Diplomacy is Not an Option Review (Steam)

Diplomacy is Not an Option Review, Diplomacy is Not an Option is a base-building survival RTS with an active pause, taking place in a medieval fantasy setting, where your choices can decide the destiny of the world. You step into the well-worn shoes of the minor Lord. Circumstances force you to fight. Like all the time. Always outnumbered. Build your walls, raise your armies, and experience warfare on an entirely new scale. Over 25 THOUSAND enemies assault your castle walls. You’re going to master engineering, economy, and even magic If you hope to survive.

Diplomacy is Not an Option Review Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 9.69GB download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Video settings – display mode, screen mode, resolution, refresh rate, HDR, fog of war refresh rate, fps limit, graphics preset, v-sync, anti-aliasing, MSAA, shadows, SSAO, fidelity FX super-resolution, image sharpening slider, render scale setting slider.
• Twitch Integration – raid attacks, polls and summon friendly troops for subs.
• Two keyboard layouts – default and pro player.
• You can remap your controls for the keyboard.
• Game settings – autosave interval timer, show grass, control tips, show objectives, health bars, diplomacy, show attack range, and show units through obstacles.
• You can input your own name.
• Four game modes – campaign, challenge mode, sandbox mode, and endless mode.
• RTS survival gameplay.
• Tutorial section on the menu.
• 3D game world with full 360-degree camera control including zoom in and out, along with edge-of-screen scrolling.
• The Alt key will show all characters, units, and environment health bars on the screen.
• You need to build different food-collecting structures to keep food going for your army.
• Fish is a finite resource meaning once they are gone that’s it.
• Berry pickers, fishermen, etc will automatically go to the closest resource and start farming. You can however change where they go by moving their flag.
• Building structures takes time to build.
• When placing buildings or anything the screen puts a grid over the game world and structures will be highlighted green or red to if they can be placed.
• Grave diggers are needed to pick up and bury the dead in the other buildings of the cemetery.
• Dead bodies out in the open can cause disease. The epidemic can break out.
• Handy icons pop up to warn and inform you of important things like dead bodies or resources needed.
• Houses are needed for new people to join your town.
• New people joining your town is free and happens every morning if there is space for them.
• Builder houses can speed up the time it takes to build new buildings and structures.
• Excellent lighting effects.
• Day and night cycle.
• Auto repair can be toggled and this will send any free builders to repair damage.
• Massive research tree where you can choose your path through the many webs and routes of the tree.
• If a building has an area of effect it will show when going to place the building initially.
• Shortcut buttons on the keyboard.
• A set of bars at the tip of the screen shows resources, population, and food consumption rate.
• You can drag and drop to highlight groups of troops.
• Three game speed options on your Hud – Normal, x2, and x4.
• Placing walls is quick and easy as you press the button once to start and then move the wall around and press again to finish it.
• Troops with ranged weapons can be put into towers gates, and towers to protect your land.
• All combat is automatic and you can just move troops and click which enemies to target outside of the auto target.
• Unlock and use spells to cast magic and summon.
• Challenge mode is a set of challenges each with its own difficulty. You can see all objectives beforehand.
• Sandbox mode lets you change every game setting – size (xs/s/m/l/XL), enemy density, enemy factions, 12 environments, set all starting resources, resources on the map, starting army unit sizes, and cheats.
• Huge list of cheats to toggle – no fog of war, instant build, instant troop hire, build and hire for free, no requirements for construction, unlimited spells, manually add resources, no famine, no disease, and research completed at the start tier 1 to 3.
• Very deep and rewarding gameplay loop.
• So much replayability.
• Endless mode lets you pick from 11 presets and then you can tweak them with land size, which enemy factions are in it, the number of enemies, and select skilled survivor.
• The campaign has five difficulties – a walk in the park, challenge accepted, ultra hardcore, pure insanity, and your worst nightmare.
• There is a beautiful map in the campaign to choose which land to play on.
• Excellent cutscenes including in-game ones and in-game interactions.
• Save and load when you want.
• You can see where enemies come in each wave beforehand.
• Very impressive on-screen character count, I’m talking thousands at a time.
• It’s a lot of fun.

Diplomacy is Not an Option Review Cons:

• Slow initial load time.
• Doesn’t support a controller.
• Many many input options for the keyboard.
• No benchmark test for the graphics.
• Doesn’t have any multiplayer options like Co-op.
• A lot to take in and remember.
• The UI can become confusing over time or in a hurry.
• A lot of the menus require multiple click-throughs to get to what you want.
• There is a lot to not only take in but also remember.

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Diplomacy is Not an Option:

Official website.

Developer: Door 407

Publisher: Door 407

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