Holdfast: Nations At War

My first game. Battle rages in the distance. Find two Brits pushing a field gun. Theyre talking about their favourite types of tea which leads to talk of biscuits. I decide to walk with them and get a feel for the game. Cannon gets stuck in the middle of a bridge. Im out in front now. I see cavalry. I turn back to warn them. An enemy snuck up behind them on the bridge and fires then charges! one guys dead the other is down. I fire and kill the guy. My guy gets back up as the guy on horseback charges the cannon on the bridge. He didnt make it. My new buddy and i hold the bridge with the stuck cannon. For the rest of the game and slaughter droves while taking heavy fire. Finish the game with a sliver of health. I cheer “we made it! We didnt die!” He goes “Bloody Colonials”. Best first round ive ever played starting an entirely new game. 10/10

its fun for the first few hours with friends but under the hood its really terrible. the bad reviews about how bad melee is are not true. its worse than they describe. how it can be so terrible idk. furthermore the player base vote the same 4 maps over and over. each map its won by a specific faction every single time. the game plays out the exact same on every single map. the outcome is entirely predictable. and there's no form of a line battle what so ever. its completely mis marketed in that regard, its a melee skirmish with occasional musket fire. even the dev run line battle events are a joke. everyone to afraid to die. no one actually marches in a line at one another. everyone ducks behind what ever cover they can find.

Janky mechanics, inconsistent hit box melee. Long vs short range doesn't matter. It's infuriating, unless you're drunk playing and talking ♥♥♥♥, other than that, it's worthless.

esse jogo e engraçado mas ao mesmo tempo muito foda, só não é perfeito porque ainda não tem a guerra do Brasil contra o Paraguai

好玩，骑砍1拿破仑dlc的超级豪华升级版。 在骑砍1拿破仑里面人机服天天打电脑，人越来越少。原来都偷偷的跑来这里了 这里都是活人乱杀，爽到 还有强制分享歌单的老外

This game is great sunk 800 hours into it supported the devs by buying every dlc and continue to play even though THEY HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH THE ADMIN AND MODERATERS 1st they don’t give you any official warning or anything even if your just having a good time by raising the team moral by blasting some marching music through your mic (just like they advertise in they’re official trailers) but somehow these volunteers admins and mods feel the need to just permanently mute players trying to have fun with others for no apparent reason or without warning 2nd when you go to make a appeal they act all high and mighty and aren’t friendly people at all, it’s a game and most of us usually have a fun time blasting “Scotland the brave, Ericka German marching song etc” and get permanently muted but they don’t or won’t go after the people in game who or talking offensive or being straight up racist (even when the admin is in the match and can full on hear it) they make it a huge deal to get a appeal and ask questions like “what servers what admin banned you” yet you are provided with no information on when the banned occurred. Discord admins and mods are killing the game for others get off your high horse and start actually doing your jobs instant perma banning isn’t the solution

I had my share of fun for the first few months, but over time it has become unbereable to play. First and foremost. The combat system. Muskets are a joke. These weapons have a big RNG mechanic affecting their accuracy. You will miss consistently from 10-20+ meters even with other teammates buffing you and crouching. For comparation a XIX musket will be accurate up to 50 meters. These being the majority of the firearms available in the game makes it specially painful to deal with, and the reason why players intermediately fill out the slots of Hussars, Sharpshooters and Carpenters, they are the best classes by far. Next is the horrendous melee system. The melee is utterly broken, relaying on exploiting the game netcode to hit player where they really are in the real present unlike his character. Basicaly, you kill ghosts, and you will be killed in the most weird ways due to that. The last is the community. You can have good officers and decent teamwork thanks to the voice chat, but most of the time you will get micspammers overshadowing every other person in its proximity. You can go out of your way and mute them but the crude reality is that most of the time other officers or players in general will not communicate, rather the will insult each other in the chat. The games feel borderline abandoned, even with the recent major update of the american revolution. I can understand that is difficult to moderate a community, but the combat being this bad after 6 years is unforgivable