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| 25 | 636320 | 45034143 | If you are an X-Com fan it's good fun for an hour or so but quickly several problems arise that for the moment make me not recommend this game. Pros: * Soundtrack is banging * Follow mode is fantastic (here's hoping we see something like that in the next X-Com) * Combat feels good at the start * Nice customization, variety of items, weapons, etc. * Enjoyed the leveling and growing of the characters in general Cons: * There needs to be more maps to play in. You very quickly get tired of the exact same maps with different but not different enough layouts. There is never enough space for your guys which leads to them either never doing anything or standing out in the open. * More variety of enemy types. * In general everything takes too long. Walking around takes forever, which is further exaccerbated by how many encounters you need to do to complete a mission. You can beeline for the end but then I wonder why put all these paths in place? * Everyone is too powerful. I use a ballistic mask on my warden and have him hunker down somewhere. Everyone runs to the enemies and kills them as quickly as possible as they won't attack them until the next round. I have so much health that even if one makes it it's no big deal. * Difficulty needs tweaked. Breezing through hard missions without so much as a care using the above strat. * It's clear the game dev loves X-Com and FTL as it shows here. However the abilities are copied almost verbatim and more thought needs to be put on making these abilities balanced in this game. The map where you go from encounter to encounter is interesting but the repeated maps/areas quickly make it so you just want to beeline for the exit, rendering it useless. * Maybe there is a reason to pick different ships but honestly it didn't really seem to matter which one I took. Perhaps later in the game it starts to impact things but I think a lot could be done to improve this selection from the start. There is a good game here but needs a few tweaks, content, and balancing there. It's cheap and if you are hungering for X-Com/FTL hybrid it's a lot of fun before the repetiveness of it wears on you. Otherwise in it's current state I'd say wait for the devs to add content/polish/balance before buying. | 2021-03-14T05:51:56.120604 | 1 | 1 |