Well, give credit where credit is due. 1.7.0. patch finally feels like something a professional game dev company would deliver.
Sure, I'll give them credit when they've started to listen to community suggestions and address the issues that lie in the heart of the game and not call it a day after implementing one new half-arsed cop-out feature that's best ignored. Only worthwhile changes were the optimisation and bug fixes, but in two whole years of development, a "professional game dev company" should have been able to deliver much more than that. If you think otherwise, use your ****ing brain and reconsider your expectations from a 50 pound Steam game.
Instead of repeating the same points, I'll quote this earlier comment of mine, because I'm that smart.
Pretend this is spoilered because you can't format **** on mobile: "What has changed? What has the OoB system changed in the game's essence that made it more enjoyable? The core issues of battles which negated all enjoyment or reward to be had from strategizing haven't been addressed in the slightest. The core issues mean tactics don't matter for the most part, and I made this point in another post so I won't repeat myself. And those are besides perhaps the most glaring issue with battles outside of battles, is that they happen too bleeding often [...].
Sieges are halfway playable now? Great. Can't wait to throw another army of peasants at another generic castle.
All this to say that, the "enhancements" made to the game being largely centered around battle gameplay, reinforces the notion that that's what TW thinks the game ought to revolve around. I can hardly celebrate even meaningful improvements to battles at this point, when from the start most of my complaints were that the game is too battle-heavy without any weight to those battles and little to do outside of them.
[...] the direction it seems to be going is where most of us were afraid it would go: Trivial improvements to the fast-paced action bits of the game, whilst not adding any depth to the game those battles should have been built around."
Let them continue on this course.
No.
Thou leathern-jerkin, crystal-button, knot-pated, agatering, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue, Spanish pouch!
Why thou damnable box of envy, thou, what meanest thou to curse thus?
Why art thou exasperate, thou idle immaterial skein of sleave-silk, thou green sarcenet flap for a sore eye, thou tassel of a prodigal's purse, thou? Ah, how the poor world is pestered with such waterflies, diminutives of nature!
i can't wait for the modding community to work their magic!
