Posted on: May 6, 2020
wilkan
Verified ownerGames: 509 Reviews: 157
Very Unforgiving and Dull
CAVEAT EMPTOR. If you like new games' design style where you don't have to fail the mission (and endure the long-ass loading times every time) a dozen times just to figure out what you are supposed to do, you are not going to like this. The unit AI is very random: sometimes they react to enemies behind them, sometimes they won't shoot at an enemy directly in front of them. This is a kind of game that requires a high tolerance level for annoyance and repetition (read: grinding, a common Russian game trope). It relies on the superior-opposition type of unfair challenge (mostly massive numbers of enemies) and other obsoleted game design tricks. You have been warned. The gameplay is mostly about commanding troop squads. The problem is that the controls for doing so are terrible. You are constantly wrestling with the controls if you try to manage even three (3) squads. Anything above that is not manageable. There are a lot of quirks with even basic movement commands that make the whole process a gigantic micromanagementfest. E.g. whenever you command a troop to move, it will often reset back to the standing posture, which is suicide on the battlefield. Even this quirk has a sub-quirk, because sometimes it instead keeps the posture for no reason. Hence the need for constant monitoring and management. The biggest issue with the squads is simple: vehicles. Vehicle MGs shred a squad member INSTANTLY. Maybe realistic, though not fun. Expect a lot of save-scumming because of this. The game likes to spawn new vehicles BECUZ CHALLENZ. The mission design is not very good for what I have seen. It relies on player having to defeat huge numbers of enemies even in the early maps, greatly nullifying the satisfaction for each individual kill. Also, the weapon drops are random, meaning you can get RNG'd hard in the A bc you need those explosives to defeat the tanks and heavily armed troops the maps are full of. Second mission makes you waith an hour and 3rd is an insta-fail mess.
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