Hello folks i´m back from the Napoleon TW Event in Munich on Friday.
First of all i was delighted to see that their is a new DMUC 5.3 out so i dowloaded it yesterday and i´m surprised that all my save games worked.
After playing Napoleon for a few min. i lost my intention to play it further on, i got bored. It´s the same stuff with some eye catching things in it, not more but even more less.
First battle i choose was a new Italian Map. I took Austria and fighted against the French. After deploying my troops the AI did what first......stupid Cav. attack first.
The developers tried me to focus on some eye catching things like a Husar hanging on the horse and being toed away, nice to see but nothing what gives the game any depth.
Then i played an historical battle of Waterloo against Hinkel from the Total War Zone. I took England and he France, the AI took over Prussia and for him a second French Army.
The battlefield looked verry smal and from the left side my Prussian allies marched in. But after they wasted a Cav. unit the AI decided to march of the Battlefield and let me alone fighting.
And thats two weeks before the release....great stuff i said.
Then Mark from CA showed us the Italian Campaign, i wanted to see the grand campaing or the coalission campaign but....they couldn´t show us it was not ready to present......two weeks before the release
I got so bored so i asked them have you ever heard about Darth Mod?
No he hasn´t
Well i said the Darth Mod hast more units, has also hughe bunch of somke in it, many different marches to choose and the possibility to play with more the 30.000 men on the battlefield.
And all for NOTHING!
You offer now the same stuff but even less for 29€
Then i tried to practice with the General, moral went i up when i pressed the moral button from the general but getting routed troops back to the battlefield didn´t work out. They told me that it works sometimes...but not on this Friday that i could actually see it.
Then i told them that their MP part is likely old than Pacman. No global Chat lobby, only 1v1 Campaign. I told them in this time we have a clan structure in pc games many players come together and form a clan to play together now you come along with a game that only offers that only 2 of them can play togehter thats against this structure. And even games that are 10 or more years older had that feature in the past.
But Mark said we were focused on a storyline with some roleplaying elements. So the MP was not important in the developement of Napoleon.....everybody who likes MP will be now delighted.
Then i asked about the weather conditions on the campaign map, do my troops get any damage if they stay longer in cold and frozen areas.....answer was...NO.
The only effect of the weather on the battlefield is that the morale and speed are lowered for the troops nothing else.
Then we came to the supply system. He said in Empire you had to press a button everytime when you wanted to refresh you troops. This time in Napoleon you don´t have to. The game automaticly refreshes your troops when you place them in your own sectors. That means the player can not longer decide if he wants to save some money for other things no the money will automaticly booked from your money account, thats not freedom for the player.
To cut things short all in all Napoleon is only for Players who absolutly like Napoleon as himself. If you are interested only in the time period you are more sastified with Empire and Darth Mod because it offers more game potential as Napoleon ever will.
If anyone has specific question....go ahead i will answer all of them.
IZVOR:TWcentar
