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Reminds me a lot of world in conflict. Fun strategy with a great focus on keeping your squads and equipment alive since they persist between maps. Only strategy game I've played where I'll reload a save or restart a map if I lose a key squad due to poor decision making or bad luck.

Performance is good, sound effects are good, graphics are decent.

I hope they create a campaign for the terminators' forces in the future.

Absolutely captures the intensity of the combat against the bug swarms from the films. Nothing better than having the whole server cover each other in retreat to the dropship at the end of the level. They're clearly trying (and succeeding) to capture the feel from the films, even with the news camera style intro as you load into the level (and if you load in part way through a match, the news footage shows the wider team fighting on-screen).

It's still early access so only a couple of maps and game modes, but it is already giving me more fun than most FPS games I've played in years.

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The game is great fun but the lack of FOV control makes me very nauseous very quickly when working on larger ships, as the FOV issue only becomes apparent when moving around inside. The devs really need to add an option to change it as until then I'll feel ill after spending 10 mins or less working on a larger ship. I've got to 10 hours on small ships and in EA but cannot continue to play until this simple quality of life addition is made.

I'd accept it missing in early access but the lack of it in a full release is a big miss for the team. If they can add it I would move this to a positive review, but until then it is just unplayable for those who get motion sick with low FOV games.

Great fun escape room that continues from the excellent gameplay from the first game. Highly recommended for anyone to enjoy.

A surprisingly fun game with great performance.

Pros:
- Great environment art
- Fantastic banter between characters throughout - the voice acting is excellent
- Fun gameplay with good pacing
- Single player only linear maps - I don't need every game to be an open world 40+ hour game and am quite enjoying the fun of just having to look for secret areas for different outfits
- At 4K game performance is fantastic - getting 90+ FPS with everything at max (except ray tracing) (although this is on a 6900 XT GPU at 2.6ghz core speed
- HDR support makes the game look very rich

Cons:
- Ray tracing adds serious micro stutters to framerate - fortunately the game looks fantastic with it off
- Some enemies are frustratingly difficult to kill, especially in the third chapter, causing countless replays to defeat
- You have no idea what the impact will be on making dialog choices - I'm not asking for things to be outlined clearly, but the impact feels completely random
- Dialog prompts appear where you have to press C to start the dialog. Unless you're slightly too slow and it opens anyway, at which point C makes you leave the dialog entirely. Very frustrating.
- Keyboard default keybinds are a bit of a challenge mid-fight
- If you have a bright HDR monitor you will be blinded every time you huddle your team in combat as there's a white screen before/after the rallying conversation. 100% white screen at 1600 nits is nuts.

I can completely recommend it as a fun game to pick up and play. I'm only about 4.5 hours in at this point but am really enjoying myself.

Amazingly addictive game - scratches the Factorio itch while being different and rewarding in different ways. Building around planets (yes multiple) is a different challenge to the endless space you have on a Factorio map, and presents different challenges and planning. Spanning planets and solar systems presents new challenges in logistics. Building a dyson sphere (or swarm) is beautiful to behold in the game - truly the best looking game in this genre.

I'm really looking forward to see what the devs continue to deliver with the game as it moves through Early Access. Enemies to worry about would be a nice addition and would bring some difficulty to the game beyond design.

If you like Factorio I can 100% recommend Dyson Sphere Program.

Good remaster of the original games - this is not a remake and is a good update to the original games with some small tweaks/improvements here and there. Textures, engine performance, aspect ratio support, and unlocking the FPS limits in the engine are all that were really needed to make the games feel fresh again.

I'm really enjoying my playthrough and can recommend to anyone who played the games originally, as well as anyone new to the Mass Effect franchise.

A fun strategy game that although has a lot of time spent in 16x mode has a decent storyline which continues to feed you new challenges and mechanics as you go through the process. Am very impressed by the quality of the voice acting and overall storyline, especially considering it is a strategy game.

Quite refreshing, although the final steps to finishing the terraforming can take a little longer than I'd like. Certainly some rough bits that could use some work, but overall very enjoyable.

A great, accessible flight sim game. Graphics are good, gameplay is polished and engaging, and the storyline is about the right length. Playing in VR was amazing and one of my favourite experiences in VR - you feel like you're in the cockpit of an X-wing, Tie fighter, etc flying in a battle between a Star Destroyer and new Republic Corvette.

I played in and out of VR with a full HOTAS setup (x52, Saitek flight pedals) and the game supported these great! It also feels like it was well designed for keyboard/mouse and controller users as well so well done to the devs.

I can highly recommend this to anyone who wants to fly Rebel and Imperial fighters in a fun flying game - whether they have played other flight sims or not.

Really fun potential but flawed by serious bugs and poor information at release.

My main storyline as Emma is completely blocked thanks to a bug preventing a required mission from spawning on the world map. This is reported frequently on Reddit, but as of today is still not fixed so my 20 hours playthrough is completely blocked.

If you play in DX12 and alt-tab out the game will crash when you alt-tab back in. This is with latest drivers installed.

It is very unclear on how you are meant to recruit more henchmen - apparently I missed out on one key one because only the mission to kill him spawned - if I'd waited a second final one to recruit would have appeared. This is not communicated at all.

Some super spies (looking at you Symmetry) spawn with a squad of their own who are individually more powerful than the other super spies. Meaning even with fully trained mercs with guns they will easily move through 50 of them before going down.

Your progress through the tech tree is blocked until you can recruit a certain type of minion - this is never communicated to you, and you are just told to "progress the storyline". Rebellion - I've been "progressing the storyline" (until a bug killed any progress) for 8 hours since I completed all available research.

There's a ton of other mechanics that are just never explained.

As I said at the start - it's a fun game and has a ton of potential, but it feels like it was released too soon given the game breaking bugs (20+ hours into a playthrough), the complete lack of explanation on many mechanics in the game, and the artificial way it slows progress to continue through research. I don't want to play for hours between completing all my research at level 2 before you'll let me start levels 3, 4, and 5.

Be good to pick it up in a couple of months when they fix all of this, until then the risk of losing hours of playtime to a bug is too frustrating.