IT'S FINALLY HERE - Ultimate General: American Revolution Review
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
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It's finally here! Ultimate General: American Revolution is now available in early access, and I've played it for an extensive amount of time to give you my review of the early access version of this brand new strategy game.
It is so much fun to see that indie developers are cooking up experiences like these, a game that even at this early stage shows true potential, especially in its format and core mechanics. UGAR features not just a real-time campaign map, but actual field battles on the battlefield where you get to control your armies, AND fully tactical naval battles, meaning this is something as rare as a hybrid between Total War and Paradox grand strategy games.
In this video, I not only give you my opinions on this early access version, but I show you some awesome gameplay, talk about the features, and tell you what I think needs some work at this stage, and what could be done better in the future.
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I really hope we start seeing a lot of total war competitors, competition brings innovation after all
Yeahh, Pharaohs the definition of complacency leading to tragedy
CA deserves to go down the toilet. They'd be rolling in fans and money if they made historical sequels but instead the bean counters are forcing them to churn out lazy content for a consistent YoY revenue stream. I look forward to their shocked pikachu expression when an indie developer buries them for good.
Best combat system
About time for it, tbh. It's clear CA has dropped the ball and gave up on the franchise. All they've been doing since WH2 is milking the corpse until its dry
Eh I'm done with TW to be honest. I own all the games, from the 1st to the latest (bar pharaoh) and literally every DLC. I bought Rome Remastered, and I bought both the Android remakes... But I've played so little of them. I was just hoping the entire time that I'd fall back in love with the series, but never happened.
I still am a huge fan of the series, but now I'm done with it. I feel completely ignored by the people making those games now. They just don't care. There's no love. Now it's just one big operation to churn out profitable products, that's it.
Im just gonna move on to something new. I've been left waiting by this company for fuckin years, I have absolutely no trust or faith in their abilities.... This new game in the video looks great tho, I'm super keen for it 🙂
Looking forward to getting this when it releases. The American revolution is my favorite time period.
I like the company's games. Hope this one will also be good when fully released
Let's gooo i was waiting for this game.I really like how they changed the graphics cause they were quite bad in total war admiral,it would be awesome if they added multiplayer playing a huge battle with multiple players
Looks good, has pretty much a little bit of everything I enjoy from all the games I like. TW series with Ck and Mount and Blade.
I hope CA will get more and more competitors like this over the next few months and years. Looks great.
Now I kinda understand why C.A long ago, when they made the "first Total War mod summit" and everything, not only didn't invite Darth Vader but also bashed him on the forums and all..saying that his mods were "fake" and didn't make the things that he claimed it did..
The real truth is they were AFRAID of him, C.A knew that he was the real deal and now it has been proven once more
Ultimate General American Revolution is the TRUE SUCESSOR of the Total War series
At least they allowed modding their game, unlike him.
I can sorta see where people are coming from about him and his skillsets but it also comes off in a peculiar, propaganda-esque way. Like people putting in factors like if he wrote the programs that do things like EditSF (not that one, just the tools to make mods etc) and it comes off in a very blatant sort of "smear campaign" kind of appearance the longer it's stared at. Regardless if he earned himself the critique through personality alone, I think it's massively unwarranted.
I like how historical games like this teach you parts of history as you play. It has reignited my love and desire for history.
Some people only take what they see in a game or movie at face value - but I suspect a lot more history nerds were created by games like Total War, the Assassins Creed series, and games along those lines.
It's almost comical how much history, both directly through the game and indirectly through the curiosity it spurred in me, I learned from Europa Universalis 4 as a middle schooler.
Total war and the original age of empires sparked my love of history. In the manuals they had actual history written about yeah civilization and I used to find them so fascinating
Same experience I use to read the chapters on Hittites, Assyrians and be absolutely fascinated.@@ChrisLawson-h3q
I'd check out historical board wargames like f.ex. from GMT Games. They tend to be deeper and more realistic than video games.
The extra campaign layers here from previous iterations looks fantastic, love what these guys are doing.
I hope this series lasts for the next 50 years! Thanks to Darth for challenging CA
Its really cool to see some immersive innovation like the real-time campaign mini-tussles and fog of war perspective! I like how the battles look like a cute kid between Total war and Assault Squad, and so happy to see ship battles being included with time and effort since they were some of my favorite aspects of the TW games.
