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Devs are sexist and anti masters, and their practice with dlc's is something rather questionable in my opinion. If you actually think Covid-19 is a hoax you need mental help.

Absolutely love this game. It has the age old problem of all paradox games, where they release a lot of paid DLC content that become pretty required for the game to function, but they recently chose a new path. With HOI IV, they release a sort of dual update. Its an update to features and adding new content, while also having a secondary section of it reserved for a paid DLC, usually the alternate history paths for a country's focus tree. I love that. As for game-play, Its the most immersive map-based RTS I've ever played. You can get incredibly into every detail; build your ships, tanks, planes, plan out attacks and offensives, prioritize fuel and equipment to different armies, see your countries manufacturing capabilities and designate factory production, assign generals and field commanders to armies, and even more. You totally don't have to get that into it, you can play it casually and still have a lot of fun. And if you think you'd get bored, the non-historical mode has things go wild all the time, and mods are super fun, there's several massive and well done mods, Like KaiserReich or Old World Blues. Truly the game is very fun and if you are a fan of these types of games, you will surly enjoy it.

War Thunder, the game about tanks planes and ships. If you like tanks, planes or ships, you'll like it.
The game is pretty grindy. But I like to play it to have fun, and if you view through that lense as opposed to focusing on trying to unlock higher tier vehicles, you will have fun too. Of course, flying that new plane is always fun as well.

Side Note: There are pay to win vehicles in this game. You don't fight them often, and honestly they are still very capable of being destroyed. But considering you can get vehicles that are just as good from events or the battle pass, It's pretty offset.

This game is absolutely bare bones. They didn't add almost any of the features they promised. They scrubbed the whole RPG element of this game away. Where's the amazing car and apartment customization they promised? The interactive ai and immersive crowd? The city looks like 100 people live in it and they all have twins across the street because there's only like 50 or 60 models of characters that aren't part of the main story. This game literally bricks people's Xbox's and crashes constantly on Playstation's, and runs horribly on PC. It's so un-optimized, sometimes you don't see textures until you have viewed something for a few seconds. What the hell happened? Even the gameplay sucks. The combat is sluggish because all of the enemies are bullet-sponges, driving is horrible because the reaction of the movement from your input is slow, and the side quests outside of the main storyline are mostly repetitive. This game was in development for damn near 8 years and we got this? And the worst offender is their blatant lie about gender equality and progression. They say you wont have to pick a gender just a body type and voice. While that's true, they still hard lock you into either female or male depending on your voice choice, and make most romance options in the game heterosexual only, which is just a complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lie and slap to the face to the LGBT, and an obvious attempt to just seem good and gain pre-orders to just ♥♥♥♥ on the customers. And not to even mention their shady and down right nefarious practice of having people review their game and forcing them into contracts to not show any actual in game footage. How more obvious can you get about trying to hide a poorly created project that has been in the works long enough for two "The Last Of Us" games to come out. Absolutely disgusting, they should be ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ embarrassed for putting this out and ashamed for what they did.

I kept my previous review below, but the devs did something amazing that most developers don't do: they listened to the community! They actually fixed this DLC! Originally everyone was complaining that the DLC didn't work because to get where you needed to be to do sutff took far too long. But that's no longer the case, and they added additional fixes like giving Turkey an additional research slot, and helping Bulgaria ward off the Fatherland Front coup. Honestly really happy with the devs for implementing these changes so quickly and listening to us. I can wholeheartedly recommend this DLC now.



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TLDR: They can fix everything by just reducing the time of a lot of the focuses to 35 days
Right now this DLC suffers badly. At first, it seems like the goal of this DLC was to emulate how the Balkans had to chose a side and is about them gearing up for their own goals and joining a faction. But the way the DLC actually works, ti seems like partly the intention was for these countries to actually fight the other Balkans nations and begin their own conquests. This is completely impossible for these countries, because it takes way to long to reach a point where you are feasibly able to fight your neighbors, and by then the world is already deep into the World War, and you can't do anything. This focus tree seems like they couldn't decide between which of those two ways they wanted to go, and went with both. This makes both paths (either joining a side once the war starts, or striking it out on your own before the war for your own expansion) incredibly weak. But they could totally fix this by just reducing the time of a lot of the focuses to compensate, making the trees actually balanced.

I LOVE Rainbow Six: Siege, it is by far one of my favorite games, and I can't get enough of it. However, becasue of the current state of the game, I cannot reccomend that anyone buy it. The game is incredibly frustrating and infuriating and it all is becasue of one thing: hackers. Yes hackers have been a problem in siege for some time now, but it has been fairly under control until recently. I had, in my 800 hours of play time, come across 2 hackers the entire time. But when Operation Para Bellum came out, it went crazy. Ubi began to use Battle Eye, and literally my first game I played out of my ranked placements was against an aimbotter. Many pro players and streamers have begun to point this out, from Get_Flanked to Mr Homeless, and it it just killing this game. Having only played against 2 hackers previously, within my first 15 matches, 8 to 9 of them were against hackers. Until this major problem is fixed, my review will remain negative.

The current state of the game is very unacceptable. The developer flat out lied about no micro-transactions, and I encourage all owners of PUBG to write a negative review of the game until he stops these bad buisiness practices. This type of thing is becoming a cancer on the gaming comunity, and its up to people like us, the consumers, to make the developers see that this is not what we want. If we don't hold them accountable, they will continue to pollute the gaming comunity with these type of micro-transactions and outrageous DLC prices, continue to lie about not doing so, and cause the general degredation of our comunity as a whole. If behavior like this continues, in the very close future we will see an entire industry dominated by the EA style of pumping out games, and the disgusting practice of paid DLC and micro-transactions.

