edit: After one day, CA came along with a quick patch, which solved many of the problems i wrote (you can read below).
For the sake of fairplay, CA was insane fast. If they continue to work this way, we will face a good time.
Right now, you can play teamgames, mostly it works, there are still some freezes and crashes, but a lot less than the first day!
One word i did repeat yesterday evening a few times was: Disaster!
At one point i was about to go berserk, but here comes the full story.
1. Changing settings still crush my game, so i cant lower clouds or change anything, game keeps crashing
2. Making a team with 2 or 3 people (i doubt with 4 it will be any better) is a complete disaster.
We crashed full time. If it ever start, than you sit there in the Setup-screen and the game doesnt start!
Since all get the "invalid Army" message. But you can check what who spent, its a bug, this message show up, even if all just sit there with the general!
This makes you reset your game hard, since you cant leave this screen.
We spent 3 hours and managed to play twice a 2v2, the rest of this 3 hours we crashed fulltime. Its annoying, its broken, its terrible done.
3. Disconnects happen a lot, player drop from the game, the game doesnt start. Your stuck to on the field with the black screen telling you its loading or waiting for other, than suddenly it shut off and its over.
4. After battles i see unitstatistics and to get out of the screen the left-side icon is greyed out and dont work at all.
Esc seems to work, at least it did a few times.
5. The Clancampaign-challange is (as expected) very dubious, noone will care right now about it anyway, people want to unlock maps in the first place.
In the name of fairness, the 1v1 Matchmaker works good. The games start, and you dont got crashes so far.
Hosting battles the normal way works also, we had just one test, but it worked. But with so many lvl1 people out there, noone join a game where they see an average of 4 or 5 stars... which is disappointing.
Summary. If you want to play MP right now, play 1v1 and use the MM, this is the only way to enjoy the game online, forget about the rest and dont think about to play as team. This needs a patch/fix.
Im sure, after 1 or 2 weeks with people having anything unlocked, we will see more hosted battles and we will probably end like other TW versions, with hosting and joining the normal way. Unless CA get the MM working properly for teams.
I want to add, that many people we played yesterday was highly frustrated, most was pretty much annoyed from all the crashes and bugs.
We got a bad start and i hope, that we dont lose too many new players.
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