Slaughter Tribe DLC worth the money?

[Leonhast]

I'm enjoying the game (spent a lot of time in it) despite some bugs and I can very well resist spending real money on Lootboxes. I only bought the basic edition of the game.
Based on this, is the Slaughter Tribe DLC worth the money asked?

[Emphasized]

was wondering that myself! i did see the dlc for the slaughter tribe is about 6G, while the endless siege etc one is 4.something, so i suppose it does add a decent amount of stuff

[Reverend Belial]

Yeah I'm curious too. $15 is insane, and I've defended some rather controversial DLC's in my time. I really want to know if it's justifiable or not.

[The Average Ivy Enjoyer]

The Slaughter Tribe DLC itself adds these new things:

- A whole new Tribe, followed with the Tribe Bonuses and a new Tribe Fortress and weapons/armor used by Captains

- A new Legendary Tribe Gear Set - The Blood Set - Bloodthirsty bonuses in favor of losing HP over time, but great strength on killing a mere enemy, or giving you more power in exchange for their Health.

- The "Rhovanian" Gear Set, a new set of Gear that you can get Epic/Rare/Normal tiers of, with a whole new look and theme design.

- New "Warband" Missions - These Warband missions return from Shadow of Mordor, special missions (Like the Outpost Missions) that allow you to essentially get more interactions with the Slaughter Tribe.

This is so far the things i've seen in the Slaughter Tribe Expansion.

[Kai Heilos]

It's basically a skin pack. New orc, fortress and armor skins with a couple of insignificant kill quests tacked on

[Panic]

Yep, saw on you tube your paying for re skins.

[The Average Ivy Enjoyer]

Well, you're not exactly paying for "reskins", that's just a stupid and "unacknowledged" word to use.

The game RELIES on the "variety" and "RNG" aspect for it's Nemesis System, so you're not actually paying for Reskins, you're paying for more Content of the Nemesis System. More variables and more decimals the System can input that has been developed.

In short, it gives the Nemesis System a wider opportunity to give YOU, the customer, the player of the Nemesis System, the greater selection of personal stories and adventures you have with YOUR Mordor.

[Kai Heilos]

That's a long way of saying 'It's a bunch of reskins'

[Leonhast]

Thanks for the different views. Not sure yet, but waiting a day or two won't hurt ;)

[The Average Ivy Enjoyer]

Well, it's reskins for a player who doesn't play HOW the game is meant to be inspired and built around:

To create and inspire new personal, randomised and independant stories with the characters generated in the game world.


That's what the Nemesis System is - A world with it's characers all dependant of their own coordination and adapt with history based on your interactions.

So how do you expand this feature? Add MORE variables, it's like maths, you add more numbers and digits, you get wider results and aspects to take in.


So to YOU it may look like a "Reskin" - But that's probably because you don't try to immerse yourself in the Nemesis Story's capabilities.

But for people who DO play the game "Correctly" by how it's intending via actually being interested in the Nemesis System - then it's a Content Expansion.

[Nikke]

Originally posted by Ratak Warmonger:

Well, it's reskins for a player who doesn't understand WHAT the game is:

To create and inspire new personal, randomised and independant stories with the characters generated in the game world.


That's what the Nemesis System is - A world with it's characers all dependant of their own coordination and adapt with history based on your interactions.

So how do you expand this feature? Add MORE variables, it's like maths, you add more numbers and digits, you get wider results and aspects to take in.


So to YOU it may look like a "Reskin" - But that's probably because you don't try to immerse yourself in the Nemesis Story's capabilities.

But for people who DO play the game "Correctly" by how it's intending via actually being interested in the Nemesis System - then it's a Content Expansion.

I don't know why you're defending 15 dollar worth of reskins

[The Average Ivy Enjoyer]

Originally posted by Nikke:

I don't know why you're defending 15 dollar worth of reskins

And immediately you assume i'm defending something? That's some sadly limited quick-guessing...

I'm explaining the point of why the Tribe Expansions exist and the Nemesis System itself - If you're not going to immerse yourself in the System then the game isn't "intended" for you, to note on that.


Firstly, Shadow of War is quite unique in how it's game is designed - it relies HEAVILY on RNG, Randomisation and a large coffer of content to give in tidbits and mixed up batches, every dialogue, every Orc face, armor, weapon, hair and even eyes are apart of this Collection of Content.

Eventually it WILL get repetative - How do you remedy to keep a game that relies on constant, newly appearing content/randomised, suprising features to keep it's value? Add more variables and numbers of course!


Now, Shadow of War, if you don't really like the stories that the Nemesis System can create-- if you don't "attach" to the Captains it can create, then you're not really apart of the target audience the developers have.

You're moreso the side, "unimportant, hack n' slash" target market, even if you are "apart" of their target audience you're not really their true priority if you're in that group.

[JonnyKnows]

new faces, new opponents, new personalities. They've got some nice style to them. I like em'.

It's a great edition, but if you're looking for a renewed experience or something refreshing for the game this isn't for you.

Personally I'm just happy to see less of the same orc over and over. Some new personalities for my end game is good.

[john]

I agree so far having done some of the new warband missions its pretty cool. You have a nice additional variety of orcs with attributes and I had to fight several captains from the new tribe at once as part of the mission. Personally I got it as part of the full dlc pack so I feel its well worth it. Plus with the free adds to the base game there is a ton of content... Could the DLC have been cheaper sure of course, but at the price I paid in the bundle its worth it to me...

[Shakaka]

I mainly want more phrases for them to say. After 200 hours, I stoped hearing new things and could mimic the orcs intros.

[suejak]

This would be an instabuy at $5, but $15 is offensively high for the small amount added. This company is insanely greedy.