German campaign is a joke and total rubbish!

[VonDoom4]

I have just finished the German campaign and it is the worst German campaign in history. I have never seen such a bad work. Developers should be ashamed to go public with the current state of the game. They were either bored or they don't care about the series anymore. The story is absolutely a garbage telling unrelated tales, confusing players, drawing meaningless lines and crosses on maps and everything this without any context. There are even almost no achievements given at all and they defame Erwin Rommel - one of the best if not the best general in human history and his Afrika Korps by the fabricated story about Jews and their struggle in North Africa. How is this all related to the German campaign in which I expected an interesting war tale from German perspective?

[ElokoMs]

Yea, the campaign is a fairytale. Tiger tanks and soldiers with StG 44 in early 1942.

[Relmmib]

Yeah they developed it later for the fans. It was not planned to add this campaign, thats the reason why it is solid to play but Nothing more.

[Cabbage]

>defame Erwin Rommel - one of the best if not the best general in human history

lmao

[Lestrad]

While I wouldn't go so far as to say it defames Rommel (I think most people who have read even a small amount knows the SS and the Army hardly got along, and Hitler's distrust for the army is practically legendary), nor would I say he was one of the best (least of all in human history). He was brilliant, yes, but he was also partially the victim of his own successes early on.

I get what they were trying to go for (the typical "war is bad"), but the disclaimer every time you start up the campaign, the fictious story about a fictitious family... Just no. There are enough true stories that could be told, they shouldn't need to be making one up. Nevermind the fact that you're pushing that message in an almost Michael Bay-esque war game.

That's not to say it can't be done well. Look at the ending of the Market Garden campaign in CoH Opposing Force. Look at "All Quiet on the Western Front". Christ, look at the Last Tiger mini-campaign in Battlefield V. It can be done, it just wasn't done well here.

In a game like this, I expect more history, more context, legendary battles to actually feel as epic as the recountings.

I don't think many people who play these sorts of games don't understand what war really is and does. That its bad, even when the cause is justified and necessary. So I just don't understand who this was for.

One thing is for certain though, given how short some of those missions were, its clear they spent a vast majority of their funds trying to be Slytherine's Panzer Corps over doing what they used to do so well. Tell an engaging story of bravery, chivalry, loyalty, and sacrifice.

[BusinessPenguin]

Originally posted by Lestrad:

While I wouldn't go so far as to say it defames Rommel (I think most people who have read even a small amount knows the SS and the Army hardly got along, and Hitler's distrust for the army is practically legendary), nor would I say he was one of the best (least of all in human history). He was brilliant, yes, but he was also partially the victim of his own successes early on.

I get what they were trying to go for (the typical "war is bad"), but the disclaimer every time you start up the campaign, the fictious story about a fictitious family... Just no. There are enough true stories that could be told, they shouldn't need to be making one up. Nevermind the fact that you're pushing that message in an almost Michael Bay-esque war game.

That's not to say it can't be done well. Look at the ending of the Market Garden campaign in CoH Opposing Force. Look at "All Quiet on the Western Front". Christ, look at the Last Tiger mini-campaign in Battlefield V. It can be done, it just wasn't done well here.

In a game like this, I expect more history, more context, legendary battles to actually feel as epic as the recountings.

I don't think many people who play these sorts of games don't understand what war really is and does. That its bad, even when the cause is justified. So I just don't understand who this was for.

One thing is for certain though, given how short some of those missions were, its clear they spent a vast majority of their funds trying to be Slytherine's Panzer Corps.

Actually all missions felt like they were cut in half :D

[Connatic]

Most RTS campaigns are rubbish in my opinion. I always treated them like extra long tutorials for the mutliplayer/skirmish modes.

[Lestrad]

Originally posted by BusinessPenguin:

Actually all missions felt like they were cut in half :D

They were really....REALLY short, weren't they?

[zaku49]

Relax guys, the game was made by an indie studio.

[Homuya]

*yawn*

"I have never seen such a bad work"

You've seen this since first gameplay and still bought into it. If in 10 years they made no visual upgrade at all to the game why do you think magically gameplay will be good?

[Homuya]

Originally posted by Connatic:

Most RTS campaigns are rubbish in my opinion. I always treated them like extra long tutorials for the mutliplayer/skirmish modes.

Then you never played a RTS. I feel bad for you, look at Warcraft, Starcraft or Command and Conquer. In any good RTS the campaign was memorable, challenging as well as stunning and only bad games treat it as a long tutorial. In these games only the first 1-2 missions were beginner friendly and after that you already had challenging games.

Play an actual RTS :) Dont worry even Warcraft 3 that is so old still plays perfectly fine and is better than most other games, you also got lots of custom stuff like campaigns that are even voiced and such made by others. Super nice stuff and plays better than this game lol.

Dawn of War I and II also had amazing campaigns that were a highlight.

[Someone]

Honestly, ever since I started skipping all the intro and outros the campaign has improved 100%

[Cöunt Eastwood]

@VonDoom4
I haven't finished the campaign yet (I bought it on PS5) but from what I've seen so far, you're exactly right. The "story" is like.. WTF has this got to do with anything?! It's like the devs were being woke for woke's sake, inserting predictive programming for ignorant idiots to consume. Maybe they want to join Ubisoft? Haha! Take my award mate, cheers!