For those who play ranked (particularly Team games) and are super pissed off about the inclusion of a clearly Chronicles DLC with heroes in ranked (Three Kingdoms), one way we can show our displeasure is to boycott the civs in ranked. This will have more of an effect in team games because it affects more people.
My suggestion is we use the same or similar in-game names - eg “No 3K or heroes in ranked” or something like that.
When you get put in a party, say to the party not to pick the 3K civs, if they do you will resign, and then if an enemy team picks a 3K civ - tell them why you are resigning in the chat, and then just resign. People will start to get the message.
Review bombing the DLC also helps as well.
Alternatively, simply playing with the name “No 3K or heroes in ranked” or something similar works too.
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I think all sane team game players should kick players like you out of the game.
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I think you meant la, not le? I.e., la résistance
And, yes, i think it’s a great idea as they would probably start banning players for dropping out of games like that, thereby making the game experience more fun for people who just want to play a game
I know it’s a sad game update for many, but I guess you lost me at “le” and “review bomb”
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Thanks I corrected the thread title!
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Who cares about lobbies, 3K in ranked multiplayer is the issue.
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Thanks, DougBarron. Sorry to be a bit reactionary in my last post. I’m just bummed that you probably like 98% of the game before today, and then 3 ‘civs’ come along bringing heroes and some bad logic and timeline anomalies, and now the game and DLC deserve 1-star reviews. What about the other 98% of the game that you probably love? There are like 45 or more other civs, too
Yes but I have to play against the 3K civs with terrible design and gimmicks, that were clearly designed that way because they were meant for Chronicles, and then it was changed.
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Yea I suggested this in another post on another thread. I intend to do this very thing. I will resign as soon as I come up against a 3K civ, I don’t care about ELO either. When I log into this game I want to play AOE2 not Warcraft 3.
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I think it’s okay, just resist each other.
I don’t think it’s the right thing to do. Therefore I left the game altogether.
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In the meantime, I won’t play 1v1 ranked for a few weeks, so that the fad of trying 3K civs will die down a bit. After that, if my opponent takes them in 1v1, I will write gg and just quit.
Always more respectful than the various smurf 2K who write nothing and abandon after 4 sec.
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It won’t, as previously shown by RoR, TMR and V&V that all have either mixed or overwhelmingly negative reviews.
Also, Valve still reserves the right to exclude review boming from the product’s rating. There’s this curator that tracks all games identified by Steam’s review bomb protection:
Interesting side note, but the DLC currently has 4.5/5 on the PlayStation store, although only after 8 ratings:
I was targeted with insults and all replies from the administrators and so-called ‘new player group’ just because I questioned on a certain BBS why everything related to Xianbei was deleted.
Since the release of the DLC, I have seen countless targeted incidents, until I myself encountered the same situation. I believe it continues to play out on related BBS around the world.
We used to think that the entire group was inclusive and the production team would listen to opinions from all sides, but it seems that this is a very wrong viewpoint. From the beginning, they planned to carry out “ethnic cleansing”.
No one wants to reason with you or tolerate different voices, it’s just a ‘wild dog carnival’, and the production team is responsible for ‘feeding the bones’.
I hope everyone understands that any effective means can be used as a weapon of counterattack, and no matter how you use it, there should be no worries!!
Please remember: Only by hurting the enemy can they possibly beg for mercy. Trying to talk is of no use.
Yeah man, they’ve got a bunch of devs on reddit constantly posting on alts trying to control the narrative as well
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The interesting thing is that it’s actually a great DLC
People will start asking questions why there is so much BS negative reviews and hate on Reddit and the Forums.
If you understood the complaints you wouldn’t call them BS. It’s not hard to understand that this DLC, thematically and on historical accuracy, is a disaster. You can argue in favor of gameplay all you want but everything else has been done extremely poorly, and that’s why it’s hated.
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Well since I’ve read the introduction to semiotics by umberto eco I don’t try to “understand” this kind of stuff anymore.
It’s in the interest and obligation of the writer to address the readers so they get what he’s talking about.
Don’t even try to project that obligation on me. Talk real.
The game never was and never will be historically accurate. And who thinks this could get ANY better with a Chinese DLC is truly illusional. Or just looking for points to make.
Also: How do you even know it would be historically inaccurate? Before it is released?
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So what, you don’t want to understand? Why engage in this conversation in the first place?
So it’s the obligation of the writer but you, writing, don’t want that obligation? What? Ok I’ll just say I’ve talked at too much lenght about the DLC, I have explained in great detail what it’s problems are and don’t feel like repeating myself because I think you won’t give a shit.
Because Aztecs vs Huns in Texas? Yeah sure, let’s keep confusing gameplay gimmicks with accuracy. And that argument is basically excusing mediocrity and allowing the designers to grow more and more lazy. Past mistakes don’t justify new ones, especially not ones so egregious like with this DLC.
Why the Chinese specifically?
Because they’ve shown things before release…? I didn’t dream everything up you know. I saw Tangut units in the Khitan civ and knew it was inaccurate because… It is inaccurate. I dunno, you tell me when Liu Bei faced evil wizards that summoned storms and used machinegun crossbows mounted on chariots. Maybe you can find that somewhere on Records of the Three Kingdoms, and if you can’t that means all of that is inaccurate.
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We also have Genitours and many other units in realms they don’t belong into.
Nothing new about that.
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Genitours name and tactics were directly inspired by Berber troops, so it’s actually fine. Ever since The Forgotten, inaccuracies weren’t so egregious until the devs fell for the Thirisadai hoax, and it’s been going downhill ever since, like Armenians being a naval civ and now we have Khitanguts. This is something many have pointed out in the past, but criticisms have exploded for this DLC because there’s way too many inaccuracies even compared to previous entries, it’s like they never listened at all. They used to care about trying to be accurate, but at some point they stopped caring and it’s very evident with 3K.
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