>>2239020
>Is that a.....option for a female governor?
>A FEMALE?? In my based grand strategy autistic map painting games?!?
>AAAIIEEE ITS OVER WEST IS FALLING

This is your and anybody giving a bad review

>>2239044
>grrr it's only getting bad reviews because sexism
It's 2025, that shit doesn't work anymore.

>>2239044
Actually as far as I can tell nobody is even complaining about the women but it's almost as nonsense. It's mostly people malding about AI. Like 50% of negative reviews are people complaining some loading screens may have been AI generated. Another 30% about ubi launcher, as if anyone was surprised. If you bought an ubisoft game in last 15 years you know it's a thing, it's not even bad, I don't get the performative hatred for it. Just don't buy their games instead of playing them anyway but leaving negative reviews.
The rest are mostly complaints about game performance or multiplayer stability.

>>2239044
So you're saying that the actual game is mediocre at best.

>>2239083
You can also scratch off half of those performance complaints as they are upset that their 5 year old even by standards of back then mid-range at best rig can't handle 144 fps. Meanwhile I enjoy the game almost maxed out on 4k with 90 fps most of the time. Haven't reached super late game yet to see performance there.
Multiplayer stability is an issue though which could witness several times in the past few days of people trying to stream the game.
The game itself is fine. It doesn't have the bulk of content as 1800 after several years of dlcs and expansions, but it has several new mechanics which provide a decent foundation for expansion.
I do want to see a breakdown of how many AI assets are in there though. I've seen one loading screen which seems likely to be AI, but I have yet to discover other things, besides maybe translations. People in the review section treat it like the entire game was generated from one single prompt which seems beyond overblown.

>>2239044
most of the negative review seem to be whining about use of AI, which i dont give a fuck about
i only played 4 hours so far and its ... anno in a roman setting, with small changes to production buildings that now also give positive buffs that can be massively stacked

>>2239044
Most of the negative reviews seem to not be about the game itself, but the use of AI. So ignoring all of those reviews, its probably hovering around ~80%

>>2239533
>performance is terrible using an absurd amount of your hardware
>graphics not much better than 1800
>AI slop art
>less content than 1800 vanilla
>multiplayer is not playable causing people to desync and waste their time
>petty DEI like female leaders, including making a woman emperor of rome, black centurion, ect..
>Woke gender language in German utilization (really pisses off Germans in every game that does this)
>German government paying millions to Ubisoft to implement previously said DEI for development
>content creators get the game a month early for free with little regard to pre-order people getting nothing (they get what they deserve but their opinions are valid).
>stupid twitch drop items that pisses off some people because of little chance to watch and get the rewards
>the average gamer hates ubisoft with a passion
I could go on and on

>>2239020
First things first. The game is beautiful, fun, engaging and good all around. The scenario is *chef's kiss. The gameplay itself doesn't differ much from 1800, which is a good thing. The management part, the trading part, finding and using specialists (items), planning your cities and industry paths is as fun as always in the series, but nothing brand new desu (besides the military). The Roman architecture is beautiful to look at, watching the animations and all the details in your growing cities in different regions is stunning.

So why the negative review?

I am pretty disappointed in the usage of AI here. Knowing the Anno series for as long as it exists, knowing the small little details everywhere is what made the Anno series always special, this is actually just sad.

did they really think they can get away with ai shit or is it a legit mistake

>>2239639
>This image was a placeholder asset that unintentionally slipped through our review process. The final image is attached here and will replace the current version of this artwork with the upcoming 1.3 patch. With Anno 117: Pax Romana being our most ambitious Anno yet, we’ve assembled the largest team of artists ever for the franchise and to help meet the project's unique scope, they use AI tools for iterations, prototyping, and exploration. Every element players will experience in the final game reflects the team’s craft, artistry, and creative vision.

AI loading screens in a 60 euro game are honestly pathetic but I wish people were this rabid and vocal about photobashing back when it was the omnipresent slopper's choice.

>>2239044
So the majority of us think it's a shit game? Got it, the majority rules.

>>2239639
buy an ad faggot

>>2240008
calm down janny

>>2240052
I'm gonna call out AI generated shillposts for DEI slop, deal with it.