Excited to play this in the future and see where this company goes with it!
Battles look bad tbh. Hurts my eyes to look at. Definitely cant play a game like that.
@@Tinylittledansonman it depends on what do you need from battles, tactical/gameplay options or stunning visuals, personally I am more of a fan of the former and this game (as well as it's predecessors like UG: ACW and Age of Sail) offer plenty of it, as well as superb immersion and sense of scale (especially the American Civil War - tens of thousands of men under your command are really cool to lead), while TW excels at visuals mostly, but fails to deliver mechanics and tactical possibilities and is rather lackluster in scale (being stuck in 4k vs 4k battles for decades)
I really like the fog of war mechanic, makes it feel like you are the general, and not some omniscient third person. I see a lot of potential for this in a fairly tightly focused campaign.
This kind of mechanic has huge potential in medieval/ancient settings where civil wars and treachery were a major factor. Misleading messages coming from some of your provinces before suddenly your being attracted by that general you'd trusted to watch the frontier who's now decided he want's the crown for himself
As someone whose first total war game was Empire Total War this game makes the gunpowder lover in me excited in a way that I haven't felt since FoTS. I love how the game rather than being a straight clone of Total War does something different with the fog of war around your army, the dispatches from your other scattered units, and choosing whether to jump in on a battle really makes you feel like well an actual general rather than a seeing and almighty god-king commanding your country and armies from above. Considering the state of grand strategy games sphere being dominated by Civ, Paradox, or Creative Assembly this game looks like it might shape up into the underdog that will bring new life and innovation into this stagnating genre. I wish the dev team good luck and I can't wait to see what they can do!
Looks like a really fun game! I hope the series continues and covers other periods, the Napoleonic period or Seven Years War would be fun campaigns. It'd be really fun to see this gameplay in earlier periods such as antiquity or medieval. Imagine conquering Gaul as Caeser with gameplay like this
Omg im right there with you. I hope they get the sales they deserve so we can see other time periods. I feel like the game's mechanics can translate to any time period. And the new campaign stuff in revolution would be soo fun in a Cesarian setting.
Very nice to see them expanding the game into campaign map instead of just battles 👌
Love the look of the campaign, and the fact that it's not turnbased. Gives me that paradox vibe. This would be so cool with the huge theatre of Empire..
I can’t wait
Every game they've released from Gettysburg to this is just the testing and prototyping for a full Napoleonic wars game.
The campaign map mechanics are super similar to several things I have been thinking about for implementing in a game! The fog of war, messengers, and being able to maneuver different elements of an army! I'm so excited to see them implemented in a game and I can't wait to take a look at this game in more detail! This is really going to add a lot of freshness to the genre!
I am prototyping a game with this kind of mechanics. My jaw dropped when I realized that they thought of the same thing as me!
@@ComanderSazabi2000 that was my experience!! It was so exciting to see similar ideas in action. What engine are you using to prototype your game?
@@hereandnow3156 I'm planning on doing it in godot, I'm still just scribbling mechanics and logic down for now. The game is a turn based strategy with a hexgrid map. My two ideas are: "it takes turns for a new order to be received by far away units" and "units ping their current position and state back to the commander (pinging takes turns, so the game map is always a few turns out of date to simulate the fog of war)". Hopefully, these two mechanics will make commanding a big army feel like controlling a slow lumbering giant.
I rly like the idea of combine the nice features of the Ultimate General/Admiral-series (some of the best strategy-games!) with this new campaign-map!
Wonderful game with enormous potential. I hope we see more games like these that combine the RTS feature of Total Wars and complexity of Paradox games and expand on it.
This game seems to tick all the boxes for what I want from a game like this with its supply system and fog of war/ delayed news from other areas and units. Really excited to see the full game sometime next year in all its glory and hopefully further down the road this style of bigger strategic campaign with tactical battles will be applied to other wars as well in the UG series. Imagine UG: Civil war but with this type of a campaign... Hopefully some day!
