My thoughts after playing for a few days

**Magyar Khan** · 05-16-2011, 20:15

yup i agree... howl wraith..... :)

due a bug is my avatar resetted and i had to start over again as if i was a new player..... versus a experienced level 10 player its almost impossble to win....

esp units like upgraded monks....

even after reaching level 10 imo the whole gamesystem takes away too much attention from teh abttlefield

like babysitting marching missile users, cooldowns, muskets not having line of sight and so on...... imo such a game shoudl emphasize on reading a battle not on clicking vetted units..... a bit too much hassle....

im sure a lot of people enjoy the fiddling u describe but i dont care...... reading battles is much more fun

**AggonyKing** · 05-16-2011, 21:06

actually was kinda fun when I couldn't see water on sea battles. (pre-patch 2) I had to guess all the time about the range of my ships, especially the cannon bunes. That was kinda fun :)

I'm sure you can toggle the line of sight off magy somewhere on the prefs script.

**Graphic** · 05-16-2011, 21:24

Everything is on point. But once you reach level 7 it becomes worth it. I'm finally having fun.

Just a note though, find someone (preferably a friend who has the game) to help you get vet units in custom battles. I don't know if that's considered cheap or taboo or what, but I don't care. Its absolutely necessary. You will never get experience for your units when they get slaughtered by other players' vet 9 units, and nine times out of ten the unit selected for promotion to vet status is some crap loan sword or something.

**ShadeWraith** · 05-16-2011, 22:23

Hi Magy...long time no see :) If your struggling then there is no hope for me...in some weird way it makes me feel less useless though :) Just had a really close battle..like the old days, so if your evenly matched then the gameplay is great. Im sure when you get to the higher levels it becomes better Im just curious as to why the developers adopted this kind of FPS shooter model of unit unlocks for a strategy game...its a very steep learning curve for new players...even when its a level playing field :)

I've not got a buddy to 'level up' with, seems a bit wrong to me...but seeing as the alternative is regular rape by higher level players and their units I can see the attraction in it :) I'll just keep plugging away...at least Im up to lvl 5 now, the occassional victory keeps my enthusiasm going :)

Wraith

**Graphic** · 05-17-2011, 01:31

It would seem wrong to me if matchmaking was nonexistent. That's not my fault. So I decided I wasn't going to lose 80% of my games to a broken system because I can't get anything above 2 or 3 vet. I paid $50, I think I'm entitled to have some fun.

**ShadeWraith** · 05-17-2011, 08:59

Graphic, apologies... maybe I didnt make it clear in my earlier post Im not judging anyone who 'levels up' its up to the individual what they do or dont do :) Out of curiosity though if a friend was helping you level up by allowing you to beat them wouldnt that affect their win/loss ratio etc? The essence of MP TW is your ability to use your units to out manouvre and out think an opponent the fact that often opponents start with a huge unit advantage seems to render that part of the game a bit obsolete, last few online games I had, I hosted with a lvl five max warning on them..seems to work and I have been having some good battles...even managing to win the odd one or two :)

Wraith