Recent reviews by Echo-2

Board game-- when?

I'd like to give a neutral review. Dont get me wrong, i like this game so much, its my fav wargame. But there're few extremely serious drawbacks:

1) no ammo resupply for artillery. Its obvious why you cant resupply mechanized or tank units, but artillery? Just add varianta a-la "howitzer + resupply truck" with increased unit cost. I understand, there're may be problems with database. So you can just duplicate existing artillery unit and increase its ammo capacity. This way, you even dont have to imagine any kind of resupply system. I guess, such convention will satisfy players. Of course, these "ammo trucks" will be just a fake unit, but cmon, artillery units almost never got destroyed.

2.1) dismounted troops and carriers move with different speed. So obvious, so i wont expand this.
2.2) dismounted troops lose links to their carriers after unload order if you dont select them all and make a new order. It happens so often so it just pisses me off.

I would also add one more very strong negative point: enemy ATGM helicopters are invisible and invincible. AI can put it in the middle of the map, just above control zone. And lock and boom your vehicles. It shows the devs didnt test heli AI in sims a-la DCS. Helicopter is a fat loud fly against the sky. In that epoch they werent long range enough to dominate from dead zone of visibility. Howering heli can be attacked by apcd round and even MG fire in short range. But i repeat:

a) your troops are so dumb so they cant indicate an enemy heli from 500m range, blowing up apcs one by one (yes, the Shilkas too);
b) only apcs with autoguns will engage helis.

To conclude, i'd like to underline the situation: howering ATGM helis are extremely difficult to be spotted. But even being spotted, its also extremely difficult to be shot down: SAMs ("Gaskin" and so on) and SPAAGS cant engage it from the distance the heli cant blow them up before.

Just now i've seen how AH-1 devastated my zsu 23-4 ADA from 2485 meters using a pair of 70mm rockets. Thats trash, crapped trash.


Despite thus all said, theres just no competition in the niche of cold era platoon level sims. At first glance, Flashpoint campaigns may do it, but unit stats are based purely on Wiki's data (4km max weapon range means it really can destroy moving target at 4km?)

Now the game start become extremely difficult, since they added a swarm of dogs to the first quest fort. But after that difficult is quite smooth if you act cautiously. No problems with saves because you can do it before every mission if you buy a sleeping bag.

A very lovely small gem. IMHO, quite a unique game: not a tower defence, not a TBS or RTS. More like a mobile game. My runs werent long because of difficulty, so i dont mind lack of saves.

Good game.

To be honest, its quite tedious and boring. You know, a shooter with 20-years old outdated mechanics. No aiming, no q/e. Enemy almost dont react to hits. If it probably fits boomer shooters, for a lower pace game you should force yourself to finish it.

My most beloved game so far.

Tedious and mediocre. Dont want to replay it.

Two pairs of Mi-24's are stronger than 1 SAM and 1 Vulcan detachments hidden in forest hex. At POINT BLANK contact all my AA units were devastated with no Mi-24's shooted down. I dont even mention a bunch of Bradley sections which didnt make a shot.

I strongly recommend to developers to try some helicopter modules in DCS before doing this &!@$^@#&$ in their "simulator".

Helicopter is just a flying coffing at point blank contacts whilst it can got shot from everywhere including its underbelly.

Нравится эта игра. Много оперативников с разным оружием, способностями, характеристиками, внешностью. Каждый найдёт подходящего под себя. Прокачка достаточно быстрая. Режимы интересные и в пвп, и в пве (пвпве не пробовал). Приятная картинка, физика. Интерфейс жутко цветастый и совсем мне не нравится, притом что важные вещи зачастую сложно найти глазом (маркеры заданий). Стоит учитывать, что баланс оперативников заточен под пвп, так что в пве они плохо себя показывают (Асаи).
Матчмейкинг отстойный. 4 новичков нередко кидает против 4 опытных или вообще пати. Правда, также нередко бывает и так, что первые побеждают. Коммьюнити в целом ужасное, хотя не знаю, в какой видеоигре это иначе.
Также что всё же приятно: игра сделана в России, а потому сюжет и лор не строится вокруг "злых рюзких", которых пропихивает западная повесточка. В целом нравится играть на оперативниках из стран СНГ, где ещё такое будет?

П.С. Ещё ни разу не встречал багов, лагов, провисаний, дисконнектов, десинков и прочей шляпы. Оптимизация хорошая.