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Fun game, but needs more features and deeper progression.

Already beat last difficulty on both maps.

The skills balance is so broken, it's clear as a day that beta tests had entirely different purpose. I haven't test all skills and evolutions, but already can say that some are very good and the others deserve Banish immediately. Some examples of latter below:

- Berserk: Assault, Totem of Suffering (until evo, still not worth it). Cutting edge is kinda meh, along with average Axe skills.
- Revenant: Not sure about Necrotic Rain. Felt bad, didnt try Evo.
- Flame Sister: Shrapnel pot - pure garbage. Didnt bother to try Evo.
- Seeres: TBA

- Thor: Mjolnir feels lacking. Lightning strike is somewhat okay, but the other 3 skills are more useful and practical.
- Freya: Seidr Blessing (healing skill with evo on a 30/20 sec CD ? No, thanks), Didnt test Gambanteinn or Valkyrie Descent much, two remaining skills are better. Discs are great on lower difficulties, but struggle behind Divine wave on Insanity a lot.
- Loki: Parasite and spark are awful. Dropped after 1 game, dont quote me on that. Jormungandr and Flammable wall are bad before Evo. Vipers Evo - the best God skill in the game in my opinion.
- Odin: I didnt test Spear and Boulder Evo, but the skills dont seem to do much dmg on their own. Local Ragnarok is garbage even with Evo. The only exception I may think of - exploit Berserk crit skill reset and use only this skill. Need to test. Ravens looks somewhat useful with Evo but forgot to check the numbers.

Usually, Odin is the God I skip entirely, due to the fact we can have blessing of only 3 Gods.

Any skills with "While STANDING STILL", Delayed activation, skills that have a small chance to inflict a small amount of damage or to provide another effect aren't great.
Again - buff the skills with miniscule, miserable size and damage like pre evo Flammable wall and Assault.
This isn't competetive pvp multiplayer game - dont nerf good skills, BUFF the AWFUL ones. People wont be happy you took away their toys, but the others will appreciate the effort with new builds.

Weapons passives are mostly useful, but why the F Revenat's last bow has Healing Power passive ? Any player familiar with this kind of games knows Rule #1 - best defense is the offense.

Classes passives and auto weapons looks interesting, but need to test Seeres' weapon more.

2nd World is much more unfriendly and difficult.

Projectiles damage from Elites is crazy in this game. I dont skip HP upgrades from chests (if there's no god/class dmg), have all dmg reduction passives and still caught one shot because I slacked and dashed in the wrong direction.

Bosses on Insanity will probably kill most chars in 2 hits. Probably.
The amount of gold and soulstones dropped from the Bosses are pathethic. Even on Insanity. About 7-10 gold and 1-3 Soulstones. This is ass.

Usually we have 3 choices on level up. With amount of Passive skills presented in game I reckon it must be 4 choices every single time with AT LEAST one Active skill choice present. Sometimes, prolly by luck, it's 4 choices but Idk what affect it. Mastery of fate (Reroll + Banish) Class passives should be God Passive. At some point in match, ~at 10 min, game starts to throw swarm waves at you and sometimes I didnt had the second class skill YET or any evolved weapon, at level 22. It isn't great game design. Make the game challengable, but fun, not punishing because of RNG.

Evolutions are weird. Some of them improve one part of the skill, while impair the other. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Revive is taking all of your earned Bonus resources. Very cheap and not appreciated mechanic. Keep 1 Revive in game, instead of 3, but dont take that gold away.

Armor should have passives. DLC armor should have Default Armor Passive.

Add more Points of Interest on the map.
Prevent 4/5 chests to spawn on the opposite edges of the map.
Add random events, except tasks/quests.
Add new Boss mechanics for Hard and more for Insanity but lower the damage a bit.
Not every killed monster drops XP Crystal - poor choice. It's like sometimes, you scared to provide players with resources. Almost the same story with gold. Am aware that more xp - easier match, but it just feels dumb when couple killed creeps dont drop anything.

Bugs:

Loki's Vipers Evo breaks the music every single time on Insanity. Maybe glitch other sounds too, not sure. I had a similar problem with another skill but cannot recall which one.

Two Elites died very close to each others, I stood between two chests and received only one.


I love visuals and the music. A lot of skills needs improvements. Some QoL features are required as well. I hope the game will be improve with the time.

One of my personal favorites.

