Seriously, play this if you like/love Descent. It is very much a ummm,, "spiritual"?... yeah, lets call it a "spiritual" {wink and big smile} successor. It really hits all the points that made the Descent series so great. The sprawling outposts that you can easily get lost in, a ton of secrets to find, a ton of robots to destroy in satisfying explosions. The sound effects are fantastic, and the music is just as much as well. It really is a balls to the wall 6DOF FPS that matches Descent in that adrenaline inducing action. Buy it, you really do want this game.
Fantastic game and it is very challenging. I love the turn based tactical approach to this game, and it will punish you for making a mistake, for example I decided to not move one of my mechs which meant no evasion is on that mech, the opposition focus fired on that mech, luckily the worse that happened was injury to my pilot. The game has a lot of depth to it. From running a mercenary business and making sure you don't go bankrupt, and having enough mercenaries in your crew and enough mechs in your bay to make sure you always have what you need when doing a mission with as little downtime as possible, cause time is money. There are even random events that happen when you are at your ship, events that can effect various things like how long it takes to repair, or how long it takes for your mercenaries to recover from injury, how often you can use certain abilities when on missions, and even the price of stuff. You get to negotiate your contracts, balancing out money, salvage, and reputation, you decide what you want/need the most. The combat is a lot of fun. You take turns through phases of a round and depending on weight class it puts your mech in a certain phase of a round, so you have to keep that in mind with your tactics
Granted I just started, but I want to say so far it is running great, looks really good, and it is a lot of fun to play. I have had no issue yet. I bought this after watching Cohhcarnage do a playthough, and so far what I have seen him play matches the experience I am having in the game. I love this turn based combat, it is a lot of fun, takes a lot of tactical thinking, and I find it very challenging.
Right now the game is way to buggy. Crashes, quests not setting off, NPCs launching into space, your own character launching into space. The voice acting isn't very good. The combat is ok, really not much to it, just swing left/right/up/forward. Doing crimes even when nobody witnesses you doing it still lowers your reputation with the people. Stealing stuff that has no unique markers on it can still be known to be stolen if a guard decides to stop you and look at your belongings. I mean if you steal an apple, the guard will know that apple was stolen even though nobody saw you do it. Also the stuff you can do in the game doesn't remain consistent in the cut scenes. For example, near the beginning, when your town gets slaughtered, you can start picking through the dead bodies for items, and then when your character sees someone else picking through the bodies your character will start yelling at them for doing such a thing cause it is disrespectful. So get used to your character being a hypocrite. Nothing you do really changes anything in the game. You get to decide how you want to go about completing a quest, but the outcome always remains the same, think Deus Ex Human Revolution, you can stealth your way through a mission in Deus Ex or you can go full on rambo in the missions, but the outcomes remained the same. You also have to spend money or grind for ingredients in order to save the game. The game has a magical drink that you can buy/make that will allow you to resurrect and go back in time. This is the only way to manually save or go into a bed you own/rent to save.
