Scenario Challenge 03: Against the Odds

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Oef, this is hard!

Not at all how I like to play my games, hopelessly behind and AI getting flat bonusses. But for the experience, I decided to push through.
Playing this and accepting getting vassalized and get free, only to beg to be blacks vassal which was weirdly at 0 war score gained me quite a few insights in the game mechanics I would overlook normally.

Shared the continent with Green 50/50, which proved to be not enough later. I did take a city, but Orange massively entered my shorelines so had to get out of that somehow.
Turn 352 has me at 13.5k Fame versus 16.6k Fame for Black. Was stealing land from Green but opportunistic Red got into the action with major armies of tanks and anti air at turn 370. No access to aluminium is not helping.

Now trying again, but wishing for Violent Pursuits event is getting me nowhere :'(

Thank You!

Just want to send a huge "thank you" to the devs (@The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales, and whomever else), for taking the time to create this difficult scenario.  While some of the earlier challenges have been time-consuming, I didn't find them strategically difficult.  But this Scenario Challenge 3 is different.  This scenario puts you in a pickle worthy of the word challenge.  And it's brilliant.

I've played it twice.  First go, I was eliminated on Turn 33.

Second go is still in progress.  I've been vassalized, and as of turn 75 I'm trying to make a comeback.

Love it!  So good!

From the first week of playing Humankind, it was these types of situational challenge scenarios that I've been longing for as a player:  Scenarios that felt strategically difficult, where losing was a very likely outcome.  True challenges.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! 

blackbutterfly wrote:
Now I can't get this song out of my head. It's been days.

Great song reference, but for me it's gotta be the original by Phil Collins: 

I honestly liked the inclusion of a historical scenario in the game. It would be really neat for more to be permanently added to the new game selection over time. 

Is there any chance of getting a multiplayer version of this scenario? Given the difficulty it seems like the perfect type of scenario where having the option for co-op would be pretty neat and open up new strategies to try out.

Harier wrote:

Can we get a altitude lens? It takes a lot of necessary effort to determine what is and is not traversable. I’ll spend like 5 mins trying to figure if a location is good for battle and still get it wrong. Very frustrating

+1

Can we get a altitude lens? It takes a lot of necessary effort to determine what is and is not traversable. I’ll spend like 5 mins trying to figure if a location is good for battle and still get it wrong. Very frustrating

Now I can't get this song out of my head. It's been days.

Thank you for the answer to my question

A1y0sh4 wrote:

Why do players have to download the scenario and load it in the game for playing it? It would be much more practical having the option to play all scenarios when you click "play" (in a similar way how the 100 years scenario did but, instead of giving each scenario a place in the "play" section, giving a scenario section in the "play" section dedicated where you could load the scenario that you would like to play, including the old ones). (I'll post a picture representing more clearly the idea that I'm trying to share)

Well, we are in agreement on that. But the scenario menu we had for the 100 Years War definitely had some flaws, like the strange way you could select a difficulty. So while our programmers are working on a better scenario UI, we're leaving the old menu up so people can still access the 100 Years War scenario, and will use our (admittedly somewhat jury-rigged) save sharing solution.

But yes, we would like to offer a full menu where you can select any scenario eventually. That'll just take time.

Cure_off wrote:
I'm curious about the difficulty choice, as I'm under the impression that only few players tend to play at this level. It might exclude many players.

It is a concern that was on our mind, but we wanted to try creating a really challenging scenario after the much more open situations in the first two scenarios. We will see how this goes and then decide how to move forward with future scenarios.

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ooo...do i sense a challenge? This sounds like fun

I'd have loved to try it, but I won't be able to, as I play through a third party. I fear I might not be the only one.
I'm curious about the difficulty choice, as I'm under the impression that only few players tend to play at this level. It might exclude many players.