Is this worth getting for Singleplayer?

[Maultaschn]

Is the Singleplayer Mode like bb1 or as bad as bb2? also has the total state of the game improved since release?

thank you :)

[Fen_]

For Singleplayer: It's closer to BB2 on release so abysmal. I would strongly advice not getting it atm if you want to play only against the AI it's just not fun.

As for the state of the game there is still a lot of work to be done; but it has improved and definitly is playable online.

[Pig Mac]

Not recommended for single player at all imo, in it's current state (horrible AI and no statistics etc etc).
I played BB2 quite a bit in single player, and while the AI weren't great, at least the statistics were fun to look at after a few games.

[Eyesight]

Bloodbowl 3 AI is total garbage , imo the AI is worse than bloodbowl 2 because what it does is way to scripted.
If you face an agi team , it will dodge from you and go in your side even if that make no sens.(this include with the big guy which is dumb).
If it's a bash team , it will only try to dice block you.

[Hsanrb]

No, stick with BB1. The AI has a tendency to forget board state, particularly if something goes wrong and then it stops rerolling, it stops using all its players not involved in the play. I'd forgive it if it was just bad play, but it just stops trying... like the AI isn't local and cannot judge what is going on. I'm pretty sure it could do a 2-turn, but I also think if it fumbles the ball, fails a pass, or just outright causes a turnover it couldn't do a 16-turn if you took all your players off the field.

Edit: The full SP experience is 5 8-man KO tournaments. So 15 games and you've finished it!

[Sir Eyeball]

Not yet. The campaign is lacklustre at best and the Singleplayer ladder is not operational as of yet.

[Jaina]

It can depend a little on what you're looking for.

As others have pointed out, Cyanide have managed to make the overall single-player experience progressively worse and more limited in each of their BB games. BB1 had by far the richest range of experiences available, where BB3 is so far limited to nothing but one-off matches and 3-round comps against mostly-hardcoded enemy teams controlled by an utterly incapable AI.

The BB2 campaign had a lot of story, but suffered from forcing you to play Humans and having so many events and rules limitations hardcoded. The BB3 'campaign' avoids this by essentially removing the story entirely, aside from a few fun ad cinematics. Calling it a campaign at all is questionable, when it's really just a set of 5 3-round tourneys against fixed AI opponents in a fixed order.

That all said, trying to play BB1 these days can feel painful thanks to the ancient graphics and very clunky UI. BB3 is prettier and smoother to play, and it uses the BB2020 rules (mostly). So if you're specifically after a newer experience then there are some pros to it. Just be prepared for the only content to be endless unstructured vs AI matches where you will probably never, ever be scored against under any circumstances, no matter how bad your luck is.

So can be tolerable if you just want a pretty, mindless chance to slaughter the enemy team or build crazy SPP totals. But don't expect any hint of a challenge, story or persistent league.

[dunnothisguy]

I would say strong NO. I'm not good BB player at all, just not a terrible one - I still can't get how you can loose to that AI. May be on halflings (you) vs Chaos (AI) that's possible, dunno (doubt it). It's so clueless and retarded I can't see how it can be fun to play against for anybody. It's not a game of BB at that point, because your opponent has no idea how it's played, clearly.

[HighLanderPony]

Absolutely not. The AI doesn't exist.

[Konstantin]

Stay away from it. I wish I would have bought it over Steam instead of Fanatical so I am not stuck with it.

[Maultaschn]

thank you guys for your insights

[F1aw1ess]

No because there is a game breaking bug for sp and you can't complete games

[dunnothisguy]

Originally posted by F1aw1ess:

No because there is a game breaking bug for sp and you can't complete games

What sp bug?

[brynjar]

Only play single player and .... yeeeesh?. I mean the grapichs are nice and its shaping up good. But i bought the lizards when they came out. Played them for 4-5 matches. Underworld the same. There isnt much point in developing your team, so i get bored of it pretty fast

[brynjar]

Its sadly worse than BB2. In BB2 your skills were more random and it was a much better sandbox than the current 5 modes.

Being able to tailor exactly how i want my toons to be, combined with a wery weak and linear campaign makes this single player, very easy. A shame

[dunnothisguy]

Originally posted by brynjar:

Its sadly worse than BB2. In BB2 your skills were more random and it was a much better sandbox than the current 5 modes.

Being able to tailor exactly how i want my toons to be, combined with a wery weak and linear campaign makes this single player, very easy. A shame

You can use random skill selection on your players, for additional challenge. Or make the first two random, and the rest are selectable, to mimick how real world athletes are developed (first they try to find themselves, and some of them fail to be particularly good at anything, in the end, so they end their carears early (fire them if they haven't acquired useful skills) - but when they show a certain potential, some coach starts deliberately develop them in a certain direction).