Recent reviews by Wren

I mean... yeah... I find the story slightly more interesting than the sandbox. The human NPC AI is good, they haven't gotten stuck or done something stupid. My problem is that the crafting is pretty useless, with no tutorial on how to get into it. Stuff like extra bag space, an extra point of health or stamina stuff like that is RNG so if you die you won't find it in the same place you found it before.

The most annoying part of this game are the sound clips. Nothing like hearing a 6 second clip on loop. I could have provided a better clip on loop with the same file and using Audacity. Oh! When you go to the police station and you hear the audio clip playing, it's from a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ air port talking about boarding a flight.

It does have some interesting game play, but just not enough to be asking $26.00 CAD.

It's a neat game for the concept. However, they need more options to make resources plentiful for people who live in small towns/hamlets. Feels more like a 15 dollar game if anything.

I made a strain of weed that caused explosions. I died after selling it to a client.

Maybe it's been too long since I played the first game, but my word. The most exciting thing I find about this game is finding anomaly artefacts with the original scanner you start off with.

There is no point in engaging in random enemies in the world because chances are you're going to spend more ammo and medical items trying to win a pointless engagement. You can just run away from these non-story line based encounters.

Mutants are pretty bullet spongy, okay. It take 4-8 shotgun shells to take down a blood sucker. Those are those invisible guys that ambush you. You will find yourself deciding whether to heal or to reload your gun. I don't recall them being so bullet spongy in the first game. They were very lethal yes, but you didn't need to unload as much ammo into them. The shotgun is the strongest gun type you can get in the game, and it feels so weak. I'm not even playing the game on veteran difficulty. It's just normal difficulty.

The character's motivation for being in the zone makes no sense. An artefact wrecked his home. Okay. But then your scanner gets stolen and you go on this long quest chain to get it back and right now I am in the third area and they still haven't explained what's going on in the zone. There's no hint if the zone is expanding or not. Why was that artefact in this guy's home?

Humans are the easiest thing to kill in the game with a head shot from any gun, if you try stealthing they will see you. It's silly that using your bolt won't distract unaware npcs of your presence. If a human npc sees you, everyone knows where you are. You have to quick save the game often or else you can waste minutes of your life to get back to where you were.

The only thing they kept in this game is bread, sausage, alcohol artefacts and emissions. Those are the only things that resemble the first game.

Well, I love most of the mechanics for this game. Since I have asthma, I can relate to the big what if scenario of an extinction level disaster and how would I survive. Two things I can't get behind is how the slightest physical activity puts our protagonist into asthma attack territory each time. Whether it's lifting up something or pulling herself up.

The other thing I can't get behind is WHY is there a limit on the amount of inhalers you can carry? Excuse me, if I was trying to avoid the death angels, I would be pocketing every inhaler I came across. It's a bit silly since all you need is one physical inhaler and you can just take the small canisters out of them to reduce space used up on your person.

Also, pills are used to calm yourself down from having an asthma attack in this game. Something that I have never heard of personally, but okay. I know coffee will help calm you down impending asthma attacks irl. Not a pill medication though.

Anyway, it's a fun game. I like the fact that I can enable my microphone for the added difficulty. It was pretty cliche as I was in the last stretch of the hospital that my phone alarm went off and had to mad dash towards the exit.

It's a nice breath of fresh air compared to total warhammer.

This is a hidden gem of a game. Learn the mechanics, build your team. Slap your friends and family members down as the squad characters and don't lose them. Soldiers are not easily obtained.

You can expect to lead 2 teams into a mission, there is no shame in extracting, pulling back and bringing a fresh squad in. Just keep in mind that everyone is on the clock here. They say you get 3 days per mission to complete the game. Every 5 or 7 days the passive threat level increases as the planet goes to hell.

I like the game, I just miss it being about society. In the first game you could follow the lives of the people in your city.

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