Posted on: June 13, 2021
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Games: 79 Reviews: 21
Awful nonsense FraXcom combat
First thing about this game, the controls and a little janky. They're at least usable but they're not great. Second, the ground combat is bad. It shares almost all of the same problems that the FraXcom series has: -Cover means nothing unless you're right in it. Enemies shoot through a forest with perfect accuracy, but take one step in and suddenly you take 40% less damage despite there being FEWER trees between you and them. -There is no collision detection or real firing calculations. You can walk and shoot right through your own friendly mechs making decision on where to go a lot less meaningful. Range makes almost no difference too, giving you even fewer meaningful decisions to make. -The move/shoot system is nothing but tedious and uninteresting. You gain dodge for moving and there is zero downside to moving(you can't fire extra shots or anything with that move time) so if you want to play effectively you need to move the maximum you can every time which is incredibly tedious and doesn't even make sense. -In what mech game have you ever seen mechs taking turns running behind eachother and shooting eachother in the back? The purchasing of supplies is just messed up too. You buy mechs in parts of three so you end up buying one part in one system because that's all they have, then hope the next two systems you go to each have a part of that mech you just purchased. Why do you have to gamble instead of just being able to buy a complete mech? The game is also optimised like complete trash. I have only 8gigs of ram, but how a game that is this simple and looks as old as it does eats all of my ram and crashes because it runs out of memory is just terrible. I wanted to like this game, I love mech games.....but it's so dumbed down and full of nonsense and performance issues and general jankyness that I just couldn't hack more than five missions. Even for 15 dollars it would be too expensive and for 60 for the shell and then paradox's usual 300 dollars of DLC? No thx
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