It's up

>>2094972 (OP)
Looks like shit

>>2094974
nope, looks alright. Won't pay for the same game though... what, five times now? They're not Todd and Stronghold ain't Skyrim.

>>2094974
dont be so negative, it hurts your beauty

>>2094972 (OP)
is it fun

I completely forgot this board even exist. I'll pick up the game after work, hopefully the new campaign and the new lords are good. At least the multiplayer won't hopefuly be a pain in the ass to set up

>>2095032
>At least the multiplayer won't hopefuly be a pain in the ass to set up
yeah its cozy already played some coop with me mate

>Can change your color now
10/10

>>2094974
It does look like shit, doesn't it

New units are hopelessly overpowered and I'm tired of pretending otherwise. Old mercenary units are completely pointless now, and from the old Stronghold roster only crossbowmen make any sense to recruit, even if only for defending.

>>2095000
Yes! Been plaiyng the new timed skirmish trail and I thought the timer would be annoying, but it actually keeps me trying the same missions again to optimise my play

It honestly looks terrible.
It looks worse than the stronghold remaster.
What happened here? The artstyle is all weird looking.

>>2095636
yeah, they fucked up the color palette big time. Funnily enough, the old version looks more realistic than the new one because of that fuck up.

Remaster looks way too cartoony.

>>2094972 (OP)
>>2094976
>>2095636
Warcraft 3 Reforged tier

>>2095628
>>2095636
>>2095812
>>2095825
>>2095828

kill weebs behead weebs piss on weebs graves

>>2095636
What retard put all that shit around their stockpile wtf

kekw

>>2096149
> some kike looking cunt asking for personal details

What did they mean by this?

>>2096149
oy vey

>dumbass streamer tries stronghold
>his friend is like "do not go to the lobby, there is questionable content there"
>the questionable content:

>>2096058
Good morning saar

>>2096599
kekw

>>2096583
I just used my protonmail for that.

It's been fun so far, but I have to relearn the entire game. Knight spamming still seems to be still OP at least

>>2096815
>Knight spamming
>OP
oh boy...

>>2095628
>>2096058
but they're right, it looks like shit

Looks like AI art. It's too soft looking and lacks definition.

>>2096149
>>2096798
go back to /v/ you raped bitch

>>2096839
shut up weeb we dont care about you here.

Anyone up for some coop this fine weekend?

>>2097310
a message, from the snake:

>>2097485
A MESSAGE FROM THE RAT
Maps have been drawn. Plans.... have been made. No one will escape your PATHETIC settlement

>play crusader online for the first time
>find out you can call your opponent "weasel turd"
they really don't make 'em like this anymore

is this better than the 3d crusader? i found the game speed and some of the units animations so odd

Am I supposed to be playing the campaign, the skirmish trails, or just plain skirmishes?
What is the main mode (no i am not playing PVP)

>Definitive Edition
>Enhanced Edition
>Complete Edition
All fucking scams

Why does it look so blurry compared to the stronghold remaster?

I love these little fuckers like you wouldnt belive

>>2097786
only way to preserve original artstyle without having lowres jagged edges

>Eunuch is the best unit 1v1
Is this an attempt at subtle pro-troon propaganda?

>>2097755
settle down, grandpa

Does this game have sieges and stuff? I love battles from the siege of gondor, helmsdeep and stuff where I protect a fortress or a town or maybe try to take one down with my army.

Is this game good for noobs that haven't touched the genre before?

>>2097755
You forgot extreme edition. They've made one good game they came back to re release every few years because all the sequels were shit and bombed.

>>2097533
Thou art an artless greasy tallow-catch

>cant use formations, have to move units as a big blob
2025 everyone, cant even add a fucking simple QOL change. LET ME DRAG MY UNITS OUT INTO A LINE
LET ME ATTACK MOVE

>>2097925
>Does this game have sieges and stuff? I love battles from the siege of gondor, helmsdeep and stuff where I protect a fortress or a town or maybe try to take one down with my army.
It's almost entirely sieges.
>Is this game good for noobs that haven't touched the genre before?
Yes.

>>2097885
>Axe wounded troon is still a testosterone roid monster.
B-based?

>>2097562
100x better
Night and day difference

Is there really no one who wants to play some coop?

>>2098928
Multiplayer is broken and didn't work lol
Go play the original on hamachi

>>2098928
im up for it, dude, give me your steam fren code.

>>2094972 (OP)
Few thoughts on new AI lords

>Nomad
Low tier. Recruits Bedouin units exclusively, and not the more expensive ones. Quite aggresive, attacks early on, but never with enough troops to actually inflict any lasting damage as long as you're ready. The most interesting thing about him are his castles, or, more precisely the fact that he doesn't build castles. What he does is he puts walls here and there, but leaves massive openings in places where you'd expect a tower or a gate. I suppose it's in line with his nomad gimmick, but that dooms him to low tier, only slightly better than the Sultan. I also think he doesn't build wells
>Jewel
Richard Lionheart with some Bedouin units to spicy things up. Not much to say about her, really. Her castles are bit bigger than Richard's.
>Sentinel
The Pig or the "small castle" variant of the Wolf, depending on the map. Relies on European units, but also recruits Bedouin destroyers and medics. His castles are cross shaped, and they look really cool, but other than that, not groundbreaking in any way. Competent, not quite the Wolf or Frederick, but definetely on par with the Pig, if not better
>Kahin
Mixes and matches Bedouin and Arab units (mostly the archers). Plently of chapels and gallows around her castles, which are build with short walls. She's bit like the Caliph, but without swiftness and brutality to justify building very light defenses. Still, firmly mid tier. The most interesting lords from the new batch

The devs are clearly running out of ideas, as there's not much more you can do with Stronghold AI lords without giving them crippling gimmicks. Four more lords will be released this years, but I don't see it.

