Recent reviews by Sir Spoony

When I first played this game I was thinking....wow I used to love playing twisted Metal! So is this an MMO twisted metal? Answer = not even close. It is not an MMO at all. The open world is walled in on 4 sides and is more like a dynasty warriors battle map for "only 4 players". Is there a chat where all can talk no matter where they are in the game? Answer is no, the chats are only instance based to which game mode you are in and "only up to 8 players". So at which point is this an MMO? At which point is there an area that is open to more than an arcade or action RPG limited player count? Answer = There is none. This MMO is in fact not an MMO at all! Just because there is a leaderboard shared by all does not make this an MMO if that is what they were thinking. there are single player games with Guilds and Clans as well, so that does not make this an MMO labeled either. Literally there is nothing that makes this an MMO by true MMO standards. Don't be fooled by this!

That being said all the game mechanics are Copy&Paste ROBOCRAFT; not even kidding. Everything from the way the vehicles move around, to how the guns shoot, the builder is the same, the market is the same, trying out other player vehicles is slightly different only because you can't buy them due to getting them for free if you have the materials to build it = LAME and no real credit to the creator other than a thumbs up like? ...awful! Even the damn sound effects are the same with a side by side comparison. This is a Robocraft clone that has a Mad Max Theme with better and realistic graphics. I like the theme, but DEVs from FREEJAM must've got hired by Gaijin. Sadly this game is in the phase exactly like when Robocraft destroyed their community/game; around the time energy changed and not having MEGA builds anymore, except in Crossout they still have MEGAS that they call Laviathans, but they destroyed progression on purpose; which after patch 8.2 and a bit beyond that destroyed over half their community. They actually force experience caps of unfair values, only grant normalized and fair experience gains for around the first 70-75k earned each day; which I have been told is just how the experience used to be normally. They now call this bonus experience? ...lol come on!

Now after all that impossibly unfair this&thats is the game still fun? Yes, actually it is, but in a very taxing and frustrating daily path. This is a 1-2h limiting everyday game, but the community still tries to play more than that otherwise you truly can get no where with the old normal experience that they call "Bonus" now... So if you play 10+ hours in a day....first hour is normal experience then the other 9 hours might only equal the experience total you earned in that single fist hour of the 10 hours of gameplay or very close!

Another thing that kills the fun factor into frustration is this game is pay-to-win. You can buy a vehicle pack that you can strip the weapon from the purchase to lower your Power to own all early PvP or higher levels just come in there for easy farming of new players called "Sea Clubbing" by the community, but this always happens! So PvP starting out is not suggested in this horrible experience gaining and lack of progression rewarding game!

This game would be a huge success if they revamped the cabins and other gear to make sense once again....Seriously a growl buggy cabin has more energy than a trucker cabin that is twice its size, but IRL would be 3-4 times bigger? Just one example among dozens more! They need a rework or they will never prosper again! there is always a couple thousand playing but their used to be thousands more!

The thing that bugs me the most is there is no shared durability for weapons and the obstruction mechanics are ridiculously stupid! What i mean is....say a weapon is mounted on a 100 durability piece of armor....they should acquire 25% of the armor they are mounted to so = +25 durability. Second you can't bunker or even foxhole weapons to help protect them! If something looks like the gun can shoot over it, it in fact can't at all and shoots up in the air instead when facing something its obviously not blocked by. Proof hitboxes in this game are the worst I have ever experienced!

So can this game pull out of this downward spiral or everyone's secondary game instead of main game seking players? Yes, but will they? 95% sure they won't and 95% think they don't care. I mean they have had time to fix all of this and have not bothered to fix even some of it after losing 75% of their player base over the last couple years. Gaijin actually thinks having a pay-to-win game that restricts growth is the best solution? ...really?

This game is my most frustrating game that I want to play because it is fun, but that keeps pushing me away from wanting to make a main game! Gaming companies these days are nothing but bad decisions. I find myself on the search for the holy grail. SirSpoony and his continuing quest for that Holy Grail-of-a-game that actually makes the right decisions for their community.... I don't think this exists anymore ever since vanilla WOW and BC release days. all games afterwards have the worst strategy and DEV teams ever! WOW is nothing but a dying game now, so more proof bad decisions can destroy a company.


