Recent reviews by Toast Sandwich

I personally do not like the direction that newer hero shooter games are going and if you like the changes then play all you want but personally it isn't for me. The characters are terrible balanced with some doing insane amounts of damage with the easiest of weapons while other characters are insanely difficult and feel like they do almost nothing. Not only that but for some reason on some matches my computer ♥♥♥♥♥ itself while in a different match on the same map it works fine and plays perfectly. Some game modes are really unfun like the payload where you don't switch sides after either sides win instead you just get one round and that's it while for the control point game mode you have to get 2 wins. The abilities are also insane with so many skills and abilities which do unclear affects that it makes the battlefield confusing. For example the ankh with moon knight or cloak and daggers trail, you can glean that they are bad and you should avoid them but it isn't clear exactly what they do which makes it a guessing game on whenever it is worth it to go into those areas to try and make a play or should you avoid those areas at all cost, if they slow you down, stun you, or hurt you. The hit registration goes crazy sometimes with melee characters feeling like they have to little range sometimes and its really annoying to kill more mobile classes because the hit registration doesn't count it even if your right on top of them. Ranged characters feel like their projectiles have giant hit boxes or your character does but I can forgive that because some characters are super mobile and it would be impossible to hit some characters when they are jump, climbing, and etc. Some movement abilities also seem so strange with characters like moon knight having a glide which moves super slow which just feels goofy to me. But some movement abilities for some characters are really jarring with characters like wolverine having a weird jump which arcs in an unnatural way or wall climbing and running feeling kinda useless in the middle of a fight and jank as all hell with you having to choose if you wanna run or walk on a wall by clicking your mouse. Their is stun abilities like in other hero shooters which always feel jarring in almost every video game that you fight against it. I feel like it has a goodish base game but with so many hero's at the start it is really confusing what hero's do what and what roles they are. For example one would not naturally assume that Doctor Strange who is a literal wizard with magic would be a front like tank or that Magneto who is a literal old man who has magnet power and just shoots metal pieces from far away and is not known at all for his physical strength and fortitude would be a tank. One would not expect Rocket Raccoon to be a support character rather than a duelist like The Punisher or that a character named Cloak and Dagger would be a strategist character rather than a assassin type character. The same idea goes for Loki as I and I believe others would think of him as a duelist character with the abilities to create clones/turrets that do most of the damage or an assassin character who uses illusions and invisibility, but instead he is actually a strategist. I personally do not like the direction that newer hero shooter games are going and if you like the changes then play all you want but personally it isn't for me

ok

crashes constantly

Fun game but kinda annoying because not all characters are equal which make it so that some characters can solo entire ares by themselves but others are ♥♥♥♥♥♥ on the later levels

*Edit/Summary because before it was to long
AI is terrible has insane buffs, can see invisible units when they shouldn't be able to, In battle when selecting a unit and targeting an enemy it sometimes says that it is a favorable match up and when you send them in they lose terribly don't make any sense. AI factions will all pile on you even if they should be fighting against each other, like when I was playing greenskins and bretonnia and the vampire counts refused to fight each other and actually fight me and even let each others armies go through their land to fight me. Diplomacy is also insane because if you are allied or have a non-aggression pact to 2 factions and those factions go to war and call you to help them it tanks your reliability. DLC's are terrible with them being unbalanced during launch then having to be fixed soon after like for the most recent one skulltaker having the ability to field 60+ armies for free which never die or Malakai having the ability to summon a flying zeppelin which can wipe entire armies by itself. Some factions like Tomb Kings, Vampire Coasts, Bretonnia, Norsca, and Slaanesh (they might be getting an update soon) need updates some some of them like Tomb Kings constructs being the coolest part of their factions but also really underwhelming in what the actually do and for Vampire Coasts need to have some fixes (why can you not just attack settlements from sea? why do you have to land nearby wait a turn to replenish movement and then attack and this includes settlements which are on the coasts and have ports? After you attack as well you can't just return to sea as the settlement is blocking the coast so you either have to raze it or find a new coast to leave which takes all your movement). Some mechanics are old as hell and you can tell as they seem so underwhelming. Some units should really have the ability to enable friendly fire like Skaven firing into crowds of Skaven slaves or chaos dwarf's firing into crowds of "laborers". Maps for some areas are terrible with sea battles taking place on like the same 3 maps which makes the fights all seem the same and blend together. Mass also makes no sense sometimes like when charging it works fine but in a giant blob your large mass unit can't even move if their is anything in their way, this makes sense for things like chariots but for units like Skarbrand it feels really silly to see a giant demon get stuck on a wolf rider or a 5 peasants. Pathing is still bad like when you are trying to order a cavalry unit to retreat from a fight to charge again 3-4 models will get stuck on one model and get killed, and when you zoom in you see that they could go around the unit but instead just headbutt into each other and get blocked. If in a settlements and you order a unit to go to an area they will use the weirdest route. If you order a unit to go into a settlement and their is a open gate in front of them they will decide to ignore the giant open gate and instead decide to set up ladders, climb over the walls and then get off the walls to the other side. Endgame is still bad with you just mindlessly doing fights and if you are foolish enough to play lords like Helman Ghorst who give buffs to low tier units then you better love manual battles with each one take like 2 min to load, 20+ minutes to fight, then 5 min to load the main map for every single fight against a mid tier army which you could easily win against. Also melee lords and heros have this fun mechanic where getting a mount actually makes them weaker as if you send them to fight another lord then they will just knock the enemy lord over and not do any damage if they are also not on a mount. When you get these powerful units and you see them do an attack that sends like 30+ enemies into the air you would think it killed them all but actually it killed like 10 because their is a cap on how many units actually get affected, this also applies to lords who have large sweeping attacks. The different types of magic are not made equal with some being able to destroy entire armies with others doing basically nothing.

