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dimo

I want to like this game, everything about the style, the potential lore, an concept is so cool an has a lot of potential to be something great.
The reason Im giving this a negative review is playing the game just feels... bad. (ALL OF THIS IS SOLO PLAY AS IF THIS WAS A SINGLEPLAYER GAME FOR CONTEXT)
The game puts you in the shoes of a regular human scav in a world of massive scale mechs an androids fighting where you are not a one man army but a opportunist waiting in the shadow to be a rat. IMO this is awesome, but falls extremely flat for a few reasons.
-Stealth feels BAD, as far as im aware there is no UI to help you see how visible you currently are, enemy get a alert over there head once they notice something but its almost always to late if this happens with a large group on top of you. Needs some kinda mechanic to show ur current visibility level to help with making stealth movement decisions.
-Enemy Spotting is entirely inconsistent, I sat in a deep dark corner waiting for 2 groups to clear themselves out or one team to win an keep moving on. (your player character will even comment things like "let um fight an pick off the survivors") almost 5 minutes of watching, doing nothing an enemys kept spawning on both sides an flooding in creating a permanent firefight right down the narrow path I had to take until one randomly spotted me an then they all did and turned there guns on me. This all happened maybe 20 feet from my deployment location into the map so I had nowhere to go but forward.
-Enemy Patrol pathing is garbage, stationary enemys are fine but you'll have like large patrol groups of like 7-8 doing these TINY back a forth areas like the pathing is broken or stuck, sometimes this can be very frustrating as your only path will be blocked by patrolling groups not actually going anywhere.
-Most my runs consist of looting like 3 things getting a full inventory an just sprinting blindly to the evac right past everything since as long as you're sprinting most enemys cant hit you for ♥♥♥♥. This removes all aspects of stealth from the game.
-Needs more movement control. You can crouch but you cant crouch sprint so if you have to sprint you stand back up which feels bad running down trenches, also a game that leans more into stealth without the ability to go prone is a L imo
-If you ADS on certain enemys you can mark them for a short time, this time is so short its almost unless for tracking movement other than to aim assist when flicking to a target in a fight which the game doesn't want you fight whole groups to being with.
-I personally don't care but the water mechanic is pretty garbage an I don't blame people for quitting, seems like the devs don't really plan on changing it either or im pretty sure it would have been addressed or changes by now.
-Would be nice to have first person perspective only but thats just me nitpicking, the gears of war perspective gets annoying sometimes in tight areas an I just find myself holding ADS down to stay FPP more than anything.

Fun game, took about 18.5h of not seriously trying to beat it with 100% on all levels, didnt find all the cassettes or secret areas though. Had a few puzzle type situations, sadly lost some of the cinematic elements the beginning levels had towards the end in favor of larger areas to cover. Really didnt find myself using too many of the tools, While some were cool concepts like the pressure washer, or humidifier at the end of the day there wasnt really anything that was that out of reach or severe enough to warranty anything that a mop an some detergents in the water couldnt do just fine. Used the UV light until I realized cleaner sense was just broken once leveled up. Would be nice to see DLC or a sequel in the works..

*PLAYED GAME ON HARD MODE*
Good an funny game that's surprisingly enjoyable to play although it has some flaws.

Pros
-Story is entertaining
-Challanges are tough an rewarding when completed
-Free
-DLC is .99 which imo is fair for what it is an speaks to developer integrity being priced so low

Cons
-Movement momentum pair with jumping is kinda wonky
-Cannot Remap keys (Forced me to edit my keyboard OS side to disable sticky keys)
-dodge is mapped to shift which isnt bad but paired with no keybinding causes sticky keys issues
-I realized during the ninja master fight that even if your full combo hitting on him he can attack through your attacks so your always trading damage. You cant cancel out of a attack animation with a dodge so you just have to sit there a trade hits. Game could use a defensive stance.
-First boss area has a RNG aspect to it that can he quite a task, took me multiple hours after learning his pattern to get a area I could work with an the boss could actually land on properly. Otherwise he'll go to land an just fall off an after 2 attempts in the same spot an after falling he skips to next pattern of attack an you missed the whole opportunity to do damage to him

Id recommend the game if you like challenges an the story is worth it since its funny but other than that I think its kinda a slog of just trading damage an picking up on patterns until you win each fight. Maybe its just a skill issue but man the game could really use a block/parry/defensive stance

Need to add plugins to the workshop so it can compete with runelite, osbuddy, etc.
I like that I have an account linked to my steam, just needs plugin support an this is how I'd prefer to play OSRS

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Not cool, this shouldn't even exist. Dont do this CAPCOM its greedy. This should be base game an give us actual decent content to buy like braindead cosmetics

A gaming masterpiece, the standard has been set an its very high

zomb

played civ an always wished the battles were more than chess pieces taking each other. This game delivered.