Sirspoony overall rating: 2.0/10.0
10.0 Possible:
+2.0 The game is a fun idea
-5.0 experience handling
-2.0 because 8.2 ruined the game
-1.0 Pay-To-Win (P2W)

SirSpoony more detailed rating system:
10.0 Possible
Reply value: 1.0/10.0
Rewarding without Battlepass: 1.0/10.0
Graphics: 8.0/10.0
Game Mechanics: 7.5/10.0 but is cloned Robocraft
Concept & Idea: 9.0/10.0
Sound/Music: 8.0/10.0 but are from other games
MMO: 0/10.0 = THIS IS NOT AN MMO! This is an arcade SIM at best or an action RPG with vehicles
Mutiplayer: 4.5/10.0 - higher levels can farm and gank lower levels and new players, thus killing part of the community growth directly!
Builder: 4.5/10.0 = Robocraft clone and does not match crosshair for placement


Three first solutions to save this game:

Fix Experience to not have caps, to not have limited bonus that used to be normal experience, and have that normal experience back once again! If a player wants to play 24 hours in a day to get lvl 30...let them! This babysitting lack of experience is ruining the game! We still have hundreds of prestige levels to go! Be the first company to actually give a crap about the players! I mean use this is make money the right way ....Premium should bypass the experience limitations, but instead you even restrict premium players from getting good experience....makes premium not worth it at all! Will i ever buy PREMIUM again? ...no way!

Revert some of the changes in 8.2 back to what they were before

Force Game Modes to be based on PS and player level. Example do not let a prestige player to lower their PS
just so they can gank and farm new players in 2499 and below, 2500 - 5499, and the 5500 - 7000 either! Let us just say anything 7000 PS or below!


DEVS?

1. Why are you forcing limitations on experience that directly killed how many people play the game and alienates new people from trying the game? Even Blizzard would never take 80% experience from their normal experience pool from their players and they are one of the worst companies ever!

2. Do you actually think your formula to get people to buy more is working when you lost more than 75% of your player base and alienating people from trying out your game more and more over time because of your bad decisions of the first question and 8,2?

3. Maybe remove pay-to-win by just selling armor and building pieces that are not weapons and functional pieces?

4. How are you able to play music that is obviously from other games? Like the Original Diablo Tristram music in the garage? I love it, but how? Signed agreements?

Well what can I say, I love the M&B franchise, but Bannerlord just keeps disappointing and causing frustration due to not feeling in control of your character as a ruler and having freedom to do what you want to do!


THE GOOD & THE BAD


1. Hold to some traditional style and environments just with better graphics.
2. Expected music, but nice battle tunes when it decides to play the music.
3. Money in the game has never been easier though battles only...
4. Default army size for battles can be up to 1000 now....without battle sizer!
5. Siege defense is Epic! ....but very unbalanced siege side...
6. Still holds to traditional nostalgia...
7. Remote communications, instead of the chasing down to do things, but still limiting.

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1. Many graphical errors.
2. Wish there were more culture-based music with more variety and working all the time.
3. Workshops and caravans suck for income now and are not worth it!
4. Army size is great for to-end PCs like mine, but not ideal for everyone!
5. Worst thing in the game = areas you conquer do not change to your culture and you still need to get troops anywhere but your own territory you own to have good morale!

--NOTE: This is where opening steam workshop is best, because the players make Tale World games better than the DEVs ever can!

SHOUT OUT TO:

Perisno!
Warsword Conquest!
Geko Koju!

