Posted September 26, 2014
So far there are only a few suggestions that I would have liked to see, one is a "start combat" button. This is such a useful strategic tool.
Another thing I'd like is to reorganize the party, whose portrait is first, etc. I basically made the party scout third and the scout always travels alone into new territory and it would be easier to select if the scout was the first portrait. Right now I have to start a new game to get a new party order.
Perks! I think the skills are great and that they could be further enhanced with perks. Traits even!
But really. I am just talking about things that would make the game better. That's a stupidly high praise.
This is an amazing amazing game, for the fans of Fallout 2 and New Vegas, this is even more amazing. They made the gameplay work, it looks and feels great.
Wasteland 2 gets 10/10 an A+ rating.
To start combat you can simply click on the mob you want to attack and your party will attack it, before entering encounter mode. I usually get everyone into a relatively good starting position and then use whoever has a good shot (whether it is 1 or all 4 or 5 or 6 characters) to start combat. It's definitely taken me a handful of hours to get more comfortable with everything to make it function how I want it to function.
I actually do recommend starting over, depending how far you are into the game. I was wishing I had done something differently with my stats from the beginning after getting halfway through the Ag Center, forced myself to stay with it for a while until I was finally like "nah, it's okay to start over, you'll play through what you've played through relatively fast and you'll be happier for it." Guess what: I would have been KICKING MYSELF hard in the ass during my next playthrough had I not started over this time. I somehow missed Angela Deth at the beginning, probably because I was still getting used to the controls and camera movement (which after a little bit of a tussle with, I now LOVE how it works), not only did she have a bunch of enriching dialogue before she joined the group, but she JOINS the group and enriched the entire encounter at the radio tower to find Ace. Having her along there added so much richness to what was going on, I was taking it as a kind of weak early part of the game before she was with us, and it has largely changed how I felt about it.
But thanks for the advice, I do use some of those things already, though they don't solve the problems they do mitigate some of them.