>>2240179
yeah thats what I did in my post as well, I think you have reading comprehensions

>>2239113
What are the new mechanics ?

>>2240198
>diagonal roads
>customizable ships
>land combat (returning, not "new")
>marshland reclamation (which might not sound like much, but consider how it could be applied in the 2070 setting or in terraforming in a future Anno game)
>religion
>a literal tech tree
However, 1800 is the better game right now. I think the 1st Century Rome setting was a huge mistake as it wasn't a time of innovation but in fact stagnation tech wise. We wouldn't see a return to technological development until the Middle Ages.

>>2240183
I only read the sycophantic first paragraph then threw up and downvoted you, cuck.

>Anno 1800 makes the most money ever for an anno game, their actual first major booming success, and coming off the back of the dud 2205
>game full of beautiful soulful art
>produce next game, budget likely higher because of the success of 1800
>use AI slop anyway
>suddenly it's an essential part of the process
Wow, fuck off. Greedy fuckers.

>>2240370
It's a common problem, and we see it all the time with Creative Assembly.
>get yelled at over Empire TW's problems
>CA: "We have listened, here is Shogun 2"
>okay, Shogun 2 has problems, but it's a better game than Empire, finally we're on the right track, let's get excited for Rome 2, Med 3, and Empire 2
>CA: "Here is Rome 2!"
>oh god, it's a pile of shit, they learned nothing

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>>2240198
Hall of fame is cute
Parallel pop class upgrades
Not all pop needs have to be met, but when they are, they can add far more to the common good
You can manually select what missions u wanna do, they're no longer random
Modular ship building
Religion is more detailed than in 1800, but I hope they'll expand it even further in the dlcs
Research is again more expanded and detailed
Production buildings bonuses and negative effects
Active pause, you can stop time, build whatever you want in advance, unpause and let everything do its thing
The all goods button in harbours, which I can't believe wasn't a thing before. You can mass manage resources now

>>2240368
Literal redditard reaction

>>2239565
>Woke gender language in German utilization (really pisses off Germans in every game that does this)
What's this? Is this like what they're trying to do with Spanish with using -e instead of just -o and -a?

>>2239044
I say this.

>>2239533
As if the shit Ubisoft comes up with is any better than AI slop. Their games are so fucking formulaic they might as well replace them all with AI.

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>>2239020
>Nobody wanted to play retarded white bois on shitty wooden boat simulator for the hundredth time.
Color me surprised!!

They should have stopped bullshiting around with this ancient era crap that nobody but the most autistic retards wanted and grew a pair and made the next anno a full on space 4x.

>>2239639
Nost likely ubi suits doing ubisoft things.
Same as with them axing the last act of the campaign.

>>2239648
That's just "we didn't think we'd get caught". There are way more images which show cliche AI issues and the fact that they didn't even care enough to clean then up and fix them is damming.

>>2240551
Yes, they manufacture feminine forms of words where there are none.

>>2239020
>>2239044
>>2239083
>piss off right-wingers by adding roman nigger and woman emperor
>piss off left-wingers by using AI
that's the ubisoft quality right there

>>2240970
the company will go bankrupt on monday, hopefully all their good franchises get better devs.

>>2239648
Fuck that. like some other anon said, they just didn't think they'd get caught. But even if you take them at their word, this is a bullshit reason.

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>>2240970
How much of a hand does Ubisoft even have in the day to day operations and direction of Ubisoft Mainz? I thought due to their success they were pretty much left to get on with it as they were printing money?

I hate to be a faggot but I really don't want to pay for it since they have used AI. I know we like to joke and meme here that devs are dogshit but the Anno 1800 art was so good along with the music it was really immersive and soulful. Knowing they've used AI at all just tarnishes the entire thing and I can't appreciate it.

>>2239113
>game is neither technically nor visually impressive
>requires 12x the resources that it should actually require
>your rig is just old bro, buy the latest overpriced underperforming hardware, please please corporations more money, please
God I miss Vlad the Impaler.

