Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs Expansion Pack
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I am a huge fan of the “Age” sports meeting and I am very sorry to report that
the War Chiefs Expansion is the worst “Age” Expansion ever released.
The War Chiefs Expansion offers mostly new make pleased and nearly no real new features.
No only that, all the existing bugs from Age of Empires 3 were not fixed, and were passed to the expansion.
In addition to that the largest missing feature from Age of Empires 3 – playing Custom Scenarios Online, is not included in the expansion.
Copious Scenario Editor’s bugs that were reported to Ensemble were not fixed either.
As I said before, I played Age of Empires 3 for hundreds of hours.
In general it is a excellent game but the bugs are just very irritating, and it gets worse the more you play the game.
You would expect the expansion to fix all the problems, but instead they were ignored.
They went ahead and added new campaign and 3 new civilizations and few extra units and that the most of it.
If you buy the expansion you won’t notice much difference when you compare it to the original game.
Ensemble advertise their “powerful scenario editor” but fail to mention that they are not at the bottom of the editor, and that they are not plotting to fix any of its bugs.
The scenario may be powerful, but it is extremely buggy and very user UNfriendly.
The list of existing bugs that were carried over to the expansion is very long.
Here is a small sample:
1. Online “Drop bug” – players can drop in purpose when they loose.
2. Gathering point for releasing combat units from war ships doesn’t work.
3. gathering point for remote mines and trees doesn’t work, as the settlers arrive at the remote location but don’t gather resources.
4. Attack go doesn’t work when you click (left click or right click) on any enemy building.
5. “Out of Sync” error in the middle of online sports meeting is still an issue one year after the game was released.
6. The “2 minute resign” bug – players can resign within two minutes from an online game and suffer no impact on their rating.
7. Copious bugs with Parapet (too long to get into).
8. Mortars don’t attack buildings when they are in range unless they are instructed to do so.
9. Very often you cannot release a large number of units from a ship in one time.
10. “Obstruction Radius” bug – There is a bug with the obstruction radius of War Ships that makes them overlap with each other.
11. 2V2 in “Quick Search” online doesn’t work. The option is there, the players are there, but you will never get a 2V2 match no matter how long you wait.
12. It is not possible to make a gate when there are units standing next to that wall segment.
13. Ships that carry units or train units cannot release the units unless their nose is all the way at the coast.
14. The AI has many issues and limitations, yet it was not improved at all.
15. Online sports meeting are very laggy, especially the 2V2 sports meeting.
In the past year Ensemble released 9 patches with emphasize on “Balance” changes instead of bug fixing.
There is also the issue of One CD Key per game.
Many fans complained about that.
Once a player makes an online account, he cannot change it, delete it or reset it.
Only one online account can be made per game.
As mentioned above the AI in the War Chiefs expansion is so stupid that it is very simple to beat it even on “Hard”.
It is even more stupid than the regular game.
Also this game that is all about Rushing. Turtling and Flourishing are not viable strategies in the War Chiefs expansion.
These three strategies supposed to counter each other, but not in this game.
Defensive structures are very weak in the War Chiefs making “Rushing” the best approach, even against “Turtling”.
Outposts are excellent only against ships and cavalry, but very weak against infantry and artillery.
Parapet can be taken down easily due to their low hit points.
Only one Fort is allowed and we can not rebuild it if it is taken down.
As a result “Rushers” have an advantage, as “Rushing” counters “Flourishing” as well as “Turtling”.
The War Chiefs expansion is all about new make pleased such as a new campaign, 3 new civilizations, and a few new units for the other civilizations, that’s it.
The “Treaty” game type is just a new “no rush” map option to accommodate players who like to play “No Rush” sports meeting .
The “Trade Monopoly” is very similar to the “Marvel” type game that was included in previous “Age” sports meeting, so it is not really a new feature.
That is all there is in this expansion.
Nearly no new features, no new physics, just some new make pleased, that is all.
In addition to that, all the bugs from the original game are still there.
So save your cash for other sports meeting such as Rise of Legends, Lord of the Rings: Middle Earth 2, and Company of Heroes.
Rating: 1 / 5
IT HASNT EVEN COME OUT YET! WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT! sure there is the demo but demos are never representitive ofthe actual game, geez
Rating: 3 / 5
Age of empires 3 had been a splendid hit on microsoft and Ensemble studios online, made players delight in a stratejic way of playing stylishness and controling your empire, you had been to choose thorugh out 9 civ,
But, why should we get the new Expansion “THE WAR CHIEFS”,
I belive that Microsoft has been focusing more on the Native settlements then the main Civ, For the splendid lovers of AOE 3, This Game is just the like the new update, so GO ahead and buy it, it will be worth your cash.
PCE YALL MY username: NYGladiator and i have the game so question me if you want to play
Rating: 5 / 5
Age of empires 3 had been a splendid hit on microsoft and Ensemble studios online, made players delight in a stratejic way of playing stylishness and controling your empire, you had been to choose thorugh out 9 civ,
But, why should we get the new Expansion “THE WAR CHIEFS”,
I belive that Microsoft has been focusing more on the Native settlements then the main Civ, For the splendid lovers of AOE 3, This Game is just the like the new update, so GO ahead and buy it, it will be worth your cash.
PCE YALL MY username: NYGladiator and i have the game so question me if you want to play
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a fun game. I wish there could be even more destruction available!
Rating: 5 / 5