While it is still in early access the rate and quality of the bug fixes/updates are EXTREMELY encouraging, for a fan of the series I'd confidently reccomend this title. For someone sensitive to balance issues/bugs, maybe wait a month or two, the majority of the bugs I normally encountered early on during the release are gone and the game is getting better.

There are some quality of life improvements that have been added since the last title but there are some more improvements that could be made for this game, ie AI improvement(especially during sieges) and certain UI improvements, eg shift click to completely fill army cohesion, troop/prisoner organization.

While it is still in early access the rate and quality of the bug fixes/updates are EXTREMELY encouraging, for a fan of the series I'd confidently reccomend this title. For someone sensitive to balance issues/bugs, maybe wait a month or two, the majority of the bugs I normally encountered early on during the release are gone and the game is getting better. There are some quality of life improvements that have been added since the last title but there are some more improvements that could be made for this game, ie AI improvement(especially during sieges) and certain UI improvements, eg shift click to completely fill army cohesion, troop/prisoner organization.