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I have thousands of hours in Stronghold Crusader and recently tried AOE4. Seems like a pretty good game, a lot more polished, but combat feels wonky. I like the hotkeys, controlling villagers, and scout / fog of war mechanics are executed properly, its just combat thats really really wonky.

In Crusader units will "compress" on top of each other, which is smooth but physically not realistic.
In AOE4 they occupy their own space and if you use attack move properly, they will sometimes still take some weird pathing or attack and then run around a little until attacking again, idk its just weird. Other than this I have no complaints.

Playing since early alpha. The game is great, probably the best MOBA right now, it feels smoother and visual clarity is better. Can recommend, but there is also a big downside:

Hi-Rez is trying to copy all the bad and annoying parts from League of Legends gameplay wise. Why are there bushes on the map that make you invisible? In a 3D immersive game, what sense does it make that someone is invisible standing in grass? R******d mechanic. Why is there flash? Old blink was balanced, new blink is broken and unskilled. There are a couple more but these are the major ones. I guess they just think if they get the game to be more like LoL people will play it, which is 100% bad. SMITE was, is, and can be better than LoL in so many aspects.

All in all can recommend for anyone looking for a moba, League looks like an old game at this point and feels like one, DOTA is boomer game, SMITE is the cool game B)

Played all 3 mainstream mobas (smite league and dota2), concluded that SMITE is the best moba game.

The positives:
- 3rd person perspective makes u feel with the character you are playing, very nice experience
- ranked is not as grindy as in league, and it feels more competitive than league, especially with the VGS which is much more helpful than leagues "missing" ping that is spammed for everything all the time.
- No rng mechanics like blast cones/flash summoner spell etc, gameplay feels smooth
- Very nice graphics with a lot of customization (announcer packs, fountain skins etc)
- Good variety of fun to play game modes
- Rather balanced

The negatives
- Servers arent that good, ping could be lower
- You cannot replay your own games unless you are super high elo. This is probably related to servers again, but its unreal that this feature is missing
- Turrets do not deal any damage post 5 minutes. No idea why they havent been buffed yet. Diving in a minion wave is gonna hurt you more than diving under tower.

I played the "free" version of this game for like 100 hours before I decided to finally buy it.
This game is really good, and it looks amazing considering how old it is.

Handling is awesome and very realistic, car selection fantastic(really glad we got the japanese car pack), driving with FFB Wheel feels amazing, even multiplayer works (which I was surprised to find out once I got the paid version of the game).

Finally, modding community is awesome and they made tons of tracks where you can just drive around and enjoy your car and surroundings. Played many driving games, nothing comes close to Assetto corsa for me, worth every penny.

i like children, but they are not in tihs video gmae, good game respectfully

Ok game, good story, nice visuals, a bit cliche with all the teenager things, but that feeling of friendship that is shown is a nice reminder of what life could be.

I played all 3 of the major MOBA's (league, dota and smite), and I do not recommend DOTA because the game is simply too unnecessarily complex its ridiculous... And no this is not a "too hard" complaint, Chess is a hard game yet it isn't nearly as complex as DOTA. You don't need to add a thousand of different mechanics, active items, couriers and what not to make the game hard... In DOTA, you will use every button on your keyboard and as a new player have 1 billion things to learn about, I just don't think its worth for a video game. You might as well go to university and take your bachelor degree with the time you would spend learning DOTA.

Oh and, most characters are ugly for no reason which put me away. There are a few cool ones like Abaddon and Phantom Assassin, but most of the roster is just La Creatura but in different coolors

I played the original crusader for 7 years and then tried switching to this. It is not bad, there is a good competitive community and gameplay is fun when it works, when... The game has few terrible issues tho that you should be warned about:

- Multiplayer supports only up to 4 players which is a downgrade...
- Don't let requirements fool you, this game will lag and your FPS will drop as a bunch of units appear on your screen unless you have an absolute beast PC. It is ridiculously demanding for it's age.
- Mechanics can feel a bit sluggish at times.
- AI is horrible, bots are playing super bad and missions are only hard because bots have ridiculous starting advantages, but once you learn how to play it just because too easy because AI is beyond dumb.

Other than that, good gameplay, smart and competitive community, game takes a lot of skill.