Great plot. Decent writing. Not your typical "dead father, you return to home" bs. Non douche MC. Woman with different characters, but there's no overly ♥♥♥♥♥♥, annoying ones. Maybe MC's ex wife at the beginning *wink*

Interesting "soil" for drama element. It's a bit dark, but I think light tone is still more prevalent for this project. I mean, Cooper...just love him. And again, writing keeps your eyes glued to the screen as well as incredibly sexy ladies.

I've played some time ago, while sailing high seas, under the flag, but it's finally time to support one of the best developers in genre.
There's money system with car upgrades, racing mini games, racing bets etc. It's pretty simple but I love it.

Scene gallery is present, music, sfx. Extra scenes - a pleasant surprise. Animations - 8.5/10. Multiple angles, I think 60 fps. Looks smooth. Good amount of content for the price. Also grateful for pricing "fix". Cheers.

It's very late and my ass wanna sleep so, so bad. Hence, the conclusion - I like this game very much and can't really think about anything I didn't like. 9/10. There's always place for improvement.
Can't wait for continuation !

I wish devs all the best. Strong health, full pockets and smooth sailing in game dev in general. Maybe I'll add smth later, just needed to smash "thumbs up".

Mechanical collectible quest..huh. Havent had such a ♥♥♥♥♥ disgusting experience for quite a while. ♥♥♥♥♥♥, janky controls doesnt help either...

Good:
Visuals, music, difficulty

Questions:
Classes and Gods amount
Progression could see much more features
Levels should contain RNG events
I think Boss had new moves on 2nd difficulty and it's great, hope to see more on each subsequent.

Not good:
2nd difficulty at the second half of the run had FPS drops. Unpleasant and very noticable.
Evolved Disks shouldn't be so loud, please.
Too high difference between skills damage. Some being almost useless (small radius, range, amount of projectiles, which could compensate other cons and on top of that damage)
Useless passives like X effect on LVL up. 1 gold, ability cast...that's ridicilous, folks. Small heal, while standing in this environment..thx, had a laugh.
Maybe a bit too high level for Evolutions.
Warrior's (?:D) power (Q) doesnt bring anything to the table at the second half of the run. Maybe there's upgrades, idk.
No explanation regarding how many actives can we possibly have, 'cause there's a limit for sure. Probably per god/class.
Lvl Cap. Must go away.

Nevertheless I really enjoyed what I've experienced in Demo. For the most part. Game needs a lot of polishing and work with the community and with constructive feedback.

I didnt read the forums nor the full game page, but I guess what will come in Q4 2024 will be Early Access. If there's enough content and the price is alright Imma grab it on release day.

All the best to the devs.

EDIT: wait..why is there Received for Free check box ? Uhm..okay, yeah, for free. Busted.

Thank you for your hard work. We appreciate it. Also thx for a "freebie" <3

THIS amount of content for THIS price...♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, we love you, devs <3

I hope you'll be sued because of your scummy practices, Ubi.
If there someone isnt aware yet, not only Ubisoft shut down servers for The Crew 1 (which was inevitable), but also revoked licenses for the game. In uPlay they had the balls to post the banner "Wanna continue journey ? Visit the Store !". Jfc...no shame. Zero. None.

Join the battle, folks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w70Xc9CStoE

UK Government Petition:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/659071
Change org:
https://www.change.org/p/the-crew-1-shutdown-bring-offline-mode-ubisoft

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

EDIT: 04.11.24
Respawn, you're just a bunch of clowns.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/STAR-WARS-Jedi-Survivor-/cant-swap-lightsaber-stance/td-p/12524764
This isnt fixed yet.



Okay, wanna laugh ? I'll humor you.

I was hesitating to get this for a long time. But now, it's clearly Respawn doesnt care about anything, except money and most likely no further performance improvements, patches will come. Hence I decided to give it a go.

Right away even before launch (but then re applied, cuz game was configuring smth, shader caching or idk, oh and it's on every launch) I've downloaded MayThePerformanceBeWithYou mod from Nexus. I have RTX 2060. During cutscene FPS jumped here and there from 50 to 120. During gameplay everything was okay on Medium settings. Had ~70+ FPS. But I've heard first are is somewhat okay, problems and crashes should come later. Idk about that, I've already asked for a refund.

