Kisah AKU n Games Review: FC Mobile 24

Assalamualaikum,

Okay, hari ni aku nak buat video games review sikit. Lama dah tak buat kan? Rasanya last video games aku review tak silapnya Dream League Soccer tahun 2020. Of course lah ada review berlambak mods, tapi that's not a game. Kira tak count lah. Game yang aku nak review malam ni ialah FC Mobile 24 or known as FC24. Sebuah mobile game developed by EA Sports, khas untuk pengguna Android dan iOS. Asalnya aku download game ni time demam Euro dulu, tapi melekat pulak dalam tepon ni. Bak kata orang kampung aku, it's here to stay. Huhu

This is the main menu untuk game ni. Straightly to team dashboard. Play untuk main matches mode yang ada. Market untuk urusan jual dan beli players. Quests untuk tengok apa daily/weekly task yang ada, League pulak untuk those yang masuk liga (macam aku tak join apa-apa league pun, Exchange untuk ke section pertukaran dan My Club untuk pengurusan club. Jom tengok satu-satu content menu game ni.

Let's starts with Play. Ada tiga mode yang ada kat sini. Division Rivals iaitu multiplayer mode dimana korang boleh berlawan dengan player online yang lain. Dalam ni ada tiga mode jugak iaitu Manager, H2H dan juga VS Attack. Aku personally prefer main H2H (Head-to-Head) since yang ni memang akan based on our skill rather than overall rating. Okay then kita ada Live Events which is a single player mode. This is where we can test our skill against computer through variety of skill challenges and matches. Yang memang setiap masa ada ialah mode Heroes, Mystery Signings and Challenges while Icon Chronicles dan Hall of Legends tu seasonal. Finally kita ada mode Tournament, also singlplayer dimana kita boleh join offline tournament. Yang ni pun seasonal jugak, cam sekarang still under EURO2024 tournament.

Ni pulak Transfers. Kat sini lah tempat you all nak beli dan jual player. Nak beli pakai apa? Mestilah pakai Coin. Harga player based on their card. Kekadang satu player tu ada a number of card depending on their level. Lagi tinggi level, lagi mahal lah harga diorang. For example, basic Joelinton's card berharga 90,000 sahaja but fully upgraded Joelinton's card boleh menjangkau ke 24,000,000. It will surely take time lah untuk beli card yang berkualiti.

This is Quests dashboard. Kat sini korang boleh check daily or weekly progress. Untuk setiap quest yang kita achieved, of course akan ada reward yang kita boleh dapat and it's quite handsome. Daily/weekly quests mostly berkaitan matches and challenges, while ada jugak quest yang fokus on team building such as improve overall rating, train players etc.

Exchange membolehkan korang buat pertukaran such as player for coin, or player for player. If korang jenis yang teliti sometimes kalau exchange player lagi untung dari jual diorang kat market since kat sini takde tax. So player yang berharga 100,000 are exchangeable without 10% tax, thus kita boleh dapat full amount. Kat sini jugak kita boleh exchange player untuk dapatkan Universal Rank Player which can be used to upgrade our existing pool of player. Cuma keras sikit lah requirement nak exchange tu..:-)

Of course macam the other online game in market, ada Store yang membolehkan korang beli something with real money. Ni biasanya untuk orang berduit lah. Ada duit beli jelah, buat apa nak upgrade slow-slow. Macam aku just beli Star Pass je bila new season open and improve from there. Premium Star Pass biasanya berharga RM45, while yang Premium+ boleh go up to RM90

Okay finally, dashboard untuk Club. Kat sini you all can do everything to your team. Boleh bereksperimen dengan formasi yang ada while assessing your strength. Kat sini boleh train and rank up player untuk improve their ability. Locker Room membolehkan kita buat some team customization iaitu pilih kit, logo, in-game emoji, set player's number and change their appearance.

