Ash & Rust

I bought the game on 30% discount, played it for 4 hours, got sick of it. The game seems to be going by the Grim Dawn and Path of Exile direction of looter ARPG, with mix and match builds. It avoids POE's gear socket system restrictions with augments for a set of five abilities unlocked as you level, and it avoids Grim Dawn's Class restrictions by allowing you to construct your abilities by yourself and changing your main attack by the equipped weapon - I can swap between mage and warrior by swapping my main weapon and rerolling my abilities, which is free and unlimited. Unfortunately, the game does not have the beautiful environments of either Grim Dawn or POE, nor the depth of either. The enemy variety is honestly dogwater, with you facing two different enemies each level. I got to the 3rd level and just quit, since the only thing you do is roam around the map, beat random clusters of enemies, then beat an enemy spawn around a loot container, then repeat. You get some breaks with NPC interactions but those either lead to more fight, reward loot, or progress quests. You also raid dungeons but they're just a slightly harder version of the overworld. and VEEERY small. The enemy action skills are rather lame, and your own character is forgettable. The character creator might as well not be there, and oddly enough, while you can make your character as black as night, they only get as white as an instagram influencer advertising spray-on sun-tan. It might be the braizers in the design menu, but that just means that the character design menu is poorly implemented, which returns to the core of the issue with the game. The world simply put, lacks any discernable personality. It's a wonderful idea, poorly executed. My PC is decent enough, but for some reason I still get hiccups on an RTX4070SUPER. For a version 0.9, it's way too rough. I suggest waiting for a deeper discount or waiting in general.

Pretty decent game! Gonna try now that my pc is better

Sadly unplayable in Ultrawide. Text is too small, you can barely read UI and loot is just unreadable. Also optimization is really poor. Like sub 100FPS and 100% use of 3080ti in Main Menu poor.

I'm not someone that generally gets offended by games all that quickly, and it has been a long time since I outright decided to quit trying something this quickly. It might be because I have played indie titles, solo dev projects, and some really old entries from this genre. I can ignore the not-great audio balance at the main menu. But when the next thing I notice is the spawn animation and rendering bugging out when I load in, I start to get a bit worried. It is also a bold decision to have left click be purely an attack option by default and not "move to attack", which many would be familiar with. Instead, right click is for movement. Worse yet though is how combat felt. Immediately it was just this visceral rejection from me. The default attack for sword and shield is this lofty, long combo, whose first attack is this cumbersome leap that felt like it took ages to happen at all. Enemies would be running up and have time to club my face before I hit them for a whopping three damage. I also had a laugh when I found that by holding down both left and right click I could slowly glide around as my character turned into a phased abomination, attempting to attack and walk every frame simultaneously. I rebound my keys and tried to press on, but the way this attack works is just miserable. I had an elite in the second cluster of enemies sent at me, and dealing with this awful, dreadful "slow-mo action leap" default shield attack to kill something that required probably thirty hits to kill was absolutely intolerable. And in my running around, I found that getting snagged on impassible terrain is quite easy. What can and cannot be traversed was not very clear, and after a bit of wandering and discovering the inventory, I had almost seen enough. The damage system seemed a little interesting, and while I can see this giant multi-tabbed, multi-layer inventory overwhelming people, clicking around for a minute or two and reading tooltips explained most of it. My largest complaint here is actually that it's not obvious that tiles are locked until you get the unlocker and go "Oh, so *all* of the tiles are locked to start with." That's not really a big one, but most grid/tile systems have patterns or symbols to show unavailable space. This one's just the same gradient color as everything else, because no slots are readily unlocked. It's more weird than inhibitive to anything. But by the time I cleared a few more enemies and made my first ability I'd decided I'd seen enough. I couldn't get the idea behind this game's combat. The player's attack is by far the slowest, hits like piss with the sword and board start, and you couldn't kite or space some enemies by moving, only dodging. But they attack so damn fast your dodge won't always be up. And there's no health regen, just a thirty second cooldown potion. With the red enemy attack zones it just took random elements from modern and old titles and didn't decide on anything coherent. Am I supposed to get a bloody nose like Titan Quest? No, I lose the slogging fight. Hard. Am I supposed to dodge the glowing red attacks? Can't dodge them all, multiple enemies have them and spam them. It's not reactive, either, with how slow the player attack is. End summary, I've never had an isometric ARPG title where the default attack ended up deeply offending me with how terrible it felt. It's the first thing your players will use. I hope it was just the sword and board start option, but lord, man. I paid something like three dollars for Rum and Gun and it had better starting combat and movement. It is a necessity that you nail the basic and core components of your game, especially in the intro. Bugs and jank can be tolerated to a degree, but when I'm cancelling out of my superhero leap for the third time in a row trying to trade with a group of enemies, and that is all I have starting off, I can't enjoy myself. I spent most of those twenty minutes wondering if anything else might make it worthwhile, but I couldn't have faith.

I need Chinese, please

Nice game,hope to have Chinese in the future.

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