Greedland

割草爽游

都别拦着我，我要杀个痛快，虽然局外养成有点拉，但是解锁机甲之后就爽了

This game is a perfect example of why Steam needs a "neutral" option. The game looks good and I personally found the early game pacing to be just fine. You have 3 advancement missions that you need to complete for account leveling which unlocks new features. You get new characters, new guns, new mods, new support systems, the ability to purchase increased mod capacity, etc. Plenty to work towards and making early game purchases felt fair. For MOST of my runs, I felt relatively comfortable. There is always a period of doubt, but then it feels like I roll something good or the first boss drop gives me something that hugely sways momentum. I wouldn't say it is too easy because you do have "challenges" which are modifiers for the mission. However, these are predefined and limited to 3. You can't select from a large list to choose how to make it more difficult, but fit to your playstyle/build. There are mechs and an endless mode. It took me 23 missions (9 hours on Steam) to unlock them. It took me 10 seconds of using the mechs to be disappointed. My first mission after unlock was an endless and I don't know what triggered the mechs. They lose health rapidly and the bosses you kill while piloting do not drop anything. My endless run ended at level 80 something and out of the blue. I was DELETING everything on the map and suddenly it said "Signal Lost" and the run was over. Speaking of ending runs. There is no way to see your stats at the end. You get a basic rundown of time survived, enemies killed, and currency gained, but there is no breakdown showing damage by equipment type. So was that orbital cannon working well for me? Or should I have invested more in multi-shot and bounce for my burst rifle? Who the hell knows. The mod system is kind of neat and on the face of it the game has a decent amount of depth, but once you begin unlocking things you realize there is less to it than initially thought. Like you unlock an "Air Support" section in your armory where you equip your power armor (character), weapon, etc. You cannot do anything other than view information about the air support. I thought you'd unlock this and be able to select which support packages you want for your mission or that you could upgrade them. Nope. You just level your account, unlock this section, and congrats, now you look at it. Overall I've enjoyed my 9ish hours and haven't encountered any major bugs or crashes. The one abrupt endless run was disappointing and I'm not sure if I got nuked from something that didn't appear or what happened, but I'm not going to write the game off from that. I'd say with some quality of life updates such as the end of run damage breakdown, run history, some cleaning up of the progression systems, etc that this could be a pretty good little game to sink 10-30 hours into. Oh. And some people have mentioned how the missions have fixed time limits. I agree that having to play 15-20 minutes because of the mission and not because you want to feels bad. You do unlock something that allows you to speed up time, but the game doesn't tell you how to do it. Once unlocked, you interact with your landing shuttle (whatever its called in game) and at the top left, above the perks you can purchase, you can pay to activate it for a certain amount of time. I've only done it once so I can't recall, but it was cheap and this will definitely help speed up runs. I'm currently sitting at 24% planet completion, have all mods I've unlocked purchased, most of them fully upgraded, and have a lot of my equipment upgraded. I still have several power armors, weapons, and equipment to unlock so I'll probably give it another 10 hours to see what's what. TLDR Worth the price, especially on sale, for 10-30 hours of gameplay. Needs QOL updates and some refinement of the progression systems. No major bugs, crashes, etc. Performance is OKAY, but once you get to the end of those 20 min missions or doing endless mode, you're gonna have to turn graphics down and it'll still struggle a bit. If you don't care for the theme and are looking for a game in this genre, I would pass. To me the theme is a strong part of what I enjoy and why I was willing to put 10 hours into the game in the first place.