Recent reviews by Oderisson

Dlc lacks balance in my opinion.

We have recieved Khorne, Greenskins, Ogres.

Ogres and Khorne are game 3 factions, Greenskins recieved a lot of love in game 3 already.

Meanwhile VCounts and other undead werent touched for YEARS.

Sorry but for me the most important part is subject it touches. And VCounts are so long overdue, they are practically dead now.

Nothing revolutionary.

Everything works mostly fine, just some problems.
Ragdoll physics on corpses is terrible, performance much improved from the demo, a bit of lack of buffing different factions of Your dungeon, bad animations.

All in all a Dungeons game. Nothing spectacular, but will be enjoyable for 30-ish hours.

The game makes a very positive first impression. Interesting setting, Very nice caste building, wide open world with many biomes and mechanics. Unfortunately after a while many flaws become apparent.
I will try to list them:
-Progress hardlocked to boss fights. You will be locked from obtaining better equipment untill You defeat boss with equipment You are SUPPOSED to have to make fight a challenge. For example You cannot mine iron untill You defeat a level 37 boss with equipment hardlocked at level 41.
-Boss fights are tiresome. Dont get me wrong, they are interesting but they are too grindy. Caping level to a boss You make sure he is a challenge, but You dont create a feeling of power so tied to vampire stereotype. Dodging, countering etc for five minutes till boss healthabr depleates. Its a slog.
-Castle relocation. Pure pain. You get all pieces from old caste and need to place them without option of auto disasembly. It took me 3 hours to move my castle...
-Cumbesome control. Played on keyboard and mouse. Maybe Pad is better, but didnt bother to check.

Game is simply not fun, and its clear its by design.

Good game, basically old AoM on AoE4 engine.

Had some doubts, because the game is a sequel to a... i dont know, 15 years old game? Too lazy to check.

This is not a revolution. It is even hard to call this game evolution. Basically SotSE:Rebellion with some polish.
Basegame is identical. Some things were added, some removed, System rotation is interesting,

Does the game have flaws? Yes. Mostly the same as original. So you know what You are into. The game is a safe choice for people who know orginal, and decent choice for peole who find games like stellaris too complicated. If somebody has doubts, pick Rebellion, and test it out for cheap. Its basically the same but improved to modern systems.

Recent DLCs made me revise my review.

The DLCs themselves are fine, but as someone who bought this game after playing Gothic Armada I updated my displeasure with ship choice from annoying to gamebreaking.

Developers decided to give Your character firestorm frigate as main ship. This sounds good, BUT: Firestorm is 1km long. It is simply too small to host all shown in game, and one DLC adds trains inside ship. Trains inside 1km long ship...

Plus a lot of decks, that basically are impossible to fit...

I tried to play this game but simply cant...

I will wait with Dark Heresy purhase untill I see what inquisitor will be flying.

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The DLC contains a lot of recycled material, but is ok contentwise.

What isnt ok is the amount of bugs initial realease introduced to the game.

I actually liked the game and wish there was more DLC for it.

Since obvious contender is dungeons series I ll just skip to what is the difference:

-this game is much more base-centric. A full campaign on one base can take tens of hours if you are going for completionist. That means you get accustomed to Your base, and form a bond with it.
-Game is much more chaotic. 300 population of a base is no joke. You feel like You are not in control sometimes. That can be a turn off for some people.
-Heat system is tedious but with good base planning it can be ignored.

As someone who enjoyed Bomber Crew on PS5 I was very optimistic to this. Unfortunately game fails in almost all aspects.

-ONE ship type? Really? Bomber Crew had Lancaster and B-17. Here where literally sky is the limit You have ONE?
-Game has become tedious. You are slaughtering aliens by the dozen, but jump points greately limit your movement. In Bomber Crew one could climb to high altitude to lose most pests. Here there is no way.
-Boarding mechanics seem bareboned and an afterthought. Also game forces You to take 3 crew members on an action when for very long time You will be able to take only 2 guns...
-Game somehow feels less polished than predecessor. I swear that spaceship and bomber make the same sound when in high speed mode...