Recent reviews by Zhio

One of the best RTS games to come out recently. Story is good, and you can feel their inspiration from the Command & Conquer series.
The factions feel grounded, but also play different from each other and they each offer their own unique play styles.

My biggest gripe, albeit not that big, is I wish the story did a better job at character development. It's hard to remember who is who and sometimes soldiers have names, but are irrelevant. I think taking inspiration from Starcraft 1 and 2 for character development would be great.

Overall, highly recommend, great time if you enjoy RTS games.

Good game, looking forward to more

Review of recent changes:
TL:DR its a step in the right direction, but still quite a few problems.
Good:
- Changed the main character to not be a tracer clone
- Graphics, models, story is better
- Mission hub is good for story telling

Bad:
- Zoom is still intensely zoomed in with no change option
- Load screens should have a moving element and not just a static image
- Some bad game design in unit introduction. First mission tosses you 3 units and your hero right from the start and don't tell you anything about their role, armor, weapon, etc. Also, the flame unit you get in this mission, you can't build for much later in the campaign. Why?
- Combat seems weightless, and kind of just "My blob vs. enemy blob". Attacks don't seem weighty.
- Edge-scroll speed/smoothing, however, no settings for arrow-key scrolling
- Coop level up rewards for the commanders are still pretty lack luster and some are just text-dumps

My Preferences:
- I don't like the hero item mechanics, similar to Warcraft 3. Never understood it, im playing an RTS, not a RPG
- Veterency system tends to create snowballing. Also, workers/builders have veterency which I think is kind of funny.
- So many upgrades grants units abilities. Again, it's super micro-heavy and hero heavy for an RTS. Definitely Warcraft 3 inspired, I prefer a lean more to Starcraft 2.
- Armor and Damage system is the annoying kind where you get like 200 armor, and take 10 damage. How much does that armor mean? Who knows. I prefer a 1 armor means damage reduced by 1 system.

The developers are going in a good direction and taking hard criticism, so I look forward to the future of this game. Despite my rating, I will continue to watch the game and play major updates.

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Pre-Update
There's a lot of problems:
- Hero focused to an extreme. Every commander in Coop is a hero on the battlefield, so no variation in that like Starcraft 2 coop.
- The hero perks in coop for each level 1-10 are very lack luster and just small buffs, rather than gameplay changers
- Massive emphasis on micro gameplay. So much so, they added a bot ai that will manage your base for you so you can just micro your army. Why make an RTS then, just make an rpg.
- Units feel meh, no character to them, they seem to be very similar in each army, just different skin.
- I think the developers tried to be way too safe and in the end, they made a safe, mediocre, and forgetful game. Nothing unique in the gameplay.

Small pain-points:
- Defensive structures are worthless, they melt under enemy fire and don't so that much damage.
- The units that repair structures are really slow at it.
- Camps/capture points just respawn on a timer no matter what. You could have your whole army parked on it and the 3 creatures will respawn and you will lose the point until you kill them again. Kind of ridiculous.
- In the campaign, the main character is literally Tracer from Overwatch. Duel machine guns with a blink.
- The maximum zoom out distance is too short.
- The upgrades for units are often so mediocre or useless I don't even bother getting them, better off making 2+ more units for the same cost.

I think the whole game gives me a "meh" feeling

Obviously a mobile game with a horrendous UI. Avoid, play a good ARPG like Path of Exile, Diablo 3, or the other 5 better ones.

Put simply, there is not a single game quite like Eco.
You can easily spend hours in this game, and depending on the server size and profession you take, you may need to. (Smaller servers will require more from you)

This is a game you cannot play by yourself, you will have to work with other players. (You can find plenty on public servers)

The developers are very active on their discord, dedicated to the game, and take player feedback seriously.

Prophetic

Terrible game that butchered the Neverwinter title.

It's... Ok.
My gripes:
- needs more temtems, especially on the starting island (Ganki, the electric/wind type, is king of island 1)
- needs an option to skip the super long animation at the start of every battle
- needs more diversity in skills, they often feel meh

Great game, somewhat ruined by the toxic community nagging the developer 24/7

Played this game a lot as a kid, but the developer doesn't care at all about the players.
They even removed all the original maps.
RIP, my player ID was 6461