#Stronghold crusader 2 market how to#

I just wanted to point out one thing which seems to go unnoticed, and that is the broken economy. Ultimately, I would rather plan the first Stronghold Crusader or Stronghold 2. The people can easily get stuck or trapped when setting up new walls and creating tight knit castles which are necessary in the little space you are given. The game engine is slow and creates a lot of lag especially as the number of players go up. The market has a nice auto buy/sell feature though. Gold is hard to come by until you start mass producing stone or something. Bottom line, you spend all your early gold in this game on basic resources. It wouldn't be as much of an issue if the wood income was also higher, but it is no faster than the old game. Wood cutters cost 20 wood now instead of 3 and everything else seems to be at least 50.

#Stronghold crusader 2 market how to#

The old game made it real clear how to start an early and cheap food economy (apples) and transition to late game (bread). The game is so much tougher now and quite buggy. You can put up pallisades but nobody has the wood production for that. Some of the things I loved from the old game are missing like engineers and the ability to dig moats. There are some cool new military units and more tiered options based on the weapons you produce (maces are needed for both macemen and templar knights). It is as many people have said, pretty much the same as the last game, yet this one is worse. Some of the things I loved from the old game are missing like engineers I loved the first stronghold crusader, but I do not love the second. I loved the first stronghold crusader, but I do not love the second. Choosing the SC I instead may be a better purchase option. Overall, the game doesn't worth $50 as there are not much innovation. units getting stuck, missing voice or sound, unresponsive mouse pointer, etc.), just take a look in the steam forum. There are still various glitches or bugs leftover (e.g. However, due to the reduction of details, there is no fun in sandbox mode compared to SC I. Single player campaign just look like a in-game tutorial, so your main game modes are the skirmish and sandbox mode. Graphics becomes 3D now but it looks even worse than the 2.5D HD graphic in SC I. Also, the details, animation, actions, voice and description of units are either absent or greatly reduced. The game has cut out a lot of content from the Stronghold Crusader I, you have less buildings in this game. Just try to destroy more and more AI's buildings, you will finally find out that opponent AI can still spawn any units they want even they don't have the necessary buildings and resource. However, the reason why AI can rush so quickly is just because AI cheat for resources and units. In terms of unit management, AI does an excellent job, you won't have a chance if AI has a similar army size of your army. Several hours passed, I realize that I was wrong. In my first review, I stated that AI has been improved a lot. Just try to destroy more and more AI's A big disappointment.