Yet another DRM GG, so much for FCKDRM ...
They have the audacity to ask money for this DLC when the game came completely broken on release and with a lot of missing features that previous games in the franchise had. Talk about being out of touch with the community ...
I bought this game in retail version for the Special Edition and on gog ... cause that's how excited i was for this ... until i played it. Graphics in the trailer looked good but are horible in the release ... keep in mind i have everything set on Ultra, it looks like a 2003 game ... doesn't feel like a 2021 game. But ok graphics aside i have no big issue with that tough was expecting better, let's talk about gameplay and game design. Maps are way to little, literally the biggest map is like playing on a 2 player map from back in the original Stronghold. You can't chose what type of game you want to play like in the older game, like Economic or War type ... interface is all over not that intuitive like in the older games, it looks like it was made by a 2nd grader for a class project, the interface graphics itself is bad with elements that don't make any sense. The " CGI " videos look like it was made in 3dsmax again from back in 2003.I know there is the pandemics crysis but with the amount of free tools we have now a days like Blender and such i'm pretty sure in one month all those " CGI " stuff could have been done alot better, many would say they liked to preserve that original feel ... well maybe they should have made a 2d isometric version of this instead of this 3d sandbox demo.I really want to support this and i really would like more games from this genre, guys you can do better and i believe in you but you must admit this isn't the game stronghold should have been. Look at the Multiplayer lobby ... the game just launched and it's literaly empty ... crickets. I remember when other Stronghold games launched and it was packed ... if at launch it's so empty i don't and will not presume late into the game's launch it will get better unless you do a major patch that changes this. I really don;t know if u where presured to release this as fast as you could for financial reasons but you are shooting your own foot with this ... please make it better.
Overhyped this to make sales, then moked the fans by giving an alpha stage game with lots of features advertised lacking ... plus bad optimization. Even after the so called patches after 2 years since the release this was a slap in the face to fans. Please do no support this developer, he needs to learn his lesson.
Wow a whole new level on how to milk some money from people, not that it costs much but ... this "content" could have been included in the game since the start, now we need to pay to get real "mature" content ... this is ridiculous, shame that a kick started game does this.
