Those who did pre-order the Legendary Edition from Cyanide before October 20th got to download the game yesterday for Single Player gaming. The Internet gameservers are down for a week except for beta testing (betas and those who pre-ordered from Cyanide may participiate in the beta MP testing).
I played yesterday a Single Player game, and checked out the MP lobby interface.
Short review:
It is awesome
A bit longer review:
The main screen is clear now. You can check from options which skills you want to always be automatically used (like for example, you will always want to use Accurate even though it is according to the rule-books voluntary), which skills you want to manually choose (like for example Grab) and which skills you never want to use (can't think of any); the skills which you always have to use (like Frenzy or Bonehead) can't be toggled, just those which are according to the rulebook you may choose to use. All the skills of LRB6 are in the game now, which is a mega-improvement over the older version.
I played one game in SP yesterday with a Nurgle team, and I didn't notice any bugs. The missing features (Bloodweiser Babes, weather, missing skills and players (like Goblin bombardier)) are in now. The game uses LRB6 rules now which nerfs dwarfs and wood elves, but on the other hand makes passing game more lucrative (especially for AGI3 teams; a definitive boost to Humans and somewhat of a boost for Orcs, Skaven, Norse and Amazons). Compared to the older computer version of BB teams like Chaos and Dwarves will have a much more harder time, because there are now even harder hitting teams around (but Ogres, Nurgle and the various undead teams are really slow and bad with the ball, so against more agile and faster teams they suck).
In MP lobby the interface is much improved. You don't have to be French to understand the logic, things are obvious now. The first humongous improvement hits the face when you log in to the game servers: The game now remembers your login and password, *and* Enter works (so you do not have to attempt to click that miniscule OK button anymore)! In the lobby chat rolls in a separate window, friends & coaches are in another window, while you can check out teams, leagues, mail etc in a third window: All three windows are viewable at the same time now!
In all, I was pleasently suprised
Cyanide has a history of making wonderful things with some mega-annoying quirks. I didn't stumble on such quirks now (of course, in the game the same logic as before is in effect, but that is fine now -> for example would hate to re-learn how to move in the game now that the movement system in the game is fianlly a spinal activity for me
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