>>2241094
>hey just didn't think they'd get caught
You wonder how they could think that. Maybe they do actually believe they are making games for a certain demographic

>>2241111
>How much of a hand does Ubisoft even have in the day to day operations and direction of Ubisoft Mainz?
No way to know for sure but iirc all ubisoft store unlocks, online interactions with global markets etc. was a Ubi HQ mandated thing.
Also hard to tell if they didn't go more hands on/expected more pressure because they are in such dire straits.

>I hate to be a faggot but I really don't want to pay for it since they have used AI.
Same. It was on my to buy list but this changes a lot. Both because it is so shoddily done and because anno was always this quaint comfy series which felt like it was filled with tons of genuine care for the games.

>>2241138
>quaint comfy series which felt like it was filled with tons of genuine care for the games
The futuristic annos disnt have that feeling

>>2241150
Really? I still think they had all that optimistic and surprisingly lighthearted outlook despite their setting.
Sure they didn't have the look and vibe of half-timbered houses and red tiled roofs but ultimately I still think they retained the core feeling.

>>2241111
So don't buy it, cuck. Have fun not having fun cause you are throwing a bitchfit over something no one cares about outside the internet

>>2240453
wtf they actually did care?

>>2239044
I have w*man fatigue

>>2240970
>hating AI slop means you're a leftist
this will never stick

>>2242462
It's literally the first thing I think when I hear someone bitching about AI

>>2242555
artsy fartsy lefty girls and fundamentalist maga cuckstians for me. almost as if horshoe theory was real

>>2239020
Alright, let me check out the bad reviews.
>The campaign sucks
Yes, they always did. This is a sandbox game for fucks sake.
>They used AI
Didn't notice until people pointed it out (and now I'm looking at the loading screen pics and still don't see problem as they don't look AI generated). AI scare is overblown here. There is a difference between AI and AI-slop after all.
>Ubisoft launcher
Yeah but that's not new.
>Desync in multiplayer
Who the fuck plays a chill city builder game that takes you 3-4 weeks to build a big beautiful city across multiple islands with other people? Like do you meet up every day to build a few more chains? How does that even work and how are you not getting bored out your ass day 1?

Yet to see valid criticism. Perhaps the "not enough content one", but honestly 1800 was the same when it released. People forget shit like Cape Trelawny or the arctic or tier 3 New World was NOT in the base game.

>>2242748
Letting AI be the deciding factor for someone to not play a game is CRAZY. who cares if the campaign sucks, its more of just a fancy tutorial and why the fuck does it bother so many people that it uses the ubisoft shit on startup.

>>2242748
k what about the DEI, worse optimization and same graphics as 1800? Or are you only giving mealy-mouthed acceptances of the smaller problems?

>>2242848
what dei? there's 1 negro in a dogshit campaign and some strong wohmanz. as it was already pointed out, this franchise was always like that.
>worse optimization and same graphics
upgrade your thirdie toaster, runs like butter on a rx 9070 xt, 32gb rams and a 9800x3d

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>>2242748
Can someone confirm that the 'complexity' of the game has been dumbed down. I see that you don't need resources from the other session in order to max out yet I keep seeing people on reddit dancing around this issue saying "it's a different game, and challenges you in different ways".
I've only played 1800 previously but it was a massive thing to have to go adventure out to get stuff for your cities and create important necessary trade routes.

>>2242462
The only people who pretend to like AI are the faggots starting 12 different start ups to sell it as a service and the disconnected braindead corporate executives who fall for ”the next big thing” every single time.

>>2242558
Sounds like maybe you’re just a contrarian lolbert desu

>>2243627
>"it's a different game, and challenges you in different ways".
From what I've seen I honestly don't know how anyone can argue that.
You can both "finish" the game without ever going to the other session and even with just one island.
There is tons of stuff you can trade for, even a lack of river spots and thus an inability to make tiles, isn't an issue. Imagine you can finish 1800 without ever producing your own bricks or steel and just buying it from traders.
Supposedly trade is also very fucked in terms of prices where you can make a hefty profit from just being the goods your people need.
Like buying lounges for 286 per ton but making 1142 from supplying the need.

