Posted on: December 27, 2019
Haibane
Verified ownerGames: 69 Reviews: 4
Decent expansion
After 5 missions, I wanted to say that this expansion is better than previous one. But I'm not sure anymore. First mission is not too much, but at least it's easy and fast this time, so it can be counted as warming up. Next 4 maps are well designed with increasing difficulty, though generally not much challenge on hotshot with exception of some fabricator nests and final/reactor rooms, which may be sometimes too difficult. Upgrade points were probably incorporated later, so sometimes they are hard to miss and sometimes pain to find. There are not so many, so you can upgrade just something (may be good) and distribution is very uneven among levels (worse). I don't like "sovereign missions" in Cronus frontier and despite some interesting ideas I wasn't amazed even here in 6th mission. But while you may like them, it's hardly nice that sometimes, when you load your position, paths which were open on save are closed (BEFORE you pass them) and you have to use older save or restart level to continue. That's even worse in combination with unpredictable upgrade points and "no return policy". The last mission is simple, uninteresting and apparently impossible to finish. Third wave of robots just won't spawn no matter what I do, so I can't get any further (playing on Linux, but otherwise without problems). Finally, the new challenge maps are mostly good and some of them even real design masterpieces. They could be great for multiplayer, but as matchmaking is probably as bad as ever and (casual) multiplayer basically dead, their potential is going to be wasted. We have quite a few challenge maps for single player already with previous expansion. The new ones seem mostly less fitting for this purpose and don't bring anything new or special, so their real value is questionable. I would say that this expansion is still worth for real fans or if you want to show some support, but otherwise you can miss it. At least until some multiplayer miracle.
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