Recent reviews by sortius

Better than CS2

I played the first, so it was like coming back home.

Very well done, beautiful as hell, and once you get your head around the sword system, it's quite fun. Especially when you get masterstriking down pat.

A few glitchy bits, but that's just the nature of trying to do proper swordfighting in a first person game; mainly to do with bigger battle sequences, and enemies flipping targets. Not hard to deal with, just have better positioning, and learn to use the NPCs as meat sponges.

The stories are detailed, and with many ways to complete even side quests.

I always played the "knight" in the previous game, which is a heap of fun, so I decided to opt for a more stealthy play, and that is very much possible with minimal clothing, and the right acessories.

Don't bother. Full of hackers and performance problems. The old War Thunder is dead

Honestly, I have not loved a digital board game as much since the old Scrabble iPad/iPhone combo.

Sat down with the kids and played through the prologue in the trial, we all loved it. So much of it really lands well, and the gameplay is impeccable.

Nothing complex, but definitely something you can sit down with some friends and have some fun.

Decent Elite/Freelancer/EV clone.

The trading isn't deep, but deep enough to support the story/combat.

Kind of short, for a game like this, but worth it on sale.

Game is buggy as hell, and you'll cop 15 minute penalties or have to endure garbage teams over and over and over.

Such a good game with such potential, ruined by a bunch of really bad "community management" decisions.

All you end up with is people throwing continually.

The game isn't bad, but honestly, there's way too many game breaking crashes that happen for a game this old. Least of all from a "AAA" publisher like Paradox.

They're no longer a "little indie publisher", there's no excuse for this kind of stuff.

I was burnt by preorder, so haven't played in ages.

Loaded it up after all the "fixes", within 15 minutes it had crashed.

Time to uninstall again.

Edit: another few months, and basic bugs with roads lining up still exist. How can I make a perfect grid in Cities Skylines 1, but it's impossible in this pile of garbage?

Despite the lack of updates over the past 2 years, the game is still pretty solid. The AI is about as smart as to be expected in a "Banished-esque" game, but with some nice force overrides on stuff; you can select a human and right click a job for them to do there and then.

It's got a nice flow to it, but you will find there's times of sitting there and waiting at the start if you're not willing to explore the map and find unhunted animals to, well, hunt.

The research system is one of the best I've seen in a game of this type. Making you do stuff to progress, rather than sitting and waiting.

Devs are transphobic, homophobic, ghouls. There's plenty of better, cheaper, alternatives to TTS, that don't come with a huge bag of bigotry.