Quoting: linuxjacquesTotal War: WARHAMMER III review ratings on Steam are ... not great.

It's...complicated. The reviews are negative but a lot of them are coming from people who've put hundreds if not thousands of hours into the game. We have a kind of a Stellaris situation here I suppose. It's a very ambitious game, that's difficult and expensive to maintain, the game desperately needs attention in its base mechanics instead of endless amounts of additional DLC that keeps breaking stuff. It's tricky to fund this maintenance development time, though.

But if you'll still be able to get hundreds of hours of fun from the game like me, then I can hardly sit here and tell you the game actually sucks and you shouldn't buy it, even if you come to the same conclusions after some time.

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May I ask, does anyone around here play this game?

I ended up switching to Vintage Story in the end. It's more complete than the Luanti games and mods are also excellent.

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In my opinion, the game has a technical debt and design problems that were there since the first Warhammer Total War. The third game is very ambitious, but the engine it runs on was never meant to tackle this. Immortal Empires campaign is the result. They began to operate on a true grand strategy scale in IE but their engine doesn't deal well with hundreds and hundreds of factions and while the map is beautiful, they had to squish it very weirdly in many places in the name of performance. It's the biggest Total War map that's at the same time, gameplay wise, too small.

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I've found that my enjoyment of real-time with pause is directly tied to the party size. If the party is 4 characters, it's fine. If it's 6, I can't keep up anymore and have no idea what's happening and why.

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They've also shown over and over that they love making games LOOK good, but have an utter disdain for making them actually perform well once you get into the medium and late game. Their engines tend to suck ass once you scrub the veneer off. Stellaris being the perfect example. They've flipped flop from core "ways" of doing things (how they count pops, etc...) so many times it's almost a meme by now.

Starting a fresh new game is a chance for them to fix their engine behind the scenes. It's just a question of if they prioritized it at all, I suppose.

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I dual booted as well but Windows lasted only for like 2 years before I realized the SSD space would be better used differently :) So, a whole decade of dual booting sounds like a lot to me. But I understand it, it's normal relatable human behavior. I think everyone has left the cheese too long in the fridge at least once in their lives and only threw it out when it went really, really bad.

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Yeah, I am at a loss here. Copyright is incomprehensible to me. You ask for permission, you get it, have a license and then get taken down anyway?

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@ScottCarammell
I don't really get the comparisons to No Man's Sky either. I finished the game on launch. It was already a phenomenal game, just plagued with bugs. I was lucky, I suppose. I played it on PC and didn't run into all that many bugs. As I understand it, it was especially the console ports that were scuffed on launch.

What I remember this game the most for is the city. Even though it's more of a L.A. Noire situation, where the open world city just serves as a backdrop to everything else that's happening in the game rather than driving the game itself. The difference is in that Night City is the single most jaw dropping piece of backdrop I've seen. In terms of design and presentation, Night City is truly incredible and the devs paid plenty of attention to detail.

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If I remember correctly, previously, they claimed they cannot update the anti-cheat, basically because they fucked up the implementation, they modified it too much. That's why it's been so wonky. Until now. Now that the support for their old version runs out, it seems that all barriers for updating are gone all of a sudden?!

Not that I do not appreciate that Fatshark is still keeping this game alive...but it's a little bit too late in my case. My friends have literally made families with kids before they updated their damn anti cheat, so unless someone here is missing a fourth person to play with, I won't be playing this anytime soon :wink:

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Civvie 11 is going to love this.

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