This would have been a perfect 10 if not the lack of some quality of life implementation. The idea is great, the gameplay is very engaging, fun, well thought out, but here are the reasons I must substract 2 points from a perfect 10:
- severe lack of tooltips! took me a while to understand that the weapons rankings is not your typical ranking like legendary, rare etc, but the weapon colors rather represent the type of weapon, aka the slot of the unit/vehicle on which it fits. Also, when picking up weapons from the ground, you don't get a full tooltip for the ground weapon, so you need to look it up theoretically on their encyclopedia, which is also lacking! So you have to look it online.This can come as a plus, but some weapons for the same vehicle/unit slot can be better vs infantry, others better vs vehicles, other mixed, which is actually a positive as that would mean that generally there aren't bad weapons and good weapons, you need to plan what that specific slot should be used for- but it would help to see all that on tootips also for weapons on the ground!!
- lack of key combination for:
* selecting all units at once
* selecting all vehicles at once
* selecting all infantry at once
- grouping of units: there is support for grouping units with the classic ctrl + [0-9] keys combinations, but! there's a but: when you group some units under a control, they are not grouped on the units preview pane on the UI, they are listed in the same order as before. Which means that once you group some units in a control, it's not so easy to preview/select units which are not yet under a ctrl+n group. I would have loved to have something similar with eg the way rome 2 and most total war series do the grouping part, just separate the grouped units from the rest.
- units highlight:
* selected units on the units preview pane is not very well highlighted, so it's not so easy to see from the list of units which ones you currently have selected
* the minimap: oh God the minimap is not great at all, many missions have neutral factions, your troops are visible on some sort of green, the neutral ones on some sort of blue, but they look so similar that it s sooo hard to discern your troops from the neutral ones!
- troops driving the vehicle: there is absolutely no indication on the units preview pane who the funk is driving the vehicles! in this game, most unit types can drive regular vehicles .Many vehicles can transport other troops as well. You can see the transported troops whithin the vehicle on the units preview pane, but you cannot see what unit is driving! which can be a real nuisance, as eg for vehicles you bring to front you can assign dedicated tank/vehicle drivers, but for vehicles aquired during missions you mostly assign units like rangers/snipers etc as drivers, and you kinda need to know where to find them during fights!

To quote Angry Joe, this game deservers a badass seal of approval - but it needs abit of work on the QOL part.

λmazing RTS! Love the supply management with the size of your force in order to move it and the campaign is real good and challenging. There are only two things with the campaign I don't like that much is the sergeant bi***ing and that you rarely can choose freely what units to start a mission. Would claim as an RTS this is better than Starship troopers terran command, love that one aswell. Keep it up Slitherine Ltd. :steamthumbsup:

Love the idea of this and the music is amazing.

The controls however make it impossible to play

man i cant remember the last time i enjoyed a rts campaign and was challenged and entertained throught the ordeal. excellent job you guys get this strategy thing and blended it well with the terminator franchise

Avarege plot and dialogs. Bad work trying to create a "good" and "bad" choices. The design choices to have persistent units that receive XP is broken. Or you keep them alive( (save scam) and game becomes easy, Or you let it dies and become unplayable. Missions are very noise with too many units, too many things happening, too many people talking, too many pauses. Do not let you enjoy the cool graphics and action of the game.

Overall is a good game.

Not bad, but not great either. Might be worth your time, if heavily discounted.

GREAT GAME

GOOD combination of RTS + scavenger game.

i like this game alot, will say some of the achievements do not fire correctly. Otherwise it is a blast

Love the game and setting, but 10 fps on Steam Deck? Really? Refund, unfortunately