Posted on: April 16, 2022
Kaadu
Verified ownerGames: 553 Reviews: 6
Focused campaign with great atmosphere
A tightly paced campaign where your desert crawler and it's forces steadily gain power over each mission as you salvage artefacts strewn across the desert. The plot is based around finding the guidestone, your giant desert crawler and hero unit support craft journey across the vast desert and the opponents within to reach it. Even during missions you continually move your entire 'base' across the map as you hoover up more supplies, constantly moving forwards. The deserts themselves make for good rts terrain, where controlling dune ridges lets you make or break line of sight with your enemies below at your leisure. In other cases, railguns seem to be the dominant unit across an open plain, unless they are swarmed by light attack vehicles. And at least in the context of the campaign, air support is the "need emergency damage here" button. The management aspects have been simplified, no longer needing different production modules built before creating unit classes or research modules to actually perform research. You simply research the new units or upgrades as they become available to unlock them. The carrier also gets to spend power allocation across 4 different systems depending on what you need the carrier to do at the time. Unit dialogue and idle dialogue is great. Really great, with different lines reads based on if the unit is currently in combat or not. Music is great. Only negatives would be sometimes worker units are pretty bad at keeping themselves busy. And trying to find and select idle workers is painful. Also Rachel's pathfinding killed her when running away from the exploding base one time, the pathfinding in general is passable but can fail sometimes when getting a move order through an impassable object. The only thing missing is some sort of semi-randomised mini campaign to replicate the feeling of progression across the desert, that could be tackled with any of the factions. Then a co-op varient of the mini campaign.
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