Why ? There's a fun thing. Patch for EA Desktop App from January or February completely broke Steam Overlay injection. This means:
- firstly and most importantly - your controller may not work without additional tricks. I've tried with Dual Sense and had no luck until I've added EA App to Steam and launched it from Steam;
- no Overlay functions, i.e. chats, notes, guides, etc
- issues with Achievements/Trophies. Some users said that there's no pop up, but trophy is obtained. It was true in Fallen Order for me (I bought it long time ago with huge discount, completed even earlier via 1$ EA Play sub along with Andromeda =P) and revisited recently for achievements. Back then overlay was working alright.

Sorry, just got distracted. Other folks reported that they specifically went for trophy they didnt had, completed requirements for unlock, checked Steam, restarted Steam - no trophy. Same reports in Mass Effect community.

I like Star Wars very much so decided to check for workaround and google a bit (hour or more :D). Tried to install old Origin app an wanted to patch it with F Off EA App dll from Github, but Origin installer says I have no connection thus it cant be installed.

Then I went to..I dunno how to call it. EA, for the lack of the better word, almost completely "ditched" customer support and now it's more like Community Support with some allegedly EA employees poping out here and there. What a circus that is. You can check it here:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/STAR-WARS-Jedi-Survivor-/Steam-Input-and-Overlay-Not-working-in-Jedi-Survivor/td-p/13404814

Topic was created January 17th. EA community manager shows on page 2. Later he requests some information from affected customers. 2 months (!!!!!!!!) later - silence. Issues still here.

This is fraud. Shame that Valve doesn't care.

Imagine amount of happy faces if EA and Ubi announces Steam versions of their games no longer require their poor apps.

If you wanna put up with all this crap and give those people your money - it's your call.

In any case I wish you all best and May The Force Be With You.

Started recently. Like this game a lot. Devs have some issues in studio, you can read comment and whole topic below, but they still fighting for the game and more content updates will come down the road:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/app/2273430/discussions/0/4199112556501685602/?ctp=2#c4199112556502907948
It's a little over than two weeks since release and every 1-3 days they update the game, release bugfixes etc. Praiseworthy.

I'll add more later, because it's too early for productive review.

SEGA, you can suck my ♥♥♥♥. Because your monetization practices sounds like the same offer to me.

Not only they've locked New Game + behind the paywal, BUT DiFFICULTY LEVELS as well :D Platinum (100%) is also locked if you dont pay. This is getting ♥♥♥♥ ridiculous !
Day one - DLC's for 137$ in 70$ game. Are you stupid, SEGA ?

Everyone, who bought any edition above standard - you're the part of the problem. Because of your whims, they encouraged to add more and more predatory monetizations in future. If people don't buy it - no reason trying to sell it. For one time in your life - think about gaming community, not only about what you want.

I'm huge LaD fan, but I despise all simps, who throw in positive reviews 30 min in game, dickriding RGG and Sega. I wanna be upset about community and a bit am, but at the same time knew, people will buy this ♥♥♥♥ (DLCs).

Wanna get what you want, 'cause you can afford it ? ♥♥♥♥♥, please, knock yourself out. But expect paid save slots like in Metal Gear Survive, paid blood spatter, which is basically paid graphic option (https://store.steampowered.com/app/201272/Total_War_Shogun_2__Blood_Pack_DLC/), etc. Maybe we should pay for Subtitles and Colorblind/accessibility options ? There will be consequences after customers encourage selling such things.

I grew up with Sega games and their console. Love those times, cherish these memories and games, related to them. But I totally hate, what this company has become.

I'm on the fence what to think about RGG Studio, because have no idea on their stance regarding this practice. But still, I don't like the fact, they're part of Sega.

Oh, and like last several times - Pre Order wasn't available in several "poor" countries, so Sega can make poor pay even more if they wanted that "juicy" p/o DLC.

♥♥♥♥ this ♥♥♥♥.

EDIT: Finished the game, it's wonderful. There's one very questionable moment in story, that is cringeworthy, weird af or idk how to call it. But maybe they gonna play around it in next game. Still, I was shocked how dumb it is. And yeah, it's about Kiryu.
I wish they would work more with OST and Dungeons, but that's not gonna happen.

Slogan of this game is "I'm not crying - you're crying".

Very funny thing: they didnt "tie" 100% aka Platinum trophy to DLC achievements, meaning you can get it now (they MAY patch it or may not).
What this mean is that, at least half of the folks, who grabbed this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ product of satan, i.e. Master Vacation Bundle (NG+ dlc), paid just to get Platinum. Some of them for sure. Therefore Sega ♥♥♥♥ both parties - who paid and who didnt. My hat's off, that's brilliant strategy to earn a separate cauldron in hell :D