Haa, mesti you all tak sabar nak tengok my formidable team kan. Here it is, I'm presenting you my Newcastle United! Pelik kan, orang main game ni sebab nak kumpul best player tapi aku dah cukup berpuas hati dengan team ni. Ada two set of team, yang rating 89 tu my best eleven comprising current Newcastle's first eleven, biasanya aku guna time multiplayer match. Hat rating 77 tu pulak is my second team, mostly subs and reservist yang aku guna mostly time main offline..:-)

Macam aku mentioned tadi, aku lagi prefer main H2H sebab yang ni based on korang punya skill rather than overall rating. Kalau main Manager mode dengan team ni memang kena toron lah jawabnya since overall rating player lain boleh menjangkau ke 105! Huhu. Same thing goes to VS Attack mode where overall rating main peranan dalam chances korang. Lagi tinggi rating, lagi banyak great chances yang korang dapat. 

So, team aku walaupun rating 89 je tapi masih mampu bersaing dengan team yang overall ratingnya lagi tinggi. Why? Sebab no matter tinggi pun rating or mahalnya player tu, tapi kalau tak pandai main sama je. Haha. So kat sini its more on experience/skill rather than money. Huhu

Jom kita tengok in-game punya graphic. Untuk sebuah mobile game, grafik FC24 memang superb with smooth control. This is Eastpoint Arena, home for my Legion FC.

Player from both team entering the field. Untuk review kali ni aku ambil screenshot from my latest match menentang Real Madrid

If perhati crowd tak ramai sebab aku optimize game ni bagi run in power saver mode. So, reduced sikit kat crowd, post-effect dan juga frame rate. Tapi kalau phone korang marvelous, main pakai ultra memang lagi cantik lah.

Kedua-dua team terikat 1-1 diminit yang ke-80. Satu yang aku perasan, full match biasanya habis dalam 5-7 minit which bagi aku agak singkat. Kira kalau korang nak buat substitution tu elok buat time half time. Sebab kalau lambat, jadi camni. Buat subs change minit 60, nak dekat minit 80 baru dapat masuk. Cb betul.

Joelinton menyumbat gol kemenangan di minit ke 91.

Memang puas hati kalau dapat menang last minute lagi-lagi time lawan online player yang rating much higher. Buat pulak dapat jenis yang tak dapat accept loss. Memang penuh diorang spammed emoji thumbs down kat screen aku. Haha

Apo bondo Salah and Van Dijk main kat Real Madrid? Huhu. Nak buat camna dah itu main purpose game ni, to gather best football player. Tapi tu lah, aku cuba jugak try dulu beli player mantap-mantap ni tapi bila main rasa takde hati. Tu yang jual semua and guna duit tu improve player Newcastle yang ada to the max. At least kalah pun orang kata still berpuas hati. Gituu~

So tuan-tuan semua, that's my review untuk FC24. Game yang sangat berbaloi. Sesuai dimainkan oleh semua peringkat umur. Untuk rating, aku bagi 4 Star untuk game ni. Well done! 

P/S: Kurang 1-star sebab dalam game ni ada hackers and the problem still persists. Ada few times jugak aku terkena. Connection elok, tapi somehow gameplay very lagging or sometimes tiba-tiba kena tendang keluar time dah leading. Bila check internet diorang kata tu kerja hacker. Huhu

Kisah AKU n Bannerlord - Realm of Thrones

Assalamualaikum,

Seperti yang dijanjikan hari ni aku nak update entri pasal video game. Mod pilihan aku kali ni ialah Realm of Thrones (ROT) untuk game Mount & Blade: Bannerlord. Dulu aku ada review dua mod GOT Bannerlord, iaitu The Long Night (TLN) dan juga Trial of the Seven Kingdom (TOTSK). TLN ada features yang menarik (dragon and wights), tapi faktor yang buat turn-off ialah kekurangan lore material, TOTSK in other hand memang dah okay, cuma pembikinan mod ni terhenti for quite sometimes and tahu-tahu projek cancelled. So, aku pun beralih ke ROT yang boleh katakan gabungan these two earlier mods

