Reviews - Dragonslayerelf

Fun to play, starts with a good concept, add some good mechanics, and you have a wonderful mod.

I think this is a seven, not because this is a bad mod: this is a good mod. This is, however, a mod that is hard on the eyes and has several issues with maps and pathing.

To start with the 'hard on the eyes' bit, the mod has a mix of capital letters and lowercase letters that bothers me. Quite a bit. While it may be useful to some to see 'CINCINATTI' and know it's a city, the model itself should tell you 'This is a city', not the all-caps letters.

The multiplayer. I've fiddled about in host-only multiplayer and the way the slots are configured are god awful. Each slot from 1-4 can hold specific items only rather than hold one of any item the class can make use of (So what if I want to use 3 revolvers and have the last slot be metal cartridges goddamnit.) Not to mention, to my experience the last slot is always muzzle-loading gun ammo which, when you are in some classes (such as the Sheriff), is useless.

Also, the banners are kind of glitchy, the pathing on the NPCs is abominable (Most NPCs can't navigate a bandit-infested town to get into position to fire at them, and towns are - oh boy.) and the mod itself has a few problems in certain places (like shotguns not actually being shotguns). Also, the textures for the clothes more often than not glitch out and don't have lighting effects.

I like the mod, don't get me wrong, but it's just not a high-quality mod like Warsword Conquest and Perisno. I'm not giving the author slack or unleashing salt, I'm giving the mod an honest review of what I think of it.

Takes every single M&B mod and squishes it into one fun game-mode, and aside from the occasional bug or glitch, which the dev team is very quick to notice and fix, the mod is completely flawless! One of my personal favorites, even in single-player.

As this mod has been updated, it went from "great-great" to "*******-screwing awesome-great!" They have so many features and things in it that I didn't even know was possible with Medieval 2's engine and mod options, the models are stunning (especially considering what they're working with), the game is well balanced, and, overall, I rarely crash anymore. This mod, whilst still with a few tiny flaws in very very specific instances, is clearly worthy of a 10 if not an 11.

Solid 9. There's an easy download on the Total War Forums (thanks to Gigantus) From this point on I will place a sentence to fit the 100-character minimum.

This game is ******* legendary for a beta, and I'm going to bring out 14 points as to why

1. It makes the default world actually fun
With a new continent equal to America and a small kingdom of op weaponry, how do you not enjoy? Also there is a charm of the default but new here (I still dont like being killed and not letting my army continue...maybe next update you will fix, ja?).
2. There is no default resource for guns anywhere
The closest thing you have for guns is muskets in Napoleonic Wars, which even then arent that efficient a system to run off of. It shows effort was put in to make guns...well guns!
3. I see nothing from default except landscape and cities
I hate when you open up a mod and hope to see non default stuff, actually new stuff. You open it up and SUPRISE! WE ONLY ADDED A NEW MAP! There is no equipment from default as far as the eye can see, all custom textured and coded stuff
4. The MUSIC!
The best thing is when you open up a mod and literally have to dance because the music is fantastic. I heard the Russian choir and was compelled to get up and do the soviet dance (The Papers Please dance :3)
5-14.
There is so much effort put in.

Good mod but it's still in beta so for a beta it's amazing. Work on those bug fixes, get diplomacy, and make this an even better mod! I love it! The skaven are oficially my favorite character.

There are a few bugs here and there, but over all I see this mod to continue to be a booming success. I already love the troop design, the units, the pictures for the leaders and there are only 2 problems (in my eyes)

-Most of it is still not in English: Some of the faction descriptions (namely the Khajiit) are still in russian, some of the unit descriptions are in russian, the factions at the end of the battle are in russian and the pause menu is probably in russian but I think I deleted the file on accident.

-There are a few bugs that in my opinion "spoil the broth": "The Elder Scrolls" or the campaign does not want to play, and then it goes back to the menu

But then again this is late beta i guess and you cant expect everything upon early release (except with GTA V cuz they're delaying the **** out of that game so it better be perfect.)