I've recently got back into playing the Close Combat series and it's just clicked how useful having a 3D map is for understanding the landscape. Some games like Flashpoint Campaigns do a great job with a 2D map though.
This looks very much like combat mission with the option for larger maps. I wouldn't be surprised if Matrix adapts the graphic system for CM3 which fingers crossed it will release at some point in the future. Does Armored Brigade 2 also offer an option for WeGo turn based system like Combat Mission? I used to love playing WeGo in CM.
@@joeblowe3180kinda to point of the game is community generted content the devlopers heavily endorce community content the first 1 had a checyan war ww2 a modern mod
How is the unit to unit collision detection? I forget what very highly rated WWII RTS game it was but it had no unit to unit collision detection. You could run one unit into another unit so that the two units looked like one weird blob unit. I got into a lot of fights on Steam Discussions for complaining about this IMHO very serious flaw.
Dev also said the Matrix sale is kinda of a Early acess launch, a full realease gotta wait on steam. Im waiting for Steam cause i hope we have a variable price per country, Matrix sale is wayyyy to pricy for me.
@@TheStrategyWargamer Yeah, look at Sea power, its a 40 dollar game but here its 115 reais, wich im ok with, Armored Brigade II with the current sale in matrix is 222,30 reais. thats a no no.
@@brad6268 not a review . Everyone doing overviews . I can overview a COD game and talk about all the cool features. Then when someone plays it then it sucks. Over views and reviews are two different things
@@chrisdude2675 buy it or don’t. make a decision and don’t make your own experiences dependent on the actions and words of others. if you like the game that will only be proven by actually playing it, not a review
@@VLSG thats a ridiculous reply. So if everyone says a game is broke on reviews we shouldn't listen to them cause YOU should make your own experience. That's like a group of people telling you a house is on fire and you go in anyways cause you want to go by your own experience. Most games these days are released half made or broken. Lot of us rely on you tubers we trust rather than just buy blindly especially when its not refundable.
I wish it wasn't set in the dreary old Cold War, I'd have preferred it to be set in the MODERN era with super-duper state-of-the-art tanks and units to simulate MODERN combat like in the Russia-Ukraine war.
It really just looks like a watered-down version of combat mission. That it's coming from Slitherine has me scratching my head. Wonder what's going on over there. Seems like they have two IPs in direct competition with each other now.
Nah the Map size is what makes it different. Being able to have multiple Battalions fighting across entire sections of a country changes the feel of the game. I don't get combat mission vibes from the game.
No its the other way around. Combat Mission is the watered down version. For instance air assets are visually included in the game because the map size makes it possible. You can also give your units standard operating rules like "deploy on contact". Combat Mission forces you to preplan deployment. What both versions still lack is roads that have realistic curves as opposed to the etchasketch lines. Now that Slitherine owns Combat Mission, I bet Armored Brigades's new engine will be adapted for renewed Combat Mission releases.
I've recently got back into playing the Close Combat series and it's just clicked how useful having a 3D map is for understanding the landscape. Some games like Flashpoint Campaigns do a great job with a 2D map though.
Holding out for Steam release, but this looks really cool. Thanks for giving your hands-on impressions!
Fully agree. This game is really great and I just couldn't get myself to play the first one
This looks very much like combat mission with the option for larger maps. I wouldn't be surprised if Matrix adapts the graphic system for CM3 which fingers crossed it will release at some point in the future.
Does Armored Brigade 2 also offer an option for WeGo turn based system like Combat Mission? I used to love playing WeGo in CM.
Does the game have a random mission generator, or do we have to play the same big standard scenarios over and over?
It has a mission generator and campaign generator.
@@johnwicks4936 How does it feel? Tacked on, or substantial?
@@joeblowe3180kinda to point of the game is community generted content the devlopers heavily endorce community content the first 1 had a checyan war ww2 a modern mod
How is the unit to unit collision detection? I forget what very highly rated WWII RTS game it was but it had no unit to unit collision detection. You could run one unit into another unit so that the two units looked like one weird blob unit. I got into a lot of fights on Steam Discussions for complaining about this IMHO very serious flaw.
Dev also said the Matrix sale is kinda of a Early acess launch, a full realease gotta wait on steam. Im waiting for Steam cause i hope we have a variable price per country, Matrix sale is wayyyy to pricy for me.
Even during sales?
@@TheStrategyWargamer Yeah, look at Sea power, its a 40 dollar game but here its 115 reais, wich im ok with, Armored Brigade II with the current sale in matrix is 222,30 reais. thats a no no.
too bad no one done a review on this yet so we can purchase the game. There is no steam reviews we can read
The Steam version won't release for another "few months" the devs have said.
And this full 11-minute video is quite comprehensive😂
@@brad6268 not a review . Everyone doing overviews . I can overview a COD game and talk about all the cool features. Then when someone plays it then it sucks.
Over views and reviews are two different things
@@chrisdude2675 buy it or don’t. make a decision and don’t make your own experiences dependent on the actions and words of others.
if you like the game that will only be proven by actually playing it, not a review
@@VLSG thats a ridiculous reply. So if everyone says a game is broke on reviews we shouldn't listen to them cause YOU should make your own experience.
That's like a group of people telling you a house is on fire and you go in anyways cause you want to go by your own experience.
Most games these days are released half made or broken. Lot of us rely on you tubers we trust rather than just buy blindly especially when its not refundable.
I wish it wasn't set in the dreary old Cold War, I'd have preferred it to be set in the MODERN era with super-duper state-of-the-art tanks and units to simulate MODERN combat like in the Russia-Ukraine war.
It really just looks like a watered-down version of combat mission. That it's coming from Slitherine has me scratching my head. Wonder what's going on over there. Seems like they have two IPs in direct competition with each other now.
Nah the Map size is what makes it different. Being able to have multiple Battalions fighting across entire sections of a country changes the feel of the game. I don't get combat mission vibes from the game.
Yup, not Combat Mission at all. It’s better.
No its the other way around. Combat Mission is the watered down version. For instance air assets are visually included in the game because the map size makes it possible. You can also give your units standard operating rules like "deploy on contact". Combat Mission forces you to preplan deployment. What both versions still lack is roads that have realistic curves as opposed to the etchasketch lines. Now that Slitherine owns Combat Mission, I bet Armored Brigades's new engine will be adapted for renewed Combat Mission releases.
It’s a bigger scale and deeper then combat mission.