Recent reviews by Athiuk

it's the stuff, play it nao!!

First thing first, I really love the idea of that game and everything about it, I played the base game in it's current form for all it's worth.

My main grudge with the game is that there's very often no ryhm or reason to whatever the ai will do to try and screw you up any way it can. no matter if it's the entierty of christianity trying to get you excomunicated on a daily basis just in case the pope dislike you, no matter theire personal relation to you or just that one guy that keep coming back to your court after you expled him 5 times.
The ai has it's own mysterious way of being infuriating even when it fail majorly.
It is also not all that Clear what is dlc content and what is acessible from the main game without shelling out any more
( retinue come to mind here )
People will probably downvote me to obvlivion for being a free 2 play scrub and daring to complain or even point out my ignorance, I guess i should know all those lines in the game about retinue are only in case i own this one dlc.
Starting the game will always remind you there's locked content. ( Suposing you haven't brought it all off i guess ?)

Edit received two of the dlc for free,(Sons of Ahbraham and Swords of Islam) still no acess to some of the tab that are in the base game, still some stats on building for example training field won't have any in game effect unless i buy additional content. ( yes i won't get over this retinue thing... )

I m all for dev getting payed accordingly to theire works, however i am severly against publisher that botsh and piecemeal those devs hard work without even doing it in a way that doesn't impact the base game negatively.
I am aware some of those edges have been rounded with the years but many remains and that is what i base my final judgement on.
As some wise man said, there's nothing more expensive than free.

Game is pretty cool and detailed ... but its aparently going down the pay for any extra content road
Im a cheapskate ... paying for extra model just make me sick ....
if they would come out with actual add-on Ie wait a year or two finish singling out every issue
with your engine then come out with a dlc adding a bit of everythng + some mission i m on
thats fine by me i'd buy
But here the game does not feel finished to me maybe they need to come out with more DLC's ....
Just my opinion