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I played through this a couple times a few weeks ago, once on normal, once on hard (or whatever the next difficulty is called). It’s definitely enjoyable and I felt like I got my $30 out of it, but it’s far from perfect.

It’s got a weird problem with inconsistent design philosophy. The main focus is arguably upgrading your mech and the building stuff is just there to support that. There’s also an optional scanning function that lets you become more “familiar” with flora and fauna and increase resource/harvest rewards from them. This slows the pace waaaay down. Also the most optimal resource harvesting is growing plants/crystals, but you can’t grow them until you’ve unlocked the prerequisite tech tree node (which are locked behind campaign missions).

I ended up uninstalling it before trying out Survival mode, so maybe the design choices would’ve made more sense in that game mode (as opposed to the campaign).

Anyway, I’d give it a 7/10 - above average - at $30. If it looks interesting to you and you’ve got access to it for free on game pass, I definitely recommend downloading and trying it out.
 
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Dandai said:
I played through this a couple times a few weeks ago, once on normal, once on hard (or whatever the next difficulty is called). It’s definitely enjoyable and I felt like I got my $30 out of it, but it’s far from perfect.

It’s got a weird problem with inconsistent design philosophy. The main focus is arguably upgrading your mech and the building stuff is just there to support that. There’s also an optional scanning function that lets you become more “familiar” with flora and fauna and increase resource/harvest rewards from them. This slows the pace waaaay down. Also the most optimal resource harvesting is growing plants/crystals, but you can’t grow them until you’ve unlocked the prerequisite tech tree node (which are locked behind campaign missions).

I ended up uninstalling it before trying out Survival mode, so maybe the design choices would’ve made more sense in that game mode (as opposed to the campaign).

Anyway, I’d give it a 7/10 - above average - at $30. If it looks interesting to you and you’ve got access to it for free on game pass, I definitely recommend downloading and trying it out.
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That scanning thing is optional for sure. I didn’t even realize I had it until 15 hours in lol. I do it to take breaks from building and slaughtering, not all the time.
 
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the scanning is a huge oversight for sure. as you say, all these buildings/upgrades... none of them for scanning. constantly having to hold that his is a pita.

There should be scanning upgrades. wider/faster. items. an active aoe scan pulse on timer. equipable, passive scanner.
maybe radar upgrades to scan.
 
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Caliane said:
the scanning is a huge oversight for sure. as you say, all these buildings/upgrades... none of them for scanning. constantly having to hold that his is a pita.

There should be scanning upgrades. wider/faster. items. an active aoe scan pulse on timer. equipable, passive scanner.
maybe radar upgrades to scan.
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Radar upgrade to scan would be a cool idea. It’s definitely not necessary though. You get the same thing by killing shit, the green DNA drops.

It was needed for a few missions. The excess resource drops you get by making your familiarity higher doesn’t really help much compared to your mines. Like I said it’s nice but going around scanning a ton is pointless unless you’re just sitting there waiting for an attack wave to come or a building to complete.
 
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One thing I'll give this game is even if you do free mode (cheat w/e) that even with that, if you didnt design a part of your base well - the NPC's will still crush your ass lol. I havent played since early early alpha, so you bumping this might encourage me to look into whats changed since then.
 
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Bandwagon said:
I ended up buying this during the lunar sale. Not disappointed at all so far.
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Yeah this games good shit. Just make sure your base is pretty fuckin big. Also I’d advise when you build multiples of a building (to stack the bonuses from them) put them next to each other, so when you unlock the next level you don’t have to wander around looking for them all to upgrade them, or even completely miss one you built far away and leave it not upgraded. That happened to me a few times and it was annoying and I just wanted to start over to build my base cleaner. Also use the concrete platforms everywhere, you run a lot faster on those.
 
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The one thing I wish this game had was some AI units you could set up on patrol without needing a tower like Herzog Zwei had. Being able to set up some AI tanks, launchers, or drones out in the wild to slow down the hordes would be pretty cool.

Multiplayer is going to be sick. Just need to make a friend between now and then.
 
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The one thing I wish this game had was some AI units you could set up on patrol without needing a tower like Herzog Zwei had. Being able to set up some AI tanks, launchers, or drones out in the wild to slow down the hordes would be pretty cool.

Multiplayer is going to be sick. Just need to make a friend between now and then.
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Gaming friends are super hard to come by!
 
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I “beat” this game mid December. It is very fun, the spear is so OP.
Multiplayer should be a good time.
 
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This just released thier 2.0 patch this week. Multiplayer co-op up to 4 people is supported now. Added a ton of QoL and reworking some things that sucked, rebalanced a lot of weapons and buildings. Lots of work on performance side as well. There's a scanner turret that's been added since we all last played. You can plop it down to scan everything on screen instead of doing it yourself. Very nice.

Been playing it this week, great game and it's on deep sale for those who haven't tried it yet.
 
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Hateyou said:
This just released thier 2.0 patch this week. Multiplayer co-op up to 4 people is supported now. Added a ton of QoL and reworking some things that sucked, rebalanced a lot of weapons and buildings. Lots of work on performance side as well. There's a scanner turret that's been added since we all last played. You can plop it down to scan everything on screen instead of doing it yourself. Very nice.

Been playing it this week, great game and it's on deep sale for those who haven't tried it yet.
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I forget, how viable was playing solo, seemed like i recall strong bent to groups
 
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Sludig said:
I forget, how viable was playing solo, seemed like i recall strong bent to groups
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It’s fully designed for single player, it’s been a single player game up until this week and it released in 2021. You may be thinking of a different game?
 
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Couple buddies and I picked this up now once we saw it had co op and are having a lot of fun. For $13.50 its well worth that price IMO
 
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Bandwagon said:
Works well on steamdeck too
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Yeah, I’ve played it on steamdeck recently and it plays just fine. Wondering how it does late game though, I’ve only play nearly since I made a new campaign since the 2.0 patch.

Guess I could load up an old save and check.
 
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