Always liked the real time campaign in Knights of Honour, I've wanted to see that in Total War is definitely reduces the cheesy moves you can pull off but that'd be a huge change. These games go to show you don't need triple-A blockbuster visuals to nail a great strategy game. Build a core audience and statisfy them.
It's good to see more competition showing up from indie titles, hope it does well!
i wouldnt consider ultimate general an *indie titel* since the developers have had several successes with games like. Ultimate admiral Age of sail and dreadnoughts. also they have Ultimage general gettysburg and Civil war. but the ultimate general games are less known.
Love your username though. it fits your pfp
American Revolution looks awesome the time period is pretty important and also it brings a new generation of gamers into history i remember as a child playing Civilization and Age of Empires deving more deep into the tactics and historical facts and curiosities i can see this game doing the same for many of the youth, i think is refreshing to see a project committed with the community the idea of fog of war and multiple events at the same time really brings the IRL pressure of those times in to the tactical genre can't wait for the full release, i hope this brings future projects or DLC that introduces other campaigns like a mexico one or south american liberation one
This looks like the Total War I always wanted, in terms of features, mechanics etc. I particularly like that you have this FoW around your general, while also controlling the rest of the state! I assume it works by choosing one character at the start, then that is the one you're "stuck" with throughout the game? It wouldn't make sense if you could recruit more generals down the line, I think... It seems like a more fleshed out and thought through version of the "Lord-system" in TW Warhammer.
As for future development of this game, I'm a bit surprised they went for American revolution as the setting, this game-formula seems so perfect for the Napoleonic wars! This "General in the field who also was the Head of state-thing" seems to be exactly how Napoleon ran things? I can only assume it gets more difficult to deal with FoW as your empire grows. Would be cool if they added in some mechanics to represent how time and distance can distort information as well. Imagine if you play as Napoleon, and are stuck in the middle of Russia in winter, the reports from Paris about the day-to-day affairs would probably arrive too late for your orders to be relevant by the time they arrive back in Paris. Maybe there can also be a chance for the reports to be inaccurate due to your ministers being afraid to tell you about negative developments etc.? Maybe they can also add like tech-options or something, where you can choose to have a very "hands on" government-approach, or you can choose to delegate more responsibility to ministers etc. This can also introduce a gameplay-element in which you have to balance your own authority with delegating responsibility: Keep too much power for your self, and you will simply be unable to keep up with everything that is going on in your empire. Delegate too much power, and your ministers might try to usurp your position or something.
Ofc. there are other examples of "Hero-kings" who led armies in the field while also running their state. Frederick the Great, Alexander the Great, basically every monarch in feudal Europe. But I think Napoleonic era is where they developed a lot of the administrative infrastructure of the modern state, so it would be cool to sort of develop your nation from "Running your empire from the saddle" to a modern state. Maybe there could also be different bonuses to different playstyles: You can have more direct battlefield-bonuses by having your general/faction leader in the field, fighting battles. But then you can also choose to have him "garrisoned" in your capital city, granting administrative and economic/trade-bonuses etc.
I can only hope Game-Labs watch your videos and read the comments, but I'm sure they also have a good plan for developing this game series:D
Just recently got into Unltimate General and Admiral. This looks like a massive improvement by building on the previous games. Really Excited!!!
Really nice to see Game Labs continuing to develop high quality games. It’s also good to see them learn from previous releases and address problems: the seamless transition between the grand campaign and battles is a huge step up from what we saw in Ultimate General: Civil War. Excited to play this one when the campaigns are a bit more fleshed out!
Great Review! Been waiting for this game for so long, And i love the direction they are taking the game!
Yeah the genre needs a boost mate. Keep making this big. I'd always like to see more fortifying options and ambush mechanics. Also the choices and good quality diplomacy
I'm happy there is a company that fills in the historical game play we all crave!
The idea of having your own original character to build over the campaign with some dialogue is very interesting to me. There's plenty of tough decisions that you'd be forced to make during the American revolution.
Really glad to see this franchise expand and evolve to the point they have a proper campaign map and interesting mechanics, can’t wait to get my hands on it and get a game that scratches the gunpowder grand strategy itch that I’ve had since trying Empire TW and Napoleon!
