IRON HARVEST - A BIG Disappointment - Beta Gameplay Review

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372 users liked the game and can't take any criticism ;)

So basically the main complaints comes from coh community, due to it not being a complete side by side coh clone.
Okay, me personally finds this game more similar to dow2 with the heroes, capture mechanic, and mechs.

Coming from Starcraft 2, the game feels good. My only gripe is the clunky unit control that makes micro individual units difficult xD.

Exactly my words.
They've literally just copy-pasted Company of Heroes into a different coat. Furthermore, the gameplay is not even as much fun as it is in original Company of Heroes, it's worse.
They created an interested setting, similar to Wolfenstein but completely killed the whole thing bu not going their own way by bringing something new to the genre. They just copied mechanics from an older game instead.
The gameplay is literally boring, graphics is ok but not perfect, the intelligence and behavior of an AI is terrible.
I am getting this game.

i think the game is good its like 8/10 to me but that's just me

Have you tried it out now after it released? I played it and seems fine now to me mostly. Possibly time to give it a new review? I always feel beta reviews should never be a thing in my opinion.

Well at least the trailer was cool

I thought it would be a fps. It would've been cool

uuuhhhhhhhhhhh ok rop
its a good game

The game is boring af, infantry is to powerful in shooting down any mechs.
Graphics are really outdated, pathfinding is terrible and infantry shoots a minute on each other until one unit is dead, meh.

Mechs without comples damage model and without multiple weapon systems etc. are a joke.

I play it for the story its really cool so far the nativ vo´s rock but yeah coh forever

I hoped this game would be more like Universe at War

I will wait. Why? Because I have seen this story. A game gets released by a small studio. It's not that good. has some solid mechanics but nothing special. But then it gets update after update after update and eventually, gets really good around a year later. Just keep an eye on this one. Like - it's LITERALLY what Company of Heroes 2 did. Literally. At release, people were disappointed. But it came back and got strong. The thing is; I know this game has issues but I don't think they are severe enough to simply disregard this title.

I'm really liking the game, the last decent coh inspired game was well coh 2 so it is good for me.

The issue is that feels like CoH so what's the point here ?? Same as Baldur's Gate 3 is like Divinity 3 , that should have innovate more and do it like standard RTC C&C. Not worth it $50 maybe $25

this game is amazing just cause its not like company of heroes docent mean its bad. best RTS game there is

Performance is so bad i refunded it!

I think most of you ar e just way too picky, expect perfection right out of the gate too much, and need a few bloody noses. Also Im glad you are extremely disappointed. it means youre less likely to play which means im less likely to have to deal with you.

Fastpaced, simple and no deep.
Platforms: PC and consoles
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I agree with you! Devs wasted this gmae's potential :(

Seeing soldiers just stand around in the open as they are shot at by infantry or mechs are tramping through their lines makes me so sad when in CoH they would go prone and react to being shot. If you're going to make a clone this blatant at least copy all the features!

your point about melee is completely invalid .. the goal of infantry in ww 1 was totally just to run straight at the enemy and start melee .. even in ww2 if the battle is inside cities or bunkers the goal of infantry was to overwhelm the enemy with grenades and anything they can shoot with while they close in and fight a melee .. you just dont know .

another invalid point is that picking a unit weapon makes it easier.. sun tzu "a general" says that capturing one enemy cart is worth 20 of your own and that you should feed on enemy losses .. plus you can imagine just a regular soldier from the rear line converted to a new unit with those captured weapons .. thats what russians did in ww2 .. they ran in with underequipped soldiers and over the course of the war they got well equipped .. also the muslims in caliphate conquest .. at the start of the war they had like 1000 riders in an army .. by the end of war every soldier was a rider .

I thought if I waited long enough, this game will improve. Still is, a big disappointment.

The game is trash. They needed 2 months to patch in pinging. Fucking pinging.

i have to agree that the whole "become a new unit" stuff is dumb and immersion breaking. i prefer the coh system of only one guy in the squad carrying the thing. also because a squad full of flamethrower guys or lmg carriers or whatever makes less sense than having one guy with the special weapon and the rest of the squad has normal weapons to counter normal infantry. also, its dull that each basic infantry unit are just copies with different skins. i am, however, glad that they had such a variety of mechs. as in no mech is the same. you kind of had that in company when you have a typical light tank good against infantry, a medium, good against a bit of both, and heavies good against heavy armor and such. honestly, had it nor been for the 1920s, steampunk mech gimmick, i probably wouldn't have gotten the game

one good thing is that there is room for new factions. the "northern kingdoms" as mentioned in the first polania mission, obviously being Scandinavia, there is also the games version of england, france, italy, japan, america, and since this is alternate timeline, they can add many of these factions with it still making sense, unlike company which is restricted to the major players of europe