Bannerlord : Realm of Thrones or senang kita panggil ROT dalam entri ni dibangunkan oleh Carolina Warlord Modding Team yang bertemakan novel A Song of Ice and Fire, hasil karya agung George R.R Martin yang mengisahkan the War of Seven Kingdoms. Ni merupakan major faction yang ada di Westeros berserta ruling house, in bracket:

1. The Westerland (House Lannister)
2. The North (House Stark)
3. The Iron Island (House Greyjoy)
4. The Riverland (House Tully)
5. The Vale (House Arryn)
6. The Dorne (House Martell)
7. The Dragonstone (House Baratheon of Dragonstone)
8. The Stormland (House Baratheon of Storm's End)
9. The Reach (House Tyrell)
10. Night Watch Order
11. Free Folks 

Ni pulak faction di Essos:

1. House Targaryen of Mereen (Daenerys' faction)
2. House Targaryen of Yunkai (Aegon's faction)
3. Free Cities (Lys, Bravos, Qohor, Myr, Volantis, Pentos)
4. Dothraki Khalasar

1/3 map Westeros. Boleh tahan besar kan?

1/2 map Essos.  Similar with TOTSK, dalam map ni ada custom model untuk major towns/castles yang ada dekat Westeros ni. Meh aku share a few gambar before kita proceed dekat improvement lain.

The capital of Seven Kingdoms - King's Landing

Ancestral castle for House Arryn of The Vale - The Eeyrie yang merupakan point paling tinggi at the Westeros continent.

Winterfell, the ancestral seat of House Stark of the North.

To the West, Casterly Rock - the formidable castle of House Lannister of the Westerland

From their castle of Highgarden, the Tyrell rule fertile lands of the Reach 

The mighty castle of Dragonstone - the former ancestral seat of House Targaryen, but now owned by Stannis Baratheon. Later he abandoned the castle and now ruled by House Florent

Riverrun, capital of Riverland held by House Tully. Currently occupied by House Reyne at the end of War of Five Kingdoms.

Sunspear, capital of the Dornish people ruled by House Martell

House Greyjoy previously ruled the Iron Island from their unique castle of Pyke. Now held by House Karstark in the aftermath of the North-Iron Island War.

Castle Black and The Wall - the headquarter of Night's Watch order.

Ada jugak a few custom castles such as Harrenhal and The Twins. Unlike TOTSK dan TLN, semua town, castles dan juga villages telah pun 100% ditukar nama from native to lore naming`

The Ruin of Old Valyria, the capital city of the once-great civilization of Valyria Freehold at Essos.

Dalam game ni, korang boleh pilih ciri-ciri karekter dari physical appearance, race, traits etc, sebab apa yang korang pilih tu la yang akan main peranan dalam game ni. Luckily dalam game ni takde House Reyne of Castamere macam kat TOTSK, so bolehlah aku roleplay guna my all-time favourite character, Ser Fredrik Reyne. Bear in mind, untuk review kali ni aku dah main sampai tahun ke-sepuluh. So memang banyak jugak progress. If tengok dalam ni, si Fredrik tu pun dah berkahwin and have three kids. Huhu. Umur dia time aku start game ni sekitar 25 tahun, sekarang ni dah masuk 35 tahun!

This is clan menu, kat sini kita boleh review progress clan kita sendiri. Apa fief owned by us, our businesses (caravan, production) dan juga party. Selain their ancestral castle of Castamere, House Reyne juga currently holding Riverrun, the former capital of the Riverland. In term of business, the Reyne owned six businesses in Lannisport dan Riverrun, respectively. In term of party, Fredrik maintained two active garrison, two patrol squadron dan juga his own squadron of Castamere's knight.