This is really exciting, love to see games in a similar vein to TW being developed! I personally missed the total war empire train, but the time period and type of warfare has always been hugely interesting to me.
This game looks like it will be a ton of fun! Can't wait for the balancing and additional content to be flushed out. I've missed the naval battles in the Total War games.
I love all of Darthmods mods in the TW games. They really enhanced what CA put out. The Ultimate General/Ultimate Admiral games are great.
Wait... Is he the dev? Holy damn!
Yes he and his team are the devs of this and the Ultimate General/Admiral series. Enjoy.@@danielherold7738
Love these highly exquisite mechanics! This is what happens when competitors take heed to what the public has been asking for. Looking forward to future developments in the vain of campaign mechanics and even modding.
i think the total war turn based campaign map is a outdated way to do it and should really be left behind
@@MrRafagigapr I actually still like the turn-based style, it allows me to take my time. That being said, I think, countless other things in the total war franchise are outdated.
I love the inclusion of flagbearers, the one thing I wished the units in Ultimate General Civil War had.
I love the campaign map in this game, too. I would have love to move armies around the map like this game
Love the ultimate general series! They do great work and this game looks super fun! American Revolution has always been one of my favorite events in history so I’ll definitely be purchasing this 😁
I'm incredibly excited for this. Total War has needed competitors for a long time, and this game has a lot of things I want. Delayed information and orders are both things that make for very interesting gameplay challenges that are true to history.
I trust in Darth after he did great work to prepare for this title with Ultimate Generals: Gettysburg/Civil War and Ultimate Admiral: Age of Sail.
Seeing them finally combined in an underexplored topic for gaming (the American Revolution) completes the package of hype for me.
Love the fluidity of moving between the campaign map to the individual battles. Seems like a cool mix between the grand feel of paradox and the two dimensional battle options of total war.
I love the way that this game has a bunch of systems that all work together to create a larger experience, I think that's where a lot of strategy games fall flat but it seems to be on full display here. Also a big fan of the nice looking but simple art style, it's easy on the eyes
Absolutely love the art style they've gone with, the campaign map looks fantastic
I think this will definitely scratch my Empire Total War itch. I love the idea of a constantly running clock and being able to move troops around. I can see it now having an auto resolve battle unfolding and having reinforcements show up at just the right time to turn the tide!
This game has tons of potential for expansion and other campaigns such as the french and indian war, really hope they continue work on this amazing game
I’m super excited to find an in-depth game focused on the American Revolution. I feel like this is such an underrated era for games. Naval battles will be such an interesting addition
This looks like a breath of fresh air. Having to keep your armies supplied and a fog of war around your general is awesome. The strategic shenanigans that could ensue will always keep it fresh as not knowing what the enemy will do or where they will attack is part of the experience that will bring variation to each playthrough. Im also looking forward to recapturing the 13 colonies :)
I play the game its fun but it needs work a lot of work and i would not go so far to say that is the nightmare of TW. ETW has awesome overhaul campaign mods that make the game awesome to play like ETW2 or Imperial Splendour even TAR mod that is great and Napoleon Total War is what ETW could be far better than ETW and with Darthmod its outstanding.. You have the Full 3D units that are very beautiful you have a musket mod sound and drummers - fife sounds and music the Napoleons Campaigns are very fine and the coalition campaigns great too with DM again. If you go to the Shogun 2 Fall of the Samurai now they are making 2 awesome Victorian Era mods TWFOTS Series with new Custom TWFOTS maps of Spain - France and North Africa huge maps and the Fall of the Dragon Empire that you play and relive 50 days of Peking - Beijing and they have made Korea map - South east China's map and Manjuria with the already great Japan's map and there is an another WIP mod for Medieval TW 2 mod that they have made all the hole map of the earth Europe - North and South America - All of Africa, China and more that you play in Victoria era too there and its awesome WIP too. So UGAR its the best experience for the AR sure but it needs a lot of work and patches, we will see if it will have mods support when the full game will arrive in a year and needs Steam support for sure. Most of us and i could not live with out TW games and thank God we have them.. Ok they have made some bad dessions with the Troy - Pharao and Warhamer games but this does not erase the past that they have made awesome and so modable games for a huge historical warfare periods to enjoy and play. This game needs a lot of work to be done to say that its a TW killer that i don't think will happen IMO.
