Text/Teeliy
Lead
As a sequel to a huge IP, Total War: Warhammer 3 (hereinafter referred to as Hammer 3) can be regarded as qualified in the game content and system framework, and it has also confirmed itself through its own sales and online numbers.
The number of people online 24 hours a day reaches 11W
However, it is such a game of huge quality, the evaluation after the release is mixed, if you open the evaluation of the Chinese area, it will even become mostly bad reviews, and the reason for this situation is that Hammer 3 has some unexpected publicity strategies at the beginning of the release, and aside from the problems that appeared in the publicity, the quality of the game can still meet the appetite of players.
Let's first tell you how Hammer 3 is.
Steam Weekly Sales Warhammer 3 topped the list
01
Huge game volume
The strategy game has always maintained the differences between the various forces, one is to keep the freshness of the game, when you are tired of playing one of the forces, you can try different forces, and the other is to be able to be more ornamental and different when fighting with each other, and the manufacturers will not have too many forces in order to adjust the balance for convenience, which makes the game restrict the player to a certain extent.
RTS Game Warcraft 3
And total war: warhammer series (hereinafter referred to as warhammer series), the main point is differentiation, warhammer in the second generation of different factions have 15, players can use the force of large and small add up to nearly 100, and currently in the hammer 3 there are 8 factions, 12 forces, and great differentiation.
Total War: A part of the forces in Warhammer 2
And the most amazing thing about the Warhammer series is that the latest game can include all the forces of the previous game, that is, after the subsequent update of the DLC like the Mortal Empire (putting all the forces of Hammer 2 and Hammer 1 on a map), plus the DLC faction of Hammer Three itself, the volume of the game behind is unimaginable.
Game map of the Mortal Empire
If you think that's the end of it? Then obviously it is not enough, the volume of the game body has reached 112G, and the Total War series has always been able to let players play more than just a variety of faction gameplay. And more are mods that can make the game more colorful. The critically acclaimed SFO (a large mod that changes class data) in Hammer 2 is expected to be used in Hammer 3 in the future.
Various mods
The game's huge body and large mod blessings are a stand-alone game for Warhammer players who will not get tired of playing for several years.
02
The ceiling of the medieval warhammer
The Warhammer worldview can be roughly divided into two branches, one is the medieval Warhammer, which is the background of the Total War: Warhammer series, and the other is the science fiction theme Warhammer 40000 based on the medieval Warhammer. Medieval Warhammer is an extremely complex fantasy world, in which largely it is a deception between various races, love and kill each other, essentially a Western fantasy world similar to our Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and how to interpret this world, then total war is the best way.
Total War: Warhammer character setting
Medieval Warhammer was originally a Battle Flag game (board game) created by Games Workshop in 1984, and among the games modified by Medieval Warhammer, the most widely known at present should be Total War: Warhammer series and Warhammer: The Plague of the End series. And through the game, all the races in the medieval Warhammer worldview can be made into it, and the game of the various eras of the Medieval Warhammer can be brilliantly interpreted, Total War: Warhammer is unique.
The Warhammer series also has a certain refinement and completion based on the game's worldview, and in Hammer 3, there is a faction that used to only serve as a background board, the Aurora faction. The Aurora faction is based on ancient Chinese, and it is also in Hammer 3 that completes the story of Aurora in the medieval Warhammer worldview, which is a very exciting thing for Chinese players and has caused a lot of discussion in the game community.
Aurora faction in Warhammer
As the final chapter of the game, Hammer 3 is also rendered very well, for the first time, the Chaos Four Gods are used as the player's controllable factions, and the enemy of the player's chosen sequencing factions is the Chaos Four Gods at the beginning. The background of the story of Hammer 3 is mainly about the arrival of the final time in the medieval warhammer, the player chooses the orderly camp to fight against the four gods of chaos, prevent the four gods from destroying the world, or manipulate the four gods faction to destroy the world.
In any case, Hammer 3 in the medieval warhammer game, can be said to be a ceiling, not even a competitor, Hammer 3 as a ceiling that is well-deserved.
03
Innovations that add to the bricks
Similarly, as a game with no competitors, I actually agree with and support his update. The Hammer 3 did not disappoint us in some places, making drastic changes, but also made updates that made old players sigh in some places, but overall, the innovation of the Hammer 3 is worth affirming.
A new system in the new faction that replaces the lord's limbs
One of the most popular updates is the online system in Hammer 3. This game directly changes the number of online people from the ancestral 2 to 8 players fighting with the screen, and each player's round is also carried out at the same time, not as before, and their online friends have enough time to watch a movie. However, in my multiplayer experience, there have also been many bugs and flashbacks, and the load on the network is also greater for the more players, and there are about 7-8 flashbacks of different players in the 20 hours I am online. For the online aspect, the hammer 3 should be the first task to make the game more stable, aside from the flashback situation, the game's online experience is still very smooth.
Play online with your friends
Another huge change is the upgrade of the siege battle in Hammer 3, hammer 3 increases the depth of defense in siege warfare, and can build fortifications at various passes; not only can be built at the beginning, as time increases, the number of points for building fortifications will increase, even after the battle begins, it can also spend a certain amount of time to build fortifications, which is a huge improvement for the defender, but it also makes it more difficult for the attacker to attack the city. Under the blessing of high difficulty, the automatic score of AI (the comparison of the combat strength of the automatic battle in the game) will be much higher than the player overall, which makes each siege battle of the game have to make the player fight manually, whether it is a huge consumption of the player's spirit or the player's physical strength.
Automatic combat power comparison in Warhammer 3
What the old players can't stand the most is the dominant mode of domination in Hammer 3. In Hammer 3, the PVP ladder only has the latest mode of domination, which is to increase the element of occupying points in the traditional mode, so that many factions that rely on position warfare fall into the inferior position, and many tactics cannot play a role. Hammer 3 chose to completely abandon the balance of land warfare, and even eliminated its ancestral mode in the ladder mode, which even made me a PVP novice feel very sad, not to mention the achievement of the old player who paid countless days and nights for the ladder.
Occupancy in domination mode
04
Worst publicity tactics
As such an excellent game, the publicity of Hammer 3's China is really a blow to the player, the cause of this incident is that Hammer 3 gave some anchors an early access experience of 1 month, and can also give some promotion to the game through these anchors, and most of these anchors are ca's official partners and are also thorough all-out war players. So these streamers can try it out a month in advance and there aren't so many complaints in the player community.
Anchor Amsy released hammer 3 raiders a month ago
And then the CA official to some fan base is not large, and is not the full battle players of the anchor sent a lot of games in advance trial, and pre-order players even before playing the game, has been the major anchor spoilers over and over again, which makes many player communities for CA this publicity strategy is extremely disappointed.
Reviews in steam
Subsequently, CA also issued an announcement, saying that it hopes to gain experience in future game publicity through communication with players, and also acknowledges the misalignment of this publicity, which is also worth affirming for this attitude of standing up and being beaten, and also hopes that CA can get better and better in the maintenance of the player community.
summary
Although Total War: Warhammer 3 has experienced ticket skipping, publicity storms, and even has not fixed bugs and flashbacks, but when CA announced that this is a game they will operate for five years, I believe that in future updates, Hammer 3 can more and more fit the Warhammer world in the hearts of players. While flawed, Total War: Warhammer 3 is the best ending to a majestic epic.