I had to fix this game with files from github.
I have never played a strategy game that will waste your time like this one. You will get to the final turns of the game and another nation will research some technology that will just drop the Doomsday clock to 0 and there's nothing you can do about it. The hours you put in to getting to the sigma technology will just be erased. The computer players don't care at all about destroying the world. There is no status quo/Cold War feel at all, just a bunch of suicidal AIs trying to blow everything up and prevent they player from winning. There are some good ideas in this game but it's pooly made and unfair to the player. There is also almost no customization at all, even if you choose the "Customization" game mode. You can't change anything about the rules really, even the extremely cheap RNG game over immediately techs. If you think you're getting CIV V here, good luck. This is a bargain game. I got it free and will not be adding the DLCs because it isn't worth even $2.
I own this on Steam. Okay game, but, yes, DRM is a part of everything. And the elusives get locked away forever if you mess up or miss the time window to complete them. The original Hitman games are better. Stick to those.
Another game that doesn't understand that you have to draw players in before making things difficult. It didn't take long into my first game to realize that this isn't a Total War game. Rome Total War was a masterpiece of tactical combat; this game is not. The battles are weightless and your control over your soldiers is weak at best. Just watch a fight and you will see floaty combat and weapons not seeming to hit anything before units fall into the grass and disappear into the ground... The camera is out of place more often than not and not easy to use at all. The game has some interesting ideas, like the capture points, and the combination of hero units to your Total War style armies, but it's all poorly implemented. Very quickly you will come up against armies you cannot beat, higher level enemies with magic spells that will wipe out your unit from across the map that you didn't even see. The battles are not in any way comparable to Total War. This is ersatz. Clicking your armies on the overworld map for some reason lags before you see any information. The writing in game is often improperly punctuated. There are just all sorts of quality issues in this game. It looks great other than the eyebleeding saturation of springtime. It sounds very good as well except for the hard cuts in music tracks, and there don't seem to be many tracks at all. This game seems to have been hardly tested. It's mediocre at best.
It's all RNG. It's probably a great game to play with friends as the RNG seems to favor the AI heavily, even on easy. Since I only play with the AI, and looked forward to playing all the various single player modes, I was disappointed with what I experienced. I wanted to love this game but cannot. You can't increase or remove the turn timer, even on Blitz mode (where you get to alter the rules), so turn-based blitz feels a lot like classic... You really can't modify much of anything on blitz actually. I would love more than 40 seconds to move my team before a Turnover is forced on me, or how about one player being knocked down during a play and the whole team gets a Turnover. It's a very strange version of football. The commentating gets old really quickly, the white log text on the often white background is braindead game design, though you won't have much time to read much of anything or learn what is going on because you have just 40 seconds before you turnover the ball again. There are some great ideas in this game--bribing players, refs, using wizards--but the execution is poor, the effects of these actions often showing up as little more than a text box, also with a timer forcing you to pick up the pace of your reading. Honestly, just play the tabletop game with friends, where there are no algorithms behind the "dice rolls." I love turn based games and have been made furious by X-Com enough times, but there is a sense you can get better at that game because skilled tactical movement of your squad seems to matter far more, the randomness far less than Blood Bowl. If you are expecting a cool fantasy football game from the Warhammer universe, this isn't it. Such a shame.
Everything was running fine a few months ago when I played it. I recently upgraded my monitor to a 1440p 144hz monitor, and returned to try some resolutions to see the difference in game, and the problems started. I managed to get 1440p resolution running again on the Dead City mission, dialed down the graphical quality as I was getting sub-60fps. I dropped down to Medium settings and was at about 90fps; then the game shat itself. I can't even get the intro menu screen to load so that I can put things to Very High and just play the game at 60fps and below as I suspect this is one of those games (like Skyrim) that if you try to increase your frame beyond 60fps, the game engine falls to pieces. Anyway, 1-star vote until I get this running. And it's not just me: this game is--I have just found out--infamously buggy and crashy. I have been PC gaming since '97 and I cannot remember a game that has crashed this much. I feel like I'm back in the 90s, actually, trying to get this working--like I'm on a Windows 95 machine without the right drivers or some other problem that used to arise during the Wild West era of PC game development. This game is just as fickle, it seems.
