So, is Focus Home Interactive just a terrible publisher?

[Thagomizer]

Seems like they have cornered the market on 80% of the GW stuff these days, but every one of their games stinks like rotting hot garbage when it first releases.

They ALL feel like a developer had a great idea, then their publisher (in this case, Focus) just kicked the game out the door 6 months before it was ready. This has become a very distinct trend with these guys.

Sure, they support their games after release, but they do so with laughable amounts of paid DLC. And the post-launch support almost universally is the patch half of the "launch then patch" approach that is so terrible with modern gaming.

[FrontlinerDelta]

No, Focus is fine. Act of Aggression was quite fun and so was Battlefleet Gothic.

[jaxjace]

Originally posted by FrontlinerDelta:

No, Focus is fine. Act of Aggression was quite fun and so was Battlefleet Gothic.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, Act of Aggression was a major disapointment to a lot of people, its playstyle was one dimensional and strategy was not much of a factor it was supposed to be as good as C&C Generals, it was not even close.

BFG was hyped to be the ♥♥♥♥ and while i admit the game is pretty, it feels right with the weapons and the mechanics, but it fell short in the balance department, as well as a limited engine (their words) that cannnot run large ship battles well, which WERE ADVERITISED, i believe the limit in points for ships was around 700 which is ridiculous as a battleship is around 300+ points and a cruiser is around 150+ escorts are between 20-50 but still we are talking about a handful of ships, its just, dissapointing and honestly offputting.

[vindicator]

Battlefleet Gothic Armada was rushed with terrible multiplayer connection bugs - killing mp population at launch. This game got bad mp implementation too. Multiple disconnects - ghost servers and you cant know ping values before joining.

[Dagordae]

BFG was so badly balanced the multiplayer basically died in a matter of weeks and every time they tried to balance it the just horribly unbalanced some other faction, the campain was just normal maps played dozens of times

[ssumbra]

hey i enjoyed BFG even if i didnt get my big ship battles i had fun playing it, sp and mp, i played for 2 months of multiplayer as first imperial navy then sm(dark angels in particular since there my facorite chapter), sure i had to deal whit eldar pulsar spam, sure i had to deal whit the tau being a little bit to op(lets face it there are tau fanboys evrywhere theses days,UA, even vannilla DOW soulstorm had the tau op af) but is still enjoyed my time and i am for now enjoying this, sure im geting a crash once in a while, i get sometimes frame drops but hey im having fun, thats all that matters.

[CMMacdonald]

Bad deadlines are hurting the gameing world.

[76561198034396398]

Battlefleet Gothic was like having an Enema after reading the reviews and watching the live stream i won't touch this POS....♥♥♥♥ is ♥♥♥♥ no matter how it smells

[Black Sheep Wall]

Styx is amazing.
Better than most the AAA titles it emulates.

[jaxjace]

Originally posted by ssumbra:

hey i enjoyed BFG even if i didnt get my big ship battles i had fun playing it, sp and mp, i played for 2 months of multiplayer as first imperial navy then sm(dark angels in particular since there my facorite chapter), sure i had to deal whit eldar pulsar spam, sure i had to deal whit the tau being a little bit to op(lets face it there are tau fanboys evrywhere theses days,UA, even vannilla DOW soulstorm had the tau op af) but is still enjoyed my time and i am for now enjoying this, sure im geting a crash once in a while, i get sometimes frame drops but hey im having fun, thats all that matters.

Litterally if they just increased the limits to like 7000 id instantly give it a good review, I remember watching the venerable neckbeards playing it at my local gaming stores, they had fleets that filled the table. Battleships and cruisers out the wazoo with a sea of escorts. I want that.