This game is amazing, everything and more than I have been anticipating since I heard about it first 2 years ago.
It is already more in-depth, innovative, and well executed than many previous years' fully released AAA strategy/rts games.
Very promising game and premise. Rising against the superior Brit’s as the Americans or crushing the rebels as the British. Maybe even a French or Spanish campaign. Or an alternative timeline with Quebec join the 13 colonies or rising up for their own independence. So many possibilities! Keep doing your thing Andy I’ve been watching from the start.
This game looks really unique to me to be honest🌞, I don’t normally play games set in this era/war and I would LOVE to play it one day🤩 (I just hope it’s not going to be too expensive🦧, unless I get it for free *wink wink*)😉
Oh, you have to play as the Americans? Shame.
Edit: Oh, British campaign after early access. Yeah, that's understandable.
Huge fan ultimate general civil war. The changes with troop placement, alter historical, and logistics looks awesome. Can’t wait to get started
It's gotten to the point where I don't want to see Empire 2 or Mediebal 3 anymore, not if they were like Rome 2 and everything that came out after that. I'd rather see Empire Remastered, Medeival 2 Remastered as well as Shogun 2 Remastered and I'd rather they do a remaster for those games than play trash sequels.
This looks good I’ve been wanting to get it, they have other titles my favorite ultimate general: civil war which I’ve easily put in 100 hours
Finally. A game my pc can run and it does indeed scratch my itch for musket and canon warfare. I just hope they expand one day into Europe with the same gameplay style they created. 😁
It's nice to finally see total war competitors. The space has been lacking for a while. I've really enjoyed the previous games in this series, so I hope they continue the great work
Looks good. TBH, it looks like there are endless possibilities for this gameplay style in the future. So much history, so many wars, so many battles, the implementations of the naval ships and real time campaign map is kinda cool.
I played the Civil War iteration of this game and it was awesome. I like that they added a wider campaign map expanding the scope of the game. Excited to get my hands on this soon!!
Feels like a next gen game for this genre. Both CA and Paradox have gotten pretty complacent and their games have remained pretty much the same for 20 years as far as core mechanics are concerned. I like a lot of the ideas here
and now please the same mechanics merged with EU4 grand strategy, and voila... we have the perfect strategy game!
Looks really good. Hopefully one day they will make a Napoleonic wars version of the series.
With these competitors rising up to have their share of the market, CA is gonna have to step up their game. Literally.
I like the way the AI retreats when faced overwhelming enemy numbers, feels a lot more realistic, honest.
This is gonna be amazing
I just hope every add-on isn’t behind a paywall like Total War
The game looks great, the changes to the "campaign" map is amazing and love how you can reenforce a battle and let it either play out automatically or manually.
I am a fan of their games since Ultimate general Gettysburg, but the ultimate general civil war really got my into their games, loved to customize my armies and play mission upon mission growing my army.
Age of sails i rarely played due to time, but i am enticed now to reinstall it awaiting this game.
I hope in the future they can expand the time periods, i think unit variety is limited in this time but still combat and campaign mechanics look great so the moment its on steam its practically an instant buy for me.
I love the look and feel of the game and I'm glad the battles and army sizes are scaled down from UGCW to more accurately reflect the relatively small scale of the American Revolution. I hope that Darth and his team add a wounded soldier mechanic, field hospitals, doctors, etc. as a way to recuperate some of your losses after battle. I'll certainly be buying this with my next VA disability check haha!!!
If one were to win the copy, is it possible to gift it to a friend?
There have been several other rts games released that you could say were "shots across the bow" against CA. This game looks like it could be the first to score a hit! Is this going to be a Total War killer? No, but if CA don't change their business mindset quickly, I wouldn't be surprised if this game is looked back upon as one of the first domino's to cause its collapse (and this is coming from a big historical Total War fan/player).
Really hoping that for the continued success to this series and to Darth! Think about its potential of having a better gameplay and atmosphere in various eras with its updated graphics and such and wishing that this would open CA's eyes and drive in their recent historical entries.
