![]() These modes play to the game's inherent chaotic strengths, and mean that even when everyone else is running around like a nutter, you can still at least contribute to victory by doing your own thing. The former is self-explanatory - you keep killing the enemy until they're all dead - while the latter requires you to control at least half of the outposts on the map to steadily decrease enemy morale to zero. This is less of an issue in the Team Deathmatch and Invasion modes, since they both have a finite length by design. What should be a gleeful battle royale becomes fruitless drudgery. Unless you happen to have 15 friends online, it's really the luck of the draw whether you end up on a team of mindless idiots or not, and, combined with the limitless lengths of the Princess modes, that can't help but make the multiplayer core of the game feel frustratingly inconsistent. Titan Studios has boasted that the experience has been designed to be as intuitive as possible, with players able to grasp what needs to be done without overt direction, but judging by the experience since launch, that's not been the case. It's not entirely fair to decry a game for the behaviour of its players, but at some point the design of the game has to become a factor. Part of the problem seems to be that a lot of players just don't seem that interested in the teamwork that is essential to victory, but it's equally plausible that the game simply offers so many different tasks to perform that it's a Herculean task trying to impose some kind of purpose on a gang of strangers, each seemingly more interested in their own score than the victory conditions of the map. As games drag on, I've found more and more characters are just left standing motionless, as players clearly drift away to do something else. I cooked and ate an entire meal, returned to the joypad and the match was still going on. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not a cup of tea, mind you, but cooked tea. During one such fruitless tug-of-war match, I eventually gave up, put the controller down and went to make tea. ![]()
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