6. Siege towers are still bugged and probably never going to be fixed
7. Even with maxed engineering, siege defense has a ridiculously unfair siege machine advantage = Like insanely unfair!
8. Still get stuck on loading screens and forced to end process, but it does happen less than on release and the first few months did.
9. Clans although nice in some ways restrict many things in the game that should not be based on its level. If I have enough money to buy a workshop or want to be a mercenary day 1....why not let me? So stupid!
10. Bannerlord has no purchasable patrols without using MODs
11. Companions can no longer be vassel-lords, set to patrol, set as a marshal, or able to send out messages! Companions are dumb now!
12. A.I. are the dumbest they have ever been!
13. Gangs in towns are not even a valid system of control. They don't truly effect much of anything, so why are they even there? You need to kill some of them before they even are actually bad guys....lol
14. Traits are marks of unfairness. You can't turn your evil ways around by doing good.
15. Beheading in this game is handled very unfairly and due to Traits not working, it's very hard and time consuming to recover from it, if you actually can because everyone wants to war you now!
16. Govenors do not help out in defense fights and they should have the option!
17. Formations hardly ever work...aka circle formation aka shield wall bugs, aka all sometimes!
18. weapons and armor in the game are just basic looking. Nothing really exciting or rewarding in owning and using! All just drab and unrewarding!
19. Crafting system needs more rewarding gear and both armor and weapons!
20. Prefixes on Weapons are still not even a thing in this game! ex. = lordly, masterwork, tempered...etc....etc
21. A.I. refills their troops very unrealistically! What takes you days in game they can do in seconds!
--Example: I wiped a vassel lord's troops and freed instead of imprisoning him after battle. Ran into this same Vassel lord from the same kingdom with over 100 troops 5 minutes later!
22. Thrown weapons and arrows go right through targets with no damage sometimes!
23. Game sometimes spikes in fps and payload which could possibly destroy potato computers CPU & GPUs


All in all I actually have ore negatives, but I figured enough was said...

This is more of a $19.99 EA Game

I wish them the best in fixing this game because it is beautiful, but right now I can't possibly recommend this game because its worst then warband + workshop...which is what i will be playing more than Bannerlord!


Biggest changes I need to take this game seriously and actually make it fun, instead of frustrating!


1. Conquering villages, towns and cities CONVERT to your culture so you don't require perks, just so you can recruit from your own settlements THAT YOU OWN, but in still unfair ways!

2. Allowing your character to actually control the land they own and have more freedom to do what they want to without UNREALISTIC RESTRICTIONS due to clan or other new unfair features in influence or otherwise! If I can afford 20 workshops then let me buy them!

3. More weapons and armors in the game and gear that have prefixes that work!

4. Better crafting system with greater customization and that can make #3 newly added armor and weapons as well!

5. Removal of the limitations on Workshop ownership. Maybe instead of removing totally it can at least be a Game Play option on/off toggle?

6. Smarter A.I. that is capable of being defensive instead of charging pointlessly!

7. Formations that work!

8. Thrown weapons & Arrows doing damage every time they are supposed to hit a target and not limited to sometimes when they are obviously not missing target by going right through them!

8. Siege towers that work with A.I. actually climbing them properly ( this has been going on forever!) and lowering defensive siege building impossible speed of siege machine creation! Even with maxed perks = no chance!


Overall rating so far = 4.5/10.0

+2 Some Nostalgia
+1 Graphics
+1 Limited Remote Communications
+0.5 Another M&B

/crossing fingers that they actually fix the right things, no company ever does these days...

THE GOOD & THE BAD

First of all, if you think this is an MMORPG that has crafting think again. This is a crafting MMO that has PvP features. I have played over 125 different MMORPGs in my life but this one for the crafting grind is the worst! NEW WORLD does not has no PvE replay value end-game unless you want to just play it as a crafting MMO, otherwise PvP has some replay value for helping your faction achieve world dominance! the world is very small and the faction system is the worst I have ever seen. Zero regulations in controlling a balanced world for PvP, absolutely zero...


1. One of the most beautiful landscapes
2. Great music
3. Crafting can lead to a few end-game-worthy gear, bu very limited
4. PvP can be fun, if you can actually get into a war by invite only! LFR does not exist for a balanced chance for everyone! It instead is fully controlled by the top guilds (companies)
5. Grind is serious grind, but even doing the lowest recipes still level your progression.
6. Easy to Level to max within 3-7 days of game play by just following the main story and mission board questing.

NOTE: I would suggest buying a few weapons armor when around levels 15-45 if you dont have your crafting up. The missions you do reward garbage gear and will not keep up with the progression at all...


