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Just play the original Stronghold or Stronghold Crusader.

Nuh uh, i've brought this game, i'm looking for tips, not a different game.

Super necro as it seems a waste to make a new thread.

I brought it at game for basically nothing because they're closing down. I'm enjoying it, but does anyone else find the missions a tad... unbalanced? For example, the first siege of the war campaign took me two hours of dying to even get close to beating and I had to go consult a youtube video for tips. I've not had to do that for years, it really surprised me.

But it doesn't seem like it was designed that way, it just seems badly designed. Like the level where it spawns you in range of some ballista and spawns your troops pretty damn close together. I lose the archers that you absolutely need to complete the level before I realised the level had started, it was a tad frustrating.

That's not a challenge. That's pure luck. Challenge is surviving for as long as you can without using machine guns while moving up at least once every 10 waves or some such example rather than just hoping the RNG doesn't bend you over before wave 50.

Quote from: Solifuge on March 20, 2012, 07:07:45 pm

They hadn't considered I would do anything but sit and watch him die like a good cutscene-viewer, and then start their fetch-quest by looting the beheaded corpse the Imperials inexplicably left on stage.

Actually they hadn't considered that either. It's reportedly patched now, but picking up the amulet before talking to the widow would break the quest and make it impossible to complete without the use of console commands. Not only is this bit completely unsuitable for roleplayers, who have a good chance of wanting to interrupt the execution, it wasn't tailored to munchkins either (whose first instinct is to loot the corpse before the headsman even leaves the platform).

Munchkins? Isn't that the term used for young players who powergame? Surely anyone who grew up poor's "free shit" instinct would kick in too XD

I'd like to see Cassy in the game somehow. Perhaps on a piece of paper that you can consult for advice.

(Note to the scared folks: SCP-085 here is actually one of the nicer ones, though a little sad)

That has put a massive downer on my day. It was intriguing but so, so depressing.

I think it's more likely just a bug in the way attacks are handled. This is, at minimum, the second occasion we've seen a trooper become totally invulnerable to rat tackles (but not normal attacks).

Third, my scout has managed to become totally immune to rat tackles on occasion.

Quote from: Sirus on March 05, 2012, 11:24:32 pm

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*reads*
Oh no, not Emily Wong D:

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A surprisingly Shepard-like level of determination, though.