What can I expect from Ultimate Crisis mode?

[Max Doge]

As Reikland turn 67 playing Legendary with only "A grudge too far" (the dwaren crisis) unticked, never did ultimate before.

There are only a few skaven, vamp, greenskin and wood elf factions still alive at this point in the campaign.

Will anyone revive or something?

[KeiranG19]

All of the legendary lords of the effected factions will be revived

[Basarab Laiota]

expect a boring slog and plenty of reconquering

[Ghost | Severage]

Publicado originalmente por Basarab Laiota:

expect a boring slog and plenty of reconquering

This and depending on which faction you play, you're basically ♥♥♥♥♥♥ as soon as they start. Best example Khalida, that other Empire dude down there and the Southern Lands in general. Just had to quit a campaign because it's literally impossible to fight with 7 armies against 60-80 armies at once. 2 LL Dwarfs, 2 Minor Faction Dwarfs, Mannfred, TK, Woodelves and Skaven.

It needs a complete rework, because its just boring and garbage. Spawning 20 Armies out of thin air per Major Faction...

Normally I like difficult things but this is ridiculous.

[Cryten]

Its really only there for people who trivialised the normal crisis'. Its not meant to be fair, its meant to be ridiculously over the top, the make things hard on power gamers. There are challenge players that do ultimate crisis on earliest possible date.

[Max Doge]

So people don't even like it?

[MadArtillery]

Publicado originalmente por Wulfmax:

So people don't even like it?

The crisis mechanic in general is bad, ultimate crisis is just bad multiplied and mostly is just hatred around nehekara and the badlands.

[tez3me]

if you dont like the ult crisis mode you can switch it off. some ppl like to pump the difficulty to extremes

[StrangestEcho]

Publicado originalmente por Wulfmax:

So people don't even like it?

Most players don't enjoy having a ton of armies spawn in the middle of their empire on short notice. Wiping out a crisis faction early doesn't prevent the crisis. There's also a tendency for crisis factions to kill each other off, or otherwise get ground down before reaching your territory, so they're generally not a true existential threat to your empire.

I'd recommend doing one or two crisis factions per campaign as an added challenge for the late game, but ultimate crisis is just obnoxious.

[Basarab Laiota]

Publicado originalmente por Wulfmax:

So people don't even like it?

I mean, it's pretty poorly designed.. I'm sure some people like it though. If u have fun then thats all that matters.

[Max Doge]

Well I just triggered it and it seems a bit underwhelming, still rank 1 with several mid tier armies.

But how come I didn't get a new victory condition? It's only domination victory left to basically capture the whole map.

Last campaign I only had a Greenskin crisis and had a specific victory condition to beat them, which also gave me a Steam achievement.

[Max Doge]

Publicado originalmente por StrangestEcho:

Publicado originalmente por Wulfmax:

So people don't even like it?

Most players don't enjoy having a ton of armies spawn in the middle of their empire on short notice. Wiping out a crisis faction early doesn't prevent the crisis. There's also a tendency for crisis factions to kill each other off, or otherwise get ground down before reaching your territory, so they're generally not a true existential threat to your empire.

Yeah not a fan of backtracking through my own empire either, for relatively trivial battles too. And prepping for it in advance seems cheesy and not much fun.

Would prefer if it just made your remaining enemies on the map stronger, instead of spawning dead ones behind your back, it was better in WH1 when I had to defend from the Chaos invasion.

I would like to go for a domination victory but the enemies around the map don't seem very strong at all, even on Legendary, so not much satisfaction there from painting the map.

[Many-Named]

Publicado originalmente por Basarab Laiota:

expect a boring slog and plenty of reconquering

That and a frame loss but yeah be my guest lol

PS: I completely turn off crisis mode