Macam mod lain, sini pun boleh lepak-lepak kat tavern untuk rekrut tentera upahan, hire companion dan main mini-game. Unlike Warband, dalam Bannerlord takde penyair/penyajak dalam tavern since korang dah tak payah nak mengorat pakai sajak, syair segala jadah tu. Kat tavern pun, dah takde merchant. Pendek kata banyak jugak non-playable character or NPC yang dikurangkan. But, ada banyak jugak NPC baru yang diperkenalkan dekat town/castle. Ada gangster, thugs, barber, merchant, artisan, beggar etc. NPC main peranan untuk korang tingkatkan influence clan. Lagi good relationship korang dengan merchant dan artisan, lagi banyaklah orang yang akan support clan kita. 

Elemen real-time strategy (RTS) didalam TOTSK ni dapat dilihat melalui role karekter dalam nation yang dipilih. Mirip Total War, ROT membolehkan party yang diketuai karekter untuk attack, defend, reinforce, besiege atau scout open world. Konsep RTS dapat dilihat melalui tema game ini iaitu ketika War of Seven Kingdoms, berlatar belakangkan konflik yang berlaku di Westeros. Dalam ROT korang boleh pilih untuk lead your own army or join forces dengan faction leader's army. 

Watak, tempat dan event yang wujud didalam open world ialah berdasarkan watak dalam cerita Game of Thrones. Watak seperti Tywin Lannister, Mace Tyrell, Edmure Tully, Robb Stark, Doran Martell, Balon Greyjoy, Lysa Arryn dan lain-lain merupakan watak fiksyen ketika zaman itu. 

Dalam game ni korang boleh setting dua outfit, satu battle outfit yang akan dipakai ketika pertempuran. Satu lagi civilian outfit macam gambar atas ni yang akan dipakai ketika melawat bandar, castles, village etc. Kira takdelah pelik sangat orang tengok kau selalu merayau pakai armor je. Haha. 

Kingdom panel - kat sini korang boleh access information berkaitan house/clan lain dalam kingdom, juga fief, policies, diplomacy dan lain-lain. Boleh lah tengok influence point house korang against other houses. Ada banyak cara untuk kita increase influence, such as donate garrison or prisoners to other lords, winning the battle dan seperti biasa, running errand dalam erti kata lain, jadi kuli lah. Haha

Fief management lebih mudah sekarang, just buat queue and let your governor do the rest. Sebab dalam Bannerlord ni anyone can die in the battlefield, so aku pun belajar dari kesilapan lampau. Fredrik's wife, Lady Joanna elok stay as governor je instead of join war-party. Karang mati, tak memasal kena cari bini baru. Huhu

Ada a few feature yang menarik dalam mod ni, contohnya execution. Kalau dulu once kita execute lord/lady, boleh katakan relationship kita dengan other kingodm pun akan negatif which will affect our future interaction later. Tapi kali ni, negative relationship untuk clan tu sahaja. So, senanglah kita nak execute orang sekarang especially those rebel clans yang akan selalu appear dalam game 

Ada jugak feature "Raven", where kita boleh hantar surat to other lord/lady despite their location. Cumanya untuk use this feature, you all mestilah pernah berjumpa diorang in-person dulu. 

Dalam mod ni pun ada balancing feature where we can set the preferences. Dulu time main TLN dan TOTSK, memang susah if korang join faction Westerland since diorang bertarung dengan almost all factions dekat Westeros. But with this feature we can preset the condition, contohnya the Westerland vs the North first, then at certain point, the Reach akan join the war etc. Dengan cara ni kita akan ada control sikit, if not memang barai lah Lannister kena gangbang depan belakang! Haha

Macam biasa tak lengkap kalau aku tak share sikit story untuk hero kita ni. Tapi, kali ni aku takde masa nak rewind secara detail time mula-mula aku main game ni, cukuplah simple one sahaja. This is Castamere, the ancestral castle of House Reyne. Located at the north-eastern part of Westerland, the castle served as the administrative center for a few villages, with Castamere Mines and Tumblestone are the largest and most populous. 

