Worth buying this game for PvE?

[Holon]

I think about grabbing this game during the sale. But the first review I found on Youtube said, that the AI is really stupid. It also stated, that the controls are really clunky.

So, can you guys recommend this game when I expect to play against bots, more than in multiplayer?

[WitajWPiekle]

Get it so we can play together vs bots

[Hegestratos]

Wouldn't agree on the controls. Maybe it lacks some really minor features (the formations list that we used to have back in cossacks 1 comes to mind, or something similar).

About the AI.... well, if you're a veteran, yeah, I think AI may seem stupid. Also, currently AI doesn't really work too well on water maps. Other than that, it seems fine to me. I've been playing cossacks since the original came out, and I still enjoy this one against a couple of "Impossible" AIs.

I'd recommend it, especially for the low price tag.

[Holon]

Originally posted by Hegestratos:

Wouldn't agree on the controls. Maybe it lacks some really minor features (the formations list that we used to have back in cossacks 1 comes to mind, or something similar).

About the AI.... well, if you're a veteran, yeah, I think AI may seem stupid. Also, currently AI doesn't really work too well on water maps. Other than that, it seems fine to me. I've been playing cossacks since the original came out, and I still enjoy this one against a couple of "Impossible" AIs.

I'd recommend it, especially for the low price tag.

Thanks, that will help my decision

[Holon]

I bought it. And I suck at this game lol. But I love it too!
It's a nice challenge to get into this kind of gameplay. Never played something like this.

[Hegestratos]

Originally posted by Holon:

I bought it. And I suck at this game lol. But I love it too!
It's a nice challenge to get into this kind of gameplay. Never played something like this.

Good thing you liked it! In fact, I was surprised I've enjoyed it so much as I have until this point, considering it's basically a remaster.

[Leon]

The campaign is hard but worth the effort!

[RakWar]

i had not even finished the first campaign and i felt i got my money worth. Played 4 challenging missions in the first campaighn and i had a blast. Just don;t watch a utube video on how to to beat the mission. Try it at lest 3 times then if you can;t ..look for help. I think i still have 4 more campaign to go..i was so impressed i bought all the DLC to but it was also on sale

[Holon]

Originally posted by RakWar:

i had not even finished the first campaign and i felt i got my money worth. Played 4 challenging missions in the first campaighn and i had a blast. Just don;t watch a utube video on how to to beat the mission. Try it at lest 3 times then if you can;t ..look for help. I think i still have 4 more campaign to go..i was so impressed i bought all the DLC to but it was also on sale

That sounds great. I already played it a lot, but no campaign yet. I will try them soon.

[Salvation]

I don't really enjoy playing against the AI, but I always found it hard to find other players. So feel free to add me if you'd like to play some multiplayer games.

The AI is very good at the economical aspect of the game. It can be a challange because it may manage to generate more units than you most of the time. But it really lacks many things when it comes to controlling the troops. It often wastes them to your canons instead of retreating, when being attacked in its base it lets its units hang around everywhere instead of concentrating their fire, and it simply doesn't know how to leave an island, so all you need to do to win on a sea map is to besiege the AI's island with lots of ships until most units (which are standing around well-ordered everywhere and won't change their positions when being under fire most of the time) are dead and let your troops do the rest.

By the way: The most important thing you should know as a new player is that you should try to capture at least one enemy citizen of each opponent as early as possible and use him to build a town hall of its kind in your base. (You only need to place it there, your own builders can build it up.) If you control at least one foreign citizen, you can use him to build cheap additional buildings for unit-generation, because the price of those buildings will be as low as if you had no own ones!
The AI will try its best to do this to you, and if it succeeds, it will soon generate the double amount of units. So take care of your citizens!