So with Fall of the Samurai now released people have now been able to get hands on with the retail version of the game. I haven't had much time yet personally since the 9 gig patch\FotS download took a bit of time with everyone in the world updating at the same time, but I did get a bit of time to check a few things out.
Here are a few of the things I've seen so far that I did like:
- The way the victory conditions are structured are interesting and somewhat fresh. Now people have an incentive to help their factional allies since they help count towards overall victory, that doesn't mean you have to obviously but the option is there.
- Melee troops and cavalry are not totally invalidated by gunlines early on, but obviously later on as better troop quality and technologies kick in things start swinging to favour of guns over swords.
- The new 40 versus 40 battles, oh god all that carnage is soo beautiful (and makes my graphic card weep).
What has been everyone else's first impressions so far?
Here are a few of the things I've seen so far that I did like:
- The way the victory conditions are structured are interesting and somewhat fresh. Now people have an incentive to help their factional allies since they help count towards overall victory, that doesn't mean you have to obviously but the option is there.
- Melee troops and cavalry are not totally invalidated by gunlines early on, but obviously later on as better troop quality and technologies kick in things start swinging to favour of guns over swords.
- The new 40 versus 40 battles, oh god all that carnage is soo beautiful (and makes my graphic card weep).
What has been everyone else's first impressions so far?