Recent reviews by HAWK

"straight"

You can not tell me people playtested this game. It’s horrendous, fighting is pointless and the enemies are spongy as hell, companion damage is negligible.

Every enemy seems to have one or two types of elemental damage where they are resistant and take 95% less damage from, one normal and one where they take 50% more damage. This makes every bossfight into a test of what damage this guy can block and then rebuild your entire build for every fight. It's either that or do as I did and just spend 30-45 min whittling down that hp bar, because god forbid you could swap weapons mid combat to switch with a different elemental damage. No.. just die, swap weapons and try again, real fun combo.

Quest don't have recommended levels which in my head means that you could do them in any order, unless you at the end of a quest meet a boss double your level and then won’t even scratch their hp pool. So they do have recommended levels you just won’t know until you hit the end boss of a quest.

Companion abilities do less than my light attacks at level 35 so I see no point in trying to use them for damage, only for the detonation setup and for some short status effects. And for some reason none of my “Applies” abilities actually does the application to detonate anymore, so I’ve given up on that mechanic.

I’ve given it a solid try, not sure how long I’m through the game but at this rate I won’t continue. I wish I could get the time spent on this back, just wasted..

This game will need some more time in the oven. And as always take reviews with a grain of salt.

The concept is there and the mix of RTS and FPS is something me and some friends started playing with a couple years ago, in essence this a very similar game to what we planned on trying. Content wise Silica today is fairly barren, more so than I had expected. The "Campaign" is mostly running (classic arma running sim) and the story is rather nonexistent, and on top of that they don't really teach any game mechanics. However most surprising to me is how bad the UI elements are, coming from Arma where the UI is *chef's kiss* this is just sad. None of it is intuitive and most of it seems meaningless.
This will still be a recommend from me. I trust in Bohemia to make something beautiful out of this and with time I'm sure that this is a game I will spend hundreds of hours in if it gets the love it deserve.

Great game! Its both fun and challenging but however I would like to see private matches and lobbies. Also some more tutorials on what the different missions are about and how they play out.

The amount of time I've spent in this game, and all of it was probalby wating for some dude in the editor