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Thanks for the support! :)

For sure. In hindsight, effort invested in Troy/Pharoah probably should have been directed at that new engine instead :P

I feel you bud. Dynasties feels like a step in the right direction, but still doesn't bring the "realism" like those past games did :)

Good spot bud! Just goes to show a bit of research pays off. I've just updated the video title/description. Thanks for your support!

Honestly it’s the best! Just be sure to get the PC version if you want to join these custom events :)

@@MattsFiefdom yeah I’m on PC. I make Minecraft content, but may venture out to Bannerlord! I’ve subbed mate. Look forward to watching.

Mount & Blade Bannerlord for PC. This is from a custom server event :) just gotta join a participating clan to get involved!

Ooof, well thanks for taking the time to comment I guess 🤣

Honestly, in hindsight I wish I talked about this in the video, would have been a good example for sure :)

​@@MattsFiefdom As fan of total war I am incredibly salty about Hyenas, it represent wasted money and time that could be spent on new titles or new entirelly upgraded engine. I am a bit puzzled what "new engine" would mean. I can see the updates to engine and game mechanics beetween titles ... and sadly... long term they are almost useless because the foundation was forked in so many ways that it's stuck in ... well it's literally stuck. It's not evolving from title to title. It feels like ping-pong. I feel like I am repeating what I saw in video. But there is so many examples of that. 3K's diplomacy improvements were huge improvements, it got ported in some way, but not entirelly. I believe the tranparency of diplomacy was inherited so you don't have to guess if deal goes through, but the fixes, especially with vassals fighting vassals got forgotten. WH2/3 turn selection speed for each faction or based on foe/neutral/friendly is amazing and it was missing from many titles. I noticed it first time outside of Warhammer in Pharoah Dynasties. I really enjoyed Pharoah Dynasties and even if it is more of the same, it is good same. I honestly can't recommend you enough to play it. I am sure if you enjoy modern total war games, you will enjoy Pharoah Dynasties. And it's proper historical title. No shortcut, no weird decision. I have only 100h in it, but it was good 100h. And the Pharoah has amazing performance and runs smoothly even in 4K at 60fps while WH3 jumps for me beetween 15 - 60 fps. And that comes from someone who hates TW: Troy. Ah.. and I personally believed that the entire time when they canceled support for 3K, they were working on 3K Second Title, you know... to milk the success. Nope... ah... yes... I blame hyenas also for killing 3K support. 3K still could use patches. Man.. great vid. I knew why clicked on it the moment I got it recommended. It triggers me greatly! Haha, AHHH THE SALT and love for TW I have is incredible

Best CI event yet! ⚔️

It is bud! This is from the CI event every Wednesday :)

@@MattsFiefdom i have ps5 :/

Honestly, this was such a good event :) one of my favourites so far!

Too bad the melee system is abyssmal compared to warband

That's an extremely good question 🤣

Mount & Blade: Bannerlord, this is a modded battle event between a lot of clans. If you're interested in a french-speaking clan look up BRE.

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Really great comment bud!, and some really good points. Absolutely agree with too much focus on graphics and not enough on gameplay. I guess my theory was whether WarScape is capable of delivering some of those exact goals you mentioned (40,000+ units, battle map size, etc). Everything you mentioned is the TW dream, and I believe they haven't made it a reality because the current engine isn't up to the task. Tbh though, this is all guesswork from the outside looking in. I absolutely hope someone at CA reads your comment, and uses this as the basis for the next historical title :D

@@MattsFiefdomWell, I don't know if you tried playing Empire total War 2 mod, or the NTW3 mod, but I managed to play 40 units per army battles with 2.25 unit size increased. It was a pretty decent scale for a period battle, and the biggest problem with stability is some deep deep flaw with the audio memory the Empire/NTW version of the engine have. Most battle crashes happen due to audio believe it or not. RTW2 mods that expand battles are usually far more stable. So I do think that, if they focused on it, they could deliver at least twice the units we been having for the past decade, but it will come at the cost of graphics while zoomed in, and I for once, could not care less, ETW graphics are just fine for zooming in, at best what I need is better visuals while zoomed out. I do agree however, that the warscape engine is asking for a change, it's already been used for more than 15 years, and they've NEVER managed to fix melee battles and cavalry charges on that engine. But my point wasn't arguing against making a new engine, which they need. My point was that even using this engine, the biggest problem with TW right now is game design priorities, not technicalities.

@@LordSesshaku Yea thats absolutely fair :) Love NTW3 btw!

I agree with that for sure. With Dynasties, Pharaoh has returned to the quality of past historical titles in terms of factions/features. I think it's only failure is not overcoming the arcadey nature of battles (inherited from Warhammer). Sofia Studio (who made troy/pharaoh) are absolutely taking Warscape Engine back in the right direction though. I just worry whether the engine's limitations will stop them from truly making something new/great that moves TW forwards.

Thanks bud! Appreciate the kind words :)

That’s fair bud, I totally agree criticism of CA business practice is due. And you’re spot on, I do love TW, which is why it’s so painful to see where it’s currently heading. This video is just a narrow theory on the challenges their developers face and how they might overcome them for future games with the right high level decisions surrounding the game engine. CA business practices is a whole other video I think we’d both agree would have a very different tone 🤣 Thanks for taking the time to comment though, appreciate it!

For sure, people forget how stable/fluid the Shogun 2 combat system was. They had some seriously good devs on that project. I'd guess they chose to extend Napoleon for Rome 2, simply because Shogun 2 wasn't finished/stable and they needed to get started on the next project.

I feel you bud! Loved Arena and spent countless hours playing it :) l often played with 3 archer units! What was your typical build?

@@MattsFiefdom I liked doing light infantry a lot, and the dog units for the barbarian faction simply because it was funny to fight people with them

You know, Hyenas would have made a great addition to this video to make the point. Shame I didn't include a section on that! Just imagine if they invested that time/money in a new TW engine instead of building a new shooter.

I really hope this is the case. If CA were open about Troy/Pharaoh being interim projects to keep the company afloat while they work on a new engine, I think we (the fans) would have been much more understanding and less critical about them. Great theory!