
Set 10 years after the original, Stronghold 3: Gold follows the vengeful story of The Wolf in the third installment of the award-winning castle building series. The Wolf has cheated death become even more bitter and twisted. Build castles, rally your troops and save medieval England!
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.43/day in the week to Aug 24 → 0.14/day in the week after.
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First review was deleted. I bought the physical copy when it came out, I have tried replaying it. Each time there is some game ruining bug. When I was building a castle for hours then I save it and come back half my walls are missing and in a way that made me have to remove even more walls to rebuild them. Its been buggy from day 1 and they never fixed any of the bugs it seems.
I really tried to like Stronghold 3 but it deserve all the hate it gets, First off bugs galore, like units even your leader getting stuck on buildings and not able to move or attack but can get whaled on by enemies, Then there are the walls.... what have you done with the walls.... it was fine in the previous strongholds but was ass in this game. I loved playing the stronghold series but this game is a low point, I even completed the military campaign just to give it a chance but the economic campaign pushed me over the edge and I gave up on the game. I guess the only saving grace is its slightly playable, oh and one last thing, I encountered a bug regarding my save file being locked to a certain point in time regardless of how many times I overwrite it, so if you plan on playing this make lots of saves unless you want your progress wiped.
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Stronghold 3 Gold miał być wielkim powrotem jednej z najlepszych serii strategii średniowiecznych. Fundamenty brzmią znajomo – budujemy zamki, rozwijamy gospodarkę, dbamy o mieszkańców, tworzymy armię i przygotowujemy fortyfikacje do kolejnych oblężeń. Niestety jest to zdecydowanie jedna z najsłabszych odsłon całej serii. Największym problemem jest wykonanie. Budowanie murów i całych zamków jest znacznie bardziej toporne niż powinno, sterowanie jednostkami potrafi frustrować, a sztuczna inteligencja regularnie podejmuje kompletnie niezrozumiałe decyzje. W grze strategicznej, w której odpowiednie ustawienie wojsk ma ogromne znaczenie, takie problemy są szczególnie irytujące. Szkoda, ponieważ kilka pomysłów było naprawdę dobrych. System fizyki i niszczenia fortyfikacji, nocne oblężenia czy bardziej szczegółowe średniowieczne osady miały potencjał, a dwie kampanie – militarna i ekonomiczna – zachowują charakterystyczne dla serii połączenie budowania z prowadzeniem wojny. Gold poprawił część problemów względem katastrofalnej wersji premierowej, ale nie był w stanie naprawić podstawowych wad projektu. Szczególnie bolesne jest to, że wcześniejsze Stronghold oraz Stronghold Crusader do dziś potrafią zapewnić znacznie lepszą zabawę. Oceny graczy dobrze pokazują skalę problemu – Stronghold 3 Gold ma obecnie na Steamie zaledwie około 31% pozytywnych recenzji. Ogromny niewykorzystany potencjał i zdecydowany krok wstecz dla serii. Lepiej wrócić do klasycznych części. Nie polecam.
No.. god no. I forgot I had this game (good) but unfortunatly I just noticed it in my library again (not good).... Just don´t okey.
I enjoyed Stronghold 3 more than I expected. Building and defending castles feels really satisfying, and the gameplay is calm yet addictive. Some old flaws remain, but once you sink a few hours in, you get that classic Stronghold vibe again. Definitely play Stronghold 2 as well, that one is truly something special!
I finished all the missions. It was good, but it could be better with some fixes and upgrades. For night vision, I hope it can be auto-fired instead of me having to fire it manually again and again. Additionally, at night, even when I can clearly see the enemy troops, my army will never attack unless I have lit that area. That's a very stupid mechanic. It would be understandable if it were completely dark. But when the area is already bright and my troops still refuse to attack, it feels buggy. Then can attack me but my army refuses it attack back. Connecting walls is nightmare. It is very hard to rebuild them and connect them. It is like it has a bug. Once you build them, do not remove any part and build it again. It will reject connecting the walls.
Worst Stronghold make in the franchise, dead game, no skirmish, building limit too low, no bots in multiplayer or singleplayer that i could find, supposedly there is a map maker but i didnt see it in the menu maybe its in the game files but either way
Worst Stronghold game to date. No Skirmish vs AI. Lots of Bugs. Bad Build System for Walls. But i did like the Day and Night cycle.
Severely abridged garbage. Can't find the singleplayer combat skirmish mode. Saved a game before making the big push and thought it was all good. Succeeded in my attack and moved on to the next mission. Wanted to restart but no restart mission button in menu. Went to load my save to do a make-shift restart and the load went to the very first time I saved the mission at the very beginning. Seems like they skipped more than a few steps on this one. Stronghold 2 will be the best one of the lot and it's one of the oldest games I've got. It won't be fixed and we all know it so it goes in the uninstall bin... utter trash.
Stronghold 4 is coming out! Please do not F this up like Stronghold 3! Stronghold 2 was great look back on that! 2 was imperfect at 1st but it is better than 3 by 10 fold!
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