1. Game has many bugs & the servers are some of the worst I have ever experienced.
2. You aren't allowed to have more than one character per world set and many world sets make up one region like: US EAST or US WEST for examples.
3. Name of your characters are not world set or region unique, but all regions and world sets across the world!
4. PvP wars are instance based so its more like a large arena battle than an actual war (think WOW RBGs) Not much of Dark Ages of Camelot going on here!
5. PvP can be fun if you can actually get into a battle, its invite only unless you are actually in a Guild (aka Company) that can start one
6. CRAFTING is very linear and not rewarding until highest levels and tiers
7. Very limited armor sets in this game, it is ont of those games where everyone looks the same just different RNG on the stats and gem socket they might have.
8. Weapons all look the same just different RNG stats with options of socket gems
9. There really in no end game that keeps you playing more and more. The only thing left is helping your faction conquer the whole map.
10. The world map is tiny for an MMORPG
11. Servers are not regulated, so it is very possible to get on a server that is 80% of all players on that world set being one faction out of the limiting 3.
12 They do not allow server transfers. So if you made the wrong decision you need to delete your character and start all over again.
13. jumping is a joke in this game. Your characters can maybe jump 1'ft in the air so many things very small you can't get past. So this "Open-World" feeling is just not there at all
14. No one can swim at all! Swimming is not even a thing in this game. You just risk drowning by walking on the water floor to get some places.


In conclusion this game is not a fully open-world like you can experience in WOW, FF XIV and most other MMORPGs out there now! This is at best another FIESTA ONLINE game in crafting. RUNESCAPE or Original GUILD WARS with the dual-classing, but not as good at all due to no skills being able to be swapped and used between each class. For example Paladin class with sword/shield + Life Staff = neither class of weapons can use each others' skills you are forced to instead switch constantly between one or the other and its sometimes delays so its not ideal or optimized at all! Its like Neverwinter as well in its "feet need to be on the round to do any skills at all", so whooo whooo chug chug chug chug.....ALL ABOARD for the skill usage train! This game rides on rails! Some rocks and 1 foot high fences are not able to be jumped over at all. Some rock climbing allowed but only in rare exceptions.

I do have some fun playing this, but I believe its because Amazon payed the right online personalities enough to HYPE the game way beyond the scope of what it actually and truly is and as a result some of my friends play it, but most do not. At best this will be an early access-like game for at least a few more years!

Remember this is Amazon. This game is the last thing on their minds and its proven on how not-optimized this game truly is. Will they really keep up with the game and have the players mold the game over the next couple years with updates? I highly doubt it, but we'll have to see. Even if Amazon shutdown this game tomorrow, you think it would even phase them if a couple million people hated them for it?

ANSWER = NOPE!

So far I rate this a 4.5 out of a possible 10.0

I would recommend NEW WORLD if most of the following happened:
1. When you can have more characters per world set and region
2. Character transfers are possible
3. Swimming is a thing both above and below water
4. A crazy amount of new armor and weapons lootables and crafting (NOT ONLINE STORE COSMETICS!!)
5. Open World Wars that are not instances based
6. Higher Level caps....70...80...90...eventually 100!
7. A few more skill options per class


Don't get me wrong I am still giving the game chance but I didn't mention all that is wrong with the game, just sortcut the answers of an already long review. I will still check in on the game time to time and hope AMAZON keeps their word to continuing development for years to come, but doubt they will past a year and a few months time....Hope I am wrong!


NEW CLASS SUGGESTIONS: defined by weapons cause their are no labeled classes...

