Unit Cards

[CrazyC]

So I'm looking at the screenshots and it looks like they have decided to once again go the stupid route of using artsy but difficult to differentiate unit cards. Did we learn nothing from Rome 2? Everyone was pretty much in agreement that it was awful there and its still awful here. The release is still 2 months out. This a a poor design decision you still have time to fix CA.

[Coldhands]

Honestly, when all of your units are some variation of Man-With-Weapon, the traditional pictures of the units really never made them stand out from each other either. If I'm going to have to get used to which picture means which unit anyway, I'd rather they go with the more artistic looking cards instead.
I thought Attila and the Age of Charlemagne DLC found a fairly happy medium between artistic and informative, despite so many of the units in that period looking basically the same.

[CrazyC]

Yeah I see what you are saying but have you looked at the screen shots? The one shown has literally 2 different infantry units with the exact same unit card art except one guy has a moustache and one has a beard. It's just begging for misclicks.

[Coldhands]

There's a little more difference than that, but yeah, they probably could have done more to differentiate these units. I like the art style, but I don't really want to have to check the popup every time to make sure I'm selecting the right units.

I just hope there's enough unit variety in ToB in the first place though. It's hard to come back from Warhammer to having a couple variations of spear/sword infantry, a few archers and a few cavalry make up nearly your entire roster.

[stevebullpasture]

You want evidence of outstanding unit cards, go look at Medieval Kingdoms at the Total War Center. Each card is distinguishable and one can clearly tell the difference between unit types and the culture. CA's unit cards are lazy and unimaginative, they are copies with subtle differences like beards and are profile pictures.Look at the new General portraits? How is this an upgrade over Attila? The entire CA team took a nose dive with the inception of new staff around the time of Rome 2. It took them a year to make sieges in that game even work, they had to cut out siege equipment like those giant rams from the game itself. That's poor planning. Frankly they are terrible, they consistently break something with each new patch in these games making waiting for updates and modding a headache. The fact that your own arrow towers set fire to your town whilst defending and you lose 10 melee defense because of it is an example of horrendous design. They don't fix things like this, they just go on to the next DLC spam; which modders make new units for in a week that look better, have actual balance, and cost nothing. Yes all those stupid animations of animals on the battlefied in Attila yet the siege design itself is botched.

[Coldhands]

^You really hijacked this topic to talk about how much you don't like CA, didn't you. : p

[stevebullpasture]

Originally posted by Coldhands:

^You really hijacked this topic to talk about how much you don't like CA, didn't you. : p

Facts are facts.

[Notoko]

I'm unsure of the unit card style, they can always be modding but, I understand this style is also going to used for characters in game cut scenes?

[Coldhands]

^They're bringing back in game cutscenes?

[Zebedee]

Yes, to both questions.

The cutscenes seen so far play for events/realm choices, and they're of the same blended art style.

[CrazyC]

Hmmmm well thats some neat overlap anyway. I am glad to hear about the return of cut scenes. Worth.

[MK]

pretty sure a mod will come and replace the artsy cards against some mature ones.

[Pheen]

Originally posted by stevebullpasture:

Originally posted by Coldhands:

^You really hijacked this topic to talk about how much you don't like CA, didn't you. : p

Facts are facts.

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