MitchyMatt said:
Sonterp said:
Gorvex said:
RIP, forget about defending that castle. Instead, take out all the elite or important units from there, conquer another town/castle or two while they are busy sieging it, and retake Whitestag castle once they are done. Continue this, and you'll win the war, despite their numbers. The key point is to take more fiefs than you lose in the long run. Ignore and simply move onto somewhere else when the situation is hopeless like above.
You also have a chance that you'll make that army break their siege and rush to you if you start attacking another fief of theirs. And if you manage to pull it off before they get there, then you are golden
Nah. I've decided enough is enough. Used to love this mod, but going along with the terrible design decisions as of late *cough cough* MitchyMatt *cough cough*, the fact that the devs respond to criticism with insults, the fact that not a single person in the existence of reality could fight this, and the devs INSISTENCE that this game is balanced, when it is
clearly not is beyond infuriating.
I shouldn't have to spend a playthrough filling out bug reports (which said devs never answer btw), tweaking the game to allow me to stand a chance, or outright being completely forced to cheat because of bs like this (actually the 2nd time this has happened, ironically). I never remembered the game being such a mess, as I had conquered Pendor twice before, but this is impossible, antifun, and quite honestly the exact opposite of everything I remembered that made this mod great.
The mod is balanced. You just got stuck with an overly large spawn, call that RNG.
Also we are a development team, not just my ideas go into the mod and besides, huge spawns are not new or native to v3.9x.
Sorry you are incapable of handling the large army. But I'm sure it is manageable at some point if you keep attacking it over time.
After all v3.9 is pretty balanced, but what you are complaining about is not from our version, but years of development versions.
If the mod makes you unhappy or annoyed, go download older versions which are available in some capacities. If you don't like it don't play it. We owe you no obligation to play a free product of thousands of hours of work over 10 years.
Thanks though!
This is exactly what I mean by being unable to take criticism. Would you like me to upload my save file so you can have a go at it?
I would say you are being condescending, but I can tell from your reddit posts you get that a lot. Responding to all criticism with, "Don't like it, don't play it," is infantile. If I don't like it, I tell you why I don't like it, so that you could improve it. I can't be the only one this has happened to, and I assure you I wont be the last, as long as that attitude persists. I come from a school of thought that teaches, "If there is a problem, you fix it." That school of thought also doesn't call bugs features, and can take criticism, harsh or not, with thick skin. There is clearly a problem in where the ai is running around with 7k stacks of doom as a mercenary unit, not even a unique spawn. Nobody can defend against that. Nobody. If you'd like to try it, be my guest, I'd upload the save in a second. Things need to be tweaked, bugs need to be addressed. The whole sticking your head in the sand and telling people to play something else act is getting old. Pendor, in my opinion, was a great mod, and to many people still is, but I'm not the only one criticizing the problems, and they should be addressed, that is if you care about making the mod a good experience for others.