1. PALADIN
Mace/Shield
- Mace Mastery - similar to sword mastery but more stun, self healing on hit and ignore armor related
- Holy Mastery - similar to cleric but mostly self healing with enchants for self and party that are maintained by mana

NOTE: instead of a Paladin build being Sword/Shield + Life Staff

2. BARD
Mandolin - small chance to charm beast targets
- Team buff mastery - damage, fortify and haste buffs
- Charm target mastery - humanoids, beast and reducing target damage

3. BARBARIAN
hatchet/shield - reduced hatchet attack speed by 20%
- Hatchet mastery - Already in the game
- Shield Mastery - similar to Protector from sword/shield mastery but more haste and frenzy based offensive abilities

NOTE: instead of hatchet and sword/shield

4. SOLDIER
Spear/Shield - no bleeding overtime but chance to interrupt actions with stun chance
- Spear mastery - a one handed spear with stun related abilities
- Defender Mastery - similar to the Protector mastery from sword/shield but instead of fortify it is attack speed and bleeding overtime abilities

Well I used to recommend this game, but no longer. It used to be fun and open world, but like everything else the cancel culture pathetic people have ruined this game as well, and no one like usual will stop them. This game's support does nothing to monitor the players. Players can talk hate speech, racism and grief you with wrecking into you the whole time you try to ride around in open world.

Game is total garbage now. Even communist China monitors griefers, cancel culture and hate speech in their chats and enforces banes all the time. This company does absolutely nothing and they never will. I am quitting and no longer bothering to stream or make videos for any and all crew games for now on.

A shame really could've been a really good game, but since they do nothing it is all but dead now.

I would not suggest buying this at all. It really has a completely horrible community. It had an ok one earlier this year and the previous, but now it is just complete garbage.

racing = 7.0/10.0 - controls are not as good as forza horizon 4 and many other sim-racers
community = 1.0/10.0
Total = 3.5/10.0

Overall rating 3.5 out of possible 10.0

Just started playing and I got season pass. Beat my first opponents 10/10, beat thru hard challenge so far and won first team pug random battle.

Ended up buying premium cuz its one-time permanent bonuses!

So far I like it, but can be frustrating. Even though i never lost even one match, challenge or tourney match.

Too early to really give a 100% review, but so far I would give it a 7/10....just because they ask you to give a review too early in your experience of the game...WAY TOO EARLY!!!


7.0/10.0

I regret the purchase. You can't lock in what colors you want constant. It only allows cycling through all the ones you don't want. I wanted to make blue and red colors from TRON movie transmog sets just to find out its impossible! You can change and control the colors of everything in the transmog shop EXCEPT THIS!!!

OMG TRENDY! We have more control over skins that are drops from normal items in the game than we do over ones we have to purchase? Ridiculous!

I would've never bought this if I knew you could not lock in your favorite color. Sure i knew it would cycle, but come on we have no control over it at all? Now I am stuck with this stupid purchase and it sucks! Nothing in the damn game matches the effects and since you cant lock them in you can't hope to match. You have more control over the free stuff in the damn game than you do over the purchases!

This games transmog system is the worst!

Its typical though, why should I have thought any different. I mean this is TRENDY after all.

TRENDY = make something awesome and always ruin it somehow. This is just another things they have ruined yet again...

At least from this purchase I so far helped a few people to not buy this that were wondering, because they were all hoping you could lock in the colors as well. Hopefully I can catch many more that are hoping to lock in the colors as well to not purchasing this and wasting their money thinking they can lock in the colors!

Worst small purchase I have ever made on steam!

I STREAM THIS @ WWW.TWITCH.TV/SIRSPOONY

PROVING THE GAME IS PLAYABLE AND FUN!

ALWAYS PLAY WITH VIEWERS!

I OWN THE COMPLETE EDITION AND HAVE BEEN PLAYING ALL DAY WITH PEOPLE THAT WANTED TO TRYOUT THE GAME. ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS DOWNLOAD THE TRIAL AND JOIN MY GAME ONCE YOU ARE ON MY STEAM FRIENDS! YOU CAN PLAY WHATEVER HEROES ARE CURRENTLY IN THE FREE TO PLAY ROTATION ALL DAY IF YOU WANT!

USE ME AND MY STREAM TO TEST THE GAME :) FRIEND ME AND PLAY OFF-STREAM SOMETIMES AS WELL!

The reviews for this game are not true! Sure launch was a bit bust for some, but it was more of a trending thing to hate this game and we all know cancel culture run around in packs like rabid dogs and sometimes can destroy game reviews and steam never does a thing about it! Some people were just DL'ing the trial so they could leave a bad review!

