I'm not satisfied

**peacemaker** · 09-25-2009, 23:29

Just typed up a huge long post, but I realized that all of my responses were mainly that the DOW issue is still extremely present in bordering nations. Perhaps the hard difficulty is also a factor; I'm not sure.

**NimitsTexan** · 09-26-2009, 00:11

More DoWs from higher difficulty levels have been pretty standard in at least since MTW2. IN 1.3, I would always get about twice as many DoWs in the first 10 years, and twice as fast, while playing as Britain, on the Hard as opposed to the Normal Diffculty level. It makes sense that the pattern would continue in ETW.

**Durallan** · 09-26-2009, 03:11

yes if you aren't playing on normal campaign difficulty, you should really expect more DoW's, its not like CA are turning up the intelligence knob on harder difficulties, unless any of CA's staff would like to tell me I'm wrong... I remember hearing that diplomatically, harder difficulty levels mean nations hate you more slightly each turn or something, that might have been for medieval 2, but it sounds like someone was getting a real beating from the AI! sounds challenging!

**aimlesswanderer** · 09-26-2009, 05:13

I always play on H/H, so I am used to the greater difficulty, but I heard that there were less DoWs after this patch - however this does not seem to be the case. If they didn't actually tweak that then I may not bother. It is challenging for me on H/H if I'm only at war with about half the countries I border. But I can't handle everyone, especially not at the start when I have no revenue, and Spain's territories are all over the place.

I might have to try again and consolidate my holdings.

**Fisherking** · 09-26-2009, 08:45

I will have to start a campaign on an easy setting to see if it makes a difference in all of the early DoWs.

Right from the start, and I mean on turn 1 you get enough to make you challenged and the player hate is still there in the upper difficulties.

There was a huge difference in a Normal difficulty save game started in 1.3.1 and a Hard campaign started new in 1.4.

It may ease off in the mid game but I am not there yet, nor is there any assurance that I will live that long. The game is much more challenging without being frustrating as it was in the previous renditions.

I would not say that everything is perfect but it is a major, major improvement and more enjoyable to play. So if you have not tried a campaign in 1.4 then most of your gripes have been eliminated.

That said, I would not start a prestige campaign on VH/VH and expect to win in a cake walk. Everything seems hard won in this model and if you are one to auto resolve then expect a supper hard won victory. I don’t think there has been more than two battles, land or sea, that I felt confident in auto resolving.

**Marten** · 09-26-2009, 12:02

I have to say, the campaigns i played over the last few month were mostly very different in feel and experience. I play with "non-standard" startpos.esf, always bit modified by myself (changes of victory conditions, more money for all, etc...) and always playing on "normal".

I was very disappointed in the first weeks, but after playing some campaigns to the end: E:TW is good, is fun - not outstanding but fun. And 1.4 makes it really better in my opinion, it's a step forward. Now i really care about the diplo screen and my relationships to other nations. Before 1.4 that wasn't essential for winning or losing the campaign.

We all are conditioned by CA to a specific gameplay in all TW Games. So we all expect the AI to do some weird things, after 1.4 it surprised me sometimes (in different ways), but that's what i wanted.

Only one thing really annoys me after the last patch: I am german, i like my armies well-organized.

But the recruitment now with all these unit cards in disorder is a pain ...