...after more than a year additonal cooking time. Thought to my self: "Patch 1.5? Surely they fixed most of the issues, it's time to buy it now." Impression after playing for a few hours: -Headless abominations with their limbs floating around, derping through the city and in cutscenes. Granted, it cracks me up because of how funny it looks but it really breaks the immersion. -Tutorial breaks when actions suddenly stop working. (fixed it by spamming keys like a madman) -Worst of all: Got stuck in 'Game can't be saved right now.' bug. The game even stopped autosaving at this point. I'm simply not willing to lose hours of my life because of that. From what i saw it easily gets 5 stars, as soon as i'm able to play to the end without fearing every second that my progress figuratively explodes under my feet.
What really makes this game shine as a turn-based strategy game are 2 things: -The design decisions of the army management: Units have several upgrade-paths(all with detailed encyclopedy entries), many stats, inventory and perks. There are even heroes and hidden units, which you get to keep (if discovered). Although there are only 3(or 4, depends on how you look at it) main-races in the game, there is plenty variety. -Atmosphere of the setting: The story revolves just around a small conflict, but the voice-acting, cut-scenes, soundtrack, ingame-discoveries, twists give an excellent feeling of campaigning as an Eldar-Warlord. Graphics might be dated, but are fittingly detailed and truthful to the franchise. Balancing and AI is also very well done, even on medium difficulty it's very challenging. If you're not a die-hard Warhammer fanboy like me, feel free to deduct one star, but if u like turn-based tactics its worth every cent. (even if not on sale)