The game is beautiful! Instead of having the boring map by map all the maps are a complete China! I mean come on it is freaking amazing! You can even fully custom not only your character's stats and weapons, but your bodyguard which is another character as well can be geared up! I mean come on that is freaking amazing as well...WTF?

PROS

1. It is open world and allowing you to experience China around the time of all of our favorite Chinese heroes of history!
2. It's freaking Co-op online and not just a local limitation!
3. You get to do what you want, when you want, and how you want. No more locked into a single map and limited to one area to get things done!
4. Loot is endlessly spawning all over the continent to craft gear and items!
5. Combos are new and innovative! For example an awesome parry mechanic now and unique finishing moves!
6. Some NPC you can talk to actually have something to say and are not just limited to brainless vendors!
7. Online is the next great step in Dynasty Warriors! I hope DW 9 EMPIRES is just like this but a FULL OPEN WORLD of CHINA with armies and heroes invading armies and Heroes! It would be freaking amazing and literally life changing!
8. Music as usual...
9. All the more ICONIC HEROES and less of the lame ones.
10. Game has greater personalization by allowing you to just play the heroes you want to if you want; which makes the game so much cheaper than all other dynasty warriors ever!
11. Bug Free and I have never experienced problems with standing near fire, mount not coming when called, rendering problems, quest issues, lost saves or anything I have read in the negative reviews of this game! Proves most of the negative reviews never even played the game!
12. MUSIC - iconic awesome dynasty warriors traditional

CONS

1. The Open World lacks the "full of life" feel. It lacks animals, birds, and open world interactions like most open world games have. (It is their first stab at this idea and people crapped on them for trying = PATHETIC! AND SHAME ON ALL OF YOU!)
2. Can confuse some people of what to do next because in other DW games you could be a brainless person with 10 IQ and still play it. ( DW9 requires 20 IQ ) SO this proves most of the negative reviewers are 19 IQ or less...
3. A grind ( but it is not so overly exaggerated compared to most major mainstream games today! )
4. You can't play the story with any one character from chapter 1 to 13, oyu have to jump around a few different champs for completion in each faction! JIN for example is unable to finish them all by themselves, as they start in chapter 6!


That is it! This game is a grind for sure, but for a dedicated KOEI gamer like myself it is exactly what I have been waiting for! I want a Three Kingdoms open world just like this with DW 9 EMPIRES!!!


7/6/2022 - Game is still amazing and bug free!

My only disappointment is that DW9 Empires is not more like this game DW9. Empires still has open world and its beautiful, but it does not have DW9's weapon/gear changing in the open world, cosmetics and many other things this game has. DW9 Empires is supposed to be the more custom version of the Dynasty Warriors Franchise, but instead DW9 is way more customizable than DW9 Empire is BY FAR!!! Buy one favorite character to unlock the full game with no Demo Timer, and lets go! All Dynasty Warrior games had a grind to unlock playable characters and customizing weapons and items...So nothing has changed. This is just a greater open world version!

All-in-all still a great game! Friend me and lets get to grinding!!!

Current SirSpoony gameplay rating: 9.25/10.0

This game sucks! ....I'll tell you more after another 600 hours!

Excellent game! Falls into more historical Dynasty Warriors when it comes to battles; which is rather boring after awhile. Sadly it is only single player! I wish it actually allowed manually customizing bodyguards stats&Gear, Character stats/Gear and your mounts, like Dynasty Warriors 9 does! It has a replay value due to being able you make your own kingdoms and uploading them to WORKSHOP for other players to use! You can also then customize add/remove kingdoms you create to a custom map. Likewise, characters you create can be apart of any kingdom you like or a custom one. Also, you can add/remove/swap the traditional character into your custom kingdoms or the default kingdoms of the traditional rulers; while placing those kingdoms anywhere you like on the map! One unique feature is having the ability to spend an in-game currency to increase or change what each of your bases during battle is or can be; which influences how the battle can flow...

All-in-all not a bad little gem of a game...

Sirspoony rating: 8.0/10.0