>>2243665
>You can both "finish" the game without ever going to the other session and even with just one island.
Why the fuck would anyone play this game then. I loved 1800 because of what it required from you and the biggest complaint I had with the DLC's was that because they wanted each individual DLC to not require the others then the actual DLC's didn't interact with each other. Also think docklands was a mistake.

>>2239044
I'm trans btw, if that matters.

>>2242555
That's because you're a conditioned moron who lets politics live in your head rent free.

>>2239044
keep seething. its a woke game and it sucks. hopefully ubishit goes under.

>>2242555
probably because you saw leftists complain about it (a lot of artists) and since you have no mind of your own to have your own opinion and measure whether something is good or bad, you default to being a contrarian

>>2240970
I'm conservative and I hate AI same as unemployed artists. I don't want AI to be used for anything.

Anyone against AI is just a luddite who doesn't understand what AI is actually used for. It's omnipresent now, in fact most of EU5's soundtrack for example was AI generated - including the song people like so much, Pain is Salvation.

>>2244182
Source?

>>2244182
Yes, yes, singularity, man and machine, immortality fantasy. Very Jewish.

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>>2244206

call me when ubisoft blows up and they remove uplay from the game

>>2244360
This. I refuse to buy because of the stupid launcher, it made 1800 a worse experience for me

is there even any different mechanics or new stuff from Anno 1800? feels like a re-skin

>>2244513
diagonal roads. Get this, when you build buildings diagonally they take up more space and all the math nerds are coping and trying to explain it with trigonometry or some shit.

>>2244513
Yes. A few.
Are they huge departures from the Anno formula? No, there'd be a mass riot in Germany if that happened.

Didn't trailer show we will have large landmasses? Is that no longer the case for romanno?

>>2245972
afaik it will be one of the first dlc

>>2239044
shut up you soros funded well poisoner. someone report this falseflaggers to the freaking jannies

>>2247753
Yeah why don't you become a janny yourself too huh?

>>2239020
Brother Africanus saved me some dosh

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holy KINO

>>2244136
>I hate AI
Imagine being this fucking stupid kek

>>2249656
That's sweet.

>>2239044
>make a game set in historical times
>get mad when people point out the unhistorical elements
This is you and your HRT brain

>>2242462
It doesnt have to "stick", anti ai fags are mainly butt blasted leftist faggots.

>>2242748
>yet to see valid criticism
>because i just dismiss everything as "who cares"
I see you.

>>2243931
>it's leftists complaining about it but that doesn't mean it's leftists complaining about it
>muh contrarian
k leftist

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>>2256351
Brown hands typed this.

>>2244182
>being a luddite is a bad thing
>meanwhile the people are already losing their jobs due to companies and state apparatus beginning the use of AI
And they want to go even farther

>>2256252
you mean ahistorical? why can't you chuds into prefixes of Greek and Latin origin? it's supposed to be a wewuzzian thing o algo

>>2239083
>Another 30% about ubi launcher, as if anyone was surprised. If you bought an ubisoft game in last 15 years you know it's a thing
So if something has been shit for long enough, then it doesn't deserve to be criticized?

why don't you have black romans in your games like we do in GERMANY?
why don't you ruin Europe every century like we do in GERMANY?
why doesn't your government pay for DEI in your video games like we do in GERMANY?

>>2267748
>black romans
>ruin Europe
>government pay for DEI
but my government does all of those things
i'd bet yours does, too

>>2256805
welcome to history, technology makes jobs more efficient. Where were you all when robots took manufacturing jobs? Oh right, leftists don't do those.

>>2267818
Nah your technology is satanic AI pseudoscience BULLSHIT

>one of the few industries giving creatives jobs where they can really be creative
>a studio that actually makes good games with a ton of love poured into them
>noooo ai loading screen is le bad
>was happily consooming from the corporate tit of ubi up to this point
Holy fuck just go back to shitdit you retards, all professionals use AI and tools it enables
I'll go buy the fucking game at full price just to keep you dumbass kids losing

>>2268633
Your argument is retarded. Just because something has been bad for a long time doesn't mean that you can't complain about further bad things. I see this rhetoric coming from retards like yourself all the time.

>>2269643
have you personally actually played the game?

