Recent reviews by chopp_af

So close to being an amazing game... But sadly riddled with bugs...

There's so many bugs in this game and little things that the devs could have improved to make this game amazing...

Some non-bug annoyances... The lobby UI is so slow, trying to promote and upgrade marines takes WAY longer than it should, wanting to assign all your spare doctors to a unit but having to click and hold for 2 seconds to assign 1 doctor, 5+ times... No option to assign X doctors...

Promoting marines, very verbose system, and not being able to see all marines abilities at once makes it hard to create skill/ability synergy.

There's more, but in regards to the bugs in the game... jesus christ...

The bugs in this game will waste hours of your time and cause you to pull your hair out, it's like they never actually tested this game before releasing it.

It's quite strange having to spend materials in order to save, but I understand that's part of the difficulty, that's not my issue, my issue is that in the codex, it says aliens won't breach doors unless you're detected...

So why do I have an alien breaking my door down right after resting??

In another situation...
Why do I have a boss type alien waiting outside my door after resting, the UI says it has 0 hp, but I walk out and it has full HP.

Sniping eggs doesn't make them look dead until you walk up to them.

Not a bug but not having the option to individually control units is a pain, especially when ONLY one of your units can perform a certain ability (the recon class).

Sometimes a dead alien will have a model that looks like it's still alive.

Sometimes aliens aren't detected on the radar (not talking about sleepers).

Canceling actions takes SO long before it works, sometimes it doesn't even seem to work.

If your squad is walking a path, the game shows the path, but if one member goes a different path, the game should also show that path!! It's so annoying having to go back to a previous load because one of your units walks a different path and gets detected.

Also explosions seem to be extremely laggy.

This isn't a bug but sometimes you can get detected twice in a row, then have a massive on slaught approach, then get detected right after, it's too much, there should be some cool down between them, because this game can be so random at times, sometimes you load in, there's an alien right in the room next to you which can ruin everything, so load in again and it's not there... It would be boring if the aliens were in expected places each time, but sometimes the way the aliens move doesn't make sense, they're supposed to walk in random paths, but sometimes they seem to hunt you down for no reason...

These are the problems I've faced with this game, I'm playing on hard difficulty, but I can't imagine how difficulty it is on the hardest difficulty with all of these bugs...

When it works well and makes sense, it's so fun, but it gets very frustrating. If they fixed these bugs it would be an amazing game.

Amazing story line, one of the best games I've played. I loved it

Very nostalgic game, reminds me a lot of Crash Team Racing (of course).
Looks beautiful, simple controls, easy to pick up and lots of fun.

The only thing however, is that it seems extremely hard to consistently win (I've only played a bit so I could be wrong), but what I have noticed is that if someone manages to get well ahead, they have a MUCH easier time than everyone else, as they don't get hit by anyones items.

CONS:
The vehical transitions need work, it's extremely annoying not being able to turn during the transitions, especially coming out of all star, it forces you to just drive straight.

Sometimes you will have extremely bad games and there's nothing you can do about it, you will get targeted by all bots, if you're coming 10th the 9th bot will choose to use an item backwards to further slow you down, rather than to try better their position.

Stunts will randomly fail for no real reason.

Seemingly randomly, a bot or player will knock you and send you flying into a wall.



But still definitely recommend this game.