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Hi Ubisoft Team,
as you granted us the right to test and play the game during the current Beta-Event I wanted to take the chance to deliver my impressions.
Somehow there is still no Chance to play the Single-Player Mode at least for some missions, so I will only concentrate on my experience with the Multiplayer of course.
Graphics & Performance:
At the current state I would rate the grafics as good as is, but not as a revolution of graphical experience. But I think for this game it is absolutely okay. The details are beautiful as is and the animations are very smooth. The settings to adjust are for my point of view also all right and have every necessary option you need to get a decent performance running on your system.
I experienced some minor issues, for example when I start the game it sometimes wont load full screen and get me a very small little window, which I have to reset to full screen in menu afterwards.
I did not notice real graphic bugs in game or physics bugs.
Sound:
The war cries and game sounds are fitting to the scenario and have a pretty high quality. The only thing that is a bit lazy is the soundtrack, which can be getting on your nerves when you have longer loading times at connection with other players.
Network and Connection:
So this is where I think one of the most important topic is named.
At PvAI Matches I felt I have the least issues with connectivity. It was not very often within maybe 2-3 hours I have played that players had disconnects or issues. I did personally not have any lags or something I would have felt in the game.
Although it happened from time to time, that the match had some soret of resyncing.
When it comes to 4v4 PvP I think I played about 2 matches by now, because it would almost never start and get stuck in the connection screen for minutes.
This is somehow one of the key modes of this game and I really have issues getting this to run!
2v2 I did not play until now as I am not so interested in 2 player coop currently. 1v1 worked at first try and seems to be okay.
Gameplay:
For the gameplay itself I am at one side happy that the fight system is working very well. I like the Idea of active blocking, countering and managing the stamina. Having the combos is very nice and also like of a competition to learn the timings. I think gifted players will learn them very fast and just stomp everyone that has not so much skill, so I hope the balancing of the matches will be very thought through, otherwise I feel it will get very frustrating.
On the other side I feel that the game will be getting very boring very soon at the current level of content. There are very few maps (3 on 4v4 mode) and they are also pretty small so if thats the final content, I think you will have to deliver much more somehow. But I have a bad feeling that this will be sold as Season Pass content which would be a shame!
Overall the complete war map is not even closely explained very well. I have no clue what I have conquered or how you count the areas for the 3 factions. I am also not sure if I play with a nordic, a knight and a samurai in one team who would get a conquered area, or do they get all 1 point for it? How is this working?
You can also somehow send resources between matches (but only between matches) to some places, but thats also not really explained what impact this can have.
In most cases I feel like grinding gear and points through matches, where the loot is mostly ****ty and I have to spent point for gear boxes to get at least better tier items.
I dont know, that really prevents me currently from buying the game finally. Although I love the gear idea and managaing for my Classes very much.
Verdict
I currently have mixed feelings about the game. And to make things clear I am not a very critical buyer usually. I give games chances to convince me. But at this point of the Beta and as I dont know how much content I currently see, I am struggeling.
The idea of the game is cool and yes it makes fun to play. But for how long? 10 hours? 100 hours?
Technically this Beta is one of the better when you play the right modes, but 4v4 PvP has to be fixed very soon. Thats not good if 2 out of 3 trials to join a match are not working.
Also one thing I did not mention was, that the controls are very much focussing on Gamepads, which I understand to be the best decision, but friends of mine were complaining about Keyboard and Mouse controls very heavily.
I hope you give some more insights about the final content and what Multiplayer should be played for to get people informed. Because thats for my person currently the buy - not buy criteria of the game.
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Impression is something subjective ... deal with it! It is meant for the developers and not for you. I have 25 Years of experience in games and gaming and I think you can count on my impressions. And if you are not okay with it then leave useful comments on what you disagree with, and we discuss things out ... but useless one-liners with no substance are definitively not wanted in here or anywhere else.