298AC - our hero, Fredrik started his military career at the age of 25 where he took command of his father, Lord Reynard Reyne's cavalry squadron during the Westerland's campaign against Robb "Young Wolf" Stark's army of the North. The campaign saw the destruction of three Westerland's army in the hand of the Young Wolf followed by the sacking of Ashemark in the Westerland's soil. Lord Tywin Lannister having capitalized the instability in the North's rank, succeeded in plotting conspiracy which later ended with the death of Robb Stark during the infamous Red Wedding. 

299AC - A year later, he saw actions during campaign against the Riverlords. The campaign was best remembered of being his first time commanding the Reyne's contingent to replace his ailing father. His critical maneuver near Red Fork river managed to rout the more experienced Ser Brynden "The Blackfish" Tully, and paved way for Ser Jaime Lannister's main army to secure the Riverrun gate, thus ending the six-months long siege.

301AC - In his 28th birthday, Fredrik wed Lady Joanna Swyft, youngest daughter of Lord Harys from House Swyft of Cornfield. The couple are blessed with twin-daughter; Ellyn and Rohanne and a son, Alastair.

The Dragonstone's forces under King Stannis Baratheon invaded Crownlands with 50,000 troops in 305AC. The invasion was a week after the death of Lord Reynard, and immediate ascension of Fredrik as the new Lord of Castamere. At Highgarden, Lord Petyr Baelish negotiated fresh alliance between the Lannister and the Tyrell, which saw the participation of the Reach into the conflict. This rendered Stannis to fight against common enemies from two fronts; against the Westerlands from the West and the Tyrell from the South. 

After their failed uprising against the Lannister some forty years ago, House Reyne of Castamere lost its status as major power in the Westerland. However, they still possessed one of the largest field army in the West with a force of 800 infantry, 300 missile troops, 300 cavalryman including knights and around 100 auxiliary troops. In this recent conflict, the Reyne's contingent was a part of Tywin Lannister's Army of the West summoned by King Joffrey Baratheon in a war against his uncles.

A relentless attack from multiple fronts proven too much even for seasoned commander like Stannis. The Dragonstone quickly lost cohesion and their will to fight. Their land were razed with burning villages due to Tywin brutal tactics. Later on 308AC with all hope lost, Stannis decided to flee north and to rendezvous with Lord Jon Snow, the commander of Stark's loyalist. There, he planned to merge force with the Stark in a bid to defeat Tywin's proxy, Lord Roose Bolton and reclaim the North. 

Lord Fredrik, hoisting the Reyne's banner upon capturing the final Stannis' stronghold, the castle of Rook Rest. Cerita aku habis sampai sini je, sebab dah takde perang. Kalau ada pun later macam akan challenge House Martell sebab nampak possibility to war tu dah almost 70%. Tunggulah war council vote nanti, tapi macam biasalah si Fredrik ni abstain je. Lalang lah katakan. Huhu

Oi, apa benda tu? Yeah, ni satu lagi feature baru dalam ROT. Dragon! Aku takde gambar gameplay, tapi from review gamers lain, naga ni memang OP gila sebab boleh terbang dan juga BBQ orang. Huhu. Memang dahsyat gila ler. Tapi dalam mod ni ada sorang je karekter yang dragon-rider, iaitu...

Queen Daenerys of House Targaryen. So kalau korang nak try, cuba lah lawan. Kalau menang you guys kena execute her and then can retrieve her dragon. Huhu. Maaflah, our kingdom not in conflict pun sekarang, lagipun takde masa aku nak main pakai naga tu. Nanti macam kurang seronok pulak nak main.

Baiklah, that's the end untuk review ROT. To be honest aku memang layan mod ni je sekarang. Tapi tu lah sekarang ni pun main game time weekend je, itupun dalam sejam dua. Penat mat, kerja banyak sekarang, buat pulak ada bos baru. Huh