Looks like a breath of fresh air in a CA dominated genre
yeah i like to play it. I realy loved civil war game.
Maybe there will finaly be a competitor to total war
This is the closest thing to Eu4xTotalwar
looks a lot like napoleon with an american setting
Loving the channel so far man keep up the good work on these informational videos. And so far I think the game has a lot to offer at least more than just total war does. It seems to have a lot more strategy than recruit soldiers with better stats than the old ones you just had so you can pretty much stomp any enemy army you come across. That and the campaign map is beutiful and relays a lot of useful information to the player and has actually interesting quests that you can pursue.
What a legend. We gotta help these peps
Such an exciting combination of all that ultimate general has created in their games to this point. Thanks for putting this on our radar!
As an American, it doesn't have to be me but I hope the free copy goes out to one of us. 100% NO BRITISH VIEWERS!
Lmaooo
Love the idea of real-time "auto resolve" with option to jump straight in whenever you want.
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America f*ck yeahhh
before i purchase this im curious how strict the system requirements are for it as listed on their website. In theory my laptop is woefully inadequate accoridng to their minimum reqs ( i have 8gb of ram, a gtx 1650, and my processor is an intel i5-9300 @2.40 ghz). But it runs Ultimate Admiral Age of Sail well enough. But I guess I'd rather not spend $50.00 on a an early access model until im sure it will work...
The comparison to total war is expected, but not really fair. The Ultimate General series completely blows total war out of the water. These games are innovative, balanced, and dynamic. Total war is complacent, clunky, and boring.
Ive played over 1000 hrs of UG: civil war and Ive been waiting for this release. Nerd boner. Let me rave about the AI in this game. The ai is SMART. it will adapt to your strategy and theres no real way to cheese it. You think your cheesing the ai then realize that those were legitimate tactics employed in those days, which makes it very satisfying to win. In total war, you win by abusing the clunkiness of the ai and game mechanics. And this hasn't changed throughout the series. Maybe empire was better, i never played darthmod.
I cannot recommend this game enough. Any fan of mil-strategy games should give this a play. Warning, you might get hooked.
Make sure to install J&P mod for UG:civil war. Provides a more realistic and balanced experience.
Total War ABSOLUTELY needs some competition. As the years have gone by they continue to pump out more and more basic games lacking significant innovation or player focused mechanics. It's all "faction pack" this or "blood pack" that. The RTS grand strategy genre needs new blood or it'll continue to be a stale heap of microtransactions.
I've been watching a couple of game reviews from different RUclipsrs, and I'm excited. What's really funny is that I currently serve on a Naval ship named after the leader of the Revolution (George Washington) and what is even funnier is that the English are on the same pier with us (HMS Prince of Wales). It is quite awkward when they ask what our ship's name is.
I hope once they've gotten the main campaign fixed up that they'll have some expansion campaigns, like the war of 1812 with a playable Tecumseh, or imagine a Bolivar campaign where you have to fight off the Spanish then try to hold Gran Colombia together.
I'm just thinking of the Americas, but there are any number of places you could set this, obviously this was the time of Napoleon for example. Having said that, I will note that I would not be as excited for a Napoleon expansion just because I feel that era of history is already well represented in games (not to mention the new Ridley Scott movie) as opposed to the scenarios I listed above.
I think that an American Civil War game would be better served as sequel given that Civil War tactics were much more akin to the trench warfare of WWI then it was to the line formations of the revolution. I'm not sure which game the Mexican American war would better fit in, but probably this one.
It looks really pretty, but there is one thing I miss. there was a 2006 game called Pro Libertate, which featured the American Revolution, as well as an anti-Habsburg revolution in Europe. Both the campaign map and the battles were turn-based, and graphically it's very dated. However, what was amazing is their attention to logistics! This is what I miss from modern titles. In modern games you have to pay your troops from a global resource pool, but not in Pro Libertate. There you actually had to take care of how much a region can supply the troops therein, how much supply the troops can store, and how supply flows in from and through neighboring regions. An enemy army blocking some regions could constrict your supply flow. It was difficult to actually take control over settlements (you can't afford to garrison every village, and they don't switch allegiance merely for moving your army there for a few turns), but you could raid undefended settlements with cavalry, and then they would temporarily stop providing supplies to the enemy. Also, your militia needed to go home for harvest season every year.
