Completely off topic, but just what does a "Steiner scout lance" look like?
Ah, ok, it's meant as a joke. I thought it might be a real thing with Steiner using 80 ton Victors and jump capable Battlemasters or something for a highly mobile assault 'scout' lance.
Yeah pretty much, the unmodded game might apeal to some sandbox-type games fans i guess. Like Minecraft, or X series or maybe even some Paradox grand strategy players. The underlying systems the campaign has are extremely primitive compared to those games though, so probably not a whole lot of them. So i'd say its not the people who expected something more akin to MechCommander, XCOM and Battle Brothers that will be having "problems" after release, rather the game's initial popularity will suffer. Imo, the devs shot themseves in the foot when they decided not to include difficulty options.
And they completely made up for it by making the game moddable, as long as it is moddable enough for modders to create the difficulty, true sim, some of us are looking for.
I'm including battle brothers in the list of "not so sandbox" here, because you still have to be strong enough to face the end game crisis after X days. And even before end-game crisis, getting into a situation from which you can't recover is not at all uncommon(even without ironman). In this game losing is only a theoretical possibility and there is no time pressure at all.But Battle Brothers actually have goals that you can strive to acheive. There is a long term goal which is an accumulated prestige giving you various endings should you choose to retire. There are also mid term campaign goals that you can choose for your company (visit all the towns and villages, be recognizable enough so the nobles will notice you, destroy 5 undead locations etc.). Finally there are global timers and after +/- 100 days you have a crisis that you have to deal with (orc, invasion, war between nobles etc.). After one crisis is defeated you will have another in 50 days. So there are a lot more things to do in the sandbox. Battle Brother also has mild level scaling so... not all is perfect
But how many players will know that there are supposedly a ton of great mods because the game is so easy to mod, and they are expected to use them if the difficulty is not to their liking? Certainly not all of them. Hence i'm saying that the initial popularity of the game will suffer(until everybody knows about the mods).
I don't have an infinate time either. But I play games for the challenge, otherwise they are boring. If I am interested in beer&pretzels experience I'd much rather play a boardgame or just hang out with my friends. To each his own.
I understand that the devs want to make more $$$$ by making this game accessible to a larger audience. But that leaves many of us writing long threads on the forums about how to make BT great again
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But that leaves many of us writing long threads on the forums about how to make BT great again
When did that change ? I thought that we could leave house Arano to fail! Nooooooo ... I do not want that arrogant Kamea to succeed. I want to make all the campaign missions and let her fail in the last one huehuehue
You need hats for that! No hats, no greatness
