I dont remember this game being so hard. Its busting my balls here.
>>12639057You level up then it becomes super easy
>>12639057Make sure to always kill the gate/guard captains to stop enemy reinforcements from constantly spawning in. That goes for all the other DW games. Also the archers in this one in particular are S-tier so you always have to be on guard watching out for them.
>>12639061Then you turn up the difficulty, and it isn't easy anymore.>>12639357Archer groups are absurdly dangerous in DW3. I remember always dreading assaulting the enemy HQ in one battle in particular (maybe Chibi against Wu) because it had two crossbowman squads there. Since there were too many enemies to be displayed at once, it was possible for either squad to effectively materialize out of thin air and insta-kill the player with a single volley.
The people who claim DW are brainless button mashers either started with 7, or never played past Easy mode.
>>12639825>or never played past Easy modeThat, and maybe they only used characters who never lived long enough to make it to battles like Wu Zhang Plains and He Fei Castle. Good god DW5 Wu Zhang is a pain in the ass even on normal.
>>12639825My first DW was 7 Empires and doing that shit on the hardest difficulty was an absolute thrill.
DW3 is special for so many reasons difficulty wise:-Enemies have groups with ranks and each rank has unique movesets and increased difficulty.-Enemies talk at the same time and don't just do the modern "attack once,stand still and then attack some more later" modern titles do.-Archers are brutal and unfair. They will shoot you beyond the fog of war, arrows go through building and arrows stun you.-Morale matters a lot, your allies will fold like paper if you're not managing it.
Everyone, don't lets this thread be of Shu...This thread belongs to WUUUUUUuuuu!
>Put archers in towers you cant reach themFuck you too game.
>>12639057I can tell you originally played with Xtreme Legends.
>>12640473Even worse is if you shoot a archer and they hit you your arrow disappears.
>>12640513NTA but that was my caseWhat makes Xtreme Legends so much easier? I was playing through Shu and got filtered hard by the forest level where you get surprise buttsex every 10 feet while having to save Pang Tong from dying
>>12639793>I remember always dreading assaulting the enemy HQ in one battle in particularYiling Shu side, there is a gate spawning archers in their main base.But that's not the worst one here, archer hell is Wuzhang Plains, also Shu side
>>12640574>What makes Xtreme Legends so much easier?It's not if you play Very Hard, but if you don't you get more powerful items and better bodyguards(who also can equip items unlike the OG)
>>12639879>Enemies talk at the same time and don't just do the modern "attack once,stand still and then attack some more later" modern titles do.>Morale matters a lot, your allies will fold like paper if you're not managing it.The fuck? DW always had people complaining about these (braindead enemies and managing tropes not mattering), yet all the way back then they had it figured out? Why the fuck did they make the game dumber?
>>12640982>Why the fuck did they make the game dumber?General casualization + they got the idea that the main appeal of musou was about just killing a lot of enemies mindlessly rather than sort of a 3D beat 'em up
>>12640609Nah the worst is He Fei Castle, that trap area in the garden where the archers are on the bridges
>>12641006Oh yea, that exists too. Was it Wu side?
>>12641010It's both sides, funny enough. The garden is literally just "fuck you for going near here".
>>12640982Like most Japanese devs, they completely lost the plot in 7th gen and have taken decades to recover.
>>12640982>Why the fuck did they make the game dumber?Ai aggression was lowered with each installment past 3. Probably a lot of people complained so they gave in.Starting from 7th,peon's are just fodder without any aggression.Morale system survived all the way to the fifth game. Starting from 7th game everything is mostly scripted and it barely matters anymore.
Whats a good way to level up bodyguards? they all die so quickly.
>>12641281Get the bodyguard manual, or just stop caring. They will level up eventually.
>>12641281Farm on the yellow turbans stage. Put it on low difficulty and try to clear it quickly + rack up as many points as you can in the meantime. Give them defend order so they don't expose themselves much, even if that shouldn't be an issue on an early game stage.
