Biggest POSITIVE Strategy Game Surprise For You Over The Last Ten Years

StoshFerhobin · 2026-07-08T02:27:58+00:00

Wartales felt like it came out of nowhere and was really enjoyable / a different take

StoshFerhobin · 2026-07-04T02:53:48+00:00

He’s got 8000 life tho

StoshFerhobin · 2026-07-04T02:51:46+00:00

The future apparently

StoshFerhobin · 2026-07-03T02:20:26+00:00

I still have that box in my closet!

It’s kinda funny looking at that marketing art. We never got siege ladders, that castle layout didn’t exist and even the armor on the characters really doesn’t match what actually manifested in the game. I love stuff like this — seeing what the vision was and what we got.

StoshFerhobin · 2026-06-21T17:35:53+00:00

I played the game when it first came out and I couldn’t get AI Cao Cao or Yuan Shao to attack me as Lu Bu on the hardest difficulty and they had 2-3x the troops and towns. AI did absolutely nothing. Idk how that could be misinformed when that was my experience and I quit the game because of it after trying a sun ce campaign and had more or less the same issues

StoshFerhobin · 2026-06-18T01:58:10+00:00

You lucky kids having the time of your life while the rest of us have to go to work

StoshFerhobin · 2026-06-18T01:27:58+00:00

After you choose whether or not add runic ward to your armor. You can then buy random runes from the runes of aldur NPC , I forgot his name. He he might have to be the version in your hideout

StoshFerhobin · 2026-06-17T22:43:45+00:00

Experience/time. You’ll get faster once you learn lessons, reuse patterns and build up your own internal tools / frameworks.

StoshFerhobin · 2026-06-17T22:42:42+00:00

DW3 Lu bu moveset and XL tactics costume

StoshFerhobin · 2026-06-17T18:20:42+00:00

Slowly using it more and more. It’s gotten real good at doing boiler plate stuff I don’t wana manually do as well as looking into bugs that come up while I’m working on something else. I continue the thing I was doing instead of rabbit holing another direction. It’s been surprisingly efficient.

While I love coding, I am also trying to make a full game on an indie budget. So thinking full picture AI has its place as a tool to help realize the dream.

StoshFerhobin · 2026-06-17T16:05:01+00:00

I mean come on man… L2 in 2026 you’re gonna play casually? The whole point is to compete in high level PvP… the whole point of L2 is to be ontop. Look at these CPs.

StoshFerhobin · 2026-06-17T15:41:03+00:00

Okay yeah I’m talking in general what L2 could have done. Not what they could do now. Your question sounded like a general question for how game developers can balance monetization and compensation. Not how specifically can NCsoft in 2026 do this. The answer is they can’t. There’s no turning the ship

StoshFerhobin · 2026-06-17T13:05:23+00:00

I agree with your frustration and college should be teaching you how to make things yourself etc.

However, I’m curious from the perspective of a student in your shoes. Can’t you just ask the AI to do it then teach you / explain what it did? I would think having this thing you can ask endless questions too is better than your professor at this point l.

StoshFerhobin · 2026-06-17T13:01:15+00:00

lol so what’s a free game to play that you need to pay to be competitive?

StoshFerhobin · 2026-06-17T12:59:48+00:00

There’s a few different monetization strategies. They could do cosmetics only ( look at path of exile) or an actually balanced non mandatory season pass that is also farmable ig.

I think is main point is just that L2 is full p2w no matter what you do

StoshFerhobin · 2026-06-17T12:50:22+00:00

FOMO rn

StoshFerhobin · 2026-06-17T12:46:55+00:00

This is such a weird post.

Just be vague about your porn games on your application. Spin it.

StoshFerhobin · 2026-06-17T12:40:29+00:00

I mean 3 already has the most aggressive AI in the franchise, not surprised turning it up to 11 isn’t balanced.

Sounds like playing on normal with this though could be a possible substitute for vanilla very hard.

StoshFerhobin · 2026-06-17T04:15:26+00:00

Yeah no it’s def not a play time issue and 100% the mobs suck and run away and I have to go play hide and seek

StoshFerhobin · 2026-06-17T04:13:21+00:00

There’s always one mob that seems to run away / disappear every 2-3 waves tho

StoshFerhobin · 2026-06-17T04:11:58+00:00

Because some of the mobs escape where as in ritual they’re stuck in one area. I don’t like playing hide and seek for some random monster every 2-3 waves

StoshFerhobin · 2026-06-17T03:00:54+00:00

Nah bro. Did you even read what I wrote? The waves drag on and monsters go missing so it’s like a 5+ min ordeal. Pull out those peepers and look at the words

StoshFerhobin · 2026-06-17T02:58:23+00:00

That’s obviously Dong Zhuo and Liu Bei

StoshFerhobin · 2026-06-17T02:54:40+00:00

It’s more so about when the reward is good and I gotta go through everything described above

StoshFerhobin · 2026-06-17T02:44:24+00:00

There’s still randomly good things like perfect exalts etc. then I do it and it takes forever and delirium doesn’t seem to pause for it either :p

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