Expeditions: Rome - the final Expeditions game from Logic Artists

[Jermu]

So far I have found princeps and triarius best (second hardest difficulty). Flagbearer, destroyer and medic are all great paths. Veles classes seems kinda bad but I have not tried assassin yet.

Glad to see Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus make comeback. HBO Rome was such a good show.

 

[Urthor]

So how is the actual fundamental gameplay loop of this game? After all the bugs are fixed in 2023 is it going to be decent?

What bugs ? The game is remarkably stable and bug-free so far, considering its scope. I am nearly 30 hours in the game and not a single bug, not a single freeze or crash to desk either, with everything set on Ultra, everything seems to be working as intended, the only mild annoyance/oversight is that players who started with the demo won't get some of the early achievements unless they start a new game, like the one for getting command of the legion or meeting the Consul, these should be attributed automatically to players importing saves from the demo.

I've got multiple full sized games in my backlog, I've got no desire to play a game until it's had multiple patches.

If the game wasn't getting patched at all I wouldn't even touch it. There are so many games it's not worth my time to play anything that's not top quality.

 

[The_Mask]

I just want to put this out there for my monk bros, that there is a way to play a character that uses hand-to-hand things only. And it's pretty cool on lower difficulties. On higher difficulties, it's a bit tough.

 

[Tyranicon]

Yeah, like I said in that post, you should be able to do that with the praetorian guards that you can recruit in the barracks. You just might have to play with the default companions for a couple hours before you get to that point in the gameplay.

The reason I would encourage seeing this as an option is that I kind of doubt someone is going to make a mod for full party creation.

You literally can almost immediately recruit a no-dialogue bodyguard squad.

Huh, it's on me for not knowing that. Gonna get the game at some point then.

 

[Sunri]

So did you guys side with Zenobia or Theophilus?

I helped Theophilus you don't make deals with hoes, they ain't loyal

 

[Zarniwoop]

Wait what, if you get stomped in combat you can go do other quests first, level up and come back and the enemies have the same power as before?

It's almost like, an actual RPG with no level scaling. Imagine that.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

and the enemies have the same power as before?

good point, this doesn't make sense. Why aren't the enemies also going and getting stronger?

 

[Larianshill]

I think I'm close to finishing the game. Just going to mention, that it's impossible for me to take VIXI seriously. They're like cartoon characters in an otherwise serious game, like Cobra or Team Rocket. Whenever they make an appearance, it immediately takes me out of the story.

 

[Sunri]

This game needs a mod that will remove all those injury events, I can't walk 5 meters without some retard breaking his ankle or scorpion stinging someone

Spoiler

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Deep.

 

[Alienman]

That's how scaling works. The enemies are doing sidequests to become stronger as well.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Am I supposed to go somewhere with this in order to unlock some unique item?

 

[Seigneur Locklear]

Reached Act 3 so far and I can't believe I'll say this but the shitpile that is Vikings was actually better than this.
Running on hard, difficulty is non existent, encounters are generic, lame and copypasted.
It's also designed to waste your time - I don't want to fucking wait 2 minutes for all of my chars to individually go down or up the ladder, or jump down from the ledge or some inane bs, especially since the jumping down animation is the funniest, jankiest shit you'll see in anno domini 2022.
The entire game feels like it came straight outta google playstore - from itemization, to shamelessly gacha like combat and lootboxes (lmao at this).
Woke shit aside, the game is so fundamentally dull as shit, really. It shows you everything it's got in the first 2-3 hours. You can then play on like me, hoping that hey it might get better at some point or another but it does not and you end up pouring 20 hours into this steaming pile of shit.

 

[Seigneur Locklear]

I think I'm close to finishing the game. Just going to mention, that it's impossible for me to take VIXI seriously. They're like cartoon characters in an otherwise serious game, like Cobra or Team Rocket. Whenever they make an appearance, it immediately takes me out of the story.

Spoiler

The best part is after the attack on Alexandria. You can kill the Pharaoh, you can kill Cleopatra, you can kill everyone and their grandmothers, sometimes with absolutely zero reason needed whatsoever, yet you go into that library, find that dead guy, and this other guy comes out and is like "lol I didn't do it, bye bye" and literally walks away lmao.

 

[Spectacle]

This game needs a mod that will remove all those injury events, I can't walk 5 meters without some retard breaking his ankle or scorpion stinging someone

Spoiler

There's a difficulty setting that reduces the chance of getting multiple negative events in a row, tried that?

 

[Zarniwoop]

It's also designed to waste your time

You say this but then don't mention the insane amount of load-screens?

Your dude broke his leg for the 47th time this week tripping over a piglet and has to go to hospital? LOAD to go into the camp and LOAD back out.

Want to craft literally anything? LOAD into the camp, LOAD out, wait for time to pass, LOAD back in, grab item, LOAD back out. You can only pass time on the overworld map and you can only open it by a LOAD screen. Upgrading anything in your camp?

You better believe that's a loadin'.

 

[Seigneur Locklear]

It's also designed to waste your time

I mean, I excluded the technical aspects because my primary gripe with the game is with the overall design of pretty much everything really, but you're correct. That can probably be optimized and fixed however, but the game has fundamental gameplay flaws that can't be - the most glaring one being this isn't an RPG nor a tactical game. It's a browser game parading as a tactical RPG. You can't even build your characters meaningfully because the skill tree is so inconsequential and linear and there's no stats. I can go on and on about how shitty everything is, purely for the joy of watching jew shills like Infinitron seethe about it but I've wasted enough time on this "game"

 

[rusty_shackleford]

the most glaring one being this isn't an RPG

correct
there are plenty of games not in GRPG that are much closer to being an RPG than this is

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Note to self: archers with fire arrows are vital for some encounters.

 

[Dodo1610]

What kind of asshole designed those sieges I have to abandon my ironman playthrough because no one told me that my soldiers aren't healed after rach fight. Besides the entire legion part is a complete waste of time since you can just travel around and collect resources with no time pressure.

 

[Sunri]

I'm not going to lie waifu game is strong in this title devs knew what they were doing first we get tomboy assassin gf after that Egyptian milk truck and now literal cat girl

Spoiler

 

[Cyberarmy]

 

[Hellion]

I'm not going to lie waifu game is strong in this title devs knew what they were doing first we get tomboy assassin gf after that Egyptian milk truck and now literal cat girl

Spoiler

The anime catgirl priestess even gets her own ending slide, despite appearing in the game for about 15 minutes.

 

[Darth Roxor]

nuke all cat people

 

[Salvo]

nuke all cat people

define "people"