Perhaps it was because I began reviewing this set while I was stuck in my house with no air conditioning, but some of the scenarios felt like they took and incredibly long time to finish. That being said, I have a bit of a bone to pick with this set of scenarios specifically. There is a nice amount of variation in these scenarios, which I want to say are great overall, because the formula of Panzer Corps 2 works really well, and what these DLCs are is essentially new map packs for your persistent army. In a change from what the normally aggressive player will be used to, there are several scenarios that call for a more defensive approach, especially the first one, which sees the player’s army surrounded. This DLC, as you can imagine, focuses on the eastern front, and campaigns in the Soviet Union starting in early 1942. This one is no exception so far, as the DLCs continue to add interesting scenarios to take the player through. Even if you like what you see it's a horrible deal for the current price.Ah yes, Panzer Corps 2, my old friend, has returned yet again with another DLC set. I have talked before about how their DLC series, taking the player through some of the hotspots of the German campaigns in WW2, has been very good and varied so far, and each iteration seems to be better. Overall, avoid this game now and maybe come back in a couple of years when there's some full dlc edition at like -60%. There are some things I like: - Heroes are now impactful with unique abilities like in PG2, not boring +number to a stat like in PC1 - Units have new special abilities, which are often quite interesting, for example parking recon near an enemy unit will give accuracy bonuses to all attackers - Point buy system to customize your game with positive and negative traits Other changes are just meh/whatever, like splitting units in half when it costs additional slot and time or the need to re-base your aircraft to provide more air coverage, which again costs time. There's a lot of that, so let me name a few: no different victory types based on performance, no SE units, smaller maps, lack of differentiation in objectives, copious amount of turns to complete each mission, lack of new equipment summary at the start of a mission. The game is also streamlined and a lot of features were stripped. The production values are nowhere near the money demanded for this game. The music and sound design is poor as well. Some animations seem to be completely missing: destroyed tank will blow up and leave a wreckage, but artillery just vanishes into thin air. The graphics are simplistic, blurry and some assets are just absolutely hideous - ships, for example. All you get is poor readability and strategic overview when compared to 2D. Let's think how many times this has worked. Shooting for 3D in a niche strategy game when you don't have resources to make it look good, because you think it will bring more sales. The new graphic engine sucks, but everyone knew that already. This will probably get patched as time goes on, but still a massive rotfl and "you just have no idea what you're doing, do you" badge for all involved. Don't even get me started on other things, such as artillery pieces costing same as 2-3 tanks and other idiocies. Who in their right mind will use the AA units then? Congrats on completely invalidating an entire branch of units with their own models, stats, etc. For example fairly useless AA units can cost same, or sometimes even more, amount of slots as a full fighter unit. This sounds fine, but then you look at the system and immediately realize that the devs were either drunk, trolling or have extremely vague idea about their own game. Different units have different core slots prices now and you need to mix and match. You now have two currencies to manage your army, as core slots aren't the number of units anymore. They claim the campaign has 60 scenarios or something, but of course in reality it's about 20, as it's a branching campaign just like in PC1 that you won't play more than once, cause you'll be bored out of your mind anyway. Panzer General had German campaign, but Panzer General 2 had 2 German campaigns, 2 Allied campaigns and a Soviet one to boot. Yup, same old campaign that you've played dozens of times already if you're a fan of the genre. This game costs premium, but all you get is only the Wehrmacht campaign yet again. Even disregarding the price, it's still not very good and a major let down. First of all, the This game's a rip off and a bad one at that. This game's a rip off and a bad one at that.
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