Recent reviews by Papa Joe

Stunningly beautiful map, absolutely amazing and fleshed out economics, great teaching mechanism, awesome UI, and the absolute worst combat system of any Paradox title I have ever owned. This is a grand strategy game without any grand strategy. Absolute Junk representation for the in game military across the board. No serious Army, Navy or early air force to speak of and a daily peak player base according to steam that went from 69,000+ in October of 2022, to 8,600+ in Feb of 2023. Even an EU4 style of Military would have been better then this crap. As far as I am concerned, this is another IR from Paradox that's dead on arrival and begging for someone with a brain over at Paradox to AED it's chest with paddles or watch it die slowly. Word of advice for Paradox. You were once known for your Grognard level of Serious Strategic War Gaming titles like Matrix games, now you are turning into something else and forgetting your base line fans that built you and coming out with crap this that falls short like Victoria 3. Someone needs to be fired.

I think CoH3 is a real gem and the potential after the mod community gets their paws
into it is huge. People posting negative remarks are trying to compare day 1 vanilla
launch against years and years of CoH2 DLC's and Modding.....They need to shake
their head. No game anywhere can meet that expectation. The game needs to be fleshed out over time and it will be, but I am having a ton of fun now and can't wait for added content. CoH3 will be a fine title moving forward, and I am excited to see where it takes us.

Pro's: Graphics, play style, and an updated unit management system. Solid community and Dev interaction.

Con's: Needs a more inclusive modding tool set for the community.

Requests: Multiplayer Campaign, minimum 4 players.

Thank you,

Needs a slower speed for Multiplayer games for us old guys. At 55+, it's just hard to keep up with those young guys now.

OVEERVIEW
The game is CRAZY fun but it needs a few items adjusted to be truly great.

THE BAD
- Post level 50 Green PvP Rank, the Match Maker Software struggles to keep matches fair.
- There is an obvious progression spread post 50 Green PvP Level between those who have dropped real money, and those who have not.
- Fire Bombs (Nades) are totally over powered and need to be nerfed a little.
- Unique Hand Cannon units (little artillery quested unit) are way over powered.
- Units need more balancing.
- East and West units need to be more separated into their own unit trees.
- Need more units to choose from.
- You can go broke very fast buying over priced bling items.
- Anything you buy is not account specific (It should be), but toon specific.

THE GOOD
- It's totally free to play.
- Game play is like Mount & Blade: Warband and Medieval Total War 2 had a baby, there are aspects of both games present.
- Graphics for units and maps are both high quality.
- Hero combat choices, skill managements, and skins are all excellent.
- World gaming (outside of MM battles) is excellent.
- Battle against the AI are excellent.
- Crafting is good (but needs greater depth).
- World fiefdoms and alliances are a lot of fun.
- Quests are fun.

FINAL
Unless something changes (AND THAT IS VERY POSSIBLE SOMETHING COULD) as I continue to level up, I will not be renewing my subscription after it runs out in July, 2021.
As I said, that could very much change and I could actually renew.

Another issue I had was learning that going lone wolf is a very bad idea in this game. I have fixed this by joining a game clan in game called the Knights Templar.
A great bunch of guys, and with playing the game with a couple of The Vault Discord members. There are a lot of variables right now.........Seeing where the game
takes me. Battle on.!

If this game allowed playing with friends I might have given it a more positive review. As it stands now the Dev's for this game have zero intent to implement any sort of multiplayer feature whatsoever. Unfortunate, it would have been a lot of fun to play some sort of multiplayer. Even I-Go, You-go would have been handy.

A true successor to the Panzer Corp Franchise. Very easily worth the money. Having a lot of fun and cannot wait for the additional content players are going to create and what future DLC's will bring. For me and my friend, the Multiplayer experience was rock solid. We played against each other and in co-op mode for six hours last night and the game ran as smooth as glass. Well done.!

Needs to have different win options than just blowing up one single building.................and a repair unit.

Great game