The game has potential but bad design decisions drag it down. Keep in mind I'm in maybe about 4h in to the game but some things just pop up and hit you in the face that I doubt it will get much better. Visually the game is nice to look at a lot of well drawn places but no way to adjust any gfx settings the only options are "resolution" and "window mode" Voice acting is generally ok but the narrator oh god its like listening to someone scratching a blackboard its like someone is reading a text no proper skills to be a narrator. Gameplay wise there are some bad design decisions here for the most part. - Your unable to move by clicking the map not the camera and not the team. I find it just mind blowing how they decided that that is ok. - the team moves so slow and there are times the animation slows down even more for no reason. - when you want to interact with someone they all need to move into posstion. - Except the tutorial combat and 1 conversation skill test i did not see any more combat or skill tests in the 4h of the game. I have shooting skills maxed out and did not even have a chance to use it. since you get xp for every silly interaction with anything. When it comes to combat not much I can say I did not experience it yet except the tutorial and all I can say from that is that the UI reminds me of a console port. There is no skill bar you right click to pull out a radial menu for your skills. RNG is crazy I had over 80% to hit and missed 8 times 0_o thats even worse then xcom2 approach. I really wanted to like this game its set in a Australian wasteland after nukes get dropped who would not get mad max vibes from that. But the design decisions and the apparent lack of consequences of your decisions except someone summarising it at some points is not what I was expecting. I did not expect a BG3 lvl of gaming but at least close to Wasteland 2
So after getting 150h in and about 1/4 down on my 2nd play through on my mac (in case your a mac user thinking about getting the game). First the graphics. The game does looks very good some performance issues when it comes to some settings. Its nothing major but even on the best mac setup stutter and fps drops are an issue. This has been fixed in the patches that have been released to a point. Gameplay/story wise so the most important parts of the game :). The story is very good. Ive seen people complaining that your "on your path to godhood" kind of game and that is true. But it all makes sense the further in the story you get and it gets explained how and why and its not as simple as "your special". Companions are fun some of them are so much fun the banter and the personalities and quests are quite fun. My bigest issues with the companions is that they are just week the builds most of them come in cant do much and you cant build something to great and that becomes an issue on higher difficulties. Bugs just as in the first pathfinder game are there and some of them got me confused its like the devs did not reuse what they already had working correctly and wrote it from 0. They do get patched so its not a major issue imho. One thing I would love is if they stoped using Unity a buggy game engine = a buggy game. Overall a solid game if I could give it 4.5 stars I would. Definitely worth a buy.
