Potential new player here. Base game or full DLC purchase?

[Zexel]

Which one would you recomend for a new player purchase?

If I were to buy the base game will I get the latest build version of the game? Or would that require the DLCs?

[Nero]

The dlc only add new nations to play. Go for the base game, plenty of nations in there already. Unless you're from one of the DLC nations, maybe you wanna play as your army.

Those nation packs are really cheap so you're not wasting money if you want to get them later on.

[FF]

Even without purchasing DLC you'll still spend hundreds of hours first on the other nations. If you're not bored of Wargame after those many hours and have used the same nations half a hundred times over, then by all means purchase those DLCs.

[Zexel]

Thank you. I'll start of with the base DLC, I don't think I'll be missing much with the other four nations.

[K Punk]

just sent you a friend request...im looking to play against someone in asia region thats not level 500.... based in cambodia... anyone else can friend me aswell... also play coh2... average skill.

[Airborneguy]

Originally posted by Kalsonic:

Which one would you recomend for a new player purchase?

If I were to buy the base game will I get the latest build version of the game? Or would that require the DLCs?

Dont get the game, I think the devs have stopped supporting it.

[DasaKamov]

Originally posted by SmokeFan:

Dont get the game, I think the devs have stopped supporting it.

The game is feature-complete and the servers are still running (and there are no plans to shut them down.) If someone is interested in playing Red Dragon, there's no reason not to get the game.

[gribelo]

"Stopped supporting it"

Whats going on with humanity? There was a time when games were released ONLY in solid 1.0 working state 100% complete without any patches and stupid DLC to follow. When developers respected consumers of their product and not ♥♥♥♥♥♥ around with content and features.


CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT? )))

[Nero]

Originally posted by gribelo:

"Stopped supporting it"

Whats going on with humanity? There was a time when games were released ONLY in solid 1.0 working state 100% complete without any patches and stupid DLC to follow. When developers respected consumers of their product and not ♥♥♥♥♥♥ around with content and features.


CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT? )))

Act of War was one of those. Those times are definitely over. The internet is at fault. You can see it very well with consoles too. The PS2 had no online capability and so the games needed to work and run, the PS3 and PS4 however...

(I know about the PS2 online capabilities, but only 1% of the users used them so its irrelevant)

[gribelo]

Thank god we can always check out "demo version" from torrents to be sure that they are not trying to sell us POS product ))

[IceWord]

You can buy the dlc later on,only Netherland pack is bad in fact.

BTW,we don't need support,the devs has ruined the game twice,once with friend list removal and another with Yugo. The game has received no support for long time regardless there are still many people playing.

[Nero]

I am quite surprised that RD is so popular. There has been a lot of shenanighans at release and after.

One can only imagine how popular this game would have been if they had handled it better at release and early on.

[gribelo]

Originally posted by WitchingSnake:

I am quite surprised that RD is so popular. There has been a lot of shenanighans at release and after.

One can only imagine how popular this game would have been if they had handled it better at release and early on.

Its a cult game clearly, all from hardcore wargamers to casual RTS\RTT players are united under one roof. Very dedicated playerbase. Its time to think about sequel or successor if they want real money.

[Nero]

In the SD forums the devs are giving clear indications that they are working on some new game. So something is coming.

This very dedicated playerbase has changed a lot. Many players from EE are gone also many from ALB and early RD players.

Sure some go because of life like out of school or kids or business life but still we lost a lot of good folk.

[gribelo]

Ah, I still see a lot of old faces here and there. Some people have 7000 hours of gameplay ))

Good complex RTS will gather the crowd without doubt. But they should not dumb it down and play with DLC crap too much. I hope they learning lessons.

[Azrael20]

Definitely get the base game only. It comes with four free DLCs already - 2nd Korean War (campaign scenario), Millionth Mile (ChiCom/Nork units), Northern Dragons (Scandi unit additions), and Russian Roulette (map update). Play a hundred hours or so first, then decide if you want to pay some extra to get a few extra nation choices. The best nation to buy is Israel (most new units and flavor), with Dual Reds (Yugoslavia and Finland) being "meh" and Netherlands only adding a few new interesting units (advanced SPAAG and TBM are the two I remember).

The base game already has a massive amount of content - buying the nation DLCs at start isn't a good idea. W:RD isn't for everyone. If you don't like it, but play too much to refund it, at least you won't have forked up another $20 for the DLCs. If you do like it (which I hope you do - I think it's a fantastic game), then you can buy the DLCs once you have the time, experience, and money.

Hope to see you around!

-Xeno