i can't speak for unit balance atm, as i can only play the campaign map, at around 10 fps, battles are a no go
it would be an understatement, to say its horrible, the turn times are minutes, not seconds, the UI is....i don't even know what word i should use to describe it...its like they started with a small UI, and then just dumped 200 upgrades on top of it, making it fill 1/3 of the screen (from what i read and seen, Battle UI is even worse, taking up to 2/3 of the screen)
No need for navy
No or little use for agents
Retardet AI still runs around with 1-3 unit armies, instead of building 1 army
Retardet AI doesn't know how to govern its provinces, nor defend them, i have seen an army from Carthage, go west, when they had a rebel army spawn in the south, rebel army took carthage, Carthage destroyed, nice AI huh?
Retardet AI, with 1 province, wants 4000 for a peace treaty, when im knocking on their last city, with 2 armies, having 4 total, and 12 regions
i know im repeating myself in various threads, but this information needs to be spread so people don't give them any more money...
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Unit balance is fine, the only problem I have with it is morale shocks are a bit too OP a the moment, if a unit of yours gets charged, you HAVE to send some assistance to it quickly or it will run for the hills in seconds.
I also wished my camera wasn't stuck, making the only way to move it clicking the minimap (this is to be fixed in today's patch, though) and the "main factions" weren't wiped out by the smaller ones so often.
Save for those 3 things, game runs flawless for me (except the minimap, battles are perfect but minimap gives me some minor lag sometimes), once they start patching EVERYONE will be ok in the running properly department.