Did the offline download, wasn't too complicated. Started it and realized I had to go back to the fallout 4 original launcher to re-adjust the resolution and other details to make the game playable on my potato, otherwise I was lagging to the max. Crashed exiting the first location, re-opened and managed to escape, hurray. Now I am battling crashes in the open world on the second main quest but still glad I at least got to try out the game. Looks interesting enough and maybe they will fix it or an outside solution can help make it more stable? I will look forward to playing it some more when I have a solution to the stability issues.
Genuinely a terrible combat experience. Have a mix of ranged and melee fighters? Well that's nice but the game doesn't care, all 12 100 hp enemies will bumrush your twig ranged/magic character. NO ATTACKS OF OPPORTUNITY so they can happily bumrush u with no consequences. Follow the instructions the game gives you to "avoid" poison and wounds? Well that's nice but no sorry you will be poisoned, wounded and brutally maimed because you will be surrounded by enough enemies to nullify any resistance you have. Over inflated boss and minion healthbars. Have fun fighting them with your twigs and sticks because you do no significant damage. Trying to use magic mid combat? HA, imagine being so optimistic! You waste turns mid combat to do less damage than your melee counterparts, and that is assuming you survive long enough to even cast enough spells to empty your mana. Trying to use buffs outside of combat? How silly of you to think that adding points would make a SIGNIFICANT difference to any metric. Play any other CRPG, it really is amazing how horrific combat is to experience. You have 0 control over who the enemies target. No taunt to allow your tanks to take all the damage. God save you if they do get targeted by every enemy because they will drop immediately anyway because this isn't a CRPG like Baldur's Gate where you can have enough armor class to dodge most attacks, you will get hit by almost everything and your defense will barely affect the damage you receive. The only good thing about the stat system is maybe the skill checks for animal, plant lore and others like that because it is easy to grab a character like Prospector to cover the role for u the entire game and have dedicated team members for pickpocketing and other things. EVEN THEN other games do it better. I made it past the dark forest and will continue to play it to the end (if I can keep my sanity).
