Nightingale

love it

hopefully they finish the game

Ok I'm going to be Brutal here and this will be a long one (Writing this when i have 44 hours into the game) (Upgrade for nearly 100 hours into the game see the bottom) First take, Pros and cons, issues, ideas for the game So my first take at this i went in blind without watching anything besides the video on the steam store. i had several real strange issues with attempting to make my character where some reason the game just struggled to do anything half way through making my char. After that painful process i got into the game and that went away. got in and started playing and after fumbling around trying to figure out things i got to the point where i could do things reasonably. the first few resources are a bit of a struggle or it could have just been me looking in the wrong place. After you get past maybe the first 2 hours of learning the start of the game it gets quite nice. Pros and Cones Pros -Building (enforced phantom build mode so you can lay out everything you want before spending resources, it has snapping to make things fit correctly. i wish there was a few more options for decorations though) -Glamour (right when i was thinking i didn't like how an item looks i unlocked this like 20 mins later and changing the look of something i.e colors for free but you can make it look like something else with glam tokens) -gear customization (everything, and i mean EVERYTHING) -Combat when its working (it has the normal triangle but each has its own twist, ranged/melee/magic) -npc resource gathering (you can make use of the npc's and have them gather A LOT, of base level resources for you which you will use through out the game) -Crafting pulls chest items (do i need to say more?) -Fall damage (a very well implemented design) -Item Repairing (can be done anywhere for t1 essence even for t3 items) Cons -Ai movement (i have had several times where the ai does lightning fast movements or the animation breaks all together) -character creation (not sure if this was just me but the issue i talked about above) -Learning gear customization to min/max (So this is both a pro and a con i mean latterly EVERYTHING can be customized want more magic? maybe some carry weight, what about some move speed? why not a bit of crit damage while we are at it... why not will throw in some environmental damage reduction -To many crafting table augments. (they need to remove the redundant ones as several do the same thing but do not stack. -Chest overload (you can in fact have to many chest so it stops showing things in the crafting benches) -Fishing (i had to customize a full set of gear just to catch a fish :/ lots of stamina and stam regen) -getting lost with objectives (its very easy to lose your way with he major objectives Issues Well the first issue i had was with character creation so i didn't really get to spend to much time customizing my char before playing resulting in a kind of meh looking character. From there i have run into several times where the ai just turns into the flash or just does the equalize of T posing as they slide along the ground away. Ideas for the game -Remove redundant augments -add more detail items for builders -add some sort of different icon for the main quest line when its tracked, i though at first this was so but even after clearing the quest i see see the yellow " icon so that doesn't hold up -add some form of method to change t1 essence to t2 and t3, getting into the new tiers is a struggle. even more so with the introduction to t3 if you don't min max and come in armed for war... ___ Ok so here is the 2nd half of the review as I'm getting to the 100 hours mark Going into what i think is the end game part of this t4 essence and t4 gear made of t5 mats Current Thoughts, So after about 100 hours into the game i have found it fun. i still have a lot to do at this point and im not sure how much more there is left to do. In terms of the 3 styles of combat being melee/ranged/magic i find that melee/ranged often beat magic whole sale unless you min/max the daylights out of it and your killing weaker targets. i have managed to make a full kit for magic that i can run through the end game dungeon trials with and just life drain aura them before switching to a ranged build to kill the bosses. i have noticed that magic seems to have a critical issue with some bosses. I.E. Yoke. not sure if im doing something wrong but the only spell that seems to do anything to her is the fish one and that comes up immune half the time. Issues at this point i have managed to go back and edit my char's look after waiting a bit. (thanks katari for the info) My major issue at this point is figuring out which augment i want to put into which craft. there are well over 50 different structure augments you can make and i believe i still haven't unlocked all of em yet. Magic In general. (someone tell me if im doing something wrong here) So in order to use magic in the game you first need to get your hands on Scrolls/enchantments that you place onto a weapon. lower tier weapons can hold 1 going all the way up to 3. yet here is the issues in that. say you want to play as a magic user. Well that is great but you cant use anything that is ranged biased with ammo... any gun/bow cant be enchanted as they have a different system that used the same button as it switches between arrows/bullets. Then there is also the issue with you can only have 1 single spell active at any time. Using any spell will cancel the last spell you case. the only exception for this i have found is a target suffering damage from summon swarm and im not sure if that is a bug or not. so you cant have a magic shield up while casting a fire ball as the fireball will kill your magic shield. Next issue i have been having is mostly that the game seems to have gotten a rather large update recently (which is a great thing don't get me wrong) yet anything in the wiki i find is outdated or woefully incorrect.(yes i know this isn't the games fault) I have had an issue for some time now where if i go into my character screen (tab) my camara is zooned in/out a strange way so i cant see my char Also i dont know if this is a bug or game design but by the gods your follower can carry unlimited weight. 50k pounds? no problem he will walk with you like he is on a morning jaunt. Additional pros/cons at this point Pros Movement Tech is great be it gliding, climbing or double jump Full range of gear dying is great after you unlock most of them from just playing the game. no fancy bs needed Cons single spell restriction Building Cost for Frontier and on gets really costly just to make a foundation or wall... Still haven't quite figured out comfort yet at the same time i don't think its needed so badly Ideas at this point Give magic a bit of leeway, being restricted to a single spell is damming for wanting to play with magic. from there maybe add some sort of pen point attack as most spells don't seem to be able to hit weak points at all. A few decretive plants that you cant harvest by mistake would be great