And the longer Relic waits with fixing stuff, the more people and players will get annoyed. There is a lot of effort needed to put the game in a good state. Then HRE, Dehli and China → HRE has a good early game, rest is trash, and the two other civs got a good late game, but a tough and weak early gameĪge of Empires 4 is an open beta and I am not sure, if the game remains in that state it is in rn and only receive band aid fixes, leaving the core issues alive, which would kill the game pretty quickly, or if there is actually the will at Relic to put a lot of effort into it to someday finish the game. Why was this game released in this terrible and unfinished state? There is no civ balance, only superior and inferior civs. The HRE needs patches, love and everything. Yet their religion affects gameplay much more. How? Where? When? The Dehli get monk upgrades in age 2, the rus have better monks altogether and both civs do not count as core religious civs. And it beats me why Religion is supposed to be their strong suit. The Daut game against Don Artie was the perfect display that the HRE offers zero. Weakest cav, weakest unique unit, terrible archers, baseline siege, most bugs, least identity and most useless mechanics, it was actually sad. It’s just an unfinished, boring and weak civ.

Watching the HRE in the tourney really annoyed me as it displayed the core of all my complaints all over again. They have the least tools for lategame and also a poor castle age. It was all about siege, archers and especially French and Rus knights. Infantry didn’t do anything all tourney long. Infantry sucks in lategame leaving the HRE with literally nothing strong. The HRE often reached lategame, but they just don’t have anything good. The Genesis tournament is a perfect display of what a terrible civ the HRE is.

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