Wage total war across the ancient world from the Aegean to Mesopotamia in this free addition to Total War: PHARAOH. Challenge the Bronze Age Collapse by building your own dynasty and leading your faction to victory with new cultures, new units and dramatic new battle mechanics.
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I have played total war games since Empires. This Dynasty is Good. i ploughed 94 hrs into a campaign starting at the bottom of the Nile i took all the regions until i got to the Pyramids and the Delta i Became Pharaoh at about the mid point, due to the fact that i opted for a dual religion God mix type i think this stopped me being Pharaoh sooner. Anyhow its a great game but late game my Frame rate became super slow even when i changed settings. Thats probably my PC, anway i thinks its a great game so yeah get it, its good.
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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish*languages with full audio support
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This is by far by worst Total war game I have ever played. Nothing makes sense in this jumbled mess of concepts. I don’t know where to even start. This game doesn't want you to do all the things that make total war fun. To keep you from steamrolling the ai factions, they introduced an admin burden. Units and buildings both increase you admin burden. The higher your admin burden, the higher the upkeep of your units. So what regularly happens; you build a new building, recruit a new unit or conquer a new region and suddenly your income drops to unsustainable levels. So, small question but... WHOS IDEA WAS IT TO PUNISH PLAYERS FOR RECRUITING UNITS, BUILDING BUILDINGS OR CONQUERING NEW TERRITORY IN A FRIKKIN TOTAL WAR GAME?!! THAT IS THE MOST STUPID THING I EVER HEARD OF!!! And the developers know how effed up this mechanic is, wich is why the ai gets a literal mountain of cheats, so they can maintain a somewhat functioning economy. But this leads to every one-region-faction being able to spam multiple fullstacks every few turns at the beginning of the game, meanwhile you will struggle to support even one. This makes the early game a crueling game of whak-a-mole. But even if you endure all this bs, the game will find ways to ruin your experience. I spent hours using modding tools to mod this masochistic mess of a game into a somewhat playable version, only to get fd regardless. If you play Tauseret, you WILL be declared heir to the pharao, the pharao WILL die, then you WILL become pharao and a civil war event WILL trigger, that WILL lead to every egypt faction declaring war on you. This will all happen without you realizing it, and if you don’t want to spent the next hours of the campaign grinding through each and every Egyptian faction, witch are all suped up by ai cheats to a ridiculous degree, your save is essentially ruined. Thanks i guess. Those are a few hours of my live i will never get back. The worst part: I love every other aspect of the game. I love the period, o love the focus on infantry, i love the visual variety of troops etc. But men, this game is not made to be fun for casual play. This has been the most frustrating gaming experience in years.
The AI cheats in a way I've never seen in any other game. This makes this slow game even slower and more frustrating. The UI is also a disaster. Everything they added to the "classic" Pharaoh feels like a bland mod. According to the motto "more = better", even if everything looks and plays the same. Some battles crash all the time, so you have to autoplay it and accept the result. Honestly, I don't know how this happened. It's like they removed stuff that was already completely fine in past Total War games and put everything that's commonly critized in modern Total War games in one game. I paid 7 € for this game and I'm still disappointed lol
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WHY the hell do I need to agree to SEGA spying on me and being able to sue me in order to play this game?! This is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I bought the game. It's mine. I never agreed to spying on me and giving up my rights. What trash.
wtf this might be the best historical total war to date, why did nobody tell me?! >:(
This game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. A full stack of 20 units should not be wiped out by just a couple of units of archers especially when auto-resolve is telling me it's an EZ win with low to high casualties and the power bar pretty much maxed out. Never had this in any other Total War game so don't give me this "get good" crap. And that's not even getting into the ridiculous amount of micro-managing campaign stuff with a total lack of direction
What i like: Great campaign, great battles, great economy system, great diplomacy What i don't like: AI KEEPS TRESPASSING AND I CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT, THERE IS NO ISSUE WARNING BUTTON LIKE IN WH, IF I DECLARE WAR ON THEM BUT I HAVE TREATIES THEN I HAVE TO SUCK ON THE PENALTY AAAA WHY IS THIS STILL A THING The multiplayer campaigns don't work, they desync every turn after 5 or so turns
A lot of the negative reviews talk about the lack of agents, naval battles, and pre battle speeches. To that I say: thank god! The pre battle speeches were fine the first few times I heard them and then after that, I would always skip them. Naval battle always felt tacked on and underwhelming and I would prefer a totally separate Total War game that focused on naval battles. I also always found agents to be the most annoying aspect of any Total War game. Oh cool, the enemy has 19 agents on screen and they're all delaying my army's movement. How fun! Total War Pharoah is a very streamlined and pared down entry into the Total War canon and I mean that in the most complimentary way possible. AND - it still has all the things you want from a total war game: fun battles, great atmosphere and a reasonable amount of resource management and economy features. This is a recommended purchase for sure.
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