before you get a chance to read
- Trading items is abit tedious if you want to "sell" or "trade" 100's of items. You have to physically click the + one hundred times.
- Pasture fields needs some work with the timings of "plow, sow, harvest". Also the mule/bull/horse can't plow the fields fast enough. At the moment that mechanic is pretty useless as it will only set you back. I think the plowing width should be wider, or the general navigation of the field should be tweaked.
- Units getting stuck in the gate of the manor walls.
- Sawpit prompting that it has run out of space despite there being space.
- The Sawpit was the only building that often froze in producing. And to get it working again id have to demolish it and rebuild.
- Lacks more info on general game mechanics. eg Why is there 4 worker slots on the Stone Church, what does the extra slots amount to?
- Clarity on missing requirements on buildings that can be upgraded.
- Clarity on how you get the population to rise / fall

- GG

Edit: 6th May 2024

We won the battle! But Sony still desisted the game in 177 countries despite walking back on the decision of forcing PSN onto PC players.

Edit: 29/11/2024

The game is better than ever...!

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Arrowhead, you two faced ...... .. .... Draw us in on the best platform avaliable, only to require us to sign up for a PSN account months later. And for what? Security??? It is not like Sony has a great track record when it comes to protecting customers data.

Example:
April 2011: Hackers Access Personal Data of 77 Million Sony PlayStation Network Users
May 2011: Personal Details on 25 Million Sony Online Entertainment Customers Stolen
June 2011: Sony Pictures Website Hacked, Exposing One Million Accounts
November 2014: Hackers Steal 100 Terabytes of Data from Sony Pictures
August 2017: Hacker Group Accesses Sony Social Media Accounts
September 2023: Sony Investigates Alleged Hack
October 2023: Sony Notifies Employees of Data Breach

For a moment i had so much fun that i forgot about corporate greed mentality.

Sony will ruin this franchise.

Even after 7 years. This game holds up fantastically.
I have grinded 20 hours with my 8 year old son. And the shared excitement that we both share coming up on a level 9 animal is incredible. This is a game that when played together with your kids, is a conversation starter. The laughs we have when one of us accidentally discharges a weapon, or uses the wrong gun for big game are priceless.

The only feature i am missing is being able to see my son's pings. <3

The punishment is too high now. After a long losing streak, I now HAVE to spend money to have my vehicles repaired.

Still holds up in 2024!

This game is the most "Battlefield" fun i have had since Battlefield 3! The gun play is incredible!

Still holds up!

One of the best multiplayer games of our generation!

Black hole... Time dissapears here..

This game is just about the most fun i have had since the olden days of BF2. I cant wait to se what this game will become over time. Super fun, super satisfying audio work. Definitely reccomend!

Thank you for this experience.