Hello and welcome from Eastern Europe.
My name is ColdBeerHD and today I present you my short review of Bannermen – new real
time strategy game.
I will not lie, it looks like Starcraft, Warcraft and Age of Empires had a baby from crazy...
threesome.
If you played any of those games, you will need no explanation how this game works.
It has exactly the same controls as, let’s say, Starcraft 2, but it feels more like a
Warcraft with Age of Empires graphics and units.
So, this game is destined basically for everyone who likes or even loves those games.
Here you will find only two resources, with basically the same mechanics, much like in
starcraft where you mine gas and minerals and not like in Age of Empires or Warcraft
where you actually chop trees and make huge clearings in the environment.
I wish they did that instead of oversimplifying everything, but the game is more battle and
not resource oriented, so it’s ok.
And now let’s talk about copyright.
I will explain why.
I have a new channel, called TopoTop HD and I upload there videos without any voice over.
So, you can imagine my face when I got copyright claim after uploading one campaign gameplay.
They said that I uploaded copyrighted song.
I was gobsmacked, I couldn’t believe my eyes.
Why?
Do you think that in example Markiplier will play your game and you can claim his revenue?
How can you copyright a background music?
That’s ridiculous.
Of course if you want nobody to play your game on twitch or youtube - go on, copyright.
So, for me it was an insult.
I payed for this game about 27 euros and I can’t even get revenue after uploading my
gameplay to youtube because some shmuck decided that it will be great idea to copyright a
background music.
Geez!
Of course, my new channel has only 90 subscribers, so, a long way to monetization, but anyway
– copyrighted background music?
What the hell.
Let’s talk about campaign.
Missions do not shine with an originality.
In example you have to defend from incoming attacks for some time or you have to secure
a supply wagon which moves on his own.
Somehow.
Defend base, defeat enemies.
Standard stuff of any RTS, nothing visionary, but gameplay is nice.
I can clearly say that I enjoy playing Bannermen campaign.
Sometimes it’s really hard even on normal difficulty and you have to redo your mission
over and over again, but the learning curve is there, so you’re getting better and better
after every failure.
Well, it has some annoying features, in example, units and especially heroes are attracted
to nearby enemies, meaning that if enemy unit is nearby, your hero with 1 health will rush
into the battle, die there and you will have to repeat your mission over again.
Also something is wrong with a mouse scroll.
If you try to scroll down and touch a lower line of your window with a mouse cursor...
it goes up.
Then it goes down again and then again up.
I had to scroll down with arrow keys on my keyboard the whole time.
I hope they’ll fix this.
Let’s talk about multiplayer: I waited more than five minutes for a match and I almost
lost hope, but suddenly I’ve got an opponent!
I used tactics from Stracraft 2 where I build quick second base, gather a lot of money,
and I achieved quick victory.
And after my victory I wanted to see my stats in a winning screen... and there wasn’t
any.
I fought a multiplayer battle against real human and I got no stats!
That is blasphemy!
I’ve got nothing.
No dead unit count, no destroyed buildings count, no apm, I don’t even know my opponents
nickname, nothing.
Zero.
Total void.
I’ve got 600 points to my rating, but I have no idea if it’s a lot or not.
But, despite of this nonsense, battle against other human was great.
I was pleased, not because I won, but the experience itself was good.
It wasn’t laggy, it was really smooth battle, I even could say 10 out of 10.
Anyway, despite the negative stuff, this game is a gulp of fresh air in a real time strategy
land.
I’m really tired of Starcraft 2.
Blizzard is milking the same cow for almost 10 years and instead of making new RTS game
they stamp remakes and upgrade the old ones with new graphics.
I enjoyed playing Bannermen and I’m thankful to creators that they made an RTS when everyone
just makes Battle Royale games.
Please, don’t pirate it, or if you do, and you like it - buy it afterwards, because only
then, if it’s profitable, RTS genre can be revived and we might see really great titles.
Thank you for watching, my name is ColdBeerHD and this was my Bannermen review.
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