I'm new on the forum and have been playing this for about two months now and agree with what I've just read. Once you get it working properly it's a great game and very enjoyable, yet what seems like a lot of hard work has been spoilt to a degree by what seems to be the norm for modern games - sloppy finishing.
Having only just upgraded to a new PC from a seven year old machine, graphically I was blown away - yet unless I downloaded the 1.4 patch it wouldn't run for more than 30 seconds in the campaign mode without crashing. For simulation and strategy fans it has the depth and gameplay required, yet the manual is shocking and I can see many people, perhaps not familiar with the subject matter would give up fairly quickly. This, surely is counter productive in the long run. Gameplay and historical accuracy I can understand to a degree is very much up to each players own tastes, and the mods cover that quite well, but there really is no excuse for the many silly bugs that crop up throughout the game. As the original poster says, it's not finished and there can't many industries were it seems acceptable practise to sell a product and then complete it afterwards. That said and with the mods and little touchs added (and many thanks to the people who do this and share their work - from somebody who wouldn't have a clue!), it's probably one of the best £30s I've ever spent.
It's a great game, but with just a little more care it could have superb straight out of the box.
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