k0nr@d said:
Betatesters have just proven that it is possible to beat the game without cheats or artificial help, which was the main concern of 3.9.
Thats silly. Why would it be impossible to beat the game lol. PoP have always been extremly easy. Yes it´s hard when you don´t know the mod, like any mod is. After that it´s a joke. Battlesize 500+ and full hardest settings, always been easy. Even with challenges and limits and all sort of crap. You cannot lose in warband.
Use that brainy bots mod too, it´s still easy. Archery and everything is easy. No archery, get your own archers, everything is easy, get cko, it´s easy, get trading its easy.
No idea why beta testers was needed to prove it´s needed. I cannot see how POP could be made so it´s impossible to beat. It´d be nice if there was an extreme challenge mod.
What I´ve done is throw all items + all clothes away, and limited myself to only peasant units, usually sarleon in old versions - crappy units, no ko´s no nothing, no special stuff -and its still just a matter of time.
The only way to make it impossible would be to put a timer on it, and then stop the player from doing cheesing tactics -- which can be seen as cheating if you are cheesing, but thats not needed either.
This is good news though as alot of people has talked about POP 3.9 being way harder, though I highly doubt that, people always exaagerate, and they love throwing the words impossible around. Don´t believe me? Just checked how many times I just used it
I dont know who had a concern for 3.9 being impossible - but whoever that is, they most likely never accomplished anything in life that was hard to do. Sounds like a quitter loser mentality. If you´re a winner you dont care if the opponents are division 1 and you´redivision 6, or if its "unfair", you just find a way to win. And we humans excel in that. We adapt, learn and we become versatile.
POP is the game thats so hard in the beginning, but after that turns into being very easy because of how you can manipulate everything to your advantage. I hope 3.9 will provide some new oppertuntiies to make it harder, as people say, but i really doubt it, and to hear some people had concerns of it not being possible to beat. That´s just odd, none of the changes i´ve seen makes it impossible. You can´t lose in the game. Just a matter of time before you win.