Average waiting time for drop-in battles..?

[John]

Are drop-in battles still alive? How much do you wait until you can fight a drop-in battle? And most importantly, why the hell is not there a number showing the available players so that we can decide to wait or not?!

I only own the vanilla game, do I have improved chance to fight my battles in drop-in mode if I played FoTS?

[Messsucher]

Maybe 1000+ hours.

[Elitewrecker PT]

At this point? If not never, too long to be worth it (longer than the battle)

[John]

Oh my god, I bought this game only for this purpose! Would you suggest anything?? This is hilarious :D

[easytarget]

What's even more hilarious is the idea you bought this because of drop in battles.

Even at launch all that ever happened with this feature was one of two things:

1. A lot of noobs failed to turn it off and got wrecked and cancelled out of the battle so they could google how to turn it off.
2. Anyone who knew what they were doing turned it on only when they had insurmountably better odds and just wanted to own someone for the lulz by allowing them to drop into a 2 on 20 battle.

Save yourself some trouble john, enjoy the game as an SP experience (or I guess move on with your life).

[John]

Well, then I can sadly see why the newer TW games did not introduce drop-in battles then. It seems like people just want to win with a -maybe- fake "feeling" of challenge...

[markeason]

Hi John

The campaign game is essentially a p vs e game. The option for drop in battles was likely dropped from subsequent titles due to the reasons Easy Target gave. It was abused. Inexperienced players had their campaigns, and enjoyment wrecked by players that knew the exploits to use to ensure their victory, and the experienced players invited players in to participate in unwinnable battles which would discourage their further participation.

If you are looking for a challenge in the battles, you are better off not playing the campaign. The AI is generally atrocious at recruiting a useful army. If you want a real p vs p battle experience, you would be better using custom battles in which your opponent is able to employ the army of his choice.

You could always incorporate this into a head to head campaign, but that is limited by player availability and the fact that the rest of Japan is still AI controlled and recruiting armies of questionable composition.

It all depends what you are looking for in your game experience.

[easytarget]

Originally posted by John:

Well, then I can sadly see why the newer TW games did not introduce drop-in battles then. It seems like people just want to win with a -maybe- fake "feeling" of challenge...

Don't sell yourself short of a great gaming experience. Play Shogun 2 / Fall of the Samura / Rise of the Samurai as a single player experience.

[Tiberius]

Originally posted by John:

Oh my god, I bought this game only for this purpose! Would you suggest anything?? This is hilarious :D

You could have looked up steamcharts to figure how many people actually play this game actively.

Also, this game is mainly about campaign not drop in battles.