Thing I like about the mechs rather than takes is that you can do a lot more with them. There is a lot of unique weapons and abilities that you would be able to put on a mech, rather than just a tank. What I mean is every mech isn’t just a thing with a gun, they have unique properties

This game should have been a Turn Based Strategy game with localized Real-Time Combat set pieces. Control the movement and positioning of your armies and units on a country-scale map, how they are supplied, what sort of terrain skirmishes will occur within, if they are being resupplied or reinforced, and then you zoom in to playing a real-time shooter to focus on priority objectives during the battle: a scout, a soldier, a sapper, and a mech pilot. How many objectives you achieve tilts the battle resolution in your favor, but you only have a limited number of hero units you can deploy to any given battle, meaning you can't just sweep victory with your real-time skills for every battle; you gotta delegate, plan ahead, and be on the lookout for new hero units you can recruit and deploy.

We didn't need another bland RTS for this world; I've been following the artist that inspired this game for like a decade. Jakub deserved better.

Im still gonna play it either way

Great looking game and beautiful music but I couldn't get into it at all.

The stuff you say are half way true if you ask me the mechs Aldo a bit simple can have pretty interesting stuff like Brunhilda, lowka Brunhilda for example best work if you show your side to the enemy., Lowka is a mech hunter with low range and a special ability with even lower range the infantry combat is also a lot more in-depth with each faction having infantry that are good at different things and each faction having unique infantry making it more unique I also think this games allow pretty good back and forth

do you think IH is the worste game of 2021?

So let me get this straight, just because a game is in the same style of another game, other than a different setting, different game style, different engine, somehow it is a clone?
So is every RTS that uses singular units and basic mining mechanics a StarCraft clone? Is Mass Effect a Halo Clone? No. It just happens to be made in the same genre.
Iron Harvest is more focused on using hero units and has a greater long range combat focus while Company of Heroes is more focused on the individual battles and using your commander's call down abilities

I really hope that this game gets better over time and maybe get a sequel that's built on the improvements they make in the future. I tried the skirmish, and it was way too dull and boring for me. 0 depth in combat, and all of the units feel the same. But all of this is fixable, that is if they want to fix it.

Is this game as good as COH? I got COH for .99 on a Steam sale. I also got 1 or 2 dlc expansions for .99 each. I considered that one of the greatest's deals in gaming I was able to get. I also got COH2 for free.

Company Of Heroes 2 was just free on Steam but I think it's over. It's 4.99 now. The dlc is cheap too but there's like 40 different onbes.

June 2021: Still is a shit game, what a disappointment

I just started playing this on Game Pass, barely played it but it feels good to play, responsive, fantastic graphics.... gutted to hear its so terrible

i personally dont like coh because of what that company did to dawn of war...

There are still so many things wrong with this game and it's 2022. The 'dont show this again' box keeps coming up over and over, you can't put buildings down where you want them and you can't build when the game is paused so it can kill your game and cause you to reload multiple times, it's super lame for what it is even, forget anything that this guys and he knows what he's talking about.

The game died pretty much instantly.

Strong community within the CoH scene, however I personally have never been a fan, in fact I'm an avid RTS gamer and CoH was the very first game I purchased on steam back in 2013 to date with only 3 hours played, did not like it at all odd arcadic style of rts, micro managing weapons vs units, nothing feels valuable and worst part for me was the capturing points like really? this creates repetition at its finest especially in an RTS game imo oh and no air or naval units, and its the same with iron harvest

any ideas if skirmish works in starcraft 2 trilogy fitgirl repack from 2016? wanted to know before i waste my limit on it

That’s like saying warzone copied Fortnite

To those coming to this video now, I'd recommend just picking this up on Game Pass if you have it. I think the campaign is fun, and I haven't tried multiplayer yet. I imagine I won't find many games. I will say this as an RTS veteran, and I'm sure most of y'all will agree: you need asymmetry in an RTS for its multiplayer to survive. Nearly all infantry across the factions are identical, which is a huge drawback. For trying to make a CoH clone, I just think they fell short on their scope. I will say, however, the mechs are super cool. There was some genuine creativity that went into designing them.

It's truly not as bad as this claims especially since this is the studios first game amd it has come a LONG WAY.