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Wasteland 3

Scratches the X-Com itch

Nuff said

Wasteland 3

Great game, but not without it flaws (most noticeable in co-op)

Backed this game on Fig (loved Wasteland 2) and waited until last week to start playing because of the inevitable bugfixes. I have played the game with my wife using a direct connection and have just started the second run-through. (So bear that in mind when reading the annoyances listed below - the game was still enticing enough to play through and want to replay.) One thing that we noticed often is the quirks that crop up for the player joining the host - minimap disappears frequently, speech bubbles from party members or enemies get stuck obscuring parts of the screen, weapons get unequipped for a character (on 2 occasions vanished entirely). The host does not go unscathed either - on 2 occasions the dialogue options could not be clicked and it was not possible to transfer control to the other player so an ALT-F4 and reload of the most recent autosave was needed. The frequency of the bugs seemed to increase towards endgame too, however most were not game-breaking. There are odd design quirks like the camera zooming in for interactions or to focus on an event but not automatically zooming out again, and lack of quick travel (especially the final encounter where there is only 1 destination). The art style, animations, models, voice acting & music are excellent. The humour, variety of classes and quests with choices that matter are very well done. Overall we have thoroughly enjoyed the game, and we have little patience for buggy/poorly designed games.

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