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There are troop types from heavy infantry to mages to scorpion war beasts to artillerymen to orc boar boyz to healing archers to assassins.
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Troops system works like this: You pick up or buy troops over time that have unique things and you can train them, rank them up, etc., to give them better stats and options using troop experience and gold/cubics. Troops that are grey quality ("public") aren't worth investing in. IMPORTANT: you get your mount like 20 minutes in and it goes the same speed as all other mounts (technically faster than "fast" mounts because it can do a horsie jump that makes it jump forward quicker than the "fastest" mounts). If I'm being honest I haven't done any PvP beyond duels and they seemed to mostly be decided by how good you are with your hero. There's PvP with duels (1v1), invasions, a "war" thing that I guess is coming soon, and the territorial control thing. Outside of boring and bad field missions, The PvE side has missions that are repeatable like "subjugations" for grinding (with variable difficulty modes and bonus objectives), story missions (with variable difficulty modes), dungeons (with variable difficulty modes), raids of up to 8 (or maybe 16?) people and their respective 3 armies. Generally, the closer to endgame you get the more you'll be mostly/exclusively doing the RTS mode fights. Then you press tab to go into dynasty warriors mode. They have their own stats, equipment, and skills that you use in a Total War-style battle map. This is the good and fun and best part because you control your dude and also up to 3 "troops" (there are 200 to choose from/unlock). There's the 'RTS' mode where you control your hero within a dynasty warriors style battle and get a 600 kill streak while you DON'T PURSUE LU BU. Try to rush through this part if you can, you won't miss anything. If you've played any MMO ever you know this dumb part of the genre well.
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You're running around in the world where you play in a typical 'slay one bear and collect rear end' style fight called field missions - this is by far the worst part of the game because it's basically just mashing F to continue the dialogue before slaying like 4 dudes right outside town, or gathering piles of wood or something before turning in a quest and blah blah blah. There are a lot of combos that are hard to get the hang of if you're bad. No tab-targeting just push a button and hope there's a dude in front of you. Gold buys repairs and potions and other junk.Ĭontrolling your hero plays a lot like TERA/Guild Wars 2, etc. The cubics buy all the other poo poo, including the same cosmetics as diamonds. The diamonds can only be used to purchase certain cosmetics. All other versions of this released before were aggressively P2W, with lootboxes and straight up power boosts, it was egregious.Ĭubics (you get a good chunk when you buy the game, then you can only get them from in-game activities) It's just a single purchase to access (so far) everything available, including cosmetics and there's really not much of a grind to get or do anything you want. They changed the monetization scheme around to completely eliminate P2W poo poo. This time around the (new) people in charge are doing some cool things. Then, I guess, the devs decided to actually release the game in its current form that might have some legs: the NA/EU version completely devoid of P2W poo poo. Originally announced in 2008, it was released in various markets including RU and SEA where it died relatively quickly to the same poo poo as every other KMMO: truly predatory monetization. They did basically zero marketing on this game, and it was released on Steam today. Honestly, I'd gladly pay $30 just for the gameplay alone so all the online/MMO stuff is cool too. It used to be F2P/P2W but is now vehemently anti-P2W for the NA/EU market. Kingdom Under Fire 2 is an MMO/RTS hybrid from Korea with a long, dumb development history (announced in 2008!) that was released on Steam today and is good? Maybe?