Iron Harvest

So much love in this game <3 octobre 7, 2020 Pros : - Graphic : great! - Sound : very nice OST (even if the game deserves even more musics^^), ambiance,... - Gameplay : I just do love it. It's like developpers took every good tools from other RTS to make a new optimized one. Gameplay is fluent, efficient, immersive and well balanced. - Campaign : really cool and clever story, well concieved characters (at last strong and not sexualized women characters, thank you God of Gaming!!! ), great challenges. And what a fascinating universe <3 - Skirmish (vs AI) : really cool. This is not a game with legions of soldiers, in Iron Harvest every unit counts! Cons : - Graphic : huge FPS loss during most of the campaign missions (GTX 1080 !)! I hope there will be optimization fix! Why not adding a more immersive camera like Dawn of War 1 ? :) - Sound : some DEEP bass for far explosions would be more immersive :) And I want more musiiiiiics :D - Gameplay : I only had 2 little bugs, including a funny mek shaking as hell^^. Factions have all different units, but I think it would be even funnier if these factions would be more different (for instance, in Company of Heroes, british faction was very defensive). - Campaign : as already said, beware the huge FPS loss. - Skirmish : I enjoyed several games against hard AI but it was somehow too easy for me, maybe the campaign made me good at skirmish games^^ NB : I still dit not try Multiplayer CONCLUSION : I do recommend this game, really. I understand the bitter taste left to some players because of the game sold as not complete (some maps and big changes come every week), but it makes sense to me considering the spirit of Iron harvest : a game concieved by passionate people (developpers and community) for passionate gamers, and we can still follow its growing and evolution through weeks. I am very confident in the evolution of this (already great) game, this is why I give it 5 well-deserved stars :)

The game overall in my experiance was a mixed bag. On one hand an interesting world and story to explore, on the other an annoyingly painful spamfest - but hey that comes with the RTS territory. The game got definetly better since the Beta testing, but there is still a lot of work to be done. (Mainly Mech pathfinding, cover and Mech keeping orientation when moving). Other than that, I'm super excited for the upcoming Big DLC. Really enjoying the Rusviet Revolution - a splendid blend between storytelling and good old RTS action. Definetly recommend. The game will get better with time like a good old bottle of wine.

Would be a decent game if it wasn't so broken. -Pathfinding is trash, unresponsive units at times. -Savegames do not work properly and you lose your progress. -Nice graphics, especially trees and mechanical objects like bots.

Spectacular fights! Beautiful story that attached to you from beginning to end! Graphics for me very beautiful, with realistic physics! If you also like a minimum RTS this you absolutely must play it! I don't understand why it's so little known

Gespielt wird auf Linux mit Lutris, aus dem Gog-Client heraus. Soweit läuft das gut. Im großen und ganzen macht das Spiel schon vieles richtig und Spaß kommt aufjedenfall auf. Mich persönlich stört das fehlen von taktischer Tiefe, was viele Kämpfe ziemlich belanglos werden lässt. Und das zieht sich leider durch das ganze Spiel. Sobald halbwegs vernünftige Mechs gebaut werden können macht es de fakto keinen Sinn mehr normale Einheiten auszubilden, weil diese nur noch Kanonenfutter sind, wenn sie nicht gerade in einem Bunker, oder einem Bunker-Mech platziert werden. Ebenso generisch haut die KI Gegnerwellen raus, die einfach total hirnlos gegen meine Befestigungen, bestehend aus Panzer+Haubitze+MG, anrennen und das zum zigsten mal nicht geknackt kriegen... Je weniger Ressourcen der KI zur Verfügung stehen, desto seltener werden die generischen Angriffe und irgendwann kommen nur noch Fußsoldaten dahergestampft, dene aber ständig meine Abwehrkonstallation gegenübersteht. Fail. Richtig glänzen kann die Kampagne in den Solomissionen, bzw. da wo es primär um die Story geht und weniger um Basisbau und Einheitenproduktion. Alles in einem kann ich das Spiel hier jedem RTS-Fan empfehlen, aber vielleicht nicht unbedingt zum Vollpreis.