The Actual Fun Parts
The game can be fun for people and this is just a giant list of my grips with the game. The armies can be fun to play if you know what your faction is all about. Factions are incredibly unique a huge range of mechanics which makes that really fun and interesting to play. unit designs and animations are great and its amazing to just watch them fight once and a while. The modding scene for this game is immense and adds different factions and fixes for some of the more dumb mechanics of the game. The new factions are fun to play and do bring some fresh air into some old factions with outdated mechanics and units.

The game is fun sometimes but really needs to fix some of its glaring issues.

fixing

game is utter ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in balancing superman has super armor for an attack that can home in on you and is chargeable and instant, harley quinn has an attack which covers 3/4ths of her body making it almost impossible to punish, and the lag is insane i get teleported 3 times every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ match and every time I try to dodge it doesn't even register and I get hit while my opponents can just spam dodge. the awful progression system makes take hours to even get close to getting a character. toast makes no sense because you either have to unlock it thought dozen of matches or spend 150 gold on it and the only thing it gives is 20 gold at the end of a match. 1v1 is lag hell and you can't even have a match without lagging and teleporting across the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ field. The hitboxes are completely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ broken and will hit when the model is on a completely different side and even then the hitboxes are just sometimes broken and don't even match the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ models. The matchmaking is awful as well because you will always match up against people who have dozens more hours than you or are completely new. You rarely get any fair matches and and the ones that are fair have a whole new level of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. some characters have more horizontals then the horizontal characters an have more verticales then the vertical characters. The balancing is utter bull and unlocking new characters are designed to take so long that if you want to play the new characters or characters that look intresting you either have to grind for hours to get 923 gold when you need 2000. If you want a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ buff to help your play style its 150 gold if you want to change a mission because it takes to long then you get one free charge then have to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ pay 100 gold. If you want certain missions then pay with gold, if you want a new character then play for gold, if you want a new ability then you gold to pay for gold, everything is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cash sink so that you won't have enough money for the characters that you want and won't want to grind for hours to get 1 so you have to use the in game currency. dodging is a major ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ issue because even if it says that you dodge and shows the animation you could still get hit. The dodge meter makes no sense because it never runs out anyway and get refilled in like 3 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ attacks. The game doesn't incentives combos it wants you to spam 1 move which is almost impossible to dodge or punish.

The company that made this are a bunch of dumbasses I went through a full day of torture to delete my account and set up a new one but when I try to make a new account it says that I already have an account registered with my email so I try to find my account by resetting my password but when I try to log in with it, it then says that my email isn't registered with any account so i'm now stuck in an infinite loop of trying to make a new account but being rejected because my email IS already registered but also being unable to find this account and delete it to make a new one because it also says that my account ISN'T registered.

fixed the issue of constant crashing but arrows and some of the hit boxes combined with the lag makes combat really unenjoyable. Arrows can get blocked by shields even from their side and even if you aim for the places where it doesn't protect it just puts a wall in front of them instead of actually making the shield block. the hitboxes are insane sometimes as they straight up can go through enemies and yourself which sours the combat. Arrows are also super slow and are so slow that if someone is 1 feet infront of you they can still dodge it by moving to the side even if you shoot center mass.

so many smurfs and teammates will hit you accidentally in every fight. Not only that but combat is so complicated that any new players will be pretty much destroyed every game and lose the game for there team.