I have returned (part III): Observations on the new update
May 4, 2023 2:46:01 GMT
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Post by STILETT0 on May 4, 2023 2:46:01 GMT
Well, Easytech has certainly done some work!
The new update has everything I'd hoped it would have (except for omitting O'Connor and for some astonishing reason, Arnheim)
Here I will be analyzing the new update (I understand that it happened a helluva long time ago but who cares? This is more for myself than anyone else)
Challenge Conquests
This is by far the highlight of the game. The easier access to the lifelbood of this game, the medals has made these conquests much easier, but if a 1950 challenge conquest doesn't take you at the very least 3 hours to complete, you're a psychopath. The diplomacy system is peak, getting Manstein, Guderian, and Balck on your side in 1950 is always key to your conquests, and I also enjoyed bulding a North American empire and am excited to make every place on the map Polish. However, when signing on allies, they don't seem as usual as you expect. I once signed Turkey to try and get a hold of the inevitable Italian spam, and they were useless, just rolled right over. I was hoping Saudi Arabia would jump on Ethiopia but that was wishful thinking as they sat there playing with themselves for 10 rounds before doing anything of note. Other than that, I love the challenge conquest. It makes the regular conquests a bit obsolete, but we move.
Rewards System
This rewards system is incredible. It makes the game so much easier and gives you a lot more freedom on your choice of generals. Of course you are pretty much required to buy Guderian and Govorov still, but you can also take generals you just like. For example, I understand that Goering or Yamamoto are the 2 key air generals, but Goering was an astonishingly horrible human being in real life, and I just liked the look of Dowding, so I got Dowding. I cannot stress enough however how easy I find the game with the accessibility of medals. That was a major problem for me on the last run as I made a couple of mistakes with generals and I ended up paying for it, only just scraping past NATO 6 and being absolutely hopeless against aliens.
With these medals, I have these listed below after just 12 days:
That's a lot achieved in just under 2 weeks. It also makes guides much easier because you'll be expected to have a bit more than sometimes just Badoglio
New Generals
oh boy. These guys are class. The general rotations for a cut price are immense to your game, and lets you deviate much more from your usual path. Only problem? It's nowhere near realistic. Nobodies like Weygand have become the best defensive tank general in the game, while Yeryomenko who was the mastermind behind the defense of Stalingrad, isn't even as good as Badoglio. I would argue that it's better to improve already existing generals and making the new ones not as OP as they currently are. I can see Semyon Timoshenko being 5* and running the show, but Katukov? Come on. What about making Bock and Model, two of Germany's most important tacticians of that time actually worth buying?
There are also certain omissions that continue to peeve me. Generals like O'Connor, Takagi, Freyberg (OK maybe not but I want another goddam Anzac general) and Arnheim, who played incredibly important roles in history? Some smaller countries like Yugoslavia and Spain are being ignored as well. Spain's whole bloody civil war spawned many heroes and villains, people like Caballero who led the Republicans or Yague, "The butcher of Badajoz." The new generals feel very enclosed to the major powers when there are some decent ones from smaller countries. Hell, instead of giving us the universal Arab generals of Muhammad and Mahdi, why not actually throw in a genuinely Iranian general, or a genuinely Iraqi general? The only nation that truly has the scene of its power changed through new generals is Poland. Distribute a bit more evenly and add Arnheim and some Anzacs goddammit.
Another thing is their incorporation into the game. Oh how I wouldn't love a Sikorski or a Wladyslaw Anders starting in Poland on even just simple units. Japan gets Mikawa, so why are they still almost completely barren of naval generals in 1943 (and Yamamoto's there even though he kicked the can in 1943). I just want to play with the OP Polish generals without wasting precious medals.
Anyway, that's all I have to say. Overall, I love this update and it's rekindled my interest in what was becoming an otherwise monotonous game.
The new update has everything I'd hoped it would have (except for omitting O'Connor and for some astonishing reason, Arnheim)
Here I will be analyzing the new update (I understand that it happened a helluva long time ago but who cares? This is more for myself than anyone else)
Challenge Conquests
This is by far the highlight of the game. The easier access to the lifelbood of this game, the medals has made these conquests much easier, but if a 1950 challenge conquest doesn't take you at the very least 3 hours to complete, you're a psychopath. The diplomacy system is peak, getting Manstein, Guderian, and Balck on your side in 1950 is always key to your conquests, and I also enjoyed bulding a North American empire and am excited to make every place on the map Polish. However, when signing on allies, they don't seem as usual as you expect. I once signed Turkey to try and get a hold of the inevitable Italian spam, and they were useless, just rolled right over. I was hoping Saudi Arabia would jump on Ethiopia but that was wishful thinking as they sat there playing with themselves for 10 rounds before doing anything of note. Other than that, I love the challenge conquest. It makes the regular conquests a bit obsolete, but we move.
Rewards System
This rewards system is incredible. It makes the game so much easier and gives you a lot more freedom on your choice of generals. Of course you are pretty much required to buy Guderian and Govorov still, but you can also take generals you just like. For example, I understand that Goering or Yamamoto are the 2 key air generals, but Goering was an astonishingly horrible human being in real life, and I just liked the look of Dowding, so I got Dowding. I cannot stress enough however how easy I find the game with the accessibility of medals. That was a major problem for me on the last run as I made a couple of mistakes with generals and I ended up paying for it, only just scraping past NATO 6 and being absolutely hopeless against aliens.
With these medals, I have these listed below after just 12 days:
That's a lot achieved in just under 2 weeks. It also makes guides much easier because you'll be expected to have a bit more than sometimes just Badoglio
New Generals
oh boy. These guys are class. The general rotations for a cut price are immense to your game, and lets you deviate much more from your usual path. Only problem? It's nowhere near realistic. Nobodies like Weygand have become the best defensive tank general in the game, while Yeryomenko who was the mastermind behind the defense of Stalingrad, isn't even as good as Badoglio. I would argue that it's better to improve already existing generals and making the new ones not as OP as they currently are. I can see Semyon Timoshenko being 5* and running the show, but Katukov? Come on. What about making Bock and Model, two of Germany's most important tacticians of that time actually worth buying?
There are also certain omissions that continue to peeve me. Generals like O'Connor, Takagi, Freyberg (OK maybe not but I want another goddam Anzac general) and Arnheim, who played incredibly important roles in history? Some smaller countries like Yugoslavia and Spain are being ignored as well. Spain's whole bloody civil war spawned many heroes and villains, people like Caballero who led the Republicans or Yague, "The butcher of Badajoz." The new generals feel very enclosed to the major powers when there are some decent ones from smaller countries. Hell, instead of giving us the universal Arab generals of Muhammad and Mahdi, why not actually throw in a genuinely Iranian general, or a genuinely Iraqi general? The only nation that truly has the scene of its power changed through new generals is Poland. Distribute a bit more evenly and add Arnheim and some Anzacs goddammit.
Another thing is their incorporation into the game. Oh how I wouldn't love a Sikorski or a Wladyslaw Anders starting in Poland on even just simple units. Japan gets Mikawa, so why are they still almost completely barren of naval generals in 1943 (and Yamamoto's there even though he kicked the can in 1943). I just want to play with the OP Polish generals without wasting precious medals.
Anyway, that's all I have to say. Overall, I love this update and it's rekindled my interest in what was becoming an otherwise monotonous game.
