So they buff every arty unit by improving their armor and at the same time they nerf ALL anti arty units like springalds and culverins while making up some nonsensical scenario that its harder to dive keeps when springs and culverins are under it? Just played few quick matches and its literally mangonel/great bombard fest.
Oh and ofcourse, most op unit in the game, great bombard gets buffed. Amazing job.
The patch hasn’t even been released a day and there are already people complaining…
I wouldn’t say they are clueless.
They balancing quite well better than most would do in their place.
I think maybe only the springalds thing, ottoman buff, and japan budhist rework (which is underwhelming) could have been thought a bit more. Anything else make total sense.
They really want us to spam Otto (again) not that I personnaly mind as it’s one of my favorite civ but still.
The trade landmark makes you having 2/3 guys on gold for free on age up the final gold income (with vizir point) going from 168 (235.2) to 240 (336) so up to 4.2 relics. But that’s actually not the only buff.
The siege changes is also another ottoman buff in the end. You will need 10 springalds to one shot a great bombard and also 3 springalds to one shot a castle mangonel because what we needed is to pay an extra springald (500 ressources) to hard counter free siege in early castle.
So I wont say they are “absolutly clueless” either as a lot of other changes are pretty good but in the case of Ottoman they just made a top civ fly even higher and they don’t seem to have realized it. Like even the age 4 landmark haven’t been nerfed despite everyone saying it makes Ottoman late game ridiculous.
The patch is kinda infuriating. We waited 2 months on a shit patch, for this? I mean some of the changes go in the right direction to fix what was obviously broken, but they also find a way to mix in unnecessary siege changes that only apply to one made up situation that basically no one encounters. The worst is that they don’t communicate at all what they work on or why, so it just feels like a bunch of clueless clowns who meet in secret and bestow patches upon us when they feel like it.
Agree. it was Age of Siege Engine before now it is the ultimate Age siege engine. They might disable all units except Sige engines in the next patch.
The stagnation of mega-long games sometimes occurs and they are boring in many cases, but I don’t think that buffing the mangonel is the best solution.