This being my main point, it is not the only thing wrong with the developers. Drama about stream sniping and whether it should be a bannable offense, but the real problem is the terrible reaction to the comminities outcries. The developer, PlayerUnknown, has reacted in very uncaring and rude ways, to all complaints.

All in all, this is truly inacceptable behavior, and by not doing anything about it we are allowing it to continue. Please, write a negative review, or go search for yourself if you do not believe what me or any of the other recent reviews are saying.

So many hackers its retarded.

This game is absolutley amazing. The positive to negative review rate is so high for a very good reason. A lot of reviews go in depth about how the game controls, or how the combat is, the absolutely amazing scenery, or the soundtrack (which is amazing by the way, it changes with the pace of the game, the scenery, and the situation to drive you deeper into the storyline) but the real, the actual reason you want to buy this game is for the storyline. I bought it on sale, and can say after finishing it that I would have bought it for the full price in a heartbeat if I had known what this game was like before. The storyline is unlike any other I've encountered. I just came from playing story deep and scenery rich games such as Dark Souls III, and Not only does this compete with them, but its in an area entirely its own. Games like Dark Souls or Mass Effect have great stories, but what makes this games story amazing is how it makes you feel. It makes you question your own morality, not just in the game, but outside of the game. How far will you go to save someone? What if it means the lives of others, others who are trying to do just in their own way? Or to acomplish a mission? How far is too far? Where do you draw the line, and should it ever be crossed? How will you live with what you've done, and how will the people closest to you view you now? Can you help everybody? If not, will you really be a hero...and what will you be seen as by the others, a killer? The name of the game hits right on the spot, because it blurs the line so much, you will question your own morality outside of the game, and you will never think of it the same way again. Do you...feel like a hero?

(Due to the huge ammount of "you've got spelling errors and I have nothing better to do but point them out" comments, I am putting in a disclaimer: there are spelling errors in here, Its not unreadable by a long shot, yes I know, you don't need to comment about it)

This review is long, but worth it. Don't let my small ammount of game time fool you, I assure you I know what I'm talking about. There is a TLDR at the bottom.

When you come to this page and see that it has 44% positive reviews, thats for a reason. The game is basically an economy simulator, and it dosent even matter that its in the medeval ara, it could just as easily be in modern times, becasue theres nothing special about it, other than the buisinesses being of the type from that era. The ENTIRE, let me say it again, ENTIRE game is about managing an economy, and trading. Usually this wouldnt be bad, but heres why it is

CONS-

The economy system works great, when you build a city, you choose five of the ~20 recources to produce, problem is, you can get these is any city in any country in the world. There is no reason to create a city outside where you are, or to even trade with another player, becasue you can get it all right there. In fact, you can just build ~5 cities and be set for the rest of the game producing everything you need.


"but if I get more people, wont I need more cities to produce more things to keep them happy?" nope, you can litterly just stay where you are, theres no reason to expand. Ever.

Once you've completed your ~5 cities and are trading with yourself, or others if you want, but you really dont need to, the way players grow in power and gain more money is by building more buildings, but heres the kicker: after the first about 30 minutes of the game (and these games take longer than most Civ. games) the rest of the game is incredibly repetative,you just switch from city to city, constantly buying more buisinesses of the exact same type, more and more, over and over again. and this is all if you haven;t gone bankrupt by this point, which most people are struggling with too hard to even care about the other players. This game might as well be just singleplayer, becasue it dosen't matter if your opponent is there, your both probally drowning in debt. Not to mention the problem with armies: not only are they so simplistic that a second grader could do it with both hands tied behind his back and a blindfold on, theres no reason to buy anything other than low tier units. The only thing that makes a country special is its "unique" units it can get, but you don't even need them, you can just spam pikemen (lowest teir unit) to get your ♥♥♥♥ done just as well, they are cheaper to maintain, and cheaper to buy, and you can get better attack/defense ability from spamming say ~5 of them than you canfrom a special unit that would cost you more. Not to mention that the debt is so bad that you fall into debt in the damn tutorial, and guess what, if you don't get all the way to the end, you gotta ♥♥♥♥♥♥' start all over again. Have fun with that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.


PROS-

The graphics are alright I guess


TLDR: You pretty much do the same thing for the eintire 3-4 hour game every game economy wise, armies are a joke, a 2nd grader could understand and the teir system is useless and broken, might as well be a singleplayer game becasue all players A) have no reason to expand or attack and B) you will all be too busy drowning in debt to do anything about eachother, its a game of see who can float in a sea of debt long enough to not have their "empire" fall apart. Put simply there are better, cheaper games out there. But I mean hey, the graphics are pretty good.


Oh and I almost forgot, theres only 2 way battles, so if an army of three meet up, one will end up reinforcing the other, even player armies. And not all the units fight, so if you have an army of 4 units vs 4 units, only 2 of them fight each other, the other 2 stand around with their ♥♥♥♥♥ in their hands wondering what the ♥♥♥♥ is going on for litterly years (the battles take something like 5-10 in game years to complete...that makes sense...). So when you go to kill the bandits that have been robbing your trade routs, the bears that have been plaguing the forests will come and reinforce the bandits, while the army of wolves stands idly by waiting for you guys to finish so it can follow you back to town and rob your trade caravans.

In fact, if you don't read anything else, just consider this:
Ammount of people who have finished a multiplayer game: 1.1%
Ammount of people who have captured another players town: 0.7%
Ammount of people who have won a multiplayer game: 0.7%
Those last two, are the same.