Is the gameplay at least fun?

[tredavidson77]

For those who got it early is the gameplay at least fun? For me a story is secondary as long as the gameplay is good, especially for games like this where I will most likely spend my time in skirmish and multiplayer.

[Darth Glorious]

Yes,, except annoying HUD bug with the cutscenes, it is fun

[Nate]

I'm enjoying it, but it depends on what you're looking for.

[garytc78]

Yes it is fun! Although skirmish mode is lacking lots of mportant features, it's still fun, sometimes even a lot :-)

[『Insperatus』]

gameplay is "alright", it's not a stepup from the first 2-3 HW games. It's a step back to appeal to a more general audience and alot of folks are upset that there wasn't anything really "new". The gameplay to me became bland due to the story and the annoying cutscenes which takes away the immersion of the game and why you should care about the gameplay. if that makes sense. After going through the campaign, it just gave me a feeling of "why should I care about these ships".

[Ishayu]

Originally posted by Averis:

Depends on how low your standards are, if you played the original HW games, and if you've played other modern RTS games. It's either going to range from "It's fun" to "It's mediocore" to "It's lacking so much I can't really enjoy it"

For example, If you've never played a HW game, are completely oblivious to common QoL features and standards of RTS games, and will generally enjoy anything, then yes, the game is fun.

That's quite a round-about way of saying "If you like it you're an idiot".

To me, as a former master league SC2 player, C&C player, and HW1&2 player, this game seems to work just fine. The only thing that bothers me is that the ship selection is a little too small, and there are a bunch of broken hotkeys or hotkeys that really need to exist but which don't - most notably special abilities. You can tell they were scrambling to overhaul some things last minute for sure.

But these are surface-level problems. The game looks gorgeous, sounds fantastic, and fundamentally plays well. It's responsive and tactical. These issues can be fixed with expansion packs and patches - and we have a roadmap. Does it prevent it from being a 10/10? Most definitely. But it's not a 5/10 either.

[Mastermatta]

Originally posted by Averis:

Originally posted by Ishayu:

That's quite a round-about way of saying "If you like it you're an idiot".

I'd like to purchase whatever you're smoking to interpret "how fun the game is depends on your standards and prior experience" as "you're an idiot"

Let me quote your previous post.

Originally posted by Averis:

For example, If you've never played a HW game, are completely oblivious to common QoL features and standards of RTS games, and will generally enjoy anything, then yes, the game is fun.

So yes it seems very much implied to the average person that you think anyone who enjoys HW3 an idiot.

[Humble]

Yes, it's fun, however, I don't think it's long term fun gameplay, I think that it's low replay value. It's fun playing first time or once go for storyline gameplay yet after that might be done for good, but I don't expect I would play this long hours of gameplay like other game like anno 1800 or skyrim or fallout 4 or even starfield (over 400 hour and still playing even some people are not happy with starfield)

So Yes, it's fun but short term fun gameplay.

[Tericc]

What Averis said isnt untrue. if you have little expectations and your looking for fun.. fun can be found in this game.

If your expectations are multiplayer and nothing more then you will probably have even more fun once the game is more available on Monday to the public.

[Castle328]

Gameplay is great