This looks exciting. Reminds me of Sid Meier's Gettysburg. I don't even feel that way when playing Empire, Napoleon or FoTS.
I really liked Ultimate General: Civil War, but it really was missing a actual map function. the battles were fun, but you had a very linear progression, so it didn't lend the "what if?" values that total war Empire or Napoleon did.
Being able to draw the war out, or finish it faster than normal - should be an option. I love the battles... but yeah, this one seems to be improving a lot on the previous entries (UG: Civil War, and UG: Gettysburg) Both good games, but there's a clear and distinct path of how the dev(s) have learned and gotten better at making their games.
I truly look forward to seeing what they have in store for us.
It looks REALLY good, but I really don't fancy the setting, thats the only problem I think.
Nothing against the setting, just don't tickle my imagination or history nerd side at all.
For Americans it's probobly a pretty deep topic when studying history, but for most others it's just a footnote in the history books while other more grand stuff happens, like it's mentioned along with other rebellions against the brittish empire slowly leading to it's decline.
If it'd been the Napoelonic wars, or 30 year wars, or just a much broader setting like "Total War Empire" that spans a few 100 years including the american revolution, then yes I'd been so exstatic over this.
But I do love the style of the game, and gameplay seems really good none the less!
Worth noting thought is I think the real time aspect of the campaign map is likely to not work as good on a grander scale like if it was just, Empire total war 2, really cool for more focused gameplay though, I would love to see this style gameplay for something like 30 year war, as that all takes place mostly within central europe, an area smaller then the eastern states, but with so much more and bigger battles, many different factions and all that.
This looks really interesting. Finally, a Paradox-CA hybrid that can compete directly with Total War. Definitely worth checking out.
Cavalry was pretty useless in Civil War. I wonder if that changes in Revolution. It was important in Napoleonic wars but I don’t know enough about the American Revolution to know…
Ive enjoyed UGCW and UAAS. I hope that this does a good job of making the campaign less like UGCW (on rail road tracks with set battles ahead of you) and takes some of that state of the world effects like in Total War games. You wipe an enemy army out and an area is vulnerable. period. Im gonna be curious about the naval elements in light of historical context
My only criticism: 1. The scale looks smaller than Civil War due to the new 3D models. 2. The American battlefield is a boring one, much prefer Napoleonic.
This looks like the natural progression from the UG Gettysburg and ACW which I have sunk so many hours into. I hope to see the Native Indian and French in the game, especially with a planned British expansion.
Games like this so what a small but determined dev group can do when not controlled by corporate interests like CA.
Couldn't Game-lab finish the currently unfinished ultimate admiral: Dreadnaught before the new game (though this game just looks like a ultra-dlc of the ultimate admiral: Age of sail)?
I'm just thankful Total War hasn't patented their battle format, so basically anyone can copy it and make a better game with those mechanics.
(I'm looking at you, Shadow of Mordor.)
Not only will this game be something new and interesting, but hopefully it will give Creative Assembly the wake up call they need to give us the Total War games that we truly deserve. I'm excited to play this in it's own right. The 17-1800s is an interesting time in history that's barely touched upon. Can't wait to give it a try!
Except I STILL can't even wishlist it on Steam... Stop teasing us Darth! (I think it's totally fine that they want to keep the Early Access game off Steam, but at least let me wishlist it, do you have any idea how many games I try to keep track of?)
want do i think. I think if your a fan of total war, paradox games and ultimate general civil war (same devs) Then you'd absolute love the game. I believe this is like empire but want it needed, Do i think its a revolution new game. No! But it looks like a good kick in the arm for the fans of such games need. Simply I'm looking forward for it coming out and I'll be sure I'm one of the first customers.
Well you got me. I think the game looks fantastic. I loved UG-civil war but the logistics was a headache and there wasn't as much freedom. Every battle is scripted in a sense. What I see here in this game is more eventful and meaningful game play. An AI who may have you on the ropes. Understanding true logistics. And to truly understand the different types of troops.
Age of Sail is good but wasn't my cup of tea for some reason. This game has it all down.