hour four of chasing rats with a crowbar, because I can't afford bullets for the basic gun. still don't know which merchant ofn5 so far even can be bothered to buy the rat meat i'm collecting or how to cook it so it's useful..... so i'm praying for the RNG to give me leather. in another hour or two I should be able to buy enough bullets to kill A BUG oh my, my gun is degraded to uselessness after less than 100 rounds...goody if this game was anymore realistic i'd just go to work instead...they are similar amounts of fun so far, except one i can actually make money. I'm sure this is a fun game, but the beginning is a SLOG i swear if one more rat bumps me out of stealth and makes it take 2 minutes to cross a stupid empty room i'm gonna just delete this game, someone should have playtested this
emulate battletech from snes(?) instead....this game has same battle mechanic, stripped of all the tactics, charm and the cool story another game that substitutes frustrating mechanics for the strategic depth you wanted. a pause button would be cool on a turn-based game. you want to like it for a bunch of style and story reasons, and yet it just has some bad design in the mechanics that make it not fun. everything else has already been said but this maybe: imagine making a game with 40-50 different cards and abilities then adding a mechanism to make sure you can't use them all to make varied synergies together...oops who thought that was a good idea. now imagine making a mechanism so the ai has constant a growth advantage, so you need to get off to just the right start to have a chance, then not letting you pick your opening hand, so now restarting levels 20 times until you get what you need is a staple mechanic. carefully waited 10 minutes to get the energy to deploy just the right crew, then get beat repeatedly by spammed out cheese mechs that only are challenging because you can't match the production rate...yup plenty of that. pass
Every. Single. thing. about this game is unforgiving. I REALLY WANT TO LIKE THIS GAME, there's a ton of things this game does right and I want to play it I really do.... but its so brutal. constantly. not in a fun way. Figured out a good party strat or two and have some good guys for a boss finally? Name them? Boom the boss mixes up your party so they're not positioned to use their abilities, and relentlessly kills two in seconds, while you are uselessly scrambling. gone forever.... wanna run back a room and camp to try again instead. nope can't do that. why? FU that's why. besides your guys went mad from running. did you leave a guy at home to wind down and get ready for the next run. nope he got drunk and is missing for several runs the other guy lost a item you rely on, cool I paid a whole run's worth of gold for that.... did you just complete a run triumphantly. Congrats your dude is spontaneously sick and needs to be treated with a sizable chunk of the gold you just earned for the next fight, on top of the other two that got sickened by chumps that just happened to have good initiative. want to grind easy levels to make needed gold or level up newbies to replace the ones that got killed or sick, stressed to madness and so quirked up they're too expensive to fix? too bad.. the dungeons level up too. so the easy levels start getting scarcer. want to use the abilities specifically for managing stress? lets take a turn or two to heal. Nope one of your guys starts talking trash, thereby doling out stress for taking too long inside the battles. Have a guy to manage the bleed or poison effects. can't use them outside battles though, suck it! bring bandages and antivenoms. now you have to pass on the loot you need, cause the inventory is cramped. wouldn't mind any of this, but all together it's just crushing at every turn. I wish for a mode that I could just slowly have fun with and learn a bit and then have the hardcore modes