>>2099018
The main issue about the lords is the shitty limited AI. I wish they could implement a tool so players can make proper AI lords.

Right now, im playing the belvoir castle delaying tactics mission, and shit is brutal, i dont know how the fuck approach it, there is no time to build anything and the 2 attacks are kinda stupidly hard.

>>2099136
Oh, i won, but i think i had to cheese it by making a hole in my wall.

>>2099142
I put like 4-5 circle towers around the walls with ballistas and started spamming xbows and archers

>>2094972 (OP)
I think games like no option for diplomacy and that dark fantasy they are billions clone pretty much made this siege defence RTS genre obsolete for me

>>2099159
No time for spam, nor for build 5 towers with ballistas. I rushed it and all i could get for the first battle was 5 swordmen + 3 ballistas in square towers + 2 xbows.

>Our castle has resisted firm!

>>2099046
You're in luck.

>>2097836
Put 100 of these guys on your walls and the only thing you have to worry about are siege engines, but only if AI is smart enough not to bring engineers into shooting range

>>2094972 (OP)
Looks soulless and shit but more importantly, what does it offer the free HD upgrade that came after original? Does it offer some automation maybe to minimise the micro? I mean its 2k25. Why would I pick this up owning already HD versions?
>>2095636
Man this looks horrible, surely you can switch to original graphics in this demaster?

>>2099142
>>2099196
did you crank up the sharpness by 1000% or something? why does it look so different from the official screenshots?

>>2099274
from what i have seen you can finally recruit more than one unit at a time and auto sell/buy stuff from the market which is a genius tier qol addition

Okay, i caved in and bought it.
It's actually way better than i thought. The screenshots don't do it justice. It looks much better ingame plus all the QOL features are actually fantastic.

t. actual crusader lord

>>2099676
The remaster is crap, multiplayer is broken, and all the known bugs and shitty AI behavior are still there.

>>2100013
bot post

>>2100055
bot post

>>2098995
you first

>>2100603
you first

>>2100630
are you a euro? not gonna play with lagmericans

>>2100013
>all the known bugs and shitty AI behavior are still there
Jesus Christ be praised!

>100K sales in two weeks
Yeah we're so back.
Sucks that I can't train Bedouin units in the original Crusader trail though.

I'm having fun with this

Devs refused to cooperate with UCP devs. Its joever, they will not deliver proper AI in our lifetime

>>2101296
Roadmap says they plan to let everyone make their own AI lords

what speed setting is everyone playing at?

>>2101377
70 is sexo.

>>2101296
Sad, the UCP is way better than this slop. All AI habe so much more spice in the UCP and their lategame scaling is wild. Auto trading is nice though and I never want to play without it ever again.

>>2101545
autotrading is going to make the game way too easy

buildings are on fire, sire!

>>2101792
did you screw with it or is that how it looks in-game?
it just looks *too* smooth.

>>2101796
wdym? its footage straight from the game

Starting doing the coop trails with one of my friends. Pretty fun.

>>2101712
>too easy
Against the current bots autotrading surely makes the game way to easy - once you understand how OP crossbows, beer and bread are, the game is easymode anyways and no more pain in the ass micro management for those economic chains makes it so much a
simpler. No more need for any kind of farmland. However: if you had the UCP AIs with their steriod maxxed scaling , concentrating an micromanaging battle instead of pressing M and smashing your mouse to get rid of stones would be much more fun. Also in PVP the autotraung really helps.

What I'd really love to see, would be troops being affected not only by fear factor but also requiring food and maybe money for some units. Imagine the food and ale bonusses would also affect your troops strength, with certain OP troops requiring more food than others. This would balance the exonomic vs military aspects of the game much better and catapult spam could be limited like this

>>2094972 (OP)
>>2094974
looks like soulless ass

Autotrade broke the game. You can autobuy 1 bread, and put double rations on for virtually free 8+ without food supply.

>>2102094
>No more need for any kind of farmland
how do you get the base ingredients for bread and bear then?

>>2102296
soulful bugs like these is why we love stronghold

>>2102179
The screenshots don't do it justice. I noticed ingame it looks pretty much exactly like the original. Execept for knights, they look like shit for some reason.

>>2102296
Once your population is above 60, buying the incredients for ale and bread will refinance their value. Just set up 1 mill, 8 bakeries, 3 breweries and 2 Inns and set the autotraider to always have at least one wheat and hop on stock and the tax income will refinance the wheat. Thats it. Buy wood, transform it into corssbows, than sell the crossbows. Thats how you profit in the game. Simple as - always works. Population 58, buy wheat and hops, set up breweries and Inns, set up 1 mill and 8 backeries, Granary on -4, Ale +8, taxes -4 while buying wood and selling crossbows is how you 'break' the game.

spearchuckers op?

>>2102766
All the Bedouin units are absurdly overpowered