FrequentTravell

Worst Lotro experience so far. New talent system is awful, there was no reason to revamp the old system at all, just some minor tweaking could have done wonders. Also this marks the first time in Lotro when there's no instances or raids, which is bad. New Big Battle system forces player to make errands tasks when the "river floats". Why would turbine change the talent system when their new end game doesn't even require to play with your class? All Turbine had to do was to ditch the stupid mounted combat lagfest and focus on instance content and raids. Gone are the day when glorious Mines of Moria showed what is good expansion.

ALB should have been released as a DLC package not as a new game. There's really not that many improvements made compared to European Escalation. Much of the new content is below par to modern games. There's not so many new units either, you have your usual strike/defend/support vehicles with more or less realistic portrayal, usually less. With ALB there comes the new element for Wargame, airplanes. After a short while of playing i noticed that the planes are added poorly, dogfights offer no excitement and there's not much joy when you call your first A-10 to give close air support. It seems Eugen thinks that it's good game if you have lots of stuff you can put into battle. I see no reason why in multiplayer there should be several versions of BTR apc's instead of making the stuff work little more realistically. I don't say i hate Wargame series, it's at the moment one of the best rts games there is. I'm saying that Eugen should have sorted the EE's problems before pushing this one out. At this point, ALB is just a mediocre game.