Dont pay attention to the reviews, a good chunk is just spaztic baldurs gate fans crying about how they cant watch their game play itself anymore. Maybe its time to take off those nostalgia glasses and admit that the original baldurs gate 1 and 2 were not that great and just let a competent studio take a crack at it. The game is taking good shape, i have very high expectations for Larian with what there is on offer
When they pulled out this stunt on their fanbase i at least expected an improvement over the previous iteration. The autopilot feature breaks the game completely, i dont know who came up with it but they clearly have no clue how to make a game. Since the game feels like a grindfest you will be spamming that autopilot button, because there is absolutely no reason to use the sublight travel, you cannot steer yourself, so you cant avoid encounters at all, and its going to happen the same way, every single time. You will get pulled out of fast travel into an ambush being outnumbered by enemies every single time, this is what the game designers believe to be a fair challenge, they surround you and tear you apart because you have no way to maneuver out of a swarming attack like this. At least the first rebel galaxy remedied this by having wingmen, in this game you have nothing. 6 ships, this is not a joke, this is what you get. 12 in total if you count the variants, which are just the same ships colored different with small changes. Farm merchant missions at first, get a good afterburner to outrun most encounters, get the big merchant ship, farm merchant missions, outrun encounters, slowly upgrade your shit, boring as shit. If you want to play the way they designed this game, you will spend double time grinding. Once you feel comfortable you can start fighting enemies, you get some buddies to help you out,. What happened to the broadside combat of the previous game? that was the main appeal for me, you dont even get any capital ship unlike the previous game. These devs accepted a deal with epic games for a year of exclusivity away from the platform that made them popular, they got an injection of money for their game development, and this shit feels that is still early access, 2 years down the line. Also it crashes your pc if you try to quit the game.
The lighting is absolutely atrocious, combined with the quirky camera and the level design, you would think the developers were patting themselves in the back for making such a "hard" game Examples: Turn a corner, die because the camera forced you to look away from the pitfall, walk forward, die because the lighting in the game is so terrible you couldnt even see that you had to steer to your right. The lockon system is also unreliable and can get you killed a lot. Graphics that make you blind and infuriating level design are my main gripes, im not going to spend 50+ hours in a game that just makes you miserable This is a great game if you are a CBT enthusiast
