Recent reviews by Stambo

It's what I've been looking for since Diablo 2. People saying loot is slow, and difficulty is high.... This isn't for the ADHD crowd who need a dopamine hit every second with a full screen of colours and death and 1000 items dropping a minute. Drops matter again. It's slower paced so everything has more meaning again. If you just want to point and click and the screen flashes with explosions, there's enough games that cater to that already.

I honestly can't even say what this purchase gave me? One bridge?

I want to give this a like. But in the current state of the career mode, I have to say I wish I waited afew more months because by the time this is out of Beta mode, I will have lost interest in playing it.

The career mode is very buggy. I've spent 30 hours in game, but half of that is replaying career missions because something bugged out and I had to start the same mission again. Then there is the fuel bugs, which means you can't change the fuel in aircraft, and you aren't given enough for the longer flights (each plane has different default starting amount which doesn't actually align with the indicated fuel). There is a workaround which only works for a couple of planes, so effectively I paid for the extra planes but can't use any of them in Career mode because you can't actually change the fuel. This is quite game breaking. There are multiple bugs littered around Career mode that penalize you for arbitrary things, (e.g. extending flaps beyond airspeed while at a stand still) which plague the entire experience. I am mal-adapting my flights to work around bugs the entire time. Finishing one flight without a bug feels like more of an achievement battling the system then actually flying the aircraft.

You're also limited to what planes are available in Career Mode, so don't buy the extra planes thinking you'll use them there. They're just for free flights. Sim rate doesn't actually change anything other than yourself, so all other planes fly at normal speed while you have x8 turned on. The clock, sun and fuel rate don't align to the sim rate. So you can fly a long haul flight with sim rate turned up, and you won't change time, or fuel rates. Almost everything that could not work, is not working correctly in this game. It's garbage, disrespectful, shame on the people who decided to push this out for $$$.

It's visually stunning, and satisfies the void left by the Cities Skylines 2 debacle. It provides actual innovations on the city building genre, like irregular shaped zoning and auto detailing cities.

Brilliantly fills the void left by the Cities Skylines 2 debacle, delivering an actual economic simulation. I hope someone is able to combine this level of economic simulation with the graphics from Manor Lords, then we could have a true successor to Cities Skylines 1.

20 new residential buildings? That's almost 1 Australian dollar per new digital building that looks pretty similar to the existing buildings...

It's a buggy mess. Spend hours trying to get the thing working with a 4090 RTX and i9 13th gen processor, just for it to hang on a screen or a CTD. Great when it works, but the loader is the worst awful damn piece of crap, almost as bad as the Microsoft Store.

I originally recommended this game, with the assumption that the devs were going to act in good faith and deliver on the performance and simulation issues. But they've barely improved anything since the poor launch, and I haven't received anything that I was promised when I purchased premium version. I'm confused how they are not scared of being sued for false advertising? Or maybe that's why they're so focused on the DLC's; to avoid litigation.

The simulation, if you look close enough, is faked and/or extremely bugged. Performance is crap. They haven't given us any new assets, so every city looks and feels exactly the same.

Not sure if the problems everyone is speaking of are gone after the latest patch, as I didn't play before the patch. But I like it, a solid 8,5; it's got me hooked and the simplified combat is a step up from Victoria 2's micro manage tedium after the 1900's.

UI/ UX is awful, I feel like I'm playing a game in DOS. There are way too many details and minor adjustment to every variable of a car or it's factories, but more doesn't necessarily mean better. It's quite overwhelming unless you are a car enthusiast / mechanic. It's not so much a management game, as it is a car designer; i.e. the car designing comes first then the game and playability comes second.