Moduwar

I really believe in this project and think you should too. RTS has suffered for years and this brings new life to the genre in its campaign. The follow-through on a concept is exemplary, the setting is fresh and new, and the indie feel of the production is heartwarming - the cutscenes especially make me laugh and smile about the small-budget production with lots of heart. That said, a lot of work still remains before this can be considered complete. This is exactly the type of game that early access is for. I have completed the first 5 missions on brutal difficulty and repeatedly failed the 6th. My criticism is as follows, and I hope the developers see this and can use it: *- Resource collection segments that are separate from the main Modu are not the most diligent about returning resources *- Splitting the Modu is easy. Recombining the Modu at the position and angle I want is hard. - It would be nice to have clearer indicators of what exactly makes the Modu 'too big to move'. How can I check the speed decrease with size, or the armour increase? The mechanic where size impacts stats will feel good when it is knowable. - Similarly, it would be nice to be able to check stats of individual organs without hovering the cursor over them for 5 seconds. - Similarly, it would be nice if making large organs was better tutorialized, and have it mentioned that this works for every organ - it took me a while to find out that I could make a large liver, and that would go a long way in the fifth mission. - Similarly, it would be nice to know how each organ attached to a body modifies the other organs. Does the eye give a simple +1 to tentacle range, or more? This could be accomplished in the hover-over stat menu for the tentacle - instead of saying 'range 40' it could say 'range 35 (+5x1)' (yes, I just made up numbers for now). I haven't tried hovering over the eye, maybe I can solve my own problem here. - As a negative review said, the cave mission timer is unclear and I lost that mission once because I thought that it was a timer which dictated when I needed to be in the next area. As a result, the harassment waves showing up behind me piled up into a death wave. - The big macro missions will feel good when their triggers are improved. Mission 5 was a slog - and it was so close to being a slog in a good way. I won based on surviving many repeated swarms of attack waves. I survived because I had forward forces kiting the enemy waves which recombined with the main Modu body when they had kited all the way home, so that I could finish killing the attack wave with an armour bonus and healing bonus from many livers I had at home for healing. It's great that micro control was rewarded, it's great that I had to keep macroing to have tools at home, but unfortunately I think that my prior criticisms about mechanic knowability were highlighted. - The triggers in mission 6 are way too punishing. I want to be able to adventure out of my base to fight the wasps, but some trigger on the way to the wasp hive causes the chimera enemy to start attacking before I have enough tools to fight back. After surviving wave after wave of the chimera enemy, my resources have depleted and I'm dead. There is far too much requirement for me to build up at home and do nothing on the map for fear of triggering the enemy, and that is not fun. - On my latest attempt at mission 6 I killed the wasp hive and tried to expand to a new base, but the chimera was still way too punishing in its attack waves. I don't have any ideas for what I could do differently - I triggered the enemy as late as possible, I spent every dollar I had on exactly the tools I needed to make it to this base, and they still weren't enough. - I restarted mission 6 a lot and although I love the cutscenes, it would be even better if they were skippable so I didn't have to watch them every time.