Pro / Con List for someone playing this Friday

[Hat]

I've played the DW franchise on and off since DW4 and I'm really stoked to see the game getting some meaningful changes to it outside of the usual rehash of previous experiences. I've read quite a few reviews and was hoping to get more feedback from those who have played it as to what they feel the new strengths and weaknesses are to this game.

[Ricochet]

Strengths good progression and your powerlevel goes along with the story.

Weakness compared with prior dw games you only have a select weapons to play with and your starting weapon is only the sword but you will unlock more as the game progress.

Since you played dw 4, You gain status attributes for increasing weapon proficiency instead of picking them up when defeating an officer or special character. There's a limit how much you can grind to make your character op but you are still not OP on your current story progress. I'm playing hero difficulty atm. But i think this is the trade off for good powerlevel progression.

There is no free mode and only campaign mode.

[Horrible Marksman]

Story - Pro to me and con to some, Zhang Jiao isn't a cult leader from Planet of the Apes and Dong Zhuo isn't a cartoon villain. Dong Zhuo's logic has merit, but is barren of empathy, which feels more realistic.

Gameplay - Weapons I've played thus far are all fun and I actually play them all differently. It's not the normal 3 or 5 string charge attack all day with a charge 1 to boss juggle once in a while. To be fair, the sword basically is that, which is nice to still have in some form. The rest of the weapons, at least the ones I have access to thus far, are not like that at all. Gloves and Chakrams in particular are quite a bit different from the norm and quite fluid to play. Favorites so far.

Summary Pro/con - Story has more realistic and human characters.
Pro - Weapon quality + overall unique feel to them

Greatest pro for me - # of Troops on screen. Troops vanishing and reappearing around me always felt horrible in the older games. Now, when you're cutting through soldiers like they're a field of wheat, you can actually see a very large portion of that field, instead of pockets here and there.

Pro - All enemies attack you, even fodder.

Con - Weapon quantity.

[Hat]

Originally posted by Horrible Marksman:

Greatest pro for me - # of Troops on screen. Troops vanishing and reappearing around me always felt horrible in the older games. Now, when you're cutting through soldiers like they're a sea of wheat, you can actually see a very large portion of that sea, instead of pockets here and there.

Con - Weapon quantity.

Yeah that con is one of the most common things I see... knowing KT we can probably expect a number of DLCs to buy more weapons...

But that Pro is a major one. I also really disliked seeing 50ish people on screen that sometimes disappear into the ether.

Thanks!

[Hat]

Originally posted by Ricochet:

Strengths good progression and your powerlevel goes along with the story.

Weakness compared with prior dw games you only have a select weapons to play with and your starting weapon is only the sword but you will unlock more as the game progress.

Since you played dw 4, You gain status attributes for increasing weapon proficiency instead of picking them up when defeating an officer or special character. There's a limit how much you can grind to make your character op but you are still not OP on your current story progress. I'm playing hero difficulty atm. But i think this is the trade off for good powerlevel progression.

There is no free mode and only campaign mode.

Awesome, I really hated how DW games were kinda difficult at first but once you unlocked the right weapon there was literally 0 difficulty due to insane power spikes. This sounds much more inline with how I'd expect a powerlevel to progress with gameplay.

[Corpulent_Al]

pros- the game feels a lot smoother to play compared to 8, the story is fan service-y in a good way (I really like the presentation of the story and interacting with a lot of the characters, happily most of my favorites are in the game), seems to run really well even with the very high model counts

cons- people definitely dont like having less choice in terms of weapons, but as someone who only ever really enjoyed playing as a few specific characters and their weapons, it doesnt matter to me. I also agree that letting us customize the player character would have been good, but im here to squee at lu bu and cao cao, so I dont really care too much. also, musou attacks definitely aren't as interesting or flashy as they were before, but I think the overall combat is better anyway.

[Noodles]

Pros - Gameplay feels fluid and much deeper than its predecessors.
Cons - Weapons feel... eh, you can't play as your favorite characters, and your protagonist feels super generic with no customization.

[Corpulent_Al]

I also think the new battle maps are pretty good, hulao and sisui are awesome, and the others feel a lot better to run around on than compared to 8

[Hat]

Originally posted by Corpulent_Al:

I also think the new battle maps are pretty good, hulao and sisui are awesome, and the others feel a lot better to run around on than compared to 8

That's funny, I didn't even consider how much they could've improved the maps. Glad to hear they are appropriately upgraded!

[Mois]

It feels like a Wuxia/Murim action RPG set in the 3 kingdoms. Your character starts off with amnesia, has a mysterious background and travels around China solving the problems of the different warlords.

[Hentaika]

Feels like some K-pop boy bands are fighting instead of the chinese guys.

Other than that - the usual DW turn off brain and chop chop chop.

[Hat]

Originally posted by Hentaika:

Feels like some K-pop boy bands are fighting instead of the chinese guys.

Other than that - the usual DW turn off brain and chop chop chop.

Zhang He used to have a butterfly costume and told his opponents to be beautiful and Pang Tong would break dance over his enemies. IDK if this is a major new development.