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>>2239020
>$90

How about no

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>>2239020
If's over
It has never been this over
It will never be quite this over again

>>2256805
Working is fucking gay and I hope robohomo takes every job there is

>>2267818
Manufacturing was the most leftist field in America for a long time. Everyone belonged to a powerful union. It was too hard for corpos to bust the unions so they just worked on getting the government to let them outsource everything. Now after decades of pro business anti union propaganda they're trickling manufacturing back

What is the best anno game?

>>2271728
1800.

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>>2239044
>>Is that a.....option for a female governor?
>>A FEMALE?? In my based grand strategy autistic map painting games?!?
>>AAAIIEEE ITS OVER WEST IS FALLING

>>2239020
i just want them to allow offline play for anno 2070, who are corporate niggers like this?

>>2239020
TOTAL PARADOX VICTORY

>>2273109
You can play offline, just get a cracked version. I have no issue playing it on Linux inside a bottle =)

>>2273129
>You can play offline
with ARC features ? i don't need my account i just want arc features in offline cause i paid for whole fucking game and i i should be able to play it

>>2247846
Why are you bloody tone policing me, you sodding leftie cunt?

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>>2273334
No, they are always restricted in the sense that they require ubisoft's servers... until someone reverse engineers their mechanics or ubi fixes it.

Is History Edition worth it to deal with the hassle of Ubi DRM? Or should I get the GOG versions?

>>2274875
>hassle of Ubi DRM
What hassle? Only first time if I remember, when you link the steam and ubishit accounts together.
Other than that worked fine for me.

>>2274903
What restrictions are there? Do I need to connect online to play them? If servers are offline can I still play? I just want to play my games offline whenever I feel like it. Heard too many horror stories about Ubi Connect

>>2274913
One thing chud: you own nothing in this life. check out a coffin at the next funeral you're attending. It's just a decomposing body

>>2275048
>t.not eurochad
>>2274913
I will test steam in offline mode and let you know. First time run will probably require connection though for the account linking shennanigans but I doubt it will be denuvo levels of bullshit where it calls back servers once in a while.

>>2274875
Why would you choose the inferior cucked DRM version? Afaik there are also some "cosmetic changes" or something in the history version to make it more acceptable for "modern audiences"...

>>2274913
Cut off internet and ran the game without any preliminary actions. Ubishit asked for account details but launched fine by clicking ‘play offline’
>>2275270
No memory issues and ui scaling

>>2239020
It should have been about a Greek polis instead of a Roman city

>>2274875
History requires launcher which is lame and gay but I folded since I love 1404. History edition main draws are 64-bit support, 2k-4k UI scaling and the memory bug fixed for 1404. There is a History version of the 1404 patch which fixes more bugs

1701 History has a bug where the AI never trains troops and has never been fixed since Ubisoft fucking sucks

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Im really torn. anno1800 is so beautiful and the setting is perfect because you basically progress from agrarian society into the modern age with fuel and electricity. but the game is just feels overwhelming
on the other side 117 is really pleasant to play with the content gated by the tech tree. and I feel I dont need to build that many basic bitch things all the time. cant remember how many time I had to build fucking potatoes in 1800.

>>2280225
Fine then. I'll get 1404 HE and the rest I'll get on GOG.

WE WUZ ROMANZ N SHIT

>>2279230
>potatoes
Yeah agreed, comfy little independent city at the height of cultural development vs town #2684 in winter-stage stagnant world empire

>>2280751
didnt mean to highlight potatoes

>>2280752
It's too late, we know you're irish

>>2244182
AI is margarine. And only poor thirdies and retards willing pay for margarine. Just because their master plan is to eventually starve the world of butter and make it a luxury good does not mean I will ever like margarine.

I think Anno is pretty gurt lush!

>>2280915
I can only imagine what sort of mouth breathing retard makes an analogy this fucking stupid.

>>2280742
This aspect alone makes me not want to play the game? Is it better than Anno 1800, in terms of gameplay?

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>>2282281
And this is somehow okay?

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>>2239020
Sovl or cringe?
(Anno 1701 Freemode)

>>2286757
that's Abram "нeгpo дaвг " Petrovich Gannibal, Pushkin's grandpa. a famous black king indeed